constitutes in every sense a model farm. Besides this, Mr. Ryan owns 560 acres in Huron and Tuscola Counties. His herds and flocks comprise thoroughbreds and grades of the finest kind. He owns an average of 75 head of Durham cattle, and Southdown and Cotswold sheep. His horses are Hambletonians, Clydesdales and Mambrinos, and his hogs are pure Berkshires.

Mr. Ryan was married in Biddulph, Huron Co., Ont., Feb. 10, 1857, to Elizabeth McCormack, and they are the parents of 10 children. Mary A. is the wife of Eli Fuller, jeweller at Port Austin; John, book-keeper for his father, is Supervisor of Port Austin Township, and was elected Clerk of Huron County at the recent election (1884) on the Democratic ticket; was graduated at Goldsmith's Business College at Detroit, Sept. 14, 1883; Valentine, Jane, Julia, James W., Margaret, Susan, Ellen and Gertrude.

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obert Winterbottom, proprietor of the hotel at Port Hope, was born May 30, 1828, in Lancashire, Eng. His parents, Robert and Elizabeth (Spencer) Winterbottom, were born and passed their entire

lives in the same shire. Their family numbered 13 children, four of whom were twins and died in early life. All the others grew to maturity and married. The father died at the age of 74 years; the mother was 72 years of age when her demise occurred.

The youngest in the above family, the subject of this sketch, came to the United States in 1848, landing in New York. He first obtained employment in a ship yard and engaged in whip-sawing, where he remained 14 months. At the end of that time he went to Brantford, Canada. He worked there three years as a carpenter, and in 1851 came to Port Huron. In 1855 he came to Willow Creek (now Huron), where he engaged as a sawyer in a saw-mill, and also worked at shingle-making, continuing in that employment between six and seven years.

He then became interested in the hotel business at Willow Creek, where he conducted a house for the accommodation of the traveling public. During the great fire of 1871 he lost all his property, having to

send his children to his friends in Port Austin to get them clothed. Having to commence life anew, went to Grindstone City and kept boarding-house for Worthington Brothers for two years and then moved back to Huron and kept hotel, and in the year 1876 moved to Port Hope, where he has since continued in the hotel business.

Mr. Winterbottom was an adherent of the Republican party until 1879, when he adopted the principles of the Greenback element. He has been Supervisor of Huron and Rubicon Townships several terms. After the fire of 1881 he was appointed local State Commissioner for building bridges in the township of Bloomfield. In November, 1884, he was elected Sheriff on the Fusion ticket.

He was married in 1860 to Flora McKinnon, and they have had six children, born as follows: Ida, Elizabeth (deceased), Christine, John, Jane and Ella. Mrs. Winterbottom was born in July, 1831, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, and is the daughter of Alexander and Mary (Kennedy) McKinnon. Her father died in Iowa. Her mother, who came to Port Huron in 1851, died afterward in London, Canada. Mrs. Winterbottom came to Huron County in the year 1855, to the village of Port Austin.

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ansing E. Lincoln, farmer and stock-raiser, residing on section 30, Sand Beach Township, is a son of Milton and Lydia (Carpenter) |Lincoln, natives of Tompkins Co., N. They resided in Massachusetts for a period and then moved to Tompkins Co., N. Y., in which county they resided until the time of their deaths. The family of the parents embraced eight children, namely: Catharine, Diana, Amelia, Eugene, Lewis, Lorain W. and Lansing E.

Lansing E. Lincoln, the youngest of his father's family, was born in Tompkins Co., N. Y., Nov. 23, 1852. He received a common-school education in his native county and assisted his father in the maintenance of the family until he arrived at the age of 16 years.

At the latter period in his life, Mr. Lincoln went

forth to fight for the preservation of the Union. He enlisted in the 23d N. Y. Inf., for two years. While on picket duty at Bell's Cross Roads, Va., he received a bullet wound in the left arm, which he carries to the present day. Receiving his discharge, he returned home and remained for six months, when, in company with his brothers, he was appointed Sutler of the 148th N. Y. Inf., and was thus engaged until the close of the war.

On the closing of the war, Mr. Lincoln, in company with his brothers, went to Richmond and opened a general store. He remained in the business about eight months, when he sold out to his brothers and returned to his home in New York. He then moved on the old homestead, which he had purchased from his father while in business at Richmond, and carried on the same for a year and then sold it. A year later he went to De Ruyter, Madison Co., N. Y., and formed a partnership with Henry De Lamota to carry on a tannery and boot and shoe store. The partnership continued for about a year, when it was mutually dissolved, Mr. L. taking the boot and shoe depart-❘ He continued in this business for about two years, when he removed his stock to Mason, Mich., where he followed the business for another year. At the expiration of that time, he formed a partnership with his brother under the firm name of L. E. Lincoln & Bro. This partnership continued for a year, when he sold out his interest and entered the employment of Case, Tolman & Co., of Utica, N. Y., wholesale boot and shoe house, with whom he remained one and a half years.

ment.

Mr. Lincoln, at the expiration of the latter date, left New York State for Colorado, but on reaching this State determined to go into the stock business. He resided in Missouri from 1873 to 1881 and then came to this county and located in Sand Beach Township. He owns 80 acres of land in that township, all of which is under a good state of cultivation. He deals extensively in stock, shipping to Buffalo and other points weekly.

Mr. Lincoln was first married in Tompkins Co., N. Y., to Miss Lucena M., daughter of William and Sarah C. (Brower) Tiffiny. She was born in Tompkins Co., N. Y., and has borne to Mr. L. two children, namely, Minnie S. and Earnest. Minnie S. died when nearly 10 years old. The wife and mother departed this life in Cortland Co., N. Y.

rancis Crawford. There is, perhaps, no portion of this great and enterprising nation that has been more rapidly, and at the same time substantially, developed than that included within the boundaries of Michigan. The enterprise and business capacity of the people of the Eastern States has been one of the chief motive powers observed in the onward march of the people of this State. Within the borders of the State there has been no greater enterprise manifested than on the Huron Peninsula. All around the coast, towns have been started and large plans for the development of the country manifested. Men of large ideas and rare business ability and sagacity located at these different points on the shore and began their work of opening up and developing the peninsula. In this work we have very largely detailed the labor of these men and, in their different biographical sketches, given the life history of the men themselves.

Among the men above referred to, and one who has perhaps done as much as any of them toward developing Huron County, is Mr. Francis Crawford. A gentleman possessing far more than the average capacity for business and with commendable enterprise, he came to Caseville, and has since been the very life and soul of the place. As early as 1856, and while a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, in company with Mr. George Martin, he purchased Mr. Leonard Case's property here. This was a very large estate, consisting of some 20,000 acres of land. Two years later, 1858, Mr. Crawford bought Mr. Martin's interest and moved to Caseville, where he has since resided, and has either been the prime mover of, or otherwise prominently identified with, every enterprise or movement for the benefit of the place that has been started. He owns all the salt wells and blocks now at Caseville. Besides these large interests, he also manufactures lumber, shingles, lath and salt barrels, the latter for his own use. He also owns a grist-mill, a general supply store and a hardware

store.

Among those of whom we give portraits in this

work, there is none more worthy a place among the leading men of the county than Mr. Francis Crawford, and we therefore take pleasure in presenting his portrait in connection with this sketch.

acob Spriess, Postmaster at Sebewaing, was born June 25, 1839, in the village of Zutzendorf, Province of Elsass, Germany. He received the quality of education conmon in his native land, and came to the United States

in 1852, locating at Pittsburg, Pa., where he was variously occupied during the two years, in which he was there resident. He went thence to Haldimand Co., Ont., and was there "bound out " for three years to acquire a knowledge of shoemaking, in the village of Cayuga. The man to whom he was apprenticed fell into financial difficulties within the second year and fled from his creditors, thereby leaving his apprentice free from his obligations. He obtained work at his trade, of which his knowledge was incomplete, and he engaged successively in several places, adding to his understanding of his business in each, until he became a fairly thorough craftsman. He was employed as a journeyman until 1864, when he established business in his own behalf in Croton Mills, Norfolk Co., Ont., and prosecuted shoemaking. His success was of an indifferent order, and in 1868 he came to Huron County, where he established himself once more in the shoe business.

In 1872, he became agent for the Singer sewing

machines, and traveled in the interests of the manufacturers. He now combines the sale of machines with his business proper of shoe-making. In the spring of 1881, he received his appointment as Postmaster from President Garfield, and is still the incumbent of the position.

He was married in Rainham Township, Haldimand Co., Ont., March 28, 1864, to Catherine Starnaman, and they have had 11 children, six of whom are still living, Sophia C., George G., Otto H. W., Emma M., Jacob A., Martha M. Those deceased were named, Martha A., Mary M., Jacob A. W., Ida R. and Louisa E. The three first named died within the same week of scarlet fever, in 1871, Martha and Jacob being buried in the same coffin. Mrs. Spriess is the daughter of Abraham and Anna Starnaman; the mother was of foreign birth, being a native of Elsass, Germany, and the father of Pennsylvania, U. S. The daughter was born Feb. 11, 1844, in Rainham, Ont. She and her husband are zealous and prominent members of the German Lutheran Church, of which he is a Trustee. He is also a Republican of the most decided character, carrying into his politics and religion the same sturdy, inflexible traits that have enabled him to conquer all obstacles and make a success of his life's efforts.

He has held the office of Justice of the Peace 14 years, has been School Director 13 years, both of which offices he still fills, Township Treasurer two years, and has served four terms as Village Trustee. He is engaged in insurance, and represents several companies. He is the manager of the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Sebewaing, and is the agent of the American Express Company.