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

        Page 236


                             SETH C. SADLER

  Seth C. Sadler was born in Ashfield, Franklin Co., Mass., March 12, 1809.
He was the son of John and Sarah (Church) Sadler, who had a family of nine
children.  When a child his father removed to Madison Co., N. Y., where he
remained until Seth was seven years of age.  The elder Sadler was a
blacksmith by trade, and a steady-going, industrious man.  Seth remained
with his father until he was twenty years of age, when he married Miss
Sarah Anderson, and bought a small farm, upon which he remained until 1831,
when, desirous of bettering his fortunes, he exchanged it for eighty acres
of new land in the town of Bloomfield, Oakland Co., Mich., and in September
of that year moved on to it with his family, then consisting of his wife
and one child, Seth C., Jr.  Mr. Sadler remained upon this farm until the
following spring, when he sold it.  After several changes, he bought, in
1835, one hundred and twenty acres of land in the town of Fenton.  He
immediately removed, and has since been a resident of the town.  In 1850 he
exchanged his farm for sixty acres, which comprised nearly all of what is
now the business portion of Linden.  The land was for the most part
unimproved, there being only six or seven families in the town.  In
connection with the property there was a saw- and grist-mill, which he
operated successfully until about 1864.

  Mr. Sadler has been engaged in various business enterprises, and has
probably done as much as any other man in building up the village of
Linden.  Since 1850 he has been actively engaged in business.  Owing to his
energy and good management he has been successful in all his undertakings.
Mr. Sadler has filled many responsible positions with fidelity to the trust
reposed in him, and with credit to himself.  For over forty years he has
served his fellow-townsmen in various capacities.  He has been prominent in
political matters, but has always shunned rather than courted political
preferment.

  He is now in the seventieth year of his age, and is still hale and
hearty, and possessed of much of his old-time energy.  He has achieved
success in all departments of life, and is an exemplar of the capabilities
of character and manhood.

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