Taken from The History of Tuscola County, Biographical Sketches and Illustrations, H. R. Page Co., Chicago, 1883. Thanks to Bonnie Petee.

JOSEPH A. PEPOON, M.D., was born in Ohio, in 1843, studied medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve College, in Cleveland, Ohio, and came to Kingston village in 1868, where he has practiced his profession. He was married in 1873, to Miss Louise L. Simmons, and has one son.

J. A. TESKEY, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1835, and came to Kingston in 1862, and located over 700 acres of land. He now owns 910 acres on sections 7, 8, and 17, and resides on section 7; has fifty acres improved. Mr. Teskey is the present county surveyor, which position he has held two terms, and was deputy two terms; has also been supervisor five years, and justice of the peace sixteen years. He was married in 1868 to Miss Eleanor Jeffrey, and has four children.

April 1998

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