Alonzo Slafter’s biography, Tuscola, Tuscola County, Michigan Copyright © 2000 by Bonnie Petee. This copy contributed for use in the MIGenWeb Archives. MIGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed MIGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the MIGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Taken from, "The History of Tuscola County," H. R. Page Co., Chicago, 1883. Contributed by Bonnie Petee. ALONZO SLAFTER, son of William Slafter, was born in Norwich, Windsor County, Vt., December 27, 1842, and came to Tuscola with his parents in 1849, and since has resided here, with the exception of the time he spent in the army. On the 8th of December, 1864 he enlisted in the Thirtieth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served until the 23rd of June 1865. They rendezvoused at Camp Blair, Jackson, and from there were ordered to Keely's Hall, corner of Orleans and Lafayette Streets, Detroit, where they were mustered in, and were afterward at the Detroit barracks, on what was termed "frontier service" and enforced the passport system. Mr. Slafter has a farm near the village of Tuscola, and at one time was engaged in the nursery business, having an original stock of 64,000 trees.