“TRUMAN CHAUNCY CORY

was born in Plattsburg, Steuben county New York, February 8, 1923, but his father removed to Saratoga county, New York, when he was about one year old, where they resided until Mr. Coryu was fourteen years old, and when he first attended school.  In the spring of the year 1837, his father again moved, and this time to Comstock, Kalamazoo county, Michigan.  There he finished his schooling, and when of age was in the employ of the Michigan Central Railroad Company until 1864.  He then purchased a farm and remained on it two years, or until July, 1869, when he sold out and with his family removed direct to Linn county, where he purchased a splendid farm of two hundred acres about one and one-quarter miles north of the county seat.  From that day Mr. Cory has followed the occupation of farming, devoting most of his time to general productions, with a tendency to stock-raising.  Mr. Cory was married at the age of twenty-seven years.  They have five children: Eugene S., Ellery A., Joseph W., Albert, and Frederic.”

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