Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Vanderwater, Lewis December 24, 1827 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

LEWIS VANDERWATER, farmer, sec. 28, Barton Township, was born Dec. 24, 1827, 
in Clarkson, Monroe Co., 

N.Y., of which State his parents, John and Elizabeth (Knowlton) Vanderwater, 
were natives.  His father 

died there in 1834, and the mother died in 1844, in Michigan.

Mr. Vanderwater grew up in the training commonly bestowed upon the sons of 
farmers, and when he was 22 

years of age he came to Detroit, Mich., where he learned the moulder's trade, 
which he followed until the 

date of his enrollment as a soldier in the army of our Government.  He 
enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, in the 22d 

Wis. Vol. Inf., and was discharged at the end of the war, his papers bearing 
date of June 20, 1865.  His 

regiment was attached to the corps commanded by General Hooker, and 
participated in all the engagements 

from Nashville to the sea.  Mr. Vanderwater returned to Wisconsin and from 
thence came to Grand Rapids.  

He remained in the latter place but a short time, locating in Newaygo County 
in the spring of 1866.  He 

"took up" a claim under the Homestead Act, cleared and improved the land and 
has since resided on it.

He was married in Ottawa Co., Mich., in 1855, to Mary, daughter of George and 
Susan (Gladfield) Foringer, 

a native of Crawford Co., Pa., born April 3, 1835.  The parents died 
respectively in 1841 and 1861.  The 

family of Mr. Vanderwater includes two children, - George B., born Dec. 30, 
1856, and Willis H., May 31, 

1861.

In political sentiment Mr. V is a Republican.

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

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