Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Bentley, Ora F. June 27, 1851 - ************************************************ 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: Jan Cortez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004939 April 16, 2009, 2:13 am Author: Chapman Brothers ORA F. BENTLEY, Clerk of Grant Tp., and farmer, sec. 12, was born June 27, 1851, in Ontario Co., N.Y. His father and mother were natives of the same county, the former born Jan. 28, 1824, and the latter in July, 1826. The mother died April 4, 1873. They came from New York to Eaton Co., Mich., in 1856, and in 1873 moved to Grant Tp., Mecosta Co. Mr. Bentley went to Wisconsin when he was 16 years of age, and spent a year there with his uncle. He came back for a year's stay at home, and returned to Wisconsin. A year later he went to Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa, where he remained about one year, thence going to Blue Earth Co., Minn., where he was a farmer for a period of two and a half years. He then came to Grant Tp., and bought 40 acres of land, his present homestead. He was married May 21, 1871, to Rachel L., daughter of Nathan and Delilah Cook, or Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa, who was born May 4, 1856, in Columbia Co., Wis. Her father was born in New York, in 1822, and died in 1870; her mother was born in Beaver Co., Pa., in 1819, and is still living. The records of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Bentley are as follows: Nora R., was born April 8, 1872; Carrie L., Dec. 20, 1864, and died March 4, 1875; Edith G., Jan. 7, 1876; Claude O., March 26, 1878, and died March 19, 1879; Katie P., May 29, 1880 and died July 27, 1880. Mr. Bentley is a Republican in politics, and is serving his third term as Township Clerk. His wife is a member of the United Brethren Church. Additional Comments: 1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/mecosta/bios/bentley538nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb