Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Stirling, Walter September 11, 1824 - 
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WALTER STIRLING, farmer, section 18, Garfield Township, was born Sept. 11, 
1824, in Lancaster, Glengarry 

Co., Can., and is a son of James and Agnes (Irving) Stirling.  When he was 
twelve years old his parents 

changed their location to Beauharnais County, where the father bought a farm 
of 100 acres.  On this the 

parents passed the remainder of their lives, the father dying Aug. 21, 1841.  
He was born April 7, 1853, 

of Scotch descent.  The mother was the child of Irish parents and was born on 
the sea.

Mr. Stirling remained on the farm as his father's assistant until the death of 
the latter, when he went to 

learn the shoemaker's trade, which was chiefly his business until 1861, when 
he purchased the farm he now 

occupies.  He was married July 5, 1849, to Ann McLaughlin, a native of 
Ireland.  They have a family of 

five children:  Agnes, Elizabeth M., James H., Mary J. and John D.  Mr. 
Stirling came with his family to 

Newaygo in September, 1855, and during the winter of that year he worked in 
the lumber woods.  During the 

succeeding years he followed his trade, finding his accustomed labor more 
profitable as well as more to 

his taste than the hardships and exposure of a lumberman's life.  He took 
possession of his farm in 1862.  

At the time of the purchase it consisted of 80 acres of land in a wild state, 
35 acres of which are now 

substantially improved.  Mr. Stirling has been Supervisor of the township two 
years, and is at present a 

School Inspector.

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

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