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			GEORGE H. AND EMELINE M. (NICHOLS) ALLURED.

GEORGE H. ALLURED.  For a number of years this gentleman has been connected with the business 
life of Ionia.  He was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England, June 5, 1840, being a son of 
William and Sarah (Goodwin) Allured.  The father was a tailor and followed the trade in his own 
country until 1860, when he emigrated to America.  The mother died the year of the removal and 
the father passed away in 1864, in Kent County.  The parental family was a large one, numbering 
fourteen sons and daughters, and George H. was next to the youngest.  He has one brother and 
three sisters now living.
	Our subject attended school until he was fourteen years old and then became an 
apprentice at the trade of cabinet-making.  Not liking the prospects before him he embarked on 
the ship "Cultivator," of the White Star Line, and sailed across the ocean in 1857.  After 
landing he came to this State and for a year and a half was located in Greenville, where he sold 
the first lot of ready-made coffins put upon the market there.  He walked from that place to 
Ionia and found employment with Southwick Merritt, until he died, when as assignee he took charge 
of that gentleman's business.  The stock--cabinet goods and undertaker's supplies--now carried by
Mr. allured amounts to some $4,500, and his present stand has been occupied by him eleven years.
	In 1862 Mr. Allured was married to Miss Emeline M. Nichols, a native of the Empire State,
 and the union has been blessed by the birth of the following children:  William H., Edith, 
Sylvester and Grace L.  Edith is married to John C. Beatty, of Jefferson County, MO., and Grace 
is now attending school in Kentucky.  Mr. Allured has been a member of the Baptist Church for 
twenty-eight years, and his family is connected with the same religious body.  He is Chairman of 
the Church Board.  He is a Mason and Odd Fellow.  He has been Tax Collector in Ionia.
	Mr. Allured began cabinet making in this State when beds were made with round corners, 
and what-nots were first brought into notice and considered quite "the thing" in a well-finished 
house.  He has continued his connection with the furniture trade, and for some seventeen years 
past has been a funeral directory.  He keeps the best goods in his lines, and in his undertaking 
business has proved to be one of those in whom the bereaved can place confidence, knowing that 
the last sad rites over their departed friends will be conducted with propriety.  He belongs to 
the Funeral Directors' Association of Michigan and has filled the Chairs therein.



This biography is taken from "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, 
MICH."  Chapman Brothers.  Chicago, Illinois.  1891.  Pages 206-207.