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 . v-ing to this State was a little log house, and afterth(y had paid for moving their goods and theerecting of their home thej had exactly seventj-livc cents in money and a team of horses withwhich they had come to their new home fromDetroit. The country- about was thinly Brewer, Sr. bent
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 . v-ing to this State was a little log house, and afterth(y had paid for moving their goods and theerecting of their home thej had exactly seventj-livc cents in money and a team of horses withwhich they had come to their new home fromDetroit. The country- about was thinly Brewer, Sr. bent his energies to improvingthis farm and then trailed it for eighty acres ofwild laud in Flint Ttuvnship, same county. Hedivided the farm and gave the sul)ject of thissketch forty acres and together they began improv-ing and cultivating. Our sid)jects mother diedMaj ;?, 1866, having attained the age of sixty-six3ears. The father, who was born April 25, 1801,departed this life in 1880. They were the [jarentaof seven children, four of whom are now were members of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch and in politics Mr. Brewer a strongRei)ublicau. He of whom we write was born September 21,1831, in Livingston County, N. Y., and fifteenyears of age when his parents came to M . L . K 1 h4 G PORTRArr AND BIOGRAlHICAl. ALBUM. 367 Previous to tliis time he hfid received h good com-mon school an<l afterward it was tlioiightthat ho was old eiioiigh and r-npaljle of takiriir hisl)art in the development of the new farm, for wliichlie proved himself to liave siilliciont business capa-city, for he conducted his fathers liusincss andmanaged the work of the farm until he was twenty-one j-ears of age. He has been a farmerand has studied to nialce his farm yield asmuch as nature will allow. Being provided with a home, he invited MissINIary Jane Palmer to preside over the domesticrealm. She was a daughter of Amos and Lydia(Curtis) Palmer, who
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