Charles F. Gustin was born in Columbus, Chenango County, N.Y., April 11, 1857, and came to Michigan in May 1884. His father, Levi Gustin, was born in Sherburne, Chenango County, N.Y., April 21, 1821. He always lived in Chenango County, where he learned the stone mason’s trade and owned a small farm. Of his ancestry there is very little known, but evidently the family came to New York from Connecticut. He died at Columbus, July 18, 1899. September 16, 1842, Levi Gustin married Miss Mary A. Fenton, daughter of Stephen and Mercy (Myers) Fenton, of Chenango County, N.Y., and they had nine children, as follows; Lucy A., born January 13, 1844; Mercy L., born March 16, 1845; Helen M., born September 28, 1846; Maria, born December 28, 1847; Alphonzo D., born February 13, 1849, died April 10, 1849; Mary L., born May 31, 1850; William W., born August 18, 1851. Charles F. was a twin, his sister dying in infancy. Mrs. Mary A. (Fenton) Gustin was born in Chambridge, Middlesex County, mass., December 16, 1817, and resides with her son in Madison, this county. Her parents were natives of Middlesex County, Mass., but emigrated to Brookfield, Madison County, N.Y. Her father, Stephen Fenton, was born June 29, 1791, and died in Otsego County, N.Y., May 11, 1870. Mercy (Myers) Fenton was born in 1787, and died in Madison County, N.Y., July 13, 1826. Mr. Fenton was three times married, the second being Lucinda Shumway, whose ancestors were Huguenots, the third, Philena Cutter, and was the father of nine children. Charles F. Gustin, subject of this sketch, lived in Chenango and Otsego Counties all his life till he came to Michigan. He was brought up a farmer, but learned to make cheese, which business he followed for many years, during the season. In the winter he sold nursery stock and thus cultivated a taste for horticulture. He was educated in the country schools and Morris Academy, in Otsego County. Soon after coming to Michigan he engaged in the nursery business, and purchased land on Section 10, in Madison. Beginning in a small way, he has, by perseverance and close attention to his own affairs, succeeded remarkably well, and now owns 140 acres of land, and one of the most desirable farm homes in Madison township, on Section 9, it being known in the 50’s as the old Prairie Cottage race course farm, the finest one mile track in Michigan at that time. He now grows and markets from 50,000 to 75,000 trees annually, and will increase the business now that he has more land suitable for cultivation. October 3, 1882, Charles F. Gustin married Miss Sarah R. Turner, daughter of James P. and Harmony (Daly) Turner, of Blissfield, this county, and they have had two children, as follows: Newel Wolcott, born December 12, `885, died November 14, 1886; Beulah Elida, born January 18, 1887, Mrs. Sarah R. (Turner) Gustin was born in Portage, Wood County, Ohio, August 2, 1862. Her father, James P. Turner, was born in Ridgeway, Orleans County, N.Y., and died in Blissfield, Mich., in 1899. Her mother, Harmony (Daly) Turner, was born at Lockport, N.Y., Nov. 17, 1823, and died in Blissfield, this county, May 7, 1889. They settled in Blissfield in 1864. James P. Turner’s ancestors came from Massachusetts, his mother being Miss Sarah Adams, a cousin of John Quincy Adams.