Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2011, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Judith Anne Weeks Ancell for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== 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 =========================================================================== SLAWSON, Hiram H. =========================================================================== Page 232: Hiram H. Slawson, furniture dealer at Big Rapids, was born in Orange Co., N. Y., March 30, 1810. He was reared on a farm, and at the age of 16 learned the trade of carpenter and joiner and afterward that of cabinet- maker, and has since engaged alternately in their prosecution. Mr. Slawson came to Michigan in the fall of 1848, and worked in a furniture establishment at Grand Rapids about two years, going at the end of that time to Greenville, Montcalm Co., where he was engaged in the furniture business about 20 years. He next transferred his interests to Cedar Springs, Kent Co., and in April, 1882, he came to Big Rapids and purchased the stock and fixtures of E. A. Knight, and is now operating with a fair degree of success. Mr. Slawson was married in Seneca Co., N. Y. Jan. 1, 1835, to Eusebia, daughter of John and Mary Fleming, born in Seneca Co., Nov. 26, 1811. They have had the following named children: Henry, Charles and Morrison, farmers, near Greenville; Page 233: William, who is deceased; Newell S., an attorney at Cedar Springs, several years, and who died in Marshall, Texas, in March, 1882; Mary, wife of Joseph B. Hammond, a grocer, in Ionia Co.; Will T., a reporter on the Pioneer Magnet, and a practical printer. Mr. Slawson owns a residence and lot on Henderson Street, two houses with lots at Cedar Springs; also five vacant lots at that place. The family are members of the Congregational Church. ===========================================================================