Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Cushman, William W. January 25, 1843 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers, Chicago

William W. Cushman, farmer and lumberman, resident on section 22, Middle 
Branch Township, was born Jan. 25, 1843, in 

Penobscot Co., Maine.  He was reared on a farm and remained on the family 
homestead until he was 20 years of age.  In 

1863 he began to operate as a saw-mill assistant on the Penobscot River.

Two years later he came to Michigan and engaged in lumbering in the region of 
the head-waters of Cass River in Tuscola 

and Sanilac Counties, proceeding thence to Rouge River in Kent County, where 
he was similarily interested.  Later he 

went to the State of Wisconsin, returning afterward to Michigan.  In 1869 he 
made a claim of 160 acres of land in Middle 

Branch Township, on which he at once settled permanently, and engaged in 
lumbering.  To this he has added 150 acres by 

later purchase.  His lumbering operations have been transacted on the Middle 
Branch and Muskegon Rivers, and have 

chiefly occupied his time.  The improvements on his farm are still limited.  
He is a Democrat in political preference, 

and has served as Road Commissioner and School Inspector.

Mr. Cushman was married Sept. 1, 1872, in Hartwick Township, to Laura E. 
Coil.  She was born Nov. 6, 1847, in Mercer Co, 

Ohio, and accompanied her parents to Osceola County when she was 12 years 
old.  The children born to herself and husband 

are six in number:  Sumner, Linwood, Mark W., Lucretia J. and James W.  An 
infant died unnamed.

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