Genesee-Livingston County MI Archives Biographies.....Borden, John S. 1838 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN S. BORDEN, who is a native of Knox County, Ohio, has a fine fruit farm in
Fenton Township, Genesee County. He was born August 14, 1838, and experienced
the usual life of a farmer's lad, taking his education in the district schools.
He remained at home until he reached the age of twenty-one and then went upon
the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Railroad as an engineer for three years and
afterward came to Michigan and settled in 1859 in Fenton Township.

  In 1861 young Borden enlisted in the Union Army for three months as a member
of Company C, Twenty-first Ohio Regiment, and after the expiration of that term
of service he returned to Ohio and in August following he came to Michigan and
re-enlisted in the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, Company G, under Col. Copeland. He
saw the smoke of battle at Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Buckland Mills, Williams'
Station, Brandy Station, Frederick, Md., and was in the three days' fight at
Gettysburg. Thence he returned to the Shenandoah Valley and Petersburg, and was
in the three days' battle of the Wilderness. After this he was with Sheridan in
the Shenandoah Valley and the battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek and Trevilian,
and then joined the main army in front of Petersburg. He was commissioned
Second-Lieutenant just before being mustered out and participated in the Grand
Review. During his service he was never sick a day. After the review he was sent
to Leavenworth, Kan., and thence to Detroit where he received his discharge.

  After the close of the war Lieut. Borden spent two years in Knox County, Ohio,
in farming and two years more in Livingston County, Mich., after which he took
charge of his present farm for five years. He then purchased a farm near Durand,
but after three years there he returned to the place where he now lives. He was
married in June, 1867, to Jane, daughter of Samuel Day, of New York, who came to
this State in the territorial days and became one of the first settlers of
Fenton Township; he died in 1880. The two children who came to crown this union
were Frank H., who has now passed to the other life, and Allen D.

  In political matters our subject is not a strong party man but votes for the
best man for the office and is always an ardent temperance man. His wife is an
earnest and devoted member of the Free Methodist Church. They reside upon the
property which has been known for thirty-five years as the Day fruit farm, which
was started by Mr. Day the father of Mis. Borden. It is a tract of one hundred
and eighty acres on sections 27 and 28, and upon it there are fifteen hundred
peach trees and six acres of grape vineyard from which the annual product is
from eighteen to thirty-six tons of grapes. Besides this he has plums,
strawberries, and seven acres in raspberries and two in blackberries, He began
life with no financial means but with the best of training from his excellent
parents, Horace & and Mary (Harveston) Borden, The father was a Vermonter who
has spent much of his life in Ohio as a farmer and died in 1863, and the mother,
who was born in New Jersey, died in 1887, leaving five of her ten children.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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