Tuscola-Eaton-Washtenaw County MI Archives Biographies.....Mapes, Cyrenius A. 1850 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

CYRENIUS A. MAPES. The subject of this sketch, like thousands of our best
citizens, has arisen from a youth of hardship and small opportunities to a
successful business career. He received very little education in youth, as he
had to leave school before he was twelve years old and what culture he acquired
after that was by his own unaided efforts, but he has been successful in
attaining to a good degree of intelligence and an excellent knowledge of the
ways of the world, and there is no better business man in the county.

  Mr. Mapes deals in clothing, gentlemen's furnishing goods and hats and caps,
is also a merchant tailor at Vassar, and was born in the township of Victory,
Cayuga County, N. Y., February 15, 1850. He is a son of E. J. and Charlotte
Mapes, the father being born in Newburg, N. J., and the mother in Auburn, N. Y.,
of Dutch lineage. The father went into the army when our subject was about
eleven years old, and after reaching the age of twelve the boy was thrown
altogether upon his own resources. He clerked at different places and at
different times, and was in partnership with J. W. Potter, at Pottersville,
Eaton County, Mich, for several years. In 1884 he went Ypsilanti and was in the
dry-goods business there for three years, after which he came to Vassar in 1887,
and opened up the clothing establishment which he is carrying on so successfully.

  The marriage of Mr. Mapes with Miss Mary Hunt, of Orleans County, N. Y., was
solemnized there February 23, 1871. This lady is a daughter of David and Lydia
(Haskell) Hunt, and she became the mother of one child, which died in infancy.
The political views of Mr. Mapes have brought him into affiliation with the
Democratic party, and he has been raised to the position of an Alderman. He is a
member of the Masonic order, and also of the Knights of Pythias, as well as of
the Knights of the Maccabees.

  Mr. Mapes has built up a fine business in Vassar, and has now established a
flourishing trade, carrying a better and larger stock than any other two
clothing houses in the county. Although he has had to gain his insight into
business by observation and experience, which are after all the best
schoolmasters, he is most thorough and systematic in his plans, and keeps his
own books and manages most wisely his financial affairs.


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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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