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HISTORY OF SAGINAW COUNTY.

Tihurston, B. De Wing, was born in Niagara Co., N. Y., in,
1827, a son of Elihu and Orpha De Wing, of French and English
descent. He came to Saginaw county, Oct. 13, 1872, and settled in
St. Charles tp., working a short time in the lumber business, when
lie bought his present place. Ile was married Oct. 22, 1851. to
Julia Royce, a native of Vermont. They have 2 children-Eitllna,
and Rodney P., who married Aquilla Thompson, of Chesaning.
He was Trustee of Schools in Niagara Co., N. Y., and worked as
foreman in Governinent employment for seven summers, building
a harbor in Lake Ontario; also has had 21 years' experience in the
lumber business; is a carpenter by trade, and also an ingenious
artisan in all kinds of hand carving, a great many specimens of
which are on exhibition at his house. He has also been in the
missionary work for 20 years.
Thomas 1P. Hynes, sec. 28, general farmer, is a native of Ireland,
where lie was born in 1831; son of James and Ellen (McAfee)
Hynes. Mr. Hynes came to Canada in 1846, and settled at Quebec,
where he remained one year. and then moved to New York State.
About this time he enlisted in the army, and served five years in
the Mexican war, being at Vera Cruz and New Orleans, and.
Governor's Island, N. Y. At the close of the war Mr. Hynes went
back to Ireland, remaining there three years in viewing the land of
his birth; then returned to the United States and settled at Bay
City, where he was employed for two years in Frost & Bradley's
saw-mnill. Then coming to St. Charles, was two summers in the
lumber woods, when lie went to Fremont tp., and bought his
present farm, consisting of 160 acres of land. In 1860 he was
married to Nancy M. Nelson, a native of New York, and they have
3 children-James I., Willard L., Mary E. Mr. Hynes was Supervisor of Fremont tp. 12 years.
Wim. S. Reynolds, a native of Delaware Co. N. Y., where he was
born in 1812. tie is a son of' Stephen and Sarah Reynolds, who
died in New York State in 1870. He came to Michigan and located
at Monroe, remaining there four years, when lie calne to this county
and bought his present farm, in Fremont tp., comprising 40 acres.
Hle was brought up in New York and received his education there.
-le was married in 1836 to Jane A. Dumond, a native of New
York, and they have 10 clildren —Cornelius, John, Mary, George,
Caleb, Richard, Julia, William, Harriet E. and Minerva. Only 63
are living. John died in the war with typhoid fever. Mr. Reynolds was not an office-seeker, although he was Tp. Trustee three
times in New York State.