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 . d until 1830. They then tookup their abode in Chautauqua County, where the^remained untd the lOtli of December, 1844, whenwith three horses and a wagon, the famil3 startedfor Michigan. Tlieir journey was made overlandand they arrived at Jonesville, Hillsdale County,thirty dajs after leaving their Eastern hom
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 . d until 1830. They then tookup their abode in Chautauqua County, where the^remained untd the lOtli of December, 1844, whenwith three horses and a wagon, the famil3 startedfor Michigan. Tlieir journey was made overlandand they arrived at Jonesville, Hillsdale County,thirty dajs after leaving their Eastern home. Theremainder of the earthly lives of the parents wasspent in this State, the father d^dng in Lawrence,VanBuren County, in 1856, and the mother breath-ing her last at the home of our subject in JacksonCounty,many years later, and being buried in Law-rence. Their family was made up of six sons andtwo daughters. Philander was nineteen years old whenhe came to Michigan. He had attended the publicschool ill New York and an Academy at Westfieldand had taught one term of school there. At theage of eighteen he began the trade of a harness-maker with his uncle in Earlville, Madison County,uitli whom he had worked a few months. Afterarriving in Michigan he went to Ann Arbor where.
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