Lemuel Bissell, son of Lemuel Bissell and Mary Beaumont, was born December 20, 1853 at Ahmednuggur, India. His father, native of Connecticut, was born at East Windsor in that State. He graduated from the Western Reserve College of Ohio and went as a missionary to India in 1851, under the ABCFM where they are both still engaged. Lemuel spent the first ten years of his life in India, lived two years in Milan, Ohio, then removed to Mt. Clemens, Michigan, to live with his uncle; attended the schools of Mt. Clemens, and was under the tuition of the Rev. Henry N. Bissell for six years; entered the Western Reserve College, graduated from that institution in 1876. He then taught in the public schools in Kansas, spent three years in Yale Divinity School, graduated from this institution 1n 1880, and at once located as pastor of the Congregational Church at Memphis, Michigan. He was married October 29, 1880, to Miss Anna A., daughter of Alfred Wolcott of Boston Summit Co., Ohio. She was born February 23, 1856. Her mother, Mary A, Scoville, was a native of Connecticut, and the father a native of Ohio. Mrs. Bissell attended the union schools of the county, and the seminaries of Hudson spent four years in Lake Erie Seminary at Painesville, graduating in 1879.
source: History of Macomb County, Michigan
Information supplied by "Marguerite". Thanx.
source: History of Macomb County, Michigan
Information supplied by "Marguerite". Thanx.
Lemuel Bissell, son of Lemuel Bissell and Mary Beaumont, was born December 20, 1853 at Ahmednuggur, India. His father, native of Connecticut, was born at East Windsor in that State. He graduated from the Western Reserve College of Ohio and went as a missionary to India in 1851, under the ABCFM where they are both still engaged. Lemuel spent the first ten years of his life in India, lived two years in Milan, Ohio, then removed to Mt. Clemens, Michigan, to live with his uncle; attended the schools of Mt. Clemens, and was under the tuition of the Rev. Henry N. Bissell for six years; entered the Western Reserve College, graduated from that institution in 1876. He then taught in the public schools in Kansas, spent three years in Yale Divinity School, graduated from this institution 1n 1880, and at once located as pastor of the Congregational Church at Memphis, Michigan. He was married October 29, 1880, to Miss Anna A., daughter of Alfred Wolcott of Boston Summit Co., Ohio. She was born February 23, 1856. Her mother, Mary A, Scoville, was a native of Connecticut, and the father a native of Ohio. Mrs. Bissell attended the union schools of the county, and the seminaries of Hudson spent four years in Lake Erie Seminary at Painesville, graduating in 1879.
source: History of Macomb County, Michigan
Information supplied by "Marguerite". Thanx.
source: History of Macomb County, Michigan
Information supplied by "Marguerite". Thanx.
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