Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Michael, William H. 1847 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

WILLIAM H. MICHAEL.

    William H. Michael is one of the oldest living native citizens of Lake
county, but also has many other claims to distinction in connection with his
residence here. He is a man of much ability in the various affairs of life, has
been prosperous in his agricultural and stock-raising enterprises, gives
attention to religion and education in his community, and is altogether a type
of the true American citizen, self-reliant and upright.

    He was born March 23, 1847, and he and his brother Edwin are the only
survivors of a family of five children, four sons and one daughter, born to John
J. and Wealthy Ann (Green) Michael. He was reared to manhood in this county, and
his education was received in the country schools and in the excellent high
school at Westville. He has always taken much interest in good literature, and
in his home some good books will always be found handy with their information
and culture. He was reared to farming pursuits, and has given his best years and
efforts to that line of industry, with the result that he is one of the
prosperous farmers of this rich agricultural county. As a stockman he makes a
specialty of shorthorn cattle, and he justly takes much pride in his herd, which
at present numbers fifty-five head of registered animals. This stock is of such
high grade that a demand comes for them from every part of the country, and he
has shipped by express cattle as far west as California and as far east as
Maryland. His estate comprises one hundred and sixty-six acres of fine land in
West Creek township, and he has a nice residence and delightful home, with all
the associations and surroundings capable of making him happy and contented with
what the good world has given.

    He was with his parents until attaining his majority, and in November, 1872,
he was united in marriage with Miss Mary S. Morey. Five children, three sons and
two daughters, were born to them, and the three now living are as follows: Loren
P. is a mechanical engineer and foreman in the Big Four shops at Mount Carmel,
Illinois; he was a graduate in the class of 1896 from the engineering department
of Purdue University; he is married and has a son, William Conrad. The second
son, Herbert, graduated with the class of '04 in the classical course at Butler
University at Indianapolis. Jessie M.? the daughter, is at home, and has
received, besides a public school training, a musical education in a
conservatory at Chicago and in Indianapolis. From this it is evident that Mr.
and Mrs. Michael believe in giving their children the best of equipment for
life, and the children, in turn, have proved the wisdom of this course by the
honorable part they have already taken in life's activity.

    Mrs. Michael was born in New Hampshire, in March, 1850, being a daughter of
Ephraim and Susan (Peach) Morey, the former deceased and the latter still living
in West Creek township. The father of Mr. Michael was born in Orleans county,
New York, in 1811, and died in 1897. He was a carpenter by trade, which he
followed in the early part of his life, and later gave his attention to farming.
He was an old-line Whig, and later a Republican, and served as justice of the
peace for a number of years during the early history of Lake county. He came to
Lake county as a pioneer in 1838, and his first habitation was a log house, in
which his children were also born. He and his wife were Baptists.

    Mr. Michael is a stanch Republican, and since casting his first ballot for
General Grant, the soldier president, he has been an unfaltering advocate of
true Republicanism. At various times he has been selected as a delegate to
district conventions of his party. He and his family are members of the Lake
Prairie Presbyterian church, and he has aided by his means in the erection and
support of the church. He is a trustee and also treasurer of the official board.
The society is in a flourishing condition, and there is a Sunday school with a
regular attendance of forty.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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