Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Giles, Gustus February 8, 1845 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

GUSTUS GILES, farmer, section 16, Ashland Township, was born in Essex Co., 
N.Y., Feb. 8, 1845, and is a 

son of John and Cynthia (Finch) Giles.  The father was aof English descent, 
the mother of a line of 

ancestors directly traceable to the Colonial Puritans, and was a daughter of a 
captain in the war of the 

Revolution.

The parents of Mr. Giles removed in his boyhood to St. Joseph Co., Ind., where 
he was reared and educated. 

 He came to Michigan in the summer of 1860 and engaged as a lumberman.  In 
1861 he located in Bridgeton 

Township, this county, remaining until Feb., 1866.  He was married in 
Bridgeton, Nov. 8, 1863, to 

Elizabeth J., daughter of William and Polly (Bigsby) Whittington.  Her parents 
are of mixed Scotch-Irish 

and English descent, and are living in Muskegon County.  Mrs. Giles was born 
April 1, 1847, in Niagara 

Co., N.Y., and came to Eaton Co., Mich., when she was eight years old, and 
soon after to Kent County, 

where she received her education.  Later she came to Bridgeton.

In the month of February, 1865, Mr. Giles entered into a contract with the 
United States Government to 

manage a supply train at St. Joseph, Mo., which position he filled until July 
following.  He had 

previously purchased his present farm, consisting of 40 acres of land, and at 
the date last mentioned he 

located thereon.  He has put nearly the entire tract under improvements and 
erected good and substantial 

farm buildings.  Mr. Giles is a Democrat in political faith, but is not of the 
demagogue order.  He 

belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows, being connected with Lodge No. 362, at 
Ashland Center.

The children are:  Frank, born Aug. 13, 1864; Lizzie, May 8, 1866, Ettie, Jan. 
31, 1873.

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

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