Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Ferguson, Nelson A. September 9, 1828 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers, Chicago

Nelson A. Ferguson, farmer, section 6, Orient Township, was born Sept. 9, 
1828, in chatauqua Co., N.Y.  His father, 

Michael Fetguson, was born in Schoharie Co., N.Y., and was chiefly engaged in 
agricultural pursuits during his life.  

His wife Eunice (Packard) Ferguson, was a native of the State of New York, and 
of Scotch and Welsh lineage.  In 1830 

they removed with their three children to Marion Co., OHio; there they bought 
a farm, which was their abiding place for 

a time.  Later they went to Lucas County in that State, coming thence about 
1848 to Ionia Co., Mich., where the father 

and son settled on a farm in Ronald Township.   The mother died in that 
township in March, 1861, aged 76 years.  The 

death of the father occurred in Fairfield, MOntcalm Co., Mich., in 1870.  He 
was 88 years of age.

Mr. Ferguson, the subject of this sketch, was reared to the vocation of his 
father.  He was married May 25, 1847, in 

Ohio, to Anna E. Jones.  She was born near Lebanon, Ohio, in 1831, and is the 
third child of Samuel B. and Eliza 

(Peterson) Jones.  The latter was born in Pennsylvania, and died in 1848, in 
Henry Co., Ohio.  the former is a resident 

of Bushnell, MOntcalm Co., Mich.  He was born in 1797, in New Jersey.  His 
family included four sons and three 

daughters.  The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson were named Waterman, 
Walter, Perry A., Franklin P., Emma J., 

Flora J., Eva E., Georgianna, Henry A., Nelson E. and Fred E.  Nine children 
yet survive.  

Mr. Ferguson became a soldier during the Civil War, enlisting in Co. A, 21st 
Mich. Vol. Inf.  He was in action only at 

the battle of Perryville, in which he encountered a degree of hardship which 
completely exhausted his endurance.  On the 

second night after the engagement he was seated in a chair near the fire, and 
becoming unconscious from over-fatigue he 

fell, and was so badly burned as to cause his discharge from the service.

He is a Democrat in political connections.  He officiated three years as 
Superintendent of the Poor, nearly five years 

as Supervisor, several terms as Justice of the Peace, two terms as School 
Inspector and one term as Township Treasyrer.

He removed to his present location in Orient Township Dec. 12, 1868, and made 
a homestead claim of 40 acres of land, on 

which he has since resided.

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

Chapman Brothers, Chicago

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