Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Ferguson, William M. March 13, 1842 - 
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WILLIAM M. FERGUSON, dealer in fancy and staple groceries and gentlemen's 
furnishing goods, at Big Rapids, 

was born in Tioga Co., N.Y., March 13, 1842.  He is a son of Ezra S. and 
Hannah (Barton) Ferguson, and was 

reared as a farmer's son.

He became a soldier for the Union during the first year of the Southern 
Rebellion, enlisting at Owego, 

N.Y., Aug. 3, 1861, in Co. H, Third N.Y. Vol. Inf., Capt. J.S. Catlin, and 
served as a private two years.  

He was in a number of engagements and skirmishes, and was discharged Sept. 16, 
1863, at Folly Island, S.C., 

returning to Owego, where he stayed about six months.  He then entered the 
construstion corps in the 

Government service, and spent a year in the south.  In the fall of 1866, he 
came to Big Rapids, and was 

employed by the lumber firm of F.H. Todd & Co., to scale logs, etc., in the 
lumber woods.  He was thus 

employed about 18 months, and has served several lumber houses in the same and 
similar capacities.

Nov. 17, 1882, he bought the general stock of goods of J. W. Fearns; he has 
since added several lines of 

merchandise, and has since transacted business with sales averaging $50,000 
yearly.  His stock is worth 

about $10,000.

Mr. Ferguson is a member of the Masonic fraternity.  He was married at 
Binghamton, N.Y., Oct. 28, 1868, to 

Hettie A., daughter of Benjamin and Betsey Thorn.  She was born in Tioga, 
Tioga Co., N.Y., Oct. 18, 1841.  

They have two daughters - Lulie M., born Aug. 25, 1871, and Maud B., born 
March 9, 1867.

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

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