Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Ferris, Isaac W. January 24, 1840 - 
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ISAAC W. FERRIS, Justice of the Peace, Township Supervisor, and member of the 
Council of Mecosta village, 

was born in Sherwood Tp., Branch Co., Michigan, Jan. 24, 1840, and is the son 
of John C. and Mary A. 

(Watkins) Ferris.

At the age of 23 years Mr. Ferris went to Placer Co., California, and was 
engaged one year in farming; 

thence he moved to Omega, Nevada Co., and became a clerk in a grocery and 
provision store, where he was 

engaged about eight months, and then returned to St. Joseph County.  He was 
thee occupied with agriculture 

five years, when he went to Branch County and engaged in the same pursuit two 
years.  He went to 

Vergennes, Kent Co., and in September, 1873, opened a grocery, which he kept 
until 1878.  He sold out, 

went back to St. Joseph Co., and took an interest in the mercantile 
establishment of his brother-in-law, 

S. J. Schutt, in Leonidas.  He sold out in the fall of 1878, and in the spring 
of 1879 went to Butler Co., 

Kansas, and after a brief stay at Eldorado, came, in August, 1879, to Mecosta 
village, then comprising 

three houses, two saloons and a grocery.  He erected the building where he 
operates, and owns 11 lots on 

Main street, on the west side of the river; also 80 acres of land on sec. 14, 
Morton Tp.  He was elected 

Justice of the Peace in the spring of 1880, which post he has since held, and 
was elected Member of the 

Village Council in the spring of 1883.  In the spring of 1881 he was elected 
Township Treasurer.  He is a 

charter member of the A.O.U.W.

Mr. Ferris was married at Union City, Branch Co., Dec. 10, 1868, to Carrie, 
daughter of Leonard and 

Thankful (Havens) Wilson, born in the Tp. of Naples, Ontario Co., N.Y., Aug. 
20, 1842.  Of this marriage 

two dhildren have been born, as follows:  Eva, in St. Joseph Co., Nov. 17, 
1869, and Georgia, in the same 

place, Sept. 7, 1879.

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1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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