Branch County MI Archives Biographies.....Aldrich, Abram J. 
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Author: 1888 Portrait & Bio Album

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON ABRAM J. ALDRICH

Abram J. Aldrich, one of the editors and proprietors of the Coldwater Republican
is a gentleman in the prime of his life, and the midst of his usefulness, having
been born Feb. 3, 1843, and a native of Girard Township, this county.  His
father, William Aldrich, was born in Macedon, Wayne County, N.Y., July 26, 1811,
and was the son of Abram Aldrich, Sr., a native of Upton, Worcester Co., Mass.,
and was born Dec. 3, 1775.

Abram Sr. was reared and married in his native state, and later removed to the
vicinity of Macedon, N.Y.  In 1832 he came to the Territory of Michigan and was
one of the first to settle in Union Township.  He erected a saw mill near
Hodunk.  He died April 8, 1842.  He married Feb. 17, 1801 to Sophronia Legg, who
was born in Orange, Mass., Aug. 7, 1777.  She died in Girard Twp., Dec. 30,
1837.  Of their nine children, seven grew to maturity.  Of these, William, the
father of our subject was reared to manhood in his native state.  He also came
to Michigan in 1832 and settled in Girard Township.  He died Aug. 26, 1850.  He
was first married in 1836 to Betsey Fisk, a native of N.Y.  She died shortly
after the wedding.  He married a second time to Phebe Ransom, who was born Aug.
4, 1813 in in Ulster Co., N.Y., and departed this life at her home in Coldwater,
Nov. 26, 1877.  Her father Joseph Ransom was born May 21, 1768 and died Sept.
1838 in Lloyd, Ulster Co., N.Y.  His wife Phebe was born June 23, 1778 and also
died in Ulster Co., N.Y. on Jan. 2, 1846.  They were the parents of eleven
children.

Mr. Aldrich was the only child of his parents.  In 1873 he purchased an interest
in the Coldwater Republican.  He cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham
Lincoln.  In September 1870 he was united in marriage to Miss Clarissa A.
Stearns, eldest child of George W. and Miranda (Tufts) Stearns, who was born in
Rushville, Yates County, N.Y., Oct. 24, 1842.  Mr. & Mrs. Aldrich have two
children -- Mabel and William Irving.


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