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Biographical History of Northern Michigan
B. F. Bowen & Co., - 1905

        [52-53]

        ALFRED E. WARDROP

        The subject of this review became identified with the lumbering
     industry of northern Michigan more than thirty years ago, and in the
     connection he had his full quota of experience in the cutting of the
     native timber, the driving of the logs down the streams and the
     various other strenuous details which marked the great industry
     which initiated the advancement of this section. He has been a
     resident of Antrim county since 1873, having come here when a mere
     lad, and he is now the owner of a farm of forty acres in Central Lake
     township.
        MR. WARDROP is a native of the dominion of Canada, having been born
     in Brantford township, Brant county, province of Ontario, on the 3d of
     August, 1860. He is a son of GEORGE and ANN S. (WHEATON) WARDROP, both
     of whom are now deceased. His father was born and reared in Scotland,
     whence he came to Canada in his youth. He became a buyer of timber
     lands for various companies and also was a practical surveyor, while
     finally he took up the study of the law, being admitted to the bar and
     having thereafter been engaged in the practice of his profession until
     his death, which occurred in Charlevoix county, Michigan, in which
     state he had maintained his home for a number of years. Of his nine
     children all are living except two, the names, in order of birth,
     being as follows: ALFRED E., EDWIN A., WALTER E. (deceased), RACHEL
     J., ELIZABETH, MARY, JOHN (deceased), WALTER and LILLIAN.
        The subject of this review secured his educational discipline in
     the public schools and early began to depend upon his own resources,
     while he was sixteen years of age at the time of the family removal to
     Michigan. In 1876, at the age of sixteen years, he came to the
     northern part of the state and settled Melrose township, Charlevoix
     county, where he began working in the lumber woods, continuing his
     residence in that county for a term of several years. In 1881he came
     to Antrim county, where he continued to be concerned in lumbering for
     some time, and he finally secured his present farm, which comprises
     forty acres of good land, of which twelve are under cultivation. In
     addition to raising the various cereals he has devoted considerable
     attention to growing vegetables for canning purposes, selling the
     products to the canning factory in the neighboring village of Central
     Lake. He has always worked hard and has endured his share of hardships
     and privations, but he has attained to independencethrough his efforts
     and is one of the respected and well known pioneers of Antrim county.
     In politics he is a stanch Republican, but has never been an aspirant
     for office of any sort.
        In January, 1896, MR. WARDROP was married to MISS SARAH MAXWELL,
     daughter of ARTHUR and ELIZA (DeFOREST) MAXWELL, pioneers of this
     section, and the only child of this union is GEORGE A., who is attend-
     ing school in the neighborhood and beginning to assist his father in
     the work of the farm.

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