Mr. Meyers was married in Croton, Newaygo County, May 13, 1869, to Katherine Maier. She was born July 22, 1838, in Baden, a Prussian province, and is a daughter of Batel and Margaret Maria (Kohler) Maier, natives of the same place in Prussia where their daughter was born. Both were Germans and born approximately in 1805 and 1807. About the date of his second marriage Mr. Meyers bought 80 acres of land in Big Prairie, where he established his home. He has 30 acres cleared, with good improvements. He has passed his time farming and working as a lumberman. He is a great sportsman and has an interesting record. His list includes 300 deer, 194 of which he killed in Indiana. He has killed but one wolf, and but one bear. The latter weighed 327 pounds.

Mr. Meyers is a Democrat in politics, and Roman Catholic in religion.

ohn Barnhard, farmer, section 3, Dayton Township, is a son of Jacob and Sarah (Hyland) Barnhard, and was born in Sandusky Co., Ohio, Nov. 18, 1836. When he was ten years old he came to this county with his parents. He lived under the parental roof until he was 20 years of age, and was then employed by the month on a farm for one year. In the fall of 1858 he purchased 80 acres of wild land, on which he built a log house, and has since added 60 acres to his original purchase; 100 acres are under good cultivation. In 1875 he erected a fine frame house where he now resides.

He was married in Dayton Township, Nov. 24, 1860, to Maryette, daughter of Aaron and Amanda Stone, natives of Connecticut, and they have two children: Gilbert L. and Herbert A. Mr. B. has held the office of Township Clerk, Highway Commissioner, School Inspector and Constable. elected Justice of the Peace but declined to qualify; he was also Township Treasurer four years.

He was

March 12, 1862, he enlisted in the 3d Mich. Inf.; served nearly three years and was honorably discharged, on account of a severe wound in the arm, at Spottsylvania Court-House. He was in the battle

of the Wilderness and also that of Mine Run; much of the time he was on detached service. He now receives a pension. Himself and wife are members of Hesperian Lodge, No. 495, P. of H., and in politics he is a Republican.

S

ilas Edgecomb, farmer, section 21, Big Prairie Township, was born Nov. 24, 1826, in the State of New York, and is the son of Asel and Sarah M. (Sears) Edgecomb. Both parents were of German descent and were born in the Empire State, the former about 1804 (died in in 1877), the latter in 1806 (died in 1827).

Mr. Edgecomb became a resident of Michigan in 1826, when his parents settled in St. Clair County. He was married in Brockway, St. Clair County, March 20, 1848, to Anna Freeman. She was born June 19, 1831, near St. Thomas, Canada West, and is the daughter of Curtis and Cynthia (Arms) Freeman. Her father was born Feb. 18, 1795, in Lower Canada, and died Jan. 9, 1866, in Brockway. The mother was born May 20, 1800, in the Dominion, and is still living. Following are the names of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Edgecomb: C. Maria (dec.), Nelson (dec.), John W., Mary Jane (dec.), Charles S., Alvaretta, Arthur (killed in 1881 on a log rollway on the Muskegon River), Annie and Thomas.

Mr. Edgecomb was a resident of St. Clair County about ten years, when he removed to the State of Iowa. He went thence, 18 months later, to Wisconsin, where he resided one year at Prairie Du Chien, and two years in Grant County. He came to Newaygo County, Jan. 9, 1860, and entered the employ of Henry Loomis, for whom he kept a boarding-house about five months, located two miles from Newaygo village. He went in the summer of 1860 to Gainesville, Kent County, where he bought 40 acres of land, with about 25 acres improved, where he lived three years, selling out at the expiration of that time and removing to Croton. After a year's residence there he moved to section 26, where he logged one winter. The following spring he bought 120 acres of land on section 25, on which he resided one year and sold