EMANUEL N. GERMAN. Having as a boy and youth gained valuable experience in the art of agriculture, Emanuel N. German has continued in the occupation to which he was reared, and as a general farmer has found both pleasure and profit, his home farm being located in section 36, West Bloomfield township, Oakland county . A son of John German , Jr., he was born January 24, 1857, in the village of Franklin, Michigan , of English ancestry. His paternal grandfather, John German , Sr., spent the earlier part of his life in England. Coming with his family to Michigan, he located in West Bloomfield township, on the farm now occupied by his grandson, Emanuel N. German, and on the farm which he redeemed from the forest spent the remainder of his life .

Born and reared in Devonshire, England, John German, Jr., was twenty-one years old when he came with the family to America. He helped his father in the pioneer task of clearing and improving a homestead, remaining beneath the parental roof until his marriage . Settling then with his bride in the village of Franklin, he operated a grist mill there for thirty years, from 1837 until 1867, carrying on a substantial business as a miller. Returning to the home farm in the latter year, he was there employed in tilling the soil until his death, in 1884. He married Jane Ann White, who was born in Southfield township, Oakland county, Michigan, and died on the home farm in West Bloomfield township, in 1900. Nine children were born of their union, four of whom are now living, as follows: Clarissa, wife of Thomas Furse, of Bloomfield township; John D., of Birmingham; Frank, of Bloomfield township; and Emanuel N. Reared to farm labor and educated in the district schools, Emanuel N. German became familiar with the various branches of agriculture while young, and after his marriage was for three years engaged in farming in Oakland township. Soon after the death of his father, in 1884, he moved back to the old homestead, on which he has since resided , managing it with characteristic success. Mr. German has been exceed ingly fortunate in his agricultural undertakings, and is now the owner of three hundred and thirteen acres of choice land, located in Farming ton , Bloomfield and West Bloomfield townships. By dint of persevering industry he has placed his land under an excellent state of cultivation and has made improvements of a substantial nature.

Mr. German married , February 24, 1881, Olive A. Nott, a daughter of William and Electa Nott, of Pontiac township, and into their pleasant home four children have been born , namely: Mark, who lived but twenty-one months; Stephen, who died at the age of fourteen months; Harvey J., living in Bloomfield township, a graduate of the Pontiac Business College, married Ida Bristol, October 5, 1910; and Mae, a graduate of the Pontiac High School, resides with her parents. In his political affiliations Mr. German is a straightforward Republican, and though not desirous of public office has served as school director.