Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . veit in every part, and to add to its extent and to theincome he would thereby receive. When he began I his work here he was the possessor of $200 in cashand from this small capital has grown an amplecompetence. He now has an estate of two hundredand forty acres and has given his eldest son onehund
Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . veit in every part, and to add to its extent and to theincome he would thereby receive. When he began I his work here he was the possessor of $200 in cashand from this small capital has grown an amplecompetence. He now has an estate of two hundredand forty acres and has given his eldest son onehundred acres of valuable land. His residence inSt. Johns is new and beautiful, and he and his ex-cellent wife are enjojing that which they laboredbard to acquire, and are taking an active part insocial and benevolent affairs. Mr. Botsford was born in Genesee County, N. Y.,June 12, 1829, and was very early thrown uponhis own resources. His parents were Chandler andAnna (Drake) Botsford, natives of the EmpireState, and he was their only son. He was but fouryears old when death deprived him of his fatherscare and two years later he was out among strang-ers. When twelve jears old he began the regularwork of a farm hand and for his services from thattime on he received from twenty-five cents per day. <$M
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