"He left New York when nineteen years of age, in 1849, and located in Utica, Oneida County, New York, where he engaged in the manufacture of fanning mills, being thus employed for five years.
"He then came to Lapeer County, in 1854-55 and engaged in the same business for ten years. Our subject was married January 19, 1863, to Miss Sarah Goodrich ..."
"Our subject is Republican in his political liking but is a Free Soiler of 1852."
Chapman Brothers, Portrait and biographical record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative, Chicago, IL: Chapman Brothers, 1892, (http://www.ancestry.com) accessed on March 7, 2008 citing p. 564, 567.
