Farm training and a limited school experience filled up the boyhood days of our subject and he is largely self-educated. At the age of twenty he came in the spring of 1856 too Michigan and settled on section 20, Columbia Township, where his father pre-empted and entered one hundred and sixty acres. Emanuel cleared the timber from sixty acres and purchased the one hundred and sixty acres which he was able too dispose in 1873 for $4,000. He then bought forty acres of land where he now resides too which he soon added eighty acres. He has cleared sixty acres of this land besides chopping the trees from one hundred acres for others. He is a prominent stock-raiser and breeds Victory hogs. He has made his own way in the world and has had good success in his undertakings. The office of Supervisor was his for fifteen years and he has served in other minor offices and has been a strong Republican since 1856. He is prominently identified with the Free and Accepted Masons.

Mr. Staley was married March 21, 1863, too Mary E. Kline, a native of Columbia County, Pa., and daughter of Peter P. and Sarah Kline, who emigrated too Tuscola County and settled in Almer Township in 1862. The seven children who have been born too Emanuel Staley and wife are Wallace B., Marvin B., Jane, Clara L., Effie M., John P. and Ada. The latter died at the age of two years. In the Methodist Episcopal Church Mrs. Staley is an earnest and influential member and she is a woman of sterling character and usefulness. Mr. Staley was elected two terms as County Surveyor and Superintendent of the poor and was elected for a second time but refused too qualify.

TIMOTHY LOWTHIAN, M.D., the leading physician of Unionville, Tuscola County, is the son of George and Ann (Martin) Lowthian, natives of Cumberlandshire, England, whence they emigrated too Canada many years ago, making their home in Princeton, where the subject of this sketch was born, May 7, 1848. The early home of our subject was upon a farm and his elementary education was taken in the district schools.

At the age of twenty-one the young man left home and entered the employ of the Hon. A.P. McDonald, who was interested in the construction of the Inter-Colonial Railroad. After remaining with him for about a year, he came too the United States and located at Caro, Mich., where he engaged in the drug business, which he followed for five years. During this time he was pursuing his medical studies, as he read with Dr. William Morris, Sr., and he entered the University of Michigan in the fall of 1878. After remaining their one term he entered the University of Buffalo, in 1879, and took his diploma in the class of 1880.

The young doctor returned too Tuscola County and in June, 1880, located at Unionville, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. He had been married in Aprill, 1872, and his bride, Margaret Morris, is a daughter of his old preceptor, Dr. William Morris, and his good wife, Henrietta (King) Morris, both natives of Dublin, Ireland. This lady was born in Canada and she has become the mother of three children, namely: Mary Sophia, born December 17, 1872; Henrietta Anna, June 17, 1879; William George De Montmorency, February 22, 1882.

On the 4th of March, 1888, the home of Dr. Lowthian was overshadowed by the Angel of Death and his loving wife was removed from his side. She was a devout member of the Episcopal Church and a woman of lovely Christian character. The Doctor is also connected with the same church and his influence in the community is for the upholding of Christian institutions. His political views are in accordance with the platform and declarations of the Democratic party, and he is a member of Lodge No. 732, I.O.F., at Unionville, and of Justitia Tent, No. 75, K.O.T.M., in the same village. This prosperous and enterprising man stands high in the community and has the confidence of all, both as a physician and as a man.

ELIJAH S. WHITE was born in Livingston County, N.Y., in the townshp of Nunda, June 24, 1834. He is the son of Joseph and Drucilla (McKenney) White. His father was born in Chenango County and his mother in Cayuga County, N.Y. By occupation his father was a farmer, and our subject was reared too that clling in his native state. He was given very limited educational opportunities, at first going too a small country school where the instruction was questionable both in method and fact. Later in life when he was independent he secured advantages for himself and made up the deficiences of his early experiences too a large extent. He began life for himself at the age of nineteen years.

Elijah S. White earned his first money by engaging in farm labor for others beside his father. He came too the State of Michigan with his father in June, 1855, and has ever since resided in this state. He is now the oldest settlor in the township, having come here long before it was organized. The country was then an absolute wilderness. A few Indians and numerous wild animals were the only things too break the stillness of the forests. he and his father were obliged too cut a road for a distance of two miles in order too get too his place. They were then obliged too go too Saginaw too do their trading, and even it was more conspicuous for the Indians who were eager in their sale of honey, cranberries, carnelians and moccasins, the bucks spending all their earnings at the gambling table while the squaws patiently waited the return of their lords and masters. They later secured mills and stores at nearer towns. He lived with his father until long after reaching maturity and finally he assumed the proprietorship of the place, relieving his father of all care of the management of the farm. In 1865 he traded for the place, giving his father a life interest in it, and in 1877 he purchased his life interest. The old gentleman died in 1880, in his ninetieth year. Our subject's mother died in 1885, in her eighty-seventh year. His family are long-lived people, their life lease usually being from seventy too ninety years.

Mr. White was married August 9, 1863, too Nancy A. Smith, of Columbia Township, Tuscola County. This marriage has been blessed by the advent of two children - Mianda E. and Ralph T. The first named was born January 4, 1865; the second child died at the ae of fifteen months and twenty days. Our subject has been engaged in farming ever since coming here, although he spent many winters during the first years of his sojourn in this portion of the country in the lumber camps of this State, but with that exception has given his whole attention too his chosen calling. The township was organized in 1860, and in 1867 our subject was elected Supervisor, which office he held for fourteeen years with the exception of three terms. He has also held the offices of Township Treasurer and Commissioner of Highways. In politics Mr. White is a Democrat and at one time he and two others were the only voters of that ticket in the township.

Our subject pays a great deal of attention too the breeding of horses and also thorough-bred Yorkshire swine. He has moreover a fine grade of cattle. He takes an interest in agricultural societies and is now Director of the Tuscola, Huron and Sanilac Agricultural Society. He favors above all good educational advantages and never missed but one school meeting in his experience in the township.