Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Cahill, Thomas July 8, 1834 - 
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THOMAS CAHILL, farmer, sec. 15, Aetna Tp., was born in Canada, July 8, 1834.  
His parents, James and 

Catherine (Lebo) Cahill, were natives respectively of Ireland and Canada; they 
passed the greater part of 

their lives in Canada and there died.  Mr. Cahill spent his early life after 
the manner of farmers' sons, 

and at 16 was apprenticed to learn the business of a butcher.  He devoted four 
years to the accomplishment 

 of his purpose, and the succeeding four years was occupied in buying stock 
and speculating.  He then 

located at Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich., and worked at his trade two years, 
resigning his business to 

enroll as a soldier in the Union cause.  He enlisted in 1861, in the 24th 
Mich. Vol. Inf., and after six 

months service received honorable discharge.  He went at once to Saginaw, 
where he found employment as a 

lumberman about two years, and in the fall of 1863, came to this county and 
passed three years in the 

pineries.   In 1866 he purchased 80 acres of timber land and proceeded to put 
it in a habitable condition. 

 He built a house and cleared 70 acres.  A later purchase of 200 acres has 
swelled his real estate to 280 

acres where he is earnestly engaged in the prosecution of agricultural 
pursuits.

He was married in Canada, Sept. 14, 1860, to Eliza, daughter of Samule and 
Elizabeth (Wright) Houghton.  

Of this marriage one child was born, - Katie, March 14, 1861.  The mother died 
at Ypsilanti, Mich., in 

September, 1861 and Mr. Cahill was again married at Detroit, Mich., Oct. 9, 
1864, to Mary E., daughter of 

Thomas and Mary (Mitchell) Lovesy and widow of Ephraim G. Tucker, who lost his 
life in the war of the 

Rebellion.  Her father is an Englishman by birth and is yet living in this 
county; her mother was a native 

of New York and died in 1870.

Mr. Cahill is a Democrat and has held the office of Supervisor four years, 
Town Clerk one year, and has 

occupied other important town and school offices.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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