Tuscola-Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Corliss, Terry 1823 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

TERRY CORLISS. On a stormy night in April, 1885, a narrow gauge train drew up at
the station at Mayville, and deposited upon the platform, a lad of just eighteen
years, whose only earthly possessions were a carpet bag, filled with partly worn
clothes and barely enough coppers to pay for a night's lodging, but with these
he had a liberal supply of pluck. He was a printer and none other than the
subject of this sketch, who came to Mayville to accept a position in the office
of the Monitor, and he liked the town so well that he has made it his home ever
since.

  Mr. Corliss was born February 10, 1867, at Almont, Lapeer County. There he
received a common-school education, and at the age of twelve began his newspaper
career by acting as correspondent for county papers, and afterward served as
"devil" in the office of the Almont Herald. Newspaper work has always been his
hobby, a hobby which he has now learned to ride so well that no saddle is required.

  This young man was employed in the Mayville Monitor office for nine months,
and then became a partner in the concern for sixteen months. In 1887 he started
the Mayville Saturday Sayings which was a success from the initial number, Mr.
Corliss then being the youngest newspaper publisher in the State. The new paper
was Republican in politics, and did good service in the campaign of 1888, at
which time its editor was banqueted by enthusiastic friends of that persuasion
in apprecia- [sic] of his able campaign efforts.

  In the fall of 1890 Mr. Corliss succeeded in purchasing his contemporary the
Monitor and consolidated the two newspapers under the name of the Mayville
Monitor Sayings, which name it still retains. The paper has always been an able
representative of the enterprising village in which it is published. Mr. Corliss
is a prominent secret order man, and is well versed in the mystic workings of
several of the leading organizations. He is a respected and enterprising
citizen, and though young is a good illustration of what the world calls
self-made.


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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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