Feather, Franklin J.
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J. FEATHER
-oFr anklin J. Feather was born November 14 , 1868,
i n Berrien County, ,' ichi gan, and at the a ge of e i ghteen b egan a car e er a s an evangelist, con ducting
meetin gs throu gh southern r ichigan and in Indiana.
He married Mis s Rosa Mae Harter, a native of
Pennsylvania, August 14, 1888, after which t h ey served
pastorates in the Fre e
Decatur and Kalamazoo..
ethodist church in Blissfield,
He served th e Evangelical
Church in Byron, Eureka, where he was ordained Elder
in 1898, Ludington in the Riverton c harge, and in
South Rockwood.
Later he was a Con gre gationa l pas-
tor at Bostwick lake and Bedford.
His last three
pastorates were in Berlin Center, Morley and Trowbrid ge, where he served as a devo t ed pastor in the
Jichigan Annual Conference of the
Church.
~ ethodist
Episcopal
He retired from the ministry and moved to
Allegan in 1914 .
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Feather entere d politics in 1923 and was
elected alderman and served 1923 and 1924.
In 1931
he was elected city treasurer and served in that
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fice until he was elected city clerk in 1933, which
of f ice he still holds i n 1938.
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Feather are the parents of three
children: Samuel, of Grand Rapids,
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erle of
and Mrs. Pearl H. Padgham of Allegan.
grandson, Edgar R. Repp, of Allegan.
~ uske g on,
They have one
They cele-
brated their golden weddin g anniversary Sunday,
August 14, 1938.
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