Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Gilchrist, Edward May 28, 1855 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

EDWARD GILCHRIST, farmer on sec. 28, Mecosta Tp., was born in Canada, May 28, 
1855.  He is a son of Philip 

and Paulina (Kake) Gilchrist, natives of the Dominion.  His parents came to 
St. Clair Co., Mich., when he 

was one year old.  After a few years they returned to Canada.  They afterward 
came back to Michigan to 

make a permanent settlement, and located near Port Huron, going thence three 
years later to Sanilac 

County, remaining about six years.  Edward Gilchrist continued to reside 
there, and in the summer of 1871 

began to interest himself in lumbering, where he was occupied until 1876.  In 
that year Mr. Gilchrist 

bought 40 acres where he now resides in Mecosta Tp.  It was then a dense 
forest and required laborious and 

unremitting exertion to reduce it to a condition suitable to comfortable 
support.  The place had 15 acres 

under tillage.  Mr. Gilchrist is a Democrat of but moderate pretensions.  He 
is now Director of School 

District No. 5; has liberal religious views.

He was married in February, 1878, to Emma, daughter of Jacob and Lydia 
(Wadsworth) Mong.  Her parents were 

natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent.  The daughter was born in 
Venango Co., Pa., Aug. 31, 1859, 

and came with her parents to Michigan in 1869.  The two children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Gilchrist were born as 

follows:  John J., Sept. 9, 1876, and Pearl, Sept. 27, 1880.

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8813 Portrait & Bio Alumbum of Mecosta Co., MI.

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