Alonzo Sessions

Alonzo Sessions (August 4, 1810 – July 3, 1886) was an American politician from the

Sessions was born to Amasa and Pheobe (Smith) Sessions in Marcellus, New York acquired and early education and taught school. In 1831 he moved to Bennington and worked in a store as a clerk for two years receiving $10 a month and board.

In 1833, Sessions left New York and traveled to Michigan mostly on foot. After traveling all over Michigan, he wound up in White Pigeon where the U. S. land office was and entered his land. The next winter he taught school in Dayton, Ohio until 1835 when he bought a team and came through his land on the south side of the Grand River. He also built the first log cabin in the Township of Berlin and managed an 800-acre (3.2 km²) farm. In 1837 he married Celia Dexter and had thirteen children together. He served as the first supervisor of Berlin; first chairman of the board of supervisors for Ionia County; justice of the peace for eight years; and sheriff from 1841-42.

In 1856, Sessions was elected as a

• Dexter, Samuel (2005) [1914]. "s.v. Alonzo Sessions". The Settlement of Ionia, Mich. By Samuel Dexter : with a history of the Sessions family of the Branch of Alonzo Sessions and Celia Dexter Sessions. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Library. pp. n/a. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
• The Political Graveyard