Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County, Michigan Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884 [272-273] JOHN SHINE, Supervisor of Hume Township, and farmer on section 23, was born Sept. 27, 1825, in Ireland. His father, THOMAS SHINE, was a native of Ireland, and was a farmer all his life. He died in 1839, aged about 47 years, and was a man of elevated character and standings in the community to which he belonged. He married MARY SHEEHAN, and seven children were born to them. Both parents were able to trace their ancestry through long lines of unmixed Celtic progenitors. The mother came to Canada in 1847, and died the same year, in the city of Quebec. MR. SHINE is the eldest of the children born to his parents. He obtained a fair education in his native country, whence he emi- grated when he was 26 years of age. He worked on the farm until the age of 22 years, when he went to Monmouthshire, England, and obtained employment in the machine shops of that place. He was en- gaged there three years, meanwhile obtaining a thorough acquaint- ance with the structure of railroad engines. In 1851 he was sent in the interests of the Grand Trunk Railroad Company to Quebec, to act in the capacity of engineer and foreman on one of their principal branches with headquarters at Longeuil, Quebec. He operated in their behalf four years, going at the end of that time to the Province of Ontario and engaging in the same capacity with another railroad company. He operated there until 1863 when he came to Michigan, and, locating near Bay City, he engaged in the duties of his profession one year. In the winter of that year he came to Huron County and entered a claim of 160 acres of land under the homestead act, of which he is still the proprietor. The settlers in the township were few in number, there were no roads, no churches and no school-houses at any accessible point. The land he had purchased was in a wholly wild condition, and MR. SHINE, during the five years succeeding followed engineering at Port Austin and Port Crescent. After the lapse of that period he devoted his time and energies exclusively to the improvement and cultivation of his property, and 120 acres of his original purchase are in a first-class agricultural con- dition. He is also the proprietor of 160 acres of unimproved land in Meade Township. MR. SHINE is independent in political views and actions. He served his township six years as Supervisor, — from 1870 to 1876, — and was re-elected to the same position in 1883. He has held all the local township offices. His marriage took place Jan. 23, 1854, in the Province of Quebec, to CATHERINE MOORE. Their six children were born as follows: HANORA, Aug. 6, 1856; THOMAS, Jan. 23, 1858; ELIZA, Dec. 7, 1859; JOHN, April 8, 1861; MICHAEL, June 24, 1862. MARY was born Nov. 29, 1854, became the wife of MARTIN CARMODY, and died in March, 1876. The mother was the daughter of MICHAEL and HANORA (MORAN) MOORE. Here (sic) parents were natives of Ireland, and emigrated thence to Ontario, where the father died at the home of her daughter in October, 1876. They were aged respectively 65 and 82 years. MRS. SHINE was born in County Kerry, Ireland, in Decem- ber, 1826. She was 21 years of age when her family moved to Ontario. The family are Catholics. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ===========================================================================