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JAMES C. HAUGH, deceased, for about a score of years a resident of Berrien County, a successful agriculturist and leading citizen, passed to his rest in 1888, deeply mourned by his family and a large circle of friends, to whom he was known as a man of firm principle and sterling integrity of character. Our subject was a native of the sunny South and was born in Frederick County, Md., August 20, 1842. His parents, Jacob and Lizzie (Harbaugh) Haugh, hard-working and industrious people, were the father and mother of seven children, whom they cared for tenderly and reared to years of usefulness. Of the sons and daughters who gathered in the Maryland home James was the second in order of birth. He received primary instruction in the schools of his birthplace before he removed with his parents, when only eight years of age, to the State of Pennsylvania, which was the home of the family the ensuing nine years. In the meantime the honest and industrious father, Jacob Haugh, had died, and when our subject was about seventeen years old the widowed mother journeyed with her family to Ohio. The mother was a woman of intelligence and a high order of ability and, appreciating the advantages of an excellent education, stimulated her children and encouraged her sons and daughters to avail themselves of every possible advantage to secure a liberal education. James Haugh was an excellent scholar. He attended school at Quincy, Pa., about three years, and later entered the Heidelburgh College, in Ohio. Having enjoyed the benefit of a course of instruction in the latter institution, our subject successfully engaged in teaching, a vocation to which he devoted himself for some length of time in the Buckeye State. Realizing the broader opportunities of the West, Mr. Haugh finally decided to try his fortunes in Michigan, and in 1869 came to Berrien County, for five years making his home in the city of Niles. He there engaged in business as an agriculturist and also profitably ran a sawmill. In the year 1874, still continuing in the same line of business, our subject removed to Pipestone Township, where he was located until 1883, at which date he settled permanently in Sodus Station, farmed and prosperously ran a sawmill until his demise, in 1888.

Some score of years before, James C. Haugh and Miss Lucinda Brinkman were united in marriage, in April, 1868, in the State of Ohio, the early home of Mrs. Haugh. Of the children who blessed the union four are now surviving: Willie Edson, Alma C., Mary and Arthur E. Mary and Arthur are now residing in Tiffin, Ohio. In 1884 Mrs. Lucinda Haugh died, and Mr. Haugh again wedded, in 1885. The second wife, Mrs. Patience (Puterbaugh) Hartsell, is the second daughter of Jacob and Sarah Puterbaugh, pioneer residents of Berrien County, widely known and highly esteemed. Unto the second union was born one child, a son, Jesse L., now at home with his mother. Our subject and his estimable wife were both regular attendants and worthy members of the United Brethren Church, as is also the eldest daughter of Mr. Haugh. The husband and wife took an active part in the religious work and benevolent enterprises of that denomination and also occupied a position of social influence and usefulness.

Politically, Mr. Haugh was for a long time a stanch Republican, but later joined the ranks of the Prohibition party, to which he afterward extended his earnest and unswerving support. Throughout his years of maturity our subject gave his close attention to the public issues of the day, and in all matters pertaining to local welfare was ever ready to lend a liberal and helping hand, and was intimately associated during his entire residence in Michigan with the educational advancement and progressive interests of his Western home.