History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . R.\XK RIVARD, a prosperous andrespected agriculturist of Erasertownship, whose farm is located insections 32 and 2i3 ^^^s born in Ma-comb County, Michigan, in 1837. He is ason of Mitchell and Theresa (De Kane)Rivard. Mitchell Rivard was born in Quebec, andhis wife in Ontario, Canada. The former wasa farmer in Macomb County, Michigan, anddied in 1886 in his 93d year. He used to haulfire-wood from Grosse Pointe to Detroit, whenthe latter place was no more than a street in Detroit was named after anuncle of Frank Rivar
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . R.\XK RIVARD, a prosperous andrespected agriculturist of Erasertownship, whose farm is located insections 32 and 2i3 ^^^s born in Ma-comb County, Michigan, in 1837. He is ason of Mitchell and Theresa (De Kane)Rivard. Mitchell Rivard was born in Quebec, andhis wife in Ontario, Canada. The former wasa farmer in Macomb County, Michigan, anddied in 1886 in his 93d year. He used to haulfire-wood from Grosse Pointe to Detroit, whenthe latter place was no more than a street in Detroit was named after anuncle of Frank Rivard whose farm many yearsago was in that locality. Frank Rivard attended the public school inMacomb County, where he afterwards wasmarried. He first commenced farming in County, Michigan, where he owned 80. BRUNO C. NABERT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 541 acres of land, which he cultixated until 1887,when he came to Bay County, and purchased160 acres in section 32. Later he bought the60-acre tract in section t,Ti, where his farm-house is located. He still owns 120 acres, hav-ing sold 40 acres and given some land to hissons. He is a general farmer and 1869 the subject of this sketch was mar-ried to Theresa Quono. a native of France. Onthe death of her father she came to Americawith her mother and two sisters. Her unionwith Mr. Rivard resulted in 10 children, asfollows: Irene, born October 14, 1870, and de-ceased August 2, 1897, who was an UrsulineSister at the time of her death; Sifers, bornAugust 8, 1872; Henry, born May 22, 1874,and deceased April 21, 1876; Frank, Jr., bornJune 15, 1876; Philip, born May 4, 1878; Kate,born December 8, 1880; Emil, born October28, 1882; Josephine, born October 3, 1885;Joseph, born October 8, 1887; and Helen, bornMay 3, 1893. Sifers, the ol
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