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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 30, 2011
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Page 214
La DOUCEUR, Charles H.
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Charles H. La Douceur, dealer in clothing and men's furnishing goods at Big
Rapids, was born Sept. 27, 1857, at St. Eugene, East Oxbury Co., Pr. of
Ontario, Can. Until he was ten years old, his parents resided on a farm,
and then removed to Van Kleek Hill, in the same county, where he was a
student at school two years; becoming an assistant in a store in 1869. In
1873 he came to Big Rapids, and went to work in the lumber region, and in
1877 obtained a position in the store of F.W. Joslin, where he was a clerk
three years. In June, 1880, he formed a partnership with W.A. Aylesworth,
and opened his present line of business. The stock of Messrs. La Douceur &
Aylesworth is estimated at $8,000.00, and includes full and complete lines
of ready-made clothing, furnishing goods, hats, caps, trunks, valises, etc.
Their yearly business aggregates about $30,000.

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