Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Carman, Mahlon 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

MAHLON CARMAN, of Morton Tp., whose portrait is given on the preceding page 
and who is one of Mecosta 

County's enterprising business men, was born in Huron Co., OHio, in the 
village of Olena.  He is a son of 

Lewis and Laura (Aiken) Carman.  The father was a merchant and proprietor of  
a saw-mill in the State of 

Ohio, and moved to Lockport, Niagara Co., N.Y., when the subject of this 
sketch was eight years old, where 

he engaged in buying and selling stock.

When Mr. Carman was 16 years of age he was employed one and a half years in a 
boot and shoe store at 

Lockport.  This engagement was terminated by the removal of his father's 
family to St. Joseph Co., Mich.  

Here he worked at home on the farm about two and one half years, when the 
fmaily came to Millbrook and the 

father built a saw-mill, where the son worked until of age.  In 1877 the 
latter went to Altona, Hinton Tp., 

and was employed in the general store of T. C. Gardner.  After a year's 
service as assistant, he purchased 

the stock and continues to conduct the business.  The value of the stock 
averages about $12,000, and the 

annual transactions aggregate about $40,000.  Sept. 1, 1883, he established a 
store in the village of 

Mecosta, with a stock worth about $1,500.  Mr. Carman is operating also 
largely in shingles, and employs in 

his interest a shingle-mill in Morton, one in Wheatland and one in Hinton; he 
manufactures from 75,000 to 

100,000 shingles daily, and ships chiefly to Eastern markets, employing about 
65 men commonly, cutting and 

putting in his timber.  The three mills designated are run to their full 
capacity, in his interest.  He 

also deals in groceries and provisions at Mecosta, and has a general store at 
Altona.

Mr. Carman was married at Grand Rapids, March 1, 1877, to Isabella, daughter 
of William and Mary J. Pierce. 

 Of this marriage one child has been born, Raymond W., in Millbrook.

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

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