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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 42 Page: 724 (~1830)

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724 family, laboring with all his boyhood's strength to provide raiment and food for the family, while his father was abroad preaching the gospel. At Batavia he worked on a farm the first year. In the fall of 1849 he engaged in the lumber business, which he continued until 1854, when he removed to Michigan, to what is now Galien, Berrien County, where he continued to reside during the remainder of his life.

At Galien he engaged in general merchandise, in connection with the lumber and manufacturing business. He held several minor public offices. He was justice of the peace from 1857 to 1880, and postmaster from 1856 to 1888.

February 12, 1848, he was married at Voree, Wisconsin, to Miss Lydia Alcott, an English lady who had come to America a few years before. There were born to them eleven children, two sons and nine daughters. One son, Edwin A., now counselor to the Presiding Bishop, E. L. Kelley, and the following six daughters are still living: Mrs. Eliza Emery, of Buchanan, Michigan; Mrs. Sara B. Fry, of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Georgianna Wright, of Detroit, Michigan; Mrs. Lydia Clark, of Galien, Michigan; Mrs. Viola Blair, of Kansas City, Missouri; and Mrs. Winnie Belle Smith, of Detroit, Michigan. One daughter, Ella, died in February, 1881, at 27 years of age; the other son, George Alma, died in November, 1888, at 28 years of age. Two children died in infancy. His wife survived him for several years, passing away at her home in Galien, on September 8, 1902.

In 1859 he united with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and on April 8, 1860, at Amboy, Illinois, he was ordained to the office of elder. At the annual conference of 1862, he was appointed, with I. L. Rogers, William Aldrich, Philo Howard, and J. D. Heywood, a committee to procure a printing-press and printing material, and locate the same. On April 9, 1866, at the annual conference held at Plano, Illinois, he was ordained a high priest. At the annual conference of 1878, he was appointed on a committee with President Joseph and Apostle W. H. Kelley, to perform some important work towards the settlement of difficulties in Canada. This duty was performed

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