Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Ayliffe, Thomas 1834 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

THOMAS AYLIFFE, a respected farmer residing on section 35, Arbela Township,
Tuscola County, is a native of England and was born in 1834. He is the son of
John Ayliffe, an Englishman, who was united in marriage with Hannah Bartlett,
also of English birth and parentage, and to them were born four children. The
father came to America and settled in Arbela Township, where he had two sons and
one daughter residing, who had previously come to this country, and where he
spent the remainder of his days. He had been bereaved by the death of his wife
in England.

  Our subject was eighteen years old when he came across the ocean and settled
in Canada, and there he made his home for a number of years, being engaged in
labor there. He established a home for himself and took to that home a wife in
the person of Mary Donohue, who was born in the green Isle of Erin. To their
happy home came four children, namely: Elizabeth, John, William and Annie.   
Elizabeth is deceased.

  Mr. Ayliffe decided to leave the British possessions and come to the States as
he believed he would find a better opportunity for rising in the world and a
future prosperity for his children, and in this he was not mistaken. He came to
Michigan in 1864, and made his home in Arbela Township on forty acres of land.
He at once went to work to clear the forest away and to put the soil in a proper
state of cultivation, and having done so, he continued to labor assiduously in
raising varied crops upon his farm. He has added to this property from time to
time until he now has one hundred and sixty acres of as fine land as is to be
found within the bounds of the township, and he is now looked upon as one of the
leading agriculturists of this part of the county. He early became interested in
studying the political problems of this country and soon attached himself to the
Republican party, with which he has ever been in harmony.


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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