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Taken looking south-southeast, this 1917 photograph shows the
Clyde Methodist Episcopal Church and adjoining parsonage. The parsonage was actually
built first, circa 1877, with the minister serving congregations at both Highland Station
(then meeting in the Union School) and a small church on Clyde Road, west of Hickory Ridge
Road. Durant's 1877 History of Oakland County, Michigan, describes the
proposed parsonage as "sixteen
by twenty-two feet, with an upright wing of the same size, which will cost about twelve
hundred dollars." When the church at Clyde was built in 1885, the resident
minister faced a difficult schedule: a morning and evening service at Highland Station; a
late morning service at Clyde, and an afternoon service at Hickory Ridge! The
portrait is that of Alvin Riley Crittenden, born July, 1859, at Howell, Michigan, son of
Alvin L. Crittenden, who was himself an early Methodist minister in Michigan.
Alvin Riley Crittenden saw service in the Spanish-American War, then went on to edit The
Livingston Reporter newspaper at Howell. He also authored several books on
local history, including History of the Township and Village of Howell, Michigan (1911)
and History of the Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Howell, Michigan (1923).
He died at Howell on June 18, 1933.
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