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Born 1857, Cedar county
From A twentieth century history of Berrien County, Michigan (1906)
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.
As printed in A twentieth century history of Berrien County, Michigan (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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