Osceola County MI Archives Biographies.....Mc Carn, Alanson J. March 17, 1842 -
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Author: Chapman Brothers, Chicago
Alanson J. McCarn, farmer and lumberman, located on section 8, Sylvan
Township, was born March 17, 1842, in Plymouth,
Wayne Co., N.Y. Jonas McCarn, his father, was a native of New York and
removed his family in 1856 to Perry, Shiawassee
Co., Mich., where he died, Sept. 11, 1884, aged 75 years. His mother Abbie
McCarn, was born i the Mohawk Valley, in New
York, and is living in Shiawassee County, aged 72 years.
Mr. McCarn was a pupil in the common schools of his native place until the
removal of the family to Perry, when he was
14 years old. A year later he took the direction of his career into his own
hands, and when 17 years of age began
teaching. He pursued that calling as a vocation until the second year of the
war, when he entered the army. He
enlisted Oct 31, 1862, in the Seventh Mich. Cav., Co. G, in which he was
appointed Sergeant. His company was under
Lieut Geo. W. Hill, and the command was assigned to the Army of the Potomac.
He was in some of the hottest and hardest
fought battles of the war, among which was the action at Gettysburg, where he
received severe wounds. A shot passed
through the right lung, emerging from his body under his right arm and
crashing through the muscles of that member. He
was transferred from the field hospital at Gettysburg to Finley Hospital,
Washington, D.C., whence he was discharged
June 2, 1865.
Soon after his return he was married and rented a farm in Perry Township,
which he occupied about six years. In 1876 he
sold his farming interests and bought village property at Perry Center, and
established a mercantile enterprise which he
continued to conduct until his removal to Evart in the autumn of 1874. He
embarked in the same business at that place
and managed its relations one year. At the end of that time he purchased 200
acres of unbroken forest land in Sylvan
Township, becoming one of the earliest settlers north of the Muskegon River.
He has since sold a small portion of his
place and added 80 acres in Hartwick Township to his possessions. He has made
many improvements on his property. In
1883 he became the proprietor of a saw-mill and has since managed an extensive
lumbering manufacture. In political
preference he is a Republican of decided opinions. He has held several
important local official positions, as
Supervisor, Treasurer, etc., and is present School Inspector. He is a member
of the Order of Odd Fellows at Perry
Center.
Mr. McCarn was married June 26, 1865, to Evelyn M. Durant. Their children
were born as follows: Charles, May 14, 1866;
Ernest, Jan. 8, 1872; Lynn, AApril 26, 1881. Their mother is the daughter of
Nathaniel and Harriet (Bridger) Durant,
and was born Nov. 3, 1842. Her father died in Huron Co., Ohio, when she was
four years of age. Her mother was born in
England and died in 1881 in Perry. Mrs. McCarn was carefully educated and
began teaching when 18 years of age.
Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Osceola Co.
Chapman Brothers, Chicago
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