Our subject received his early education in the district schools of his native state, attending during the winter months, and assisting his father on the farm during the summer. This experience gave him the opportunity to acquire practical knowledge of farm work, a knowledge that has been diligently applied, and has made him a successful farmer.

On the 22nd of February of 1892, there occurred the marriage of our subject to Miss Lottie Tilletson, dauther of Milton and Ella T. Tilletson, who were residents of Ohio. Her father is a farmer by occupation, and a native of Ohio, where the mother was also born.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Binkley have been born three children, namely: Harrold Dean, born March 10, 1894; Ralph Forclmond, born October 4, 1895, and Ella B., born September 1, 1897.

Mr. Binkley casts his vote for the Democracy, and takes an active interest in all that pertains to the good of his locality. In his farming operations, he is a painstaking and methodical man, and has successfully conducted the farm of Mr. George Dell. Though still a young man, he command the respect of his associates and neighbors, and bids fair to become one of the successful farmers of his community.

Taken from:
"Past and Present of the City of Lansing and Ingham County, Michigan", by Albert E. Cowles.
Published by The Michigan Historical Publishing Association Lansing, MICH., 1905.
Pages 157 - 158.

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