Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Waldo, George November 15, 1830 - 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

GEORGE WALDO, farmer on sec. 8, Mecosta Tp. (P.O. Big Rapids), was born in 
Springfield, Otsego Co., N.Y., 

Nov. 15, 1830.  His parents, Samuel and Sally (Cowen) Waldo, were born in New 
York and Ireland respectively. 

 
He accompnaied his family to Ohio when five years old, and at nine years of 
age left home to engage as a 

stage driver, and pursued that calling seven years, driving continually on one 
route.  In the fall of 1847 

he came to Saginaw, Mich., and there engaged in lumbeing six years, going in 
1854 to Kent Co., where he was 

similarily occupied four years.  His next move was to Jackson, Mich., to work 
on a Government contract, and 

there operated until the wave of civil warfare swept over the land and for the 
time being obliterated 

private projects and aspirations.  Mr. Waldo enlisted Oct. 19, 1861, in the 
First Michigan Engineers and 

Mechanics.  His terms of enrollment entitled him to the position of road 
constructor, but he was in active 

service at Perryville, Ky., and Stone Rive, Tenn. and Shiloh.  He was made 
Sergeant in 1862 and continued 

his services until he was discharged at Atlanta, Ga., in Oct., 1864.

He returned to Mecosta and has since been engaged in farming and lumbering.  
Soon after again settling in 

the township he bought 40 acres of land, on which he built the first house 
erected in this section.  Mr. 

Waldo is a Democrat and has served several terms as Constable, with entire 
satisfaction.

He was married at Grand Rapids, April 29, 1846, to Mary J., daughter of John 
and Jane (Campbell) Smith.  She 

died July 6, 1865, leaving oe child, Charles W., born Jan. 10, 1861.  Mr. 
Waldo was a second time married 

Nov. 12, 1865, at Cedar Springs, Kent Co., to Mrs. Kate Wilcox, daughter of 
Samuel and Ruth (Acers) 

Skillman.  She was born June 30, 1842, and was first married in 1859.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Waldo have seven 

children, born in the following order:  Orpha E., Feb. 6, 1867; Samuel, Aug. 
26, 1868; Henry, March 9, 1871; 

George, March 18, 1873; Bertha, March 26, 1875; Alma, Aug. 13, 1877; Walter, 
May 15, 1880.

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