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

           [182 - 183]

           JOHN M. CARY, Clerk of Huron County, and a resident of Bad Axe,
        was born Aug. 28, 1842, on Mt. Desert Island, Maine.  His father,
        REV. CALVIN L. CARY, was a minister of the Baptist Church and was
        in active labor in the interests of that denomination about 50
        years.  He died at Bradford, Penobscot Co., Me., in 1883, at the
        age of 87 years.  The mother, URSULA (FORBES) CARY, died in Brad-
        ford, in 1873.
           MR. CARY went to Bangore, Me., when he was about 18 years old,
        and learned the drug business, which was his chief interest for 15
        years.  In the fall of 1874 he came to Saginaw, Mich., and engaged
        with the lumber firm of WHITNEY, RENNICK & GULLIVER.  In the spring
        of 1875, he came to Bad Axe to assume the management of their saw-
        mill, which he conducted 18 months.  At the expiration of that time
        he opened a drug store at Bad Axe, which he continued to operate
        until the spring of 1881, when he sold out in order to be at liber-
        ty to devote himself to the duties of his official charge.  In the
        fall of 1880, he was nominated and elected on the Republican tick-
        et, by a majority of about 600 votes.  He received a re-election in
        the fall of 1882, securing the position by a majority of 153 votes.
           MR. CARY is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and is the owner
        of a residence and three-fourths of an acre of land, besides a
        store building occupied by JOHN BALLENTINE.  His first residence at
        Bad Axe was one of the finest abodes in that village, but it was
        destroyed by the fire of 1881, with all its contents.  The loss was
        about $3,500 above insurance.
           He was married in Bradford, Me., May 11, 1872, to ALVINA
        SCRIBNER, who was born May 16, 1844, in Charleston, Me., and is the
        daughter of MARK and DOLLY SCRIBNER.  The children of Mr. and Mrs.
        CARY are three in number.  LULU was born in Charleston, Me., Oct.
        11, 1873.  CHARLES C. was born in Bad Axe, Feb. 29, 1876.  An in-
        fant yet unnamed was born in the latter place March 11, 1884.

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