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1 Sterling Alonzo HURSH1,2,3 (1849- ) [5007]. Born 25 May 1849, Clyde, Wayne Co., NY.2 Marr Alice Gertrude TUBBS 25 Dec 1879, Loomis, MI.1,2
From Isabella County, Mich. Portrait and Biographical Sketches, 1884.
Sterling a Hursh is a farmer on section 17 of Wise Township, and was born in Clyde, Wayne Co., N.Y., May 25, 1849. His parents, John M. and Elizabeth (Brown) Hursh, were born respectively in Steuben and Chenango Cos., N.Y. Later in life they came to Michigan and settled in Isabella County. The father died in NOvember, 1877, in Loomis. The mother is a resident of Mt. Pleasaant. Mr. Hursh accompanied his parents to the Peninsular State when but seven years of age. He passed the years of his life previous to the age of 20 years in attendance at the common schools and engaged in farming. At the age named he became salesman in a store in Mt. Pleasant, where he remained a year, after which he worked some time in the woods. In the fall of 1871 he opened a country stoor at Loomis, in partnership with his father, and continued it's management until the summer of 1875, when he went to Fentonville, Genesee Co., Mich., where he engaged 18 months in the hotel business, after which he sold trees about six months. In the spring of 1877 he returned to Loomis, and was engaged in the woods chiefly until 1881, when he bought 120 acres of wild land on sections 17 and 18 of Wise Township. On this he has since lived and pushed the work of cleaning and improving. He has placed 30 acres under improvements, and has it all in tillage. In politics Mr. Hursh is a Republican, and has been active in the public welfare of Wise Township since its organization. He held the position of Township Treasurer one year. He was married at Loomis, Dec. 25, 1873, to Alice G., daughter of James and Charlotte (Bailey) Tubbs. (See sketch of James Tubbs.) She was born June 21, 1853 in Grand Blanc, Genesee Co., Mich. Of this marriage four children have been born, one of whom survives, - James. Eddie L. died when only three years old and two children died in infancy.
2 John M. HURSH2 ( -1877) [5033]. Born Steuben Co., NY.2 Died Nov 1877, Loomis, MI.2
3 Elizabeth BROWN2 ( - ) [5034]. Born Chenango Co., N.Y.2
| 1 | "Tubbs Family Records, Collected and Preserved by: Hon. Charles Tubbs (1843 - 1913) Tioga County, PA". |
| 2 | "Isabella County, Mich. Portrait and Biographical Sketches, 1884". |
| 3 | "Births, Deaths, Marriage Licences, and Marriages reported in "The Isabella County Enterprise 1875 - 1900, compiled by Eunice E. May, Barbara Lesser". |