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- Brigadier General in the Union Army during the Civil War. A founder of the State Agricultural Society. Served as State Senator, and as Sheriff in 1832. The homestead was located on North Gratiot.
Senator from the Twenty-fifth District, 1857-8 and 1859-60. Was born in Saybrook, Conn., May 26, 1809. Educated in the schools of Hartford, he became a clerk at the age of sixteen. He settled as a merchant at Mt. Clemens, Mich., in 1829, and married Ann, daughter of Judge Clemens, 1830. He was appointed Sheriff of Macomb County in 1832, and was a Brigadier General of State militia. In 1835 he settled on a farm near Mt. Clemens, where he died, Sept. 6, 1877. He was an officer in both county and State agricultural societies, and from 1862 to 1865 Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue. He was a candidate for Congress in 1844. In politics he was a Republican.
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