Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2010, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana counties, Michigan with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers Published by H. R. Page & Co., Chicago, IL, 1882 Transcribed by Linda Talbott ========================================================================== Page 147 SPAULDING, Ezra ========================================================================== Ezra Spaulding, farmer, Section 22, was born at Marcellus, Onondaga Co., N.Y., March 20, 1823, and came to this state in the Fall of 1859. In the Fall of 1865, he homesteaded 120 acres, where he has since resided. He enlisted in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry, in September, 1862, and was discharged at Lincoln Hospital, August 5, 1865. He was married, April 10, 1856, to Martha Curtis, of Yates, Orleans Co., N.Y., by whom he has five children -- Ellen J., Ezra, Warren, Lucy, and Lyman. ==========================================================================