Caro, Biographies, Indian Fields, Tuscola Co., MI

This history was extracted from "History of Tuscola and Bay Counties, Mich.
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of their Prominent Men 
and Pioneers", published in Chicago by H. R. Page & Co. (1883), p. 93-104

This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives.



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CAMERON C. STODDARD, who died at his home in the village of Caro, January 
24, 1876, was one of the pioneers of Tuscola County. The following is from an 
article published in the Advertiser after his death: "Mr. Stoddard was born in 
the town of Lewis, Essex County, N. Y., in February, 1829, and removed to Fair 
Grove, in this county, in 1852. He was married in July, 1856, to Miss Jennette 
E. Sanford, of Wayne County, N. Y., who now survives him, with two sons and one 
daughter. He was elected to the State legislature from this county in 1860. 
Enlisted as a private in Company A, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Michigan Volunteers, 
in 1864, served a little over a year, and at the time of his discharge was 
commissioned as first lieutenant and acting as captain of the company. After the 
war he returned to his home in Fair Grove, where he remained until 1872, filling 
the office of supervisor and nearly every other township office during the time. 
In 1872 he was elected county clerk, and re-elected in 1874. He has been 
secretary of the County Agricultural Society for seven years, and was 
unanimously re-elected at the last annual meeting of the society. Since he 
became a resident of the village of Caro his valuable services have been in 
constant demand, and at the time of his death he was president of the village, 
director of the school board, and president of the board of trustees of the M. 
E. Church in this village.

    "Mr. Stoddard was a man noted for his firmness of character, sustaining 
every principle of right, frowning on all wrong; for his correct business -
habits, and quiet demeanor, and no man says aught against him; never seeking 
place or position, but always receiving from a people who appreciated him as a 
faithful public servant, an honest man, an exemplary citizen. His death is a 
loss to the county that will long be mourned."