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"The Goddard people employed a man from Michigan as resident manager. His name was Jerome Tlnklepaugh... He was a typical Yankee, gruff in manner, wore a crisp black beard which was very much in vogue in those days, and if living this day and time would have been considered 'hard boiled'. However, under the surface, he was a very fine gentleman, and [one] Christmas, he personally gave every child in the town a present. When he returned to Michigan a few years later, everybody in Logtown regarded him highly" (Baxter, 1942).
"Jerome Tinklepaugh is identified as a laborer in 1873 and a carpenter in 1893" (Letter, Byrne, G. J., to Scharff, R. G., August 26, 1994). The presence of his name in Saginaw city directories would seem to indicate that Tinklepaugh was living in Michigan during those two years.
A paragraph titled "Personal" in The Saginaw Evening News, 05/12/92, p.3. tells of a visit by Tinklepaugh to Saginaw. "Mr. Tinklepaugh, formerly of this city, arrived home [from] New Orleans last evening. Mr. T. has been operating a lumber mill for the E. G. Goddard Lumber Company of the east side of the Pearl River near New Orleans".
Goddard made a trip to Mississippi in 1993. He returned in June, spending ten days at the world's fair en route. Shortly after his return he became terminally ill. He had been ill for about a year, but not until near the end was it realized that the disease was cancer of the stomach. Ezra G. Goddard died at 8:30 on the morning of July 13, 1893 at the age of 60 (Saginaw city directory, 1894-95). His last moments were calm and peaceful and the end painless.
The Goddard mill ceased operations after Goddard's death in 1893 (Baxter, 1942). It appears to have later been bought from Goddard's heirs by the Weston Lumber Company, who began operating it once again to increase their own manufacturing capacity.
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