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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 43
         
              PETER FERGUSON was born in Perthshire, Scotland, October
         26, 1824.  Worked on his father's farm in boyhood, and at the
         age of fifteen took charge of the farm, on account of the ill
         health of his father.  In 1845 he came to this country, and to
         Rochester, N.Y., where he remained a few months; then came to
         Almont to visit and see the country.  He bought the place known
         as the WILLIAMS farm, in section 23.  After a short stay in
         Genesee County, N.Y., he returned in the fall of 1846 to Al-
         mont.  In 1847 he bought 100 acres in section 15, and 200 
         in section 14.  In the fall of 1848 he made Almont his home,
         and engaged in farming and buying and selling lands and village
         property.  Has fifteen houses and seven stores in the village
         of Almont, and 500 acres of land in the town.  He drove the
         first drove of cattle that was taken from the county.
         
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