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HENRY MOORE (wife Eliza J. Goodhew)
SEE:
George &
Ann Goodhew
He to whose career we now direct attention is numbered among
the progressive and
successful farmers of Milton township, and
he has been a resident of Antrim county
since 1884, while he has gained prosperity through his own
earnest efforts in connection with the development
of the natural resources of this favored section.
Mr. Moore comes of stanch Irish lineage, but is of the third
generation of the
family in America, his paternal grandfather
having emigrated from the Emerald Isle and
settled in the dominion of Canada in an early day. The subject was born in the province
of Ontario, Canada, on the I7th of February, 1854, and is a son
of James and Elizabeth (Chambers) Moore, both of whom
were likewise born and reared in Canada,
where they passed their entire lives, the
father having been a farmer by vocation.
The mother was of English descent and her
family also was one which was early
founded in the dominion of Canada. She
was summoned into eternal rest on November 28, 1885, and her
husband passed away
in 1895. They became the parents of six
children, all of whom are living except one.
Henry Moore, the immediate subject of
this review, passed his youth on the old
homestead farm, in Middlesex county,
Ontario, and in the common schools of the
locality secured early educational training.
He continued to reside in his native province until 1882, when he came to Michigan, and
he has been a resident of Antrim county for
the past twenty-two years. For several winters he was identified
with the lumbering industry of this section, working in the
woods,
but his ambition from the first was to develop a farm and gain a
position of independence in the connection. In this he
has been most successful, as he is now the
owner of one of the well improved and valuable farm properties
of Milton township.
The homestead comprises one hundred and
sixty acres, and about one half of this area is
now under effective cultivation and devoted
to diversified agriculture, while the owner
has also engaged in the raising of live stock
to a certain extent and has made this a
profitable feature of his farming enterprise.
He has always worked hard and has made
his labors count in the accomplishing of a
definite object, and he is today numbered
among the substantial, practical and highly
esteemed members of the agricultural community of Antrim county.
In politics he is
a stanch Republican. but has never sought
or held office, and fraternally he is identified
with the local organization of the Grange.
In 1884 was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Moore to Miss Eliza J. Goodhew,
daughter of George and Ann Goodhew, sterling pioneers of this
county. Further mention is made of the honored father in an
appending paragraph.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore have eight children, namely: Dollie, Joseph,
Samuel M., Byron A., Frederick H., Pearl,
Ellen and John.
George Goodhew, father of Mrs. Moore,
was born in county Kent, England, near the
city of London, in the year 1827, and is a
son of George and Dorothea (Carley) Goodhew. He was reared to
manhood in his native land and there learned the trade of
shoemaking. As a young man he came to
America and located in Detroit, Michigan,
going later to Traverse City, then to this
county, having taken up his residence in
Antrim county among the early pioneers
and having been one of the first settlers of
the now thriving village of Elk Rapids.
He
was the first shoemaker in the town and
continued to be the only one there during
a score of years. He is still living in that
village, known and honored by old and
young, and recognized as one of the sterling
pioneers of this section of the state. In late
years he gave his attention to agricultural
pursuits, being the owner of a good farm of
forty acres in Milton township. His wife
is also living, as are five of their eight children. Mr. Goodhew
has ever been known
as a loyal citizen and has done his share in
aiding the march of progress and development in this county,
while in a political way
he maintains an independent attitude and
votes for men and measures, rather than
holding to strict partisan lines.
Title:
Biographical history of Northern Michigan, containing biographies of
prominent pioneer citizens ...Publication
date:
1905.
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