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SOURCE: Portrait and Biographical Album of Mecost County, MI
        Chicago, Chapman Bros., 1882

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        LEO LOSIE, farmer, sec. 26, Deerfield Tp., is the son of JOHN and
     ELANOR (WAITE) LOSIE.  The father was a native of Canada, and the
     mother of New Brunswick.  In 1861 the family removed to Port Huron,
     Mich., where the mother is still living.  Her husband died in the
     summer of 1865.

        Mr. LOSIE was born in Canada, June 18, 1828, and was resident there
     until 1863, in the winter of which year he settled in Mecosta County
     and ‘took up” 40 acres of land in Deerfield Township.  His log house
     home and laborious efforts in clearing the forest to make way for the
     support and advancement of himself and family, though the same trite
     experience so often recounted, is no less the strong central point in
     his career because it has a counterpart in so many personal histories.

        Mr. LOSIE was married in Canada, Nov. 8, 1853, to ESTHER, daughter
     of EPHRIAM and SARAH (ROSZELL) BURSS, natives of Canada.  They after-
     ward settled in Allegan Co., Mich., where the father died.  Here the
     mother resides with a daughter, Mrs. HENRY MILLS, of Deerfield Tp.  Of
     this marriage seven children have been born, recorded as follows:
     ASENATH A., born April 15, ’58; BERTHA A., July 17, ’60; LIZANNA A.,
     Oct. 29, ’62; ELON A., March 16, ’65; EARL J., May 7, ’67; SARAH E.,
     Sept. 21, ’54 (died Aug 15, ’58); JOHN E., March 3, ’56 (died Aug 21,
     ’58).  The deaths occurred but six days apart.

        Mr. and Mrs. LOSIE are members of the Baptist Church, and in
     politics he is a Republican.



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