Was born in Cheshire Mass Sept. 27, 1790. In 1795 he removed with his parents to Ontario county, N.Y. where he was brought up on a farm, and received a common school and academical education. He served in the war of 1812. In 1832 he located thirty 80 acre tracts in Calhoun, St. Joseph and Washtenaw counties and settled on a farm in Sylvan, Washtenaw county, removing twelve years after to Marengo, Calhoun County, where he remained through life. He was a member of the constitutional conventions of 1835, 1850 and 1867 and a Representative in 1839-40-1-50-1. A Whit until 1854, then a Republican. He was a man of gigantic stature, strong will, noted for his integrity and one of the ablest of the farmer pioneers.
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