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The History of Oceana County, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1882

         [p. 120]
         
           MELVIN A. LUTHER was born in Tompkins County, N.Y., October
	 17, 1841. Settled in Hart, February, 1866, on Section 16, where
	 he now lives. Enlisted April, 1861, in the Twenty-third New York
	 Volunteers; served two years; wounded at Smith's Mountain, Md.
         Married, August 5, 1866, IDA I. CORBIN, who was born in Tompkins
         County, N.Y., August 5, 1849. Three children - ERNEST L., FRED A.
         and MARTIN E.
         
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