Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Poling, Richard W. December 24, 1846 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

RICHARD W. POLING, harness and shoemaker, Austin Tp., is a native of New 
Jersey, where he was born Dec. 24, 

1846.  He is a son of Zephaniah and Eliza Poling, natives of Ohio, where they 
still reside.  He came to 

this county in 1879, settling in Austin Tp., where he is engaged in following 
his occupation.  He was 

married to Julia M. Vining, who died Oct. 28, 1877, leaving five children:  
Cornelia A., born March 3, 

1861; Viola A., March 15, 1865; John W., Aug. 17, 1867; Violetta B., Sept. 17, 
1868; Rosa A., Oct. 28, 

1873.  April 20, 1881, Mr. Poling married Angeline Wheeler, widow of Orange 
Wheeler, whose maiden name was 

Walker.  BY her first marriage she has had eight children:  Rodney F., diec 
June 12, 1853, Amos H., Maria 

J., Justin E., Harriet A. and Edgar L. are living;  Eliza and ClaraM. are 
deceased.

Mrs. Poling is the discoverer of a medicine on which she obtained a patent in 
1872.  It is known as Mrs. 

Wheeler's Vegetable Syrup, for which there is justly claimed great alternative 
and tonic properties, 

especially adapted to diseases of the liver.  She has had great succes in the 
sale of this medicine for the 

short time it has been introduced to the pulic, and for which there is an 
increasing demand.  Mr. Poling 

owns 80 acres of fine farm land, upon which he resides.


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1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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