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Title: History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
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Publisher: Philadelphia, D.W. Ensign & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d later sold and removed to a point known as GearyPost-Office, nearer the centre of the township and moreaccessible. Here he purchased a large tract of land anderected a new and substantial house. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have seven children, named as fol-lows : Leroy, Louisa, Ernest, Ellen, Julia, Watson, andEstella. Mr. Reed has held the commission as postmasterfor a period of twenty years, has been township treasurerfor eighteen years, township clerk for seven years, andfilled many minor township offices. He is one of the threeoldest settlers in the township, and regarded as one of itsforemost citizens. JAMES UPTON. The family of Uptons are of New England extraction,and intimately associated with the war of independence.Elias Upton repaired to Boston during the war of 1812to defend the city against the British. This gentlemanwas born in Charlemont, Mass., March 22, 1793, andfollowed agricultural pursuits during his lifetime. Hiswife, formerly Miss Tryphina Hathaway, was a native of C) o !
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WATERTOWN TOWNSHIP. 519 Buckland, Mass., and born Sept. 21, 1795. The birth oftheir son, who is the subject of this sketch, occurred inHeath town.ship, Mass., on the 27th of February, 1821,having been the fourth in a family of ten children. His early education was not an exception to that of mostsons of farmers, the labor of the fields having been variedby the scenes of the district school in winter. At the ageof eighteen he learned the trade of a carriage-maker, serv-ing an apprenticeship of three years in Charlemont, afterwhich it afforded him an occupation for six years, and alsoengaged his attention for two years in New Hampshire.He married, at the age of twenty-three, Miss Julia H.Woodbury, daughter of Jonathan and Harriet Woodbury,who was born March 28, 1824. He engaged again in manufacturing pursuits, and after abrief residence in Ontario Co., N. Y., the family moved toVictor, Mich., and located upon their present site, whichfrom a wilderness has by industry been converted into

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