Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Reeser, Tobias 1799 - 1874 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 20, 2007, 7:06 pm Author: Chapman Bros. (1892) TOBIAS REESER. He whose name is above and who for many years figured conspicuously among the enterprising farmers of Elba Township, Lapeer County, is now deceased. He came to this county from Erie County, N. Y., in 1845. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1799 and was married in the Empire State to Magdalene Bixler. Eight children were born to them while residents of New York and one after coming to Michigan. The children are Samuel, Mary, Abraham, Betsey, Susan, Ann, Lanie, John and Fanny. Betsey is now the wife of Lewis Allas; Susan married Mathias Beckworth; Ann became the wife of Samuel Stephens; Mary married William DeNien; John is now a resident of Richfield, Mich.; he was drafted and went into the war but was discharged on account of disability. He afterward re-enlisted and served for some time; Fanny became the wife of William Hannam who died in the army; she afterward married Henry Kibler. The family of Mr. Reeser came from Pennsylvania-Dutch stock. Our subject on first coming to Michigan landed in the State in 1844 and bought or traded for two lots of eighty acres each. In 1845 he brought his family here, and settling in the woods began to clear out and develop the farm. He had but little money and the first few years were hard indeed but he, however, accumulated property rapidly and at the time of his death, which took place in April, 1874, he was in the possession of a handsome fortune. In politics he was a Republican. He was a man who knew the value of sustained work and was one who held the respect of all who knew him. Abraham Reeser, a son of our subject, was born in 1833 and came with his parents to Michigan. He grew to maturity on his father's farm and received a common-school education in the schools of the district. He was married in 1857 to Caroline Moor, and they became the parents of two children—Charles who is now a resident of Genesee County, and Nora, the wife of George Sergeant. Mrs. Caroline Reeser died in 1865, and two years later Mr. Reeser contracted a second marriage with Miss Phila A. Evans. Of this union were born four children—Frank, Otis, James and William. Mrs. Reeser is a daughter of Franklin and Mary (Demus) Evans, natives of New York. Mr. Reeser owns a farm of eighty acres of land which bears good buildings and has a fine orchard. Politically, he is a Republican and one of the representative men of his party in this district. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/lapeer/bios/reeser562gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb