The following information is obtained from an OCR copy of Chapman Bros., Portrait and Biographical Album of Clinton and Shiawassee Counties, Mich., 1885 (NOTE: this volume is not under copyright, being in the public domain):
SAMUEL SHUSTER [the eldest of twelve children of John Shuster and Elizabeth Wingate] has a fine farm and excellent farm buildings on section 15, Rush Township, Shiawassee County. He was one of the pioneers of this section and located his farm by means of a pocket compass. He has always been a great worker and is well known in that way throughout the township. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 11, 1821. His father, John, a farmer, was born October 4, 1800, in Washington County, Pa. . . . . . He moved to Ohio at the age of fifteen years with his father, and when seventeen years old, his father died, and a guardian was appointed over the son.
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Very scanty opportunities for education were offered to Samuel Shuster and he attended school in all only seven months and seventeen days. He started at the age of twenty-one to work out by the month at ^10 [sic] a month. He took a job of clearing land, chopping five acres for ^25 [sic], half in money and half in wheat, and succeeded in clearing it in twenty and one-half days. This was in Hardin County, Ohio. For several years he worked at different points and at various avocations. He had learned the plasterer's trade and was employed in that part of the time. He moved to Ada, Ohio, and built a house and resided there two years.
Coming to Michigan in 1854 Mr. Shuster located his own land, built a house and cleared the timber. He drove a pair of steers from Ohio to a point near where Henderson now stands. He was married November 29, 1849 to Elizabeth Main, a daughter of Timothy and Mary (Gilpin) Main, who were from Southeastern Ohio. Elizabeth was the eldest of the family of two sons and four daughters and was born January 29, 1930. Mrs. Elizabeth Shuster died December 24, 1859, leaving to her husband three sons, Sanford, Anson and John.
During the following year, Mr. Shuster was joined in marriage with Mrs. Lucy (Freeman) Rush. She is a daughter of Richard Freeman of English birth, the father of twelve children of whom Lucy was the second, being born in 1835, in Oakland County, Mich. She has presented her husband with five children, namely: Elizabeth, Jane, Athelia, Leslie and Edna.
SAMUEL SHUSTER [the eldest of twelve children of John Shuster and Elizabeth Wingate] has a fine farm and excellent farm buildings on section 15, Rush Township, Shiawassee County. He was one of the pioneers of this section and located his farm by means of a pocket compass. He has always been a great worker and is well known in that way throughout the township. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 11, 1821. His father, John, a farmer, was born October 4, 1800, in Washington County, Pa. . . . . . He moved to Ohio at the age of fifteen years with his father, and when seventeen years old, his father died, and a guardian was appointed over the son.
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Very scanty opportunities for education were offered to Samuel Shuster and he attended school in all only seven months and seventeen days. He started at the age of twenty-one to work out by the month at ^10 [sic] a month. He took a job of clearing land, chopping five acres for ^25 [sic], half in money and half in wheat, and succeeded in clearing it in twenty and one-half days. This was in Hardin County, Ohio. For several years he worked at different points and at various avocations. He had learned the plasterer's trade and was employed in that part of the time. He moved to Ada, Ohio, and built a house and resided there two years.
Coming to Michigan in 1854 Mr. Shuster located his own land, built a house and cleared the timber. He drove a pair of steers from Ohio to a point near where Henderson now stands. He was married November 29, 1849 to Elizabeth Main, a daughter of Timothy and Mary (Gilpin) Main, who were from Southeastern Ohio. Elizabeth was the eldest of the family of two sons and four daughters and was born January 29, 1930. Mrs. Elizabeth Shuster died December 24, 1859, leaving to her husband three sons, Sanford, Anson and John.
During the following year, Mr. Shuster was joined in marriage with Mrs. Lucy (Freeman) Rush. She is a daughter of Richard Freeman of English birth, the father of twelve children of whom Lucy was the second, being born in 1835, in Oakland County, Mich. She has presented her husband with five children, namely: Elizabeth, Jane, Athelia, Leslie and Edna.
The following information is obtained from an OCR copy of Chapman Bros., Portrait and Biographical Album of Clinton and Shiawassee Counties, Mich., 1885 (NOTE: this volume is not under copyright, being in the public domain):
SAMUEL SHUSTER [the eldest of twelve children of John Shuster and Elizabeth Wingate] has a fine farm and excellent farm buildings on section 15, Rush Township, Shiawassee County. He was one of the pioneers of this section and located his farm by means of a pocket compass. He has always been a great worker and is well known in that way throughout the township. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 11, 1821. His father, John, a farmer, was born October 4, 1800, in Washington County, Pa. . . . . . He moved to Ohio at the age of fifteen years with his father, and when seventeen years old, his father died, and a guardian was appointed over the son.
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Very scanty opportunities for education were offered to Samuel Shuster and he attended school in all only seven months and seventeen days. He started at the age of twenty-one to work out by the month at ^10 [sic] a month. He took a job of clearing land, chopping five acres for ^25 [sic], half in money and half in wheat, and succeeded in clearing it in twenty and one-half days. This was in Hardin County, Ohio. For several years he worked at different points and at various avocations. He had learned the plasterer's trade and was employed in that part of the time. He moved to Ada, Ohio, and built a house and resided there two years.
Coming to Michigan in 1854 Mr. Shuster located his own land, built a house and cleared the timber. He drove a pair of steers from Ohio to a point near where Henderson now stands. He was married November 29, 1849 to Elizabeth Main, a daughter of Timothy and Mary (Gilpin) Main, who were from Southeastern Ohio. Elizabeth was the eldest of the family of two sons and four daughters and was born January 29, 1930. Mrs. Elizabeth Shuster died December 24, 1859, leaving to her husband three sons, Sanford, Anson and John.
During the following year, Mr. Shuster was joined in marriage with Mrs. Lucy (Freeman) Rush. She is a daughter of Richard Freeman of English birth, the father of twelve children of whom Lucy was the second, being born in 1835, in Oakland County, Mich. She has presented her husband with five children, namely: Elizabeth, Jane, Athelia, Leslie and Edna.
SAMUEL SHUSTER [the eldest of twelve children of John Shuster and Elizabeth Wingate] has a fine farm and excellent farm buildings on section 15, Rush Township, Shiawassee County. He was one of the pioneers of this section and located his farm by means of a pocket compass. He has always been a great worker and is well known in that way throughout the township. He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, July 11, 1821. His father, John, a farmer, was born October 4, 1800, in Washington County, Pa. . . . . . He moved to Ohio at the age of fifteen years with his father, and when seventeen years old, his father died, and a guardian was appointed over the son.
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Very scanty opportunities for education were offered to Samuel Shuster and he attended school in all only seven months and seventeen days. He started at the age of twenty-one to work out by the month at ^10 [sic] a month. He took a job of clearing land, chopping five acres for ^25 [sic], half in money and half in wheat, and succeeded in clearing it in twenty and one-half days. This was in Hardin County, Ohio. For several years he worked at different points and at various avocations. He had learned the plasterer's trade and was employed in that part of the time. He moved to Ada, Ohio, and built a house and resided there two years.
Coming to Michigan in 1854 Mr. Shuster located his own land, built a house and cleared the timber. He drove a pair of steers from Ohio to a point near where Henderson now stands. He was married November 29, 1849 to Elizabeth Main, a daughter of Timothy and Mary (Gilpin) Main, who were from Southeastern Ohio. Elizabeth was the eldest of the family of two sons and four daughters and was born January 29, 1930. Mrs. Elizabeth Shuster died December 24, 1859, leaving to her husband three sons, Sanford, Anson and John.
During the following year, Mr. Shuster was joined in marriage with Mrs. Lucy (Freeman) Rush. She is a daughter of Richard Freeman of English birth, the father of twelve children of whom Lucy was the second, being born in 1835, in Oakland County, Mich. She has presented her husband with five children, namely: Elizabeth, Jane, Athelia, Leslie and Edna.
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