Earl G. Post
Earl G. Post
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EARL G. POSTEarl G. Post was born in Potter County, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1854, and is a son of Jonathan B. and Sophia S. (Chamberlain) Post, natives of New York and Pennsylvania, respectively. In the spring of 1858 or 1859 the family moved to Oakland County, Michigan, the father buying a farm in Avon township, which he later sold and purchased another in Springfield township, this county, living on the latter place until 1874, when he sold out and moved to Kansas, his son Earl G. Post accompanying him. The father took up government land in the Sunflower state and there he and his brother-in-law built a combination grist and sawmill. There, Jonathan B. Post spent the rest of his life, dying about twenty-eight years ago when comparatively young. His widow is still living at Wakeeney, Kansas. Earl G. Post spent only three months in Kansas. Returning to Genesee County, Michigan, he worked two years making potash. In 1877 he married and began farming, his wife owning some land, and he bought more land in Davison Township and engaged in farming until eighteen or twenty years ago. Upon leaving the farm he entered the produce business in Davison, which he followed several years, then turned his attention to handling coal and building material and all grades of coal. Politically, he is a Republican and served as treasurer of Davison Township for four years. In 1877, Earl G. Post was married to Carrie M. Seelye, who was born in Davison Township, this county, where she grew up and was educated. She is a daughter of Alson and Lorenza (Wicker) Seelye, the former of whom was born in Saratoga county, New York, and when a young man came to Michigan and took up government land in section 33, four miles south and one-half mile west of the village of Davison. He and his brother cleared the first land in that township, being among the earliest pioneers there. In 1842 Alson Seelye married Lorenza Wicker, a native of Rutland, Vermont, and a daughter of Reuben and Repentence (Ives) Wicker. She came to Genesee County, Michigan with her parents in 1836, the family locating in Groveland, where the father died a short time later. After his marriage, Alson Seelye moved upon the farm he had entered from the government, improved the same and there he and his wife spent the rest of their lives. He also purchased eighty acres from Lysander Van Tyne, making a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. During his first years of farming here he was compelled to haul his grain to Pontiac to market and to have it ground. His death occurred in 1852. He was handy with tools, and in the early days made spinning wheels and reels for the settlers, working in his shop during the winter months and farming in the summer time. When he first came here the country was covered with a dense forest. Indians and wolves were plentiful. Four children have been born to Mr. And Mrs. Post, namely: Lorenza S., who married William Dillenbeck of Davison, and has two children; Harry G. and Beulah; Lent Earl, who married Gladys Siple and has one son, Merwin; Ethel C., who married Wilbert Blue who lives on the old Seelye farm, and has three children, Earl, Vernon Wilbert and an infant and Pearl, who is at home.
This article was transcribed by Mrs. Mary E.
Byam from a work by Edwin O. Wood, LL.D., President Michigan Historical
Commission, History of Genesee County Michigan Volume II, Her People,
Industries and Institutions (Federal Publishing Company: Indianapolis, Indiana,
1916), Pages 706ff |
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