Begole, Josiah W
educator, business man, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 20, 1815, in Groveland, N. Y.
He received a public school education; removed to Genesee county, Mich., ın 1836; taught school during the winters; became a farmer in 1839, and followed that occupation until 1856. He was elected county treasurer from 1856 to 1864; and commenced the lumbering business in 1863. He was elected to the state senate in 1871; was an alderman for the city of Flint for three years; a delegate to the national republican convention at Philadelphia in 1872; and was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-third congress. In 1882 he was elected governor of Michigan for the term of two years from January, 1883.