Seth A Gunn's biography, Vermontville, Eaton County, Michigan

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SUBJECT: Seth A. GUNN, Proprietor of the New England Hotel
SUBMITTER: Matthew Lipsey
EMAIL: lipsey@pilot.msu.edu
DATE: May 04, 1999
SURNAMES: Martin, Follett, Tufford, Gunn, Jackson, Pullman, Oatley, Gleason
History of Ingham & Eaton Counties Michigan, Samuel W. Durant, D.W. Ensign
Co., Philadelphia, 1880. p. 522:

"Hotels. The first hotel-keeper in the village [Vermontville] was
Wells R. Martin, who entertained travelers in the house he occupied for
a dwelling. Licenses given him are recorded in 1846--47, at two dollars
per annum. The hotel now known as the";Follett House," which
is the principal one in the place, was the first and is the only one built
expressly for hotel purposes, and was erected in 1855 by James Tufford.
It was first called the ";New England Hotel."; It has several times
been extensively repaired, and is now managed by S. A. Gunn, who has been
its proprietor since Feb. 15, 1877. Mr. Gunn removed here in February,
1855, from Wayne, Ashtabula Co., Ohio."

Seth A. Gunn's father was Noble King Gunn, and his mother was Esther (Oatley).
Noble King was b. in Connecticut ca. 1802. Esther was b. in Cortland, Ohio,
in 1809. They lived in Chester, MI, and Seth's grandparents (Edward Oatley
& Hannah Bailey) are buried at the Gresham Cemetery in Eaton Co.

Seth's grandfather, Noble Gunn, fought in the American Revolution. His
occupation was that of a miller. He was born in Sheffield, Mass., and would
later move his family to NY, and thence to Ashtabula Co., OH. Lucy Gleason
was Seth A.'s grandmother, and her family owned the mill in Canaan, CT,
where Noble likely worked. Canaan is a mere 5 miles from Sheffield.

Seth A. married Matilda Jackson, of whom very little is known. They had
a number of children, one of whom was named Seth C., and is my great-great
grandfather. He married Melissa Pullman (a 2nd cousin once removed from
George Mortimer Pullman of passenger train sleeping car fame).