A. A. Killam's biography, Lebanon Township, Clinton County, Michigan

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PAST AND PRESENT OF CLINTON COUNTY
Page 382
A. A. KILLAM
A. A. Killam, who is serving as highway commissioner and who owns and
cultivates a farm of sixty acres on section 28, Lebanon township, was born
in Calhoun county, Michigan, January 3, 1860. His father, Philander Killam,
came to this state with his father and the family, their home being
established in Calhoun county among its first settlers. Philander Killam
was married in that county to Miss Margaret Smith, a native of Michigan. He
afterward removed to Clinton County but is now a resident of Gratiot County.
        A. A. Killam was reared in Gratiot county, where he received fair
common-school advantages and was thus well equipped for life's practical
and responsible duties. Desiring to make farm work his life activity, when
he had managed to acquire a little capital he invested this in forty acres
of land, constituting the nucleus of his present farm. He further completed
his arrangements for a home by his marriage in Montcalm county in the fall
of 1884, to Miss Carrie M. Beck, who was born and reared there. They began
their domestic life upon the farm and he resolutely set to work to improve
and cultivate the fields. He has since added twenty acres to the original
tract so that he now has a good farm of sixty acres, which he has brought
to a high state of cultivation. Among the buildings on the place are a neat
residence, good granary, barns and various sheds, all of which stand as
monuments to the enterprise of Mr. Killam, having been erected by him. He
has also divided the place into fields of convenient size by well kept
fences and has cleared his land of stumps and stones and altogether has
made his fields very productive.
Until Mr and Mrs Killam has been born one son, Lee, who married Marceline
Jarvis and lives upon a farm of thirty-six acres near his father. In his
political adherence Mr. Killam is a republican and in the spring of 1905
was elected highway commissioner, in which capacity he had some good
service in repairing the roads, putting in bridges, in grading, ditching
and otherwise improving the public highways. Aside from this office he has
held no position of political preferment as he has always desired to
concentrate his energies upon his business affairs. Having lived in this
section of the state throughout his entire life he has been a witness of
its development and substantial improvement and has delighted in the
progress that has been made for he is a public spirited citizen ever loyal
to the general good.