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Youmans, Henry Melville

man-- ufacturer, congressman, was born May 15, 1832, in Otego, N. Y. He was in the employ of the York and Erie Railroad company, Susquehanna division, for ten years. He removed to East Saginaw. Mich., in 1862; and engaged in the manufacture of lumber and salt. He was elected mayor of East Saginaw for the years 1886 and 1887; and held all the positions of honor under the municipal government of East Saginaw, where he now resides. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat; and in 1897- 98 served as a member of the Michigan state senate.