JACOB ALBER was born in Germany in 1812, and emigrated to the United States with his wife and two children in 1848. He stoppd in Ypsilanti, Mich., a year, and then came to Tuscola County and engaged with a lumbering firm in Vassar with whom he continued six years, when he purchased eighty acres of land upon which he still resides, and to which he has since added forty acres. He was married in Germany in 1836, to Miss Mary K. Heffet, who died in 1881, and has three daughters living. His only son was in the late war and died in the hospital at Lousiville, Ky.

LEWIS H. BAUER was born in Germany in 1821, he emigrated to the United States in the winter of 1848-49, and after a short stay in the State of New York came to Saginaw, Mich., when after a residence of a year he went to Oakland County and spent another year there. In 1852 he came to the township of Juniata and located upon a farm where he now resides, and which contains 200 acres. He was married in 1852 to Miss Barbara Herter, of German birth, who at the time was living in Saginaw. They have six children, three sons and three daughters.

J. G. BELKNAP, deceased, was a native of Vermont, where he was born in 1814. He, with his father's family, came to Michigan in 1844, and settled in Oakland County, where they remained six years, when they came to Juniata in 1850 cutting their way through the woods, and settled on the farm where the surviving family still reside. His father, Jesse Belknap, resided near or with him up to the time of his death, which occurred at the advanced age of seventy-four years.

RUSSELL D. BLACK, M. D., was born February 14, 1815, in Brome County, N. Y. During his boyhood his father came West to Geauga County, Ohio. About 1848 he completed his medical education at an eclectic college in Cincinnati. For about three years he practiced medicine at Russell, Geauga County, and in 1851 removed to Watrousville, being the second physician to locate in the county. The practice of medicine in those early days was no joke, entailing as it did many a weary tramp through the forests on foot. Dr. Black has been a member of the board of health twenty-eight years, justice of the peace twenty-four years and supervisor two. His present and second wife was Mrs. Eliza M. Kent previous to becoming Mrs. Black. They have two children, a son and daughter. The son is now reading medicine and proposes to adopt his father's profession. The daughter lives at home.

E. A. BORLAND was born in the town of Pittsford, Wayne County, N.Y., in June 1822, and resided there until 1846, when he with his people came to Michigan and settled in the township of Highland, Oakland County, where they resided until 1852, when they all came to Tuscola County and located in the township of Juniata. He and his brother, J. G. Borland, took up from the government 100 acres of land, a portion of which he still owns, and upon which he has resided up to the present time. He was married in 1846 to Miss Matilda Brown, of Monroe County, N. Y., who died about 1867, and was again married to his present wife, who was Miss Fannie Rogers, of the same place, and has one child.

JAMES R. BORLAND was born in the county of Artrim, Ireland, in 1834, and came to the United States with his parents in 1843. They settled in western New York, where they lived till about 1853, when they came to Michigan and located where William Borland now resides. The subject of this sketch now owns 165 acres on section 5, where he resides, a portion of which was taken up by John Borland (his father) from the government. He also owns 273 acres in different tracts throughout the county. He was married in 1864 to Miss Sarah J. Caul, of Ypsilanti, Mich., and has four daughters. Mr. Borland has held the office of township treasurer seventeen years, and now (1883) is representing the township of Juniata as supervisor.

RICHARD C. BURTIS was born in Pittstown, near Troy, N. Y., in 1824, and when quite young moved with his parents to Hoosick Falls, N. Y., where his father died when he was five years old. His mother with the family soon thereafter moved to Troy, N. Y., where they resided about six years, when they went to Ashtabula County, Ohio, returning to Troy, N. Y., in 1838. He then accepted a situation in a grocery store, where he remained three years, when he went to Ithaca, N. Y., and learned the shoemakers' trade, remaining there three and one-half years, and afterward worked at his trade in nearly all of the Eastern cities for the following fifteen years. In 1855 he came to Michigan on a hunting expedition, and two years later came to remain and located in Watrousville, Tuscola County, where he engaged in shoemaking up to 1862, when his brother died and he took an interest with his sister in a general store which continued about seven years, when he took the entire stock and conducted it alone about thirteen years, when he retired, in 1882, and since has resided upon is farm of forty acres, in Watrousville. He built the residence shown elsewhere in this work in 1879-80. He was married in 1868 to Miss Flora A. Chubb, of Nankin, Wayne County, Mich. Mr. Burtis was postmaster of Watrousville four years.

JOHN M. COLE was born in Columbia County, Pa., in 1832, where he resided until coming to Tuscola County. The early part of his life was spent on his father's farm and working in his grist and saw mills. He was married in 1857 to Miss Ann Koons, of Luzerne County, Pa., whose parents were among the earliest residents of that section. He came to the township of Juniata viewing in 1861, and the following year located with his family on a farm about one mile from his present home. In 1874 he built a handsome residence in Watrousville where he now resides. They have had five children, three of whom are living – Wiliam D., Edwin Raymond, and Ella B.

A.J. CROSSMAN, proprietor of saw-mill, grain elevator and store at Watrousville Station, was born in Essex County, N. Y., and came to Richfield, Genesee Co., Mich., with his father at four years of age. They lived there and followed farming until he was twenty-eight years old, when he apprenticed himself as a carpenter, and finished his trade at the age of thirty-one, which he followed in that locality until he changed his residence to the town of Davison, Genesee County, where he did a general shipping business, and established an apple canning and jelly factory at that place, which he conducted four years until his removal to his present place of business. He was married in 1867, to Miss Sarah Anderson, of the township of Forest, Genesee County. They have four children, two sons and two daughters.

FRANKLIN FAIRMAN is a native of the State of New York, and was born in 1825. He came with his parents to Wayne County, Mich., at three years of age, and resided there until twenty-two years of age, when he went to Grand Rapids and settled on a new place, remaining there two years. He then came to Tuscola county and took up 240 acres of government land in the township, of Indian Fields, upon which he lived, clearing and improving it till 1867, when he removed to the farm where he now resides. In 1857 he married Miss Hannah Vangiesen, of Wayne County, Mich., formerly of Wayne County, N. Y., and has seven children; three sons and four daughters.

JAMES GIBSON was born in New Hampshire in 1811, and when seventeen years of age went to Middlesex, Mass., where he served for five years as a clerk in a store. He then went into business for himself which he continued four years, then came to Ann Arbor Mich., and engaged in business there, where he remained until 1859. He then came to Tuscola County and took up 160 acres of land which he has improved and upon which he has since resided. He was married in 1836 to Miss Lydia Merrell, of New Hampshire, and has five children: three sons, two of whom remain at home, and the other traveling in the Southern States. The two daughters are both married, one the wife of Townsend North, of Vassar, and the other a resident of Lawrence, Mass.

GEORGE HALL is a native of Warwickshire, England; was born in 1820, and came with his parents to the United States, locating first at Utica, N. Y., where they resided seven years. They then removed to Geauga County, Ohio, where the subject of this sketch remained seventeen years. He was married in July, 1849, and settled on a farm in that county, where he lived until his removal to the township of Juniata in 1854, where he purchased 100 acres of land upon which he has since resided, and to which he has added 100 acres by subsequent purchase. He has four children, two sons and two daughters. Charles and Marian are at present living in Fargo, D. T.; the other son is living on a part of the homestead, leaving but one child, a daughter, under the paternal roof.

ANTHONY HARMON, was born in County Carlow, Ireland, in 1828, and came to the United States in 1851. He first resided in Westchester County, N.Y., four years, and was there married to Miss Mary Halligan, of that State, afterward in Wayne County, Mich., three years, when he came to the township of Juniata, and soon thereafter located 220 acres of land on section 18, where his family now reside. The survivors consist of Mrs. Harmon and seven children: two sons and five daughters.

JOHN A. HATCH is a native of Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1825, and his boyhood days were spent, when not attending school, with the farmers in the immediate vicinity. At the age of sixteen he commenced teaching school during the winter months, and each succeeding summer engaged in farm work. When twenty-five years of age he moved to Coldwater, Branch County, Mich., and for three years was employed as a clerk in a store. At the expiration of that time he returned to Ohio and married Miss Lusetta Phillips, of his native place, and remained there two years, during which time he engaged in carpenter work and building; which he has since followed with the exception of three years spent in a store at Watrousville. In 1855 he came with his wife to the county and settled near the village of Tuscola, where he resided until 1864 when he came to Watrousville, which he has since made his home. Mr. Hatch has held the office of township clerk twelve years, justice of the peace one year, and has been identified with school interests during the greater part of his life. He has by adoption five children.

HON. ELEAZAR B. HAYES was born in Geneseo, Livingston County, N. Y. His father was a farmer, and the son was brought up on a farm. His father moved to Michigan with his family when the son was about nine years of age. When he was seventeen he bought his time of his father and returned to New York, where he worked on a farm in summer time and attended school at Liberty during the winters. In 1852 he came back to Michigan and for a number of years taught school in the following places: Brighton, Livingston County, Milford, Oakland County, and Vassar, Tuscola County - teaching winters. In 1856 he commenced clearing up a farm in Gilford, Tuscola County. He sold it and in 1865 located in Juniata, his farm being about one and a half miles from the village of Watrousville. In the fall of 1882 he was elected a member of the State legislature for the First Representative District of Tuscola County. He was a supervisor of Gilford Township three years, for Juniata eleven years, resigning the last office when elected representative. He has been an under sheriff for four years, school director over thirteen years and for the past seven years secretary of the Tuscola County Agricultural society, of the executive committee of which he has been a member for twelve years.

SANFORD HINES was born in Montgomery County, N. Y., in 1817,living there until seven years of age, when he went with his father to Onondaga County where he engaged in farming and boating till 1865, when he came to Michigan and located on the farm where he now resides, and which he mostly cleared with his own hands. He was married in 1850 to Miss Amanda Pettingill, of Cicero, Onondaga County. N. Y., and has eight children. Of three sons, one is married and resides in the township of Millington, and of the daughters, three are married and live in the immediate vicinity of the homestead.

PERRY Y. JOHNSON is a native of Plymouth, Ashtabula County, Ohio. He resided there until seventeen years of age, when he came to Michigan, and for a time was engaged in the lumber woods near the Cass River, and in a planing-mill at Saginaw. Returning to Ohio he remained there about eighteen months, and in 1858 came to Tuscola County, and settled upon eighty acres of land in the township of Denmark. The following three years his time was divided between the farm and the lumber woods. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E, Seventh Michigan Volunteers, under Captain L. H. Richardson, and served in the Army of the Potomac under McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Pope, Meade, and Grant. He served three years, and was twice wounded, first in the left arm while doing picket duty on the Rapidan, and second, in the right arm at Gettysburgh. After receiving his discharge, in 1864, he returned to Ohio for his wife, whom he had married soon after his enlistment, and together they came to the township of Denmark, where they remained three years. He then purchased and settled upon thirty-nine acres of land in the township of Juniata, to which he has added from time to time, until his farm now contains 279 acres, which, with 120 acres he owns in Bay County and eighty acres on the Cass River, aggregates 479 acres. He has six children, two sons and four daughters.