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SOURCE: History of Lapeer County, Michigan
        with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
        of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
        H.R. Page & Co., Chicago, 1884
        

         Page 41
         
              JOHN S. ASH, proprietor of the Astor House, Almont, Mich.,
         was born in Saratoga County, N.Y., June 1, 1837.  At the age of
         twelve he removed with his parents to Cooperstown, N.Y., where
         he commenced working for himself on a farm.  Thence after a
         year's residence he went to Pennsylvania and remained two years
         and returned to New York, residing in Orleans County, and in
         Charlestown.  He bought a farm in Cayuga County, on which he
         lived five years.  In 1870 he came to Michigan and bought a farm
         at Fenton.  In 1877 he went to Toledo and ran the bar of the Bur-
         nett House, still retaining his farm at Fenton.  In 1880 he sold
         his farm, moved to Almont and bought the Almont Exchange, which
         he re-christened the Astor House, he being connected by marriages
         with the Astors of New York, and having also been at one time
         employed in the Astor House of that city.  He is doing a success-
         ful and profitable business.  He was married September 19, 1855,
         to Miss HANNAH MARIA DYNEHART.  His second wife was Miss MARY
         ALICE MYERS, of Dutchess County, N.Y., to whom he was married in
         1877.  He has six children living.
         
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