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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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WARD, LUTHER O. R.
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Page 263

Luther O. R. Ward, farmer, section 34, Austin Township, is a son of John
and Catherine (Quigley) Ward, natives of New York and both now deceased.
They were of mixed English, Irish and German ancestry, and before their
marriage had moved to Ontario, Can., where Mr. Ward was born, in the county
of Brant, April 3,1841. He passed the years of his early life on his
father's farm and at school, and when he was 20 years old he went to an
adjoining county and worked as a farm and mill can until the spring of
1863, when he settled in Austin Township and bought 80 acres of timbered
land. He built the usual pioneer's cabin, with puncheon floor, and had no
sawed lumber in the house except in the door. After a few months Mr. Ward
returned to Canada and married, at St. George, Brandt Co., Dec. 9,1863,
Clarissa A., daughter of David and Martha (Cornell) Davis, of English
descent and natives of Canada. She was born Nov. 29, 1841, and died Feb. 8,
1873, at her home in Austin Township, leaving four children: Laura, born
Nov. 15,1864; Rosa, May 7,1866; John, April 6,1868, and George, May 31,
1871.

Mr. Ward has been actively engaged in farming since 1863, has put his place
in first-class condition, and owns 40 acres of land in an adjoining
township. He was again married June 8, 1874, to Mrs. Sarah McGill, widow of
Wm. McGill, who was born in Ontario, Canada, Aug. 1,1845, and died Nov. 8,
1873, at Grand Rapids, leaving his wife and one child, Mary, born Feb. 12,
1871. Mrs. Ward was born in Ontario, Can., May 25, 1845, and is the
daughter of John and Sarah (Bruley) Austin, natives of New England and of
German descent. Of the second marriage of Mr. Ward there is one child,
William, born May 12, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Ward are members of the M.  E.
Church, of which Mr. Ward is Steward. He is a working Republican, and has
been Supervisor of his township one-year, Treasurer one term, etc.


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