Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Slawson, Hiram H. March 30, 1810 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

HIRAM H. SLAWSON, furniture dealer at Big Rapids, was born in Orange Co., N. 
Y., March 30, 1810.  He was 

reared on a farm, and at the age of 16 learned the trade of carpenter and 
joiner, and afterward that of 

cabinet-maker, and has since been engaged alternately in thei prosecution.

Mr. Slawson came to Michigan in the fall of 1848, and worked in a furniture 
establishment at Grand Rapids 

about two years, going at the end of that time to Greenville, Montcalm Co., 
where he was engaged in the 

furniture business about 20 years.  He next transferred his interest to Cedar 
Springs, Kent Co., and in 

April, 1882, he came to Big Rapids and purchased the stock and fixtures of E. 
A. Knight, and is now 

operating with a fair degree of success.

Mr. Slawson was married in Seneca Co., N. Y., Jan. 1, 1835, to Eusebia, 
daughter of John and Mary Fleming, 

born in Seneca Co., Nov. 26, 1811.  They have had the following named 
children:  Henry, Charles and 

Morrison, farmers, near Greenville; William, who is deceased; Newell S., an 
attorney at Cedar Springs 

several years, and who died in Marshall, Texas, in March, 1882; Mary, wife of 
Joseph B. Hammond, a grocer, 

in Ionia Co., Will T., a reporter on the Pioneer Magnet, and a practical 
printer.  Mr. Slawson owns a 

residence and lot on Henderson Street, two houses with lots at Cedar Springs; 
also five vacant lots at that 

place.  The family are members of the Congregational Church.

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