Portrait and biographical album of Ingham and Livingston counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties ... the governors of the state and of all the presidents of the United States.

PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBIUM.

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became Mrs. Pickard in 1850,and to her were granted
three children, the two now living being Rinaldo
and Amelia, the wife of the Rev. Elmer Watkins,
of the United Brethren Church. After the death
of the mother of these children, Mr. Pickard contracted a second marriage with Elizabeth Cuer, who
had been a teacher in the public school. By her lie
la(l six children, five of wlom are living, namely:
Lucy, wife of Iarley Clark, Lyman B., Newman,
Ivan and Cora.
Ile of whom we write became one of the brave
boys in blue, who fought during the Civil War il
defense of the Union. He enlisted September 4,
1864, in the Fourteenth Michigan Infantry, and
was principally on detached duty, being stationed
at Jackson, Mich. His honorable discharge was
granted in June, 1865, anld.he now receives a l)ension of $6 a month. IHis fine tract of seventy acres
lhas been gained through his own unaided efforts.
For years lie has been a member of the Local School
Board in various capacities. Hle is a Republican
in his political preference, and an active wideawake man, working heartily for every movement
which will promote the social, industrial and financial success of the county.
ON. FRANK M. FOGG. A broad experience embracing life upon two continents,
has been granted to the gentleman of
whom we now write, and with this experience
lie has gained breadth of view and soundness of
judgment which added to his naturally keen abilities and thorough course of study, have made him
a man among men, worthy of the respect and admiration of the people among whom lie lives. ()ur
subject was born in the year 1854 in I)eerfield, N.
II., and at an early age lie learned the practical experiences of a farmer's boy. lie came of good
Scotch-Irish stock, which settled in New Iampshire
in the early days, his father being Nathan Fogg
and his grandfather Orrin, both natives of New
Hampshire. I-is grandfather took part in the War
of 1812, and his father, who now resides in New

York City, was a farmer in Deerfield, N. H., and
Lewiston, Me. His mother is of old English stock
and bore the maiden name of Isabel Morrill. She
was born in Stansted, Quebec, and is a daughter of
F. C. Morrill, a farmer, who was in the Canadian
Army during the War of 1812, and died in that
country.
From earliest childhood young Fogg showed
signs of talent, beginning school at the age of
three years and making such rapid progress as to
have conquered Greenleaf's Arithmetic at the age
of twelve years. When he was only eight years
old the Civil War broke out and great political
excitement prevailed. Even the young held debating societies, and this child took part upon every
such occasion, speaking or declaiming. At the
age of thirteen lie was sent from home to attend
school at Hampton Falls, N. H., where he worked
for his board and also attended school at Dearborn
Academy, at Seabrook, N.. H Here he walked two
miles each way in going to and from school,
milked eleven cows night and morning and acted
as general chore boy. The following years he
alternated school work with work at the shoe bench
and in the hay field, attending successively the
Putnam Free School and the New Hampton Institute. At this latter place he showed so clearly his
abilities as a logical debater and a student of history that he was nicknamed the Young Napoleon,
and the following winter through the advice of
the Hon. J. 1). Philbrick of Boston, he entered the
Nichols Latin School and continued his preparation for college.
The difficulties connected with teaching boys of
his own age in the "Hard Scrabble" district at
Poland were brightened by the fact that here the
young man met Miss Julia Additon, who, in 1875,
became his wife. After completing the ten weeks
of this term of school he entered Phillips Academy
at Exeter, N. 1-., and completed his preparation for
college. He now changed his method of self-support by serving as a table waiter at the summer
resorts in the White Mountains, and as it was then
customary for students to take this work, he found
congenial companionship among his fellow workers
and appreciative and wealthy friends among the
guests whom he served. At various times he re