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Portrait and biographical album of Mecosta County, Mich.
containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent
and representative citizens of the county, together with
portraits and biographies of all the governors of Michigan
and of the presidents of the United States: also containing a
complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement
to the present time.

Published by Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL, 1883

Judith Anne Weeks Ancell
April 6, 2011
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CHIPMAN, Lemuel F.
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Lemuel F. Chipman, deceased, was the son of Fitch and Sarah (Spafford)
Chipman, natives of Vermont, and was born in 1811.  He came to Michigan
when a young man, and very shortly afterwards, in the spring of 1860, came
to Mecosta County.  He had no assistance in setting out ini life and
fortune had not been propitious.  He secured 40 acres of land under the
State law of Michigan, built a log house and, assisted by his wife, who
lent every aid within her power, passed the career of a pioneer in every
sense.  The county was scarcely in an organized state, supplies were remote
and the labor of clearing the land burdensome; but it was all borne with
the patient heroism which always marks the sturdy pioneer element.  Mr.
Chipman’s death occurred Jan. 24, 1863.

He was married in the State of New York in 1830, to Eliza, daughter of
Solomon and Anna (Chapman) Sutherland.  She lived but a few years, and he
was again married, at Genoa, Livingston Co., Mich., May 1, 1849, to Cynthia
E., daughter of J. M. and

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Cynthia (Fisher) Abbey, born in New York, Sept. 11, 1824.  Five of six
children are living.  They were born as follows: Alta, April 16, 1852;
Alexander M., May 5, ’54; Lillian E., June 20, ’60;  Bertha L., March 31,
’58; Lemuel F., June 20, ’60.  Ida Belle was born Aug. 24, ’63, and died
Sept. 3, ’64.  Mrs. Chipman resides on the place upon sec. 25 where she
came with her husband and located many years ago.  She received a good
education in the common schools and seminary at Ann Arbor, and though not a
communicant in any Church is a consistent Christian lady.

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