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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
Presidents Of The United States  And Governors of the State.  Also
Containing A Complete History of The County, From Its Earliest Settlement
To the Present Time.  Chicago, Chapman Bros. 1883

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ROE, Edwin R.
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Edwin R. Roe, farmer, residing on sec. 14, Hinton Tp., is a son of George
P. and Asenath (Hamilton) Roe, former a native of England and latter of
Ohio.  They first removed to Indiana, and soon after came to Berrien Co.,
Mich., where the father died in 1867; the mother was again married and went
to Missouri, and there died.  Mr. Roe was born in St. Joseph Co., Ind.,
April 14, 1838, and in early youth accompanied his parents to this State,
where he resided until he was 28 years old, meanwhile learning the trade of
carpenter and also the art of telegraphy, and working at intervals on the
farm.  In the fall of 1867 he came to this county, where he had previously

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bought 40 acres of wild land, in Hinton Tp., on which he now resides.  Mr.
Roe is a Republican in politics and cast his first Presidential vote for
Abraham Lincoln.  He has held the post of highway Commissioner six years.

He was married in Berrien Co., Mich., Aug. 7, 1861, to Dimmis, daughter of
Nelson and Almira (Pierce) Bromley.  Her parents were natives of New York,
and removed thence to Cook Co., Ill., and afterwards to Wisconsin, thence
to Michigan, where the father died, in 1872.  The mother is still living in
Missouri.  Mr. and Mrs. Roe have had four children: Louie A. was born July
24, 1862; Orie M., Dec. 26, 1864; Lizzie V., March 30, 1868, and Cora D.,
Nov. 10, 1870.

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