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 ALBUM.

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-Elmer, Everette, Jesse and Elman. By the second marriage he was united to Allie Johnson and
is the parent of three children by this unionClarence, Claude and Freddie.
After living some time alone our subject married
his wife's sister, Cordelia Carr. She was a native
of Palmyra Township, Wayne County, N. Y. HIer
parents were Iavid and Rebecca (Evans) Carr,
natives of New Jersey. The father was a farmer
and came to Michigan in 1844. Hie settled in Shiawassee County and was there engaged in farming,
remaining until his decease. They had a family of
thirteen children, of whom six only are now living.
They are James E., Mrs. )uirfee, )David A., Rebecca
M., Caroline A., who is Mrs. harder and Emily.
Nine children grace the union of our subject and
his present wife. They are Eliza J., Henry II.,
Stephen, Clarence, Helen V. Alfred. Eliza married
Mr. Hughes and is the mother of one child-Inis C.;
H-enry H. married Saville Allen and is the parent
of three children-Daisy, Bessie and Oral; lie is a
successful farmer in this county. Stephen married
Ettie I). Pitts; their union has been blest by the
advent of three children-Archie A., Elroy lI. and
Ethel H., the last named being twins. Clarence M.
married Carrie Atkins; they have four childrenMabel, Erma, Emory and Percival; two of these
children are by a former marriage of Mlrs. Dur.
fee with George Huck. Helen V. now Mrs. Eugene
Cheeney; she also is the mother of four chllildrenPearl, Blanche, Vern and Lester TI., who is deceased. Alfred, William, Edith and Annie are the
remaining members of the family.
He of whom we write has sought to give his
children every advantage in an educational way
possible to their condition and location. They
have all had the advantages of a liberal education
and are intelligent, and refined men and women
wlho take a prominent position in society wherever
found. Stephen is principal of the IHigh School
at Vernon, Shiawassee County, this State; Alfred
is engaged in teaching in a High School in Colorado; Helen has been a teacher as have also Edith
and Annie. They are all graduates from the High
School.
Mr. Dlurfee is a Republican in his political sentiments. For many years he has been a member of

the Odd Fellows and belongs to the Farmers' Alliance of this section. He is a man who ranks among
the first of the agriculturists in this region. Mr.
I)urfee's father is the first man that ever raised a
building in Palmyra, N. Y. without distributing
whisky. He inaugurated his temperance principles by giving a fine supper instead of the intoxicants. Our subject's great-grandfather camne from
Ireland in 1736 and settled in llhode Island.
AA ID) MOO()Y. The British-American
) citizens of Miclligan are a fine class of
( J sturdy, stalwart men of plluck and principle, who lave made their mark and a good
one, and have been helpful in the development an(d
p)rogress of the Wolverine State. Among them we
seldom find any man who falls below the average
in ability or enterprise, and among those who are
far above tllis middle line we find the gentleman
whose name appears at the llead of this writing,
and whose home is situated upon a farm of one
hundred and thirty acres on sections 1 and 2 of
Howell Township.
Our subject was born in the city of York, England, February 8, 1816, his honored l)arents beiln
James and Mary (Carter) Moody. The fathter was
born in the city of )urllam and the motlier was a
Yorkshire lass. In his younger days Jamies Moody
was engaged in traveling in various parts of England and Scotland, but he decided to emigrate to
tlhe New World and in 1823 came to America and
settling in the township of Schuyler, Oneida
County, N. Y., he engaged in farming. There he
continued until death called him hence, leaving a
family of tlree children, of whom our subject is
the only one now surviving. The father of James
Moody was a Scotchman who emigrated to England and made that his home, and lie in turn was
tlie son of a David Moody from whom our subject
gets his name.
David Moody, the younger, was brought up like
other farmer boys with plenty of hard work and
outdoor exercise, and after studying in the district
schools of Oneida County, N. Y., he made his home