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SOURCE: Portrait and Biographical Record of Kalamazoo, Allegan and
        Van Buren Counties, Michigan
        Chapman Bros, Chicago - 1892

        [Page 525-526]
        
        JOHN FROHM.  Many of Allegan County's best agriculturists have
     come to this country from across the seas, and among them we name
     the gentleman of whom we write, who was born March 14, 1845, in
     Schleswig, Germany.  He is at present a resident of Hopkins Town-
     ship, owning a fine farm of forty acres on section 2, which is
     taking his time and attention.
     
       The names of the parents of our subject were Henry and Doretta
    FROHM, natives of the same place as their son, where the father
    was born in 1809, and the mother in 1811.  They were married in
    the Fatherland and Mr. FROHM served as a soldier in the German
    army artillery.  They came in America in 1852, and settled in
    Baldwinsville, N.Y., he working on a farm there two and a half
    years.  He then came to Michigan in 1855, and located in Cooper
    Township, Kalamazoo County, where he remained for the same length
    of time, and finally came to Hopkins Township, this county.  Here
    he settled on section 3, on a wild swamp farm of eighty acres.  
    It was almost impassable at all times of the year, and only about
    ten acres of this was at all dry.  He paid fifty cents per acre
    for it and had to support his family by working out for others.
    His nearest neighbor was a mile away and no roads were laid out
    around him.  He remained on this place until his death, and made
    of it a good farm by draining it.  He died in 1888, his good wife
    preceding him the same year.  They both lie in the cemetery at 
    Ohio Corners and a fine monument marks their graves, costing
    $200.  They were the parents of ten children, five of whom sur-
    vive.  The mother was a devout member of the Christian Church,
    while the father belonged to the Lutheran Church.  In politics
    he was a Republican.
    
       Our subject had but poor chances for schooling, as he had to
    commence working out when only fourteen years old.  His first
    place was with Nelson CHAMBERS, of Wayland.  He helped to main-
    tain his parents until after he reached his majority.  He worked
    ten years for Edwin BYLES, of Dorr Township, in the lumber busi-
    ness.  The first land our subject owned was eighty acres on sec-
    tion 33, Dorr Township, which he cleared, cropped and stocked.
    This was before he was in the lumber business.  He then worked
    in Kalamazoo for Henry FIRST.  He has owned several pieces of
    land at different times.  He improved ten acres on section 2, 
    just east of his present farm, and also eighty acres on section
    21, where he put up a large granary, erected a house and barn 
    and fenced and drained his place, and likewise ten acres on
    section 14.  He also built a barn on section 35 in Dorr Township
    where he lived two years.
    
       September 14, 1876, was the date of the marriage of our sub-
    ject with Miss Angelina CLACK, a daughter of Frederick and Susan
    (HALL) CLACK, of Wayland Township, of whom a sketch will be found
    in this book.  Mrs. FROHM was born October 21, 1855, in Dorr Town-
    ship, and there received her education.  They have become the
    parents of one child, Lena, now nine years of age and attending
    school.  After his marriage, Mr. FROHM resided for one year in
    Dorr Township and then bought forty acres of his father's farm
    and cleared half of it, erecting a house.  December, 1890, he
    removed to his present farm and at once erected a granary, and
    in 1891 built his present attractive residence.  He has been 
    an industrious man all his life and not in the least afraid of
    hard work.  In politics, he is a stanch Republican and he and
    his wife are attendants of the various churches of the township
    and are considered good Christian people.
    
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