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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
         
              WILLIAM W. HEWITT was born in Canada April 9, 1833.  Was
         brought up on a farm.  In 1850 he moved to St. Clair, Mich., and
         was there engaged principally in farming, following also other
         employments.  From there he came to Almont village in 1858 and
         was for fourteen years engaged in selling fanning-mills, also
         carrying on a meat market a portion of the time.  Eleven years
         ago he bought the farm on which he now lives, southeast quarter
         of northeast quarter of section 20 and ten acres adjoining.  He
         was married in 1855 to MARY THOMPSON, a native of Canada, and
         has five children.
         
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