EDWARD GILCHRIST, farmer on sec. 28, Mecosta Tp., was born in Canada, May 28, 1855. He is a son of Philip and Paulina (Kake) Gilchrist, natives of the Dominion. His parents came to St. Clair Co., Mich., when he was one year old. After a few years they returned to Canada. They afterward came back to Michigan to make a permanent settlement, and located near Port Huron, going thence three years later to Sanilac County, remaining about six years. Edward Gilchrist continued to reside there, and in the summer of 1871 began to interest himself in lumbering, where he was occupied until 1876. In that year Mr. Gilchrist bought 40 acres where he now resides in Mecosta Tp. It was then a dense forest and required laborious and unremitting exertion to reduce it to a condition suitable to comfortable support. The place had 15 acres under tillage. Mr. Gilchrist is a Democrat of but moderate pretensions. He is now Director of School District No. 5; has liberal religious views.
He was married in February, 1878, to Emma, daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Wadsworth) Mong. Her parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. The daughter was born in Venango Co., Pa., Aug. 31, 1859, and came with her parents to Michigan in 1869. The two children of Mr. and Mrs. Gilchrist were born as follows: John J., Sept. 9, 1876, and Pearl, Sept. 27, 1880.
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