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Death Of Hon. J. D. Corey

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Day
30
Month
September
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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Hod. J. D. Coray, of Manchester, died at au early hour Snnday morning at tbe good oíd age of 82 years. He waa one of the pioneers of the oonnty who had left his impresa upon the ooinninnity. He was a man of ability as well as of integrity, and had alway? been a demoorat of the good oíd sohool and had fllled many places of honor and trust. He was bom in Onondaga county, N. Y., April 17, 1819, of revolutionary soldier anoestry. Ha reoeived an academie edocation íd New York and f rom the age of 17 to 30 was a school teaoher. He flrst visited, Michigan in 1833 but retnrned east as a teacher. He retnrned to Washtenaw connty in 1836, settling on a farm in Lodi, keeping baohelor's hall in a log oabin. In 1844 he was married to Miss Betsy Gage, of New York, who died a few years ago. He lived for a time in Sharon townsbip and tben in Manohester townahip where he lived in a stone honse nntil 1868 when he eold it to his son-in-law, O. L. Torrey, and removed to Manchester village, where he bnilt a fine brick residence on Ann Arbor st. His first offloe was that of sohool inspector in New York to which he was eleoted at the age of 21. In 1839 he was elected town clerk and sohool inspector of Sharon, at the same election, being re-elected the following year. He was supervisor of Manohester townsbip in 1845 and 1854. He was justice of the peaoe in 1867 and 1874. He was school inspector of Manohester for many years and a niember of the Manchester sohool board. He was several times a trustee of Manohester village. Daring his early resideuoe in the oounty he was a sohool teacher and nad as many as 104 pupils under him at one time. His first candidaoy ontside of townsbip offices was f or state senator in 1860, when he was defeated by a sinall majoiity. In 1866 he was elected to the Miohigan house and in 1874 to the state senate. His came was often mentioned in connection with the legLslative nonrinations at a later date as bis service in tbat capacity had been exoellunt. Among other tbings he had Manobester incorporated as a village in 1867. He gave $4,000 to the construction of the Detroit & Hillsdale road and was one of its directors. He was a director in the People's Bank, of Manchester, for many years and served as its presidan t. He took the census of six townships in 1860. He was one of the trustees of the Baptist church and was a liberal contributor to tue various ohurches of Manchester. He was a man of strict integrity, systernatic and bnsiness-like in his transactions, and from a beginning with nothing he acquired a handsome oompetency. He leaves two cbildren, Mrs. O. L. Torrey and Jay Corey, of Manchester. He was a membei of Manchester Lodge No. 148, F. & A. M., and the funeral on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, took place with Masonic honors.

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