Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Appleby, Henry O. 1834 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

HENRY O. APPLEBY. This honored and respected citizen of Columbia Township,
Tuscola County, is a son of Odell and Eliza (Curtis) Appleby, who were natives
of Dutchess County, N. Y., and he was born October 19, 1834, in Twinsburg,
Summit County, Ohio. The parents were married in New York but migrated to Ohio
about the year 1832 and bought one hundred and thirty-six acres of land, which
the father improved and there they lived until his death. He was a prominent
member of society and influential in the Democratic party. He died about the
year 1885 at the age of seventy-two and was long mourned as a useful and
influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

  Odell Appleby was twice married and the mother of our subject bore to him four
children, namely: William, Henry O., Mary and Hiram E. The second wife was known
in her maidenhood as Hulda Richardson and at the time of her marriage with Mr.
Appleby she was the widow of Sherman Oviatt. By this union she became the mother
of two children, only one of whom, Anna, is now living. Mrs. Hulda Appleby still
survives.

  A common district school education was all that was furnished Henry Appleby as
the family circumstances did not admit of his having further opportunities. At
nineteen he began to learn the carpenter's trade and in the spring of 1869 he
came to Michigan and settled on one hundred and twenty acres of land on section
16, Columbia Township. This property he has improved and put it under thorough
tillage. He has made his own way in the world as he had no inherited wealth upon
which to build. His marriage November 3, 1866, united him with Wealthy A.
Richardson, who was born in Bedford, Ohio, and is a daughter of Godfrey and Anna
(Taylor) Richardson, who came from Vermont to Ohio. Mr. Richardson is a saddler
by trade. He had a family of nine children—Ira, Monroe, Sarah J., Hulda B.,
Juliet, Mary A., Melissa, Betsey A. and Wealthy.

  To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Appleby has been born one child whose name is Adelbert.
This family has the esteem and good will of all who have come into business or
social relations with them, as their character and life have been such as to
yield them such a return, and their influence in the community has ever been for
good. This gentleman's political views bring him into sympathy with the
Democratic party with which he is ever ready to cast his vote.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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