Among the many fine farm homes of Oakland County, we call particular attention to the beautiful residence, out buildings, and farm of George German, situated on the town-line between West Bloomfield and Farmington, and about three and one-half miles south of Orchard lake. Mr. German is a native of Devonshire, England, where he was born on the 9th day of September, 1814. At the age of twenty-one he left old England and crossed the Atlantic in quest of a home for himself and father's family. He went first to Prince Edward's Isle, but not liking it there, wrote his father to meet him in New York city. His father and family accordingly came over in the spring of 1837. After a consultation, they decided to go to Michigan. They came on to Detroit, where they remained a short time until they could make a selection for a home. They finally selected and purchased a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, partly cleared, at eighteen dollars per acre, to which they have since added adjoining lands, so that the farm now consists of two hundred and sixty acres.

The family, which consisted of the parents, three sons, and four daughters, all lived and worked together on the homestead for a number of years, and as the children grew to manhood they married and settled on farms near the old home. At the age of twenty-nine George was united in marriage with Miss Henrietta Pins, a native of Belgium, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. They have a family of five children, two sons and three daughters. Both sons and one daughter are married, and the two sons are living on the home farm, and in connection with their father are busily engaged in raising stock and grain of all kinds, and are noted for being among the most tidy, enterprising, and successful farmers of Oakland County. The two unmarried daughters are living at home with the parents. Mr. George German's father and mother lived to advanced ages, the father dying in 1863, at the age of eighty-six years, and the mother in 1866, at the age of seventy-eight years. George German is to day a hale and active man, hospitable and sociable in disposition, universally respected by his acquaintances and honored and loved by his friends and relatives ; he has been all his life a farmer, of which he is a model ; has held various offices of trust in his town, such as supervisor, etc. ; is Republican in politics, and in religious faith Episcopal. We present to our readers elsewhere in these pages a fine view of his beautiful farm residence and home, and herewith this brief tribute to the character and worth of one of the old pioneers of Oakland County.