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Fremont J. Barrett, elder son of David S. and Sarah Mariah (Woodworth) Barrett, was born January 22, 1857 and died in 1933. As a young man he taught school in Oakland and Livingston Counties, but soon launched a career as a successful entrepreneur. With his father he operated the grain elevator at Clyde, dealt in lumber and produce, and ran the Clyde Novelty Works. After the Novelty Works burned in 1892 he sold the elevator to Willoughby and Wallace and moved to Holly, Oakland County. Here he operated a lumber yard which, in 1894, merged with another firm to form the Michigan Manufacturing and Lumber Company. Fremont served as secretary of the new business while his father, David S. Barrett, served as president. Fremont and his father were also directors of the First State and Savings Bank of Holly. Fremont J. Barrett married three times; first to Susie Pressley; second, in 1901, to Edith Meade; and third, in 1903, to Edith Lockwood. There were no children by any of these unions.
