Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Cahill, Joseph December 25, 1843 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

JOSEPH CAHILL, farmer, sec. 3, Aetna Tp., was born in Canada, Dec. 25, 1843.  
He is a son of James and 

Catherine (Lebo) Cahill, the former a native of Ireland, the latter of Canada, 
where they spent their lives. 

 Mr. Cahill was reared to the pursuit of agriculture, and in 1863 came to 
Michigan and was employed as a 

farm laborer in Oakland County.  A year later he went to Saginaw and was there 
on the river service, engaged 

in boating.  He passed a year there, went back to Canada for a brief stay, and 
came to Mecosta County.  He 

found employment in Aetna Tp., and until 1872 worked as a farm assistant and 
in the lumber woods.  He bought 

160 acres of unimproved land, paying therefor $5.75 per acre.  His first step 
toward improvement was the 

building of a frame house, and he now has 35 acres under a good degree of 
cultivation.  Mr. Cahill has held 

the office of Constable one term, and is a member of the Greenback party.  He 
was married in Grand Rapids, 

May 12, 1871, to Emma M., daughter of William and Mary A. (Plimpton) 
Mitchell.  Her parents are natives of 

the State of New York, and reside in Michigan.  Of this marriage four children 
have been born, viz:  Mary A, 

June 27, 1873; Joseph W., July 13, 1877; Thomas O., May 18, 1882; Rosetta, 
April 1, 1879.  Mr. C. and family 

are prominent in the Catholic Church.

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