History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . ,]\Iichigan, and settled on .a farm whichthe older sons improved .and culli-. S. J. WALL. WEXFORD COUNTY. MICHIGAN. 589 rated. The latlier, being a tailor, workedat his trade in the city of Grand Rapids ofwinter seasons, devoting the rest of tlie yearto agricultural pursuits. Mrs. Wall bore herhusband nine children and departed this lifein the year 1864, Mr. Wall surviving heruntil 189J, when he too was called to theother world. Samuel J., the youngest of th
History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . ,]\Iichigan, and settled on .a farm whichthe older sons improved .and culli-. S. J. WALL. WEXFORD COUNTY. MICHIGAN. 589 rated. The latlier, being a tailor, workedat his trade in the city of Grand Rapids ofwinter seasons, devoting the rest of tlie yearto agricultural pursuits. Mrs. Wall bore herhusband nine children and departed this lifein the year 1864, Mr. Wall surviving heruntil 189J, when he too was called to theother world. Samuel J., the youngest of the nine chil-dren, spent his youthful da)s in the cease-less rountl of labor which attends farm lifeand at intervals pursued his studies in thedistrict schools until he acquired a fairknowledge of the fundamental branches. Thetraining tlius received was later supplement-ed by a course in the Grand Rapids BusinessCollege, after which he taught school for awliile. but soon abandoned that professionfcir (jtlier and more congenial pursuits. l)egan his business career at county, Michigan, where, in partner-shii) with James McKay and others, he or-ganizetl Bay Port Salt and I^umlier Co
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