North Star Township Biography
WILLIAM H. STEDMAN
Source: BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF GRATIOT COUNTY, MICHIGAN published by J. B. BEERS & CO., Chicago, 1906
WILLIAM H. STEDMAN, who has been prominently identified with the agricultural interests of North Star township, Gratiot county, for a number of years, was born March 29, 1841, in Warren, Warren county, Pennsylvania, son of John W. and Mary P. (Sharp) Stedman.
John W. Stedman was born September 14, 1808, in Connecticut and his wife in New York, May 5, 1813. His death occurred in Ashley, Michigan, about a year and a half after removing from Gratiot county, October 22, 1890. He had settled in North Star township, Gratiot county, in 1857, coming from Livingston county, where his wife had died April 26, 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Stedman were the parents of seven children who grew to maturity, of which family our subject is the fifth member.
When he was fifteen years old William H. Stedman came with his father to Gratiot county, and has been a resident of North Star township since that time, with the exception of the time spent in his country's service. Mr. Stedman enlisted August 8, 1862, in Company A, Twenty-third Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served gallantly until July 12, 1865, when he was mustered out of service. He was a participant of the siege of Knoxville, Tennessee, and at Paris, Kentucky, being in the campaigns in East Tennessee.
After the war Mr. Stedman returned to North Star township, where he has since engaged in farming. He has a fine farm of eighty acres on Section 25, which he has improved with good, substantial buildings.
Mr. Stedman was married February 28, 1866, in Washington township, Gratiot county, to Miss Lucy Ann Bovee, born December 3, 1842, in Dover township, daughter of Jacob and Esther (Marlatt) Bovee, natives of Holland. They died in Dover township, Lenawee county, she in her forty-eighth year, while he was seventy-nine at the time of his decease. Mrs. Stedman was the eighth member of a family of twelve children. To Mr. and Mrs. Stedman these children were born: Vienna, who is the wife of H. A. Wright; Marvin N. and Willie A. Willie A. Stedman was born in North Star township, February 25, 1879, and was reared on his father's farm, upon which he has always lived. He was married June 25, 1901, to Maud Lindsey, born in Shiawassee county, Michigan, November 13, 1881, and of this union one child has been born, Wilma I.
William H. Stedman has held the office of highway commissioner of North Star for two years, being an ardent Republican. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
Created on ... October 09, 2001