Ionia County MI Archives Biographies.....BENJAMIN, HIRAM July 26, 1813 - November 11, 1850
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Author: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Benjamin

In 1840 Hiram Benjamin immigrated from New York State to Saranac, Ionia County,
Michigan 101 years ago married Mary Train. They took up a homestead of 160 acres
from the government, one mile east of the Boston - Berlin town line, where Frank
Benjamin now lives, which is a part of the old homestead. To this union was born
three children - two sons and a daughter. In the year 1849, Hiram Benjamin went
to California during the gold rush where he succeeded in getting a nice amount
of gold. On his way home he died on the boat and was thrown overboard. In 1850
Mrs. Benjamin married a man by the name of Foster. To this union two sons were
born.

The Benjamin children as they grew up and married, were each given by the mother
a parcel of land, a part of the old homestead. Charles, the oldest and first to
marry, was given his land off the south end. Harvie was given the next and their
daughter, Olive the next, and the remainder to the Foster children.

In the year 1866 Mrs. Foster accompanied her daughter and son-in-law to Virginia
where they took up a new home. She passed away in the year 1891.

Frank Benjamin, one of the sons of Charles Benjamin, was born in the year 1874
on the old homestead, and has lived there continuously with the exception of a
short period.


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From 1941 Saranac Directory

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