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Gratiot County, Michigan

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Profiles

  • Crystal Harris (1883 - 1936)
  • William C. Daniels (1818 - 1895)
  • Oscar Wertanen (1898 - 1930)
  • Harriet Lillian Douglas (1870 - 1947)
    Page 53 Bibliographic information: The Hartwells of America; a genealogy of all the Hartwell families of the United States and Canada by Densmore, Lyman Willard, 1832-1898 Publication date...
  • John Melvin Douglas (1869 - 1947)
    Previous marriage, 1897, to Iva May Lawrence: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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The county is named for Captain Charles Gratiot, who supervised the building of Port Huron's Fort Gratiot.

The original founders of Ithaca and of Alma were settlers from New England, "Yankees", descended from the English Puritans who settled the northeastern coast of the new continent in the 1600s. The Gratiot County settlers were farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory during the early 1800s. Most of them arrived as a result of the completion of the Erie Canal as well as the close of the Black Hawk War. They arrived to virgin forest and wild prairie, but laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings and established post routes. They maintained their customs, such as passion for education, and abhorrence of the existing slave trade. They were members of the Congregationalist Church or the Episcopal Church. In the 1890s, German immigrants began settling in Gratiot County.

Adjacent Counties

Cities, Towns & Villages

  • Alma
  • Ashley
  • Breckenridge
  • Bridgeville
  • Ithaca (County Seat)
  • Langport
  • Ola
  • Perrinton
  • St. Louis

Other Townships & Communities: Arcada, Bannister, Beebe, Bethany, Edgewood, Elba, Elm Hall, Elwell, Emerson, Forest Hill, Fulton, Galloway, Hamilton, Lafayette, Middleton, New Haven, New Haven Center, Newark, North Shade, North Star, Pine River, Pompeii, Rathbone, Riverdale, Sethton, Seville, Sickles, Sumner, Washington and Wheeler

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Michigan

Wikipedia

Genealogy Trails

MI Gen Web

Gratiot County Historical & Genealogical Society

National Register of Historic Places

Michigan Family History Network

RAOGK

Forebears.io

USGW Archives



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