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Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1895

              [392]

              PERRY LEIGHTON, the popular and accommodating County Clerk
           and Register of Deeds of Luce county, Michigan, is the next in
           order that claims the attention of the biographer, and a right
           pleasant task it is, this sketching the lives of these enter-
           prising and self-made men, —men who are an honor to themselves
           and the community in which they reside.
              PERRY LEIGHTON was born in Wayne county, Michigan, May 14,
           1860, and was educated in the Wyandotte public schools. He
           clerked in his father's store from his boyhood, at fourteen
           began earning his own support as a dry-goods and grocery clerk,
	   and when seventeen became a drug clerk in Wyandotte. He went
	   west when twenty-one years of age and was in Grand Island,
	   Nebraska, four years, employed as a book keeper for C. W.
	   THOMAS, a wholesale grain dealer. Returning to Michigan in
	   1887, he accepted a position as bookkeeper for MUNGER & Company,
	   a wholesale hardware concern of Detroit. In October of the fol-
	   lowing year he entered the employ of the Newberry Furnace Com-
	   pany at Newberry as paymaster and bookkeeper, and with this firm
	   he remained until 1891. About that time he was elected Township
	   Treasurer of McMillan township and served one term, and in
	   November, 1892, was elected County Clerk, and was re-elected in
	   1894. These honors were conferred upon him by the Republican
	   party, of which he is a stanch member. Mr. Leighton is a
	   gentleman of very superior clerical attainments and is in every
	   way fitted for the position which he holds, this fact being
	   thoroughly appreciated by the people of Luce county, as is
	   evidenced by his re-election.
	      MR. LEIGHTON'S father, ROBERT W. LEIGHTON, ton, was born in
	   Colchester county, Ontario, Canada, sixty-five years ago, the
	   son of an Englishman, and when thirty years of age removed from
	   there to Wayne county, Michigan. He served his city as Alderman
           and his township as Supervisor for many years. In politics he
           was a Republican and in 1863 was Postmaster of Wyandotte. He
           married LUCY, daughter of SIMON HAVEN, a native of Vermont. They
           had a family of eight children, four of whom are deceased, PERRY
           being the eldest of those living. The other three are ROSS
           LEIGHTON, MRS. H. L. HARRIS and MISS LIZZIE LEIGHTON, all of
           Newberry.
              September 8, 1890, MR. LEIGHTON was united in marriage, in
           Newberry, to MISS ADA, daughter of W. E. and JANE (McGREGOR)
           KING. MR. KING was for a number of years station agent at
           Newberry, but is now occupying a similar position at Murray,
	   Kentucky. He came to this country from Brighton, England, at
	   which place twenty-five years ago MRS. LEIGHTON was born. The
	   other members of the King family are MRS. GEORGE A. SCHERMER-
	   HORN, Grand Gorge, Delaware county, New York, and WILLIAM,
	   a railroad man of New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. LEIGHTON
	   have two children, - CLAUDE T., born October 26, 1891, and
           HELEN K., born June 9, 1895.

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