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

           [323-324]

           JAMES G. GRICE, of the firm of GRICE & Sons, proprietors of the
        flouring-mill known as the "Verona Grist-mill," was born Sept. 23,
        1821, in Lancashire, Eng. He is the son of WILLIAM and MARY S.
        (ORMANDY) GRICE, who were also natives of England. At the age of
        13 years, MR. GRICE was apprenticed to learn the business of an
        engineer and mechanic, at which he served three years. By 1828 he
        fulfilled his term of indenture, and he was then employed as a
        blacksmith by the Liverpool & Manchester Railroad Company, in whose
        service he continued several years. His next business was as engi-
        neer in an iron mine for a short time, when he resumed his former
        occupation.
           He was married in Ulverstone, Lancashire, Eng., Dec. 25, 1839,
        to JANE, daughter of WILLIAM and JANE MASON. She was born Feb. 20,
        1818, in Wigton, Cumberland, Eng. Seven of eight children born to
        Mr. and Mrs. GRICE are living: WILLIAM M. is a resident of Lexing-
        ton, Sanilac County; MARY is the wife of JOHN BALLENTINE, of Bad
        Axe; JOSEPH is the foreman of the Government Works at Sand Beach;
        JANE is the wife of J. G. PUDDOCK, foreman of the Huron Dairy Salt
        Company; BENJAMIN is a member of the firm of GRICE & Sons, as is
        the next son, JAMES P. (see sketch); RICHARD is engaged as a clerk
        with J. BALLENTINE at Bad Axe. CHARLES, the youngest child, was
        killed near the present site of Weckersville, Montana, on the night
        of Dec. 3, 1881. He was in the employ of a lumber firm at that
        point, and, during a terrific rain-storm, sought shelter, with
        seven others, in a cabin roofed with sods, which becoming weighted
        with the descending water, fell and crushed him. He was the only
        one killed in the party.
           MR. GRICE came to the United States in 1850 and went to Windsor,
        Conn., Aug. 8. He worked at his trade there five years, and came
        thence to Forester, Sanilac Co., Mich., to take a position as
        engineer in a saw-mill. He built a shingle-mill at Sand Beach,
        which he managed about five years. After residing there 13 years,
        he moved to Verona, in 1882, and built the flour mill which they
        are at present running.  MR. G. also owns a quarter section of land
        a third of a mile northwest of Sand Beach; and also a fine resi-
        dence, with 12 acres, in connection with his mill at Verona. For
        two years he was interested, in company with his son, J. P., in a
        salt block at Port Hope.
           A lithographic portrait of MR. GRICE adorns the pages of this
        Album, being given near the beginning of this sketch.

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