BIO: VESEY, H. J. 1882 GEAUGA COUNTY OHIO
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1882 History of La Grange County, Indiana
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

	H.J. VESEY is a native of Vermont, as were his parents, William 
and Adeline (Copland) Vesey, his birth occurring October 19, 1834. 
They came 
West to Geauga County, Ohio, in 1834; his father, in 1835, bought land in 
Elkhart County, Ind., and returned to Ohio; his five children, in the 
spring of 1836, accompanied by their uncle, came and located on the land, 
but the father was detained in Ohio by the illness of his wife, that 
resulted in her death. He then joined his family in Elkhart County, where 
he died in 1873. At the age of eighteen, H.J. Vesey paid $150 for his time 
until twenty-one, and, in 1853, began attending school at Ontario, working 
at any available employment during the remainder of the time. he has paid 
special attention to grafting, and for thirty-four years has worked at that 
during the spring season, traveling through Canada and seventeen of the 
States. In 1858, Mr. Vesey traded land in Fillmore County, Minn., that he 
bought in 1851, for 120 acres of his farm in this township. He now owns 302 
acres, which are improved with many fine buildings; property valued at 
$20,000. In connection with farming, he raises live-stock, having, in the 
fall of 1881, 510 sheep for the spring market. August 6, 1857, Mr. Vesey 
and Helen E. Smith were untied in marriage. She was born December 14, 1839, 
and is the daughter of Joseph H. and Margaret  (Robinson) Smith, natives of 
New York, who went to Michigan at an early day. Mr. and Mrs. Vesey have 
four children -Maggie A., now Mrs. Charles Sears; Lottie E., now Mrs. 
George McKibben; Lydia C. and Sylvester T. Mr. Vesey has been a member of 
the Masonic Order.





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