History of Michigan, / by Charles Moore. [Vol. 3]

HISTORY OF MICHIGAN

1295:

of Henry Shove, a farmer who spent his life in that state, and of Fannie
(Lane) Shove, also a life long resident of the state. The family is one
that has been long established in America and Mr. Shove has a long line
of New England ancestors behind him. Reared on his father's farm,
John W. Shove became a school teacher at the age of twenty, and he
taught school in Michigan as well as in his native state. His early education included a course of study in the Eastman Business College at
Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he was graduated in I873, and in
the next year he came to Michigan.
Mr. Shove, after locating in this state, first spent several years in
Wayne county, where he taught school for about three years, and he was
married there in 1877 to Miss Carrie R. Hooper. He took his bride to
New York state soon after their marriage, spending a year, after which
he returned to Wayne county, Michigan, and located at Flat Rock, where
he was for a good many years engaged in the hardware business.
In I890 Mr. Shove came to Jackson, and this city has since been his
home. For ten years he was in the employ of the McCormick Harvester
Company in the Jackson offices as assistant manager, having charge of the
salesmen, and in I899 he became interested in the Peninsular Portland
Cement Company, at this writing serving as manager and secretary of
the concern. This company is one of the well known Portland cement
companies in the west. Its plant is located at Cement City, Michigan.
Mr. Shove is also president of the American Oil Company of Jackson,
and has identified himself with other business enterprises of the city.
A member of the First Methodist Church of Jackson, Mr. Shove is
a member of the Board of Stewards, and his'wife also is active in the
work of the church.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Shove,-two daughters and a son. They are Bertha May, now wife of John Lautenslager,
of Jackson, Michigan; Miss Frances Elizabeth, living at home, and Harry
L. Shove, who is in the employ of the Peninsula Portland Cement Company. He has a responsible position with the concern, and is destined to
make his way to the front in business circles.
GLEN R. MAUNSAsrw. Among the high officials of Michigan who
through their efficient and helpful services have gained recognition and
reputation all over the state is numbered Glen R. Munshaw, deputy
Commissioner of Immigration, and Supervisor of The Field Division
of the Public Domain Commission. Mr. Munshaw is a product of the
farm and is still a young man, having been born on his father's homestead in Paris township, Kent county, Michigan, August I4, I883, a
son of Simcoe E. and Emma A. (Robinson) Munshaw.
Simcoe E. Munshaw was born in Canada, near the city of Toronto,
and belongs to an old Canadian family, his father, Lambert Munshaw,
having also been born in the Dominion. The mother was born in Paris
township, Kent county, Michigan, the daughter of John Robinson, a
native of New York state, who was a pioneer of Kent county and
drove an ox-cart from his home in the Empire State to Michigan.
Simcoe E. Munshaw came from Canada to Kent county with his parents as a lad of about fourteen years, grew to manhood in Kent county,
where he was married, and followed farming until April, I913, when
he removed to Lansing.
Glen R. Munshaw was reared on the home farm in Kent county,
where he attended the district schools, and remained under the parental
roof until reaching the age of seventeen years, when he prepared himself by special courses for a career as an educator, passing the examination and receiving a third grade teacher's certificate. After spending