Henry Ide

Henry Ide, born in Niagara County, New York, in 1854, where he lived until fourteen years of age, when his parents moved to Mattawan, Van Buren County, Michigan, where he was brought up on a farm.  In 1872 he went to Bronson, where he engaged in engineering and was employed in the mills of Reynolds & Williams, and Crawford & McClellan.

He arrived in Kingsley in April 1884, where he was employed in engineering. Henry married Alice Catton on 15 July 1881.  His father, W. S. Ide, resides in Petoskey, Michigan, where he owns farming and village lands.  W.S., is also a land owner in Kingsley.

Source: The Traverse Region, published 1884.

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