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. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of ... citizens ... also containing a complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time . A < ^-V<?)K;h-- -iV??#^- < c rohn Delo, farmer, section 19, Fremontir Township, was born in Germany, onThanksgiving Day, 1817. His parents,Frederick and Christina Delo, were natives ofGermany, where they both died. The soncame to this country in 1852 and landed atQuebec, Can. From Quebec he went to Hamilton,Hamilton Co., Can., and was there engaged in work-ing
. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella county, Mich., containing portraits and biographical sketches of ... citizens ... also containing a complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time . A < ^-V<?)K;h-- -iV??#^- < c rohn Delo, farmer, section 19, Fremontir Township, was born in Germany, onThanksgiving Day, 1817. His parents,Frederick and Christina Delo, were natives ofGermany, where they both died. The soncame to this country in 1852 and landed atQuebec, Can. From Quebec he went to Hamilton,Hamilton Co., Can., and was there engaged in work-ing on the Great Western Railroad for a time, whenhe crossed the Niagara and was occupied in labor atvarious things for some time and was there takensick. His means having been exhausted, he wassent to the poor house. He remained there for a £month and, on recovery, crossed the river into Can- iada and engaged in cutting cord wood and splitting «sj;rails. He remained in Canada, variously occupied,until 1861, when he came to this State and countyand located on an 80-acre tract of land. He hadgreat faith in the future development of this county fF- ^^W .^.J^. A/nfJd
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