Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Parmelee, Aaron B. (Jr.) 1847 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

AARON B. PARMELEE. A visitor to the thriving little city of Caro will be
impressed with the many flourishing establishments wherein various lines of
business are carried on, and among these he will probably notice particularly
the clothing house of Mr. Parmelee. This prominent clothier and dealer in men's
furnishing goods, has been identified with the best interests of Caro for
several years, and has become well known as a reliable citizen and business man,
honorable in his dealings with all, and creating by his own energy a center of
trade in his well-conducted store. He is a native of the Empire State, which has
sent so many of her sons to contribute to the development of the West. His birth
occurred February 27, 1847, in West Bloomfield Township, Ontario County, and he
is the son of Aaron B. and Catherine (Davis) Parmelee, who were born in New York
State of English ancestry.

  Aaron B. Parmelee, Sr., was variously engaged as a farmer, speculator in
stock, dealer in wool, etc., etc., and was a prominent citizen of Ontario
County. Our subject received a very meagre education, and was unable to attend
school after he was thirteen years old. In his youth lie clerked in a store and
aided his father on the home farm. He was only fourteen years of age when he
enlisted October 8, 1861, in Company D, Thirteenth New York Infantry. During his
service of eighteen months he was in ten large battles, and about thirty
skirmishes, and was wounded June 27, 1862, in the battle of Gains Mills, Va.
Some of the engagements in which he participated are as follows: the siege of
Yorktown, West Point, Va., Hanover Court-house, Seven Days before Richmond,
Second Battle of Bull Run, and the battle of Antietam.

  Upon being honorably discharged, May 14, 1863, at Rochester. N. Y., Mr.
Parmelee returned to the old homestead in New York, where he followed
agricultural pursuits five years. He then en gaged as a clerk in a general store
at Lima, N. Y., about two years. It was at that time that he was married,
February 26, 1868, to Miss Alice Marvin, an accomplished young lady who resided
in Lima, N. Y. Mrs. Parmelee was the daughter of Israel and Nancy (Cone) Marvin,
and was born in Michigan, near Monroe City, in February, 1843. Our subject and
his wife have become the parents of three children, viz: Nellie M., who married
Frederick Hargraves, a merchant and banker in Ewen, Mich., who owns two banks
and three stores; Catharine, who died at the age of eleven, in New York State;
and Jasper, whose birth occurred in New York in June, 1880.

  After clerking in Lima, Mr. Parmalee removed to Honeoye Falls, N. Y., with the
political life of which he soon became closely identified, officiating as City
Marshal, Town Treasurer and as Deputy Sheriff for three years. Later he started
a grocery and bakery which he conducted two years. Then selling out that
business he removed to Dakota in 1883, and during the following year he took up
some Government land and was in the employ of the railroad as brakesman and
baggage master. He sojourned in Dakota two and one-half years, six months of the
time being occupied in clerking in a hardware store. When a good opportunity
came, he traded his Government land for forty acres on section 34, Elmwood
Township, this county. This comprises an excellent estate, mostly under
cultivation, and now rented out by our subject.

  Upon locating in this county, Mr. Parmelee clerked in Caro two years, being
employed in Mr. Palmer's grocery store, and afterward he started in partnership
with Mr. White. This connection was dissolved after it had existed one year, and
in 1889 Mr. Parmelee opened a clothing establishment, which he is still
successfully carrying on. Politically he is a Democrat, and is at present an
unwilling candidate on that ticket for Township Clerk. Socially he is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the
Whiteside Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Caro.


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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