P B Richardson's biography, Tuscola, Tuscola County, Michigan

Copyright (c) 2000 by Bonnie Petee. This copy contributed for use in 
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Taken from, "The History of Tuscola County," H. R. Page Co., Chicago, 1883. 
Contributed by Bonnie Petee.

P. B. RICHARDSON is a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, and was born in 1814. For a time worked in the United States armory there, and for the Boston & Springfield Company, making and repairing cotton machinery; came to Tuscola in 1854, where he
has since resided, and engaged in mercantile business, occupying for two or three years the Tuscola store, built by Col. J. H. Richardson - the first store built in the county.  He then built his present store, and has since been doing a general mercantile business in the building he erected.  He also has a fine farm
of 160 acres, on section 33, Tuscola Township, and has built thereon a residence, at a cost of $2,000; keeping some of the finest stock in the county, among which may be mentioned a number of Holstein cattle, which he imported from Germany, three Norman
Percheron horses, brought out from France, and a Hambletonian stallion.  He also brought with him from the East two Morgan horses.  He sold, in 1882, two Holstein cows for $525, and two calves and a yearling for $425.

Mr. Richardson has been under-sheriff a number of terms, and also constable.   He was married at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, to Miss Abigail S. Graves, by whom he has had two sons and one daughter.