This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VER VALEN, DUBOIS, WARD Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BGB.2ACI/452 Message Board Post: History of Jackson County Michigan 1881 page 1019 Lewis Ver Valen is the youngest of a family of 6 sons, and was born in La Grange, Dutchess Co., N.Y. Sept. 2, 1838. His father, Abram Ver Valen, was a farmer of Dutchess county, and married Catharine Dubois, daughter of Lewis Dubois, a native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as was also her father. Lewis received his schooling at Lagrange, and acquired the wagon-makers' trade. He came West and located at Parma village in 1865, and estaablished his present wagon manufacturing and general repairing business. In 1868 he married Miss Hattie Ward, daughter of Deacon F. B. Ward, one of the earliest and most highly esteemed pioneers of Spring Arbor tp. They have 1 son--Ward. Volunteer Transcriber, not related.