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LEVI SHETTERLY, a successful farmer and extensive stock-raiser, for thirty-seven continuous years a constant resident of his valuable homestead located on section 16, Bertrand Township, Berrien County, Mich., has recently rented his farm and has for a time released himself from the daily round he has unweariedly pursued throughout the changing seasons since his early youth. Our subject is a native of Pennsylvania, but spent only a few brief years in Juniata County, where he was born July 15, 1849. His parents, Benjamin and Catherine (Frain) Shetterly, were both reared within the Quaker State. The father was a man of substance, and owned a saw-mill and eleven hundred acres of land, which he disposed of for $12,000, and with this money came to Michigan in 1856. He located in Bertrand Township, and purchased three hundred acres of land where our subject now resides. The ancestry of the father and mother was German. The mother, like her husband, was born in Pennsylvania, and there began her married life. In 1856 she came to the new home in the West, and passed away at fifty-nine years of age, in Berrien County.

The father was sixty-four years old at the time of his death. He was well known in the county, and was an honest and thoroughly upright and industrious man. Benjamin and Catherine Shetterly were the parents of eleven children, seven daughters and four sons, all of whom lived to adult age. Our subject, the youngest son and tenth child, was six years of age when he came to Berrien County, Mich. He attended the district schools of the home neighborhood during his childhood and early youth, and remained with his parents until their death. April 19, 1881, he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza C. Reum, a native of Cass County, Mich. Mrs. Shetterly survived her marriage but a few years, and passed away deeply mourned by a large circle of life-time friends, July 9, 1886. She had no children. Mr. Shetterly has a valuable farm of one hundred and fifty acres, all of it, with the exception of thirtyacres of woodland, being under cultivation. The homestead is improved with commodious and substantial buildings, a convenient dwelling, good barns and outbuildings.

Growing up from childhood among the scenes incidental to a new and rapidly advancing country, Mr. Shetterly has been associated with the growth and local improvement of Berrien County, and, a man of sterling integrity of character, excellent judgment and withal a liberal-spirited citizen, enjoys the esteem and confidence of the entire community among whom he has passed so many busy years. Our subject is in no sense of the word a politician, but he has ever taken a deep interest in the management of both local and national affairs. He affiliates with the Democratic party, and is a firm believer in the principles and platform advocated by Thomas Jefferson. Leading a life free from ostentation, Mr. Shetterly has faithfully done his duty as a bread-winner and true American citizen.