P B Richardson's biography, Tuscola, Tuscola County, Michigan

Copyright (c) 2000 by Bonnie Petee. This copy contributed for use in 
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Taken from, "The History of Tuscola County," H. R. Page Co., Chicago, 1883. 
Contributed by Bonnie Petee.

S.L. RICHARDSON was born at East Randolph, Orange County, Vermont, in 1816, and at the age of nineteen years went to Ipswich, Massachusetts, remaining there till 1841, when he removed to South Danvers, where he remained fifteen years.  At Ipswich he learned the tanner and currier's trade, and worked at it there and at South Danvers.  He came to Tuscola the 17th of May, 1848, and bought a farm in the edge of Saginaw County, on the Indian reserve, which he cleared and improved.  It being very fertile soil, he reports a yield of 406 bushels of wheat from thirteen acres, and remarks of it that it was sold for sixty-two cents per bushel, and was taken up the Cass River to be fed to
oxen.  He probably brought in the first mower and threshing machine used in the county.

In connection with Col. Richardson and Mr. Deiderich he built the Tuscola grist-mill, in 1869, and on February 17, 1870, it commenced running.  After six years he sold his interest in the mill, but now, in company with his son, is running it.