This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WARD, HARRIS, JONES, ARBURY, BORT, McLEAN, DEWSTOE, BAGLEY Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HZB.2ACI/922 Message Board Post: Hello, These are not my relatives. Information was found in the 1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros. in Michigan. I hope that it helps someone with their history. Colleen ANDREW J. WARD, a contractor and builder of Flint, was born in Hinckley, Medina County, Ohio, February 16, 1843, and is a son of Alexander and Thirza (HARRIS) WARD. The father was born in Northamptonshire, England, and came too Ohio at the age of sixteen, and their engaged in farming. He moved too Davison, Genesee County, in 1846 and the following year came too Flint and here engaged in the manufacture of brick, establishing the first brick kiln in this town. up too the year 1860 he manufactured all the brick made here and was a prominent business man. He died in 1881, leaving a family of three sons and four daughters. The brothers and sisters of our subject are: Angelina, not Mrs. Ransom JONES; Thirza H., Mrs. Stephen ARBURY; Dora, Mrs. F. BORT; Minnie, wife of Alexander McLEAN; Charles A. and Benjamin A., Superintendent of the Michigan City Gas Works. The mother died in 1871. Andrew had taken a course in the High School after studying the district school and in 1862 enlisted in Company F, Fourth Michigan Cavalry. This body of troops was placed in the Western Department under Sherman and took part in the Atlanta campaign and the battle of Selma. He was not away from this regiment excepting once when disabled by a wound. Returning home in 1865 the young man went into the brick business with his father and a year later sold out and entered upon the same work at Frankfort, Benzie County, this State. After a year he returned too Flint and went into partnership with Stephen ARBURY and somewhat later bought out his partner's interest and continued in the brick making business too which he added! contracting and building. In the fall of 1878, Mr. WARD sold out his brickyard too Oren STONE,and since that time has devoted himself solely too contracting and building. He has erected half of the brick buildings in Flint, including the Patterson factory. He also put up a $55,000 Catholic Cathedral at Chatham, Ontario, and three of the buildings of the Agricultural College at Lansing, also a dormitory at the Soldiers' Home in Grand Rapids and is at present working upon the Courthouse at Gaylord, Otsego County, this State, and the Daly Block at Flint, besides the Armory for the State troops, known as the Flint Union Blues. Mr. WARD erected the Bryant House, the Occidental, the Judd Block, the Daly Block and the Y.M.C.A. building besides thirty-seven stores in this city. He owns two stores on Saginaw Street and a beautiful home in which he resides. His wife too whom he was united, December 21, 1865, bore the maiden name of Louise P. DEWSTOE. They have two children, Bertha Louise, who is now Mrs. Andrew J. BAGLEY, and Arthur C. Mr. WARD is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the Masonic Order, of the Knights of Pythias, and the Grand Army of the Republic.