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

           [282]

           SAMUEL D. GRUMNEY, proprietor and manager of the Soule saw,
        shingle and grist-mill, at Soule village, was born Oct. 15, 1850,
        at Madison, Conn.  His parents, SAMUEL H. and ELIZABETH P. (DOUD)
        GRUMNEY, were natives of Guilford, Conn., and were of established
        Yankee descent, having had ancestors of early New England origin.
        The father died at Gillford, Tuscola Co., Mich., where the mother
        still resides.
           MR. GRUMNEY is the seventh in order of birth of a family of 13
        children. He was very young when his parents transferred their
        family and interests to Chester in his native State. He had a
        natural predilection for a seafaring life, inherited from his
        father; and when he was 15 years old, in company with a comrade, he
        took the route the boy literature of the period points out as the
        certain thoroughfare to distinction, in trying parents' hearts
        without winning anything to compensate for all it involves, and ran
        away to sea. He went to New London, where he shipped on a fishing
        schooner, the "Telegraph," bound for Newfoundland, and made a
        cruise in the capacity of cook. One year of this sufficed, and he
        sought the home nest, as a safe refuge from temptation and a place
        where forgiveness was certain and fame as sure as possible, and was
        received back to the fold of the household. Within the same year,
        the family came to Watrousville, Tuscola Co., Mich. The next year
        MR. GRUMNEY became a cook on the brig "Isabella," and served for
        some time in that capacity, and finally returned to the lumber
        woods on the banks of the Cass River, where he was engaged several
        winters. In the winter of 1870, he shipped on the "Illinois," a
        barge running on Lakes Huron and Erie, which was wrecked on Lake
        Huron the same year, and the winter following the disaster he
        passed in Chicago with his uncle.
           Meanwhile he acquired a knowledge of engineering, and obtained
        employment in that occupation at various places. Among other en-
        gagements which he filled, he passed five years in the service of
        MR. CRAWFORD, of Caseville.
           In 1877, he purchased 40 acres of land in Oliver Township, Huron
        County, on which he at once settled, and improved 30 acres. In the
        spring of 1884, he exchanged the place for 77 acres of land on sec-
        tion 24, Chandler Township, where he established himself in the
        various operations in milling before mentioned; and he has since
        continued the management of the three with their varied and
        extending connections.
           MR. GRUMNEY is a decided Republican, and while a citizen of
        Oliver Township, served in the capacities of Supervisor and
        Treasurer, discharging the duties of each position two years. He
        was School Director during the entire period of his residence
        there, and held other official positions.
           He was married Jan. 1, 1871, in Tuscola Co., Mich., to LILLIAN
        R. SHAVER. They have been the parents of eight children, two of
        whom are deceased, SAMUEL H. and WILLIAM L. The living are FRANCIS
        C., GEORGE N., EDWIN A., SAMUEL L., FREDERICK S. and MYRTLE E.
        MRS. GRUMNEY was born in Madison, Onondaga Co., N.Y., Nov. 16,
        1855. She was six years of age when her mother died, and her father
        removed to Tuscola County, Mich., in 1865.

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