WILBUR N. PIERPONT.

Holding worthy prestige as a citizen and distinctively one of the leading farmers of the township in which he resides, the subject of this review occupies an important place among the representative men of Isabella county and it is with much satisfaction that the biographer presents in this connection the following outline of his career and a modest tribute to his worth. Wilbur N. Pierpont is a native of Livingston county, New York, born in the town of Lima, September 28, 1865. When eight years old he was taken by his parents to Owosso, Michigan, where he grew to maturity in close touch with the soil and until attaining his majority worked at farm labor in the summer time and during the winter months he attended the district schools, also the high school at Owosso, graduating in 1885. Reared to agricultural pursuits, he early decided to devote his life to the cultivation of the soil, accordingly in November, 1891 he came to Isabella county and purchased eighty acres off land in section 15, Fremont township, which be at once proceeded to improve and which he subsequently increased by a forty-acre tract adjoining, making his home place of one hundred and twenty acres one of the finest and most desirable farms in the township.

From the beginning of his career to the, present time. Mr. Pierpont has been uniformly successful and in addition to the farm on which; he resides he now owns other valuable lands, including eighty acres in section 3 of the above township, and a like number of acres in section,23 his real estate amounting to two hundred and eighty acres, being among the, best and most desirable in the county, and increasing in value with, each recurring year.   As a farmer he easily ranks among the most enterprising and successful of the township in which, he lives, being progressive in his ideas, a believer in modern improvements and cultivating the soil according to the latest and most approved methods. By remodeling his dwelling and adding a number of modern conveniences, he now has a commodious and. comfortable home with attractive surroundings and his other buildings, including a substantial barn, leave little to be desired in the way of improvements. While devoted to his calling and making every other consideration subordinate thereto, he takes an active interest in the advancement of the community, lends his influence and

Support to all laudable measures for the welfare of his fellow men and is ever ready to encourage enterprises having for their object the general good of his county and state. A Democrat in politics, he was four times elected  supervisor and served in that capacity, during which time he discharged his duties in a straightforward, business-like manner and proved, in the most liberal meaning of the term, an able and judicious official. He has been one of the directors of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Isabella county for the past twelve years. Fraternally, Mr. Pierpont is identified with the ancient and honorable order of Freemasonry, belonging to Cedar Valley Lodge No.  383, and also holds membership with Cedar Ridge Lodge No. 540, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, besides being a leading spirit in the Eastern Star chapter, the Grange, the Loyal Guard and the Knights of the Maccabees, in all of which organizations he has been honored at intervals with important official trusts'

The domestic life of Mr. Pierpont dates from the year 1888, when he was united in marriage with Georgia M. Mack, whose birth occurred on the 6th of May, 1869. Mrs. Pierpont's parents, William and Jane (McCrea) Mack were natives of Canada, born in the years 1832 and 1837, respectively. They came to Michigan a number of years ago and spent the remainder of their lives in this state, both dying at Owosso, the mother in 1883, the father in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Pierpont have two, children, Clarence N., born in the town of Owosso, on April 20, i890, and David W., whose birth occurred in Fremont township, Isabella county, January 1, 1892,  both being intelligent and manly young men and their father's efficient 'assistants in cultivating the farm.

 Samuel N. Pierpont, the subject's father, was born in Livingston county, New York, in 1830, and in 1874 moved his family to Owosso, Michigan, where he continued -to -reside until the death of his wife in 1904, since which time he has made his home with his son, Wilbur N., in Isabella county. Augusta Wilbur, wife of Samuel Pierpont and mother of the subject', was born in North Londonderry, Vermont, in 1837, and departed this life at Owosso in the year indicated above.