. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . ame or brick structures, with all the comforts of civilization. Mr. Hatch married in Miss Alvira , who died in . He married for his second wife Martha A. Childs. Solomon, the second .son of thelast marriage, purchased the old homestead, where he nowresides, liaving married Miss Libbie Wetmore, of Mr. Hatch died in Charlotte in 1876. He was a manknown only to be esteemed, a large circle offriends, respected for his sterling virtues, and honored forhis integrity. Such men arc the woof and warp of oursociety, the wove
. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . ame or brick structures, with all the comforts of civilization. Mr. Hatch married in Miss Alvira , who died in . He married for his second wife Martha A. Childs. Solomon, the second .son of thelast marriage, purchased the old homestead, where he nowresides, liaving married Miss Libbie Wetmore, of Mr. Hatch died in Charlotte in 1876. He was a manknown only to be esteemed, a large circle offriends, respected for his sterling virtues, and honored forhis integrity. Such men arc the woof and warp of oursociety, the woven threads of whose lives compose the fabricwhereon rests our .social civilization, our civil government,and the perpetuity of our free institutions. CHARLES H. BROWN. Charles H. Brown was born in Geneseo, Livingston Co.,N. Y., on Nov. 30, 1832. His father, Avery Brown, wasa native of Connecticut, born in 1800, and by trade a motlier, .Matilda (^Hatch j Brown, was born in ChenangoCo., N. Y., in 1797. They were the parents of nine cliil-. CHARLES n. BROWN. dren,—six sons and three daughters,—Charles H. being thefourth son. His early life was passed at home and inschool, attaining a good, thorough common-school educa-tion, engaging in farming occasionally, enough to imbuehim with a true love of it, which he has never lost, alwaysindulging in it with a zest rather than performing it as aduty. When he was sixteen years old his parents movedto Grand llapids, locating on one of the finest farms inKent County. This was eminently to the satisfaction ofCharles, and in 1853 he purchased eighty acres of wildland, which he caused to be improved until it was in a highstate of cultivation, although himself being employed asforeman of a large saw-mill in Ottawa County for eightyears. Ho had married, in ISS-t, Miss Mary Ann Haire,of Ottawa County, a sister of John and Robert Haire, whowere men well known in that section of the State, large property and considerable i
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