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

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       BENJAMIN HILLIER, master car-builder P. H. & N. W. R. R., is a
       native of Canada, and was born in Toronto July 13, 1846. In 1858,
       went to Missouri, and lived there three years, and came to Port
       Huron in 1861, and engaged in ship-building; built the scow H.
       Moore, and sailed her, and afterward engaged in ship building again.
       In 1874, he began working in the shops of the Chicago & Grand Trunk
       Railroad, and remained there six years. In 1880, he accepted his
       present position of master car-builder of the Port Huron &
       Northwestern Narrow Guage Railroad. He married Miss CATHARINE
       BUZZARD, a native of this State, December 21, 1870. They have two
       children, ARTHUR and JENNIE.

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