Genesee-Oakland-Livingston County MI Archives Biographies.....Waite, Elihu 1830 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

ELIHU WAITE, the Justice of the Peace of Fenton and a man very highly esteemed
for his sterling qualities and his work as a Magistrate, came into Michigan with
limited means and bought eighty acres of wild land which he has cleared and
improved, and has here educated his children, who have proved worthy of the care
and training bestowed upon them. He was born in Monroe County, N. Y., June 16,
1830, and is a son of Elihu and Lydia (Fuller) Waite, the father being a native
of Massachusetts, and the mother, born near Saratoga, N. Y. He is descended from
a long line of New England ancestry and his forefathers were in the
Revolutionary service.

  On the mother's side our subject is descended from the Brewsters, who came
over in the "Mayflower." His father was a blacksmith and owned a small farm. He
had removed from Massachusetts when a young man and lived in Monroe County, N.
Y. till he came to Michigan where he died in 1865, having reached the age of
sixty-nine years. He was a Baptist from his boyhood as was also his good wife
who died at the age of sixty-four.

  Our subject has but one brother living. They were educated in the district
school and had also the select school advantages. At the age of sixteen Elihu
Waite began work upon a farm for the  wages of $50 a year. Upon coming West he
rented land in Rose Township, Oakland County, and after living there two years
removed to Tyrone Township, Livingston County, buying eighty acres and having
built a house, settled upon it and devoted himself to its cultivation. He
retired from active farming in 1888 and spent two years in Kalamazoo and one
year on the Upper Peninsula with his sons.

  He of whom we write was married in 1850 to Elizabeth Tarbell, a New Yorker by
birth who died in 1888. Her seven children are Burton C., who is married and is
engaged in the manufacture of brick in Kalamazoo. Byron S., who is married and
lives at Menominee on the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. He graduated from the
University of Michigan in the literary course in 1880 and is now practicing law;
Addie, a teacher; Alice, wife of D. G. Jayne, a farmer in Livingston County; Ira
E., deceased; William F., a lawyer of Escanaba, who took a three years' course
in the Michigan University and Daniel J., who is a graduate of the Fenton Normal
School and the Commercial College and is now in the insurance business at Escanaba.

  From the time of the organization of the Republican party Mr. Waite has been
earnestly and conscientiously attached to the doctrines thus represented and he
is frequently a delegate to Congressional conventions and was some few years ago
the Chairman of the District convention. For seventeen years he has been a
Justice of the Peace and has also served as Supervisor and Highway Commissioner.
He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for twenty-six years and is
Secretary of the Fenton Union Agricultural Association.


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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