History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . n, who died in Orange. Xew Jer-sey. .She was born near Newark, XewJersey, and by her marriage has becomethe mother of three children: Leo A. and Esther H. Mr. Frederick hasbeen active in the affairs of the village and byhis fellow townsmen has been called to anumber of oftices. serxing as village clerk of Antioch township, as justice ofthe ])eace and as school trustee. He wasalso appointed postmaster of Sherman inXovember, 1901, by President
History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . n, who died in Orange. Xew Jer-sey. .She was born near Newark, XewJersey, and by her marriage has becomethe mother of three children: Leo A. and Esther H. Mr. Frederick hasbeen active in the affairs of the village and byhis fellow townsmen has been called to anumber of oftices. serxing as village clerk of Antioch township, as justice ofthe ])eace and as school trustee. He wasalso appointed postmaster of Sherman inXovember, 1901, by President Roosevelt,and is now acccjjtably Idling ihe position. .\valued and prominent representati\e offraternal interests, he holds membership inSherman Lodge Xo. 336. Indeijendent Or-der of Odd Fellows, Sherman Camp , Modern Woodmen of America, Sher-man Lodge Xo. of Pythias,andMa(|uestt)n Tent Xo. 654. Knights of tlieMaccabees. Whatever pertains to the wel-fare of the community and its progress elicitshis attention and support and when his judg-ment ap])roves of a measure he gives to ithis hearty co-operation and JAMES MANSFIELD RESIDENCE. IV EX FORD COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 491 JAMES E. MANSFIELD. Many of the Ijcst families ni the state ofMichigan trace their ancestry to sturdy New-England stock. Of course all cannot boastof having Puritan blood in their veins, noris it necessary to do so to demonstrate thatthey spring from worthy ancestors. Asevery one knows, the Puritans, while in themain acting on worthy moti\es. were bothfanatical and intolerant and the common-sense observer marvels nnich why thereshould be such a scramble among sensiblepeople to prove that the founiler of their fam-ily tree in .America was one of those whocrossed the ocean in the Mayflower in1620. That eminent humorist, Mark Twain,has given the most truthful and graphic of the Puritan of any other writer,wiien he says: The Puritans were a nobleband of people, who came to America
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