Kalkaska County MI Archives Biographies.....Lancaster, Thomas October 27, 1844 - 
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Author: H.R. Page & Co., 1884 - Chicago


"The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of 
Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men 
and Pioneers"
Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1884
Page 315

THOMAS LANCASTER, farmer, Clearwater, was born in Canada Oct. 27, 1844. He 
spent his youth and received his early education in his native country. In the 
fall of 1866 he removed to Forestville, Mich. Two years later he removed to 
what is now Clearwater, Kalkaska County, before either the county or township 
was organized. He located land in Section 26, and opened a pioneer home in the 
beautiful Traverse forest. The nearest store and postoffice were at Elk 
Rapids. He had to carry the lumber for his dwelling three-quarters of a mile, 
and draw the shingles over three miles on a hand sleigh. The logs for the 
dwelling, also, they carried to the place on their shoulders. There was then 
but one ox team and one horse team in the county. On April 16, 1870, he was 
married to Miss Amelia E. Ross, also of Clearwater. She was born in 
Susquehanna County, Penn., Jan. 14, 1852. Their living children are Flora B., 
Albert A., Roy A. and Tula A. Mr. Lancaster has eighty acres of land, with 
forty acres under cultivation. He has a flourishing. fruit-bearing orchard of 
apples, peaches, plums, quinces, pears, cherries, grapes and other small 
fruits, and also commodious farm buildings. He has served as school assessor 
nine years, as highway commissioner three years, and two years as county 
superintendent of the poor. He and Mrs. Lancaster are members of the 
Protestant Methodist Church. 

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