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

           [258]

           JOHN B. THOMAS, farmer, section 18, Sand Beach Township, is a
        son of MOSES and CLARISSA (WINECUP) THOMAS, natives of Macomb
        County, this State, where they still reside.  JOHN B. is the eldest
        of a family of 15 children, and was born in that county, Sept. 22,
        1844. The thunders of war in April, 1861, aroused his patriotic
        spirit, and he immediately enlisted in the 22d Mich. Vol. Inf.; but
        after about six months he was discharged on account of disability,
        at Lexington, Ky. On recovery, however, in 1863, he re-enlisted in
        Battery M, First Regt. Light Artillery, and served till the close
        of the war.
           In 1866 he went to Bay City, Mich., where he kept a boarding-
        house about seven years, when he returned to Mt. Clemens and
        engaged in the manufacture of root beer for two years; but, not
        meeting with satisfactory success, he discontinued the business. In
        the fall of 1877 he came to Huron County and purchased 16 acres of
        wild land where he now resides. To this tract he has since added 40
        acres, and he has 40 acres cleared and in a state of productive
        cultivation.
           In regard to national issues, MR. T. counts himself among the
        Republicans.
           In Mt. Clemens, Mich., Nov. 27, 1866, MR. THOMAS married MISS
        THERESA REVOR, a native of Macomb County.  She is the daughter of
        JOHN B. and ADDIE (PELKIER) REVOR, and was born July 15, 1846.  Mr.
        and Mrs. T. are the parents of the following children: JOSEPH G.,
        born April 16, 1868; ROSANNA, Feb. 20, 1870; DAVID, April 8, 1871;
        MARTHA, Feb. 23, 1873; LAURA, Nov. 19, 1877; NELBERT, March 8,
        1878; BARTHOLOMEW, Feb. 8, 1880.  One child, JOSEPH G., died in
        infancy.

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