Tuscola-Oakland-Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Croop, Daniel 1849 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

DANIEL CROOP. The sons of New York who have made Michigan their adopted State
would form a fine phalanx of thorough-going progressive and enterprising
business men and farmers, if they could be brought together in one company, for
they have brought to Michigan good methods of pursuing the industries of life,
and stalwart qualities of mind, heart and physique. Among them we number Daniel
Croop, now a resident of Novesta Township, Tuscola County, who was born in Erie
County N. Y., April 26, 1849, being a son of Jacob and Barbara (Werner) Croop,
both Pennsylvanians by birth the father being by occupation a farmer.

  He of whom we write had his birth and early training under most
disadvantageous circumstances as his educational advantages were extremely
limited and poverty was his lot throughout boyhood, but with all this another
affliction burdened him in the fact that he was born with club feet and this
trying deformity hindered him not only in the pursuit of wealth, but we may say
in the pursuit of happiness, in the first twenty-three years of his life. At
that time he left the farm upon which he had been brought up and went to
Buffalo, where he submitted to a surgical operation by which his feet were
strengthened and straightened so that now this trouble is entirely overcome.

  Our subject had come West at the age of fourteen, locating in Michigan and
engaging in farming in Oakland County and after reaching the age of twenty-four
he taught for eight years in Oakland County, and then at the age of thirty-two
undertook work upon the railroad at Saginaw where he continued for nine months
on the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad. He was then made station agent at Otter
Lake in Lapeer County, which position he filled for seven and one half years and
came to this place in October, 1889, to take charge of railroad matters here.
With Mr. J. H. Baker he soon opened a general store for the sale of hardware,
groceries, dry goods, and in fact everything kept in a well stocked general
store, and he,has devoted himself to this business ever since, and in July,
1891, he bought out the entire interest of his partner so that he is now
proprietor of the whole concern.

  Among the interesting events which we are called upon to chronicle in the life
of Mr. Croop is his marriage upon the 15th of March, 1883, to Ella, daughter of
Benjamin Stevens of Oakland County, this State. By this union they have one
child, a daughter Mildred E. born April 26, 1889, and they have lost one
daughter Bessie, who died at the expiration of her first year. The political
views which Mr. Croop considers most worthy of consideration of the citizens of
the United States are such as are found expressed in the declarations and
platform of the Republican party, and he takes a deep interest in public
movements, although he is not an office seeker and prefers the occupation of the
farm to business and the rush and turmoil of the political arena, and has
therefore never sought office.

  Daniel Croop is at present acting as the agent for the American Express
Company and besides has charge of the postoffice. Mrs. Croop is a devoted member
of the Presbyterian Church and her husband attends with her the services of that
body.


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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