Compendium of history and biography of Hillsdale County, Michigan Elon G. Reynolds, editor.

HILLSDALE COUNTY, MICHIGAN.

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In I8oo his parents moved wi
Rutland county, Vermont, and
to Chester, New York,, where
twenty-eight years of his life
married Miss Erna Mead, o
1823, she having been born in t
30, I80o. In I830 he moved A
Erie county, New York, and, ii
came to Michigan, where he sp
days. He was the fourth of t]
born to his parents. Ten of th
years of maturity and the last
brother, Alonzo, who resided
Ohio, and there recently died at
of ninety-four years. When the
gan, Mr. Lake was a youth of
years of age, but, with the ma
father, who was six years a C
of the Revolution, he went to
fence of his country, participate
battle of Plattsburg, and remai
until the triumph of the Amerin
restoration of peace after the b
leans. For his services in this
abilities he incurred therein, hl
sion from the U. S. governmei
decade of his life. Mr. Lake
nized in this county as a man c
acter, and was elected supervise
four times in succession. He
assessor, as a justice of the pe;
commissioner and in several c
His first vote was cast for J<
president, and, throughout his
remained true to the principles
His faithful and devoted wife
len township home on March 5,
ly half a century of happy we
were the parents of four chil(
who became the wife of L. D. I
water, in this state, and there d
24, 1857; Hansie L., widow of
already alluded to; William F.,
farmer of Oceana county; Ch<
progressive farmer of this town
useful career among this peopl
and an incitement to generous

th their family to
1, two years later,
he resided during. There also he
)n December 30,
hat town on April
with his family to
n the fall of 1837,
ent the rest of his

part of others; his memory is revered as that
of a progressive citizen, who gave his best years
and his best efforts to building up and elevating
the county and state in which he lived and to
the improvement of its people in every moral
and material interest.
DORR PHILLIPS.

he eleven children This pioneer business man of Osseo, who is
e number reached now actively engaged in the drug trade, as he
survivor was his has been for more than thirty-seven years, exat Garrettsville, cepting three years when he was in the grocery
t the venerable age business, is a native of Webster, Monroe county,
e War of 1812 be- New York, where he was born on October 9,
less than nineteen I839. His parents were John and Permilla
irtial spirit of his (Wood) Phillips, also natives of New York.
continental soldier The father was engaged in merchandising at
the front in de- Webster until I860 when he retired from busied in the glorious ness. In 1835 he came to this state after the
ned in the service death of his first wife, and after becoming a
can cause and the resident of Michigan, he contracted a second
)attle of New Or- marriage, being united this time with Mrs. E.
war, and the dis- M. Clark, of Adams township. He died at Hude received a pen- son, Michigan, in August, I89o, aged eightynt during the last eight, and she passed away on January 20, 190I.
was early recog- He was the father of nine children, four sons and
)f force and char- five daughters. Two of the sons saw active and
>r of his township exacting service in the Army of the Potomac
also served as an in the Civil War, but escaped without serious
ace, as a highway harm.or capture.
)ther local offices. Dorr Phillips grew to manhood in his native
ames Monroe for state and was educated in its public schools.
long life, he ever Thereafter he followed teaching for several years
he then espoused. until the Civil War broke out, when, on August
died at their Al- 15, I86I, he enlisted in Co. C,. Fourth New York, 870, after near- Heavy Artillery, and his battery was attached
added life. They to the Second Army corps and became a part
dren: Laura A., of the Army of the Potomac. From that time
Flalstead, of Cold- to the end of the war this battery was in the
lied on September most active service and participated in all the
John W. Pierce, battles fought by that great organization. After
now a prosperous General Grant took command of this army Mr.
arles W., now a Philips's regiment was made a part of the infantship. Mr. Lake's ry forces, but its duties in the field were by no
e was a stimulus means lessened. It was duly mustered out of the
endeavor on the service near Alexandria, Virginia, and he then

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