Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Mansfield, Henry August 11, 1818 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

HENRY MANSFIELD, farmer, sec. 35, Wheatland Tp., was born in Genesee Co., 
N.Y., Aug. 11, 1818.  His 

parents, Josiah and Lucretia (Byam) Mansfield, were natives of Massachusetts.  
He passed the years 

preceding his majority under the care and supervision of his majority under 
the care and supervision of 

his father, attending school and receiving the training and instruction 
necessary to fit him for his 

life's work.  On leaving home he spent the next four years as a farm laborer.  
At 25 years of age he was 

married to Charlotte, daughter of Elijah and Abigail Brown, that event taking 
place at Byron, N.Y., Dec. 

15, 1842.  Mrs. Mansfield was a widow, and survived her seconf marriage until 
Dec. 6, 1847, when she died 

in Genesee County.  Her illness was long and involved her husband in debt to a 
considerable extent.  He 

was again married May 25, 1848, in Genesee County, to Caroline M., daughter of 
Chauncery and Lorena 

(wells) Brown, natives of New England, and respectively of Irish and English 
extraction.  Mr. and Mrs. 

Mansfield lived on a farm in the county where they were married until 1867.  
In the spring of that year 

they settled on the farm where they are still resident, containing 120 acres 
of land, with 70 acres under 

advanced cultivation and supplied with necesary and suitable farm buildings.  
The family includes three 

children, as follows:  Chauncey R., born July 12, 1849; Evert J., Jan. 26, 
1852; Mary A., May 8, 1855.

The parents are in advanced life, but an active life has kept them young in 
purpose and stimulated their 

ambition to keep pace with the progress of the age.  Mr. Mansfield has always 
acted with the Republican 

party; has served his township as Treasurer seven years.  He and his wife are 
zealous members of the M.E. 

Church.

Additional Comments:
8813 Portrait & Bio Alumbum of Mecosta Co., MI.

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