Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Hough, Charles D. 1849 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

CHARLES D. HOUGH. The fine and productive farm of one hundred acres located on
sections 1 and 12, Attica Township, Lapeer County, is owned by the gentleman
whose name appears above. He is a general farmer who seeks to cultivate every
department of his place to the greatest extent, and it shows in consequence the
best management and is highly productive. He is also extensively engaged in the
raising of fruit, having one of the best of orchards in the county, embracing
twelve hundred trees. Mr. Hough was born March 27, 1849, in Almont Township,
Lapeer County. He is the son of Ebenezer B. and Emeline (Johnson) Hough, both
natives of Orangeville, N. Y. Our subject's father was born in 1819. He moved
into Almont when he was fifteen years old and had to chop a road four miles long
in order to get to the farm which he had taken up from the Government. This
place comprised four hundred and eighty acres of land and is now one of the best
farms in Lapeer County.

  Our subject's father had come into the State from New York with an ox-team,
and although he was so young at the time his enterprise was enabled to keep the
farm going beside supporting the family with his rifle. He was accustomed to
kill a load of game and take it to Detroit, where he found a ready market for
all that could be shipped East. He is now a retired farmer and lives in the
village of Almont. Our subject's mother died about twenty-five years ago on the
old homestead.

  Charles Hough spent eighteen years of his early youth at home, working on the
farm and attending the country school. At the age above mentioned he went West
and engaged in farming and railroading for about three and one-half years. He
returned home and was married, in 1871, to Miss Eliza Churchill. The following
March he purchased his present farm, which was at that time all wild land save
three acres. He has made all the improvements on the place and erected a good
class of buildings. Mrs. Hough is a daughter of Cyrus and Mary (Phelps)
Churchill, who were the parents of fourteen children, she being the youngest.
Her mother traces her ancestry back to the House of Hanover. They were of New
England stock and pioneer settlers of this county. Her father was a Baptist
preacher of Almont. Mrs. Hough was born April 1, 1850, on the old homestead in
Almont Township. Her parents are both deceased.

  Our subject has been the father of five children. The eldest died in infancy;
the second is Ralph, who was born October 24, 1873; Nellie, August 29, 1875;
Maude, December 4, 1883; and one now deceased. Our subject is a member of the
Pine Stub Grange, No. 444. He is also a member of Attica Tent, No. 165, K. O. T.
M. He belongs moreover to the Patrons of Industry. In politics he has been a
life-long Republican and for the past sixteen years has been constantly
identified with township offices. He has been Township Treasurer, Drain
Commissioner, Highway Commissioner and School Inspector. Besides being a very
prosperous farmer, he has made quite a business of dealing in apples and other
produce, supplying commission houses in the large cities. Our subject's paternal
grand-sire, Jedediah Hough, was a native of Connecticut, and there was a
clothier. After settling in Almont he became a farmer. The family is of German
extraction and are well-posted and well-read people. The best journals find
their way into the home and they are constant subscribers to fourteen weekly and
monthly journals. Our subject is a brother of E. S. Hough, Judge of the Probate
Court of Lapeer County. Mrs. Hough's ancestors came to this country in the
"Mayflower" in 1620.


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

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