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

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           LEWIS C. TRUAX, hardware merchant at Bad Axe, was born Feb. 20,
        1853, in Brandon Township, Oakland Co., Mich., and is the son of
        ISAAC and ANNE (HUMMER) TRUAX.  He spent the years of his minority
        on his father's farm, and, on reaching the period of his legal
        freedom, he went to Ortonville, a village within the limits of his
        native township, where he learned the trade of harness-making.
        After obtaining the necessary knowledge, he established a shop at
        Ortonville, which he continued to manage until 1880.  In that year
        he came to Bad Axe, and embarked in the business enterprise in
        which he has since been engaged.  His lines of merchandise include
        shelf and heavy hardware, tinware and building materials, together
        with all varieties of agricultural implements, among which are the
        Perry Royce reapers and mowers, Tiger rakes, Oliver chilled plows,
        the Huntington, Wilkinson and Curtis plows, Studebaker wagons,
        spring-tooth harrows, etc., etc. A general repair shop is also
        connected with the establishment.  MR. TRUAX owns his place of
        business, his house and lot, and a farm of 80 acres two miles north
        of the village where he resides.  He is a member of the Order of
        Knights of Maccabees.
           The marriage of MR. TRUAX to ELLA BINGHAM occurred July 4, 1874,
        at Ortonville, Oakland County.  MRS. TRUAX was born in Brandon
        Township, and is the daughter of WILLIAM F. and LANY BINGHAM. She
        is the mother of two children, both born in Ortonville, as follows.
        LANY B., July 22, 1876, and ANNIE, July 22, 1879.

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