Statewide County MI Archives Obituaries.....Crapo, Henry H August 6, 1869
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Lake Superior Miner; Aug. 7, 1869
The death of ex-governor Henry H. Crapo - which occurred on Friday morning, at
half past five o'clock at his residence, in Flint, will not surprise the public.
The ex-governor has been ill for a long period, subject to not infrequent severe
paroxysms of disease, which has several times threatened a suddenly fatal
termination. Therefore, his death was not wholly unlooked for throughout the
state; but it will be none the less deplored as a general calamity. For whatever
has been men's differences concerning ex-Governor Crapo's political career, few
men have been so universally achieved the respect of all parties and factions
and so general a reputation for irreproachable integrity and uprightness in
every relation public and private. 
Ex-governor Crapo was born at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in May 1804,
consequently, he was a little over sixty-five years old at the time of his death. 
His father was a farmer in moderate circumstance. When a young man, Mr. Crapo
taught at Dartmouth, as many a New England youth had done, although he was in
large measure a self-educated and "self made" man.
He married Miss Mary Ann Slocum, at Dartmouth, and removed to New Bedford, where
he became a civil engineer, and joined the State militia, rising to the rank of
Colonel. He also held several various offices in New Bedford, while that place
was a town, being clerk, collector or treasurer for fifteen years. Afterward, he
was, for a time, an alderman for many years and was also secretary of the
Bedford Commercial Insurance Company for some years. During the latter part of
this time he became interested in Ohio and Michigan Land purchases. 
In 1856, he removed to Michigan and settled upon lands he had purchased on the
Flint river.  Here he embarked in the lumber manufacturing business and soon
became a noted and successful business man, he was a model of industry,
shrewdness, clearness and enterprise. It was largely through his influence that
the Flint & Holly Railroad was constructed and he was sometime president of that
company. 
In every way he thought to improve and develop the region about him. The
consequence was that he was soon drawn into public life, being first the mayor
of Flint; then in 1862, sent to the State Senate; then in 1864, selected as
Governor of the State, and re-elected in 1866. In  his official positions he
displayed the business habits and energetic common sense for which he had
distinguished in his private affairs. He worked hard and faithfully and made him
self conversant with all the material interests of the State, and labored to
promote them. He was never really a politician, but a clear headed, far seeing,
public-spirited citizen. Perhaps no Governor of the State ever devoted more
labor to the care of the States interest than him. His executive messages were
almost unique for the exactness and minuteness of statement, discussing all of
the varied State interests in a close business style.



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