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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
May 17, 2011
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GENSMAN, Edward
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Edward Gensman, farmer, sec. 33, Deerfield Tp., P. O. Morley, was born in
Erie Co., N. Y., April 23, 1842.  Adam Gensman, his father, was a German
by birth and came to America when he was 14 years of age; married Abigail
Churchill in New York, where, she was born.  They settled in Iowa in 1870,
where they still are living.

Mr. Gensman remained under the care an guidance of his parents until the
age of 18, when he went to Vermillion Co., Ill., and engaged as assistant
in a cheese factory one year.  His next remove was to Livingston Co.,
Mich., where he remained till 1870 then going to Hamilton Co., Iowa.  he
was there engaged in agriculture seven and one-half years, returning to
Michigan in October, 1877, when he located in Deerfield Township and
bought 40 acres of partly improved land, where he now resides.  In
politics Mr. Gensman is independent.

He was married in May, 1865, to Ann Grady, of English descent.  She died
leaving one child, --Edmund, born Dec. 13, 1866.  He was again married
April 30, 1867, to Harriet, daughter of George an Sophia (Gage) Grady, the
former a native of Eng-

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land, the latter of New York.  There are two children –Martha E., born May
5, 1868, and George M., Sept. 2, 1870.

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