340 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



He held positions of trust, among them the office of postmaster of 

 Jersey, Oakland county, for thirty years. He was greatly interested in 

 improved live stock breeding and established a fine herd of Shorthorn 

 cattle and flock of Shropshire sheep. He was an active member and 

 officer of the Oakland County Agricultural Society. In 1880 he was 

 elected a memlDer of the executive committee of this society and con- 

 tinued a member to the time of his death, at Pontiac October 23, 1901. 



In his private life he was a kind and helpful neighbor, honorable in 

 business, a patriotic citizen, loved and respected by all who knew him. 



