History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . 14 generations they occupied andcultivated the same estates. Lhitil within thepast two generations, the family has alwaysbeen an agricultural one. George Shearer, the grandfather of oursubject, was born in Scotland in 1817 andmarried Agnes Buchanan, who was born in1820. He accumulated an ample fortune, but,being a man of sympathetic nature, he was ledto endorse paper for friends and thereby suf-fered great losses which were increased by adisastrous fire that swept away the old led the family to remove to set
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . 14 generations they occupied andcultivated the same estates. Lhitil within thepast two generations, the family has alwaysbeen an agricultural one. George Shearer, the grandfather of oursubject, was born in Scotland in 1817 andmarried Agnes Buchanan, who was born in1820. He accumulated an ample fortune, but,being a man of sympathetic nature, he was ledto endorse paper for friends and thereby suf-fered great losses which were increased by adisastrous fire that swept away the old led the family to remove to settled at Albany, New York, whereJohn W. Shearer was born August 19, 1833. In 1850 John W. Shearer went to Detroitwhere he learned the carpenter and joinerstrade with his brother, James Shearer, and in1856 he went South and spent four years invarious car shops, filling the position of mastermechanic. In i860 he returned to Detroit andformed a partnership with his brother, JamesShearer, and they continued in business untilthe Civil War broke out. John W. Shearer. BRAKIE J. ORR AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 633 enlisted in the Second Regiment, MichiganVol. Inf., as a private and was honorably dis-cliarged at Yorktown with the rank of lieu-tenant. In 1865 lie came to Bay City and tookthe contract to install machinery in D. G. Ar-nolds sash and blind factory, subsequently en-gaging with his brother, James Shearer, in millconstruction. His last business partnershipwas with H. Watkins. On June 30, 1866, hemarried Mary E. Earned, who was born inOhio, and they had tln-ee children. John died May 15, 1903. Fred E. Shearer was educated in the BayCity public schools and began his business ca-reer in the employ of E. B. Foss & Company,tallying, a few months later accei^ting the sameposition on the river for different parties, andduring his third and last season working forGeorge Jackson. When cold weather inter-rupted lumber transportation, he took advan-tage of the opportunity to ac
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