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

           [335-336]

           WILLIAM McCOY, proprietor of the Port Crescent House was born
        Jan. 20, 1847 in Ottawa Co., Ont.  His parents, THOMAS and
        CATHERINE (CANE) McCOY, are natives of Ireland, whence they emi-
        grated to the Dominion of Canada, where they are important and in-
        fluential members of the agricultural community.
           MR. McCOY was reared after the method common to the education
        and training of farmers sons, and was instructed in all the
        branches of farming. He came to Michigan when he was 17 years of
        age, and began his struggle for independent maintenance in the
        lumber regions of the Pinnebog River in Huron County, entering the
        employ of LEONARD & AYRES. He went thence, in 1868, to Grindstone
        City, where he operated as a turner in the manufacturing establish-
        ment of WALLACE & Co., engaged there in the grindstone business.
        He was skillful and effective in his work, and his task was of a
        character that commanded most remunerative wages. He operated there
        n years, during the last of which he officiated as foreman for
        HUBBARD & PEER.
           Meanwhile he had become the proprietor of a farm in Port Austin
        Township, and after managing his agricultural interests there two
        years, he came in the spring of 1882 to Port Crescent, and took
        possession of the hotel he is now (1884) conducting. He owns the
        property and still retains the ownership of 120 acres of land in
        Port Austin Township, a portion of which is improved. In political
        opinion MR. McCOY affiliates with the Democrats, and he has held
        the minor local offices of his township.
           He was married Dec. 17, 1871, in Buckingham, Ottawa Co., Quebec,
        to BRIDGET A. CARR.  MARY G., born Dec. 17, 1872, and THOMAS E.,
        born Oct. 30, 1875, are lne children of Mr. and Mrs. McCOY. Their
        mother was the daughter of EDWARD and MARY CARR, natives of Ire-
        land, who emigrated to Canada, where the father is still living.
        The mother is dead, and MRS. MCCOY was born at Elmer, Ottawa Co.,
        Quebec, Sept. 10, 1849. She was well educated, and was a teacher
        in the common schools for seven years.  She died at St. Mary's
        Hospital, Detroit, March 4, 1870, of a tumor.  MR. McCOY was again
        married June 20, 1882, in Pontiac, Ont., to MARY DONNELLY. She was
        born April 22, 1859, in Pontiac, and is the daughter of PATRICK and
        BRIDGET (HEAPLEY) DONNELLY. The parents are natives of Ireland, and
        are resident at Pontiac.  They had 12 children. The family are
        Roman, Catholics.
           MR. McCOY'S portrait, on a preceding page, will no doubt be
        welcomed in this volume by all his friends, and the public
        generally.

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