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

           [239]

           REUBEN RAPSON,  wagon and carriage maker and general blacksmith
        at Bad Axe, was born March 11, 1850, in Blenheim Township, Oxford
        Co., Ont.  His parents, THOMAS and CHARLOTTE (TRIBE) RAPSON, were
        natives of England, whence they emigrated to the Dominion of Canada
        and later in life settled in Oxford County.  MR. RAPSON was reared
        on a farm to the age of 18 years, and then was apprenticed to ac-
        quire a knowledge of the business which he has followed all his
        life.  He operated some years as a journeyman in his native pro-
        vince, and in the fall of 1874 he came to Bad Axe. (His father had
        removed to Huron County and was then located on a farm two miles
        and a half north of the village.) Immediately on his arrival, MR.
        RAPSON established his business, which he has conducted with suc-
        cess from the beginning. He has a good place of business and
        employs several assistants. Besides the manufacture of wagons and
        carriages, he does a large amount of repairing. He owns his shop
        and one-fourth of an acre with it, at the corner of Heisterman and
        Woodworth Streets, together with a nice residence on a half acre of
        ground, and eight acres of land in the northwest part of the
        village.
           MR. RAPSON was married in Brant Co., Ont., Jan. 2, 1872, to
        MARTHA N. GRIGGS, who was born in Canada, Feb. 6, 1852, and is the
        daughter of CHARLES and MARTHA N. GRIGGS. Six children have been
        born to them, two of whom are deceased.  CHARLES RICHARD, eldest
        son, is the second child, born Feb. 6, 1875, at Bad Axe, and the
        eldest living child who was born there.  LUCY T., eldest child of
        the family, was born in Oxford Co., Ont., March 26, 1873; ARTHUR
        R., Oct. 17, 1876, at Bad Axe; RUSSELL A., July 16, ,1878, at Bad
        Axe; ELLEN and CLARA, both deceased, were the youngest.

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