Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....McWain, Mix 1852 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

MIX McWAIN. This public-spirited and highly esteemed  citizen of Grand Blanc
Township, Genesee County, who enjoys to a marked degree the confidence of his
fellow-men, and who has a fine tract of eighty acres of rich and well-cultivated
land, upon which he carries farming and stock-raising, is a native of this
county and was born September 2, 1852. His parents, Theodore P. and Mary C.
McWain, were both natives of New York State, the former of White Creek,
Washington County, and brought their family to Pembroke, Genesee County, in
1850, settling in a log cabin, which has been torn down for several years.

  The father cleared and cultivated his land during the summers and taught
winters, and was one of the first teachers in the township. Four of his seven
children are living, viz: Mix, Asa; Dora, the wife of John D. Barton, and Willie
J. The mother died January 21, 1885, but the father is still living and has
served for two terms as Supervisor of Grand Blanc Township and also as Justice
of the Peace. He is a Democrat in his political views and is now in his
sixty-seventh year.

  Mix McWain has from his youth been practically engaged in farming, and he
received his education in the district schools of Grand Blanc Township and
afterward attended for several terms the Flint High School. He subsequently
taught for a number of terms, doing good work in this line.

  Our subject was married December 17, 1876, to Florence L. Brainerd, a native
of Grand Blanc Township and a daughter of Girden and Elvira (Woodwroth)
Brainerd, natives of New York and Vermont respectively, both now deceased, To
them has been born one son, Clarence B., who came to them October 20, 1886. He
of whom we write is a self-made man in the sense of having worked out his own
fortunes and having achieved his own education with but little help from others.
He is earnestly in favor of all movements which favor the social and industrial
progress of the township, and is a Prohibitionist in his political views.


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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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