Kalkaska County MI Archives Biographies.....Rainbow, John E April 26, 1846 - 
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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 319

JOHN E. RAINBOW, farmer, was born in Wheatland County, N. Y., April 26, 1846. 
At the age of eight years he removed with his parents to Canada. Two years 
later they removed to Coldwater, Mich., where he remained several years.  On 
Dec. 7, 1872, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Nye, also of Coldwater.  She 
was born there in 1847.   She died in August, 1880.  His second marriage was 
to Miss Libbie Heart, of Cold Springs, May 11, 1882.  She was a native of 
Indiana.  In 1878 Mr. Rainbow removed to Mancelona, spent one year, and then 
settled in Cold Springs, Kalkaska, County. He has 240 acres of land with 
fifteen under cultivation, a thriving orchard and a pleasant farm-house. He 
has filled all the township offices except that of clerk. Fraternally he is a 
member of the I. 0. 0. F. and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He has served 
his country three years in the suppression of the rebellion, and receives a 
pension for a wound received in his left shoulder at the battle of the 
Wilderness. 

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