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

        [Page 280-283]

        MARTIN VAN BUREN McALPINE.  Among the many prominent residents of
     Monterey Township, Allegan County, none are more highly esteemed than
     is Mr. McAlpine.  He makes his home on section 22, where he owns a
     fine one hundred and twenty acre tract, and also eighty acres on
     section 27.  His property is all highly improved and under most ex-
     cellent cultivation.  He has erected good buildings on his estate,
     which is thus classed among the finest in the township.

        Our subject is the son of James M. and Lucinda (GRANGER) McAlpine,
     natives of Wayne County, N.Y.  Martin was born in Monroe County, the
     same State, June 24, 1843.  Two years later his parents removed to
     Michigan and settled in Allegan County where they have since resided.
     He was given a good education and remained under the parental roof
     assisting his father until reaching his majority.

        December 23, 1865, Martin McAlpine was joined in marriage with the
     estimable lady who so gracefully presides over his household and who
     bore the maiden name of Ellen M. KIBBY.  Her parents were George and
     Emily KIBBY, natives of Monroe County, N.Y., who came to Allegan
     County in an early day.  Our subject and his wife have become the
     parents of three children:  Edna, who is married to Frank E. BERRY,
     resides in Monterey Township, Allegan County; Martin B., born February
     5, 1868, received a good education in the Allegan schools and is now
     employed in the Grange store in Allegan;  Belle M., born October 8,
     1875, is attending school.

        Mr. McAlpine has always taken an interest in educational matters
     and taught two terms of schools.  He is President of the Kent, Allegan
     and Ottawa Counties Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and a stockholder
     in the Grange store at Allegan, as been President of the association
     for fourteen years.  In politics, he is a staunch Democrat and has
     been honored with the offices of Justice of the Peace, Township
     Treasurer and various other positions of responsibility.

        The mother of Mrs. McAlpine resides in the same house with her
     daughter and has attained to the ripe age of seventy years.  She was
     the mother of twelve children, ten of whom are living; thirty-one
     grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.  Every Christmas she
     receives a visit from her children and their children's children and
     we hope that she may live to enjoy that pleasure for many years to
     come.

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