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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 42
         
              SAMUEL MATHEWS was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, May
         23, 1831.  At the age of thirteen he came with his parents to
         Almont where they settled on section 26.  The journey was made
         by way of Sandusky and Detroit and through the Maumee Swamp.
         The wagon containing their household goods was drawn by three
         yoke of oxen, and they drove thirty head of cattle.
              He remained upon the farm until he was twenty-two years
         of age, and then went to work for himself.  He subsequently
         bought a farm in section 6, where he now resides.  In 1861,
         he married Miss ABIGAIL ENGLISH, of Vermont.
         
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