Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Walmsley, John 1821 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN WALMSLEY. Among the sturdy and independent citizens who have come to
Michigan from across seas there are none more worthy of commendation or whose
work in the new country has been marked by more sturdy independence, integrity,
and industry than those who came from the North of Ireland. Our subject was born
in County Down, Ireland, in 1821, and his parents, William and Ann (Edgar)
Walmsley, were both born and reared there, his father being first a ditcher and
in his latter years a farmer.

  The father of our subject was able to give his son but very scanty
opportunities for education as his means were limited, and the advantages to be
had for a poor boy amounted to but very little. When only fourteen years old the
boy felt compelled to leave school and undertake his own support, as his father
died at that time. He had two brothers and three sisters and he in many ways
helped and aided them in getting established in life. He followed farming during
the first fifty years of his life, coming to America in 1873, three years after
the decease of his mother.

  Mr. Walmsley has a handsome farm of eighty acres which is in excellent
condition and comprises an extent of arable and highly cultivated soil. He is a
thorough and systematic farmer, raising crops which he feeds to his stock and
thus gains to his own estate the profit which would otherwise go to outsiders.
This he finds to be the most profitable method of handling his business, as he
raises large numbers of cattle, sheep and hogs.

  The Methodist Episcopal Church was the religious body of his choice in the old
country, and he joined it forty years ago. Since coming to this country he has
united himself with the same denomination and has here been an earnest and
consistent member. His life here has been marked by thorough industry, prudent
enterprise and devotion to the duties which came to his hand. Unlike many who
migrated to this country from foreign lands he did not come empty handed as he
and his brother had a fine estate of some fifty or sixty acres in Ireland. We
are happy to be able to represent so worthy a citizen in this RECORD feeling
sure that a narrative of his life work will be of interest not only to those who
know him but also to all who care to trace the annals of Tuscola County.


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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