Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Case, Clarence L. 1845 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

CLARENCE L. CASE. Few residents of Genesee County have had a wider experience of
pioneer life, with its privations and dangers, its sorrows and pleasures, than
the gentleman whose name introduces this biographical sketch. A native of Atlas
Township, this county, he was born April 20, 1845, and having passed his entire
life within the limits of the county he is thoroughly familiar with the various
phases of its growth, and has been no unimportant factor in its development.
While working for himself and his own interests, he has also labored for the
welfare of the community and has become well known as an honorable and reliable
citizen, active in every good work, and ever anxious to promote the material and
moral status of the township.

  The immediate progenitors of Mr. Case were David and Cassandra (Jones) Case,
both of whom were natives of the State of New York, the father born in Niagara
County and the mother in Genesee County. The father was by trade a blacksmith
and followed that occupation in connection with farming, the most of his life.
At the age of six years he was brought by his parents to Michigan, and with them
he located in Oakland County. The mother accompanied her parents to this county
at the age of twelve years, and ever afterward made this her home. She was a
good mother, and endeavored in every way possible to fit her children for
honorable positions in life. Our subject attended the common school until he was
fifteen years old, when he was obliged to cease his educational pursuits and
work on the farm.

  At the breaking out of the Civil War, David Case enlisted as a soldier in the
defense of the Union, and our subject was therefore obliged to remain at home
and take care of the other members of the family. When his father returned in
1864, our subject enlisted March 23, 1865, in Company E, Twenty-fourth Michigan
Infantry. He joined his regiment in Southern Illinois and did guard duty until
he was discharged June 30, 1865, at the close of the war. After returning to
Michigan, Mr. Case engaged in farming in Genesee County and by determined effort
he gradually attained to prosperity. He received the cheerful and earnest aid of
his wife, to whom he was married on July 4, 1867. She was known in maidenhood as
Nancy A. Collar, and was the daughter of Thomas and Sophronia (Wood) Collar, a
manufacturer of Thetford Township, Genesee County. Mrs. Case was born in
Canfield, Mahoney County, Ohio, June 12, 1844, and as she and her husband have
no children of their own they have adopted a child, whom they call Merle and who
was born April 9, 1878. Upon this adopted daughter they bestow every attention
as though she were their own and she is now attending school and being trained
for a noble womanhood.

  Mr. Case has been awarded success only after arduous exertion and as the
result of patience, wise management and good judgment. He can well be termed a
self-made man, and as he began life with no capital save his natural abilities
and faculties of mind and body. For two years after starting out for himself he
worked by the month, and it was not until 1870 that he commenced fanning on his
own account in Thetford Township. After engaging actively in agricultural
affairs until 1881 at that place he purchased the property which is his present
home and which comprises eighty acres of finely-improved land. With the
exception of two years passed in Saginaw, he has been a life-long resident of
this county. Politically, he is a Republican and has served efficiently as
Justice of the Peace, which position he still fills. His father and mother still
reside in Pine Run, where they are highly esteemed, but his three brothers,
Floyd D., Charles S., and Manly B., were all killed by accidental poisoning.


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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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