Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Grant, Isaac January 25, 1846 - 
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Isaac Grant, liveryman and proprietor of the Upton Avenue Mills, at Reed City, 
was born Jan. 25, 1846, near St. John's, 

Clinton Co., Mich., and is the son of Charles and Emmeline (Gillet) Grant.  
His earliest known paternal ancestor, 

Ebenezer Grant, was born in Scotland, at an unknown date.  Isaac Grant, son of 
the latter, was born April 4, 1760, in 

Goshen Conn., and became a soldier in the Continental Army before he was 17 
years of age, serving under "Mad" Anthony 

Wayne, and participating in the bayonet charge at the ford of Stoney Point.  
His command of 40 men were captured at Fort 

Washington and placed on the prison ship "Grosvenor" in New York Harbor.  The 
entire number were seized will small-pox.  

A surgeon visited them and left a dose for each man.  All but four took the 
medicine and died.  Isaac Grant was one of 

the survivors.  After the close of the war he went to Lenox, Mass., and 
studied medicine.  He married Hannah Tracy, of 

that place, and settled at Colerain in the same State, removing later to 
Whitingham, Vt.  He went thence in 1801 to 

Chenango Co., N.Y., where he practiced his profession and was one of the 
founders of the first medical society of that 

county.  He continued a practitioner there until compelled by advancing years 
to withdraw from active life, and removed 

to Genesee Co., N.Y., and later to Albion, Mich., where he died Nov. 9, 1841.  
His wife died Oct. 30, 1841, ten days 

preceding his own demise.  They had nine children.  charles, fuifth son and 
child, was born Oct. 2, 1794, in Colerain.  

He was a drafted man in the war of 1812, and served throughout the contest.

He married Peggy Hines, March 26, 1816, and they had three children.  The 
first wife died, and Feb. 1, 1831, he married 

Matilda Closs.  They became the parents of two children.  The mother died Aug. 
26, 1833.  Mr. Grant was a thrid time 

married June 10, 1838, to Emmeline Gillett, and they had eight children.

Mr. Grant was reared on the home farm in Clinton Co., Mich.  He was 15 years 
of age when the Civil War stirred the 

patriotism of young and old, and he experienced from the first the common 
enthusiasm.  The fault of his youth was one 

that time was gradually and surely remedying, and he enlisted Oct. 3, 1863, at 
St. John's, as a private in Co. I, 10th 

Mich. Cav., Captain Ayres.  His command was assigned to the Army of the 
Cumberland and took part in the Stoneman raids, 

serving until Nov. 11, 1865.  Mr. Grant was a participant in 52 battles, of 
more or less importance.

On leaving the army he returned to Clinton County for a time, and removed 
thence to St. Louis, Gratiot Co., Mich., and 

there engaged in the flour and feed business, operating in that avenue at that 
point about two years. In 1870 he went to 

Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, where he established himself in general 
trade.  A year and a half later he transferred 

his locality to Baldwin, Lake Co., Mich., and there pursued the same vocation 
for a year.  At the end of that time he 

entered a claim of 160 acres of land near Baldwin, where he located and 
commenced active operations.  In 1874 he was 

elected Sheriff of Lake County on the Republican ticket and served his term.  
In 1880 he was re-elected to the same 

position.  He also held other official positions, and officiated as President 
of the County Agricultural Association two 

years.  In February, 1883, he went to Chase, Lake County, and bought a livery 
stable, which he continued to manage until 

Sept. 3, 1883, the date of his sale of the property.  Sept 9, he became the 
proprietor of his livery business.  His 

stables contain about a dozen  horses on average, and are fitted with 
necessary and suitable livery equipments.

He purchased his mills of T.V. Childs, in the fall of 1884 (current year).  
they include saw, grist and planing mills, 

and are fitted with the best quality of modern appurtenances.  they derive a 
special value from their central location.

Mr. Grant is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post Stedman, No. 
198, and he belongs to the Sons of Industry.

He was married Oct. 25, 1868, at Salt River, Isabella County, to Daney Clark.  
She was born Aug. 11, 1850, in St. 

Lawrence Co., N.Y., and is the daughter of Robert and Martha Clark.  The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Grant were born as 

follows:  Rena M., May 11, 1870; Alda M., Aug. 29, 1873; Clark D., April 25, 
1875; Howard, June 1, 1879; and Annie, May 

11, 1881.

The portrait of Mr. Grant is given on a preceding page.  He is an active, 
enterprising man and possesses the quality and 

degree of business energy which guarantees the future solidity of Osceola 
County.  He is a fine specimen of physical 

manhood, is six feet one and a half inches in height and weighs 215 pounds.

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