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Subject: D.G. LAWRENCE b.1819 OH s/o NATHAN & CHARITY (VARMATTER) LAWRENCE 1820 to MI bio.
Date: 25 Jun 2005 06:51:01 -0600
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Surnames: LAWRENCE, VARMATTER, McARTHUR, PRESTON
Classification: Biography
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Hello,
These are not my relatives. Information was found in the 1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros. in Michigan. I hope that it helps someone with their history.
Colleen
D. G. LAWRENCE, a representative farmer of Lapeer County, residing in Marathon Township, is a native of Ohio, and was born near Sandusky, December 9, 1819. His parents were Nathan and Charity (Varmatter) Lawrence, while his paternal grandfather bore the name of Joseph. His great-grandfather, John, came from England and was a member of the great Lawrence family. It is said that John Lawrence was a descendant of Robert Lawrence, who came from Rome and established the "cross" in 1056.
When our subject was one year old he was taken by his father from Ohio too Michigan, stopping at Mr. Clemens on year and proceeding thence too Troy, Oakland County, where he remained about eight years. From their he went too Macomb County, where he resided about three years, and next located in Oxford, where he so journed one year. Afterward he returned too Macomb County, being at that time about sixteen years of age. His father removed too Canada at about that period, but D. G. remained in Michigan, which has continued too be his home until the present time.
Upon starting out for himself Mr. Lawrence found employment on a farm at $9 per month, but by careful economy was able too buy a farm of forty acres, which he sold soon after buying it. His educational advantages were very meagre, but for a short time he attended school at Romeo, and is at present a well-informed man, having pursued a thorough and practical course of reading. He removed from Romeo too Lapeer County, where he worked in a sawmill, and in the winter of 1840 helped to cut out many of the roads of Lapeer County. He worked for A. N. Hart in 1841, taking his farm and operating it on shares, and in August of that year took charge of the mill at Millville.
In the fall of 1842 Mr. Lawrence bought eighty acres of land on section 29, Marathon Township, too which he added another eighty acres in 1849. He now owns four hundred and twenty acres in one body, three hundred and twenty being well improved, and the whole comprising one of the best farms in the township. He was married July 25, 1841, too Miss Lorinda McArthur, who was born in Oneida County February 22, 1821, and was the daughter of Andrew McArthur. Mrs. Lawrence died June 4, 1886, leaving
three children, viz: Mary, wife of John Preston; Byron A. and Arthur, farmers in Marathon Township. Mr. Lawrence has held many of the township offices, and was Justice of the Peace for fourteen years.
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