Almond Shepard's biography, Shepardsville, Clinton County, Michigan

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PAST AND PRESENT OF CLINTON COUNTY - 1906
CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN
Page 102-105
Photo: William H. Shepard
ALMOND G. SHEPARD
Almond G. Shepard was born November 18, 1873, in Shepardsville, Clinton
County, Michigan, which town was named in honor of his father, William H.
Shepard. The paternal ancestors came originally from Holland and later from
Pennsylvania. William H. Shepard moved from the east to Michigan, becoming
an early resident of Clinton County, and he was prominently connected with
public life in many ways, being one of the first county judges, also a
pioneer merchant and miller. A man of generous impulses and benevolent
spirit, he gave liberally to the poor and did much for the early settlers
of his community. He was married three times, and by his union with Miss
Sophronia Crow had eight children. For his third wife he chose Mrs
Catherine Pooley, her maiden name being Knucke. She was born in England and
came of a family prominent in that country. She first married Samuel
Pooley, by whom she had five children. One daughter, Cora, is now the wife
of George Parmenter, a resident of Shepardsville. Unto William H. and
Catherine Shepard were born two children: Albert H., now living in Phoenix,
British Columbia; and almond G. The father died when the younger son was
but nine years of age, passing away in 1882, at the age of sixty-six years.
His widow still survives and makes her home in Ovid.
Almond G. Shepard acquired his education in the common schools of the home
district and afterward attended the high school at Ovid, to which place he
had to walk three miles from the farm. He was likewise a student in Baker's
Business College in 1892-3 and afterward went to Chicago, where he remained
for six months. He entered upon the study of law in the University of
Michigan in the fall of 1893 and was graduated in June 1895. In September
of the same year he came to Ovid and opened a law office, in which he has
since remained in practice. He has been very successful in winning cases
before the Supreme Court and has a liberal clientage of a distinctively
representative character. His ability being quickly recognized, he has been
connected with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of his
district in recent years. He gives his political allegiance to the
Democratic Party but has served as village attorney through both democratic
and republican appointments.
On the 9th of July 1895, occurred the marriage of Almond G. Shepard and
Miss Jessie Harrison, a daughter of John and Catherine (Martin) Harrison,
of St. Johns. They have two children, Elliott F. and Althea H. Mr. Shepard
has always been a resident of Clinton County and has been self-supporting
since his boyhood days. At the age of sixteen years, without aid from any
one, he conducted a farm of one hundred and thirty acres and made a
splendid success of this work, thereby securing the funds necessary to
complete his education. He is a typical representative of the young man of
the age, alert, enterprising and determined, belonging to that class who
are fast becoming leaders in the world's activities. Mr. Shepard is
recognized as one of the strong and forceful characters of the Clinton
County bar and is accorded a patronage, which is winning him gratifying
success.