Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Pond, Guy C. July 4, 1812 - 
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GUY C. POND, merchant, Aetna village, was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., July 4, 
1812.  His parents were 

Levi and Samantha (Lawrence) Pond, natives of New England, who moved to New 
York in a very early day.  He 

was brought by his parents to this State, and they located at Brockport, 
Livingston County, where he was 

reared and educated.  When 16 years old he was apprenticed to Mr. Mitchell C. 
Gardner, of that place, to 

learn the blacksmith trade, where he remained three and a half years.  After 
this he established a general 

blacksmith shop of his own in the town where he had learned his trade, and ta 
the same time gained a 

reputation as a skilled workman.  He worked at his trade 15 years, then moved 
to Detroit and opened a 

grocery, and afterward, to Capac, St. Clair County, where he carried on a 
general store on an extensive 

scale for over three years, when he had the misfortune to lose his whole stock 
and store by fire.  He then 

moved to Cedar Creek, Muskegon County, and followed farming nearly four 
years.  In January, 1869, he moved 

to Aetna, where he worked at his trade until 1882, and then opened a store of 
general merchandise.

June 27, 1838, he was married, in the village of Brighton, to Miss Laura Roe, 
daughter of James and 

Rebecca (Arnold) Roe, natives of Connecticut, who was born in New York, July 
7, 1809.  She was educated in 

Ontario Co., N.Y., and came with her parents to this State.  She died January 
7, 1850, at her home in 

Brighton, leaving two children, Caroline H. and Levi; Mortimer and Charles 
died in infancy.  March 15, 

1850, Mr. Pond married Mrs. Francis M. (Hutchinson) McDonald, who was born in 
Connecticut Jan. 13, 1806.  

She is now 77 years of age; remarkably active, does her housework and attends 
to customers in the store.  

Mr. Pond is an active member of the Masonic Order, No. 180, at Fremont; has 
held the office of Justice of 

the Peace six consecutive years, Notary Public 25 years and still holds that 
position, and Deputy Sheriff 

two terms.  In politics he is a Republican.

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