Samuel A. Whitcomb (1815 - abt. 1885)

Born 4 Mar 1815 in Lyons, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Marie (Mugg) Whitcomb — married 11 Feb 1854 in Michigan [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 10 Apr 1885 at about age 70 in Kinderhook, Branch County, Michigan

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Biography

Youngest son of Samuel Whitcomb and Nancy Jacobs. At the age of seventeen, Samuel was apprenticed to the trade of a tanner and shoemaker. At twenty he purchased his time of his employer, and had a balance of two shillings and sixpence, with which to start business for himself. In 1839 he came to Michigan, and purchased in Kinderhook one hundred and sixty acres of land, aftwards a part of his presnet farm. He worked at his trade for about five years, and employed a man to improve the farm. In 1854 he was married to Miss Anna Mugg, of Steuben Co., Indiana. She died in 1872, and in 1876 he was married to Mrs. Mary E. Turner.

Mr. Whitcomb is one of the suffessful and enterprising farmers of Branch County. To his first purchase of one hundred and sixty acres he added over five hundred. Commencing life at twenty, with a capital of of two shillings and sixpence, his success is an evidence of what can be done by energetic indurstry and good management. In his political belief, Mr. Whitcomb is a sincere Republican and inverterate enemy of human slavery in every form. He was formerly an Abolitionist, and voted the first Abolition ticked polled in Kinderhook. A friend of improvements, every enterprise having for its object the advancement of the interest of his town finds in him a generous supporter.

Sources

• Crisfield Johnson; History of Branch County, Michigan; Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1879

• HISTORY OF ROBERT CHAFFIN AND HIS DESCENDANTS AND OF THE OTHER CHAFFINS IN AMERICA By WILLIAM L. CHAFFIN Author of "The History of Easton, Massachusetts" and "Robert Randall and His Descendants" FREDERICK H. HITCHCOCK GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHER 105 WEST FORTIETH STREET NEW YORK

• The Whitcomb family in America : a biographical genealogy with a chapter on our English forbears "by the name of Whetcombe" by Whitcomb, Charlotte, 1841- Publication date 1904

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Birth

Marriage

• "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3F6-FYM : 4 December 2014), Samuel A. Whitcomb and Mary E. Peterson Turner, 09 May 1876; citing Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan, v 1 p 121 rn 105, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 2,342,459.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLC-SLQ8 : 13 December 2015), Samuel A. Whitcomb, 1885; Burial, Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan, United States of America, Knauss Cemetery; citing record ID 90050005, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

Census Records

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHHD-HJ6 : 12 April 2016), Samuel A Whitcomb, Michigan, United States; citing p. 13, family 106, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,164.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW9Y-WVQ : 26 August 2017), Samuel Whitcomb, Kinderhook, Branch, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district ED 28, sheet 532A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0573; FHL microfilm 1,254,573.