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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [414-415]

           BENJAMIN CARTWRIGHT, farmer on section 30, Dwight Township, was
        born Aug. 20, 1813, in Cheshire, England. His parents SOLOMON and
        HANNAH CARTWRIGHT, were both natives of England, where they passed
        their entire lives. MR. CARTWRIGHT is the eldest of 10 children. He
        first came to the United States in 1842, and sought employment in
        New England, which he traversed for that purpose, but failed to
        receive anything satisfactory, and went thence to Canada, where
        he remained till the fall of 1843, when he returned to England. In
        the fall of 1845 he again came to the United States. He settled at
        first in New Jersey, where he remained two years, going thence to
        New York, where he entered the employment of the late PETER COOPER.
        He operated in his interest two years, and in 1848 went to Mineral
        Point, Wis., where he engaged for a short time in the lead mines.
        He went afterwards to Canada, and remained there nearly six years.
           He became a resident of Huron County in 1861, and within the
        same year he bought 80 acres of land in Dwight Township, where he
        has since resided. He has cleared and improved 30 acres of the
        tract of 40 acres of which he is the owner. He was among the first
        settlers of this portion of Huron County, and was the owner of the
        first wagon brought into the township, the first fanning-mill, and
        the first threshing-machine. He also built the first brick chimney
        in Dwight Township.
           MR. CARTWRIGHT is a Republican in politics. He has been Justice
        of the Peace and Township Treasurer.
           He was married Oct. 23, 1841, in Manchester, England, to HANNAH
        HAGUE. Five of their eight children are living, — HANNAH, ABEL,
        LYDIA, JANE and CHARLOTTE. One son, JOB, enlisted in the army of
        the Union during the Civil War, and yielded up life in the cause of
        national unity. Another son MAJOR, died in New Jersey.  WALTER died
        at St. Thomas, Ont.
           Mr. and Mrs. CARTWRIGHT are communicants in the Church of
        England.

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