The Garland Families of Berrien County, Michigan

HORACE W. GARLAND, starting out in life for himself at the age of twenty-two years, is now numbered among the sub-

7o6 stantial farmers of Bainbfidge to\vnship, having a good property well equipped with modern conveniences and accessories. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 5, 1855, his parents being Horace and Catherine Garland, the former a native of New Hampshire. The family was founded in America by five brothers, who came from England and settled at Rye, New Hampshire. Horace Garland, Sr., was a fruitraiser, and on leaving.New England removed to Iowa in 1855. After eight years he came to Berrien county in 1863 and settled one mile south and a mile east of Benton Harbor. There he engaged in farming until he removed to California, where for three years he remained at Petaluma. On the expiration of that period he went to Kansas, where he spent his remaining days. He secured about forty acres of land near Benton Harbor and was one of the pioneer residents of this section of the state. His wife died in Iowa, leaving two children: Horace; and Edgar Garland, of Berrien Springs, who is president of that village. He sold his farm near Berrien Springs, where the Adventist College now stands, for ten thousand dollars. He is now comfortably situated in life and is living retired in Berrien Springs, having a competence sufficient to supply him with all of the comforts and luxuries of life without recourse to further labor. He owns several buildings in Berrien Springs and these return to him a good rental. A half sister of the family is still living.

Horace W. Garland, spending the days of his boyhood and youth under the parental roof, was educated in the common schools and gained practical experience in farm labor through the assistance which he rendered in the care and cultivation of the fields. When twenty-two years of age he was married toMissFloraKirkpatrick,a daughter of P. C. Kirkpatrick, a well known farmer of this county, who had come from Iowa to Michigan. Mr. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Garland removed from this state to Texas, and after a year spent in that state and in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Mr. Garland went to Kansas, settling in Harper county in 1879.

He proved up a claim of government land and continued his residence in Kansas for fifteen years. He also went to Oklahoma, where he opened up a farm and during the fifteen years mentioned he made considerable progress in business life, his financial resources increasing as the result of his careful management and discrimination in business affairs. While living in Kansas his wife died and in 1894 he returned to Michigan, while two years later he located on his present farm near Spink's Corners in Bainbridge township, securing eighty acres of land about half of which is set out to fruit, there being thirty acres planted to peaches, grapes and berries. Mr. Garland sold goods in the town of Harper, Kansas, for nine years. He went to that state when it was largely a new and undeveloped region and he lived in a sod house without doors or windows. His attention in later years has been devoted to fruit-raising and he is a horticulturist with good orchards, to the care of which he gives his supervision. He secures the best nursery stock and the fruit which is shipped from his place is noted for its excellent size, quality and flavor.

Mr. and Mrs. Garland were the parents of four daughters and one son: Carrie, now the wife of Charles Bishop, of Benton township; Lillian, the wife of Harry Grossman, of Bainbridge; Florence, who wedded Ruben Sutherland of Pipestone township; Ollie, the wife of Ed. Chivis, of Bainbridge township; and Fred, at home. Mr. Garland has been again married, his second union being with Mary Line, of Ohio. He exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him. His life has been somewhat eventful in its experiences in the west and the southwest and he is familiar with all that goes to make up a frontier existence, for in pioneer days in Kansas he contributed to the early development and progress of the locality in which he lived. He is now concentrating his energies upon horticultural pursuits in the care and management of his farm here, and although his residence in Berrien county has not been con-

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EDGAR F. GARLAND, president of the village board of Berrien Springs,, and well fitted for leadership by reason of his devotion to the general good and his natural business capacity and enterprise, was born in Cedar county, Iowa, August 21, 1857. His father, Horace Garland, was a native of New Hampshire and became one of the early settlers of Cedar county, Iowa, where he took up his above in 1855. He removed from that state to Michigan in 1863, locating at Benton Harbor. There he engaged in general farming and fruit raising for a number of years but died in Kansas at the age of sixty-three years. He had in the meantime removed from Michigan to California, and later had taken up his above in the Sunflower state. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Catharine Webster, was a native of New Hampshire and died about 1860. There were two sons in the family, Horace being a resident of Bainbridge township, Berrien county.

Edgar F. Garland, the younger son, was about six years of age when he came to Berrien county, Michigan, with his parents. He was reared near Bentor Harbor and attended the district schools, while later he became a student in the high school at Benton Harbor. He then started out in life on his own account and the success that he has achieved is attributable entirely to his own labors. For ten years he operated a farm for the Northwestern Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this land being located in Benton township. He afterward for five years operated a farm for William Hamilton near Benton Harbor, and about 1890 he came to Berrien Springs, where he

<.e 2x2< purchased a part of what is know as the College farm. Selling this place he located on a farm where he now resides and for some time he has owned this property. He has a fine fruit farm of ten acres inside the corporate limits of Berrien Springs and eight and a quarter acres adjoining, but just outside the corporation.

He has made most of the improvements upon the place and it is a valuable property, from which he annually gathers a large fruit crop. He secures only the best nursery stock and his orchards are now in excellent bearing condition.

In 1886 Mr. Garland was united in marriage to Miss Anna King, a daughter of John and Anna King, of Benton township. Mrs. Garland was born in Chicago, and by her marriage has become the mother of two children, Walter and Allen, both at home. In his political views Mr. Garland is an earnest Republican, stanchly advocating the principles of the party and keeping well informed on the questions of the day. He is recognized as a leader in its local ranks, and the confidence reposed in him by his fellow townsmen is indicated by the fact that he is now serving as president of the village board, to which office he was chosen by popular suffrage. He has been identified with the interests of Berrien county for forty-three years and is well known in the neighborhood as a man fully worthy the respect which is uniformly accorded him.

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J. A. GARLAND, M. D., who in the successful practice of his profession has demonstrated his broad knowledge of medical principles and approved methods of the healing art, was born in Peoria, Illinois, June 15, 1871, and is the only child of Asa and Marietta (McClelland) Garland. The father, a native of Glasgow,. Scotland, spent his boyhood and youth in that country and came to America when about thirty years of age. He was married in Peoria, Illinois, in 1869, to Miss Marietta McClelland, who was born in this country but was of Scotch lineage. His death occurred March 1, 1871, and his widow, still surviving him, resides with Dr. Garland.

In the public and high schools of Chicago Dr. Garland continued his studies and supplemented his preliminary education by professional training in the Northwestern University, being graduated from the medical department in 1895. He afterward pursued post graduate work in Chicago for a year and in June, 1896, came to Buchanan, since which time he has continued in active practice with a patronage that is constant growing in volume and importance. The public opinion concerning his ability is generally favorable and his skill has been demonstrated in his successful care of many intricate cases and his solution of many difficult medical problems.

On the 27th of November, 1901, Dr. Garland wedded Miss Gertrude Friesleven, who was born in Chicago, and is a daughter of Justus Friesleven, a native of Germany. Dr. Garland has been a Mason for ten years, belonging to the blue lodge, and is also connected with the Knights of the Maccabees and the Modern Woodmen. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party and for many years he has served as township health officer. In the line of his profession his membership relations are with the Berrien County Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the Red Cross Society, and he is neglectful of no professional duty but maintains a high standard of ethics as a representative of the medical fraternity.

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