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

           [364-367]

           WILLIAM HANDY, farmer, section 13, Caseville Township, was born
        Oct. 3, 1821, in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and is the son of DANIEL and
        SYBIL (WOODRUFF) HANDY. The former was a native of Pennsylvania,
        and removed his family to Parma Township, Monroe Co., N.Y., where
        he entered upon the career of a pioneer. In 1836 he came to Michi-
        gan, reaching Detroit Oct. 6, of that year. He proceeded to Oxford,
        Oakland Co., Mich., where he bought another unimproved tract of
        land, comprising 120 acres, where he made a clearing in the "oak
        openings," built a log house and established a home. He died March
        24, 1848, and was 71 years of age at the time of his demise. The
        mother died about 1869, and was 82 years old.
           When MR. HANDY was 22 years of age he went to Lapeer County to
        engage in lumbering, operating in the woods winters, on the drive
        during the spring seasons and as a saw-mill assistant in summer. In
        the fall of 1849 he went to Port Austin and passed the summers and
        winters of two years in lumbering. In 1851 he bought 80 acres of
        land near Caseville, where he set himself diligently to the work
        of founding a home. He sold the place in 1856, and took possession
        of the farm which is and has since been his homestead. His first
        motive in making the transfer was to secure the advantages of
        better hunting and trapping. He has killed ten elk since coming
        here, whose horns sold for $25 in Chicago. The number of deer he
        has captured cannot be estimated, and he has killed two bears when
        alone, as well as several in company with other hunters.
           MR. HANDY is a Democrat. In 1864 he was drafted into the mili-
        tary service of the United States, and was assigned to Company F,
        15th Mich. Vol. Inf. He was in the service eight months, during
        which time he was under fire in regular battle at Bentonville. He
        was discharged in June, 1865, at Louisville, Ky.
           His marriage to LYDIA CASE took place Jan. 18, 1847, and they
        are the parents of seven children, — CAROLINE, MARY A., JOHN
        CHARLES, SYLVIA, CLARISSA, SHERMAN and MINERVA.  One child is
        deceased.  MRS. HANDY was the daughter of ISAAC and JANE (AUSTIN)
        CASE, and was born March 21, 1828, in St. Clair Co., Mich. She died
        in 1884. Her parents were respectively natives of Connecticut and
        Michigan.

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