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

           [190-193]

           HENRY GETTY, general superintendent of the salt works of the
        New River Salt Block Company, was born in the State of New York,
        March 20, 1835, and is the son of ROBERT and HARRIET GETTY.  His
        father was a native of the Empire State, but lived most of his life
        in the Dominion.  He was residing temporarily in New York when the
        birth of his son HENRY occurred, and, the mother dying soon after-
        ward, the family returned to Canada, where the father died in 1853.
           MR. GETTY was "bound out" to a cousin when he was six years old,
        to be brought up a farmer.  But he baffled the original intention
        of everybody concerned, by running away.  He came to Lexington,
        Mich., and engaged as a lumberman and spent a winter in that
        employ.  He returned to Canada in the spring, where he remained un-
        til he was 23 years old.  In 1858, he came back to the Huron coast,
        and from that date until 1872 he was occupied as a lumberman win-
        ters and as a saw-mill assistant summers.
           On the establishment of the salt block in 1872, he assumed his
        present position, in which he has since continued.  Its capacity is
        a "three-pan" block, only one being in operative order.  It has two
        wells, one 1,040 feet in depth, the other 1,003 feet, neither of
        which is pumped to its full capacity, both being capable of yield-
        ing 200 barrels daily.  The owners are waiting a greater degree of
        activity in the salt business to run their works to their full ex-
        tent.  The proprietors are W. H. COOPER and W. CREEVY, of Port
        Austin, and ORANGE NOBLES, of Erie, Pa.
           MR. GETTY was married Sept. 28, 1856, to ELIZABETH PULLING.
        Following is the record of their children:  HATTIE F., born July
        24, 1858, was married Jan. 6, 1881, to EUGENE EVERINGHAM.  BERTHA
        M., born July 16, 1861, was married July 25, 1878, to MILO KELLEY.
        JENNIE, born Sept. 12, 1862, married ALEXANDER McFADDEN, Feb. 28,
        1881.  WILLIAM H. was born April 29, 1864; GEORGE, born Aug. 26,
        1865, died Oct. 24, 1872; FRANKIE was born June 13, 1870; ALICE was
        born Sept. 23, 1872.  MRS. GETTY was born June 22, 1836, in Pat-
        worth, Sussex Co., Eng., and is the daughter of RICHARD and FANNY
        GERTRUDE (HOLDEN) PULLING.  Her father was born Jan. 11, 1791, in
        Brighton, Eng., and died April 19, 1874.  Her mother was born Aug.
        23, 1806, and died May 14, 1850.
           MR. GETTY owns a farm of 40 acres, which he purchased in 1872,
        in a wholly wild and unimproved state.  It is nearly all fitted for
        tillage.  It is situated in Dwight Township.
           He is a Republican and has discharged the duties of several
        school offices.

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