Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....King, Simon 1802 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

SIMON KING. The fine farm on section 10, Genesee Township, Genesee County, is
owned by him whose name appears above. He was probably born on the Genesee
River, three miles from Rochester, N. Y., April 24, 1802. He is a son of Simon
King, who is supposed to have been born in Connecticut. The father, however,
died when our subject was only three years old. He was a farmer by occupation.
Our subject's mother was Sally Byam in her maiden days; she was a native of
Connecticut and was born in 1780. She was reared in the western part of New York
State and about 1800 was married the second time, to David Far well. She died in
New York in 1835. She was the mother of eight children, having five children by
the first marriage and three by the second. 

  Our subject is the fourth child of his mother's first marriage. He left the
parental care at the age of fourteen years to live with his father's brother in
the village of Rochester, N. Y. He remained with him five months, and then spent
four months with a Presbyterian minister by the name of Comfort William. From
that time until he was twenty one years of age he lived with his brother-in-law,
Thomas Faulkner.

  Our subject was married in 1823 on the 27th of July, to Isabelle McCreery. She
was a native of New York State. After their union they settled three miles below
Rochester on a small farm which comprised eighty acres of land and which was a
part of his father's estate. He there remained two summers and one winter and in
the fall of 1825 moved to the town of Wheatland, Monroe County, where he located
on a farm and there remained until he came to Michigan, in 1849.

  Our subject first settled in Jackson County and purchased four hundred acres
of land, half of it being at the time improved. He also purchased a quarter
section in Butler Township, Branch County, paying $5,000 for the four hundred
acres and $600 for the quarter section. .He there remained until 1853, when he
removed to the place where he now resides. He bought a tract with a Mr.
McCreery, comprising eight hundred acres of unimproved land in Genesee Township,
paying $3,500 in cash for the same. He and Mr. McCreery built a sawmill at a
cost of $3,000 on sections 10 and 11, on the Flint River. They ran the same for
eight years and in 1861 they dissolved partnership and divided the lands and
mill property. Our subject then turned his attention to farming and to clearing
up his land. His wife died October 8, 1864. They were the parents of six
children, there being four daughters and two sons,—Sarah, Martha, Simon, Hiram,
Margaret and Francis I. Sarah is the wife of George R. Culver, of Jackson;
Martha is the widow of G. Everts, also of Jackson; Simon lives in Jackson
County; Margaret is the widow of Francis L. Farwell and resides with her  father,

  Our subject was married January 1, 1867, the second time, to Miss Philinda
Bodine. She died January 7, 1884. Mr. King gave his sons, Simon and Hiram, the
four hundred acres of land which he purchased in Jackson and where they now
reside, thus giving them a comfortable start in life. He is a Republican in
politics, but cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson. In 1884, our subject had a
fall and broke his leg and has not been able to walk since that time.


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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