Hiram Parsons was reared to farm life, and in the winter engaged in hauling lumber from the Catskill Mountains, remaining until 1828 (in Greene County, N.Y.), when on the 24th of September of that year, he was united in marriage (with Sarah A. Loss). He afterward lived in different places in New York State, at one time operating a brickyard and sometimes farming until 1842, when he sold out his interest in his native State and come to Michigan, bringing with him his household goods and landing in Adrian May 23, 1842. He first located in Saline, where he farmed a few months and then removed to Franklin. After a few months spent in that place he came to Woodstock Township and pruchased 120 acres of improved land, on which he spent the the remaining years of his life, dying Oct. 7, 1850. He was active in politics, giving his support to the old-line Whigs, but refused to accept any office at the hands of the party.
Hiram Parsons was reared to farm life, and in the winter engaged in hauling lumber from the Catskill Mountains, remaining until 1828 (in Greene County, N.Y.), when on the 24th of September of that year, he was united in marriage (with Sarah A. Loss). He afterward lived in different places in New York State, at one time operating a brickyard and sometimes farming until 1842, when he sold out his interest in his native State and come to Michigan, bringing with him his household goods and landing in Adrian May 23, 1842. He first located in Saline, where he farmed a few months and then removed to Franklin. After a few months spent in that place he came to Woodstock Township and pruchased 120 acres of improved land, on which he spent the the remaining years of his life, dying Oct. 7, 1850. He was active in politics, giving his support to the old-line Whigs, but refused to accept any office at the hands of the party.
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