John McKewen, farmer, sec. 27, Deerfield Tp., was born in Canada, May 14, 1855. He is a son of Michael and Julia (Levick) McKewen, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Canada. In 1871 the parents moved to Shiawassee Co., Mich., where the father died in February 1882 when the son was 16 years of age. Six years later, John came to Deerfield Tp., and bought 40 acres of land on sec. 28, then in a wholly unimproved condition, and has since purchased 40 acres on sec. 27, where he is now resident. He married Oct. 30, 1880, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Martin) O’Neil. In the following year Mr. McKewen took a journey West on account of health of his wife, but all efforts were unavailing, and she died Aug. 20, 1881, of liver disease, from which she was ill eight months.
In politics Mr. McKewen is independent, in religion he is a Roman Catholic.
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