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SOURCE: History of Genesee County, Michigan
        pub. Everts and Abbott - 1879
        
        Page 259
        
                         LEWIS O. MEDBURY
                         
          The ancestors of Mr. Medbury were early settlers in
        Rhode Island, and of English extraction. Charles Med-
        bury emigrated to New York while a young man and,
        settled at New Berlin, Chenango Co., were he married
        Miss Lucretia Arnold; he reared a family of ten children.
        He was engaged nearly all his life in the mercantile busi-
        ness; served as sheriff, and held numerous offices in his
        town and county.  He died at the age of seventy-nine years.
          Samuel, his eldest son, was born at New Berlin, in 1808.
        He was reared and educated in the mercantile business,
        which he followed with success, at New Berlin, up to the
        year 1857.  In 1836 he married Miss Lucretia R. Moss,
        of the same town.  In 1857 he moved with his family to
        Detroit.  He had previously become largely interested in
        several business enterprises in Michigan, such as banking,
        railroads, etc.
          Mr. Mebury came to Detroit shortly after the panic of
        1857, and, in connection with his two brothers-in-law, took
        charge of and managed the Peninsular Bank, in which they
        were heavy stockholders.  After three years they disposed
        of their stock to other parties, and Mr. Medbury sub-
        sequently became prominent in the organization of the
        State Bank of Michigan, the forerunner of the present
        First National Bank of Michigan.  He was also for several
        years a special partner of K. C. Barker & Co., in the tobacco
        trade; he finally disposed of his interest in the latter firm,
        after which he gave his attention almost entirely to real
        estate, of which he was a large owner, embracing city prop-
        erty, pine-lands, and farms in various portions of Michigan
        and other States.  His death occurred on the 19th day of
        July, 1874, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.  He left his
        widow and two childrent the memory of an unblemished
        character, the example of a moral and virtuous life, and a
        competency of this world's goods.
          Esther A., the daughter, resides with her mother at the
        old home-residence on Woodward Avenue, in the city of
        Detroit.
          Lewis O., the son, was born at the old home of the
        family, in New Berlin, July 9, 1837.  His boyhood days
        were passed in the schools, until the family came to Detroit,
        when he was employed in the Peninsular Bank; after
        which he was engaged in the lumber business in Sanilac
        County for four years, and the ensuing five years in the firm
        of K. C. Barker & Co., in the tobacco business.  In 1873
        he purchased, in the town of Atlas, Genesee Co., what was
        known as the old Gould Davison farm, consisting of about
        three hundred acres, to which he has since added about
        ninety acres.  Since his father's decease he has been en-
        gaged in improving and managing the farm in Atlas, and
        in looking after the interests of the estate.
          On the 19th day of July, 1866, he was united in mar-
        riage to Miss Mary E. Sherwood, of Union City, Pa.  Mr.
        Medbury has, since his residence in Atlas, made extensive
        improvements on his farm, in fencing, farm-buildings, tenant-
        houses, residence, etc.  It ranks, with all its appointments, as
        one of the finest in the county.  His residence has all the
        modern improvements, furnaces, gas, and every convenience.
          Mr. Medbury as his esteemed wife are the parents of
        five children, - two sons and three daughters, - named Lucy
        R., Truman M., Samuel, Julia L., and Mary R., all at home
        with the parents.  The reader may find elsewhere in the
        pages of this work a fine view of the farm-home of Mr.
        Medbury in Genesee County.