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


              [118-119]

              JOSEPH STAFFORD, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and
           proprietor of the Newberry Pharmacy, Newberry, Michigan, has
           been identified with the civic and commercial interests of this
           place during the past decade and is classed among the foremost
           of its leading men.
              MR. STAFFORD was born near Reading, in Berks county,
           Pennsylvania, March 28, 1849, the twelfth in a family of fifteen
           children. His father, JOHN STAFFORD, was a native of the Emerald
           Isle, born about the year 1790, and in his boyhood was brought
           into southeastern Pennsylvania, where he grew up and married
           MISS LYDIA ESHERMAN, who was of German descent. JOHN STAFFORD
           died in 1873. He was an honest and industrious man, and by his
           upright life won the respect of all who knew him. Of his large
           family of children, we record that most of those living are
           still residing near the old homestead in the Keystone State,
           only two being in other States, - one son in Wells county,
           Indiana, and Joseph, in Michigan.
              JOSEPH STAFFORD spent his boyhood days on his father's farm
           and received his education in the old school-house near his
           home, and thus passed the years until 1868, when, on the 28th of
           March, he left his native State and came west to Rossville,
           Vermilion county, Illinois. His first season in Illinois was
           spent as a farm hand. The next year he secured a clerkship in
           the drug-store of ISSAC WARNER. In 1871 we find him in Alcona
           county, Michigan, and, with rendezvous at Harrisville, he was
           engaged in lumbering for nine years. He moved to Otsego county,
           this State, in 1880, and there continued the same business until
	   November, 1882, when he was elected Sheriff of the county. Prior
	   to this he had served one term as Township Supervisor in Otsego
	   county. In January, 1884, he came to the northern peninsula and
	   soon after opened a drug-store in Newberry, where he has since
	   had a prosperous business career. He is a Republican of sound
	   convictions and has ever been true to the principles of his
	   party, in recognition of which the Republicans have honored
	   him with official preferment. He has served acceptably as
	   Township and Village Treasurer. April 1, 1895, he was elected
	   a member of the Board of Supervisors, and is now officiating as
	   Chairman of the Board, and he is also serving as Village
	   Trustee.
	      MR. STAFFORD was married while living in Alcona county,
	   October 3, 1873, to MISS MARY E., daughter of JOSEPH SAYERS,
	   a native of Ireland, and now a merchant of Grand Rapids,
	   Minnesota. MRS. STAFFORD was born in Canada, and is an only
	   child.
	      Socially, MR. STAFFORD is identified with McMillan Lodge,
	   No. 400, F. & A. M., and Marquette Chapter and Commandery, and
	   is also a member of Saladin Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
	   at Grand Rapids. Personally, he is a man of genial and generous
	   impulses and enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know
	   him.

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