Genesee-Isabella-Otsego County MI Archives Biographies.....Winglemire, Jacob R. 1856 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JACOB R. WINGLEMIRE, a rising young business man of Fenton, Genesee Connty, and
member of the manufacturing firm of Winglemire & Albertson, is also an extensive
retail dealer in furniture. He was born in Syracuse, N. Y., April 14, 1856 and
is a son of Joseph and Christine Winglemire, both of German birth. The father
was a tailor who served nine years in the German army, five years for himself
and afterward four years for another man. He came to America in 1852 and
followed his trade in Syracuse, N. Y. Six years later he removed to Holly,
Mich., where for some time he worked at his trade and afterward undertook
cabinet-making.

  .The parents of our subject are both living, as are also their four children,
and of this household our subject is the eldest. He received a common-school
education and learned the cabinet-making trade of his father at which he has
worked. In 1878, being then twenty-two years old, he located at Fenton, and
engaged in the furniture business in which he has since continued. He now
occupies a two-story brick building which he owns, and which is entirely filled
with his stock.

  Mr. Winglemire had associated with himself in business Emery Fretenburg and
William Albertson but now the firm is known as Winglemire & Albertson and they
have bought a building and grounds and put in machinery for the manufacture of
furniture, making a specialty of bedsteads, and shipping their goods mostly to
Brooklyn and New York City.

  Mr. Winglemire was in 1881 united in marriage with Vina Davis who was born at
Davisburg, Oakland County, Mich., and is a daughter of Isaac L. Davis who was
also born in Davisburg. The place was named for his father who was one of the
very earliest settlers there. Mr. Davis died in 1881 and his wife is still
living. The two children who have been born to our subject and his worthy wife
are Mabel H. and Agnes. He is a Republican in his political views but is not in
any sense a politician. He started out in life without means and besides the
business he has built up in Fenton he owns one hundred and fifty acres of fine
timber land in Isabel and Otsego Counties, Mich.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892

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