Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Gensman, Edward April 23, 1842 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

EDWARD GENSMAN, farmer, sec. 33, Deerfield Tp., P. O. Morley, was born in Erie 
Co., N. Y., April 23, 1842.  

Adam Gensman, his father, was a German by birth and came to America when he 
was 14 years of age; married 

Abigail Churchill in New York, where, she was born.  They settled in Iowa in 
1870, where they are still 

living.  

Mr. Gensman remained under the care and guidance of his parents until the age 
of 18, when he went to 

Vermillion Co., Ill., and engaged as assistant in a cheese factory one year.  
His next move was to 

Livingston Co., Mich., where he remained till 1870 then going to Hamilton Co., 
Iowa.  He was there engaged 

in agriculture seven and one-half years, returning to Michigan in October, 
1877, when he located in 

Deerfield Township and bought 40 acres of partly improved land where he now 
resides.  In pokitics Mr. 

Gensman is independent.

He was married in May 1865, to Ann Grady, of English descent.  She died 
leaving one child, - Edmund, born 

Dec. 13, 1866.  He was again married April 30, 1867, to Harriet, daughter of 
George and Sophia (Gage) Grady, 

the former a native of England, the latter of New York.  There are two 
children - Martha E., born May 5, 

1868, and George M., Sept. 2, 1870.

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