Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Murdick, Henry 1831 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

HENRY MURDICK is a resident on section 26, Koylton Township, Tuscola County. He
was born in County Middlesex, Canada, December 29, 1831, but is now counted as
one of the veteran pioneers of Tuscola County, having been the fourth man to
settle in Koylton Township. He came to his present home in 1858 and the place
and vicinity was then totally unimproved. He was obliged to make his own roads
and he cleared up his own farm. On coining to the new country he was the owner
of a team of horses but soon traded them for oxen, as these patient beasts of
burden were better adapted to the hardships of clearing the new and
stumpy-ground. Mr. Murdick is a son of Isaac and Sophia Murdick. The former was
born in Orange County, N. Y., in 1792. He had been reared on a farm in his
native State and county and on arriving at manhood continued the same mode of
life. During the War of 1812 he served as a fifer, and at the age of twenty-two
he married Sophia Eichenberg, of Canada, to which place our subject had
previously removed and had settled his family. His wife, like himself, was a
native of New York but had emigrated to Canada with her parents, John and Hannah
Eichenberg.

  The original of our sketch is one of a large family born to his parents but
only three are living at the present time. They are Henry, Isaac and Catherine.
Our subject's father spent the remainder of his life in the Dominion and there
met his death. His wife passed away a few years before him. They were both
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject began to be
self-supporting on reaching his majority. He then married Emeline Page, a
daughter of Peter and Mary M. Page and to them were born eight children-William,
George N., Birtie, David E., Albert Tryphena, Otis J., Levi. Mrs. Emeline
Murdick died October 4, 1874, and after some time our subject was again united
in marriage with Mrs. Jane Fellows, a daughter of William Smith.

  Socially our subject is a member of Lodge No. 271, I. O. O. F., of Marlette.
In his church affiliations he is a Universalist. His optimistic and sunny
temperament find most consolation in that creed. He stands exceptionally well in
the regard and esteem of his fellow-townsmen, and is the head of a family of
whom it is a pleasure to be able to speak in the laudatory terms which they
fully deserve.


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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