Big Rapids Pioneer Daily October 16, 1906
Lived On One Farm Nearly 50 Years
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Aaron Austin Was One of Mecosta County's Earliest Pioneers.
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Township Named After Him.
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His Death Occured at Stanwood on Tuesday, October 9, at the Age of Seventy-Two Years.
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In the death of Mr. Aaron Austin, which occured at his home in Stanwood last week, Mecosta county has lost one of her earliest settlers, and also one of her highly esteemed citizens. Mr Austin was a native of Ontario, where he was born in Township of Beverly, Elgin county, on January 29, 1834, being the second son of the late John Austin, Sr. Mr. Austin came to Michigan when but a young man in the year 1865 and first settled at Croton, Newaygo county, and for some time was engaged as head sawyer in a saw mill at that place, having followed lumbering and saw mill work in Canada prior to his coming to Michigan. He first married a Miss Martha A. Harrington, of Croton, in 1858, who died a short time thereafter. In 1861 Mr. Austin then married Miss Mary M. Gillmore, of Stearns Prairie, Newaygo county, who survives him. To this union six children were born, four of whom are now living and three of whom were with him at the time of his death. Mr. Austin also leaves beside a wife and four children, four grandchildren, a brother and three sisters.
The first twenty-two years of his life were spent in his native country, Canada. His education was not neglected, though it was by no means as complete as he could desire. It included a fair knowledge of all the common school branches of his day, and this he afterward supplimented with a wide range of reading which had made him a well informed man. Mr. Austin was a man of toil and statistics show that the man toils lives longer than the man of leisure. It is not the life of ease and comfort that conduces to longevity. The toiler is spared to his toil, while the money changer is separated by death from his millions. Toil should have some reward, more than the bare pittance it gets in the way of wages and there seems to be little doubt that nature has provided it with longevity by way of additional compensation. The years of the life of Aaron Austin, the subject of this review, have been years of active labor. Throughout the greater part of them he was blessed with the requisite health and strength to encounter and accomplish every task required of him.
There is a homely old saying that has far more truth than eloquence in it, viz: "God fits the back for the burden." Those doomed to a life of toil are generally endowed to a life of toil are generally endowed by nature with the physical strength to sustain them in its accomplishment. Nature is wise and generally just, if not always generous. Mr. Austin was an industrious, hard working man for many years followed lumbering in Mecosta county. He took up a farm of eighty acres of land in Austin township and cleared it up, the township being called after him on account of his being one of the very earliest settlers. It was settled soon thereafter, mostly by Canadians, and became known as the Canada Settlement. He had induced his father, mother, brothers and sisters, to follow him to Michigan, where they settled mostly in the same township and neighborhood. Many of them received from him a start in life. His father and mother were provided for by him as long as they lived.
Mr. Austin was generous to a fault and in his home was a welcome to everyone. Both he and his equally noble wife, were a father and mother to many a young man and woman in that neighborhood. In sickness they were among the first to respond, and the needy were never turned from their door without help. A kind and devoted, husband and father - there was never a better.
There are few men who enjoyed the confidence, respect and esteem of their fellow citizens more implicity than did Aaron Austin. His life has been one of strict probity and integrity. He had established a reputation in the Township of Austin, and in fact Mecosta county, for honesty and truth, that is more to be prized than the richest fortune of which he could be possessed.
Lived On One Farm Nearly 50 Years
_________
Aaron Austin Was One of Mecosta County's Earliest Pioneers.
_________
Township Named After Him.
_________
His Death Occured at Stanwood on Tuesday, October 9, at the Age of Seventy-Two Years.
_________
In the death of Mr. Aaron Austin, which occured at his home in Stanwood last week, Mecosta county has lost one of her earliest settlers, and also one of her highly esteemed citizens. Mr Austin was a native of Ontario, where he was born in Township of Beverly, Elgin county, on January 29, 1834, being the second son of the late John Austin, Sr. Mr. Austin came to Michigan when but a young man in the year 1865 and first settled at Croton, Newaygo county, and for some time was engaged as head sawyer in a saw mill at that place, having followed lumbering and saw mill work in Canada prior to his coming to Michigan. He first married a Miss Martha A. Harrington, of Croton, in 1858, who died a short time thereafter. In 1861 Mr. Austin then married Miss Mary M. Gillmore, of Stearns Prairie, Newaygo county, who survives him. To this union six children were born, four of whom are now living and three of whom were with him at the time of his death. Mr. Austin also leaves beside a wife and four children, four grandchildren, a brother and three sisters.
The first twenty-two years of his life were spent in his native country, Canada. His education was not neglected, though it was by no means as complete as he could desire. It included a fair knowledge of all the common school branches of his day, and this he afterward supplimented with a wide range of reading which had made him a well informed man. Mr. Austin was a man of toil and statistics show that the man toils lives longer than the man of leisure. It is not the life of ease and comfort that conduces to longevity. The toiler is spared to his toil, while the money changer is separated by death from his millions. Toil should have some reward, more than the bare pittance it gets in the way of wages and there seems to be little doubt that nature has provided it with longevity by way of additional compensation. The years of the life of Aaron Austin, the subject of this review, have been years of active labor. Throughout the greater part of them he was blessed with the requisite health and strength to encounter and accomplish every task required of him.
There is a homely old saying that has far more truth than eloquence in it, viz: "God fits the back for the burden." Those doomed to a life of toil are generally endowed to a life of toil are generally endowed by nature with the physical strength to sustain them in its accomplishment. Nature is wise and generally just, if not always generous. Mr. Austin was an industrious, hard working man for many years followed lumbering in Mecosta county. He took up a farm of eighty acres of land in Austin township and cleared it up, the township being called after him on account of his being one of the very earliest settlers. It was settled soon thereafter, mostly by Canadians, and became known as the Canada Settlement. He had induced his father, mother, brothers and sisters, to follow him to Michigan, where they settled mostly in the same township and neighborhood. Many of them received from him a start in life. His father and mother were provided for by him as long as they lived.
Mr. Austin was generous to a fault and in his home was a welcome to everyone. Both he and his equally noble wife, were a father and mother to many a young man and woman in that neighborhood. In sickness they were among the first to respond, and the needy were never turned from their door without help. A kind and devoted, husband and father - there was never a better.
There are few men who enjoyed the confidence, respect and esteem of their fellow citizens more implicity than did Aaron Austin. His life has been one of strict probity and integrity. He had established a reputation in the Township of Austin, and in fact Mecosta county, for honesty and truth, that is more to be prized than the richest fortune of which he could be possessed.
Big Rapids Pioneer Daily October 16, 1906
Lived On One Farm Nearly 50 Years
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Aaron Austin Was One of Mecosta County's Earliest Pioneers.
_________
Township Named After Him.
_________
His Death Occured at Stanwood on Tuesday, October 9, at the Age of Seventy-Two Years.
_________
In the death of Mr. Aaron Austin, which occured at his home in Stanwood last week, Mecosta county has lost one of her earliest settlers, and also one of her highly esteemed citizens. Mr Austin was a native of Ontario, where he was born in Township of Beverly, Elgin county, on January 29, 1834, being the second son of the late John Austin, Sr. Mr. Austin came to Michigan when but a young man in the year 1865 and first settled at Croton, Newaygo county, and for some time was engaged as head sawyer in a saw mill at that place, having followed lumbering and saw mill work in Canada prior to his coming to Michigan. He first married a Miss Martha A. Harrington, of Croton, in 1858, who died a short time thereafter. In 1861 Mr. Austin then married Miss Mary M. Gillmore, of Stearns Prairie, Newaygo county, who survives him. To this union six children were born, four of whom are now living and three of whom were with him at the time of his death. Mr. Austin also leaves beside a wife and four children, four grandchildren, a brother and three sisters.
The first twenty-two years of his life were spent in his native country, Canada. His education was not neglected, though it was by no means as complete as he could desire. It included a fair knowledge of all the common school branches of his day, and this he afterward supplimented with a wide range of reading which had made him a well informed man. Mr. Austin was a man of toil and statistics show that the man toils lives longer than the man of leisure. It is not the life of ease and comfort that conduces to longevity. The toiler is spared to his toil, while the money changer is separated by death from his millions. Toil should have some reward, more than the bare pittance it gets in the way of wages and there seems to be little doubt that nature has provided it with longevity by way of additional compensation. The years of the life of Aaron Austin, the subject of this review, have been years of active labor. Throughout the greater part of them he was blessed with the requisite health and strength to encounter and accomplish every task required of him.
There is a homely old saying that has far more truth than eloquence in it, viz: "God fits the back for the burden." Those doomed to a life of toil are generally endowed to a life of toil are generally endowed by nature with the physical strength to sustain them in its accomplishment. Nature is wise and generally just, if not always generous. Mr. Austin was an industrious, hard working man for many years followed lumbering in Mecosta county. He took up a farm of eighty acres of land in Austin township and cleared it up, the township being called after him on account of his being one of the very earliest settlers. It was settled soon thereafter, mostly by Canadians, and became known as the Canada Settlement. He had induced his father, mother, brothers and sisters, to follow him to Michigan, where they settled mostly in the same township and neighborhood. Many of them received from him a start in life. His father and mother were provided for by him as long as they lived.
Mr. Austin was generous to a fault and in his home was a welcome to everyone. Both he and his equally noble wife, were a father and mother to many a young man and woman in that neighborhood. In sickness they were among the first to respond, and the needy were never turned from their door without help. A kind and devoted, husband and father - there was never a better.
There are few men who enjoyed the confidence, respect and esteem of their fellow citizens more implicity than did Aaron Austin. His life has been one of strict probity and integrity. He had established a reputation in the Township of Austin, and in fact Mecosta county, for honesty and truth, that is more to be prized than the richest fortune of which he could be possessed.
Lived On One Farm Nearly 50 Years
_________
Aaron Austin Was One of Mecosta County's Earliest Pioneers.
_________
Township Named After Him.
_________
His Death Occured at Stanwood on Tuesday, October 9, at the Age of Seventy-Two Years.
_________
In the death of Mr. Aaron Austin, which occured at his home in Stanwood last week, Mecosta county has lost one of her earliest settlers, and also one of her highly esteemed citizens. Mr Austin was a native of Ontario, where he was born in Township of Beverly, Elgin county, on January 29, 1834, being the second son of the late John Austin, Sr. Mr. Austin came to Michigan when but a young man in the year 1865 and first settled at Croton, Newaygo county, and for some time was engaged as head sawyer in a saw mill at that place, having followed lumbering and saw mill work in Canada prior to his coming to Michigan. He first married a Miss Martha A. Harrington, of Croton, in 1858, who died a short time thereafter. In 1861 Mr. Austin then married Miss Mary M. Gillmore, of Stearns Prairie, Newaygo county, who survives him. To this union six children were born, four of whom are now living and three of whom were with him at the time of his death. Mr. Austin also leaves beside a wife and four children, four grandchildren, a brother and three sisters.
The first twenty-two years of his life were spent in his native country, Canada. His education was not neglected, though it was by no means as complete as he could desire. It included a fair knowledge of all the common school branches of his day, and this he afterward supplimented with a wide range of reading which had made him a well informed man. Mr. Austin was a man of toil and statistics show that the man toils lives longer than the man of leisure. It is not the life of ease and comfort that conduces to longevity. The toiler is spared to his toil, while the money changer is separated by death from his millions. Toil should have some reward, more than the bare pittance it gets in the way of wages and there seems to be little doubt that nature has provided it with longevity by way of additional compensation. The years of the life of Aaron Austin, the subject of this review, have been years of active labor. Throughout the greater part of them he was blessed with the requisite health and strength to encounter and accomplish every task required of him.
There is a homely old saying that has far more truth than eloquence in it, viz: "God fits the back for the burden." Those doomed to a life of toil are generally endowed to a life of toil are generally endowed by nature with the physical strength to sustain them in its accomplishment. Nature is wise and generally just, if not always generous. Mr. Austin was an industrious, hard working man for many years followed lumbering in Mecosta county. He took up a farm of eighty acres of land in Austin township and cleared it up, the township being called after him on account of his being one of the very earliest settlers. It was settled soon thereafter, mostly by Canadians, and became known as the Canada Settlement. He had induced his father, mother, brothers and sisters, to follow him to Michigan, where they settled mostly in the same township and neighborhood. Many of them received from him a start in life. His father and mother were provided for by him as long as they lived.
Mr. Austin was generous to a fault and in his home was a welcome to everyone. Both he and his equally noble wife, were a father and mother to many a young man and woman in that neighborhood. In sickness they were among the first to respond, and the needy were never turned from their door without help. A kind and devoted, husband and father - there was never a better.
There are few men who enjoyed the confidence, respect and esteem of their fellow citizens more implicity than did Aaron Austin. His life has been one of strict probity and integrity. He had established a reputation in the Township of Austin, and in fact Mecosta county, for honesty and truth, that is more to be prized than the richest fortune of which he could be possessed.
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