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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON JOSEPH M. SAGER

Joseph M. Sager, who is numbered among the younger farmers of Bronson Twonship, was born here ept. 5, 1862, and is the son of George and Emily J. (Blanchard) Sager, natives of New York State, who came to Michigan during its pioneer days.  (For further history see sketch of George Sager)  He was reared to manhood on the farm of his father, receiving a good common-school education, and before twenty years of age he was married, Feb. 26, 1882, to Miss Maggie A. DePew, of Noble Township, Branch County.

Mrs. Sager, who was also quite youthful at the time of her marriage, was born Jan. 22, 1861, and is the daughter of Nelson and Harriet (Guthrie) DePew, the former a native of Gilead Township, and now living on a farm in Indiana.  The mother was born in Steuben County, Ind., and is also living.  The parental family included nine children, seven of whom lived to mature years, and of whom Mrs. Sager was the third in order of birth.  She was educated in the schools of this county, and by her union with our subject is the mother on one child, Adella, who was born Dec. 23, 1883.

Mr. Sager is carefully cultivating twenty acres of fine land on section 28, where he has one of the neatest homesteads to be seen in this locality.  The little farm is beautifully located, and with its neat and substantial buildings forms a very attractive feature in the landscape.  Mr. Sager is ranked among the representative citizens of his township, being enterprising and industrious, and taking pride in his home, his live stock and his farm operations.  He has not had very much to do with public affairs, but cast his first Presidential vote for the Republican candidate, and uniformly supports Republican principles.