Caro, Biographies, Indian Fields, Tuscola Co., MI

This history was extracted from "History of Tuscola and Bay Counties, Mich.
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of their Prominent Men 
and Pioneers", published in Chicago by H. R. Page & Co. (1883), p. 93-104

This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives.



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HON.LEVI L. WIXSON, Judge for the Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit of the 
State of Michigan, was born of American parents in the township of Pickering, 
which is about thirty miles from Toronto, Ont. His father removed with his 
family to Sanilac County, Mich., in 1841, where he engaged in farming. That 
county at that time was an almost unbroken wilderness. The educational 
privileges which he enjoyed were such as could be obtained in the rural 
districts in those days. In 1860 he went to Ann Arbor and studied law, 
graduating from the law department of the State University in 1862. Previous to 
that, however, he had been admitted to the bar at a term of court held at 
Lexington, in 1861, Judge Sanford M. Green presiding. In 1879 he was elected 
judge for the judicial district composed of Tuscola, Huron and Sanilac Counties, 
and in 1881 was re-elected to the same office for a full term of six years. 
After graduating at Ann Arbor he practiced law at Lexington, until he was 
elected judge in 1879. He lived there until February, 1882, when he removed to 
Caro. During his residence in Sanilac he was judge of probate for twelve years, 
prosecuting attorney three terms, leaving the last term unfinished, having been 
elected to the bench. He was also circuit court commissioner and filled a number 
of other village and township offices. He has a family of a wife and three 
children.