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

           [265-266]

           ROBERT MUNFORD, merchant at White Rock is a son of WILLIAM and
        ELIZABETH (ARMSTRONG) MUNFORD, natives respectively of New Bruns-
        wick and Nova Scotia, who settled in Maine, where MR. WILLIAM
        MUNFORD died, about 1859. About 10 years afterward his widow
        removed to Canada, and about 1855 came to Michigan and settled in
        Port Sanilac, where she died about a year later. She had been
        married twice, and by each marriage had three children. Her first
        husband was JAMES ERSKINE.
           The subject of this sketch is the eldest son by the second
        marriage, and was born in Aroostook Co., Me., April 29, 1832. Not
        having any school privileges in his youth, he has grown up a self-
        made man. He remained with the family until the fall of 1855,
        working at the carpenter's trade, which he had "picked up," in and
        about Port Sanilac from their arrival there until the fall of 1860,
        when he came to Huron County and established himself at White Rock
        in the mercantile business, forming a partnership with URI RAYMOND,
        under the firm name of RAYMOND & MUNFORD, which continued about
        five years, when MR. M. bought out his partner, and since that time
        has had the business exclusively to himself, and is prosperous. To
        some extent MR. MUNFORD has also engaged in lumbering. He owns a
        farm of 200 acres in White Rock Township, of which 125 acres are in
        a state of good cultivation.
           In politics MR. MUNFORD is a Republican, and he has held the
        office of Supervisor one year, Township Treasurer several terms,
        Clerk and Justice of the Peace.
           MR. MUNFORD was married at Port Sanilac, Oct. 10, 1855, to MISS
        JANE, daughter of HIRAM and ANN WESLEY. She was born in Toronto,
        Ont., Nov. 3, 1837.  Mr. and Mrs. MUNFORD have had eight children,
        seven of whom are living, viz.: ANNIE, born Aug. 4, 1856; FRANK,
        Jan. 8, 1859; GEORGE, April 17, 1861; RUTH, May 30, 1867; Clerk,
        Jan. 14, 1870; HERBERT, April 1, 1872, and NELLIE, July 22, 1879.
        One child died in infancy.

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