Person:John Bair (6)

Name: Christopher Bair
State: OH
County: Columbiana County
Township: Miscellaneous Township
Year: 1806
Record Type: Tax list
Page: 003
Database: OH Early Census Index
Source Information:
Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Ohio Census, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.

1820 Census:
Name: Christopher Bair
Home: Fairfield, Columbiana, Ohio
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 3
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1

1830 Census:
Name: Christopher Bare
Home: Fairfield, Columbiana, Ohio
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 9
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 11

1831 Michigan Census:
Name: Christopher Bair
County: Washtenaw County
Township: Petitioner
Database: MI Early Census Index

OWNED OVER 160 ACRES IN PRAIRIE TWP AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS IN KALAMAZOO COUNTY.

Biography: Christopher Bair was born in 1769 [sic] in Westmoreland County, Pa., of German parentage. He married Susanna Baum about 1793-94, whose parents were French and whose name was originally La Baum. Fourteen children were born to them. They went to Ohio about 1805 when land was opened for colonization. He served in the War of 1812. They lived in Canton, Stark County, in Wooster, Wayne County, and in Bucyrus, Crawford County. In Nov. 1828 they moved to Michigan Territory in a covered wagon, taking twenty-two days to reach White Pigeon. They spent the winter there. On Mar. 6, 1829, they moved to Prairie Ronde. He made the third entry of land in Kalamazoo County. He sold his floating claim of eighty acres to Lucius Lyon for $100 and used that money to pay for pre-emption rights on the 80 acres he lived on. This secured to him the right of possession until the patents were issued. He gave the logs to build the first school house in Kal. County. He, together with William Duncan, Samuel Hackett, John Inslay, and Edwin Kellogg, surveyed and laid out a town-site for a village which they named Shirland. It had lots from 1 to 39, on the west half of the northeast quarter of Sec. 35, which was on Christopher’s land. It was well laid out but did not grow into a village as Schoolcraft was more centrally located for the pioneers living on Gourneck Prairie and Brady. He gave land for roads and helped to build them. He lived only four years to enjoy his new home in Prairie Ronde. He is buried in the Harrison Cemetery. His wife, Susanna, lived on for many years in their home, even after all the children had married and gone into houses of their own. Hers had been a life of privation and hardship, devoted to her family. She bore fourteen children and thirteen of them grew to maturity; a family to be proud of and honored as good loyal citizens and sturdy pioneers. She died of old age in 1849. Buried in Harrisons [Cemetery].
[“getkarie” originally shared this to Wallace Family Tree in Ancestry.com]

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