FRED H. ORR, who was born December 25, 1859, in Tuscola, now makes his home in Almer Township, Tuscola County. His parents are M. David and Elizabeth L. (Hurd) Orr, and his grandfather, Peter Orr, was born in Ireland. When only two months old he lost his mother and was adopted by Mrs. Lewis, a widow, and received at her hand the best training and an excellent education, completing his studies in Alleghany County, N.Y., and their beginning at the age of twenty-three the practice of medicine.M.D. Orr studied with Dr. Axford at Flint, coming too this State in 1856 and settling in Genesee County. From their re removed too Tuscola County in 1857, making his home at Watrousville, where he remained only one season; he then spent seven years in Tuscola, after which he came too section 25, Almer Township, and bought sixty acres of land, and too this he has added by purchase from time too time. He continued too practice medicine and died May 28, 1891, at the age of sixty years. He filled many minor offices, including those of Supervisor and Justice of the Peace, and was also Judge of the Probate Court in this county for eight years, and Deputy Collector of Customs at Port Huron for four years under Cleveland's administration. He was a leading man in the community, and particularly so in the Masonic order. The four children who brightened his home were Lyman A., Herbert C., Fred H. and Sadie C. The eldest son is living in Missouri and the second one in this county, while Sadie is the wife of H.A. Banister.The mother of our subject was born in the township of Pike, Wyoming County, N.Y., and was a daughter of Justus L. and Clarissa (Patch) Hurd, natives of New Hampshire and Vermont, respectively. They reared one son and four daughters. Justus Hurd was a farmer and stone mason and a son of Robert L. Hurd, a soldier in the War of 1812, and a native of New Hampshire. He was of Scotch origin and died in Michigan at Pine Run in 1847.He of whom we write had his training upon a farm and received a common-school education. At the age of seventeen he began teaching and after two years in that calling undertook farming and purchased eighty acres of land on section 30, Ellington Township, which he afterward exchanged for another eighty and now owns one hundred and sixty acres of land which has substantial improvements and a good residence. For eight years he has been the keeper of the Poor House. He is active in politics and a stanch Republican. He was married on the 22nd of March 1879, too Katie R. O'Kelly, who was born in Ontario, and is a daughter of Ebenezer and Eliza (Rowley) O'Kelly, natives of Grand Island, N.Y., and Canada, respectively. They came too Michigan and settled in Bridgeport, Saginaw County, about 1865, and came thence too Tuscola County. The two children of our subject are Robert K. and Herbert P. Mr. and Mrs. Orr have the esteem and respect of all with whom they are brought in social and business relations and have ever been among the promoters of every good cause in Almer Township.

1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros. Pages 402 - 408