The parents of G. DuBois, Jacob and Sara DuBois, were natives of Ulster Co., N. Y., where they resided in 1810, when they removed to Delaware, Co., N. Y., rearing a family of twelve children, of whom nine lived to mature age. In 1837 two sons, Martin and Jacob, emigrated to Alaiedon township, Ingham Co., Mich. Garrett DuBois was the sixth of the family, born at Marble, Ulster Co., N. Y., Feb. 8, 1806, being but four years of age when the family removed to Delaware County. January, 1832, he married Lucy Chapman, also of Delaware, born Jan. 18, 1807. The year following they removed to Wayne Co., Pa., where he was employed until 1839 by Mrs. DuBois' father in his extensive milling interests, when, hearing glowing accounts of Michigan from his brothers already located there, he concluded to join them. Making the necessary arrangements, they set out with a horse-team and wagon, performing the journey of seven hundred miles in nineteen days. On his arrival he located six lots on section 35. Here they resided, improving about ninety acres, until 1885, when they removed to a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Bunker Hill township, on section 8, which he had purchased in 1852. At the date of his purchase in Bunker Hill, not a stick of timber had been cut; but having means at his command he cleared a large tract and put it into wheat, the proceeds of which were laid out in improvements. For a number of years Mr. DuBois devoted a considerable portion of his time to putting his farm and buildings in condition suitable to his taste, and has at the present time one of the finest farms and appurtenances in the township.

Aside from farm interests, Mr. DuBois has some moneyed interests, -- the results of a life's labor guided by sound, practical judgment and ripe experience. He has served his townsmen as supervisor three consecutive terms while a resident of Alaiedon, but of late years has refused, preferring the quiet of private life to the vexation of public affairs

Mrs. DuBois has faithfully performed her alloted portion in the drama of life, and is honored by her children and held in high esteem by a large circle of friends. Mr. and Mrs. DuBois are the parents of seven children.

Taken from:
"History of Ingham and Eaton Counties Michigan, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers", by Samuel W. Durant.
Published by D. W. Ensign & Co., 1880.
Page 229-230

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