This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Read, Mottinger, Mohr Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/598 Message Board Post: >From 1905 Michigan Manual, Page 767 J. HERBERT READ, Representative from Manistee county, was born in the township of Potter, Yates county, New York, January 24, 1858, and resided there until March, 1884, when he came to Manistee county. Mr. Read was educated in the district school of Yates county with the exception of two terms spent in the union school at Rushville. He was married in 1885 and has two children. He has held the offices of township clerk, supervisor for seven years, and was chairman of the board of supervisors for two years. He has been a Republican all his life, and was elected to the legislatures of 1899-1900, 1901-2, 1903-4 and again reelected to the legislature of 1905-6 by a vote of 2,832 to 1,628 for Noah W. Mottinger and 124 for Abraham Mohr.