Feather, Franklin J.

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-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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and Mrs. Pearl H. Padgham of Allegan.
grandson, Edgar R. Repp, of Allegan.

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They have one
They cele-

brated their golden weddin g anniversary Sunday,
August 14, 1938.

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