Genesee-Oakland-Livingston County MI Archives Biographies.....Eddy, George M. 1834 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE M. EDDY, the proprietor of the Eddy stock farm which is located near
Fenton, is a native of Erie County, Pa., where he was born November 5, 1834. His
father, Nathan Eddy, a Vermonter by birth removed to Erie County when a young
man and there became a farmer, but migrated to Michigan in 1841 locating on wild
land in Fenton Township, Genesee County. He has ever lived a pious upright life
and has been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years.
He lost his beloved wife whose maiden name was Mercy Douglas, in 1885. She was
also a life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was a native of
the Green Mountain State. He has now reached the age of eighty-five years and of
his three children, two, Benjamin D. and our subject, now survive.

  Our subject remembers Michigan as a wilderness, as he was seven years old at
the time his parents removed hither, and he received his elementary education on
the slab seats of the primitive log schoolhouse. At the age of eighteen his
father gave him his freedom and he learned the carpenter's trade and worked at
it for some time. In 1855 he purchased his present farm of wild and unimproved
land and began the work of transformation which has resulted in making it a
productive and well ordered farm with all modern improvements.

  The first marriage of Mr. Eddy was with Jane McOmber, a native of Oakland
County, whose parents were among the early settlers of the Wolverine State. She
died in February, 1890, leaving three children-Hattie C, wife of Leslie Cook, a
prominent druggist of Fenton; Charles S., a promising young business man and
proprietor of the best livery stable in Fenton, and Marion E. a farmer. The
present Mrs. Eddy who became the wife of our subject January 21, 1891, bore the
maiden name of Hattie Wells. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
and was born near Hamilton, Canada, of English ancestry.

  Mr. Eddy is a stanch Republican in his political views but in no sense an
office-seeker. He is prominent identified with the Knights Templar. Upon his
beautiful farm of one hundred and sixty acres he has since 1885 carried on the
business of raising trotting horses as he purchased that year the celebrated
"Golden King" a fine specimen of the Hambletonian family, who was sired by
"Golden Bow" and traces his line back to the famous "Volunteer." "Golden King"
is now eight years old and is recognized as a brilliant animal by all good
judges of horse flesh. Mr. Eddy has raised and sold a number of very fine
animals some of which are now scattered throughout the New England States, and
he at present has some twenty head of horses on his farm.

  In 1887 our subject purchased a line of steamers which he runs on Long Lake
near his farm, but he has since turned them over to his sons, which are
regularly kept going during the season by the Eddy Brothers. He has this year
completed and equipped the Fenton and Long Lake Street Railroad, extending from
the city of Fenton to the head of Long Lake, and this adds greatly to the
comfort and accommodation of pleasure seekers. Mr. Eddy began life empty handed
and has succeeded in accumulating a handsome property and more than this he is a
genial warm-hearted man and one who has a rich fund of information.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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