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Gray; from this marriage, there were five children -- three daughters and two sons four now living; wife died January 24, 1861. April 24, 1865, he married Caroline M. Day, born De- cember 16, 1839, in Armada, Macomb Co., Mich. ; have six children living, four sons and two daughters. Mr. McKay is Republican in politics, he being one of the original Abolitionists; in the year 1842, he cast his first vote for the Abolition party, when it had only two anti-slavery votes in town; never cast any other than an anti-slavery vote in his life; has lived to see the complete triumph of the principles he so early identified himself with on coming to Michigan; has always been a zealous worker in the temperance reform, and so remains to this day; was identified with the Underground Railroad, so called, and as- sisted many a poor slave to Canada soil to enjoy that freedom denied to them in this boasted land of freedom; keeps 600 sheep; wheat and sheep are his specialties in farming: is Director in Citizens' Bank; is President of Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Macomb County.
ROBERT N. MCKAY, P. O. Romeo, son of Robert MeKay and Jean (Gray), of Bruce. Macomb County, was born in Bruce October 15. 1847; was married November 1, 1870, to Mary, daughter of B. H. Thurston, of Armada, and for three years lived on the Thurston farm: then bought the farm on which he now lives, known as the Campbell farm, on Section 24, in Bruce Township. This farm consisted of 120 acres, to which forty acres have been added. He has good buildings and fine thoroughbred stock, and has been remarkably suc- cessful in the cultivation of wheat, which for many years past has averaged twenty-two bushels per acre. Mrs. McKay was born Jannary 26, 1846, and has two children-Electa, born October 27, 1876, and an infant son. Mr. McKay has always voted with the Repub- lican party.
JOHN C. MILLER, P. O. Almont, born September 8, 1814, in Hunter, Greene Co., N. Y .; was son of William and Margaret (Brundrige) Miller; his father was born in Portsmouth, England, August 14, 1763; he married Margaret Brundrige, who was born Dec. 29, 1770, in Nova Scotia; they were married August 20, 1786. William Miller came to America about the year 1782. After their marriage, they settled in Hunter, Greene Co., N. Y., where they reared a family of ten children. In the year 1833. he left Hunter and came on to Michigan. and settled in what is now the town of Bruce, Macomb County, where he took up 120 acres on Section 4, it now being the farm occupied by John Hagerman; the same year, he took up 160 acres on Section 1, on which he built himself a house and home, and where he and his wife resided till their death William Miller died March 25, 1859; Margaret died June 1, 1851. John Miller bought his father's farm in the year 1837, and with him the parents resided till their death. John has since lived on the farm, which, in 1882, consists of 140 acres of choice land, with good house and outbuildings. November 10, 1838, he married Sarah M. Cusick, of Attica, Lapeer Co., Mich. ; she was born June 22, 1817; had four children-John T., born October 22, 1839. died September 30, 1853: Ann E., born August 21, 1844; Hiram C., born October 2, 1846; Alice E., born May 4, 1849, now the wife of H. H. Williams, of Almont; they have two children-Jennie B., born May 17, 1873; Clara, born December 3, 1875. Hiram was married to Martha King, of Almont, December 31, 1869, and has three children -- Lizzie A., born February 27. 1870: Estella L., born Jannary 1, 1874: John H., born October 15, 1877; first wife died March 18, 1853. June S, 1853, Mr. Miller married Lydia J. Classon, of Almont, Lapeer Co., Mich .; wife born March 12, 1831, in Jefferson County, N. Y .; she was the daugther of Amasa and Sabina (Redway) Closson: had four chil- dren-Truman B., born August 25, 1856, died March 11, 1874: Sarah M .. born October 21, 1858, now the wife of John H. Dodds, of Lapeer, Lapeer Co., Mich., married May 21, 1879; Martha J., born December ?4, 1862, died March 17, 1864; David P., born November 13, 1871. Mr. Miller and wife are members of the M. E. Church: politically, he is Republican.
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ROBERT MILLIKEN was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, February 23. 1826; the family were farmers in that country and emigrated to America in 1845, when he engaged as clerk in the store of Dickinson & Giddings, in Romeo, in which business he was em- ployed for a period of three years; in the year 1850, he bought the farm on which he now resides, on Section 2, of Bruce. Before leaving Scotland, he was married to Jean- nette Smith, who died in Almont Township in the year 1847. By this marriage, there were two children, both of whom are deceased. He married again, July 12, 1848, to Ellen Hopkin, daughter of John Hopkin, of Scotland; she was born in the year 1829; there were seven children in all. five of whom are still living in the locality of the home- stead, save one. In the year 1870, Mr. M. engaged in the nursery business, in which he has gained an extensive trade, his sales amounting to $5,000 annually, embracing both fruit and ornamental trees. He is also a breeder of fine horses and Durham cattle; he has made his farm a fertile one. In politics, he is a kepublican.
CYRUS A. MILLS was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada. February 15. 1845; is son of George and Margaret Mills; he came to Michigan in 1869 and settled at Elk Rapids; in 1879, he moved to Washington, Macomb County, and a year later settled in Bruce, where he now resides. He was married, September 26, 1871, to Emily L., daugh- ter of William and Sarah A. Richardson. of Elk Rapids, Mich,; they have had three chil- dren -- Walter A., born October 28, 1873, died August 10, 1875: Alice May, November 27. 1876; Charles E., April 27, 1878. Mr. Mills is a Republican.
LEWIS D. OWEN, P. O. Romeo, was born August 16. 1815, in Covington, Genesee (now Wyoming) Co., N. Y .; he is the son of Abijah and Sally Davis Owen. In 1825, his father came to Macomb County with his family of five children, which number afterward increased to eight; they located in Shelby, known in those days as the "Third Town, " where his father took up eighty acres of Government land and remained there until his death, in June, 1837. Mr. Owen left home in 1831, at the age of sixteen, to make his own way in the world, engaging as a clerk at Utica with P. & G. Leach, remaining until 1833, when they closed their business connections, and he engaged with John James, of the same place, who was also a merchant there. A year later, in May. 1834, he came to Ro- meo and opened a stock of goods for Johnson Niles, of Troy. Oakland County ; he remained until June, 1835, when he went to Mr. Niles' store in Troy, and remained one year with him. He received a proposition from his former employer. G. C. Leach, to embark in a business enterprise at Utica. Mr. Leach became a silent partner in the concern, managed under the style of Sheldon & Owen; his connection with this firm continned for two and a half years. In 1837, he was married to Jane E .. daughter of Lucy Ann and Gideon Gates, of Romeo, and in the fall of 1838 moved to this village. He became Deputy under his uncle. Calvin Davis, then High Sheriff of the county, and served in the same position with his successor; also acted as Collector and Constable of Bruce up to June, 1842, when he moved with his family upon the homestead farm in Shelby, buying out the other heirs. This was his first experience as a farmer since his boyhood. Here he remained for two years, going with his brother-in-law to manage the farm, near Romeo, of his father-in-law, who then moved into the village of Romeo, He resided on the place for eight years, at the same time conducting his own estate in Shelby, where his mother still lived. In 1852, he sold out the property there and bought the premises of the late James Leslie, Jr., 120 acres, including three-fourths of the northeast quarter of Section 35, in Bruce, of which he still retains seventy-six acres, and where he resides. He cast his first Presi- dential vote for Martin Van Buren, in 1836. He was a Democrat until the organization of the Republican party in 1854, when he joined its ranks. Mrs. Owen was born in Rich- mond, Ontario Co., N. Y., in May, 1816, and died in 1879, in her sixty-fourth year. They had nine children-eight sons and one daughter; five sons are deceased; those living have
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the following record: L. Davis was born at Romeo January 19. 1841; Robert Dale in Shelby, January 30, 1843; John F., in Bruce, in March, 1856; and Rosa May, wife of Emanuel Coykendall. in September, 1861. Sally Davis Owen, daughter of Bela and Ruth Davis, was born in Hubbardston, Mass .. September 17, 1791. Bela Davis, father of Sally. was the son of Eliezer and Sarah Ward Davis, who once lived in Holden, Mass., but we have no further record of them or their son Bela. The family record of Lewis D. and Jane E. Owen is as follows: They were married in Pontiac December 20, 1837: their eld. est son, M. Blinn Owen, born in Romeo December 23, 1838; L. Davis Owen, born in Ro- meo January 19, 1841: Robert Dale Owen, born in Shelby January 30. 1843; William Wirt Owen, born in Romeo December 12, 1849; Ralph K. Owen, born in Romeo January 20. 1852; Hibbard Owen, born in Bruce September 27, 1853. Lewis D. Owen, son of Abijah and Sally Owen, born in Covington. N. Y., August 16, 1815; Abijah Owen, son of Fred. erick and Peggy Owen, at Orwell, Vt .. November 11, 1792; Frederick Owen, born at Tol- land, Conn., February 27, 1752; Peggy Hibbard Owen, born in Windom. Conn .. Septem- ber 16, 1757; Jane E. Gates Owen, daughter of Gideon and Lucy Gates, born in Vietor. N. Y .. May 7, 1816; Gideon Gates, son of Aaron and Elizabeth Gates, born June 29, 1789; Lucy Gates, daughter of Jonathan and Honor Blinn, born May 22, 1792; Wilbur B. Gates, son of Gideon and Lucy Gates, born December 1. 1813: Jane E. Gates, daughter of Gideon and Lucy Gates, born May 7, 1816, in Vietor, N. Y .; John B. Gates, son of Gideon and Lucy Gates, was born October 6, 1818; Martha Gates, daughter of Gideon and Lucy Gates, born July 9, 1821. The following is the military record of Mr. Owen's three soldier sons: L. Davis Owen was private in Company B. Fifth Michigan Volunteer Infantry: mustered into service in August, 1861, at Fort Wayne. Mich., under Henry D. Ferry, Colonel, and Judson S. Farrar. Captain, both of Mt. Clemens: arrived at the seat of war in Virginia in September following; being assigned to the Army of the Potomac, was engaged in all the battles of the Peninsula, commanded by Gen. Mcclellan, also par- ticipated in the battle of Bull Run No. 2, under Gen, Pope, and at Fredericksburg, under Burnside, and at Chancellorsville, under Gen. Hooker, and Mead, at Gettysburg, as well as all the subsequent battles and military movements engaged in by the Army of the Poto- mac, ineluding the battle of the Wilderness, the whole number amounting to not less than twenty-five or thirty, and. during the three-years' service, in many of the hardest battles. and received no injury further than a slight wound upon the eyebrow from a spent ball. which had struck a limb overhead and glanced downward; was mustered out of service the 23d of August, 1864, at camp near Petersburg, Va. M. Blinn Owen, now deceased, at the time the war broke out was a resident of New York City, and was a member of the Seventh New York Militia Regiment, who were called to Washington by the President in June, 1861, to guard the capital, and were encamped on Arlington Heights for six weeks, then returned to New York, and, in the fall received a captain's commission from the Governor of Pennsylvania, and raised a company for the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer In- fantry, which were assigned to the same division to which his brother, L. Davis, belonged, and served during the Peninsular campaign, but soon thereafter resigned his commission, he having received so severe a shock from the bursting of a shell that he regarded his physical condition as inadequate to the hardships of a soldier's life, and his death, although it did not oceur until some years after that, was probably to be attributed to the injury then received. Robert Dale Owen enlisted under Lieut. William Hulsheart, and A. M. Keeler. Captain, in Company B, Twenty-second Michigan Volunteer Infantry, August 9, 1862, at Pontiae. which regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, the seat of their operations being confined mainly to Tennessee and Georgia. being at the surrender of Atlanta; but he was more generally detailed as teamster or wood-chopper, and was sometimes sent to Washington with lunatics; therefore, he was not much engaged in bat-
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tle. but from the kick of a mule received a breach, for which he now receives a half-pen- sion; was mustered out of service in June, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn.
GEORGE H. PALMERLEE, son of Lucins and Louisa (Stone) Palmerlee, was born June 22, 1847. He has always remained upon the homestead. receiving the educa- tion afforded by the school of the district and the academy at Romeo; married, June 1, 1871, to Alice M., daughter of E. S. Snover, of Romeo; she was born at Romeo December 5, 1849; their children are George H., Jr., born May 11, 1872: Emma G., born May 6, 1874. Mrs. Palmerlee died October 19, 1875. The homestead consists of 175 acres, in fine state of cultivation, with all things needed for a successful business. He is a mem- ber of the Congregational Church of Romeo, and in politics is Republican.
HEMAN PALMERLEE, deceased, P. O. Romeo, was born in Litchfield. Conn., and his wife in Goshen, in 1786; they lived in Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., eighteen years after they were married; in Erie. Penn., one and a half years; and now, in 1882, his farm has been the home of the Palmerlees for fifty years. They were blessed with ten children, all of them living to grow up to manhood and womanhood. They came into Bruce with eight of their family, the oldest daughter being married and living in Gran- ville, and Joseph, the oldest son, remaining with her until the next spring, and in the au- tumn. the sister, with her family, arrived at the new home in Bruce. All were having a gay time when the accidental discharge of a gun hushed their sport by killing Joseph. Mr. Heman Palmerlee held the office of Justice of the Peace and Postmaster a number of years. He was a man of strict integrity, but not a member of any church: his wife was a member of the Congregational Church. He died in 1859; his wife, the 29th of December, 1879. Amos Palmerlee, the youngest son, still lives at the old home; he was born in Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., in 1826: was married, at the age of twenty-seven, to Mary Kidder, who lived with him six years, and left one son, Charles Sumner; he was married again, in 1860. to Clara, daughter of James R. and Adelia Makepeace Taylor; the former was born in Westfield. Mass., in 1811, and died March 28, ISSO; the latter was born in West Brookfield. Mass .. April 5, 1815, and died November 4, 1559. Mr. and Mrs. Palmerlee have seven children-Mary, Adelia, Alva M., Martha, Knight L., Amos B., Clara B., Heman Vick.
LUCIUS PALMERLEE, son of Heman and Nancy (Brooks) Palmerlee, natives of Litchfield. Conn., was born November 20. 1818; his father was born in Connecticut Sep- tember 21. 1786; removed to Macomb May 7. 1832; settled on Section 14, Bruce, and died September 5, 1859; his mother was born August 4, 1756, and died in Romeo Decem- ber 30. 1879. The subject of this sketch remained with his parents and attended the schools of his native place till coming of age; and for six years afterward made that his home, when he moved to the farm on Section 14, which has from that time been his home. He was married. November 20, 1845, to Louisa, daughter of Solomon Stone, of the town of Richmond; she was born in Monroe County, N. Y., October 22, 1815; her parents were pioneers of Macomb County. The only child of this marriage was George H., born June 28, 1847, living on the homestead. Mrs. Palmerlee was educated in the schools of her native county, and also had the advantage of Gaines Academy, Orleans Co., and the Mon- roe Female Seminary. She is one of the pioneer teachers of the county, having taught two years in Macomb, and eight years previous to coming to the State. Mr. Palmerlee is also an old teacher, a man of literary tastes and acquirements, and a prosperous farmer; in form of worship he is a Congregationalist; and in politics he is a Democrat. Mrs. Palmerlee is a member of the Congregational Church of Romeo.
JAMES PARKER was born at Hartford, Mass., June 17, 1788, and removed to Ma- comb County in IS30, and located a farm on Section 24, on which he lived to the time of death, which took place January 18, 1861. Mrs. Parker was a daughter of James Adams,
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of Rutland, Vt., and second cousin to John Quincy Adams: she still lives on the homestead and is remembered by the old settlers as a kind-hearted and benevolent person, a valuable nurse in all cases of want or sickness. far and near, and a conscientious. Christian woman. Mr. Parker was a jovial. generous-hearted man. full of kind words and deeds and remembered with the kindest of feeling. They had ten children. all but one born in Ontario County. N. Y .. six of whom are still living.
ALBERTUS A. PIERSON was born June 14, 1828, in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y .; is a son of Joseph and Rachel Dunham Pierson, the former born in Darby, Conn .. May 4. 1780, and died in February, 1868; his grandfather, Joseph Pierson. was a Revolutionary soldier, born February 18. 1754: his wife was born July 21. 1756. Mr. Pierson settled in Armada, Mich .. in 1855: in October. 1862. he returned to the State of New York, and. seven years later, settled in Bruce, Mich., buying 107 acres of land on Seetion 10; he has a good farm, with every evidence of being a prosperous, thrifty Michigan farmer; his buildings are in good order, and everything about the place is well regulated. He was married. September 15, 1853, to Mary A., daughter of Jeremiah and Rebecca Grinnell, of Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y .; she was born October 31, 1833, in Grove, Allegany Co., N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Pierson had ten children-Flora R., born July 28, 1855: George A., September 26, 1857; Charlie A., April 30, 1859, died October 8, 1864: Ida M., May 25. 1861: Ruby E., June 1. 1863; Mary C., Aus ust 13, 1865: Emma A., June 20, 1867; Clar- ence A., July 6, 1870: Wallace B .. November 15, 1872; Alice A., September 29. 1874. Mrs. Pierson died October 23, 1874. in Bruce Township. Mr. Pierson was married again, April 19, 1877. in Golden, Oceana Co., Mich., to Betsey, daughter of Anson and Ann Jewell Pateh. in Golden. She was born July 31, 1839, in Ray Township. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pierson are Baptists in religions sentiment. He has held the office of Road Com- missioner, and is a Republican in polities.
WILLIAM H. POOL, born in Ashfield, Mass., January 9, 1508. He, with his wife, Irena Smith Pool, born in Williamstown, N. Y., January 28, 1810, and family of five children moved from Niagara County, N. Y., to Bruce Township. Macomb Co .. Mieh .. in 1848, hav- ing recently purchased the farm known as the Seward Walter farm, on which he still lives; Mrs. Pool having died May 5. 1878. beloved and mourned by her family and friends, having proved herself a kind companion. a loving mother, a friend to the needy; she was sister to Aratus Smith, the well-known Supervisor of Washington Township. Achish Pool. Sr., father of William H. Pool. was born in Ashfield, Mass., August 27. 1776, serv- ing in the war of 1812: his wife, Susannah Hersey Pool, was born in Massachusetts Sep- tember 28, 1753. They selected them a home in Lewiston, N. Y., about 1810, and, though they were driven off by the British and Indians, returned and remained there while they lived. Mr. Pool reaching the age of seventy-six: Mrs. Pool. eighty-eight. The home- stead is still owned by their descendants.
ABRAM TEN BROECK POWELL. deceased, was born in Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., December 23, 1803: he was the son of Archibald and Sarah Ten Broeck Powell: the former was born in 1763, and was a carriage-builder by trade, and died Sep- tember 8, 1836: the latter was born February 22, 1766, and died February 27. 1855. The mother of Archibald Powell was of Scotch and Irish descent: the Powells were of En- glish origin. The ancestors of the mother of Abram Powell were from Holland. Her mother's family name was Vaness, and she had two brothers, Wassel and George, and one sister, Nellie. Archibald Powell and his wife were married February 9, 1792, and had three sons and three daughters --- Elizabeth. Mrs. Isaae Skillman: Maria, Mrs. Isaae An- derson; Anna, Mrs. Moses Freeman; Isaac, Abram and George. They moved from Otsego County to Mendon, Monroe Co., N. Y., and in 1827 located in Washington. Macomb Co., Mich .. where they passed the remainder of their lives. In the spring of 1826, Abram T.
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Powell came to Michigan with Isaac Skillman; returned to New York in the fall; was married to Calista Rose December 25, 1866, and, the following spring, moved to Michi- gan. locating in Washington, three miles east of Romeo. His wife died August 21. 1827. and he was married in August, 1832, to Hannah H., daughter of Samuel Pelton, of New York. She had two brothers. Samuel and Edwin. and one sister. Angeline. A daugh- ter, Sarah C., was born June 15, 1833, and Mrs. Powell died the following July 5. Mr. Powell was married, August 21, 1834, to Sarah A., daughter of Joseph A. and Phobe Wellman Field, born September 6, 1812, in East Guilford, New Haven Co .. Conn. Her father. son of Joseph Field. was born in the same place; his brothers were Wickham, John. Nathan. Joshua and Harvey; his sisters. Hannah Crittenden. Louie Kelsie, Sal- lie Merrill. Esther Parish and Ann Turner. Mr. Field was a ship carpenter: his father moved from Connecticut to Bergen, Genesee Co., N. Y., in 1812, where he died. Phœbe Wellman was born December 2. 1771. in Killingsworth. Middlesex Co., Conn .; she had five brothers and three sisters-Zadoc, John. Jonathan. David and Horace. Hannah Davis Betsey Cramton, and Jemima; she was married to Joseph A. Field in 1795; they had six children-Elias. Horace. Joseph. Betsey Patterson, Clarissa Judson and Sarah A. Powell. Mrs. Field died in East Guilford. Conn .. in January. 1830. Sarah A. Field went from Connecticut to Brockport. N. Y .. to live with her brother. Horace. In September. 1833. she came with her brother Elias to Bruce, where she was married to Abram T. Powell. The latter bought a farin on Section 7. in Bruce, and took possession of it the following year; he made additions to it until he owned 820 acres, all of which. except sixty acres. is still in the possession of his children; he died at his residence in the town of Bruce September 6. 1873. of paralysis. The following is the record of Mr. Powell's children. Sarah C., the only child of his first wife, was born June 15. 1833, and married, Febru- ary 23. 1853. to Wesley Miller; they have had five children-Edwin S., born January 23. 1854; James A .. August 15. 1855; Hannah. April 15. 1858: Anna P .. July 6, 1862; Ca- lista. November 23. 186S. died March 4. 1869. Joseph, born July 25. 1835, married, October 21. 1860. Lucinda Hosner; they have had six children-Mary E .. born June 23. 1863. died September 27. 1863; Elsworth. June 27. 1864; Ezra A., June 19. 1867: Clark, June 4. 1872; Fred. January 9. 1876: and Neil. June 16, 1860. Archibald Powell was born September 22. 1837: was married. June 6. 1860. to Sarah L. Hosner; they have three children-Abram Ten Broeck. born February 23, 1861; Lizzie. May 5, 1865; and Hugh H., October 6. 1872. Hannah M. was born April 5. 1840, and married, Septem- ber 20. 1858. to Abram Skillman; they have two children Alice, born June 23, 1862: and Fred. March 2. 1868; Abram C. was born October 7, 1842; he enlisted in the First Michigan Cavalry. Company A. in August, 1861; went with his regiment to Washington, D. C., where he died December 13. 1861. Anna E. was born June 21. 1844. and mar- ried. July 19. 1861, to John F. Hagaman; they have had three children-A. Powell. born September 24. 1869; Carl. February 27. 1875, died March 27. 1875; John Bert Frederic, October 7. 1876. Caroline L. Powell was born May 5, 1851.
NEIL GRAY REID, son of William and Mary (Gray) Reid, natives of Ayrshire, Scotland, was born in Bruce Township January 14. 1841: he attended school in his native town and aided his father on the farm until becoming of age, except six months spent in a select school at Birmingham, Mich., and one term spent in District No. 10, Armada, Mich., as teacher: in 1862. he bought the farm known as the Jesse Bishop farm. on Sec- tion 12, in Bruce Township, where he still resides; to the original purchase he has added seventy acres; he was married, September 9, 1863, to Annie, daughter of John Hopkins, a native of Scotland: she was born in Almont Township, Lapeer County, October 21. 1841; three children were born-Mary G., born May 14, IS64; Jennie H., September 21. 1866: Annie E. J .. July 22, 1871. The parents of Mrs. R. emigrated from the old
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