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During the year 1836, Jared and Sarah Alderman Atwater, who were natives of the State of Connecticut, removed
to Summit Co., Ohio, where their son, L. A. Atwater, was born, Dec. 25, 1836. In the year 1856 the family removed
to Kalamazoo Co., Mich,, and after a residence of nine years at the county-seat repaired to Hopkins, Allegan Co.
The father of Mr. L. A. Atwater died in March, 1873, and his wife survived him but three years, her death having
occurred in 1876. On his arrival tile son sought employment with Robert A. Baird, of Hopkins, and in 1856 he purchased
fifty acres of land of Alonzo Button, on section 14, on which he afterwards erected his buildings, making occasional
payments as the opportunity offered from his annual earnings. He was married, Jan. 11, 1863, to Miss Olive, daughter
of Jonathan Olin Round, and, having added forty acres in same section, bought of R. A. Baird in 1860, to the original
purchase, the young pioneers began with a will the arduous labor of improving their land and making for themselves
an inviting home. Mr. Atwater has erected a convenient and tasteful residence on the land, a view of which accompanies
this brief sketch.
Mr. and Mrs. Atwater have three children, the eldest, Olin J., having been born April 10, 1866. Ida B., the only
daughter, was born Sept. 9, 1867, and the birth of the younger, Fred R., occurred Oct. 10, 1870. Mr. Atwater comes
of distinguished lineage, a genealogy of the family having been published some years since. The limits of this
sketch will not admit of more than an allusion to this interesting compilation.
From:
History of Allegan and Berry Counties, Michigan
With Illistrations and Biographical Sketches
of Their Men and Pioneers.
D. W. Ensign & Co., Philadelphia 1880
Press of J. B. Lippincoff & Co., Philadelphia.
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