The subject of this sketch, L. B. Hemingway, one of the thrifty farmers of Orion township, was born in the town of Dryden, Tompkins county, State of New York, September 8, 1827. His father, Joseph R. Hemingway, was a native of Orange county, New York, and his mother, Lydia Bartholomew, was born in Connecticut, both of whom are now living. L. B. Hemingway came to Michigan in the spring of 1855, and located in Orion township, purchasing a tract of one hundred and sixty acres on section 10, whereon he still resides, and which he has brought from an almost wholly uncultivated tract to a finely tilled and productive farm. He received a common school education, attending the district schools of his native town winters, and working on his father's farm the rest of the time. In the winter of 1848 he was married to Sylvia Stone, a native of the same township as himself, where she was born May 9, 1828. She was the daughter of Cheney and Betsey (Prosser) Stone; the former a native of Vermont, and the latter of one of the other New England States. They are now residing at Ovid, Michigan. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hemingway, a son, Orra L., resides on the homestead with his parents. Mr. Hemingway is, and has been from its organization, a member of the Republican party, and was formerly a Whig. Mrs. Hemingway is a member of the Congregational church.