Published Biograpy: "Owen F. Teeple, farmer, section 13, Elmer Township, was born in the village of Vittoria, Charlotteville Township, Norfolk Co., Ontario, and is the son of Captain Alexander and Mary A. (Winter) Teeple. His paternal grandfather was a pioneer preacher of the Baptist denomination, and was the sixth settler in the township where he located. His father, Alexander Teeple, was a tanner by vocation and the son was instructed in the same calling. The father met his death by being caught under a stone while digging a hole to bury it, according to the custom of some sections in disposing of boulders which are too large to roll away. He was about 50 years of age. The mother lives in Ontario, and is 62 years of age." [NOTE: the "pioneer preacher" was probably Titus Finch. -rwf-]

"Mr. Teeple resided with his mother two years after the death of his father, when he became a sailor on the lakes. He passed five summers as a common seaman, working as a tanner during the intervening winters. After that he was variously employed in Norfolk County and in the State of New York for some time, when he again spent a season on the lakes."

"He was married Feb. 18, 1875, in Forestville, Norfolk Co., Ont., to Sarah J. Severance. They have six children, namely: Sewel E., born Nov. 24, 1875; Mary E., June 4, 1877; Francis A., March 23, 1879; Rosamond C., Jan. 6, 1881; Owen V., April 3, 1883; Helen E., May 2, 1884. Mrs. Teeple was born Nov. 24, 1854, in Rockport, on Cape Ann, on the coast of Massachusetts, and is the daughter of Sewell and Mary J. (Tait) Severance. Her father traced his lineage to the earliest settlement of this country. She lived at home until she was 16 years of age, when she went to Lowell, Mass., and spent three years, occupied as a cloth-folder in a cotton factory."

"In 1878 Mr. Teeple removed his family to Michigan and located on 160 acres of land, wholly unimproved, where he has since operated and cleared and placed in profitable agricultural condition 50 acres. His barn -- 40 x 86 feet -- is the largest in Elmer township."

"The family are Baptists in religious connection. Mr. Teeple is a Republican in political views, and a member of the Order of Masonry." (source: "History of Sanilac County", 1884, Page 433 & 434)