Charles L, Stuart received excellent educational advantages in the
district .schools and the high school at Pontiac, where he spent two years,
and until twenty-one years of age remained on the old homestead assist-



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854 HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

ing his father. On reaching his majority he rented one hundred acres
of land in Pontiac township, section 21, and during the next fifteen
years continued to carry on operations on rented land. For three years
he followed the lumber business in Pontiac, but the call of the soil was
too strong and he returned to agricultural pursuits as the owner of
forty acres. During this time he also carried on operations with a
threshing machine, in this line visiting the farms of the various neighbors
in his township, and also purchased forty acres additional in section 14.
This was all woodland at the time he purchased it, but industry and
energy have served to make it a fertile, well-cultivated tract, highly
productive, well fenced, and improved with modern buildings of sub-
stantial character and handsome architectural design. General farming
has received his attention from the start, although he keeps some cattle
and is recognized as a skilled breeder of stock.
