David Jerome
David Howell Jerome was an American politician. He served as the 18th Governor of Michigan he was the first governor to be born in the state.
He was born in Detroit, Michigan to Horace and Elizabeth Rose Jerome who had emigrated to Michigan from Trumansburg, New York in 1828. He was the last of nine children born to his father, who died on March 30, 1831. Soon after his fathers death, Jeromes mother returned with her children to her native New York, near Syracuse. In 1834, they returned to Michigan, to a farm in St. Clair County. As a boy he did farm work and excelled in school attending the St. Clair Academy, where he was allowed to remain until the age of sixteen. He also worked for a time hauling and rafting logs down the St. Clair River to Algonac.
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