Caro Biographies

Farley Craw was born in Berkshire County, Mass., from where his parents removed to Oneida County, N.Y., when he was three years old. From there he came to Michigan in 1845, settling in Oakland County. He was elected a justice of the peace in Oakland County, also in Tuscola County after his removal here, his term of service in that office in both counties amounting to twenty-four years. During his residence in Oakland county he was appointed postmaster at Davisburgh by President Lincoln, holding the office until shortly before Andrew Johnson became president, when he resigned. In 1866 he came to Tuscola County, and in 1867 was appointed postmaster at Tuscola Center, now Caro, and still holds the same. He was also at one time a director of schools. He has been engaged in the mercantile business, also farming. He is married and has a family of eight children

Samuel P. Sherman, was born in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Mass., March 4, 1805, and died January 1, 1883. When four years of age his parents removed to the State of New York. He was married at Lyons, Wayne County, New York, October 3, 1824 and moved to Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan, in 1828. For a time prior to 1852 his son, William E. Sherman, worked at lumbering on the Cass River, in the vicinity of where Caro now stands, and was so much pleased with the appearance of the country that he reported his impressions to his father, who visited the locality in 1851 and decided to take up again the life of a pioneer. September 8, 1852, he entered sixty-three acres in the northwest quarter of section 3, in the present town of Indian Fields. September 9 he entered eighty acres in the southwest quarter of section 4, and December 1^st of the same year entered eighty acres south of his first entry. January 5, 1858, he entered forty acres adjoining, on the west, his second entry. In 1852 he removed to Indian Fields, and was the first settler on section 3, now the village of Caro. He was a man of generous deeds and strict integrity in all his business relations. His kindness of heart and liberality were proverbial. He was the first clerk of the township and the first justice of the peace. The second township meeting of Indian Fields was held at his home. In the earlier years of his life he was a member of the Methodist Church, but for the last forty years had been connected with the Universalist Church, and was largely instrumental in securing an organization of that society in Caro, as is manifest in the history of that society given elsewhere in this work. On the morning of January 1, 1883, he started to walk to the depot to procure a ticket for his wife, who expected to leave for the East during the day. When about half way to the depot he was seen to fall on his face, and by the time he was reached life was extinct. His first wife died in 1869, and he had married a second time. The children living are William E. Sherman, Mrs. William McPhad, Mrs. A. P. Cooper, Mrs. E. A. Marr, Mrs. George Gage and Mrs. Joseph Gamble.