 Robert was a member of King Solomon 's No. 43 Masonic Lodge in Woodstock . In 1862 , Robert first traveled to the U.S. Robert and the twenty @-@ five @-@ year @-@ old Janet married on January 8 , 1866 , at Woodstock 's Methodist Episcopal Church . The couple moved across the American border later in the year and settled in Spring Lake , Michigan , on the eastern coast of Lake Michigan . Robert was employed by American entrepreneur Zenas G. Winsor ( 1814 – 90 ) , with whom he had made contact in Canada . 
