Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Mathewson, John G. 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN G. MATHEWSON. This representative member of an honored and highly esteemed
family of Mundy Township, Genesee County, has his home on section 15. He was
born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., in the village of Franklinville, and was only
two years old when his parents, John C. and Caroline (McClure) Mathewson,
decided to leave the East and seek new opportunities for usefulness and
prosperity in the West, They believed that by coming to Michigan they could
provide better advantages in many ways for their children, and give them a more
sure opportunity for attaining prosperity in the future, and in this they were
not disappointed.

  On coming to Genesee County, these parents made their home in Mundy Township
and upon their farm John received training in the practical work of a farmer's
boy and took his education in the district schools. He early chose agriculture
as his life calling and has pursued it through all the years since he reached
his manhood, making his home always in Mundy Township, where he owns eighty
acres of as fine land as is to be found within the bounds of Genesee County.
Much of this land was unimproved when he took it, and he has accomplished a
large work here.

  The doctrines and policy which are announced by the Republican party, commend
themselves to the judgment of Mr. Mathewson and he always votes the ticket of
that party. He ever takes an active interest in the educational affairs of the
neighborhood, and has held several of the school offices. Like all the members
of the father's family he is public spirited and ever ready to lend a hand to
promote the social, industrial and business interests of the township.


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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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