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In the winter of 1865 he came home on a furlough, and returned Jan. 8, to Tennessee. He was po-
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moted to a Corporal's rank, and honorably discharged at the close of the war, Sept. 28, 1865.
The following paper is a valuable testimonial to the bravery of character and high esteem in which Mr. Blossom was held by his superior officers :
" This witnesseth that Corporal John Blossom of Co. F, Eighth Mich. Cav., has no superior in all that is required to make an excellent soldier. For the cheerfulness and alacrity with which he always per- formed the duties assigned to him; for his gentle- manly conduct, whether on the march or in the camp, and for his fortitude and courage while in the enemy's prison and on the battle-field, he will be highly esteemed.
(Signed) HOMER MANVEL, Adjt. Eighth Mich. Cav." In January, 1873, he purchased 80 acres of land on which is now his residence, 60 acres of which are improved. His farm buildings are convenient and substantial, and he has recently completed a good residence, at a cost of about $1,000. In politics he is a Republican, and has held several offices in the ser- vice or his township.
Mr. Blossom was married in 1873, to Rebecca, daughter of John and Martha (Guitan) McCormick. She is a native of Ohio, and was born Nov. 24, 1840. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Blossom were born as follows: Edward, July 17, 1877, and Laura M., March 20, 1880. The latter died Sept. 14, 1881.
A lexander Bane, farmer, located on sec. 32 of Deerfield Tp., P. O. Morley, is a son of Alexander and Susan (Bolton) Bane. His father was born in Scotland in 1816 and died June 24, 1883. His mother is a native of Lanark Co., Can., and is still living in the place where she was born.
Mr. Bane was born in Lanark County, Jan. 10, 1840. He obtained his education at the common schools and worked in a saw-mill when in youth. At the age of 18 years he engaged in Jumbering, and in the spring of 1871 came to Kent Co., Mich., where he stayed three years in the employ of the G. R. & I. Railroad Company. On the expiration of his engage- ment he came to Mecosta County, and bought 40 acres of unimproved land of Henry A. French, where
he now resides. Twenty acres are now in a good state of cultivation.
Mr. Bane was married Dec. 15, 1862, to Sarah Jane, second daughter of William and Catherine (Sly) Ward. She was born March 17, 1840. Five of the nine children of Mr. and Mrs. Bane were born as follows: Emery E., Feb. 23, 1864; James, Sept. 25, 1871; Addie, June 6, 1874; Ernest, Feb. 10' 1879; William, Nov. 18, 1882. The deceased were Winnie E., Alexander, Susan and an unnamed in- fant. The family belong to the Methodist Church. Mr. Bane is independent in political sentiment and action.
euben J. Weber, farmer, sec. 35, ÆEtna Tp., was born in Monroe Co., N. Y., Feb. 21, 1858. He is a son of John and Phebe (Martin) Weber, natives respectively of Ger- many and Ireland. Mr. Weber remained at home under the care of his parents and at- tending school until 1867, when he came to Kiddville, Mich., and after a residence there of a few months he went to Grand Rapids. Here he went to school, and was variously engaged, until the spring of 187 1. when he came to Etna Tp., and has been since oc- cupied as a farmer. In 1882 he purchased 40 acres of wild land, and now has a considerable portion cleared.
In politics Mr. Weber is a Republican. He is a member of the German Lutheran Church, and active in furthering its interests. He is still a young man, zealous in what he undertakes, and executes intelli- gently. He is sure of future success and a life of usefulness in his generation.
mos R. Streeter, junior member of the firm of Sławson & Streeter, proprietors of the stave-mill in Mecosta village, Morton Tp. was born in Tioga, Pa., July 12, 1854, and is a son of Jesse and Lydia (Reed) Streeter.
He was reared on a farm and received a com- mon-school education. His father dying when he was about 14 years old, himself and mother man- aged the farm one year and then sold out. In March, 1871, Mr. Streeter came to Altona, Me-
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costa Co., and, with his brother, Win. W. Streeter, as a partner, he established himself in the blacksmith business. In 1876 he went to Rustford and engaged in the same employment singly, managing success- fully until August of that year, when he went to Roland Tp., Isabella Co., and there operated simi- larly one year. In August, 1879, he came to Me- costa village and opened a shop, which he still owns, together with two lots on Main street. He bought So acres in the township of Martiny, and for two winters was engaged in cutting cedar timber for telegraph poles and fence posts. Of the latter he mar- keted about 30,000, and of the former several thou- sands ; he also cut a considerable amount of pine logs.
In the spring of 1883 he formed a business rela- tion with W. A. Slawson and built a stave-mill. The products include tub and pail staves, and are ship- ped chiefly to Grand Rapids. The mill fixtures comprise the most modern machinery, and the ag- gregated daily product averages from 15 to 20 cords of staves. About 20 men are employed. Mr. Streeter owns his residence and three lots on Main street, and 40 acres of land on sec. 14, near the mill, also two village lots in Superior City, Wis. He be- longs to the A. O. U. W., and was elected a member of the Town Council in the spring of 1883. In ISSo he was Township Clerk, and in 1881 was Superintendent of Schools.
Mr. Streeter was married in Deerfield Tp., Sept. 24, 1876, to Lillian, daughter of Lemuel and Eliza Chipman, born in Livingston Co., Mich. They have one son, Royal, born in Rustford, May 30, 1878. The mother of Mi. Streeter died at Jamestown, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1877.
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onathan Milner came to Big Rapids in 1870, and formed an association with Col. J. O. Hudnutt and B. M. Hanks in the Falcon Planing Mill. Four years later he sold his interest to his partners, and devoted his at- tention exclusively to an apiary which he had gradually been establishing near his residence. The seasons proving favorable, his careful and skilled management brought its reward, and his apiary soon numbered 400 colonies of bees, which he continued to manage, with satisfactory success, until 1879.
June of that year he purchased the site of the build- ing where he has since carried on his transactions, and proceeded to erect a suitable structure for the consummation of his plans. The mill is compara- tively new, is 50 x 130 feet in size, and is fitted with the best modernized machinery for turning out first- class products in its line. Mr. Milner is skilled in his business, and carries on transactions amounting annually to about $8,000. He employs a number of hands, and does planing, matching, re-sawing, mokdl- ing, etc. The peculiar situation of the Eagle Planing Mill is eminently advantageous to managing its ship- ments, having a side track of the D., L. & N. rail- road on its west side, and a branch of the G. R. & I. road on the east side of the building.
Mr. Milner was born in Yorkshire, Eng., Oct. 28, 1817. His parents, Thomas and Rebecca (Long- horn) Milner, emigrated to the United States in August, 1818, and purchased a farm near New Castle, Del. The son was a student at school and his father's farm assistant until he was 16 years old, when he went to Wilmington and learned the car- penter's trade. 'He was married in that city, June 10, 1843, to Minerva Daidy. They had one daughter, Elizabeth, now deceased. The mother died in Wil- mington, April 6, 1846.
In the spring of 1850, Mr. Milner came west to Milwaukee, Wis., and was engaged by John Lapoint as manager of a sash and door factory, and later with Smith MeVicker. Two years afterward he removed to Allegan Co., Mich., where he was interested in lumbering until 1854. In that year he entered the sash and door factory of Messrs. Krouse & Kellogg at Kalamazoo, as manager, where he continued until he came to Big Rapids.
Mr. Milner formed a second matrimonial relation in Allegan County, Nov. 5, 1854, with Loretta M., daughter of John and Melissa Barnes. She was born in Orleans Co., N. Y., March 9, 1831. They have four children : Charles II., eklest son, is a druggist at Big Rapids: George W., second son, is in his employ as clerk ; Thomas J. and Mary E. are the younger children.
Mr. Milner is deeply interested in the educational affairs of Big Rapids, and is a member of the Board of Education.
We take pleasure in presenting the portrait of Mr. Milner in this work.
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ilson E. Darrah, is junior member of the firm of Darrah Bros. & Co., proprietors of the Big Rapids City Mills, and wholesale and retail dealers in flour, feed and grain, is a son of Charles M. and Sarah E. (Hall) Darrah, and was born April 15, 1856, at Brookville, Jefferson Co., Penn. His parents re- moved to this county in 1857, before it was or- ganized. His father bought 40 acres of timber land in what is now the township of Mecosta. In 1867, having cleared and almost wholly improved his tract of land, his father sold and bought 240 acres of land on sec. 6, with about 100 acres cleared and under tillage. In 1872, Mr. D. left home, and for some years was occupied in locating timber land. In 1882 Charles M. and James M. Darrah, brothers, associated with Mr. Darrah of this sketch, purchased the Flouring Mills of Big Rapids, situated on Osce- ola avenue and at the foot of Waterloo street. Their business reaches an average of $75,000 annually, and is rapidly increasing. They oper- ate four run of stones and employ four hands; are manufacturing about half the amount of products for which they have capacity. They are now en- gaged in the erection of a fine new building near the old one for milling purposes, 37 x 50 feet, with four stories and basement. It will be the most ex- tensive milling establishment in the county and pos- sesses a capacity of 150 barrels a day. It will be fitted with all the latest improvements, and be form- ally styled the Big Rapids City Mills. The present works of the Messrs. Darrah are the only flouring mills in this city.
acob Parrott, farmer, sec. 12, Millbrook Tp., is a native of France. He was born Aug. 6, 1835, and is a son of Charles and Elizabeth Parrott, also natives of France. He came to the United States in the spring of 1845 and settled at Detroit, coming five years later to Kent County. He was a farmer there 20 years, and in the summer of 1871 came to Mecosta County and bought So acres of land in the township
of Millbrook. He now owns 40 acres of his original purchase, 25 of which is in tillage. He was married in Kent County, April 9, 1859, to Sarah A., eldlest daughter of Peter and Louisa (Ford) Aldrich, natives respectively of Canada and New York. She was born in Grattan, Kent Co., Mich , Sept. 19, 1844. Of their seven children, six survive, viz : Emma E., Charlie E., Lewis E., Lida A., Vernon L. and Myrtle M. Julius died when two years old. Politically Mr. Parrott is a Republican.
oseph Smith, farmer, sec. 4, Chippewa Tp. was born Jan. 14, 1844, in Norway, a son, of Ole and Ine Smith. He came to America in 1861, and during the next two years was a sailor on the lakes, from Buffalo to Chicago. Ilis next employment was at Grand Haven, where he worked in the lumber woods one winter, coming thence to Big Rapids and engaging in the lumber camps. In the fall of 1867 he homesteaded the farm on which he now resides, containing So acres, 35 of which he has placed under fair cultivation.
Mr. Smith was married in 1870 to Lucy, danghter of Hibbard and Lucy (Pease) Preston. She was born Nov. 27, 1852, in Tioga Co., N. V. Of six chil- dren born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, five are living : Lucy A., Minnie I., Jennie M., Olson K. and Wil- liam G. One daughter, Ella J., is deceased. In politics Mr. Smith is a Republican.
ohn White, farmer, sec. 5, Chippewa Tp., was born Oct. 31, 1838, in Argyleshire, Scotland, and is a son of John and Mary (McLaughlin) White. The parents came with their family to Canada in 1843, and located in in Williams Tp., Middlesex Co., where they lived on a farm. The father died Aug. 24, 1863; the mother resides with her son in Chippewa Tp., aged 70 years.
Mr. White was married in 1862 to Lydia Ann, daughter of Martin and Ann (Spanswick) Tol- man. Her father was born Oct. 22, 1821, in Phila- delphia ; her mother in 1826, in Yorkshire, Eng., and died in 1859. Mr. Tolman resides in Saginaw Co.,
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Mich. Mrs. White was born in the village of Pres- ton, Waterloo Co., Can., Sept. 19, 1842. After mar- riage Mr. White was a farmer in Williams Tp. up- wards of six years, when he became a resident of Warwick Tp., Lambton Co., Can. Between three and four years later he sold out and came to Me- costa Co., Mich. He reached Chippewa Tp. May 9, 1872, and bought 160 acres of land. With the energy and perseverance characteristic of the nation- ality to which he belongs, he has prosecuted his labors until one-half of his acreage is in a finely cul- tivated condition.
Following is the record of the nine children of which Mr. and Mrs. White have been the parents : John M. was born July 17, 1863; Peter, Feb. 6, 1865; Lydia Ann, Dec. 13, 1866; Alexander, Oct. 16, 1870; Mary E., Jan. 23, 1876; Ilugh, born July 22, 1877, died Sept. 8, 1877; Catherine M., born Aug. 20, 1879, died Feb. 5, 1881; Archibakl, born AAng. 18, 1880, died Sept. 21, 1880; William George, born June 21, 1882, died July 7, 1882.
arnold Ely, farmer, ser. 18, Colfax Tp., a prominent citizen of Mecosta County, whose portrait appears on another page of this vol- ume, was born Feb. 20, 1845, in AAlbion, Cal- houn Co., Mich., and is a son of Wells and Maria .1. Ely. Both parents are natives of the State of New York and belong to the agricultural community of Branch Co., Mich., where they are now resident.
When Mr. Ely attained his majority he commenced farming in Litchfield, Hillsdale Co., where he worked a farm on shares. In 1866 he prospected through Mecosta County, and finally purchased a farm of 176 acres in Colfax Tp., lying two miles from the city of Big Rapids and in full view of it. He closed nego- tiations for the land in September of the year named and, Dec. 24, made a permanent location with his family. At the time of purchase the land was all dense forest. 15 acres being pine timber and the ie- mainder of the tract, lying in a hardwood belt. Mr. Ely has go acres in a high order of cultiva- tion, with a comfortable frame house, good farm fix-
tures and one of the best and handsomest barns in the township, built in ISSo. The proprietor, having placed his farm in a prosperous condition, is begin- ning to give his attention to improving his stock.
Mr. Ely was married Sept. 1, 1867, to Lucinda, daughter of Philip and Diana Haight, of Butler, Branch Co. Her mother died Aug. 20, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Ely have seven children, Minnie, Maria, Diana, Gertrude, Myrtie, Philip and Frank.
Since becoming a citizen of Mecosta C'o., Mr. Ely has exerted every influence to promote its settlement and induce people in search of homes to make Col- fax Tp. their objective point. He is, and has been, operating quite extensively in real estate, buying and selling timber lands.
Mr. Ely is a Republican of the most radical type. Hle has been Supervisor of Colfax three years, Jus- tice of the Peace six years and Township Treasurer a like period; is a member of the Township Com- mittee to build a new town hall on sec. 21 of the township. In 1882 he was the candidate of the Re- publican party for Sheriff of Mecosta County, but lost the election through the coalition of the Democrats and Nationals. l'. O., Big Rapids.
ohn V. Armstrong, farmer, sec. 6, Chip- pewa Tp., was born in Seneca C'o., N. Y., Oct. 6, 1823, and is a son of Thomas and Eunice (Disbrow) Armstrong. His father was a native of Albany Co., N. Y., and his mother was born in Fairfield Co., Conn. Their early married life they passed on a farm in the Empire State, and in 1833 located in Oakland Co., Mich .. where the father died in 1853. The mother died in 187.1.
Mr. Armstrong was about 10 years of age when he was brought to Oakland County by his parents. and there he was educated and bred to agricultural pursuits until the age of 20 years, when he set out in life on his own responsibility. He was married in December, 1851, to Susan .1., daughter of Evert and Lucy (Newton) Hawley. Her father was born in Ontario Co., N. Y., and her mother was a native of Massachusetts. They located in Wayne Co.,
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Mich., in 1835, and some years after, the father went to California, returning after six years as far as Fay- ette Co., lowa, where he died in 1867. The mother died in April, 1881. Mrs. Armstrong was born in Ontario Co., N. Y., Jan. 28, 1830.
In 1860 Mr. Armstrong went to Fayette Co., Iowa, and there followed farming for seven years. In the fall of 1867, he came to Mecosta Co., Mich., and took a farm of So acres under the regulations of the homestead act. He and his son own 250 acres of land in Mecosta County, lying contiguous. In 1869 Mr. Armstrong was elected Supervisor of Chippewa and served nine successive years. He has been Justice of the Peace 12 years, and is one of the present incumbents of that office in the township. Hle belongs to the National party, and was nomin- ated in 1880 as candidate for Representative on the Greenback ticket, and made a good run.
Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong have had three children, one of whom, Ellen, is deceased. Those living are Thomas H. and Estella M.
illiam Broomfield, farmer and lumber- man, sec. 31, Bloomfield Tp., Isabella C'o., was born in Ontario, Canada, Oct. 2, 1832. His parents, Neil and Catherine (McLerin) Broomfield, were natives of Ar- gyleshire, Scotland. They came to America and settled in Canada, in 1831.
Mr. Broomfield acquired the elements of a good education at the schools of the place where he was born, which he attended until he was 17 years oldl ; by his experience and observation, he has improved his early acquirements to an unusually practical de- gree. In 1849 he went to Lockport, Niagara Co., N. Y., and was there employed some time in a shingle factory. He went thence to Hamilton, Canada, and engaged extensively in the shingle trade. After some months, he made a prospecting trip through Western Canada, and in the spring of 1853 came to Sanilac Co., Mich., and engaged in shingle manufacture. He remained there two years, and in the spring of 1855 journeyed through the Western country, visiting his home in Ontario in 1856. He extended his stay there until 1861, and in the fall of that year came to (now) Bloomfield and squatted on the place where he
now lives. He could only hold his land by the right of possession, as the homestead act was not yet pass- ed. He kept himself informed as to the particulars affecting the interests of such land-holders as him- self, and immediately upon the passage of the home- stead act by Congress he entered the first claim under its provisions in Isabella County. The record was effected in May, 1864. Ilis landed estate now includes 360 acres of land, of which he has placed 260 acres under the best improvements. All the buildings thereon are of the first order, and his beautiful residence cost $3,000. In politics Mr. Broomfield is a Republican ; has held the position of Supervisor in his township for ten years, and has been State Road Commissioner by appointment. He is a memberof the ancient Order of Masonry.
Mr. Broomfield was married at Ontario, in April, 1859, to Ellen J., daughter of Marshall and Mary (Jackson) McLerin, who died Oct. 31, 1868, of typhoid fever, leaving three children : Ida, born March 1, 1860; Marshall, June 17, 1863, and Nellie, March 15, 1861. Mr. Broomfield contracted a second marriage in Ontario, Can., March 17, 1870, with Elizabeth, daughter of Malcom and Agnes (Cameron) Malloy, natives respectively of Scotland and Canada. She was born April 11, 1840. Three of six children born of this union are living; Catherine, born April 1, 1871; Neil, Jan. 14, 1873, and Archibald, July, 3, 1875.
ilas Pearson, farmer, see. 5, Big Rapids Tp., was born Feb. 2, 1831, in Smith Tp., Peterborough Co., Ont.,Can., and is a son of William and Mary Pearson. The father of William Pearson was a native of Massachu- setts, an American soldier of the Revolution, and removed to Canada. On the advent of the second war with Great Britain, his son Wil- liam went to the Bay State and enlisted in the American service, fought at Plattsburg and returned to the Dominion after the war was ended. He is still living there and receives a pension from the Government of the United States.
Mr. Pearson became a citizen of Michigan in 1870, when he came to Mecosta County and bought 68 acres of land, where he now resides. He has
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placed 50 acres of his farm in a creditable state of cultivation, and has erected thereon a good frame house. He was married in October, 1854, to Eliza Jane Duard, of Canada, where she was born June 25, 1836. Children : Wilham D., Jane, Mary, Eliza A., John E., Richard Z., Harriet A., Joseph 1., Nellie and Minnie E.
Mr. Pearson is a member of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
r. Jerome F. Pcase, druggist and dealer in real estate, resident at Big Rapids, was born in Otisco, lonia Co., Mich., Aug. 28, 1848. His father, Jerome Pease, was born Feb. 22, 1815, in Enfield, Hartford C'o., Conn., and be- came a citizen of the Peninsular State in 1839. ITe was married Jan. 29, 1843. to Deborah Aun, daughter of Samuel and Anna Demorest, of Otisco. Hle was a man of peculiar temperament, developed under the circumstances in which he was reared and fostered. He was by nature ambitious and energetic, and his pioneer labors in Ionia County, with the per- plexities under which he strove to accomplish his life's purposes, culminated in rendering him a husband and father of uncompromising principle. The mother was born July 6, 1821, in Prattsburg, Steuben Co., N. Y., of a family of stainless repute and record. She is one of eight children, all of whom are living and who are wearing worthily the descending laurels of their ancestral virtues. They are, Clark I .. Demorest, Mrs. D. A. Pease, Samuel L. Demorest, Lyman Dem- orest, Mrs. Ezra Satterlee, Mrs. Henry Green, Valen- tine Demorest and Mrs. Abram Satterlec.
The second son, Samuel L., reached distinction in the service of his country during the Rebellion. He went to the front as a Captain in the 25th Mich. Vol. Inf., performed valiant duty in action, passed through the various degrees of promotion and, before reach- ing the termination of his meritorious career, dis- played the stars of a Major-General.
Mrs. Pease was a thrifty and affectionate wife and a judicious, conscientious mother. Three of five childrer live to hone and adorn her record as a woman and a Christian. Her son, Dr. Pease of this sketch, places upon permanent record his sense of
the beauty of her character and unselfish devotion to the best interests of her family. Her children are Sophronia Ann, Charlotte, Jerome F., Sophronia Adele and Deborah. The first named daughter died when a year old; her namesake, third child, died at 19, at the dawn of a promising womanhood, leaving a most precious and beautiful memory. She learned the Christian's hope early in her life, and in her prema- ture death she verified the truth in the words, "Those lives are long that answer life's great ends." She was a member of the Baptist Church.
Dr. Pease comes of a long ancestral line of de- scent in both the paternal and maternal lineage, strongly characterized by almost unparalleled tenac- ity of life. Four progenitors within his own personal knowledge became centenarians, or approximately so, and a great-great-aunt-Peggy Demorest (Mrs. Van- Vranken)-is living in Montgomery Co., N. Y., aged 103 years. The maternal grandmother died of an acute bilious attack when she was aged 84 years. She was recovering her sight and her gray hair was being rapidly replaced by a new growth, with its pri- mal dark color.
Dr. P'ease was a boy of ardent, sanguine tempera- ment, entering early into an understanding of his re- lations to life and the world at large. Ilis labors as the son of a pioneer and the circumstances which surrounded him, brought upon him the sobriety and apparent maturity of advanced years. At 15, Dr. l'ease found himself destitute in a new world, one that demanded of him the best application of all he believed himself to be both in purpose and capacity. llis early life had developed in him a determina- tion and power of will that acknowledged no ruling element in events, and his active, energetic, hopeful temperament stood him in good stead when occasion demanded their co-operation. Hle has naturally all the traits of a successful business man, and has met with a prosperity which reflects a large degree of credit upon his abilities. His already generous for- tune is the second he has accumulated within 20 years. Ile possesses to an unusual degree the traits of promptness, shrewdness and perception, is honest and upright in his dealings, and understands with clearness the requisite qualifications of a financier. llis moral character is unimpeachable, his habits those of a self-respecting, Christian man. He con- siders the means he possesses as a trust to secure to those in whom he is interested the comforts and priv-
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