Newaygo-Muskegon County MI Archives Biographies.....Mulder, Kornelis July 30, 1826 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

KORNELIS MULDER, proprietor of saw-mill, Fremont, was born in Holland, July 
30, 1826.  His parents, 

Jacobus and Tryntje (Ellenga) Mulder, were also natives of Holland, where the 
mother died; the father 

then came to this country to live with his children, and died at the advanced 
age of 85 years.  Mr. 

Mulder left his native country at the age of 21, in company with an elder 
brother, and came to America.  

They landed in New York and came immediately to Grand Haven, Mich., spending 
the first winter at 

Perrysburg.  He lived several years at Mill POint, now known as Spring Lake, 
where he was employed in and 

about a saw-mill.  He then lived with his brother nearly two years, when he 
returned to Spring Lake and 

was engaged in carpentry one season, then went to Muskegon.  In the spring of 
1855 he went to the 

Northern Peninsula and helped build a saw-mill, and in the fall of the same 
year again returning to 

Spring Lake.  In the spring of 1856 he went to Muskegon and helped build L.G. 
Mason's first mill, and 

remained at Muskegon until 1861, then built a store and engaged in general 
merchandise, doing a heavy 

business for ten years.  In 1872 he sold out, and the year following was 
engaged in settling u his 

affairs.  In the fall of 1873 he moved his family to Fremont, where he had 
previously erected a saw-mill 

and operated until the spring of 1881, when the mill was destroyed by fire.  
He at once rebuilt the saw 

and shingle mill but not the planing-mill, and again commenced operations.  
This mill has a capacity of 

15 to 20,000 feet daily.

Mr. Mulder was first married in Muskegon, Mich., to Fannie Coahoma Langley, a 
native of Pennsylvania, 

where she was born July 10, 1849, and they had one child, William C., born 
June 25, 1871, and died Sept. 

3, 1871.  Aug. 25, 1871, Mrs. Mulder died, and in 1873 Mr. Mulder married Jane 
Simpson, a native of 

Indiana.  Mr. M. has been a member of the Council of Fremont two years, and in 
politics is a Republican.  

We give his portrait in this Album.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait and Biographical Album of Newaygo Co.


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