History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . |(ilRs. Daniel Marsh. Daniel Marsh. DANIEL MARSH. Among the early settlers of Gilead was DanielMarsh, who came to Michigan from the town ofClay, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in the fall of was born in Erie Co., Pa., May, 1812, andwhile Daniel was yet a lad his father moved toOnondaga County, where he worked at day labor tosupport his family. As soon as Daniel was oldenough he, too, was compelled to go out to work,and his earnings went to help support the chanc
History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . |(ilRs. Daniel Marsh. Daniel Marsh. DANIEL MARSH. Among the early settlers of Gilead was DanielMarsh, who came to Michigan from the town ofClay, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in the fall of was born in Erie Co., Pa., May, 1812, andwhile Daniel was yet a lad his father moved toOnondaga County, where he worked at day labor tosupport his family. As soon as Daniel was oldenough he, too, was compelled to go out to work,and his earnings went to help support the chances for an education were very limited, ashe attended school but three mouths; still he wasa great reader and a close observer, and in timefitted himself to do any ordinary business. When he arrived in Michigan his worldly pos-sessions consisted of fifty dollars in money and ahalf-interest in a yoke of oxen. In the spring of1834 he entered the southeast quarter of northwestquarter section 18, in Gilead, and bought, second-handed, the northeast quarter of north wast quartersame section. The land was unimproved, but theen
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