Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Squier, David W. March 15, 1822 - 
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Author: 1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

DAVID W. SQUIER, farmer and lumberman, section 17, Bridgeton Township, was 
born in Ft. Edward, Washington 

Co., N.Y., March 15, 1822.  His parents, John and Mary (Lampman) Squier, were 
natives of the same county 

and were of English and Holland Dutch lineage.  Mr. Squier gre up on the 
homestead of his father, under 

whose care he remained until he was 18 years old, when he fulfilled a long 
cherished desire to devote his 

attention and energies to lumbering, which he has made the pursuit of his 
life, and in it has achieved a 

large degree of success.  He traces this inclination to the days of his 
boyhood when, more as a recreation 

than as labor, he assisted in rafting logs down the Hudson and Susquehanna 
Rivers.  He afterwards engaged 

in the same employment on Lake Champlain.  In the years of 1844 and 1845 he 
operated as a contractor in 

Monroe co., N.Y., getting out timber to construct the schooner "Genesee Chief" 
and "Venice" for Lake Erie 

service, working in the heavily timbered region traversed by the Genesee River.

Mr. Squier was married Dec. 18, 1846, to Sarah, daughter of Idas and Paulina 
(French) Dayton.  The parents 

were natives of Washington Co., N.Y.  Mrs. Squier was reared and educated in 
Penfield, Monroe Co., N.Y., 

where she was born, Jan. 23, 1829, and where she was married.  The event of 
marriage changed Mr. Squier's 

plans to some extent for the time being, and he engaged in agricultural 
pursuits in his native State until 

the fall of 1848, when he located in the vicinity of Coldwater, Mich., and 
again pursued farming, 

interesting himself also in buying horses for the Eastern market.  In the fall 
of 1851, he went twice 

personally to Rochester, N.Y., with a fine lot of animals for that market.  He 
remained in Monroe County 

until May, 1856, when he again came to Michigan abd settled in Eggleston 
Township, Muskegon County, on the 

river, where he managed a hotel and engaged in lumbering for a time.  In the 
spring of 1858, he settled 

permanently in Newaygo County.  During that season he bought 140 acres of 
partly improved land, where he 

kept hotel 12 years and has been constantly and heavily interested in 
lumbering, "running in" from two to 

seven million feet of logs each winter.  He has been one of the most extensive 
operators in pine and 

farming lands in Northern Michigan, and is now in possession of 8,000 acres.  
One half of this immense 

territory is improved and cultivated, its management being under his own 
personal supervision.  His farm 

buildings are on the most extensive scale, and his private residence, bult at 
a cost of $16,000, is 

reputed to be the finest farm house in Newaygo County.

In political sentiment, Mr. Squier is a Democrat.  He is no wire-puller nor 
office-seeker, and has 

persistently declined all proffered positions.

The children of Mr. Squier were born as follows:  Frank W., Oct. 17, 1853; Eva 
L., Dec. 5, 1855; these two 

alone survive.  E. D., born May 16, 1849, died June 12, 1868; Nellie, born 
March 24, 1860, died Oct. 8, 

1860; David W., born June 19, 1864, died Oct. 5, 1864.  Frank w Squier has 
attained a fine position as 

civil engineer.

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