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				AMASA SESSIONS
			MRS. EMILY (BAKER) SESSIONS (1st wife)
		      MRS. E.T. (______) TUBBS SESSIONS (2nd wife)

	Amasa Session, son of Amasa and Phoebe Sessions, was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., Sept. 
23, 1818.  The elder Sessions was a native of Connecticut, where he was born in 1779.  His father
came from England previous to the Revolution, and was the progenitor of the family in this 
country.
	Amasa, Jr., remained under the parental roof until he was twenty years of age.  He 
received such an education as was afforded by the district schools of that day.  His surroundings
were such as to develop many traits of character that under more favorable circumstances might 
have remained dormant.  In 1838 he was married to Miss Emily Baker, of his native county, and 
shortly after their nuptials removed to Ionia County and settled in the town of Berlin, where he 
purchased from government two hundred and forty acres of land.  Mr. Sessions applied himself to 
the development of his new home with that energy that has characterized his subsequent operations.
In 1869 he removed to the city of Ionia, where he has since resided.  During the forty-two years 
that he was a resident of Berlin he was prominently identified with all its interests, and 
perhaps no one did more for its advancement than he.  His ability and integrity were recognized 
by the people, who elected him to various positions of trust and responsibility, notably among 
the number that of supervisor and magistrate, the duties of which he discharged with credit to 
himself and to the satisfaction of his fellow-townsmen.  In 1873, Mrs. Sessions died.  She was a 
lady of many virtues and but few faults, and was highly esteemed.  Two years after her death Mr. 
Sessions was again married, to Mrs. E.T. Tubbs, of Seneca, N. Y.  Mr. Sessions is now in his 
sixty-second year, and is still hale and hearty and in the enjoyment of perfect health.  He has 
seen the county of Ionia transformed from a wilderness to one of the important counties in the 
State, and in his own person typifies many of the agencies that have wrought the change.




This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881. Page 162.