Joseph Walsh Biography, Genesee County, Michigan This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 1026 This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ JOSEPH WALSH. We have here a life sketch of the efficient and active Supervisor of Flint Township, Genesee County, who was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, March 31, 1845. When he was three years old his parents emigrated to America and settled in Detroit, where the boy lived until he was sixteen years old. He then went with his father to Lapeer County, and having assisted in a new farm remained there until he was twenty-three years old working upon the farm in the summer and during the winters chopping in the woods. Later the young man was employed by the W. W. Crapo lumber firm to work in the woods in the winter months and in Flint during the summers and was with them for six years, after which he settled on the farm which he had purchased in Lapeer County and remained there for some three years. In the spring of 1881 he removed to the Upper Peninsula and was employed in Schoolcraft County by E. L. Thompson, who is now President of the Delta Lumber Company of Detroit. He was at that time a stockholder in the company and was very efficient in securing a large tract of choice timber land in Schoolcraft County, and continued there until 1886 when on account of ill health he returned to Flint, to which place his family had removed in October, 1884. He has since continued in the lumber business and is one of the stockholders and directors of the Delta Lumber Company. In the spring of 1887 Mr. Walsh removed to his farm which he had owned since 1885 and there he now lives. He has a finely-improved estate of more than one hundred acres and an excellent set of farm buildings, and he makes lumbering and farming his double vocation. He was married in Flint, May 24, 1870 to Miss Ellen Donovan who was born in Ontario in October, 1848. They have five living children, Joseph L., F. Spiridian, Ernest V., Agnes and Edmund D. Mr. Walsh has held the office of Supervisor of Flint for two years and is the present incumbent. While living in the Upper Peninsula he also held the office of Supervisor for some years, as he is universally recognized as one who is active and interested in forwarding the matters pertaining to the community. He also takes an active interest in political affairs and is a member of the Democratic party. He and his family are devout members of the Roman Catholic Church. j