Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Hearn, Henry October 1, 1834 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

HENRY HEARN, farmer on sec. 20, Austin Tp. (P.O. Stanwood), was born in 
Oxfordshire, Eng., Oct. 1, 1834.  He 

is a son of Benjamin and Sarah (hearn) Hearn, both natives of England, where 
they lived and died.

Mr. Hearn remained at home till he was seven years of age, when his boyish 
aspirations impelled him to go 

among strangers and secure what seemed to him the greatest boon on earth - 
personal liberty.  He was 

variously employed until he was 20 years of age; the last year of this period 
he spent in the stables of 

English sporting men.  In 1854 he came to the United States, landing at the 
city of New York and remaining 

there but a short time.  He came on to the city of Detroit and found employ in 
the immediate vicinity as a 

farm laborer for 10 years.  He then went to Shiawassee County, and thence to 
Austin Tp., in the spring of 

1868, where he purchased 80 acres of land, and has since added 40 acres, 
making 120 acres of wild land, of 

which 60 acres are now under first-class improvements.

Mr. Hearn was married in England, May 15, 1855, to Mary, daughter of Thomas 
and Sarah (Rolfe) Frost, both 

English by birth and inseparably wedded to their native country.  The daughter 
was born Oct. 6, 1832.  She 

accompanied her husband to the United States and went bravely through all the 
trials and privations of the 

pioneer days of the township.  She died April 11, 1872, leaving a large family 
and a multitude of freinds to 

mourn her irreparable loss.  Her seven sons and daughters all survive her.  
Their record is as follows:  

Florence G. was born July 18, 1856; Mary E., Nov. 28, 1850; Sarah A., March 4, 
1863; Alfred W., May 8, 1864; 

Edward H., June 15, 1866; Lucy E., Oct. 4, 1868; Martha T., Nov. 27, 1870.

Mr. Hearn and wife were members from youth of the church of England, and Mr. 
Hearn is still an adherent to 

belief in its tenets.  He is a Democrat and has always sustained the issues of 
his party.

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