Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Nightingale, George 1826 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE NIGHTINGALE, of Burlington Township, Lapeer County, is one of those men
who honor any calling in which they may find themselves. He is an honest,
intelligent farmer, who has achieved true success and has by economy and
attention to business amassed a valuable property. He was born in Lancaster, N.
H., in 1826, and came with his father and two brothers to Lapeer County in 1837,
taking up a farm of eighty acres, east of the village of Lapeer. Here it was he
grew to maturity and was married in 1846 to Delia, daughter of Sherman Rockwell.

  The young couple resided in Arcadia Township, until they came to Burlington
Township, which has since been the family home. Unto them were born eight
children, seven of whom grew to maturity, namely: Charlotte E., became the wife
of Richard Simmonds, who has departed this life; Myra, married James English of
Tuscola County; Melissa, wife of James Mitchell, of North Branch Township;
Willard, deceased; Rose, now the wife of Frank Landon of Burlington; Harriet,
Mrs. Charles Gates, of North Branch; Walter, who is at home, married Rosella V.
Peck, December 28, 1881; and G. Mateland, deceased.

  The parents of our subject were Daniel and Nancy (Morgan) Nightingale, the
father being born in Massachusetts in 1778, and the mother is supposed to have
been born in the same State, her parents being Virginians. The parents of Daniel
Morgan were born in England and came to America when young. Our subject is a
Democrat in his political convictions and has been one all through his life. He
owns a beautiful farm of one hundred and twenty acres and has upon it good,
substantial buildings and other improvements.

  Mrs. Nightingale died in February, 1890, on the home farm in Burlington
Township. She was born in Tiffin, Ohio, and lived to be fifty-eight years od.
[sic] Her parents were also natives of Tiffin, and there her father died. After
his death the widowed mother brought the family to Lapeer County, and her
daughter Delia became Mrs. Nightingale when she was only fifteen years old.


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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