Hiram Covey was born at Mount Washington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, January 17, 1802. He remained there until 1814, and then removed to Oswego county, New York, where he continued to reside until 1837. This year he removed to Livingston county, Michigan, and settled at the village of Brighton. On the 1st of April, 1839, he removed to Lyon township, in which he has since resided.

In early life Mr. Covey was apprenticed to the carpenter and joiner trade, and after serving about three months, his "boss" informed him that he could teach him nothing further, but that experience would do that for him. He subsequently worked at the trade, and was eminently successful. He has for many years been a farmer, having had a farm in Lyon of two hundred and ten acres, one hundred and eighty acres of which he cultivated up to within a few years. He has recently sold his farm, and now only retains enough on which to spend his idle time.

November 1, 1827, he was married to Hannah Fuller, at Dutchess county, New York, by Rev. John Culver. She was born in Columbia county. New York, March 15, 1802.

The family record is as follows: Juliet, born August 2, 1828, married George W. Button, Esq., March 17, 1846 ; Hiram S., bom March 31, 1830, married Margaret Marlatt, November 11, 1855; Nelson F., born January 26, 1832, married Harriet Curtis, January 1, 1856 ; Leonora, born August 20, 1833, married John T. Andrews, April 20, 1853 ; Mary E., born January 17, 1835, married George W. Pennell, July 16, 1857; Frances A., born October 31, 1840, married John R. Sherman; Sarah, born October 13, 1843, married George M. Tucker, December 20, 1861. These all reside in the State, several of them in this county.

In politics Mr. Covey is a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school. In religion he is a Universalist, being one of the original members of the Universalist church of Lyon township, and to the support of which he has always liberally contributed.

This couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Covey, will have been married fifty years on the 1st of November next. They have pulled together through life's pathway, experiencing much of the sorrows and vicissitudes of life, and, also, many of its joys and pleasures. They carry their almost fourscore years well, as the reward of temperate lives ; and when called upon to pass to the world beyond will leave behind them a memory blessed by good deeds and hallowed by noble actions. Their large progeny will ever cherish their honored parents* names with filial affection, and remember them with a fond regard.