Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Tabor, Nelson J. December 13, 1847 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros., Chicago

Nelson J. Tabor, farmer, section 4, sherman Township, was born Dec. 13, 1847, 
in Franklin Co., N.Y.  He was educated in 

the common schools, and instructed in the duties of farm labor, in which he 
engaged independently at the age of 19, and 

on attaining his majority he came to Michigan and secured a homestead claim of 
80 acres in sherman Township.  He devoted 

himself without delay to its reclamation from a state of nature, and settled 
permanently, becoming a resident thereon in 

1869.  He has accomplished a good degree of successful effort and has 50 acres 
under cultivation and supplied with all 

necessary farm buildings and fixtures.  Mr. Tabor is a Democrat.

He was married March 23, 1883, in Cadillac, to Fanny Barton, and they are the 
parents of two children - Ernest and Orion 

W.  Mrs. Tabor wss born July 20, 1854, in Big Prarie Township, Newaygo County, 
and is the daughter of Wiliam and Dorothy 

(French) Barton, natives respectively of the North of Ireland and of France.  
She is niece of Judge James Barton, whose 

abilities, position and public services in Newaygo County have acquired for 
him a fame which will live as long as the 

county has an organic existence.  Mrs. Tabor has been educated with care, and 
when she was 20 years of age she entered 

the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, where she completed a course of study 
and was graduated.  She has been a 

successful and popular teacher.

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

Chapman Brothers, Chicago

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