Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Harrington, John E. May 13, 1854 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

JOHN E. HARRINGTON, farmer, sec. 12, Morton Tp., was born May 13, 1854, in 
Woodbridge Tp., Hillsdale Co., 

Mich., and is a son of John D. and Ellen S. (Sickler) Harrington.  His mother 
died when he was seven years 

of age, and his father lived on the plac ein Woodbridge Tp., two years, then 
removed to Day Tp., Montcalm 

Co., Mich., where he bought a farm, and is now aresident of that township.  J. 
C. Harrington found pioner 

life somewhat distasteful, and went back to his native county, where he 
readily found employment, and was 

engaged until fall in farm labor, when he took advanateg of an opportunity to 
work nights and mornings for 

his board, and go to school through the winter.  This arrangement precluded 
the necessity of using his 

hard-earned wages, and he loaned his money at a fair percentage.  In the 
spring he bought a cow, took her to 

Montcalm Co., and gave her to his father.  In the spring of 1872 he went to 
Grand Traverse Co., Mich., where 

he bought 80 acres of land in a primeval condition, and began to clear a farm, 
working in true pioneer 

method.  He built a log house 12 x 14 feet, covered it with hemlock bark, and 
secured a home (though it was 

little more than a shelter), of which he took possession with the utmost 
cheerfulness and courage.

He was married March 7, 1875, to Emily Stowell, daughter of Robert and Mary 
Stowell, who was born in Kent 

Co., Oct. 16, 1855; after which event he settled on a farm near Stanton, 
Montcalm Co. where he resided until 

June 1882.  At that date he purchased his present farm on sec. 12, in the 
village of Mecosta, where he has 

made rapid progress in improvements, clearing away timber, cultivating the 
land, erecting farm buildings, 

and putting the place in the best possible state for farming.  Although he has 
been resident but a year, the 

work accomplished seems incredible.

Mr. and Mrs. Harrington are the parents of five children:  Cora E., born Feb. 
14, 1876; Edith I., born Oct. 

10, 1877; Ethel L., born June 23, 1879; Leona E., born Feb. 14, 1881; Edwin 
D., born Feb. 10, 1883.

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