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Biographical history of Genesee County, Michigan
In placing this volume of the "Biographical History" before the people of Genesse County, Michigan, the publishers can conscientiously claim that they have carried out in all respects every promise made in the prospectus. They point with pride to the elegance of the binding of the volume, and to the beauty of the typography, to the superiority of the paper on which the work is printed, and the high class of art in which the portraits are finished. Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party interested for approval and correction, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is soley due to the person for whom the sketch was prepared.
The publishers would here avail themselves to the opportunity to thank the citizens for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking and for their many services rendered in the gaining of necessary information. Confident that our efforts to please will fully meet the approbation of the public.
Table of Contents
A Friend to Man... 315
Adams, Albert L... 347
Adams, Jay... 210
Adams, Jayno C... 121
Albro, Jarvis E ... 282
Atherton, Samuel R... 357
Atherton, Charles C... 357
Austin, James S... 271
Aitken, Robert P... 384
Banker, Almeron D... 150
Bates, William Rufus... 85
Bates, Irving B... 86
Bates Charles... 326
Becker, John... 115
Beebe, Zala... 366
Begole,Gov. J.W... 23
Beecher, Elbert L... 160
Benson, Hon. John Roger... 317
Burt, Fredrick J... 353
Batton, George W... 364
Bridgman, Charles T... 321
Billings, Hon. Simeon Rexford... 300
Buck, Albert H... 305
Burroughs, James Polk... 21
Burnham, La Forest... 212
Birdsall, Andrew P... 303
Bovee, Frank... 351
Barney, M.C... 57
Bowman, Mevin C... 200
Brown, George F... 190
Burr. Arthur O... 94
Barker, Abraham... 28
Baker, Charles... 388
Carman, R.A... 355
Clarke, F.D... 65
Conover, C.H.W... 52
Cody, Alvin Nelson... 30
Corrigall, James K... 198
Curtis, Edwin J... 206
Cook, George W... 193
Collins, John W... 127
Crawford, David... 289
Crawford, Joseph H... 289
Crapser, Jonathan... 133
Curtis, Hon. George M... 96
Crocker, Stephen... 296
Colwell, D.G... 387
De Land, Charles F... 335
Dunbar, Joseph L... 137
Dewey, George M... 35
Doyle, Thomas... 93
Eddy, Hon. Jerome... 267
Flanders, George D... 89
Failing, James H... 246
Fenton, Joseph Brush... 54
Fenton, Col. William Matthew... 18
Farmer, Thomas... 123
French, James B... 182
Fisher, William L... 226
Frisbie, Nathaniel H... 129
Frawley, James P... 186
Freeman, Leonard... 387
Garner, William A... 145
Gilbert, Erastus Derwin... 202
Greenfield, James M... 169
Gilbert, Hiram B... 131
Given, Dr. S.W... 345
Gilmore, William... 298
Graff, Otto P... 117
Howe, George R... 388
Hall, Frank E... 387
Hamilton, William... 176
Hamilton, John... 175
Hart, Orrin... 125
Holliday, Franklin E... 139
Hall, Frank T... 208
Hyatt, Alonzo B... 63
Henderson, James... 42
Hilton, George W... 156
Hiller, David W... 143
Hughes, John C... 274
Hurley, James J... 337
Hughes, John C... 329
Hughes, Charles G... 388
Hetchler, Clarence O... 308
King, William J... 308
Knapp, Leonard E... 113
Jennings, John L... 46
Judd, Frederick Welton... 77
Kendrick, Augustus K... 188
Kurtz, Jacob... 228
Lewis, C.J... 313
Law, William... 154
Lippincott, C.A... 44
Lee, Captain E.S... 342
Love, George E... 251
La Due, George... 224
Lyons, Abraham M... 214
Lochhead, Colonel O.F... 83
Murray, Ransom N... 232
Mundy, George E... 135
McCall, Alexander... 371
McCall, Arthur C... 74
Millard, Orson... 50
McFarlan, Alexander... 38
Marshall, George Gordon... 294
McGillivray, Archibald... 216
Murphy, Rev. T.J... 349
Myers, George C... 382
Martin, Charles S., Capt... 87
McGregor, William... 81
McKinlcy, George E... 100
McWethy, Frank... 325
Michigan School for the Deaf... 389
Newman, Ezra... 141
Newall, Captain George E... 71
Newbold, William... 269
Ottaway. William J... 276
Owen, Talmon C... 248
Ottaway, Fred R... 291
Ottaway, James E... 162
Pierson, Charles S... 287
Packard, George... 164
Pierson, Enos D... 48
Pratt, Daniel D... 103
Paine, William... 158
Pratt, William R... 152
Pierson, George B... 149
Partridge, Thomas D... 324
Prosser, Hon. H.H... 359
Rutherford, Frank J... 204
Russell, William H... 222
Ransom, Albert E... 180
Rust, Edward G... 284
Randall, Rev. Edgar... 369
Rankin, Hon Francis H... 361
Seeley, Marvin L... 195
Saigeon, Edward M... 184
Slaght, Dr. Andrew... 147
Stockton, Colonel... 218
Stevenson, William... 69
Stone, Oren... 339
Stevens, Harvey... 273
Shank, John R., M.D... 280
Stephens, John Charles C... 249
Sayre, Ira T... 380
St. Mary's Catholic Church... 333
Torrey, James M... 242
Torrey, Alonzo... 239
Torrey, Asa... 237
Torrey, Jesse... 235
Talbot, Nelson Nicholas... 241
Tavlor, Warren Haven... 278
The Torrey Family... 234
Tupper, Theodore M... 91
Tock, Orson W., M.D... 166
Tupper, Frederick L., M.D... 217
Turner, George Henry... 105
Turner, Edward C... 26
Thompson, Lafayette... 111
Thomson. Mrs. Sarah Teresa... 378
Thomson, Col. Edward H... 376
Vert, Frank... 286
Van Tifflin, Reuben... 33
Willet, Thomas A... 292
Willet, Mrs. E.A.... 292
Whaley, Robert J... 172
Wells, Frank L... 40
Walker, Levi, Hon... 262
Walker, George M... 262
Walsh, Joseph... 310
Woverton, William C... 61
Wicks, Samuel B... 230
Wilson, Samuel J... 244
Wood, Edwin O... 253
Walker, Henry Clark... 328
Wood. Thomas P... 265
Walker, Hon. James Barton... 374
Walker. Isaac N... 331
Zimmerman. John C... 109
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Colonel William M. Fenton, father of Joseph Brush Fenton, was born in Norwich. Chenango county, New York, December 19. 1808. He was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York state, in 1826, and then spent four years upon the sea. He rose from the rank of common sailor to the office of first mate of a merchantman, and was then proffered the captaincy, but declined. He was married in April, 1835, to the daughter of Judge James Birdsall, of Norwich, New York, and in July of that year settled in Pontiac, Michigan, engaging in the mercantile business with Robert Le Roy.
In April, 1837, he settled in Dibbleville, Genesee county, the village that later changed its name in his honor. He engaged in business as a merchant and real estate broker. He was admitted to the bar in 1842. In 1844 he was defeated as a Democratic candidate for the state legislature, but in 1840 he was elected to the senate of that body from the Genesee district. He took an active part in the state school for the deaf, dumb and blind. In 1848 he was elected lieutenant-governor and re-elected in 1850. Upon removing to Flint be was appointed by President Pierce as registrar of the land office there, and continued official duties in that capacity until the removal of the office to Saginaw. In 1856 he visited Europe with his family. In 1858 he was elected mayor of Flint and gave efficient service.
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