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

           [408-409]

           AUGUSTUS PITTSLEY, proprietor of the Franklin House at Sand
        Beach, was born Sept. 26, 1833, in Chenango Co., N.Y.  His parents,
        JEREMIAH and ROXANA (WHITE) PITTSLEY, were farmers and are both
        deceased.  MR. PITTSLEY was reared on a farm, and his life was
        passed in that occupation until the outbreak of the Southern
        Rebellion, in 1861, when he became a soldier in the Union service.
        The war had not been in progress very long before he became satis-
        fied that it was a matter of no trifling moment, and that the
        nation was at the mercy of foes at home unless their plans were
        thwarted, and he enlisted July 2, 1861, in Co. A, 10th N.Y. Cav.,
        CAPTAIN LOOMIS. He enrolled at Oxford, Chenango Co., N.Y., and his
        regiment was attached to the Army of the Potomac.  MR. PITTSLEY was
        in action at Bull Run (2d), at Gettysburg under Burnside, in the
        Stoneman raid, at Culpeper, and at Brandy Station under Kilpatrick.
        He was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, Pa., and was paroled.  At
        Westchester, Pa., his left hand was split by a saber stroke. He was
        discharged at Utica, N.Y., at the close of the war. In 1863, while
        on a furlough, he came to Sand Beach, and on being released from
        the service of the United States, he came hither and was in the
        employment of PACK, WOODS & Co. in the lumber woods.
           In 1869 he built a hotel at Sand Beach, near the site of the
        Franklin House, which was destroyed in the great fire of 1871, with
        a loss of $4,000, and an insurance pf $500. In the spring of 1872
        he erected the hotel which he has since managed, where he is doing
        a prosperous business. He can accommodate bout 30 guests, and keeps
        a small livery. He owns 27 acres of land, lying contiguous to his
        hotel property, with a dwelling thereon. He is also associated with
        CHARLES VERD, in the proprietorship of a livery, which they estab-
        lished in the spring of 1884.
           MR. PITTSLEY was married May 26, 1865, at Sand Beach, to ELLEN
        J. HOLDER. Four children have been born to them: EFFIE, May 6,
        1866; and EDWARD, Sept. 6, 1873; these two, the eldest and young-
        est, are living; VERBIE and ALVERDA are deceased.

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