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Henry Harrison Aplin (1841-1910)
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Michigan Biographies Michigan Historical Commission, 1924 (Page 27) HENRY HARRISON APLIN ____________ Representative from the Second District of Bay County, 1895-6; Auditor General, 1887-91; and member of Congress, 1901-3. Was on a farm in the township of Thetford, Genesee County, Mich., Apr. 15, 1841. In 1848 his father moved to the city of Flint, where they remained until 1856, when the family again returned to the farm, where he remained until the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861, when he enlisted as a private in Company C, 16th Mich. Infantry, serving until the close of the war. He was made a Second Lieutenant in 1865. Returning to Michigan at the close of the war he entered into the mercantile business at Wenona, now West Bay City, and was identified with its growth and progress. He immediately took an active and prominent part in local politics, and was appointed Postmaster by President Grant in Nov., 1869, succeeding Newcomb Clark, which office he held until June, 1886. Always a staunch Republican, as well as a strong advocate of the rights of labor, he represented his town and county in local and State conventions for many years and his State in the National Convention which nominated Blaine and Logan at Chicago, in June, 1884. He was elected Auditor General by the Republicans in 1886 and was re-elected in 1888. He was elected a member of Congress from the Tenth District Oct. 15, 1901 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of R. O. Crump. He died at Bay City July 23, 1910.

Congressional Biographies Library of Congress ___________ APLIN, Henry Harrison, a Representative from Michigan; born in Thetford Township, Genesee County, Mich., April 15, 1841; moved with his parents to Flint, Mich.,in 1848; attended the public schools; enlisted July 3, 1861, in Company C, Sixteenth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry; served until July 16, 1865, with the rank of second lieutenant; returned to Michigan and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Wenona (now West Bay City); postmaster of West Bay City from November 1869 to June 1886; served as township clerk and township treasurer, each for three years; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1884; elected auditor general of the State in 1886 and 1888; interested in the construction of the electric railways of West Bay City and served as general manager until 1891; member of the Michigan house of representatives in 1894 and 1895; was again appointed postmaster of West Bay City and served from October 1, 1898, to June 1902; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rousseau O. Crump and served from October 20, 1901, to March 3, 1903; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902; engaged in agricultural pursuits and was also interested in the manufacture of ice; died in West Bay City, Mich., July 23, 1910; interment in Elm Lawn Cemetery, Bay City, Mich.