Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Lebaron, William April 8, 1836 - 
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WILLIAM LEBARON, farmer, section 22, Big Prairie, was born in Genesee Co., 
N.Y., April 8, 1836, and is the 

son of John and Jane (McCollum) LeBaron.  Teh father was born in Killingworth, 
Conn., about 1803, and was 

of French ancestry.  He died Nov. 20, 1878, in Olive, Clinton /co., Mich.  The 
mother was born about 1808, 

in Cherry Valley, N.Y.

Mr. LeBaron was three years old when his parents came to Michigan.  They 
settled at Saline, Calhoun 

County, in 1839, where they resided until 1845, when they removed to a farm in 
Wayne County; thence they 

removed to Farmington, Oakland County, five years later.  The family resided 
there on a rented farm until 

1855, when they removed to Clinton County.  The son acted as assistant to his 
father previous to that 

time, and obtained a good common-school education, with the intention of going 
to a higher institution of 

learning, but changed his plans and enlisted in the regular army of the United 
States.  He enrolled at 
Detroit, April 8, 1858, in Co. A, Second U.S. Light Artillery, and served five 
years, receiving his 

discharge in April, 1863.  He returned to Olive, Clinton County, and worked 
his father's farm until his 

marriage, when he bought 80 acres of land in the same township.  After a short 
residence there he bought a 

farm in Alpine, Kent County, where he pursued agriculture until the fall of 
1873, when he came to Newaygo 

County and entered a claim of 74 acres of land under the Homestead Act.  As 
his circumstances warranted he 

has continued adding to this until he now owns 250 acres.  Mr. LeBaron has 
made a great achievement by 

unremitting labor.  He has 50 acres of land cleared and improved, all by his 
own unaided efforts; has 

worked at lumbering and harvesting, and practiced every economy to place 
himself and family in comfort and 

independence.

Mr. LeBaron was married Feb. 21, 1867, to Cornelia, daughter of Eddy and Ann 
(Burtch) Burtch.  She was 

born at Newport, Privince of Ontario, aug. 27, 1844, and her parents were 
natives of Mt. Pleasant, 

ONtario, Canada.  they were of English and German descent, born respectively 
in 1819 and 1824.  The father 

died in 1857 and the mother married Julius Rouse, and is now living at Lowell, 
Kent County.  The children 

of Mr. and Mrs. LeBaron are:  Arthur F., Charles, Edith and Eddy.  The two 
last named are twins.

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

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