Tuscola-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Case, Wesley 1845 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

WESLEY CASE. For nearly a decade this gentleman has been one of the prominent
farmers in Millington Township, Tuscola County, where he resides upon a
beautiful tract of eighty acres, much of which he has cleared and improved. He
is a native of New Jersey and was born May 11, 1845. His father, Moses Case,
married Maria Edmonson, a daughter of Joseph Edmonson, a native of England, and
an early settler in New Jersey, where both the parents of our subject were born
and reared.

  Four sons and three daughters constituted their household and the parents
became early settlers in Oakland County, where they died—the father in 1879, and
the mother in 1887. They followed farming throughout life and in it attained a
good degree of success.

  At the age of six years Wesley Case came to Oakland County, where he grew to
manhood and married Mary E. Sherwood, daughter of Erasmus E. Sherwood, a
Vermonter and a pioneer of Oakland County, to which he came when a young man
with his parents. He was there married to Nancy Scott, a native of Ireland, and
to them were born one son and four daughters. Mr. Sherwood was a farmer, and in
1860 was elected County Treasurer and received his re-election in 1882, serving
four years in all. His politics were in accord with the platform of the
Republican party, and he held various township offices. He died in 1837, and his
good wife is still living at the age of sixty-four.

  The four children born to our subject and his wife were Lena A., Elmer A., Eda
M. and Ray J., and all are still beneath the parental roof. Mr. Case pursued
farming while in Oakland County, and does so still. He is a member of Lodge No.
73, K. O. T. M., Elliot Tent, at Otter Lake. He is a Republican and has been so
throughout life, and has served as Justice of the Peace for six years.


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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