History of Macomb County, Michigan, Part 94

Author: Leeson, Michael A., [from old catalog] comp
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago, M. A. Leeson & co.
Number of Pages: 952

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WILLIAM COOLEY was born June 26, 18OS. in Pittsford, Rutland Co .. Vt .; is son of Samuel and Polly Dike Cooley. The former was born November 14, 1775. in Pitts- ford, Vt., and died in Bruce, Mich., February 2, 1843; the latter was born in Chittenden, Rutland Co., Vt., August 4, 1781, and died September 10, 1838, in Bruce, Samuel Cooley left Vermont in 1816, and engaged in farming in Cambria, Niagara Co., N. Y., and in 1832 settled in Brnee, Mich. Mr. Cooley, of this sketch, was employed as a carder and cloth-dresser in Niagara County, N. Y. In 1832, he came to Michigan and purchased 120 acres of land in Bruce, returning to New York in the fall of that year, intending to re- main. He was persuaded to come back with his father, to whom he sold his . land and bought eighty acres more, on which he has since pursued the vocation of a farmer. He

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has been the owner of several farms and a considerable amount of timber land. He was married, January 1. 1835, to Lucretia Hindz, of Cambria, N. Y., a native of Vermont. She was born February 22, 1812. They have one child. James H., born October 15, 1835, and died September 5, 1837. Mrs. Cooley died June 23, 1836, in Bruce. Mr. Cooley was married, January 29, 1840, to Henrietta L., daughter of Charles and Diadamia Scran- ton Crippen, of Washington, Macomb County. She was born March 1. 1821, in Coving- ton. Genesee Co., N. Y. They have one child, Charles D., born January 13, 1842, in Bruce. Mrs. Cooley belongs to the Free Baptist Church of Bruce. Mr. Cooley is a mem- ber of the orders of Masonry and Odd Fellows. In politics, he is a Democrat. His farm includes 160 acres of land, well improved with a substantial frame house and accessory buildings.

AARON CORNELL, P. O. Romeo, born May 1, 1822. in Elmira, N. Y., was son of Richardson and Anna M. (Mosher) Cornell, both parents natives of New York, father born May 9, 1791, died in 1878, in Wisconsin; mother born June 8, 1796; she died March, 1834 This old couple were married May 26, 1814: They had the following children : Aletta K., born April 25, 1817; Dorcas, born September 7. 1819: Aaron, born May 1, 1822; Hannah W., born September 5, 1824; William D., born April 1, 1829. The subject of this sketch was married to Elizabeth Lefever September 9, 1844: from this marriage, had two children-Hartmon R. and Allace Josephine, both of whom are now living; wife died September 4, 1870. Mr. Cornell married for his second wife Lucy Streeter August 22, 1871; she died March 14, 1880. January 12, 1882, Mr. Cornell married, for his third wife. Elizabeth Ann Sanford, widow of George Sauford. of Flint, Mich .: she was born July 28, 1830; she was a daughter of Denis and Delia (Palmer) Scranton. The subject of this sketch is a farmer, and came to Michigan and to the town of Bruce in April, 1867; the same year of his arrival in Michigan, bought his present homestead, which consists of 145 acres of choice land on Section 14, with large, commodious dwelling house and good barns; farm is on gravel road leading to Almont, four miles north of Romeo. Mr. and Mrs. Cornell are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church : politically, he is a Repub- lican.

ALBERT EDGETT, (deceased), born February 3, 1805, in Gorham, New York, was the son of Poter and Rhoda (Finch) Edgett. Peter, his father, was born in En- gland in 1770; he died in Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich .. in the year 1832; his son died March 16, 1876, in Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich. His mother was Holland Dutch, and they were married in the State of New York, Schoharie County. Albert Edgett came to Mich- igan in 1827 and settled on what is now Bruce, on Section 36. where he bought eighty acres of land, where the family have since lived. January 1, 1828, Albert married Lucy Adams; wife born in Langdon, Cheshire Co., N. H .. April 22, 1807; she was the daugh- ter of John and Susan (Morse) Adams. From this marriage they have seven children- Cleora, born March 9, 1829, now the wife of Sammel Babcox, of Orford. Mich; Phoebe Paulina, born February 21, 1831; Harriet L., born December 13, 1832; Maryett, born October 25, 1534; Juliett, born March 20, 1837: Martha Jane, born June 25, 1839; Albert, born August 21, 1841. The daughter Martha is now the wife of Levi W. Cole, of Bruce; they were married November 7, 1878. Mr. Cole now lives on the homestead of his wife's father. Mr. Cole was born September 22, 1846, in Burford. Brant Co., Province of On- tario, Canada; was son of Nicholas and Anna (Richort) Cole. Mr. Cole is a Republican.

LEONARD ELDRED, P. O. Romeo, was born July 3, ISIS, in Crafttown, Otsego Co., N. Y .; is son of Thomas and Phoebe ( Myers) Eldred; the former was born in June, 1794; the latter. April 5, 1800. They had nine children-Nathan, Leonard, Olive, Ansel, Thomas. Margaret, Betsey, JJames and Hiram; moved to Clarence, Erie Co .. N. Y., and afterward to Michigan, in 1836, and located on eighty acres of land in Bruce, which he

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purchased of the Government. and where he resided till his death, September 17, 1857; his wife died November 17. 1870. Mr. Eldred came to Michigan with his parents. He is a carpenter by trade, which he pursued about ten years. He was married to Emily, daughter of I. W. S. and Permelia (Stranahan) Collins, February 18, 1844: she was born in Aurora, Erie Co., N. Y .. February 12, 1824; her father was born December 21. 1791; was son of Levi and Nabby (Stanton) Collins, who were the parents of ten children; the father died April 10, 1837: the mother died September IS, 1831. Permelia Stranahan was daughter of John and Annie (Crego) Stranahan, natives of New York, who came to Michigan in 1536 and settled in Bruce. I. W. S. Collins came to Michigan in 1832. with his wife and eight children; three were afterward born to them; their names were Seymour, Harriet. Cornelia, Julia, Emily, Cyrenus, Jackson, Lafayette, Annie, Ruth and James. Of these. Seymour. Julia, Jackson and Annie are dead. Mr. Collins died September 7. 1855; his wife died February 25. 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Eldred have three children -Permelia A., born April 24, 1845; married to James Hosner in November, 1862: they have had three children-Emma, Eva (deceased) and Clare: Peter P., born October 10. 1846. married, January 1. 1876, to Annie, daughter of Andrew and Catherine (Falkner) Nickerson; they have one child. Fred C., born September S. 1877; Cary J. Eldred was born September IS. 1848; was married, in July, 1870, to Emma, daughter of James and Fanny (Spencer) Hosner; they had two children-Fanny L. and Carrie E .; Mrs. Eldred died in September, 1876: her husband was married, in November, 1877, to Emma. daughter of Edmund and Mary Gould; they have one daughter, Florry, born April 18, 1880. Mr. Eldred lives on his homestead of 150 acres on Section 33, where he located December 25, 1872. His son Peter owns a farm of upward of one hundred acres on See- tion 25, the original possession of Leonard Eldred.

CORNELIUS EVERETT, son of Elihu Everett, a native of Connecticut, was born in Washington County, N. Y., December 27, 1800. His mother, Betsey Derby, a native of the same place, died in Washington. The father died in 1860, in Cattarangus County. N. Y. Mr. Everett was a teacher in the public schools of Western New York several years, and removed to Macomb County in the fall of 1833, and taught school the first sea- son of his stay. In the spring of 1834, he bought a lot of land on Section 14 of Bruce Township, and made it his first home. In the year 1855, he added the Fisher farm. which was situated across the street. He was married, August 9, 1828, to Climena. daughter of Heman Palmerlee. of Connecticut. She was born at Shoreham, Vt., May 23, 1811. Their children were Leonard. born in New York August 16, 1830, married Annie Collins and lives at Battle Creek, Mich .; Elizabeth, September 6, 1833. married S. Daniels and lives in Detroit: Mary, born September 9, 1838, married William Daniels and resides in Chicago, Ill. ; Homer C. B., September 19. 1845. Mrs. Everett died December 11, ISSO. Mr. Everett has been an active and energetie man and a prosperous farmer; a member of the Democratic party. Mr. Everett's father served in the war of 1812.

HOMER C. EVERETT, son of Cornelius Everett, born in Bruce Township Septem- ber 19, 1845; remained at home and attended the schools of the neighborhood and at Ro- meo until becoming of age; married, October 21, 1874, Lorena, daughter of Abel Shel- den. of Lenox Township: they have two sons-Floyd, born September 21, 1877; Clarence, August 9. 1879; also one daughter died in infancy. Mr. Everett resides on the homestead, and is meeting with success as an agriculturist; is a member of the Republican party. He enlisted, in 1864, in Company (. Third Michigan Volunteer Infantry; remained nearly two years, and was honorably discharged. He lived three years in the townships of Lenox and Ray, and returned to the homestead in the fall of ISS0.

HENRY D. GOETCHIEUS. P. O. Almont, was born January 1, 1815, in Shawangunk, Ulster Co .. N. Y .. He is the son of Stephen and Catherine Goetchiens. Stephen Goetchious

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was born in New York; his wife, Catherine, in the State of Virginia. His father came to Michigan in 1837; settled in Washington, Macomb County; father died in Almont, Lapeer County, October 20, 1854, aged seventy-four years. His son Henry came to Michigan with his father. He had learned the trade of tailor in the State of New York. On his arrival at Romeo, he opened a tailor-shop and followed this business about eight years, and then kopt a hotel in what was the old Red Tavern. This house was burned after he had ocenpied it some four years. On the same ground he built a new hotel, called the Romeo Exchange: kept this house about eight years, then sold the house to J. L. Benja min for $6,000, and with this money he came to Bruce, and bought his present homestead abont 1859, which consists of 260 acres of choice land on Section 4, with good dwelling and barn. On this farm, near his dwelling, he has a fine fish pond of about one aere. filled with pickerel, and with nearly every kind of fish that inhabits the lakes or Michigan. January 27, 1843. the subject of this sketch married Phoebe Cardnell, of Almont. She was born May 16, 1822. in Genesee County. N. Y. From this marriage they have the fol- lowing children: Ione, born January 9, 1843, now the wife of George Braidwood, of Bruce; Edwin E., June 18, 1844, now lives at Grand Rapids; Phoebe L., born March 6, 1846, wife of Abram Hagar Marlette, of Sanilac County; Jay W .. born May 15, 1848; Ivan, born December 1, 1849, died May 1, 1850; George M., November 4, 1851, lives in Bruce and occupies part of the homestead; Unita C., born March 11, 1854, at home, sin- gle; Julia, born October 3, 1858, at home, single. Mr. Goetchiens' forefathers lived in Hofland. Mr. Goetchiens is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Politically, he is a Democrat. The son, Jay W., lives with his parents on the homestead. November 19, 1876, Jay was married to Mary E. Miles, of Almont, Lapeer Co., Mich. They have two children-Phoebe Ann, born June S, 1878: Henry D., born May. 12. 1881. Politically, he is a Democrat.

ROBERT GRAY, deceased, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, May 12. 1816; came with his parents to this county in 1832. where the family now reside, in the same old house. with additions. He was married. in 1851, to Miss Isabella Fogo, a native of Scotland. They had four children-Neil W., William M., Belle F. and Hugh J. D. William is married to Belle Mahaffy, and has one child. Robert; Belle F. is the wife of James Coch- lane. Mr. Gray was a prominent farmer and stock-raiser, and was very successful. He died October 5. 1877. respected by all. Neil Gray, deceased, the father of the above, was also a native of Ayrshire, Scotland; brought his family to America in 1832, and settled on Section 11. Brnee Township, this county, where his descendants still live. He was the father of ten children. all dead.

WILLIAM HAMILTON. P. O. Almont, born May 31, 1809, in Muirkirk, Ayrshire, Scotland; was the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Simm) Hamilton. Robert Hamilton. fa- ther of the subject of this sketch, was born in Scotland in 1784, and died in 1845, in township of Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich. His wife, the mother of William, was also born in Scotland. in 1785, and died in Bruce in 1868. They had six children, two of whom are now living. The subject of this sketch came to America with his parents in the year 1830: landed at port of Boston and settled in North Andover, Mass .; parents lived in Andover some two years, when they went to Simsbury. Conn., where they lived some five years, then came to Bruce, Mich., in the year 1837. William Hamilton commenced busi- ness life for himself in a woolen-mill in Audover, Mass; worked in this place some two years, then went to the State of Connecticut, to town of Simsbury, where he learned the trade of earpet-weaver in the carpet factory of Livermore & Kendall; followed this occupation five years: was engaged in weaving ingrain carpets. May , 1833, Mr. Hamilton married Mary Meloine, of New York City. She was born in Port Patrick, Scotland, February 10. 1810; came to America in 1833; landed at port of New York. She was the daughter

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of John and Mary (McCracken) Meloine; from this marriage, had eight children, as fol- lows: Robert A., born March 25, 1834. in State of Connecticut, township of Simsbury; Eliza Ann, born in Connecticut, township of Simsbury, December 3, 1835: Mary Jane, in Bruce, Mich., June 27, 1844; Matilda E., born June 21, 1846; Charlotte A., born September 17, 1849; William W., born May 6, 1851; John M., born December 6. 1853. The subject of this came to Michigan with parents; farmed with his father some two years; in the year 1841, bought a farm of 120 acres of land on Section 9; on this land has since lived; homestead now consists of eighty acres of choice land, with good dwelling house and outbuildings. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the Presbyterian Church; has taken considerable interest in common schools, and held several school offices: politically. is Republican.

JACOB H. HOSNER was born in Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y., in 1841. His par- ents came to Michigan in 1843 and located in Bruce Township, where they now reside. Mr. Hosner grew to manhood on his father's farm, and when nineteen years of age, en- listed in the First Michigan Cavalry. He was enrolled August 21. 1861, and served until the 12th day of June, 1864. when he was wounded at the battle of Trevilian Station, Va. He was in the hospital in consequence until June 2, 1865, when he received honorable discharge. Mr. Hosner was one of Michigan's most valiant soldiers, and one whom his fellow-citizens name with pride and honor. He was in every action in which his regiment was engaged during the first two years of service, and was under fire at Yorktown, Will- iamsburg, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Harper's Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg. Falling Waters, Brandy Station, etc. Mr. Hosner was married, in 1866, to Lucy M., daughter of Isaac and Harriet (Cusick) Taft, born in Bruce in 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Taft were natives of Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y .. and were both born in 1807. They came to Michigan in 1835, and accumulated several farms and considerable village property in Romeo. They were members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Taft died March 18. 1875: Mrs. Taft died Oe- tober 28. 1877. Mr. Hosner owns 120 acres of first-class, finely situated land, in Bruce, on Sections 29 and 30. His residence is on Section 29, and his place is well supplied with accessory farm buildings; has recently built a barn at a cost of $1,000. Mr. and Mrs. Hosner have had two children-Hiram Judson, born April 29, 1868, died September 18. 1879: and Hattie May, born March I. 1870, and died September 14, 1879, of malig- uant diphtheria. The son died of paralysis of the heart succeeding diphtheria.

JAMES M. HOSNER was born July 28, 1838, in Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y .: is son of Jacob and Catherine Thompkins. His father is son of Hugh and Hannah Hosner. natives of New York, the former born in 1780, and died in 1839; the latter born in 1783 and died in 1867. Mr. Hosner came to Michigan in 1841. He was married, in 1863. to Permelia A., daughter of Leonard and Emily Eldred. They have had three children- Emana E., born May 20, 1864. in Bruce; Eva May, May 1, 1870, in Bruce, died July 14. 1870; Clare J., August 2, 1877, in Bruce. Mr. Hosner owns 210 acres of good land on Section 30, with fine home and accessory farm buildings; in addition to farming, buys and sells cattle and sheep for the Eastern markets.

JOHN E. HOSNER was born July 13, 1850; is son of James and Fanny (Spencer) Hosner. His father was born in Otsego County, N. Y., in 1811; removed to Monroe County, N. Y., in 1816. He was married, in 1832, to Fanny Spencer. She was born in Otsego County, N. Y., in 1813; moved with her parents to Monroe County in 1816. They came to Michigan, purchased the land where the Clifton Mill now stands: exchanged the property for land in Bruce, one mile north and one-fourth mile east of his former loca- tion, where he remained until April, 1876. He then moved one-half mile west to another tract of land; he died June 11, 1876; his widow lives on the place where he died. Mr.

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Hosner, of this sketch, was married, October 16, 1876, to Caroline, daughter of John and Charlot e (Hartung) Albertson, born in Warren County, N. J., December 25, 1851; her father was born in New Jersey September 2. 1819: her mother was born in New York March 3. 1823; they were married September 15, 1844: came to Michigan in 1852, and located at Addison, Oakland County, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Albertson died JJuly 6, 1865; Mr. Albertson died May 15, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Hosner have one, child, Mary Lee, born in Bruce December 9, 1877. Mr. Hosner occupies the homestead of his parents, 160 acres on Section 32: he is engaged in agriculture, and also in breeding thoroughbred Spanish Merino sheep and Short-Horn Durham cattle: his flock and herd are of recorded pedigree-the foriner from celebrated Vermont stock.

THEODORE F. HOSNER, P. O. Romeo, was born in Washington Township in 1845; was married, March 24, 1869, to Amanda Schooley, of Addison Township, Oakland County ; their children are Frances May Hosner, born in 1870: and Amie E., born in 1875. He is a prosperous and successful farmer of the township of Bruce.

ALBERT HOVEY. P. O. Romeo, born October 10. 1822. in Warsaw, Wyoming Co .. N. Y. ; was the son of Suel and Lucinda (Holmes) Hovey: Suel was of English extraction and his wife, Lucinda, of Scotch extraction: Snel was born in the State of New Hamp- shire, 1755; died in Bruce March 2, 1871; his wife, Lucinda, born in Vermont. October 13, 1799, and died in Bruce, Mich., August 30, 1879. Josiah Hovey. father of Suel, was born in England in the year 1754; came to America when but seventeen years of age; he was always a farmer and lived his life in this county, in New Hampshire and New York; he died in Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N. Y., in the year 1824: his son Suel, the father of this sketch, was a soldier in the war of 1812. The subject of this sketch came to Michi- gan. June. 1526, with his parents; his father bought eighty acres of good land, on Sec- tion 26, township of Bruce: the same farm is now the present homestead of the subject of this sketch. which now consists of 185 acres of choice land, with large commodious dwelling house and good barns and outbuildings. A. Hovey located on the road leading from Romeo to Almont, one and a half miles north of the village of Romeo. April 14. 1556, Mr. Albert Hovey married Eliza A. Carpenter, of Almont, Lapeer C., Mich .: she was born October 27, 1836. in Armada. Macomb Co .. Mich; was the daughter of Samuel and Sabria (Perkins) Carpenter: both her parents were natives of Rutland, Vt .; father still living in Oregon. Lapeer Co., Mich. From this marriage, there are five children living- Carson F., born January 31. 1857: Eher A., November 15. 1858; Samuel C .. February 25. 1861; Cora B., November 28, 1863: Lena S .. September 23, 1865, died June 4. 1867; Emma S .. June 21, 1867, died December 29, 1870; Myrtie I. May 21. 1873. all born in the township of Bruce, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Hovey are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically. he is a Republican.

FRANKLIN JONES, P. O. Romeo, was born April 24, 1851, in Bruce, Macomb County; he is the son of Charles and Abigail Killam Jones, the former born February 1, 1811, in New York, and died Jannary 6, 1873, in Dryden, Lapeer County; the latter was born March 23, 1815, in Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y. ; her parents were natives of Penn- sylvania. Mr. Jones' parents were married October 9, 1838, in Wheatland; his mother had eight brothers and sisters, four of whom are living; six of her seven children are now living; their record is as follows: Eunice L., born August 14, 1840, died September 24, 1846: Maria. December 4, 1842: Charles K., February 6, 1846; Emma, May 15, 1848; Franklin. April 24, 1851: Evelyn. June 19, 1853: Ella A., March 23, 1855. Mr. Jones was married, March 24, 1880, to Eva, daughter of Rev. Lester and Susan Clark, of May- field, Mich : the former was born in Rutland, Vt., April 22, 1833; the latter was born in Upper Canada May 21. 1840: they were married July 9. 1855. The parents of Rev. Lester Clark were Amasa Clark, who was born January 18, 1812, in Rutland. Vt .; and

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Roxalana Carpenter, born May 16, 1812, in Tra, Vt .; they were married April S. 1830. The parents of Mrs. Susan Smith Clark were Albert Smith, born in New York State Feb- ruary 2, 1804, and Lovina Atwell, born in the same State September 10, 1812; they were married January 25, 1829; Lovina Smith died September 6, 1857; Albert Smith died June 3, 1880. The children of Rev. Lester and Susan Clark are as follows: Eva, born March 3, 1858; Roxie, July 26, 1860; Lovina A., November 19, 1862, died September 15, 1866; Jason S., February 28, 1865; Carrie Belle, March 26, 1868; Annette C. M., October 6, 1870, died November 12, 1871: Allie May, May 25, 1878; and Lester, Jr., August 5. 1881. Mr. Jones now owns his father's homestead of 200 acres on Section 19, in a state of advanced improvement, with good ontbuildings. The senior Jones settled in Rose, Oakland County, and in 1844 located in Bruce, where he passed the remainder of his life. Mr. Jones is a Democrat in political sentiment.

FRED P. KILLAM was born in Bruce Township April 10. 1853; his father. Powell C. Killam, and mother, Margaret Ferguson, came to Bruce Township at an early day, from Wheatland, Caledonia Co., N. Y. ; his grandfather, Charles Killam, did not move to Michigan. In 1873, he took possession of 165 acres on Sections 19 and 30, previously purchased from Harvey Reid by Powell C. Killam, where he now makes his home. He married Miss Zella Partch December 14, 1875, daughter of Enos Partch, born in Vermont, who settled in Michigan about 1867; and Abba (Stone) Partch, a native of New York; they are the parents of three children, namely: Hallie, boru January IS, 18 ??; Bessie, born Angust 10, 1878; and Jessie, born November 21, 1880. Mr. Killam's grandfather was a soldier in the war of 1812, while Mrs. Killam's father served in the New York Vol- unteers during the late war, while her Grandfather Stone served in the war of 1812. Mrs. F. P. Killam was born September 12, 1852.

IRA KILLAM, farmer, on Section IS, township of Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich., was born April 23, 1822. in Wheatland, Monroe County, State of New York; was the son of Charles and Sarah (Bingham) Killam. Both Charles and Sarah Killam were natives of Pennsylvania. Charles Killam died in May, 1859. His wife, Sarah, the mother of this sketch, is now living with her son Ira; is in her ninetieth year, and a remarkably well- preserved old lady. The subject, of this came to Michigan in 1845, settled on the farm on which he now resides, which now consists of 320 acres of choice land, with good dwelling- house and ontbuildings. Mr. Killam was married, September 20, 1847, to Christie A. Stewart, of Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y .; she was the daughter of Donald and Christie Stewart; wife born December 11, 1822. in Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y .: from this marriage, there were five children, as follows-William S .. Delia and Zelia (twins), Donald, Ira, Jr. Politically, is Democratic.

ROBERT McKAY, born March 4, 1813, in Renfrewshire, Johnston, fourteen miles from Glasgow, Scotland, was son of John and Jane Mckay; father born in the year 1783; his wife, the mother of Robert, born in the year 1790; both born in Scotland. They came to America in the year 1836; landed at port of New York; came on to Michigan the same year, and settled in Oxford. Oakland Co., Mich., where he purchased 1,300 acres of good land; on this land they lived till the time of their death, which occurred as follows: Fa- ther died July, 1861; mother, in the year 1858. They had six sons and three daughters, two of whom are now living. Robert, the subject of this sketch, came to America six years previous to his parents, and spent the first thr e years in the city of Baltimore. Md., and three in Nashville, Tenn .; was engaged during this time in mercantile business and publish- " ing house; when his parents came to Michigan. he came on to meet them, and has since re- sided in Michigan: came to Macomb County in the year 1841; settled on the farm on which he now resides, which now consists of 610 acres of choice land on Section 12, with good dwelling-house and outbuildings. December 16. 1841, Mr. MeKay married Jane

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History of Macomb County, Michigan, Part 94

Author: Leeson, Michael A., [from old catalog] comp Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago, M. A. Leeson & co. Number of Pages: 952

Author: Leeson, Michael A., [from old catalog] comp
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago, M. A. Leeson & co.
Number of Pages: 952