Isaac L. Hemingway 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. 976, 979


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ISAAC L. HEMINGWAY. The wealth of lumber in Michigan has furnished the 
material out of which many a man has carved his fortune and many more 
have made for themselves and families a comfortable support. This line 
of industry is one in which Mr. Hemingway, of Marathon Township, Lapeer 
County, has long been engaged, and in it he has been successful. He has 
at the same time carried on farming and is a native of the Wolverine 
State, as he was born in Oakland County, August 19% 1836. His parents, 
Col. N. and Merrilla (Potter) Hemingway, had a family of eleven 
children, and this son remained at home with them until he was twenty-
four years of age.

   The father was a native of New York, and a mill man by trade, who 
came to Michigan as early as 1823, and took up Government land. He did 
not devote himself entirely to milling but more fully to farming. At 
the age of sixteen Isaac was quite an expert as a business man and 
attended to most of his father's outside affairs, and upon attaining 
his majority he went into partnership with his father and his brother 
Henry in the lumbering business.

   In 1865 these young men built an extensive sawmill which they 
operated under the firm name of H. L. & I. L. Hemingway. For twelve 
years they carried this on successfully and profitably, but at that 
time the estate was divided and some eight years ago Isaac sold the 
mill and now lives on section 16. He has a two-story frame house in 
process of erection which will be, when completed, one of the best 
houses in that part of the township, as it has many modern improvements 
and will be heated by a furnace.

   New Year's Day, 1861 was a notable date in the life of Mr. 
Hemingway, as upon that day he was united in marriage with Miss Mary 
A., daughter of Charles and Laura (Tower) Summers. Mrs. Hemingway was 
born in Oakland County, this State, March 26, 1840, and to them have 
been granted five children, one of whom has been called from their arms 
by death. Mr. Hemingway has held many township offices and has been 
Justice of the Peace for twelve years and has just been re-elected for 
a term of four years. He has also filled with satisfaction the office 
of Supervisor.




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