Pioneers of Osceola County



Transcribed by Elna Wilder from Portrait and Biographical
Album of Osceola County. Published by Chapman Brothers of
Chicago in 1884. These biographies were written by the person
listed and payment was required to be included in the volume.
You can find this book and many other Michigan County Histories here.


* Portrait included
Index of entries
Andrew C. Adams 
John N. Allen 
Stephen H. Allen 
William H. Allen 
Robert A. Allured 
Mark Ardis 
John J. Arndt 
Joseph W. Ash
John H. Auer 
Peter A. Auer 
Charles W. Ball 
Lorenzo A. Barker
George H. Bassett
Edward C. Baumgardner 
Will L. Beardsley 
William Edwy Bellows 
William Bennett 
Anson Berger 
William Berger 
George W. Bevins *
J.E Bevins *
Dr. Peter Bittner, M.D. 
Arthur J. Blanchard 
Loren Blanchard
Wilhelm Blank 
Delos A. Blodgett 
Sylvester Bowker 
Ebenezer M. Braden 
Joseph A. Braden 
Andrew H. Brandow *
Oscar M. Brownson 
Asa G. Buck 
John B. Byers
Allen Campbell 
Ellery C. Cannon 
Peter Carlson 
Charles Carmell
Erastus A. Carroll
Henry W. Carson 
Timothy V. Childs 
Gilbert M. Clark 
Henry A. Clark 
Nathaniel Clark 
Oliver Clark 
Peter Cody 
Benjamin R. Cole 
Charles H. Coles 
Charles M. Collins 
Byron G. Colton 
Ransom Cooper 
Corbin J.C.
Crapo Henry H.
J. Newton Crocker 
Croswell Charles M.
William W. Cushman 
Rev. Andrew Dahlstrom 
Alfred Davis 
Walter M. Davis 
William M. Davis 
Garrah D. DeGoit 
Warren S. Dennison 
James H. Drake 
Joseph Earnest 
Charles K.Edwards 
Joseph Ellis 
Luther T. Elmore 
Gideon A. Estes 
Rev. John Farsberg 
Felch Alpheus
Nelson A. Ferguson 
John Finkbeiner 
Christian J. Fleischhaur 
Frederick J. Fleischhaur 
Charles D.Francisco 
Henry D. Francisco 
Alexander Fraser 
Henry H. Freedman 
John H. Freeland 
Christian Frohlich 
Conrad W. Fulmenshauser 
James Gavin 
Winfield Scott Gerrish *
George H. Gilbert 
Joseph Giles 
Benjamin F. Gooch * (wife)*
Daniel W. Gould 
Willard Gould 
Isaac Grant *
Charles L. Gray 
Peter Gunkel 
Newton S. Gwynne 
Robert W. Hall 
Frayer Halladay 
George Halladay 
John Hanover 
Wilfred V. Harrington 
Phillip Haslam 
William H. Hawkins 
Eli L. Hayes 
George Hicks 
William A. Higbe 
Solomon Hoffine 
John Hoffmeyer 
William Hoffmeyer 
Charles H. Holden*
David J. Hood 
William L. Hooper 
John Hoover 
James H. Hope 
William Horner * (wife)*
Isaac W. Howe M.D.
John Isaacson 
Joseph H. Jenkins
Jerome David H.
Andrew J Johnson 
Charles Johnson
John Johnson
Stephen R. Jones 
Lyman W. June 
Frederick Kaphaem
Francis D. Lacy 
William Lambert 
John H. Lanphear 
Wellington J. Law , M.D.
George W. Leeman 
Laban J. Lemert 
John Lennon 
John A. Lindstrom 
Charles G, Loase 
James A. Lunney 
Ssmuel J. Lyon 
Andrew J. Mapes 
Mapes William R.* (wife) *
Enos H. Marvin 
David G. Mason 
Frank A. Mason 
Joshua W. Matthews 
Alanson J. McCarn 
Alexander McFarlane
John B. McFarlane
William J. McIlwain 
Angus McKay 
McMullen J.H.
Oliver L. Millard 
George W. Minchin 
Jesse T. Minchin 
John Mitchell 
Milton Moffitt 
George W. Morris 
Rufus F. Morris 
Belah G. Moulton 
Frank H. Nix 
Theron F. Nix
Robert Nixon 
Daniel Oaks 
Parsons Andrew
Joseph Patterson 
John Q. Patterson
Thomas H. Peacock 
Horton B. Peck 
Charles Peel 
Amos B. Perrin 
Nathan O. Pettibone 
Charles M. Pierson 
Thomas P. Pierson 
Frank S. Postal 
Anthony Poulliott 
Joseph H. Powell
Conrad V. Priest
J.F. Proctor * (wife)*
William Purchase 
John F. Radcliffe 
George Reed 
Leonard Reed 
Jacob J. Reik 
Charles M. Rich 
Elias Smith Richardson, M.D.
John Riggs 
Franklin S. Robbins 
James G. Robbins 
Sylvester Ross
Anthony M. Sample *
Albert W. Sawyer 
David Shadley 
Shank A.M.* (wife)*
Joseph Shank
George W. Shay 
Frank Shields 
Willis M. Slosson *
Henry K. Smith 
Isaac Smith 
John Smith 
Sprague J.B.
William H. Staninger 
Herman Stephan 
William L. Stiege 
Arthur V. Sunderlin 
Jacob Swarthout
Nelson J. Tabor 
Daniel S. Taplin, M.D.
George F. Taylor 
Amos G. Tennant 
William Tennant 
Noah Terpenning 
E.J. Terrill 
Jacob W Thomas .
David M. Tillman 
Luther M. Tozer 
George W. Troyer 
Frank A. True 
William F. Tule 
Turner J.W.
Frank T. Turner 
Tyler John
Warren A. Wagar 
Henry Walker 
Henry L. Watson 
David Weigel 
Wellington Welch 
Samuel A. Wells
Anthony Wenzel 
Martin W. Westfall 
Hiram Wetherell 
Clarence H. White, M.D.
Emmet R. White 
Ira H. Whitney 
Gardam Wilson 
Lou B. Winsor 
Wisner Moses
John Witt 
William Woodbridge 
Edward H. Woods