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

           [406-407]

           JOHN SOULE, farmer, resident at Soule village, Chandler Town-
        ship, was born Jan. 2, 1828, in the town of Danby, Rutland Co., Vt.
        He is the son of GARDNER and ABIGAIL SOULE, and when he was 12
        years of age went to serve an apprenticeship with his grandfather,
        DAVID CURTIS, to acquire a knowledge of the trade of blacksmith,
        and continued to devote his time and attention to his occupation
        until he was 21 years of age, with the exception of the time passed
        in the common schools in the shadow of the Green Mountains. After
        being released from his obligations to his grandfather, he resumed
        blacksmithing and followed it as a business five successive years.
        He went then to Cattaraugus Co., N.Y., where he engaged extensively
        in lumbering, and built a sawmill having a capacity of 39,000 feet
        of lumber daily. He continued to operate in that branch of business
        for 22 years at that place, and then sold out for the purpose of
        coming to Michigan.
           Arriving in Huron County, he bought two acres of land in the
        village of Soule, and 40 acres on section 13, Chandler Township.
        The latter tract was unimproved, and MR. SOULE has cleared and put
        under cultivation 10 acres.
           He is a Republican in political views and connections.
           His first marriage occurred in the year 1849, in Genesee Co.,
        N.Y., when MARY GILBERT became his wife. One child, GILBERT, was
        born to them, who is now residing in the State of New York. The
        mother was born in 1829, in Genesee Co., N.Y., and died in her
        native county in 1851.  MR. SOULE was a second time married, in
        1854, to HANNAH MERRIL, born in Genesee Co., N.Y., and died in
        1875, in Cattaraugus County. They became the parents of one child,
        JAMIE.  Sept. 23, 1877, MR. SOULE was. married again, to MRS. NANCY
        FEE, who was born, bred and married twice in Cattaraugus County.
        IDA M. and MINNIE M. are the names of the children by the last
        marriage.

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