MARDOS Memorial Library
Portrait and Biographical Record of
Denver and Vicinity,
Colorado
Michigan Connections
AKIN, Myron H.
Father-in-law, Israel Harris moved to MI "late in life", had sons in MI legislature.
AMES , Lewis B.
1847-52, Hillsdale Co, MI.
ARMSTRONG, Samuel
Step-daughter, Maria S. Maddux is now Mrs. John Hodgson, of Niles, MI.
ARTHUR, James B.
Married at Bay City, MI. to Mary Kelley.
ASHBAUGH, T. L.
Son Flor graduated from Ann Arbor University, with L.L. B.
ATMORE, Charles
Family had settled at Calhoun County, MI in 1844. Parents buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek, MI. Charles married Eliza Jane Knight, a native of Calhourn Co., MI.
ATWOOD, Joseph T.
1890 grad, UM.
BAILEY, D. C. (Dewey Crossman)
Born 1858, Coldwater, Branch County, MI.
BARTLETT, Reuel, M.D.
1873-1879, Grad UM, Ann Arbor, MI.
BEAVER, Ida Noyes
Was teacher & school prinicipal in MI. Her father, Alfred Beaver of Detroit, MI.
BECKWITH, Elton T.
Wife, Elsie A. Chapin, grad. of Michigan Female Seminary at Detroit, MI.
BENKELMAN, J. George
2 brothers enlisted during CW in MI units. Married 1861, Christine Romel at Sturgis, MI.
BOLTON, Frank L.
Enlisted in 2nd MI Cav, farmed at Buchanam, MI.
BROAD, Richard Jr
b 1863 at Superior mine, Upper Peninsula, MI; wife Sarah Churches, b MI.
BURNHAM, Norman Griswold
Parents died in MI, Ellsworth & Maria (Walker) Burnham.
BUSH, William L.
Wife is Jennie C. Griswold, of Niles, MI.
CALEY, Franklin T.
Son William is law student at UM.
CARPENTER, L. G.
b 1861, near Orion, Oakland County, MI.
CHAFFEE, Jerome B.
abt 1848, taught school & had business in Adrian, MI; is buried there, with wife and 3 children.
CLARK, Eugene E.
Wife is the former Catherine Launder, native of MI.
CLARK, John J.
1868, parents settled at Keweenaw County, MI.
COLE, Nicholas O.
Brother, Charles O., at Otsego Springs, MI.
COPELAND, Samuel
abt 1846, moved to St. Clair, MI. Married 1862 at Saginaw City, Mich., to Miss Ellen E. Barnard.
CORNWALL, Wm. T.
Son, Milo is grad of Ann Arbor, MI.
DAILEY, William M.
Wife's father was Albert Tilton, a farmer, at Hudson, Mich. Her paternal grandfather, William TILTON farmed in MI. and maternal grandfather Rev. W. B. Manley, a Universalist minister that lived in MI briefly.
DECKER, Westbrook S.
1867 grad UM.
DELL, Joel J.
Born 1854 in Battle Creek, MI.
DEWEY, David D.
Wife is Georgie Johnson, born in Big Rapids, MI.
FAHRION, George
abt 1854-59, was in Detroit, MI.
FOOT, John B.
1852, hotel owner in Hastings, MI.
FRANCE, Lewis B.
Son was grad of UM.
GARBUTT, Edward Nairn
866, farmed at Greenville, MI. Married September 16, 1880, in Greenville, MI to Miss Libbie O. Holmden, who was born there. Has a brother, Zachariah Garbutt, who is attorney at Boyne City, MI.
HARDING, George L.
1862, Sturges, MI; 1874 grad UM.
HENRY, Albert T.
Owned a hotel at Jackson, MI. Member of Masons at St. Joseph, MI.
HERSHMAN, David
Lived at Lansing, MI. Married Lydia Crytes of MI.
HILL, Wilbur
b Saginaw, Mich?, son of James who was in lumbering business.
HIVELY, George P.
Carpenter in Detroit for 2 yrs.
JOHANNSEN, Christ
1872-3, worked in MI for RR.
JONES, George T.
1838, Battle Creek, MI.
JONES, James F.
Father Samuel D Jones born 1803 in MI.
KEELER, Edgar A.
Son Walter E. Keeler is grad of law school in MI.; married Mabel M. Baliss, of Ann Arbor, MI.
KELLY, James
1854, grad of University of Michigan.
KELTON, George
1864, lived in MI; Eighth Michigan Cavalry but was not called up.
KILLIN, Bernard Chester
b 1845 in Washtenaw County, MI.
KIMBALL, Leander Williams
Grandfather Lewis Kimball died in MI.
KIRK, Frank H.
Parents had lived at Berian, MI. - James E. and Mary E. (Hull) Kirk
KNOWLES, Joseph C.
1863, Albion, MI. Wife: Eliza A. Dart of MI.
KOERBER, John
1869-79: lived in MI. His sisters are Josephine, Mrs. John Stenline, of MI; and Cora, the widow of John Arnot, of MI.
LAGRANGE, Bryant L.
1863, to Port Huron, MI.
LANDES, Martin L.
Brother, John, living in Battle Creek, MI.
LEE, William Scott
Wife is dau of J. Hesser, MI lumberman.
LIPSCOMB, Thomas W.
abt 1872, attended UM for one year.
MACKY, Andrew J.
Brothers: Jerome, Alonzo & Chauncey Macky reside in MI.
McGREGOR, James W. , M.D.
Grad, Ann Arbor, MI.
MEAD, Francis D.
Ran a furniture factory in Lansing, MI.
MERCHANT, Harmon
before 1855, was in MI.
MILHEIM, Alexander & Frederick
abt 1862, Allegan County, MI.
MILLER, Charles P.
b 1853, Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, MI. 1877 grad UM
MOYNAHAN, James
Wayne Co, and copper mines of upper peninsula. Served in Company C, Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry
NASH, William D.
1866 grad Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College in Detroit. Grandfather Peltiah Nash died in Marshall, MI.
NEWMAN, Elmer P.
b Lansing, MI. Educated & trained at Battle Creek and Detroit, MI.
NICHOLAS, Charles J.
Brother John is mine foreman in Bessemer, MI.
PAINE, Daniel W.
b Fulton, Mich., April 23, 1853.
PARISH, Harvey Jay
Father, John was born in MI.
PETERSON, John
Spent 10 years in Detroit, MI. 3 children died in MI.
REDD, George S.
m May Chilson at West Bay City, MI.
RITTENHOUSE, Albert P.
m second to Eliza G. Reynolds, of Flint, MI.
ROTHWELL, William John
2 brothers grad UM
SELLMAN, Thomas C.
b 1835, Ann Arbor, MI. Father, William died 1847, Livingston Co., MI. Both sets of grandparents were settlers in MI.
SHAFROTH, John F.
1872-1875, educ at MI State Univ.
SHERWIN, John J.
Father, John E. Sherwin was born in MI.
SKERRITT, Thomas
1835, parents settled in Oakland County, MI.
STEVENS, George O.
b 1842 near Lapeer, MI.
STRADLEY, Dr. Ayres
educ UM; 1866-76, Bloomingdale, MI
STRONG, Dewey W.
Lived with brother Emory M. Strong at Hillsdale, MI.
SUESS, Henry
1854-59, New Baltimore, MI.; then to Romeo, Macomb County, MI.
THOMAS, Charles Spalding
1871 grad, UM. Wife: Emma Fletcher of Kalamazoo, MI.
THOMAS, Frank N.
Wife Kate M. Alling, was principal of the Michigan Female Seminary at Kalamazoo, MI.
THOMPSON, John
Sister Margaret, is wife of James C. Bennett, of Kalamazoo, MI.
TREZISE, Christopher
Worked one year in copper mines of MI.
TYLER, Clinton Monroe
1844, Pulaski Township, Jackson County, MI.
VIVIAN, John F
b 1864 in Phoenix, Houghton County, MI.
WARREN, Edson
Brother Joseph Warren, living in MI.
WELTY, Lawrence
1852, at Kalamazoo, MI. Was joined by parents. Married Louise Siler there.
WIEST, Sard, M.D.
b 1867, Pontiac, MI. His Mother & some siblings still reside in MI.
WILDER, Eugene
1889, married Marie W. Eddy at Cheboygan, MI.
WILLIAMS, Richard Broad
Parents to Eagle River, Lake Superior, MI abt 1850. Wife, Libbie Bartle of Copper Falls, MI.
WOODROW, James W.
Mother, Helen (Sill) Woodrow lives in Ann Arbor, MI, where younger 3 children are students.
WYGANT, Charles Townsend
1881, to Escanaba, MI where ran a business. Has 2 siblings living in MI.
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