History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . OHN ANDREW FEINAUER, one ofthe representative citizens of Monitortownship, and the owner of a well-inipro\e(l farm of 80 acres, situatedin section 29, was born February 29, 1856, atBay City, and is a son of those well-knownpioneers, John M. and Margaret B. (Sex-linger) Feinauer. John M. owned a farm in Ba\aria,Germany, but felt that he could do betterin the United States and, with two sisters,took passage in a sailing vessel in 1846. Theship was almost wrecked and its supplies ranout before land was reached, and this threemonths o
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . OHN ANDREW FEINAUER, one ofthe representative citizens of Monitortownship, and the owner of a well-inipro\e(l farm of 80 acres, situatedin section 29, was born February 29, 1856, atBay City, and is a son of those well-knownpioneers, John M. and Margaret B. (Sex-linger) Feinauer. John M. owned a farm in Ba\aria,Germany, but felt that he could do betterin the United States and, with two sisters,took passage in a sailing vessel in 1846. Theship was almost wrecked and its supplies ranout before land was reached, and this threemonths of danger was never forgotten by those. NELSON NELLES AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS. 523 who endured it. The party came directly toBay City, Micliigan, by way of Buffalo. Twoyears later Margaret B. Sexlinger came to BayCity, and soon after her arrival she and were married. Our subjects fathereasily secured work as sawyer and millwrightand the ruins of the first mill in which heworked, dismantled some two years ago, canstill be seen in Bay City. He subsequently pur-chased a tract of 80 acres of land, where theMichigan coal mine was recently opened, tak-ing charge in the fall of 1856. About threeyears later he added 40 acres to the originalpurchase and continued to operate this farm of120 acres until 1898, when he retired and wentto live with his son, John C. Feinauer, in Mon-itor township. Here he died in March, 1900, aman respected by all who knew him. He wasa stanch supporter of the principles of the Re-publican party and was frequently selected forresponsible offices. For seven years he servedas a justice of the
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