Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Lovejoy, Charles B. May 21, 1844 - 
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CHARLES B. LOVEJOY, grocer at Big Rapids, was born in Locke, Ingham Co., 
Mich., May 21, 1844, and is a son 

of Israel and Mary B. (Hill) Lovejoy.  The father settled in Locke in 1840, 
when that and the joining 

townships were in their primeval condition.  In order to reach the location of 
his claim, he was under the 

necessity of cutting a road through the wilderness a distance of three miles.  
At that time only half a 

dozen families were settled in the township, and those at widely distant 
points.  Lansing was the market 

for the produce of Ingham County, and the city pioneers were then clearing 
away the timber, where now th 

thronging citizens traverse finely graded streets and behold stately and 
splendid buildings.  Mr. Lovejoy, 

Sr., was the youngest in a family of of two brothers and three sisters, all of 
whom are now living, each 

having an average age of 77 1/4 years.  He is a second cousin of the brothers 
Elijah Parish Lovejoy and 

Owen Lovejoy, the great Abolitionists.  ( The former died a martyr to 
principle on the evening of Nov. 7, 

1837, at Alton, Ill., and the latter was a conspicuous member of Congress, who 
dies in 1864.)

Mr Lovejoy, of this sketch, is the eldest of nine children who attained mature 
age.  (Two sisters and one 

brother are now deceased).  He was reared on a farm, and at 20 years of age 
went to Albion, Mich., where he 

took a special course of commercial study at Mayhew's Business College.  On 
leaving school he made his 

parents a short visit, and with $8.50 as a capital for future operations he 
set out to Bay City to commence 

life on his own account.  Eight weeks later he went home and entered the 
employ of George N. Cady, merchant 

at Albion, at $10 per month and board.  Six months later a better situation 
offered, and he went to 

Litchfield, Hillsdale Co., Mich., to enter the store of his cousins, F. E. & 
A.C. Lovejoy, as clerk and 

accountant, where he remained three years; in 1871 he came to Big Rapids, 
where he engaged as book-keeper 

five years; in 1876 he formed a partnership with John G. Gill, in the grocery 
business, a relation which 

existed 18 months and dissolved.  He was for some time employed by various 
firms in the capacity of 

accountant, and Sept. 1, 1883, entered the business house of Cannon & 
Gottshall, as book-keeper of the Big 

Rapids Iron Works, but only remained until October 15, 1883, when he went into 
the general grocery business 

on his own account.

Mr. Lovejoy was married in Litchfield, July 10, 1870, to Lucy E., daughter of 
Hanford B. and Jane Wood.  Of 

their marriage four children have been born, namely, Winfield E., Allie M., 
Edith M. and Edna J. (twins).  

Mr. Lovejoy is a member of the Masonic Order and Royal Arch Chapter; has also 
been a member of the Board of 

Education of the Fifth Ward five years, and in 1875 was Supervisor of that 
ward.  He owns his own residence 

and three lots on North Stewart avenue.

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1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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