Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Staley, Emanuel L. 1835 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

EMANUEL L. STALEY, who was born September 25, 1835, in Greenwood Township,
Columbia County, Pa., now makes his home in Columbia Township, Tuscola County.
He is a son of John and Jane (Edgar) Staley, natives of Columbia County, Pa.,
and of Holland extraction. The father was a stonemason by trade and served as
County Commissioner of Columbia County, being the only Republican ever elected
in that county. He made the race on the Whig ticket for Congress in 1852,
against John G. Montgomery, who afterward died from the effects of poison at the
inauguration of James Buchanan. He came to Michigan about 1855, and here died
and is buried at Caro, having been preceded to the other world but a short time
by his faithful wife. They were Presbyterians in their religious faith and
people of sterling religious character. Their children were by name William,
Mary A., Emanuel, Jacob, John, Louisa, Clara, Winfield S., and Lydia, all of
whom grew to maturity and established families of their own and all are now
living: except the eldest. Jacob enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment and was
wounded at the last battle of Petersburg, and John also served all through the
war, enlisting three times as a musician.

  Farm training and a limited school experience filled up the boyhood days of
our subject and he is largely self-educated. At the age of twenty he came in the
spring of 1856 to Michigan and settled on section 20, Columbia Township, where
his father pre-empted and entered one hundred and sixty acres. Emanuel cleared
the timber from sixty acres and purchased the one hundred and sixty acres which
he was able to dispose in 1873 for $4,000. He then bought forty acres of land
where he now resides to which he soon added eighty acres. He has cleared sixty
acres of this land besides chopping the trees from one hundred acres for others.
He is a prominent stock-raiser and breeds Victory hogs. He has made his own way
in the world' and has had good success in his undertakings. The office of
Supervisor was his for fifteen years and he has served in other minor offices
and has been a strong Republican since 1856. He is prominently identified with
the Free and Accepted Masons.

  Mr. Staley was married March 21, 1863, to Mary E. Kline, a native of Columbia
County, Pa., and daughter of Peter P. and Sarah Kline, who emigrated to Tuscola
County and settled in Aimer Township in 1862. The seven children who have been
born to Emanuel Staley and wife are Wallace B., Marvin B., Jane, Clara L., Effie
M., John P. and Ada. The latter died at the age of two years. In the Methodist
Episcopal Church Mrs. Staley is an earnest and influential member and she is a
woman of sterling character and usefulness. Mr. Staley was elected two terms as
County Surveyor and Superintendent of the poor and was elected for a second time
but refused to qualify.


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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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