Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Valentine, John 1834 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN VALENTINE. In the agricultural circles of Watertown Township, Tuscola
County, there are none who stand higher than those families who migrated to this
country from the agricultural districts of England, and who had their training
on those marvelous farms, which are so thoroughly cultivated and so richly
productive.

  The Valentine family is representative of this class and John Valentine is one
who stands high among his neighbors both as a man and as a farmer. He was born
in England in 1834, and there grew to manhood and married Susannah Gill who is
also of English birth. To this marriage were born three sons and four daughters
and every member of this family except one daughter is in America. Mr. Valentine
has been a farmer all through his life.

  Our subject came to America in 1881 and at once settled in Watertown Township,
where he now resides and where he owns forty acres of good land, which he has in
a thorough state of cultivation. The religious belief of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine
brings them into hearty sympathy and service with the Methodist Church to which
they belong. The father of John is Henry Valentine, and he is now living in
England, having passed the boundary of four-score years. His wife was Ann
Whalley, and they were the parents of three children, two of whom are now living.

  The paternal grandparents of our subject were John and Rachel (Birchall)
Valentine, who reared a family of eight sons and five daughters and carried on
agricultural pursuits. The father of Mrs. John Valentine was Joseph Gill and his
wife's maiden name was Ann Berry. Both were English by birth and became the
parents of four sons and four daughters. Mr. Gill pursued farming throughout his
whole life and he was a son of Thomas and Ellen (Tunstall) Gill, who had a
family of four sons and two daughters. Joseph Gill died at the age of
eighty-three and his wife passed away after reaching four-score years.


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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