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

        Page 278 - 279


                         THOMAS H. KELLAND

  In the northwest part of Flushing township is a neighborhood known as 
the "English Settlement," from the fact that those who located there were 
from the mother-country, and others have arrived in later years. Mr. Kelland, 
who was born in Devonshire, England, July 18, 1835, emigrated with his 
sister to America in 1850, and for two years lived south of Flint, removing 
subsequently into the border of Shiawassee County, west of his present 
residence. After remaining there two years he came to the place he now 
occupies, formerly the home of Samuel Wood, and still partly owned by his 
heirs. On the 30th of April, 

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Page 279

1862, Mr. Kelland was married to Mr. Wood's daughter, Martha A. Wood, who 
was born on the farm July 19, 1844. To Mr. and Mrs. Kelland have been born 
two children, viz.: Fannie A., born Aug. 18, 1864; George E., born Dec. 8, 
1868. 

  Both Mr. Kelland and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, located near their residence. Politically, Mr. Kelland is a 
Republican. 

  Mrs. Kelland's father, Samuel Wood, a native of Derbyshire, England, 
emigrated from Lancashire in May, 1842, and in March, 1843, was married 
to Mrs. Mary Vernon, also from Lancashire, who had come with her father, 
John Bailey, the same spring, and lived at Flushing village, where Mr. 
Bailey soon after died. His wife died on the Wood place. Samuel Wood's 
death occurred March 22, 1875, when he was sixty-one years of age. His 
widow, who was also a widow when married to him, still survives, and her 
home is with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Kelland. A more 
full account of the settlement of the English families, with their 
experience as pioneers, will be found in the township history. 

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