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				DAVID G. SLAWSON
			MRS. MARIA (TOOKER) SLAWSON (1st wife)
			MRS. LYDIA (SCOVELL) SLAWSON (2nd wife)
		MRS. CORDELIA (WARNER) DENNISON SLAWSON (3rd wife)

	David G. Slawson was born in Orange Co., N. Y., Jan 21, 1821, the youngest of seven 
children of David Slawson, who moved to Tompkins County when David G. was twelve years of age. 
Here he grew to manhood, and was married, Feb. 16, 1842, to Maria Tooker.  They resided in 
Tompkins County until September, 1848, when he shipped his household goods to Michigan, took his 
wife and three children in a lumber-wagon, and came to occupy a piece of land he has previously 
purchased in Oakfield, some eight miles west of Greenville.  At this time the country was 
sparsely settled.  A log house was soon erected, and the arduous task of making a farm in the 
wilderness at once commenced and successfully carried out.  Here Mr. Slawson resided for nineteen
years; he had a fine farm, with two hundred acres improved, good buildings, orchard, etc.  In the
spring of 1857, Mr. Slawson left the old farm in charge of his son Leander B., and purchased one 
hundred and sixty acres of choice land adjoining the city of Greenville on the east.  Upon this 
land there was a small improvement, but under the management of Mr. Slawson broad and fertile 
fields have appeared, and a fine brick house with large and commodious outbuildings has been 
erected.
	Mr. Slawson has been three times married.  His first wife died in 1858, leaving three 
children.  The oldest child died Dec. 5, 1851; Leander is a farmer in Oakfield; George R. is a 
druggist in Greenville; the daughter, Sarah J., married A. E. Weter, one of the businessmen of 
Belding.  Mr. Slawson's second wife was Lydia Scovell.  She died Feb. 10, 1870.  He again was 
married, to Mrs. Cordelia Dennison, formerly Cordelia Warner, of Genesee Co., N. Y., by whom he 
has one son.



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881.  Page 402, Eureka.