Abner C. Folsom Biography, Lapeer County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 971


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ABNER C. FOLSOM, M. D., who was born in Alden, Erie County, N. Y., 
August 23, 1823, is now a prominent citizen of Deerfield Township, 
Lapeer County. New Hampshire was the native home of his father, the 
Rev. G. W. Folsom, M. D., and his mother, Mary Colby, was born in 
Vermont. The paternal grand-father was English by birth and training. 
Our subject is one of a family of eight children, only three of whom 
are now living, his surviving sisters being Caroline Grace, wife of 
Theodore Clark a Kansas farmer, and Sophronia W., the widow of Ephraim 
Vanorman of Hillsdale County, Mich.

   The youth of our subject was spent in Buffalo, N. Y., and he there 
attended school, after which he returned to Alden and at the age of 
twenty-one came to Michigan and located in Hillsdale County. During the 
twelve years which he spent there he studied medicine and began the 
practice of the same, and after coming to Lapeer County, he located in 
Goodland Township and resumed the practice of medicine and also bought 
land and improved it. Having sold this farm in Goodland Township he 
bought in Arcadia Township and having remained upon that property for 
three years and improving it he removed thence to Lapeer where he 
practiced medicine for two years.

   Removing to Deerfield Township Dr. Folsom purchased eighty acres of 
land on section 6, to which he has added one hundred and twenty acres. 
This was all mild land in those days but he now has most of it in a 
finely-cultivated condition. This gentleman was married October 2, 
1850, to Olive D. Cole a native of Michigan who was born January 20, 
1834, and is the daughter of Reuben and Ruth (Bullock) Cole. Mr. Cole 
was a farmer by occupation.

Dr. and Mrs. Folsom have had six children, five of whom are still 
living to cheer the hearts of the parents. The two older sons, Marvin 
E. and Abner L. are farmers in this county, the former in Deerfield 
Township and the latter in Marathon. The third son; Manly E., was 
drowned in the Flint River in 1875. Mary R. is the wife of W. W. 
Landon, a farmer of Millville. George C. farms in Deerfield Township 
and Olive M. is the wife of C. Whiting, of Deerfield Township.

   Dr. Folsom has done much toward the improvement of the township and 
at various times he has held almost every one of the township offices. 
He has been a Notary Public for sixteen years and has been Postmaster 
of Drake since 1878. He is at the present Clerk of the Township. He is 
a general farmer and stock grower and has done much toward the general 
improvement of the roads and the prosperity of the township.




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