Lapeer-Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Lister, George I. 1855 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE I. LISTER is the owner of a good productive farm embracing one hundred
and twenty acres of land on section 22, Arcadia Township, Lapeer County. Mr.
Lister is a native of this State, having been born in the city of Flint, August
24, 1855. He is a son of Thomas and Eleanor (Dawson) Lister. The former was a
native of Lincolnshire, England. He was born in 1828 and died in 1864. He came
to the United States when eighteen years of age, and settled in Flint, living
there and in the township of Mundy about eighteen years. He was a carpenter and
joiner by trade and was the owner of a small farm. Our subject's mother was a
native of Canada, where she was born in 1836. She still survives and is one of
the pioneers of Michigan, having come to the State with her parents, Richard and
Jane Dawson, when but a child.

  Our subject's father fought in the War of the Rebellion, and died from wounds
received at the battle of Gettysburg. His decease occurred in the Washington
Hospital two months after receiving his wound. He is interred in the soldiers'
cemetery in the Capital City. Our subject was nine years of age when his father
died, and ten years old when he went to work on a farm, He received his
education in the public schools of the home district and spent one term in the
village schools of Attica. His desire was to work in the fail and summer, and
attend school in the winter until he was twenty years of age. At the last-named
age our subject began teaching and pursued that course for two terms, during
which time he was very successful. He was then engaged as a clerk for two years,
being in the employ of Knapp & Wilson at Thomas Station.

  Our subject was married October 1, 1877 to Miss Ethelinda West, a daughter of
Daniel West a prominent farmer and money-lender of Attica. Mrs. Lister was born
November 2, 1858. After their marriage the young couple removed into Arcadia
Township, and purchased the farm which they subsequently traded for the one
whereon they now reside. Upon settling there there was only a small tract
cleared. He added the place where the house now stands in 1890. Our subject has
been a successful farmer and has been enabled to amass a comfortable competency
for future necessity and use. Mrs. Lister is a member of the Protestant
Methodist Church. Our subject is a Democrat in politics. For three terms he has
been Township Clerk and has been School Inspector for several years. To the
marriage of George I. Lister and Ethelinda West four children have been born—
Thomas Earl, Daniel, Martha J. and Carrie E. The eldest was born November 5,
1880; Daniel, January 22, 1882; Martha, August 5, 1887; Carrie, September 10,
1890.


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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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