Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Orr, Fred H. 1859 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

FRED H. ORR, who was born December 25, 1859, in Tuscola, now makes his home in
Almer Township, Tuscola county. His parents are M. David and Elizabeth L. (Hurd)
Orr, and his grandfather, Peter Orr, was born in Ireland. When only two months
old he lost his mother and was adopted by Mrs. Lewis, a widow, and received at
her hand the best training and an excellent education, completing his studies in
Alleghany County, N. Y., and there beginning at the age of twenty-three the
practice of medicine.

  M. D. Orr studied with Dr. Axford at Flint, coming to this State in 1856 and
settling in Genesee County. From there he removed to Tuscola County in 1857,
making his home at Watrousville, where he remained only one season; he then
spent seven years in Tuscola, after which he came to section 25, Almer Township,
and bought sixty acres of land, and to this he has added by purchase from time
to time. He continued to practice medicine and died May 28, 1891, at the age of
sixty years. He filled many minor offices, including those of Supervisor and
Justice of the Peace, and was also Judge of the Probate Court in this county for
eight years, and Deputy Collector of Customs at Port Huron for four years under
Cleveland's administration. He was a leading man in the community, and
particularly so in the Masonic order. The four children who brightened his home
were Lyman A., Herbert C., Fred H. and Sadie C. The eldest son is living in
Missouri and the second one in this county, while Sadie is the wife of H. A.
Banister.

  The mother of our subject was born in the township of Pike, Wyoming County, N.
Y., and was a daughter of Justus L. and Clarissa (Patch) Hurd, natives of New
Hampshire and Vermont, respectively. They reared one son and four daughters.
Justus Hurd was a farmer and stonemason and a son of Robert L. Hurd, a soldier
in the War of 1812, and a native of New Hampshire. He was of Scotch origin and
died in Michigan at Pine Run in 1847.

  He of whom we write had his training upon a farm and received a common-school
education. At the age of seventeen he began teaching and after two years in that
calling undertook farming and purchased eighty acres of land on section 30,
Ellington Township, which he afterward exchanged for another eighty and now owns
one hundred and sixty acres of land which has substantial improvements and a
good residence. For eight years he has been the keeper of the Poor House. He is
active in politics and a stanch Republican. He was married on the 22d of March
1878, to Katie R. O'Kelly, who was born in Ontario, and is a daughter of
Ebenezer and Eliza (Rowley) O'Kelly, natives of Grand Island, N. Y., and Canada,
respectively. They came to Michigan and settled in Bridgeport, Saginaw County,
about 1865, and came thence to Tuscola County. The two children of our subject
are Robert K. and Herbert P. Mr. and Mrs. Orr have the esteem and respect of all
with whom they are brought in social and business relations and have ever been
among the promoters of every good cause in Almer Township.


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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