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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        by Arthur St. Clair
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

  [569]

        W. F. ERNST, Deputy Collector Customs, is a native of Germany and,
     was born in Saxony April 1, 1839.  He emigrated to America in 1855,
     and two years later came to Port Huron, and was on a farm until the
     war, then enlisted and served in Battery B, First Light Artillery of
     Michigan.  Was taken prisoner in battle of Shiloh, and was held two
     months.  He was promoted to Lieutenant June 14, 1865.  After the war
     had a dry goods store at Point Edward until 1869, and the following
     year opened a grocery and crockery store at Port Huron, and engaged in
     that business until 1878, and the next year was appointed to his pre-
     sent position.  He is a member of the Masonic order, and belongs to
     Post G. A. R.  In 1869, he married Miss THERESA ORTTENBURGER, a native
     of the city of Berlin, Germany.  They have four sons - W. M., M. W.,
     B. W., and H. W.

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