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SOURCE: History of Genesee County, Michigan
        pub. Everts and Abbott - 1879

        Page facing 160


                              ELIAS J. BUMP

  Elias J. Bump, born at Smithfield, Madison Co., N. Y., July 2, 1812, is
the son of Gideon Bump and Sarah Anderson, early settlers of that county;
they came to Genesee Co., Mich., in 1840, where they died at a mature old
age.

  The immediate subject of this sketch was married in 1838 to Miss Nancy
Stewart, daughter of Lemuel and granddaughter of Capt. William Stewart, who
lived in New York City before the Revolution, and served seven years in
that war.

  Lemuel Stewart was a farmer in Madison County, where he died in 1849,
aged seventy-six years.

  In 1840, Elias J. Bump and his wife came to Michigan.  Spending the first
winter at Jackson, they came to this county the following summer, and
purchased eighty acres of timber land some five miles from Flushing, where
a flouring-mill had been built.  Thinking this would be a good point for
business, he purchased a stock of goods, and erected an ashery, which he
carried on for two years, when the building was destroyed by fire.  His
goods being distributed among customers who had no money, he fell back to
eighty acres of land, and commenced the hardy task of cutting himself a
home from the unbroken forest.  The first year a log house was built and a
small clearing made; the next season a frame barn, and the clearing
enlarged; and so on, year by year, the improvements were made, and the
forest pushed back, until broad and well-cultivated fields appeared, and
the original eighty acres expanded to a fine farm of four hundred acres,
the log house gave place to one of the finest farm-houses in Genesee
County, with such surroundings as indicate the thrifty, wealthy farmer.

  In 1870, Mr. Bump's health had so failed that he could not continue the
management of so large a farm, and having a large family (one son and six
daughters), he sold the farm and moved to Flint, in order to give his
children good educations and the benefits of society.

  The winters of 1870 and 1871, Mr. and Mrs. Bump spent in the South for
the benefit of his health, but found no relief.  But by careful study of
the laws of health, a strictly vegetable diet, and avoiding stimulants, he
has recovered his health, to enjoy the abundance of this world's goods
which he has secured by frugal habits, persistent industry, and good
judgement.

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