Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Carrington, George April 6, 1831 - 
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GEORGE CARRINGTON, merchant at Trent, Muskegon Co., Mich. (and also farmer, 
sections 33 and 34, Ashland 

Township), was born in Leicestershire, England, April 6, 1831, and is the son 
of John and Mary (Abeshaw) 

Carrington, and of unmixed English lineage.  His parents emigrated to the 
United States in 1840, and 

located in the town of Marcellus, Onondaga Co., N.Y., three years later 
removing to Greece, Monroe Co., 

N.Y., where Mr. Carrington grew to man's estate.

Our subject was possessed of an active, ambitious temperament and a desire to 
take advantage of the 

privileges and possibilities accorded to every man under the institutions of 
the American Government.  He 

could not but contrast the improvement in the confitions of his family in a 
land of social and political 

equality with their state in the landthay had left; and his ambition was fired 
to make an honest attempt 

to place himself on the grade accorded to successful effort, incited by a 
laudable desire to attain 

heights reached by men of no greater worth or capacity.  On reaching his 
majority he went to California 

and engaged in gold-mining, at which he was occupied three years with 
satisfactory results.  He then sold 

his claims and returned to his parents' home in the State of New York.  He 
fixed upon Michigan as a 

favorable point for a location and in the spring of 1858 settled in Ashland 
Township.  He bought 160 acres 

of land, to which he has since added by purchase 26 acres.  Of this tract he 
has put 70 acres in 

first-class condition for farming, with all necessary buildings and a suitable 
residence.

In 1870, Mr. Carrington desired to extend his business connections, and in 
November he suspended 

agricultiral pursuits and founded a mercantile business at Trent.  His initial 
stock represented a cash 

value of $700.  The correctness of his judgment in the selection of a business 
and locality is 

substantiated by the fact that he is at present carrying a stock worth about 
$6,000, and doing an annual 

business of $15,000, with every prospect of a further proportionate increase 
in trade.  But he has never 

lost his love for agricultural pursuits, and when his commercial affairs reach 
a status assuring their 

safe management by delegatd parties, he contemplates a return to his first 
love, for the purpose of 

placing his home in attractive and satisfactory condition to pass his sunset 
of life and to experiment in 

scientific farming.

Mr. Carrington was married Dec. 16, 1857, in Greece, N.Y., to Sarah, daughter 
of Thomas and Mary (Davis) 

Mitchell.  she was born in the vicinity of Hastings, England, Jan. 12, 1837, 
and her parents were also 

natives of that country.  They came to the United States in her infancy and 
settled in Monroe County.  To 

Mr. and Mrs. Carrington three children have been born, as follows:  Libby, 
Sept. 28, 1858; Jennie, May 31, 

1869; and Anna, born Nov. 4, 1869, died in infancy.  The mother is a lady of 
gentle, affable character, 

alive to the necessities of those about her, kind, sympathetic and charitable, 
forming opinions in the law 

of love, and exercising toward all the spirit of lovely benignity she acquired 
in its fullness during a 

trail of almost unexampled acuteness, having been during 17 years an invalid 
and suffereing the distress 

attendant upon active disease.  She has to a certain degree recovered health 
and devotes her renewed 

strength to the benefit of those with whom she is associated. 

Mr. Carrington is a thorough type of his nationality and an essential 
American, adopting the 

characteristics of the people of whom he is one by assimilation and retaining 
his British traits of gayety 

and good fellowship.  He is bluff and hearty, considerate and energetic, and 
public-spirited to the last 

degree.  He is a true gentleman in the best acceptance of the term, and holds 
an elevated position in the 

estimation of those with whom he is brought in contact in business or 
society.  He is an adherent to the 

principles of the Republican party and belongs to the Order of Masonry.  One 
of his connections in the 

latter is with the Blue Lodge, No. 131, at Newaygo, and the other with the 
Royal Arch Chapter of Sparta, 

Kent County.  He is also actively connected with the Order of Odd Fellows, 
Lodge No. 302, at Trent.

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1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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