John S. Hewitt: One of the best stocked and most attractive business houses in Milford is that of Mr. Hewitt, were full line of drugs is On sale, together with well selected stock of books and stationery, paints and Orioles. The business is the most extensive of the kind in the town, a bookstore two stories high with the basement, is the site. The edifice was built for his own use by Mr. Hewitt a few years after opening up in business here. He has made his study of the drug trade and is careful in a selection, receiving goods from only the best and most reliable wholesalers, and he also exercises great care in the compounding of prescriptions.

The father of our subject was Benjamin Hewitt, a native of Willimantic, Connecticut, who was reared on a farm, but in early manhood engaged in the grocery business. About 1832 he came to this County and beginning with an 80 acre tract, improved property of Highland corners and engaged in general farming and stock raising. At the time of his decease he owned 100 acres of improved land and his property covered three corners. He died in 1886 at the venerable age of eighty-two years. He was a Democrat and politics and a Baptist and religion. He married Ann Perry, who was born in the same vicinity as himself and whose father was a cousin of the renowned, Perry. They were of English dissent. Mrs. Hewitt the key age of eighty-one years. She had six children; George J., Who died at thirty-six years of age; Mary A., Whose home is in Highland; Elizabeth J., Formerly the wife a judge dials T. Brown, who died in Ithaca, Windham W., an old soldier, now living on the old Homestead; John S., Subject of this sketch; and Olive E., who died when nineteen years old.

At Highland, January 4, 1843, are subject was born, and there he grew the ages seventeen years. He had the district school privileges and learn considerable of agricultural affairs. At the age mentioned he began clerking in a general store at Heartland, Livingston County, and acting as Assistant Postmaster, but the next year he returned home and took charge of his father’s farm while his brother Windham served his country in the southern battlefields. A few years later he took charge of his brother’s store and 1865 he began the study of dental surgery at Fenton with E. G. Dunlap, and liking the drug business, soon gave it his entire attention and abandoned dentistry. In 1869 he located in Milford, renting a new store in which she put any stock of drugs. About three years later he built of brick in which she now carries on business.

If Mr. Hewitt can be said to have a hobby is certainly fine horses he has raised standard-bred equines. Of the Morgan and Hambletonian strains and now only some very fine animals. One is “Fellow Craft” a Morgan, bred in Kentucky, which is taken several first premiums. It is a noble animal or fine chestnut color, well proportioned and graceful and action. Another of Mr. Hewitt’s horses is “Myrtle P” a Morgan filly, bred in Kentucky, and ”Kitty Wood,” a fine roadster who has taken several first premiums. Mr. Hewitt as carried away the blue ribbon from various fairs, and GCN spinning down the street behind one of his Sturbridge is a site to rejoice the hearts of all horse lovers. Mr. Hewitt owns 5 acres within the corporation and has a handsome residence.

In Corfu, New York, in 1870, Mr. Hewitt was married to Miss Eunice Hills, a native of Akron, that state. She was a graduate of Alexandre Seminary and Albany, and was a teacher of the first grade. Her father, James Hill, a farmer, made in the early settlement in this state, but after some years sold his property and returned east. Mrs. Hewitt died in Milford leaving one child, Herbert W., Who is now attending a high school in the class of ’93. July 13, 1882 Mr. Hewitt was again married, the ceremony being performed in Milford, and the bride miss Adelia Greig. This union has resulted in the birth of one child, Lulu B.

Mrs. Hewitt is the eldest of eight children of William and Mary (Tascoll) Greig, and was born in Detroit February 23, 1854. She lived in a city several years, then in Dearborn, and was sixteen years old when she came to Milford. She finished her education in the union school here. Her father was born in Scotland, and after he became a man, emigrated and located in Detroit. There he worked as a contractor and builder, and after his removal to Milford he took up the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds. Thence he went to South Lyon, where he had large interest in church and school furniture. Mrs. Grieg was born in Detroit and was a daughter of one of its earliest settlers. And her daughter is an equally consistent member and connected with the Home Mission Society.

Mr. Hewitt was Secretary of the Milford Agricultural Society two years and Treasurer one year, and is still stockholder. He helped organize the Association and was an officer until CareFirst help compelled him to resign. He is a demitted member of the Odd Fellows and belongs to Liberty Lodge of the Michigan United Friends. He is a member of the Michigan state pharmaceutical society. Politically he is a Republican.