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

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           HENRY NEUMAN, Supervisor of Sebewaing Township, and farmer on
        section 21, was born in Prussia, Aug. 7, 1839. GOTTLOB and ROSANA
        (WEISBROD) NEUMAN, his parents, were natives of Prussia and emi-
        grated to the United States in 1855, and located in Sebewaing
        Township.  MR. NEUMAN, SR., died Aug. 22, 1883.  MRS. NEUMAN died
        July 15, 1876, in Sebewaing Township. MR. HENRY NEUMAN learned the
        trade of a cooper in his native country, and he was occupied in
        that business until he came to the United States. His father pre-
        empted 80 acres of land in Sebewaing Township, on which he assisted
        until he was 19 years of age. At that age he became a sailor on
        Saginaw Bay, and passed the sailing seasons of four years in that
        vocation, spending the winters in the woods. He was then employed
        on his father's farm until 1863, when he was drafted into the
        military service of the United States. He was assigned to the
        Second Mich. Cav., and served until the close of the war, when he
        returned to Sebewaing.
           In 1860 he entered a claim of 40 acres of swamp land and brought
        40 acres additional at $1.25 per acre. He cleared 15 acres, sold
        out and bought 80 acres on which he settled permanently in the fall
        of 1869. He now owns 133 acres in Sebewaing and Brookfield Town-
        ships, and has 45 acres in good cultivation.
           In political belief and connection MR. NEUMAN is a Republican.
        He has held the offices of Drain and Highway Commissioner and
        Treasurer, and in the spring of 1883 was elected Supervisor,
        receiving a reelection to the latter position in 1884.
           He was married Nov. 26, 1868, to MARY D. BECK, and they have had
        six children, — LOUISA M., FREDERICK, ADOLPH, LINA M., IDA S.,
        BRUNO H. and BERTHA. The first-born child died before she was two
        years old. MRS. NEUMAN was born Oct. 20, 1845, at Ann Arbor Mich.
        Her parents, GOTFRIED and MARY BECK, were born respectively in
        Germany and Maryland, and settled in Sebewaing Township in 1851.
        Mr. and Mrs. NEUMAN are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

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