Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Brotherton, John  July 15, 1826 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

JOHN BROTHERTON, farmer, section 32, Dayton Township, was born in Ohio, July 
15, 1826.  His parents were 

Abel and Clara (Griffin) Brotherton, the former a native of New York and the 
latter of Connecticut.  They 

first settled in New York and afterward moved to Ohio.  When JOhn came to 
Michigan he first settled in 

Lenawee County, and came to Newaygo County in the winter of 1854, when he took 
up 160 acres of good land 

on sections 32 and 33, where he now resides;  75 acres are under improvement.  
He has since purchased 40 

acres more and now owns 200 acres of land.

Mr. Brotherton was married in Lenawee Co., Mich., in 1847, to Helen, daughter 
of Weston and Sophia Tenney, 

the father a native of Massachusetts, and the mother of New York.  They first 
settled in the latter State 

and afterward moved to Lenawee Co., Mich.  Mrs. Brotherton was the youngest of 
three children and was born 

in New York, Aug. 17, 1830.  Mr. and Mrs. B. have two children, Ophelia and 
May.  Mr. B. has been 

Supervisor, Highway Commissioner, and was County Superintendent of the Poor 
six years.  In politics he is 

a Greenbacker.  Mr. and Mrs. Brotherton are charter members of Fremont Grange, 
No. 494, P. of H.

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1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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