Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Sunderlin, Arthur V. February 11, 1853 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros., Chicago

Arthur V. Sunderlin, resident at Reed City, was born Feb. 11, 1853, in POtter 
Co., Pa.  His father, Cyrus Sunderlin, was 

born Jan. 8, 1814, at Wayne Junction, Steuben Co., N.Y.  The latter passed his 
early life as a farmerm and later became 

a merchant.  In 1876 he came to Reed City and lesed the Evergreen House, which 
he managed some time, and afterwards 

assumed charge of the St. Elmo House, in which he died, March 3, 1884.  The 
mother, Sarah M. (Barnes) Sunderlin, was 

born Feb. 11, 1822, in Tryo, Bradford Co., Pa., and is now a resident of Reed 
City.  Their six children lived to mature 

age; but Mr. Sunderlin, of this sketch, is the only survivior.

He was brought up as a farmer's son, attending school winters until the age of 
18 years, when he became a teacher and 

taught two terms in the Woodhull Academy in Stueben County, and, when 20, 
entered the State Normal School at Edinboro, 

Pa., where he pursued a defined course of study and was graduated in the 
spring of 1875.  He went to Oberlin, Ohio, and 

passed a few months as a student at the famous college there, after which he 
again engaged in teaching in his native 

State, where he was occupied in that profession two years.  In 1877 he came to 
Reed City and officiated as Principal of 

the schools two years, entering meanwhile upon the study of law, in which he 
is still engaged.  In 1879-80, he 

discharged his duties of Superintendent of Schools of Richmond Township, and 
in the spring of 1880 was elected President 

of Reed City.  At the Senatorial Convention of the Prohibition party, held at 
Reed City, Sept. 16, 1884, he was placed 

in nomination for the incumbency.

Mr. Sunderlin was married Dec. 27, 1877, at Home Wood, Beaver Co., Pa., to E. 
Jennie Coffin, and they have two children, 

- Louis K., born Oct 2, 1880, and one born Dec. 1, 1883.  Mrs. Sunderlin is 
the daughter of John D. Coffin.


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

Chapman Brothers, Chicago

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