Frederick Denny Larke

  General Notes:

Bill Norton notes:
In the winter of 1868-69, William E. Rogers, Albert Molitor and Frederick Denny Larke came to the area to lumber. Mr. Molitor built a cabin, a dock and a mill on the shore, just to the north, on Lake Huron, and that was the start of Rogers City. Itwas named for William E. Rogers, owner of the land on which the village was laid out by his partner, Albert Molitor.

It was given a post office as Rogers' Mills on September 23, 1870 when Frederick Denny Larke became the post master.

The name was changed to Rogers City in January 1872, the to Rogers on January 22, 1895, and then back again to Rogers City on January 25, 1928. Incorporated as a village in 1877 andas a city in 1944.

Frederick married Augusta Louise STREICH in 1875 at Rogers, Michigan, USA.

Frederick Denny Larke was one of the founders of Rogers City. An immigrant from England who had worked as a fur trader for the Hudson Bay Company for a season, Larke first came here in 1868 as a member of a government survey party headed by WilliamRogers, for whom the community was eventually named. Other members of the survey party included John Raymond, a young French-Canadian, and Albert Molitor, a German immigrant of aristocratic bearing who had served as an artillery officer in the Civil War.

When, in 1869, Rogers and Molitor purchased a large parcel of land at what is now Rogers City and formed the Rogers-Molitor Lumber Company, Larke went to work for them. One of his first duties was to recruit a large number of German and Polish immigrants to come north to work as lumberjacks and run the company's sawmill.

In 1876, the talented Larke started the county's first newspaper, the Presque Isle County Advance, which still serves the community today. Large also started Larke's Drug Store at the corner of Third Street and Huron Avenue, in the building nowoccupied by Grulke Hardware.

Nobody was a stronger advocate for Rogers City than Frederick Denny Larke. He fought to make Rogers City the county seat, he tried on numerous occasions to develop a commercial limestone quarry on the present site of the Calcite Plant, and he fought to have a railroad line extended into town. His children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have continued his legacy of community involvement.

On the left wall of the Larke Bedroom is a striking photo of Larke and his wife, the former Augusta Louise Streich.

This bedroom suite belonged to Frederick Denny and Augusta Larke. All nine of their children were born in the bed.

This was from a newspaper obit to Frederic Denny Larke (1994 <http://thenortonpond.com//calendar.php?year=1994&filterof=all&action=year> Presque Isle, Michigan, USA <http://thenortonpond.com//placelist.php?action=show&parent[0]=USA&parent[1]=Michigan&parent[2]=Presque Isle&level=3>)

Frederick Denny Larke rightfully deserves the honour of being called the founder and organizer of Presque Isle County. He was born in Warwickshire, England September 7 1845 (conflict year was 1842). His father, Richard Denny Larke graduated from and was attached to Guys Hospital in London. It was his desire that the son should follow into the same profession and his education was mapped out by a regular course of hospital study with that end in view, but the medical profession did not appealto him as his ambition was to secure a commission in the British Army.

In this he failed and in 1865 he left home and came to Quebec. A year after his arrival in the new world, he joined a party of traders at St. Paul and in company with the penetrated the wild territory west of Hudson Bay. Here eh remained for nearlya year, trading furs with friendly Indians and securing a stock of valuable furs. He sold his interest in the venture and moved to Detroit to work with a government survey party.

Family Group Report Husband Frederick Denny LARKE
Birth 1842 Place Kineton, Warwickshire, UK
Christening 2 August 1843 Place Kineton, Warwick, UK
Silhouette 27 April 1849 Place
Census 1851 Place Stow On The Wold, Gloucestershire, UK
Military June 1866 Militia Canada - Fenian War
Arrival at Lake Huron 1868 Place Lake Huron, Michigan, USA
Marriage 1875 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Naturalization 24 May 1878 Place
Census 28 June 1880 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1900 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Death 8 February 1910 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Newspaper Article 1994 Place Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Newspaper Article 2008 Place Bradley House Museum (Please click on 'Note icon' to open)
Father Richard Denny LARKE
Mother Sarah Phillps TILBROOK
Wife Augusta Louise STREICH
Birth 7 December 1857 Place Prussia
Immigration 1867 Place United States Of America
Marriage 1875 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1880 Place USA Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan
Census 1900 Place USA Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan
Census 1910 Place USA Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan
Census 1920 Place USA Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan
Death 14 December 1927 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Newspaper Obituary 23 December 1927 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Father Christian Friedrich Wilhelm STREICH
Mother Dorothy POMMERENKE
Children List each child in order of birth.
M Fredrick Augustin Denny LARKE
Birth 14 October 1876 Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1880 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers City, Presque Isle,
Michigan, USA

Marriage 26 July 1899 Cora E BAKER Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Photograph's 1902 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, United States
Marriage 10 May 1905 Martha Repka REPKE Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1910 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers City, Presque Isle,
Michigan, USA
Military 1917 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, United States
Census 1920 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers City, Presque Isle,
Michigan, USA
Census 1930 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan
Death 2 November 1962 Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
F Blanche Mary Winifred LARKE
Birth 23 July 1878 Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1880 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Marriage 27 November 1899 John J BURNS Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census June 1900 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1920 Place United States Federal Census, Detroit Ward 6, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Census 1930 Place United States Federal Census, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Death 18 May 1977 Place Clarkston, Michigan, USA
M Basil Gerald Walter LARKE
Birth 30 November 1880 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1900 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1910 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan
Military 1917 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1920 Place 1920 United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle,
Michigan, USA
Census 1930 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Death 5 September 1948 Place Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
F Isabell F LARKE
Birth 27 September 1883 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1900 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Marriage 12 August 1908 George J RADKE Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1910 Place 1910 United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle,
Michigan, USA
Census 10 January 1920 Place 1920 United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle,
Michigan, USA

Death 18 February 1965 Place New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
M Roland A LARKE
Birth 5 November 1886 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan
Census 1900 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1910 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Military 1917 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Marriage 1920 Nell KLEIBER Place Detroit, Michigan, USA
Census 1930 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Death 6 September 1946 Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
M Lawrence Denny LARKE
Birth 19 December 1889 Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1900 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1910 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Military 1917 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Education 1920 Law School Graduate
Census 1920 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Marriage 29 September 1928 Colletta M DOWNEY Place
Census 1930 Place United States Federal Census - Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
Death 19 September 1969 Place St Clair Shores, Port Huron Co, Michigan, USA
M Cyril Wilfred Percival LARKE
Birth 2 December 1892 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1900 Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Death 23 July 1901 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Burial Place
M Marmaduke Anthony Richard Denny LARKE
Birth 7 December 1895 Place Rogers City, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1900 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1920 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Death 20 July 1964 Place Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
F Delores Monica LARKE
Birth 10 August 1901 Place Rogers City, Michigan, USA
Education College East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Photograph circa 1905 about 1905 Place
Census 1910 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1920 Place United States Federal Census - Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Graduation 4 June 1920 Place Rogers City, Michigan, USA
Marriage about 1925 Joseph J PIEKARSKI Place
Death 13 February 1968 Place Rogers City, Michigan, USA
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  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. Bill Norton is linked to Robert through the Aldous line in this way:
Bill Norton . . .
Is linked in some way to . . .
Frederick Larke (1842)
His father was Richard Larke (1818)
His father was Robert Larke (1792) & he also had Henry Larke (1817)
He had Eliza Larke (c1855) who married William Aldous (1853)
His father was William Aldous (1810)
His father was John Aldous (1787)
His father was John Aldous (1764)
His father was John Aldous (c1739)
His father was Richard Aldous (1705)
His father was William Aldous (1645)
His father was William Aldous (1610)
His father was Stephen Aldous (1578) & he also had Stephen Aldous (1607)
He had Stephen Aldous (1636)
He had John Aldous (1681)
He had William Aldous (1710)
He had William Aldous (1749)
He had Zephaniah Aldous (1778)
He had Amelia Aldous (1818) who married James Peck (1820)
They had Charlotte Peck (1843) who married James Dawes (1843)
They had Annie Florence Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
They had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• note. Bill Norton notes:
Frederick Denny LARKE
Birth 1842 Place Kineton, Warwickshire, UK
Christening 2 August 1843 Place Kineton, Warwick, UK
Silhouette 27 April 1849 Place
Census 1851 Place Stow On The Wold, Gloucestershire, UK
Military June 1866 Militia Canada - Fenian War
Arrival at Lake Huron 1868 Place Lake Huron, Michigan, USA
Marriage 1875 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Naturalization 24 May 1878 Place
Census 28 June 1880 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Census 1900 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Death 8 February 1910 Place Rogers, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Newspaper Article 1994 Place Presque Isle, Michigan, USA
Newspaper Article 2008 Place Bradley House Museum

Frederick married Augusta Louise Streich, daughter of Christian Frederich William Streich and Dorothy Pommerenke, in 1875 in Rogers City, Presque Island, Michigan USA. (Augusta Louise Streich was born on 7 Dec 1857 in Prussia and died on 14 Dec 1927 in Rogers City, Presque Island, Michigan USA.)