Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Bristol, Ulysses D. 1835 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com September 21, 2007, 7:59 pm Author: Chapman Bros. (1892) ULYSSES D. BRISTOL, a senior member of the firm of U. D. Bristol & Son at Lapeer, was born in Perry Township, Wyoming County, N. Y., April 5, 1835. He is a son of John and Hannah (Eldridge) Bristol, both natives of New York and of American origin as far back as he knows the history of the family. The father was a blacksmith and our subject had but scant opportunities to secure an education. At the age of fifteen the lad began to learn the blacksmith's trade, and worked at it in his father's shop for about a year, when he concluded that he was not muscular enough for this kind of work and gave it up. In 1853 when he was about eighteen years old the young man came to Michigan making his home with his uncle, N. B. Eldridge, who was then Postmaster, and young Bristol obtained a clerkship in the postoffice under his uncle with whom he staid for some two years. After this he clerked in a dry-goods store at Almont for a short time and then went to Canada and engaged to work for a brother-in-law, William B. Johnson, in a lumberyard. He returned to Michigan in 1859 to be married to Miss Mary L. Ackley of Lapeer, and their wedding took place upon July 6. This lady is a daughter of Edward and Sarah Ackley and was born at Camden, N. J., October 6, 1836. Mr. Bristol took his wife to Canada and there remained until failing health suggested to him a return to Michigan which he effected in 1860 and while frail in health was appointed both Postmaster and Deputy-Sheriff, which latter office he held for about six years and was then elected Sheriff for one term. After this he was elected as Registrar of Deeds and held this office for two terms from 1864 to 1866. He had started in the drug business after this and was in partnership with George H. Cannon, and upon the death of his partner in October, 1874, our subject took his son, Fred E. Bristol, into the firm. Mr. Bristol is proud to say that he cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and he has been a consistent Republican from that day to this. He has been a candidate for Mayor and was defeated by a very close vote but has served as Constable, Marshal and Collector, besides Deputy United States Marshal, Deputy Internal Revenue Collector and Deputy Provost Marshal. His two children are the son of whom we have spoken, Fred E., who was born in Canada in April 20, 1857, and having received a good education was received as his father's partner at the age of seventeen and was married in 1886 to Miss Emma Colerick of Almont, Mich., and Carrie who was born in Lapeer August 29, 1862 and still makes her home with her father. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/lapeer/bios/bristol829gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb