Reference History of Calhoun County Michigan
RUSSELL ALDRICH.
Among the surviving pioneers of Calhoun County, we take pleasure in men-
tioning the name of Russell Aldrich. He was born in the State of New York
in the year 1796. In 1832 he visited the Territory of Michigan, and for a year
or two engaged in selecting, locating, buying, and selling wild lands.
He was back and forth from New York two or three times before he made a
final settlement. He was an inmate of the family of the Rev. John D. Pierce,
who was one of the earliest ministers that preached at Marshall. In the year
1835 he was united in marriage to Miss Agubah A. Townsley, of Oneida county,
New York. He, soon after his marriage, settled on a new farm, one mile east
of Marshall, where he remained until 1850, when he exchanged his farm for one
fifteen miles south of Marshall, in the town of Clarendon, where he has ever
since resided. Mrs. Aldrich died in 1872.
His son, George W. Aldrich, his only child, was born in 1837, and was reared
a farmer, and at the age of twenty-seven, in 1864, was married to Miss Jennie
Perkins, of Tekonsha. The fruits of this marriage are two children, daughters,
whose ages are respectively three and six years. The old gentleman and his
children and grandchildren all live together in one happy family.
Mr. Aldrich is to-day, at the advanced age of eighty years, in the possession
of good health and all his faculties except his hearing. He is a man that all
through his long life has earned and retained the respect and esteem of his
friends and acquaintances.
In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, having been a member of that church
nearly all his life. A fine view of the family home may be seen elsewhere in the
pages of this work. And with this brief notice, as a tribute to the memory of
one of the old pioneers of Calhoun County, we bid him farewell.
RUSSELL ALDRICH.
Among the surviving pioneers of Calhoun County, we take pleasure in men-
tioning the name of Russell Aldrich. He was born in the State of New York
in the year 1796. In 1832 he visited the Territory of Michigan, and for a year
or two engaged in selecting, locating, buying, and selling wild lands.
He was back and forth from New York two or three times before he made a
final settlement. He was an inmate of the family of the Rev. John D. Pierce,
who was one of the earliest ministers that preached at Marshall. In the year
1835 he was united in marriage to Miss Agubah A. Townsley, of Oneida county,
New York. He, soon after his marriage, settled on a new farm, one mile east
of Marshall, where he remained until 1850, when he exchanged his farm for one
fifteen miles south of Marshall, in the town of Clarendon, where he has ever
since resided. Mrs. Aldrich died in 1872.
His son, George W. Aldrich, his only child, was born in 1837, and was reared
a farmer, and at the age of twenty-seven, in 1864, was married to Miss Jennie
Perkins, of Tekonsha. The fruits of this marriage are two children, daughters,
whose ages are respectively three and six years. The old gentleman and his
children and grandchildren all live together in one happy family.
Mr. Aldrich is to-day, at the advanced age of eighty years, in the possession
of good health and all his faculties except his hearing. He is a man that all
through his long life has earned and retained the respect and esteem of his
friends and acquaintances.
In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, having been a member of that church
nearly all his life. A fine view of the family home may be seen elsewhere in the
pages of this work. And with this brief notice, as a tribute to the memory of
one of the old pioneers of Calhoun County, we bid him farewell.
Reference History of Calhoun County Michigan
RUSSELL ALDRICH.
Among the surviving pioneers of Calhoun County, we take pleasure in men-
tioning the name of Russell Aldrich. He was born in the State of New York
in the year 1796. In 1832 he visited the Territory of Michigan, and for a year
or two engaged in selecting, locating, buying, and selling wild lands.
He was back and forth from New York two or three times before he made a
final settlement. He was an inmate of the family of the Rev. John D. Pierce,
who was one of the earliest ministers that preached at Marshall. In the year
1835 he was united in marriage to Miss Agubah A. Townsley, of Oneida county,
New York. He, soon after his marriage, settled on a new farm, one mile east
of Marshall, where he remained until 1850, when he exchanged his farm for one
fifteen miles south of Marshall, in the town of Clarendon, where he has ever
since resided. Mrs. Aldrich died in 1872.
His son, George W. Aldrich, his only child, was born in 1837, and was reared
a farmer, and at the age of twenty-seven, in 1864, was married to Miss Jennie
Perkins, of Tekonsha. The fruits of this marriage are two children, daughters,
whose ages are respectively three and six years. The old gentleman and his
children and grandchildren all live together in one happy family.
Mr. Aldrich is to-day, at the advanced age of eighty years, in the possession
of good health and all his faculties except his hearing. He is a man that all
through his long life has earned and retained the respect and esteem of his
friends and acquaintances.
In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, having been a member of that church
nearly all his life. A fine view of the family home may be seen elsewhere in the
pages of this work. And with this brief notice, as a tribute to the memory of
one of the old pioneers of Calhoun County, we bid him farewell.
RUSSELL ALDRICH.
Among the surviving pioneers of Calhoun County, we take pleasure in men-
tioning the name of Russell Aldrich. He was born in the State of New York
in the year 1796. In 1832 he visited the Territory of Michigan, and for a year
or two engaged in selecting, locating, buying, and selling wild lands.
He was back and forth from New York two or three times before he made a
final settlement. He was an inmate of the family of the Rev. John D. Pierce,
who was one of the earliest ministers that preached at Marshall. In the year
1835 he was united in marriage to Miss Agubah A. Townsley, of Oneida county,
New York. He, soon after his marriage, settled on a new farm, one mile east
of Marshall, where he remained until 1850, when he exchanged his farm for one
fifteen miles south of Marshall, in the town of Clarendon, where he has ever
since resided. Mrs. Aldrich died in 1872.
His son, George W. Aldrich, his only child, was born in 1837, and was reared
a farmer, and at the age of twenty-seven, in 1864, was married to Miss Jennie
Perkins, of Tekonsha. The fruits of this marriage are two children, daughters,
whose ages are respectively three and six years. The old gentleman and his
children and grandchildren all live together in one happy family.
Mr. Aldrich is to-day, at the advanced age of eighty years, in the possession
of good health and all his faculties except his hearing. He is a man that all
through his long life has earned and retained the respect and esteem of his
friends and acquaintances.
In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, having been a member of that church
nearly all his life. A fine view of the family home may be seen elsewhere in the
pages of this work. And with this brief notice, as a tribute to the memory of
one of the old pioneers of Calhoun County, we bid him farewell.
Gravesite Details
d. age 87. To Michigan in 1832 and land speculator. Spouse: Agubah A., married 1835.
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