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History of the Lake Huron Shore
H. R. Page & Co., - 1883

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           D. B. MUDGETT, one of the leading citizens of Alcona County, is
        a native of New Hampshire and was born in the year 1839. His
        parents moved to the State of New York, where he lived until the
        breaking out of the war.  In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company F.,
        Thirty-Fourth Regiment New York Volunteers, and was in the service
        three years.  During a portion of that time he was an inmate of
        Libby prison, and experienced its severest hardships and cruelties.
        Few survivors know better what was endured there than he. In 1867
        he made up his mind to go West and make a home, and he came with
        his family to Harrisville.  He had a team of no great value, and
        was engaged in jobbing and whatever he could find to do. In 1869 he
        purchased 280 acres of land about three miles from the village of
        Harrisville and began to carve out a fortune. He was heavily in
        debt, but his operations both in farming and lumbering were
        successful, and many years had not passed until he had attained a
        position of independence. He now has 200 acres of land under culti-
        vation, fine buildings and the finest farm on the shore. He is
        still engaged in lumbering. He has a wife and four children. Two
        children have been taken from them by death. No man on the Shore
        sustains a better reputation than MR. MUDGETT. He does business
        quietly and is unpretentious in all his movements, but is liberal
        and enterprising in every measure that is calculated to be of bene-
        fit. In all that he does he aims to the best, as is attested by his
        lumbering equipment, stock and farm.


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