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Everts and Abbott - 1879 Page 260 EDGAR E. STIMSON is the descendant of an old New England family. Robert Stimson and his family emigrated from Massachusetts about 1797, and settled on a new farm in West Bloomfield, Ontario County, N.Y., where they remained until old age, when they went to Ohio and resided with their son, Robert, until their deaths. They were the parents of eleven chil- dren, - Robert, Rebecca, Sutley B., Nancy, Harriet, Betsey, Emily, Catherine, Mary Ann, Sarah, and Martha. S. B. Stimson was born Nov. 7, 1800, at West Bloom- field, N.Y. From boyhood he was a natural mechanic, and he became a carpenter and builder, which occupation he followed all his life. In 1822, on Jauary 1st, he mar- ried Polly Earl, of Mendon. She was born March 30, 1800, and became the mother of six children, named Morris M., Charlotte T., Edgar E., Fancher, Jane, and Harriet H., - all of whom are living except Harriet, who died in childhood. Mrs. Polly Stimson died at the age of thirty-two years, Feb. 23, 1832. On the 28th day of April, 1836, Mr. Stimson married Olive Mansfield, of Mendon, by whom he had two children, - Warren and Robert E. His second wife died Oct. 8, 1851. Dec. 2, 1852, he married his third wife, Mrs. Cynthia Herrick, of West Bloomfield; there were no children by the latter marriage. In 1859 the old gentleman emigrated to Kan- sas, where he lived for the ensuing eighteen years; his wife died in 1876, and about the same time he had a stroke of paralysis. His son Edgar brought him to his home in Michigan to reside with the children. He died at the home of his son Morris, in Kalamazoo, in May, 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years. Edgar E. Stimson was born at West Bloomfield, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1826. He lost his mother before he was six years old; for two years after this event he had a home with Abel H. Peck, after which he remained with his father until he was seventeen years of age, when he went out into the world to do for himself. He worked at farm labor in the summer seasons and went to school in the winter; at the age of twenty he commenced teaching school, which he followed for several winters. He then, in company with his father, bought a grist-mill and farm at West Bloomfield, and carried on milling and farming for several years. He subsequently exchanged his interest in that property for a new farm in the town of Waterford, Oakland Co., Mich. Page 261 He married Miss Frances C. French, of West Bloom- field, N.Y., on the 11th day of April, 1854. Soon after his marriage he removed to Michigan, settled on his new farm, built a shanty, and commenced clearing and improv- ing his land. In 1865 he sold off his personal property and worked at the milling business in Ortonville; soon after he sold his farm in Oakland, and purchased a farm of one hundred acres in the town of Atlas, Genesee Co., to which he has since added fifty-two acres, and has made extensive improvements in the farm-buildings, etc. Mrs. Frances C. Stimson, who is a remarkably intelligent and agreeable lady, was born at East Bloomfield, N.Y., on the 19th day of July, 1829; she was the daughter of John B. and Betsey French, old residents of the last named place. She was one of eight children, namely, - Alexander H., Timothy D., John B., Marcia J., Reuben E., Mary M., Frances C., and Helen M. Her family were originally natives of New England, and settled in Western New York at an early day. Mr. Stimson and his wife are members of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and take an active interest in the advance- ment of the Gospel, and all enterprises for the upbuilding of society. They are both deservedly esteemed for their Christian and social qualities. They are the parents of five children, viz: May V., Hattie L., Celia A., Frank E., and Lizzie J., all of whom are at home with the parents, except Hattie, who is the wife of Henry Brigham and resides on the old farm-home of that family in Lapeer Co., Mich. On another page of this work may be found a view of the farm-home of this worthy family, with the portraits of the owners. ===========================================================================