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Portrait and biographical album of Newayco (sp) 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, 1884

Transcribed  and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/

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SQUIER, David W.
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   DAVID W. SQUIER, farmer and lumberman, section 17, Bridgeton
Township, was born in Ft. Edward, Washington Co., N.Y., March 15,
1822.  His parents, JOHN and MARY (LAMPMAN) SQUIER, were natives
of the same county and were of English and Holland Dutch lineage.
Mr. SQUIER grew up on the homestead of his father, under whose
care he remained until he was 18 years old, when he fulfilled a
long cherished desire to devote his attention and energies to
lumbering, which he has made the pursuit of his life, and in it
has achieved a large degree of success.  He traces this incli-
nation to the days of his boyhood when, more as a recreation
than as labor, he assisted in rafting logs down the Hudson and
Susquehanna Rivers.  He afterwards engaged in the same employ-
ment on Lake Champlain.  In the years of 1844 and 1845 he oper-
ated as a contractor in Monroe Co., N.Y., getting out timber to
construct the schooner "Genesee Chief" and brig "Venice" for
Lake Erie service, working in the heavily timbered region tra-
versed by the Genesee River.
   Mr. SQUIER was married Dec. 18, 1846 to SARAH, daughter of
IDAS and PAULINA (FRENCH) DAYTON.  The parents were natives of
Washington Co., N.Y.  Mrs. SQUIER was reared and educated in
Penfield, Monroe Co., N.Y., where she was born Jan. 23, 1829,
and where she was married.  The event of marriage changed Mr.
SQUIER'S plans to some extent for the time being, and he en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits in his native State until the
fall of 1848, when he located in the vicinity of Coldwater,
Mich., and again pursued farming, interesting himself also in
buying horses for the Eastern market.  In the fall of 1851, he
went twice personally to Rochester, N.Y., with a fine lot of
animals for that market.  He remained in Monroe County until
May, 1856, when he again came to Michigan and settled in 
Eggleston Township, Muskegon County, on the river, where he
managed a hotel and engaged in lumbering for a time.  In the
spring of 1858, he settled permanently in Newaygo County.  
During that season he bought 140 acres of partly improved
land, where he kept hotel 12 years and has been constantly
and heavily interested in lumbering, "running in" from two
to seven million feet of logs each winter.  He has been one
of the most extensive operators in pine and farming lands
in Northern Michigan, and is now in possession of 8,000
acres.  One half of this immense territory is improved and
cultivated, its management being under his own personal
supervision.  His farm buildings are on the most extensive
scale, and his private residence, built at a cost of $16,000,
is reputed to be the finest farm house in Newaygo County.
   In political sentiment Mr. SQUIER is a Democrat.  He is
no wire-puller nor office-seeker, and has persistently de-
clined all proffered positions.
   The children of Mr. SQUIER were born as follows: FRANK W.,
Oct. 17, 1853; Eva L., Dec. 5, 1855; these two alone survive.
E. D., born May 16, 1849, died June 12, 1868; NELLIE, born
March 24, 1860, died Oct. 8, 1860; DAVID W., born June 19,
1864, died Oct. 5, 1864.  FRANK W. SQUIER has attained a
fine position as civil engineer.

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