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BIRTH DATES OF EARLY IONIA SETTLERSThis newspaper transcription was submitted by Cheryl VanWormer, and avid Ionia County researcher and Ionia County GenWeb volunteer. Cheryl found this newspaper article while browsing through some old issues of the local newspaper looking for a death notice. What a wealth of information is found in this article! Enjoy - (The original text was copied from The Ionia Sentinel Standard newspaper, Thursday, Jan. 19, 1882, page 8 and the following names were not in alphabetical order in the original text. The names were put into alphabetical order for easier searching.) The Early Settlers. The following statement prepared by Hon. Louis S. Lovell gives the names and date of birth, of more than a hundred of the older residents of this county, some of whom were pioneers who came here from other states, when the county was a wilderness, some were born here, and others removed here at a later period. It is thought that the list will prove of interest to those gentlemen now in the sere and yellow leaf, who have borne the brunt of the work in building up the county. Six at least of the number mentioned have died since the list was made; perhaps others. We have only hastily perused it. The names are as follows: Alderman, Abraham April 24, 1828 Arnold, Walter D. May 25, 1827 Babcock, Herman June 29, 1818 Babcock , Jos. M. January 16, 1820 Babcock , Lucius April 13, 1811 Barber, Benjamin G. March 16, 1796 Bartow, Harvey March 31, 1813 Bayard, S. M. October 1, 1820 Bell, Alexander F. August 5, 1812 Blanchard, John C. September 19, 1822 Blanchard, W. Z. December 1, 1800 Brownell, Daniel S. February 14, 1808 Burhans, Winslow P. May 7, 1821 Cadwell, A. C. July 14, 1810 Carr, Archibald F. September 3, 1814 Clute, Lemuel August 7, 1834 Coon, Peter April 26, 1816 Cooper, George S. January 27, 1830 Cornell, Thomas January 28, 1806 Delaney, John September 20, 1799 Dewey, Thos. H. December 30, 1818 Dexter, John C. April 6, 1817 Dodge, David December 21, 1798 Dye, Richard October 23, 1810 Freeman, Frank S. February 14, 1829 Freeman , Joseph L. February 28, 1805 Germain, George W. June 4, 1818 Hackett, Peter April 7, 1810 Hall, Frederick March 24, 1816 Harter, Benjamin April 18, 1813 Harter, Harvey November 14, 1818 Hawley, Alpheus C. November 4, 1809 Hayes, Hector July 23, 1804 Hayes, N. B. December 13, 1835 Howe, Philander R. January 29, 1812 Irish, David April 3, 1811 Jennings, James L. January 16, 1819 Johnson, Ethan S. October 5, 1813 Kellogg, George D. December 31, 1814 Kidd, James M. November 13, 1813 Kinney, F. C. May 1, 1812 Kitson, William November 13, 1817 Letandre, Jos July 10, 1807 Lewis, Charles E. January 10, 1813 Lincoln, William B. December 29, 1807 Lovell, Cyrus September 9, 1804 Lovell, Louis S. November 15, 1816 Mann, Loomis September 26, 1818 Mather, Asaph March 21, 1810 Matthews, Charles June 13, 1813 McKelvey, John November 15, 1816 Mills, Major D. December 14, 1806 Mitchel, William W. February 20, 1831 Morse, A. Benton January 7, 1839 Overhiser, George C. October 15, 1811 Page, Stephen F. September 30, 1816 Page, Wellington C. November 12, 1820 Palmer, Asa September 20, 1815 Post, Edward B. February 5, 1811 Powell, Joseph P. February 28, 1821 Probart, John December 17, 1814 Probart, Thomas January 15, 1817 Rice, Calvin M. May 14, 1805 Rich, Hampton December 1, 1815 Roof, Adam L. February 10, 1810 Scott, Cornelius June 3, 1800 Searing, Nathaniel February 17, 1814 Sessions, Alonzo August 4, 1810 Sessions, Nathaniel August 20, 1790 Sessions, William May 2, 1821 Shelton, Benjamin December 27, 1819 Smith, Asaph C. July 26, 1807 Smith, Lewis D. July 16, 1818 Smith, Myron C. December 9, 1816 Smith, Nelson E. August 9, 1826 Stevenson, Edward April 18, 1819 Stevenson, George January 8, 1813 Stevenson, John August 28, 1811 Taylor, Charles September 30, 1817 Taylor, John L. May 25, 1824 Taylor, Palmer H. July 23, 1819 Taylor, Sylvester April 9, 1814 Thatcher, Moses November 14, 1795 Thayer, Isaac H. August 22, 1823 Tibbits, Jona January 29, 1809 Toan, John November 22, 1824 Toan, Robert July 12, 1796 Toan, Wm. June 1, 1831 Tompkins, John October 7, 1806 Tower, Osmond February 16, 1811 Tupper, Myron May 18, 1816 Van Vleck, Albert October 22, 1826 Van Vleck, Matthew May 22, 1794 Varnum, Phineas March 31, 1802 Vosper, Richard May 12, 1817 Webber, George W. November 25, 1825 Welch, Ezekiel January 29, 1809 Welch, John B. March 22, 1816 Wells, Willard B. March 28, 1829 Willey, Lewis September 26, 1815 Williams, Albert February 8, 1817 Winslow, William February 9, 1816 Woodworrh, William H. January 14, 1828 Yates, Job L. October 27, 1812 Yeomans, Erastus August 11, 1791 Yeomans, Sanford A. November 29, 1816
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