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SOURCE: 
Centennial Edition of the Lapeer County Press and Lapeer County Clarion
dated Wednesday, August 19, 1931
Commemorating 100 Years of History and Progress
Lapeer  1831 - 1931

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the U.S. Data Repository  http://www.us-data.org/
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                         IS THIRD FAMILY TO COME HERE
                         
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                            One of Daughters Became
                               Wife of Prominent
                                Lapeer Druggist
                                
                        Dr. Minor Y. Turrill and his wife
                      were accredited with being the third
                      family to settle in Lapeer, and for
                      many years they were outstanding
                      members of the growing community.
                      There is a record of the doctor being
                      here as early as October 27, 1832.
                        Hon. James Turrill, a brother of
                      Dr. Minor Y. Turrill, came to Lapeer
                      in 1836 where he invested extensively
                      in lands.  Sometime later he returned
                      to Vermont for his family consisting
                      of his wife and eight children and 
                      brought them to Lapeer.  He dealt in
                      real estate, in the cultivation of his
                      large farms and for a time was a member
                      of the banking firm of R. G. Hart and
                      Co. and was one of the directors of 
                      the Port Huron & Lake Michigan Railroad,
                      now known as the Grand Trunk.  He aided
                      the road with his means and advice when
                      others were quite discouraged in getting
                      it completed from Port Huron to Flint.
                      He served at Mayor of Lapeer and as a
                      member of the State legislature, during
                      the sessions of 1848 and 1849.  He was
                      a man of strict integrity, liberal in
                      his support of religious and charitable
                      institutions, and gave with a free hand
                      in the poor and needy.
                        His daughter Emma became the wife of
                      Shad N. Vincent, father of James T.
                      Vincent, prominent druggist of this city
                      at the present time