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

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           THOMAS SINCLAIR, stock farmer, on section 11, Hume Township, is
        a native of the Shetland Islands on the coast of Scotland, and was
        born June 20, 1828. His father, JOHN SINCLAIR, was of Scotch origin
        and a sailor by vocation from his youth until 1869, when he aban-
        doned the water and now resides at Port Huron, aged 80 years. He
        married AGNES SINCLAIR, and became a resident of Port Huron about
        1854. The mother was also of Scotch extraction, and died at Port
        Huron, Dec. 7, 1880, aged 74 years. The elder SINCLAIR was keeper
        of the light-house at Port Huron during 11 years previous to the
        spring of 1881, when he yielded the position.
           MR. SINCLAIR is the oldest of nine children born to his parents,
        and emigrated with them to the United States when he was 12 years
        old. The family first settled in Lockport, N.Y., going thence to
        Buffalo, and two years after to the Province of Ontario. In 1852
        they came to Port Huron. He was an inmate of his father's home
        until his maniage to MARY SOULE, in Cattaraugus Co., N.Y., which
        event occurred June 10, 1853. Four children have been born to them:
        FRANK T., the eldest, was married June 8, 1881, and resides at Port
        Austin, where he is a dealer in real estate. EMMA A., CLARA M. and
        JAMES E. are the names of the others.  CLARA is the wife of W. C.
        WILLIAMSON. (See sketch.)  MRS. SINCLAIR is the daughter of GARDNER
        and ABIGAIL (CURTIS) SOULE, whose ancestral line is traceable to
        the Mayflower and the Colonial period in the events of which the
        SOULE family was conspicuous. She was born April 10, 1823, in
        Rutland Co., Vt, and went with her parents to Genesee Co., N.Y.,
        when she was 10 years of age, but she was reared in both States,
        being frequently a member of the families of her uncles in Vermont.
           After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. SINCLAIR came to Forester, Sanilac
        Co., Mich., where they remained about two years, encountering all
        the worst experiences of a new and wholly unsettled section. They
        went thence in 1854 to Port Austin, where they remained a short
        time, coming afterwards to Hume Township, where MR. SINCLAIR pur-
        chased a farm on section 12. He is now residing on another farm,
        where he lived until 1883, the date of removal to their present
        home.  MR. SINCLAIR is the manager of 320 acres of land, which is
        under good improvements.
           He is a Republican and the oldest, by priority of official date,
        Justice of the Peace in the county, having held the office contin-
        ually since he removed to the county, and is still the incumbent.
           The reader will be pleased to find a portrait of MR. SINCLAIR in
        this volume, and the publishers accordingly take pleasure in pre-
        senting it. It is given on the page preceding the commencement of
        this sketch.

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