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

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           CHARLES SOULE, of the firm of EAKINS & SOULE, manufacturers of
        salt and lumber, and general merchants, at Port Crescent, was born
        Nov. 23, 1824, in Rutland Co., Vt. His father, GARDNER SOULE, was
        a native of the Green Mountain State, where he was a farmer many
        years; and was a descendant from mixed English and German
        ancestors. He married and late in life removed to Wyoming Co.,
        N.Y., where his wife died, in May, 1879, aged 78 years. His death
        occurred in April, 1880, when he was 85 years old. He had been
        blind two years before his death.
           MR. SOULE, of this sketch, was 11 years old when his parents
        transferred their family and interests to the State of New York. He
        was carefully educated and became a teacher, but the vocation was
        detrimental to his health and he exchanged the calling for the
        lumber business, in which he engaged in connection with active
        operations as a builder, in which branch he carried on extensive
        relations in Cattaraugus County, the dwellings and business
        structures whose erection he superintended making in the aggregate
        a number sufficient for a city. His lumber business increased until
        it assumed extensive proportions. Eventually he sold all his busi-
        ness in the State of New York and came to Huron County, where he
        established a saw and grist mill and a mercantile enterprise in the
        township of Chandler (then Lake), which he was instrumental in
        having set off and named in honor of the late distinguished Senator
        from Michigan. The public spirit and enterprise of MR. SOULE
        attracted settlers, and the place which at the date of his location
        was in primeval wildness soon displayed the progress of civiliza-
        tion and development in the hands of persistent energy, and it is
        now one of the best improved sections of the county. The settlement
        which gathered about the nucleus established by MR. SOULE naturally
        took his name. For three years a private mail was sustained, which
        finally merged into a regular Government route through the efforts
        of MR. SOULE, and was established in 1884. He owns 300 acres of
        excellent farming land in the vicinity of Soule, which is rapidly
        growing and promises to be one of the leading inland villages of
        the county.
           In 1880 MR. SOULE became a member of the firm of WILLIAMSON,
        EAKINS & Co., successors to WOODS & Co., in the manufacture of salt
        and lumber. In June, 1883, MR. WILLIAMSON withdrew from the firm
        and it became EAKINS & SOULE. Their annual transactions reach an
        aggregate of $100,000, the salt block yielding about 150 barrels
        daily and their lumber product reaching about 30,000 feet per diem.
           In political connection MR. SOULE is a Republican , of decided
        type. He is a Justice of the Peace at this writing (1884).  MR.
        SOULE is the present Postmaster at Port Crescent, having been
        appointed in 1880 by PRESIDENT HAYES. He had previously been Post-
        master in the township of Soule. At the election of Nov. 4, 1884,
        he was elected Probate Judge Huron County.
           He was married in April, 1845, in Wyoming Co., N.Y., to CLARISSA
        T. ROWLEY. The following children have been born to them: JULIA E.,
        LOTTA E., ALBERT, LORENA A., EDWARD C., JAMES T. and GEORGE.  MRS.
        SOULE was born in April, 1825, in Bennington, Wyoming Co., N.Y.
        She is of New England parentage.
           The portrait of MR. SOULE adorns the gallery of this Album,
        being given just preceding the above biographical sketch.

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