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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON MYRON H. ALDRICH

Myron H. Aldrich, a general farmer and stock-raiser, resides on section 21, Gilead Township, where he owns 35 acres of tine, well-improved land besides 11 acres adjoining the State of Indiana.  Mr. Aldrich is a native of this county, and was born in Girard Township in 1845.  He is the younger of 2 children born to Harris H. and Lucinda (Harris ) Aldrich, natives of N.Y., who came to Michigan among the earliest pioneers, and settled near Adrian ....

He enlisted in the army at Burr Oak, March 26, 1862, for a period of three years during the Rebellion.  He was a member of Company "A", 15th Michigan Infantry, and was mustered into service at Monroe, Mich. ..... participated at Shiloh, Vicksburg .... was with Sherman on that memorable march to the sea ... honorably discharged at Detroit, Sept. 18, 1865.

Immediately after the war our subject was united in marriage with the "girl he left behind him" when he went to the front, Miss Amelia Cure, a native of the Empire State, where she was born in 1845, and was the eldest in a family of three children born to Lyman and Margaret (Plumley) Cure, also natives of that state.  They were among the early settlers of Lenawee County, but afterward came to Branch County, where the marriage of their daughter with our subject was celebrated.  The father died in Bethel Township in 1884, at the age of 73, while the mother still survives, and is a resident of this county.  After the marriage the young couple removed to Iowa, but soon returned to Branch County, where they have since resided.

To Mr. & Mrs. Aldrich there have been born 2 children:  Ernest H., who is employed in Coldwater; and Bertha, who resides at home with her parents.