Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Docherty, John October 31, 1839 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

JOHN DOCHERTY, farmer, section 32, Barton Township, was born in County 
Bennegal, Ireland, Oct. 31, 1839, 

and is a son of Charles and Sarah (McConn) Docherty.  The parents were natives 
of the emerald Isle, and 

set out for the New World in 1846.  The mother died on the passage; the father 
settled in Tyrone Co., 

Ont., for a time, and went thence to Compton County, where he resided until 
his death in 1880.

Mr. Docherty remained with his father until he was 23 years old, and obtained 
such education as the 

schools of the Dominion afforded.  In 1862 he went to the western part of 
Canada, and three years after 

came to Ionia Co., Mich., where he spent 18 months in the capacity of farm 
laborer, returning at the 

expiration of that time to Canada and residing there some years.  In 1868 he 
entered a claim of 80 acres 

of land under the provisions of the Homestead Act, in Barton Township, where 
he has since principally 

resided.  In addition to his labors as a farmer he has engaged in lumbering, 
working in the woods and in 

shingle-mills.  He was first married to Hulday E. King, a native of Ohio.  Of 
this marriage two children 

were born, both of whom are deceased.  Mr. Docherty was a second time married 
in 1880, to Mrs. Lena M. 

(Corbett) Lee, widow of Seth Lee, who died in 1879, leaving her with two 
children, William L., born Aug. 

29, 1873, and Clyde L., born Jan. 1, 1877.  Mrs. Docherty was born in Maine, 
Oct. 15, 1853, and is the 

daughter of Abel P. and Lydia F. (Tracy) Corbett, also natives of Maine.  Twin 
daughters, Jessie May and 

Grace May, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Docherty, Sept. 14, 1882.

Mr. Docherty is a Republican in his political principles.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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