Van Egmond

The pioneer settlers in what is now called Huron County, Ontario, were the Van Egmonds, whose nearest neighbors were sixty or seventy miles distant. They were from Germany, on the Rhine, where Constant Louis Van Egmond was born, April 8, 1808. His father, Antony Van Egmond, was a military man, serving twenty-five years in the army. In 1819 he brought his family to America, locating at first in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where he farmed and kept a store. Constant had learned to write and speak the German and French languages in the Old Country, and acquired a moderate English education … Read more