Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . on of which is undercultivation, and yields to his care and labor boun-tiful harvests of tiie various cereals. He is alsointerested in stock-raising, which he finds remuner-ative, and accomplishes a great deal in the way ofcreating in the minds of the people a desire to ad-1 vance the grades of stock. It is
Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . on of which is undercultivation, and yields to his care and labor boun-tiful harvests of tiie various cereals. He is alsointerested in stock-raising, which he finds remuner-ative, and accomplishes a great deal in the way ofcreating in the minds of the people a desire to ad-1 vance the grades of stock. It is always interesting as well as inrportant inconsidering the life of any man, to refer briefly tohis ancestral history-, and consider the environmenlswhich have surrounded him from joutli. On hisfathers side, Mr. Bushnell is the grandson of Jo-siah Bushnell, a native of Connecticut, and a cattledealer on an extensive scale. Years ago he cameinto this State, purchasing cattle and driving themto Albany, N. Y. Ho died in Ann Arbor, thisState. His wife, Sarali Bushnell, passed away inGenesee County, N. Y., at the age of threescoreand ten jears. The maternal grandfather of our subject is Wil-lard Reed, a native of New York, and at present aresident of this township. Our subject is a name-. -^-7^ i^-^iiC^i^ PORTRAIT AM) ALBUM. tl snUe of lliis gentleman, wlio enjoys tlie ( heini!: the oldest inbal)it;int of llie county, liav-inii lived here longer llian otlier citizen. Me iseigiil v-niiie j-ears old, but retains full possession ofliis faculties, and can narrate many interesting talesof pioneer incidents as far hack as 1832, the dateof his arrival in Jackson County. In the immediate of our subject werethree children, namely: Amelia, wife of (, of Leslie. Ingham County, this .Slate:our subject was the second; Prescott, the young-est, is a citizen of Ingliam County, where he isengaged in farming; a half brother, .SteadmanBusluiell. liv
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectgoverno, bookyear1890
