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Michigan
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Clinton County
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Illinois
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Also see [Railway Officials in America 1906]
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Leonard Tillotson was born March 15, 1803, at Berkshire, Mass. The family removed to Medina Co., Ohio, in 1814.
At twenty-three years of age he married Miss Mary Thomas, of New Haven, Conn., rearing a family of six children.
He died at the age of sixty-two. Mrs. Tillotson, at the advanced age of seventy-five, in good health and sound
mind, resides with a son, William, the subject of this sketch, who was born Nov. 23, 1826. In 1852 he came to the
town of Duplain, and purchasing eighty acres of wild land on section 11, immediately began improving it. Sought
and found a companion in Miss Mary E. Wooll, whose family came, in 1854, to Duplain from Loraine, Ohio. They were
married September 26th; pursued their improvements, which have resulted in a finely-improved farm, and surrounded
them with many comforts of life, upon which they can look with pride as the results of their industry. Surrounded
by a large circle of friends, life passes pleasantly. Their union has been blessed with four children,—Marion,
born Sept. 23, 1860; Myra, April 13, 1864; Hattie, May 6, 1868; Willie, May 6, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Tillotson have
long been consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
FROM:
History of Shiawassee and Clinton 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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