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Biographies The majority come from pre-1923 published sources as cited in italics with the sketch. Richard Towers"The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers" RICHARD TOWERS, teacher and farmer, Clearwater, was born in England March 9, 1837. He came from his native country to New York in 1855 or '56. Thence he went to near Litchfield, Conn., and from there to. Waukesha County, Wis. After some time spent there in farm work and school teaching, and in attendance at Carroll College, he traveled through parts of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Tennessee to Ohio, where he spent some two years at Oberlin College, and then, returning to Wisconsin,. resumed his work of teaching. Later he taught in Illinois and also in Iowa. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served four months in the suppression of the rebellion under the first call for three months of service. In March, 1863, he was married to Miss Catharine Small, also of Waukesha County, Wis. She was born in Scotland in 1839. Their living children are Alice I., Edith J., Willard J., John S. and Amy Laura. From Iowa Mr. Towers returned to Wisconsin, and in 1869 they removed to what is now Clearwater, Kalkaska County, Mich. They located land on Section 22, where they have eighty acres, with about twenty-five acres under cultivation. They have also a thriving orchard of apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries and small fruits, and various home comforts. Mr. Towers has been school inspector several years, and is now (1884) serving in his third year as township clerk of Clearwater. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a local preacher in that church, and also has been ten or twelve years superintendent of the Sabbath-school in his district. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow and a Free Mason. There were a few others who settled in Clearwater at an early day, among whom were Varguson, Balch, Masten, Lane, O. S. Curtis and Brookmyer, most of whom are now gone from the town. Contributed 2009 by Pat McArthur Top of PageThis information is made available to the public for non-commercial purposes.
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