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the latter of whom, now the widow of Nelson Talbot, is the only one now living. She has one son, Charles N. Talbot, who is the proprietor of a shoe store at Flushing. The Rev. Charles DeLand died in 1863 and his widow in 1869.
Mary Ann (Hinkley ) DeLand, the mother of Albert M. DeLand, was the daughter of Jeremiah and Phoebe Ann (Bond) Hinkley, natives of the state of New York. To her union with Joseph M. DeLand were horn the following children : Elma, born on January 25, 1846, who died on January 3, 1850; John L., June 23, 1847, who died on January 8, 1850; Albert M., the subject of this sketch, and Arthur, born on February 3, 1856, who died on July 8, 1863.
Albert M. DeLand was educated in the schools of Flushing township and the high school at Flushing. After completing his schooling he returned to the home farm, where he remained until he was twenty-seven years of age. In 1875 he went to Flint, where he was employed by F. W. Judd & Company in their general store for two years. He was then with H. W. Sage & Company, wholesale house, at Bay City, until 1880. He then returned to the farm and on November 17 of that year was married to Helen E. Knight, who was born in Trenton, Michigan, on December 3, 1850, daughter of James and Rhoda (Lathrop) Knight, natives of England and of the state of New York, respectively. Mr. Knight was born in London on July 16, 1818, and Mrs. Knight at Hector on April 15, 1829. James Knight, when eleven years of age, came with his mother from England, settling in the state of New York. He remained there until he was twenty years of age, when he came to Michigan and settled at Trenton. In early life he was a sailor, but after his marriage he engaged in farming, which he followed until his death on September 3, 1896. Rhoda (Lathrop) Knight, when but a young girl settled with her parents at Trenton, where she lived until her marriage to James Knight. To this union were born eleven children, Helen, Emma, Jennie, Arthur, Augusta, Bessie, May, Alice, Florence, George and Harry. Jennie Knight married Edwin Hearsey; Augusta is the wife of Parley Green; Bessie, the wife of John Whiting; Mary, the wife of Fred H. Rindge and Florence, the wife of Henry Lyons.
Helen E. Knight was educated in the Trenton graded school and at the Wyandotte high school. After finishing her schooling she taught for eleven years in the schools of Wyandotte and West Bay City. She discontinued her work as a teacher to become the wife of Albert M. DeLand and to this union three children have been born, Elina, Earl K. and Ralph J. Elma, born on September 29, 1883, is the wife of Felix Garter, of Columbus, Ohio.
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They are the parents of two children, Harold, born on April 27, 1913, and Helen, July 23, 1915. Earl K. DeLand, born on May 2, 1887, is living at Marion, Ohio. Ralph J. DeLand, born on May 19, 1890, is living at home. He was graduated from the Flushing high school and after taking two years in the high school at Jackson, attended the University of Michigan, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1913. Upon his return from the university he took charge of the home farm, which he is now operating.
For some years after his marriage, Albert M. DeLand farmed his. father's place of one hundred acres. He later bought one hundred acres in section 14, since which time he has continued to manage both tracts. engaged in general farming and cattle raising, being interested in Durham and Jersey cattle and good horses. Mr. DeLand is a Republican and has served his township as a school officer for many years. He has been a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for forty-five years and is a past noble grand of the local lodge of that order. He and his family are active members of the Baptist church, and take much interest in church work.
MARTIN DALY.
As a result of this long years of husbandry, Martin Daly of Burton township, this county, has about solved the question of scientific farming, as the people of this section of the Wolverine state know and understand it today, and it is a pleasure to look over his well-kept and productive fields. He was born in the same vicinity where he now lives, on the old homestead, February 15, 1866, a son of Robert and Ellen ( Mannion) Daly. The father was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and there grew to manhood, a farm laborer. Coming to the United States he spent two years in the state of New York, where he met and married Ellen Mannion, who was born in County Galway, Ireland, from which county she had come to New York state as a girl with her parents. In 1856 Robert Daly and wife came to Michigan, locating in Burton township, this county, where he entered forty acres of timber land from the government. He cleared a small plot and erected a log house, after which he and his wife worked out for two years, working on the Bickford farm, in order to get means with which to develop their land. They then cleared and developed their own place, on which they continued to reside for thirty years. They added to their original holdings until they had a good farm of one hundred and ten acres, which they made
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through their individual efforts, having started with nothing. Mr. Daly bought finally one hundred and twenty-four acres in Burton township and one hundred and fifty-seven acres across the road, owning in all about four hundred acres. He became one of the influential citizens of his township and was highly respected. His death occurred on January 24, 1906. His widow survives, making her home among her surviving children. To Robert Daly and wife seven children were born, namely: Lawrence, who died when about eleven years of age; James, who died in infancy; Thomas, who lives on the old homestead; Mary, the wife of William Quinn, of Burton township; Martin, the subject of this sketch; James, the second, who lives in Flint, and Elizabeth, the wife of James Carten, of Lansing.
Martin Daly received a common-school education and when a boy he worked hard on the home farm, remaining there until his marriage on June 16, 1908, to Sarah Cashin, who was born in Burton township, this county, in 1866, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Stafford) Cashin, both natives of Ireland, from which country they came to America, locating in Burton township, this county.
Mr. Daly is successfully carrying on general farming and stock raising on his farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres, which lies in section 2, Burton township, four and one-half miles east of Flint. He has kept the place in an excellent state of cultivation and has improved it in admirable fashion. Politically, Mr. Daly is a Democrat. He is a member of the Catho- lic church and of the Knights of Columbus in Flint.
THOMAS MUNDY.
One of Genesee county's pioneer farmers is Thomas Mundy, of Clay- ton township. He came here from a foreign strand and got good land when the price was low, and, being willing to work, has made a comfortable living. He was born in County Kent, nine miles from Maidstone, England, Novem- ber 16, 1838, a son of William and Sarah (Bontcher) Mundy. The father was left an orphan when four years of age, and he lived thereafter with an elder sister until he was ten years old, then began working out by the week and it was not long until he was supporting himself. He married in England and in 1850, when his son Thomas was twelve years old, he brought his family to America, reaching this county on July 3Ist of that year, having hired a man to bring the family in by way of Flushing, there being no rail- roads in this part of the state at that time. The father had two dollars and
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fifty cents in cash when he reached here. The country was yet a wilderness. He soon went to work on the state road west of Flushing, ditching at twenty dollars a month and board. He finally saved enough to make a payment on eighty acres of land, where Charles Mundy now lives. Only five acres of the place had been cleared. He lived only five years after coming here, passing away on April 16, 1855. One-third of his estate fell to his son Thomas, who later purchased the interest of the other heirs and became sole owner of the homestead of eighty acres. He kept his mother with him on the place during the rest of her life, her death occurring about 1880. He is now the only survivor of the family.
Thomas Mundy never had much chance to obtain an education. Like all sons of pioneers he had lots of hard work to do when a boy, but he become very well informed through wide home reading. In 1861 he mar- ried Mary Jane Darling, a native of Lockport, New York, and a daughter of Dr. Sylvester Darling, a practicing physician, who was of French and German descent. Twelve children were born to Thomas Mundy and his first wife. Following the death of the mother of these children, Mr. Mundy married Agnes Ann Brown, widow of John Brown. Her maiden name was Lee and she was a native of Canada and was reared there.
Mr. Mundy's farm now consists of forty acres. He is taking life easier than in his earlier career. Politically, he is a Democrat. He has served as drainage commissioner in his township for fourteen consecutive years and has also been school director. He has always been interested in whatever tended towards the development of Clayton township. He was instrumental in grading and draining the first school land in his district. He is a man of decided religious convictions, and has been an active and faithful member of the Wesleyan Methodist church since boyhood.
THOMAS PAGE.
Thomas Page, former city treasurer of Flint, now living retired at his pleasant home, 509 Smith street, Flint, is a native of New York, having been born in the village of East Avon, in Livingston county, that state, July 14, 1840, son of Abraham and Bridget (Carroll) Page, the former a native of England and the latter of Ireland, who later came to this county and spent their last days in Flint.
Abraham Page was born in Hertfordshire, son of James and Elizabeth Page, the former dying when past middle age and the latter living to more
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than ninety years of age. James Page was a shoemaker and he and his wife were the parents of six children, John, Abraham, James, Thomas and two daughters. Abraham Page was trained to the trade of shoemaking and became a proficient workman in that line. He served for seven years in the British army and in 1836, shortly after their marriage, he and his wife came to the United States, locating at Lockport, New York, presently moving thence to Avon, same state, where they lived until 1854, when they came to Michigan and located at Flint. Upon his arrival at Flint, Abra- ham Page began working at his trade, boot and shoemaker, and later estab- lished a business of his own, which he managed for about six years, or until his death in 1867, at the age of fifty-six years. His widow survived him for many years, her death occurring in 1883, she then being seventy- two years of age. She was a daughter of James and Mary Carroll, natives of Ireland, both of whom died there, well along in years. James Carroll was a tailor and he and his wife were the parents of four children, Peter, Daniel, Bridget and Mary. Abraham Page and his wife were members of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, namely: Margaret, deceasd, who was the wife of Thomas Daly, of Burton township, this county; Thomas, the sub- ject of this sketch: James, of Chicago; John, deceased; Henry, deceased ; Charles E., deceased, and one who died in infancy.
Thomas Page was fourteen years old when he came to this county with his parents from New York in 1854 and he has lived here ever since, with the exception of eighteen months spent at Bay City. Following in the footsteps of his father and his grandfather he early learned the .trade of shoemaker and became a skilled craftsman in that line, a trade which he followed for twenty-one years, eleven years of which time he spent as instructor in the trade to the boys at the school for the deaf in flint. Upon retiring from that position he clerked in Charles Mason's drug store for two years, at the end of which time he opened a grocery store, which he conducted for seventeen years. A year later he was elected city treasurer of Flint and served in that office for two years. Mr. Page had long given his earnest attention to local political affairs and had previously served as alderman from the first ward for four years, 1875-79, and as alderman from the fifth ward for five years, 1903-08, resigning the latter seat to take the office of city treasurer. He was elected supervisor in 1880 and in that capacity rendered further public service for thirteen years.
On April 25, 1877, Thomas Page was united in marriage to Susan A. Welch, who was born at Long Island City, New York, March 18, 1847,
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daughter of Martin and Ellen (Connor) Welch, natives of County Kildare, Ireland, who came to the United States, settling in New York, where they lived until they came to Michigan in 1858. Martin Welch was a farmer in his young manhood, but later engaged in railroad work in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railroad and was thus engaged for years, with headquarters at Flint. He died on October 20, 1883, at the age of seventy-two years. His wife had preceded him to the grave but a little more than two months, her death having occurred on August 15, of that same year. They were members of the Catholic church and the parents of four children, Mrs. Page having three brothers, Nicholas, William and Matthew. Mrs. Page's paternal grand- parents, John and Mary (Brannagan) Welch, farmers in Ireland, were the parents of four children, Nancy, John, Thomas and William. Her maternal grandparents were Thomas and Eliza (Cleary) Connor.
To Thomas and Susan A. ( Welch) Page four children have been born, as follow: Mary E., who married Alex. Donald Gundry, of Grand Blanc, this county, and has six children, Margaret Ellen, George Thomas, Alexander Edward, Donald Page, Susan Mary and Elizabeth; Edward M., who is a clothing merchant at Flint; Thomas C., who died unmarried at the age of twenty-six years, and Ellen Margaret, who died unmarried at the age of twenty-three. Mr. and Mrs. Page are members of St. Michael's Catholic church and he is a member of the Knights of Columbus, in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest.
HENRY COOK, M. D.
Dr. Henry Cook, a physician and surgeon at Flint, was born on Febru- ary 28, 1886, in Shiawassee county, this state, son of Jonas E. and Anna R. (Schroeder) Cook, both natives of Michigan and the parents of four children, those beside the subject of this sketch being Jonas E., Jr., of near Owosso; William F., of Owosso, and one child who died in infancy.
Jonas Cook is a prominent farmer of Shiawassee county and resides on the farm near Owosso on which he was born. Mrs. Cook also is a native of that same county. They are active members of the Methodist Protestant church and take much interest in church work.
The paternal grandparents of Doctor Cook were Jonas Cook and wife, natives of the state of New York, the former of whom, a shoemaker and farmer in his native state, became one of the pioneers of Shiawassee county,
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where he and his wife lived many years and died at advanced ages. They were the parents of four children, Christopher T., Volkert, Charles H. and Jonas E. The maternal grandparents, Henry and Marie ( Reichle) Schroeder, natives of Germany, also were early pioneers of Shiawassee county. Mr. Schroeder is still living. Mrs. Schroeder has been dead about fifteen years. They were the parents of eight children, William, Henry, Catherine, Barbara, Amelia, Anna, Charlotte and Etta.
Henry Cook was reared on his father's farm, attended school in Middle- bury township and later was graduated from the Owosso high school in 1903. He later entered the University of Michigan and in 1909 was gradu- ated from the Detroit College of Medicine. He began the practice of his profession at Flint in June, 1909, and he has built a large and growing practice.
On November 3, 1909, Dr. Henry Cook was married to Mary Ackroyd, daughter of John and Orpha (Albright) Ackroyd, and to this union two children have been born, Harold and Lynn Henry. Mrs. Cook is a native of Michigan, having been born in the state in 1888. Her father is a native of England and her mother of Canada, but have made their home in Shia- wassee county for many years. They are the parents of four children, Wini- fred, Merle, Eva and Mary.
Doctor and Mrs. Cook are active members of the Oak Park Methodist Episcopal church and take much interest in all branches of church work. The Doctor is a member of the County, State and American Medical Asso- ciations, and his every effort is to become more proficient in the noble call- ing in which he is engaged. His life is an active one, for besides attending to his professional duties he has been a member of the board of education since 1911 and is at present chairman of the public library board.
GEORGE WILBER TICE.
George Wilber Tice, head of the firm of Tice & Company, investment brokers and dealers in real estate and insurance, with offices in the Flint P. Smith building at Flint, is a native of Michigan, born on a homestead farm in Riley township, St. Clair county, January 14. 1865. He is a son of Philip and Myra (Lymburner) Tice, both natives of Canada, born in Castor precinct, twenty-five miles from Hamilton, Ontario, who came to Michigan after their marriage and purchased the James Forshee farm in Riley town-
Geo W Jice
angie F. Tice
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ship, St. Clair county. There they reared their family and spent the rest of their lives, the former dying in 1913, at the age of eighty-three years. His wife had died many years before, at the age of fifty-eight, hier death being due to injuries received in a fall from a tree. . They were members of the Methodist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were nine of these children, namely: Gilman, deceased: Alpheus, David, Kirk; Jennie MI., deceased, who was the wife of William Braidwood; George W .. the subject of this biographical sketch; Minnie, widow of William Wolf, of Ortonville, this state; Rose, unmarried, living near Memphis, this state, and . Robert, of the same place.
The Tices are of German descent and the name in the old country was spelled Theis. Philip Tice's father, John Theis, a native of Germany, mar- ried a Moot and emigrated to Canada, pre-empting a farm there, and there he and his wife spent the rest of their lives, rearing twelve children on their homestead place. For purposes of local convenience the foreign name was Anglicized to Tice and the descendants of John Theis have ever since fol- lowed that rendering of the family name. Grandfather Tice lived to be eighty-five years old and his wife was some older than that at the time of her death. The Lymburners are of Welsh descent, Grandfather Lymburner. father of Mrs. Philip Tice, having been born in Wales. He married a Swick and became a farmer and lumberman in Canada, where he died at an old age and where he and his wife reared a large family.
George W. Tice was reared on the paternal homestead where he was born, in St. Clair county, receiving his schooling in the district schools of that neighborhood, and remained at home until he was twenty-one years old. Then he went to Larimore, North Dakota, and for awhile was engaged in farming in that vicinity, after which he became engaged as a salesman for a company manufacturing farm machinery. He later became a stationary engineer and machinist and moved to Webb City, Missouri, where he was engaged as a stationary engineer and electrician until 1907. in which year he returned to Michigan and located at Flint, where he engaged in the insur- ance business and has ever since been located there. Several years ago he added to his insurance business that of general investment broker and dealer in real estate and is doing very well. Mr. Tice is a Republican and takes a warm interest in local political affairs.
On June 27, 1889, George W. Tice was united in marriage to Angie F. Bailey, who was born on a farm in Richmond township, Macomb county, this state. She is a daughter of James and Julia (Richards) Bailey, the (22a)
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former a native of Canada and the latter of the state of New York, both now dead, who were the parents of four children, Mrs. Tice having a brother, Herbert Bailey, and two sisters, Alma and Hattie. James Bailey was the son of Richard Bailey and his wife was a daughter of Elisha Richards. To Mr. and Mrs. Tice three children have been born, Glenn, Wilna and Irma. Glenn Tice, who is a machinist at Flint, married Gertrude Shetron. Wilna Tice married L. J. Doepker, now living at Viceroy, Saskatchewan, Canada, and has two children, Dorothy Mary and Wilber Joseph. Mr. and Mrs. ยท Tice are members of the Baptist church and take an earnest interest in the general good works of this community.
A. C. SLOCUM.
The old pioneers are entitled to our gratitude and highest esteen, for they were the forerunners of our present magnificent civilization. They endured the hardships and privations incident to life on the frontier in order that succeeding generations might find life easier and happier. One of this worthy band in Genesee county is A. C. Slocum, of Gaines township. He was born in Monroe county, New York, December 20, 1842, and is a son of Abraham and Mary (Davis) Slocum, both natives of the state of New York, where they grew up on farms and were married; after which they settled on a farm in Monroe county, but presently moved with their family to Michigan, locating at Flint, where they lived six months, during which time the death of the mother occurred. The father then moved with his children to a forty-acre farm in Burton township. The land was not improved, but he cleared away the timber and built a home, planting crops, and con- tinued to reside there until the subject of this sketch was twenty-three years of age, when the family located in Gaines township, on a forty-acre place which the father had previously purchased, and on which Abraham Slocum spent the rest of his life, dying at the age of seventy-five years. His family consisted of three children, one of whom is deceased; A. C., the subject of this sketch, and Alice, widow of G. P. Power, now living in Jackson.
A. C. Slocum grew up on the home farm where he worked when a boy. He received a limited education in the pioneer district schools. When start- ing out in life for himself he settled on the farm where he still resides in Gaines township, which place consists of one hundred and thirty acres, which he has kept well improved and well tilled and where he has carried on gen- eral farming and stock raising successfully.
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On June 6, 1868, A. C. Slocum was united in marriage to Loretta A. Jewell, a daughter of Rev. J. B. Jewell, an early settler in this locality and a pioneer Presbyterian preacher, for many years, a well-known and influential resident in this section of the state. One son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Slocum, A. D. Slocum, who married Eva Stafford and has three chil- dren, Gracie M., David Albert and Guy Harold. A. D. Slocum is a Demo- crat, but is liberal in his political views. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America at Gaines.
The Rev. J. B. Jewell, father of Mrs. Slocum, was born in Montgom- ery county, New York, July 28, 1814, and early learned the trade of black- smith, which he followed for some time after taking up the calling of a minister of the gospel. He married Lucy Ann Lazell, of Steuben county, New York, and not long afterward came to Michigan, settling in Oakland county, but presently moved over into Genesee county. In 1849 he went to California, seeking betterment of his health by a change of climate, and remained there, engaged in preaching, for ten years, at the end of which time he returned to this county, but after a brief stay here returned to Cali- fornia, where he remained ten years longer. He then returned to his home in this county and started a mission field, with Gaines as a center, and was thus engaged as an active minister of the gospel, connected with the Presby- terian church, until his retirement about five years before his death. His wife died in October, 1894, and his death occurred in the December follow- ing. They were the parents of nine children, Mary A., Martin Van Buren, William S., John E., Miranda, Loretta E., Phoebe C., Maria C. and Josephine. Not a great while before his death, the Rev. J. B. Jewell wrote a reminis- cent article for a local newspaper, from which the following excerpt is taken : "Something over forty years ago, I rode through where Durand now stands on my pony to the Garrison school house to preach. A log house was the sole building of the place and all the country was a wilderness and deer and bears were common. The Garrison school house stood one mile south of Vernon. From there I preached at Newburg, a little town on the west side of the Shiawassee river. From there into the town of Antrim; thence into Livingston and Genesee counties, and from there home. I lived at that time on the Baldwin road, two miles west of the county line, my circuit including a part of three counties. I soon learned that I could not clear up a farm and ride a circuit. I also got tired of the Methodist modus operandi and joined the Presbyterian presbytery at Detroit. That was over forty years ago. I then left my farm and laid out a mission field at Long Lake, Mundy, and a part of Gaines, and moved to Long Lake. I labored in that
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