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

        Page 249


                             MICHAEL FERGUSON


  Michael Ferguson was a native of Oneida Co., N. Y., and born on the 31st 
day of March, 1815. He was left an orphan at ten years of age, and found 
a home with his uncle, Charles Ferguson, with whom he resided until he was 
twenty-one. He obtained a good education, and also learned the trade of 
wagon-making, which business he followed at Fort Plain, N. Y., until 1834, 
when he came to the Territory of Michigan, and purchased eighty acres of 
government land in Shiawassee County. He remained with his uncle in Grand 
Blanc two years, when he returned to New York, and became engaged on the 
Erie Canal, first as an ordinary "hand," afterwards as captain of a boat, 
and finally as contractor. He continued in that business some ten years, 
when he engaged in the commission business, which he followed for ten or 
twelve years. 

  In 1860, on the first day of January, he was united in marriage to Miss 
Margaret S. Hager, of Fort Plain, N. Y. In 1865 he removed to Michigan 
and settled on a farm of one hundred acres in the township of Grand Blanc, 
where he remained until his death, which occurred on the 18th day of November,
1874. He was the father of five children, named as follows: Everett, George R.,
Annie E., Edward E., and Joseph M., all of whom are living except the first 
named. 

  Mr. Ferguson was a man of great influence and consideration among his 
fellow-townsmen, who manifested their confidence by repeatedly electing 
him to positions of responsibility. He served his town for three years as 
supervisor, a position he held at the time of his death. In politics he 
was a Democrat of the old school. He was a man of pure life and morals. 
He was an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, and whether as apprentice, 
master, or companion, was always known and regarded by the craft as that 
highest type of a Mason, an honest man. 

  His widow still resides on the home-farm, and is at this time (1879) the 
wife of John Bloom, to whom she was married on the 12th day of October, 1876.
On another page may be seen a fine view of the home of the family. 

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