INCREASE MATHER

    Increase Mather, his wife Anna (Conine), and children, came to Jackson from Allen Center in 1831.  He was a brother to Southworth Mather, and resided in this township until his death in the winter of 1838.  Mrs. Anna Mather died in March 1832, and Increase took for a second wife Sarah Dilsaver.  By the first marriage there were five children, of whom Harvey, of Jackson, is the only survivor; by the second marriage there were three, two of whom are yet living.