Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Wald, George (Jr.) 1857 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 14, 2007, 5:51 pm Author: Chapman Bros. (1892) GEORGE WALD, JR., is one of our Canadian-American citizens whose energy and ambition have made him a good position in his adopted country and locality, which is in Elmwood. Mr. Wald was born in Canada, April 14, 1857. He is a son of George Wald, Sr., and Mary Ann (Zimmerman) Wald. His parents were both born and brought up in Germany and came to America in 1853. They first located in Buffalo. N. Y. Our subject's father was a farmer by occupation and reared his son upon his farm in Canada until he was nine years of age, when the family came to Michigan and settled upon the farm where George, Jr., now lives. The original of our sketch was given a good common-school education, attending the district school until he was seventeen years old. He began an independent career at the age of twenty-eight as a farmer on the place where he now lives, it being on section 23, Elmwood Township. He has a large place comprising one hundred and eighty-five acres in detached portions. He devotes himself to general farming, making a specialty of raising grapes, of which he has a fine vineyard covering three and a half acres. Our subject was married September 30, 1889, to Teresa C. Mall, of Elmwood Township, Tuscola County. She is the daughter of John Mall, a farmer in Elmwood Township. Mr. and Mrs. Wald have one child, a daughter, Helen Elizabeth, who was born September 23, 1890. Aside from grape culture our subject raises large quantities of wheat, barley and oats, having an ambition to cultivate his place thoroughly well. In politics he of whom we write is a Democrat and has held some offices which have been awarded to him because of his fine qualification in executive matters; he is now Justice of the Peace. Mr. and Mrs. Wald are members of the Catholic Church at Gagetown, and do all in their power to further the interests of moral living and upright and conscientious dealings in every way. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/tuscola/bios/wald640gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb