{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3539", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ",,5 U\\n5\\nN", "height": "3461", "width": "2588", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "f^\\nA\\n\\\\0 S^ S\\nnO\\n-C-, N ^^-^-n.^\\nA .:C^.^^\\n4 \u00e2\u0096\u00a0y,\\no 0\\n^x.\\nN\\n^_\\nV\\no\\n0^\\n,0 o^\\naV^\\nnS\\nV,\\nCO\\nH.", "height": "3445", "width": "2468", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3461", "width": "2447", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3461", "width": "2447", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "DETROIT\\nN\\n^Iisi\\nisTORY AND Commerce\\n^_\\nA CAREFUL COMPILATION OF THE HISTORY, MERCANTILE AND MANUFACTURING INTERESTS\\nOF DETROIT ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS OF THE CITY S PRINCIPAL STREETS,\\nPOINTS OF INTEREST. PROMINENT BUILDINGS AND PORTRAITS\\nOF ITS NOTED BUSINESS MEN.\\nPUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS EXCHANGE\\nAND SANCTION OF THE DETROIT BOARD OF TRADE.\\nROGERS THORPE, Publishers,\\nDETROIT, MICH.\\nI 8c) I", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Concress, in the year 1891, by Rogers Thorpe,\\nIN THE office OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nC\\\\^\\nJ\\nAp", "height": "3461", "width": "2447", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE TO DETROIT IN HISTORY.\\nTIME S mutilating hand has left of the early settlements at Detroit hut few\\nremains. The wheels of the mighty car of progress have rolled over and\\nobliterated all traces save the printed word, the sacred relic, and the inherited\\ntrait and name of its original founders, who, under the Fleur de Hs of France,\\nlanded here with Cadillac on the eventful 24th of July, 1701.\\nThe incidents which more particularly emphasize the history of Detroit, are\\nin this work briefly recorded, the information incident thereto having been\\nderived from an examination of veracious authorities. Of these, Charlevoix s\\nHistory of New France, Rameau s History of the Canadian Colony in Detroit,\\nRamsay s Life of Pontiac, and Legends of Detroit, by Mrs. Marie C. W.\\nHamlin, bearing upon the former periods of the city s history, have been con-\\nsulted. The subsequent narration has been evolved principally from official\\ndocuments and interviews with the older inhabitants, whose reminiscences\\nconstitute a fitting sequel to this history, as depicted in their own language.\\nThe publishers have spared no effort or expense to make it, as it is con-\\nfidently believed the public will recognize it to be, the best of its kind in\\ntypography and illustrative essentials ever previously published.\\nAs a reliable source from which may be derived information concerning\\nthe history of the city from its nucleus as a French trading post to its culmina-\\ntion into the grand commercial emporium of to-day, it will materially contribute\\nto advance its interests by citing the records of the best exemplars of its\\nprosperity and prominence.\\nThe author has, in the compilation of this history, sought only for the\\nfacts which, of themselves, represent the chief incidents herein narrated, and\\nwhich are always the true foundations of accurate information.\\nJAMES J. MITCHELL\\nDetroit, Michigan, April 10, 1891.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "(11)1 jJa}jci\\non which this book is printed was made especiaily for it bv john 8. price co.\\nOffice, 123 Jefferson Ave., Detroit.\\nXI)C ]JI)OtClt\\\\lHl})l)Li\\nFROM WHICH THE MAJORITY OF THESE ENGRAVINGS WERE MADE ARE BY\\nJ. W. Hughes, 274 Woodward Ave., Detroit.\\nWAS DONE BV THE DETROIT HERALD OF COMMERCE, 40, 42 44 LaRNED St. \u00c2\u00abEST.\\nWAS EXECUTED BY RayNOR TayLOH. 96, 98 100 BaTES SiHEET, DETROIT.", "height": "3461", "width": "2447", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Detroit in History.\\nMONG the great cities of the United States\\nwhich are historically prominent, as having\\natforded to the annals of that country many\\nof its most thrilling incidents and important\\nevents, Detroit is especially worthy the\\nfaithful narration which its character in\\nthese relations essentially demands. True\\nhistoryshould be nolesssacredthan religion,\\nwrote Louis Napoleon in the preface to his\\nfamous Life of Julius Cresar, and the\\ncorrect transcription from the records which\\nexist of Detroit s foundation from the f arliest\\nperiods, as well as the progress the city has\\nmade to the present time in all vital inter-\\nests, should be too much the pride and honor of the historian to be\\nlightly or inaccurately touched upiiti. Justice compels an adher-\\nence to the facts, and as they havi? been handed down by the\\nprogenitors of those who are to-day responsible curators and\\nsponsors of its commercial strength and advancing fortunes, so are\\nthey reprepented in this work. Detroit possesses a truly remarkable\\nhistorj-, as well as having been among the first establishments which\\nconstituted ihe subsequent Northwest Territory, as being the scene\\nof numerous conflicts between the red man and his more puissant\\nlival and the various struggles for domination by the French,\\nEnglish and United States soldiery. The site of the present city at\\nthe date of the discovery of the country by Columbus in 1492, was\\nan Indian hamlet or collection of wigwams, which imperfectly\\ncorresponded with a village as understood in tlie English language.\\nPrior to the inhabitation of the American Continent b) the stoical\\nchildren of the forest, coming doubtless from Asia, the footprints\\nand monuments of anotherand totally different race, extinct through\\nsome dire calamity, or from some undiscoverable cause, were left\\nbehind as the only traces of their jjrior occupation of the vast domain\\nnow the abode of more than sixty million Caucasians. This singular\\npeople, identified in the consideration of the earth s inhabitants as\\nmound builders, from the remains of their creations still existent in\\nmany parts of the country, had an abode upon the location of\\nDetroit, as here have been found unmistakable evidences in their\\ncurious mounds of earth, beneath which were entombed the various\\narticles necessitated by the demands of their existence in pans and\\npots and other culinary and domestic utensils and implements of\\nwarfare. History and even tradition is silent upon the subject\\nonly the crude evidences that exist of these iirehistoric people, as\\ngiving them the claim to characterization as a nation, supplying a\\nfoundation. But the Indians lived and moved and had their being\\nin the space now dignified by the French Ville d Etroit (town of the\\nStrait) and where now the intellect and grace of the white man\\ndirect and jjovern. the red man s war wlioop rang defiance, and the\\nlight of his wigwam shed its lurid gla:-e upon the scenes but slightly\\nchanged since the primeval morn.\\nThe site of the present City of Detroit was first visited by the\\nFrench in 1610, and continued, as did the entire lake country of the\\npresent United States, under the rule of the French government\\nuntil 1763. The first actual settlement by the French at Detroit was\\nmade by Cadillac, July 24, 1701, from which time dates its existence\\nas among the important trading posts of what was designated as the\\nNorthwest Territory, and its initial identity as tlie foundation of the\\ncity. It is most appropriate in this connection to record tlie prin-\\ncipal events in the life and career of Antoine Laumet de la Molhe\\nCadillac, the founder of Detroit, and whose name is appropriately\\nmemorialized in its streets and public buildings. This distinguished\\nindividual among the host of adventurers that, early in the\\neighteenth century, sought fame and fortune amid the wilds of\\nAmerica, was ushered into existence at Toulouse, capital of the\\ndepartment of the Hante-Garonne in Southern France, in 1001. His\\nparents were Jean Cadillac and Jeanne Malenfant, notable person-\\nages of that district, who gave their son a liberal education, fitting\\nhiui for tlie military service which he entered at the early age of\\nsixteen, becoming at twenty-one, a lieutenant. Arriving at Quebec\\nwith the regiment in which he was commissioned, he became\\nac iuainted with ami subsequently married Marie Therese Guyon,\\nthe beautiful daugliter of a prominent and rich cit zen. He was\\nsoon after delegated by the French Government to gather a state-\\nment of the aiTairs of the English settlements as at that time exist-\\ning. In 1674 Cadillac received high commendation from Count\\nFrontenac for valuable services by being rewarded with the command\\nof Fort Buade, Micbillimackinac, which he occupied for the space\\nof five years. In his various negotiations with the Indians he\\nexhitiited so marked and significant a judgment and discretion as to\\nbe allowed by the French Government the grants of Mont Desert\\nand Douaguet in the vicinity of the Pentagoet river. He strongly\\nrecommended Detroit as a point of vantage against the Iroquois, as\\nwell as affording an effectual check against the English by shutting\\nthem off from trade with the Indians in furs and thus preserving\\nthat commerce for France. These suggestions, urged with great\\nforce of argument, led to his being appointed to conduct an expedi-\\ntion of fifty soldiers and fifty artisans and voyagetirsio fortify and\\noccupy Detroit. He was accompanied by Al])lionse de Tonty, a\\nrelative of his wife s family, as captain, Dugue and C harconale,\\nas lieutenants, Jacob de Marsac, Sieurde L Ommesjirou, as sergeant,\\nFrancois and Jean Fafard, as interjireters. Father Constantin del\\nHalle, a Recollet, and Father Vaillant, a Jesuit, as chaplains. The\\nexpedition left the rapids of Lachine June 5th, and early in July\\nreached Georgian Baj coming by way of the Grand River of the\\nOttawas along the east shore of Lake Huron, arriving July 20th at\\nLake St. Clair and Fort St. Joseph, which had thirteen years before\\nbeen abandoned by Dulutb. The advance guard of the expedition,\\npassing Belle Isle, came to land at the foot of the present Griswold\\nstreet on Jul} 24tli, 1701, and were received by the Ottawas and\\nHurons with the most extravagant demonstrations. There were at\\nthat time living on the site of Detroit two Frenchmen whose names\\nare remembered, Pierre Roy and Francois Pelletier, as well as a", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nnumber of others, of whom there is no mention made in the existing\\nchronicles. The next clay, July 2. )ili, formal po.ssession was taken\\nand the work of building a fort begun, which Cadillac called Fort\\nPontchartrain, and which received the royal approval in July, 1703.\\nJuly 2Cth, irni, on the second day of the occupation of Detroit,\\nground was broken for the first church west of the Alleghanies,\\nwhich was named in honor of Saint Anne s day, Saint Anne s\\nChurch, to conform to the designation of July 2Cth in the church\\ncalendar as being the day on which tlie work of building was com-\\nmenced. This church still stands at the corner of Howard ar.d\\nNineteenth streets, and regular services are held therein. It has\\nbeen rebuilt in a splendid manner and is regarded as one of the hand-\\nsomest and most inii ()sing in the city. Two streets. Saint Anne and\\nSaint Louis, were outlined and ujion them were built barracks for\\nthe soldiers and rude dwellings of hewn logs. The foundations\\nwere thus laid of Le VUle (V Etruit, the town of the Strait, by reason\\nof its location upon the river called by the French a strait, as being\\nthe connecting link between Lakes Erie and St. Clair. It has since\\nbeen known as the Detroit river.\\nThe settlement was re-inforced from time to time by accessions\\nof inhabitants from various directions, and by births, the register of\\nSt. Anne s Chin-ch exhibiting from 1704 to 1707 an average annual\\nrate of fourteen. The first grant of land was made by Cadillac to\\nJean Fafard, who ac-\\ncompanied the ex-\\npedition to Detroit as\\nan interpreter,\\nMarch 10th, 1707.\\nThis lot adjoined\\nCadillac s posses-\\nsions and Fafard was\\nformally invested\\nwith his right and\\ntitle by Nonxieur\\ndu Detroit, as Cad-\\nillac was styled, in\\nthe presence of a\\nmultitude of people,\\nto wlioni a transfer\\nof real estate was ;i\\nmatter of great im-\\nportance and inter-\\nest. The residence\\noccupied by adillac\\nwas on Jetferson\\navenue, near where\\nnow stands the old\\nCam))au liomestead,\\nand was at that day\\nconsidered some-\\nWiW\\nDETROIT IN 1830.\\nthing granil and awe-ins|iiiing. A curioussuperstitiou was encouraged\\nby the early inhabitants of Detroit in the shape of a red dwarf,\\nwhose presence was supposed to betoken dire calamities. Some\\nchronicles assert that this strange being appeared to Cadillac and\\nthat he, enraged at his impertinence, chastised him with a cane, and\\nthat the sequel was the loss of Cadillac s princely domain and his\\nincarceration, through tlie intrigues and wily machinations of his\\navowed enemies, the Jesuit priests, who virulently opposed liim for\\nBelling licpior to the Indians. However, the fart remains that, soon\\nafter this time, Cadillac, arraigned at Montreal upon specific\\ncharges, was forced to dispo.se of his Detroit seigniory to defray the\\nexpenses of his trial. He was suliseipiently a.ssigned Governor of\\nLouisiana, but returning to France, died in comparative ob. icurity\\nat Castle Sarasin, leaving of his once large possessions not a rod of\\nground to his heirs. Cadillac is characterized by E. Rameau, the\\nauthor of several works upon the French colonies in America, as\\nan intelligent and hardy adventurer, who, influenced by the situation\\nof Detroit, iiroposed to cliarge himself with the construction of a\\nfort and the colonization of the countr}-, if he were conceded a\\nseignioral title to a domain. M. de Callieres eagerly seized the\\nopportunity of nuiking a forward move without having to denian l\\nof France either men or money. The expedition was authorized.\\nTo Cadillac is certaimy due the initiation of the colony at Detroit,\\nand, if the designs of his enemies culminated in Ids ultimate disgrace\\nand poverty, all coming ages should honor his name as the fovmder\\nof one of the greatest and grandest cities of the New World.\\nThe settlement at Detroit from the deposition of Cadillac\\nbecame for a century the scene of cruel war s relentless scourge,\\nand the town was successively occupied by the French, English and\\nAmericans, until attaining the final protection of the Republic of\\nthe United States, it put on the impregnable armor and spread the\\nbanner of an uninterrupted and genuine progress. Detroit was\\nalmost ruined by fire in ISO.j, and its present ajjposite symbol,\\nSpei-anius mvliora rcsnrget cliieribus, upon its municipal shield,\\nshows the high sjiirit of those who sprang from the hardy French\\nadventurers wlio first touched upon the sliores of the magnificent\\nriver since dignified by the name of Detroit, and bearing ui on its\\nblue waters the moving spirit of its great progressive and commer-\\ncial identity.\\nAmong the first marriages registered in Saint Anne s Church\\nwas that of Francois Fafard, otherwise known as Delorme, the\\nfamous interpreter, who followed Cadillac to Detroit, and Barbe\\nLoisel, the relic of Francois Gautier, Sieur de la Vallee Rancee, a\\ndistinguished soldier of the French army, who came to his death in\\n1710. De La Forest, who succeeded Cadillac, remaining at Quebec,\\nthe Uurons, Ottawas and the other Indian tribes, subjects of the\\nFrench power, ab-\\nsent upon expedi-\\ntions of hunting,\\nand the fort at De-\\ntroit garrisoned\\nwith but a few men\\nunder the tempor-\\nary command of Du\\nBuisson, the cupid-\\nity of the English,\\nfor some time ex-\\ncited toward the\\nmore advantageous\\nFrench settlements,\\nwas at this juncture\\npreciiiitated by the\\nFo.x Indians, who\\ncame under the\\ndirection of the\\nEnglish to capture\\nFort Pontchartrain.\\nThese daring child-\\nren of the forest\\ndaily hovered\\narnuiul the fort,\\nwatching an oppor-\\ntunity to accom-\\n-^te*-^ -^ii^f;^:\\n.,-j?S^j\\nplish their purpose, but so alert were Du Buisson and his faithful\\nlittle garrison that help arrived in a large force of Hurons,\\nPottawotomies, Sacs, Illinois, Osages and Missouris, who fell upon\\nthe Foxes and put them to rout with great slaughter. The village\\ngrew apace, and in 1731 a council of the Unions, the Iroquois, the\\nOttawas and the Pottawotomies, met here iii response to the demand\\nof Alplionse de Tonty, Baron de Pahnle, tlie commander of Fort\\nPontchartrain, to he;ir pronounced tlio edict that henceforth no\\nmore fire water would be sold to them. This was received with\\nloud dissent, but the law of prohibition was rigidly enforced for\\nsome years afterward. After the terrible repulse of the Foxes by\\nDu Buisson in 1713 and their defeat again in 1717, Fort Pontchar-\\ntrain was not further assaulted until 1746, when the noted chieftain,\\nPontiac. with his people, contributed in defending it. In the six\\nyears from 1749 to 17 t t Detroit so enlarged its iiupulalion under the\\nCanadian bounty act to influence immigration that the fort was\\nenlarged, to admit of better ]iiei)arations for defence against British\\nand Indian incursions. About tliis time a large number of refugees\\nfrom Nova Scotia and Lower Canada, to tscapo the continual war-\\nfare between the French and English, found an asylum in Detroit.\\nIn 17()() Canada was Ceded by the French to the English, following\\nwhich ciine the surrender of Detroit, November 2fltli of the same\\nyear, the articles of capitulation being signed by De Bellestre,", "height": "3461", "width": "2447", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\ncommanilei- of Fort Pontcharti-ain, yielding Detroit to the English\\ngovernment represented by Major Robert Rogers. Detroit was now\\nunder British domination, but already were brewing the elements\\nof a conflict tliat would fleck its once quiet and peaceful streets\\nwith blood. Pontiac, the famous cliief of the Ottawas, by whose\\nassistance Fort Pontchartrain had been protected some years before\\nfi om the fury of hostile tribes, allies of the English, true to his\\nallegiance to tlie French, tliree years after, conceived tlie daring\\nplan of surprising and slaynig the garrison. His influence with his\\nown tribe extended to his allies; generally to the Indians of the\\nNorthwest, and even to the far distant Delawares on the eastern side\\nof the continent. All of these Indian tribes Were bitterly hostile to\\nthe English and ready to glut their vengeance upon tlieni at the\\nslightest instigation. Tlie English had ever treated them with\\nneglect and contemptuous disregard, while tlie French had been\\nkind and generous. In tlie summer of 1761, Captain Campbell,\\nfollowing May. Tlie Indian tribes thus brought into a league\\nembraced, with an insignificant few excepted, the entire Algonquin\\nnation, with whom co-operated the Wyandots, tlie Senecas and\\nvarious tribes along tlie Mississippi. With the usual taciturnity of\\ntheir race, tlie Indians effectually disarmed suspicion, although\\nseveral times on the eve of being detected. Notwithstanding the\\ntreaty of peace, signed at Paris, February 10th, 1763, by which\\nFrance agreed to relinquisli all of her interest to the country lying\\nnustward of the Mississippi river, and which it was tliought would\\nappease the ire of the savages, they unremittingly continued their\\npreparations for an outbreak against the English. The wily Pontiac\\nhoped still for aid from the French, and when it did not come, he\\ngathered his faithful band around him and iirecipitated the attack\\nuixm Detroit, which was kept in a state of seige from May 8, 1763, to\\nAugust 26, 1764, being closely invested and the scene of almost daily\\nbattles. Among these encounters, in which the Indians were for a\\nVIEW FROM TOP OF HAMMOND BUILDING,\\ncommandant of the English garrison at Detroit, was notified of tlie\\nrecent appearance among the Wyandots of a band of Senecas, whose\\nobject was to incite them to surprise and murder him and his garri-\\nson. Investigation discovered that this design of the Indians was\\nnot limited to Detroit, but was intended to include Niagara, Fort\\nPitt and other important posts. By the prompitude of Campbell in\\nwarning the commanders of the proposed attack, the plan of the\\nIndians was abandoned. In 1763, during the summer, a project of\\nlike import was discovered and rendered abortive, but toward the\\nend of the same year, Pontiac sent out his emissaries to the various\\ntribes hostile to the English, urging them to war. Everywhere they\\nwere received with great favor and without a dissenting voice. The\\ngeneral verdict was to dig up the hatchet and fall upon the Eng-\\nlish, to drive them from the lands that had been wrested from them\\nand which their propliets had predicted would be restored to them.\\nIt was understood that the decisive steps would be taken in the\\ntime the victors, the sanguinary battle of Bloody Run. fought\\nJuly 31, 1763, was most disastrous to the English the casualties\\nbeing, in killed, eighteen men, counting Captain Dalzell, the com-\\nmandant of Fort Pontchartrain, three prisoners and thirty-eight\\nwounded. The only relict of the scene of tliis encounter is the A st\\ndecaying trunk of a whitewood tree still to be seen in the grounds\\nupon which are located the present Michigan Stove Works, the little\\nstream, which was long afterward knownas Bloody Run, being\\nlost amid the footsteps of progress.\\nReinforcements brought by Colonel Bradstreet in August, 1764.\\nrepelled the Indians, and in the following year peace was established\\nby a treaty with Pontiac, Captain George Croghan acting for the\\nEnglish. The various dissensions and troubles growing out of the\\nnumerous conflicts with the Indians and the English occupancy\\nconspired to drive away from Detroit many of its original inhabi-\\ntants, or their progeny, so that the population at the time of the", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\npeace of 1764 had been greatly reduced. In the succeeding years,\\nhowever, accessions of inhabitants from Canada and the States were\\nconstantly made until the close of the American Kevolution in 1783,\\nwhen Detroit came into ijossession of the United States, but only\\nnominally, the virtual year of control by the American government\\nbeing 17i\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab. Michigan continued as a part of the Northwest TeiTi-\\ntorv from 17h7, under the governorship of General St. Clair, and from\\n1803 was included in the Indiana Territory, becoming, in 1805, the\\nTciiitciry of Michigan, of which Hull was governor, who, as com-\\nmanilant of Detroit in the war of 1K12, yielded it to the EngUsh on\\nthe l.^th of August of that year. On September 2i)th, 1813. Detroit\\nwas re-cai tured by the American forces under Col. McArthur, and\\nthe gi)vernment of the Territory of Michigan was vested in Col.\\nLewis Cass from 1813 to 1831, under which it greatly improved in\\nthe relations of treaties with the Indians, the building of roadways,\\nand in many other directions for sesuring its admission as a state\\ninto the Union. Anthony Waynes victory over the Indians in\\nAugust, 1794, it should be stated, gave the United States its first\\nactual control over Detroit and the adjacent country. The old\\nDetroit and its French associations were almost obliterated by the\\nfire of IHWJ however, even to the present day, is preserved by the\\ndescendants of tho.\u00c2\u00abe who were its first founders, much of the pristine\\nsignificance conferred by the colonists who, under Cadillac and his\\nsuccessors under the\\ncrown of France,\\ngave it a name, and\\nthe nucleus from\\nwhich has spiung\\nthe gran l city of to-\\nday. To the original\\nhardy settlers, the\\nprogenitors of many\\nof the prominent\\nfamilies of the pres-\\nent, who have been\\nlargely instrumental\\nin enhancing the\\nfortunes of the city,\\nnnich credit is due\\nand tliey shoidd not\\nbe igMore l amid the\\nmarch t f lime and\\nits relentless decrees.\\nEmerging from the\\ndevasting wars and\\nthe great fire, Detroit\\nbegan to take its\\nplace among the risi\\ning cities of the Unit-\\ned States, as one of woodward avent\\nthe more remarkable of %\\\\hich it holds consi)icuous po.sition and a\\ncommercial iiniiortanco exceeded by but few in the country. To\\ntra e its onward moves from tlie period of its restoration as a part\\nof the United States becomes now the province of this work. Dating\\nfrom the period when it became actually ceded to the United States\\nby the treaty of 1783, Detroit began to assume, from its favorable\\ngeographical position, an important consideration as a mart of\\ntraffic and one of the leading commercial emporiums on the great\\nlakes. Here were undertaken great enterprises, and of such a char-\\nacter as to invest the city with the strotigest claims to prominence\\nas containing the elements of enterprise and progress. Having\\npassed, but not unscathed, througli the ]ierils of its colonization by\\nthe French, through the disasters of Indian invasion and British\\noccupancy; through Iiorrible ma.ssacre and devastating conllagra-\\ntion, Detroit emerged from its trials witli the seal of progress\\nstamped upon it, which it has since well and wortluly borne.\\nNo cily of the United States, perhaps, possesses more of the elements\\nof romance and none can furnish a history more replete with\\nthrilling incidents. The Michigan Territory was wrested from\\nBritish control by Perry s victory over the British fleet in Lake Erie\\nSeptendier 10th, 1813. Detroit was soon afterwards restored to the\\nUnited States and a body tif Kiiilucky troops garrisoned Fort Pont-\\nchartrain, which thenceforward became Fort Shelby, ia honor of\\nGovernor Shelby who commanded them, which name itretained until\\ntorn dov. n by the encroachments of the city s progress. Its tite will\\nbe oc-cupii d by tlie si)lendid government building now in process of\\nerection. Detroit skuvly increased in population, the records show-\\ning in 1827, 2,1. J3 inhabitants; in 1S37, 8.273, and in 18. j2, 26,648.\\nFrom this period it advanced rapidly in this regard, the census of\\n18.80 giving it a population of ll. j,006, which in 1890 liad increased\\nto considerably above 200.000. Michigan under its territorial\\ngovernment began to awaken from its lethargy and to assume the\\ndirection and control of its resources, which were toeventuale in\\nmaking a state distinguished for the enterprise and progress of its\\npeople. Immigration from the earlier settled East, hithertoretarded,\\nnow began to pour in. Lake navigation, inaugurated in 1819 by the\\nfirst steamboat, the Walk-in-the- Water. furnished an impetus to\\nl)rogres3 and a vehicle of traffic since so abundantly realized, and\\nwhich has been so prolific a source of industry and general com-\\nmerce. Detroit shared so abundantly in these elements of advance-\\nment as to have been constituted an important shipping port. In\\n1819 the city is said to have had two hundred and fifty houses and a\\npopulation of about fourteen hundred, irrespective of its military in\\ngarrison. Detroit, by its earlier chroniclers, is said to be imder a\\nheavy l iad of (U l)t to Augustus B. Woodward, Chief Justice of the\\nMichigan Territory, who contrived its intricate divisions, its spacious\\nnarks, its circus, its\\ncampus viurtius, its\\ntortuous streets, its\\nboulevards and its\\nmany and diverse\\npeculiarities, few\\nvestiges of which\\nare, however, at the\\npresent day e.xistent,\\nexcept in the mem-\\nory of tiie oldest in-\\nhabitants. To this\\neccentric individual\\nis credited the fram-\\ning of the bill creat-\\nin;; the University of\\nMichigan, wliicli was\\npas^ed by the gov-\\nernor and judges of\\ntheTerritoryinl817,\\nand which charac-\\nterized that famous\\ninstitution as the\\na tholepes t e m i a d.\\nUnder this law the\\nUniversity of Michi-\\ngan was empowered\\nE LOOKING NORTH.\\nto have thirteen didaxia or professional chairs, with such endow-\\nments as would seciu o the establishment of a liberal education.\\nTlie tides of population now jjouring over the Michigan Territory\\nsoon created the vdlages of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Pontiae, Jackson\\nand Tecumseli. Governor Cass was fully sensible of the duties\\nincumbent upon his position, and his whole term of office was\\nsignalized V)y unremitting energies directed to the improvement and\\nutilization of internal resources and the establishment of recijjrocal\\nand beneficial commercial relations. The great lakes afl orded the\\nmost potential auxiliaries of trade, and Detroit was the cynosure to\\nwhich were directed the eyes of the more thickly pojndated and\\nmore prosperous East, from which direction came many of the\\nfounders of its sidjseipient enterprise and progress. In 1S31, George\\nB. Porter succeeded GcneraK ass, who hail been created United States\\nSecretary of War, as Govt rnorot the Michigan Territory, the jxipula-\\ntion of which at this juncture was represented at yo.linO. The act\\nadmitting M ich igan into the Union as a State was passed Januar.v 26th,\\n1837, with Stevens T. Mason. a native of Virginia, as Governor of the\\nState under the elective sj stem. During this administration an appro-\\nl)riation of $100,000 was made, to establish a central route from\\nDetroit to the mouth of the St. Jose])h, and at about this period an act\\nof the legislature was passed, grant ing franchises to the roads bet ween\\nDetroit and Shiawasse and Gibraltar and Clinton. Under the", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN H1ST(3RY AND COMMERCE.\\nsucceeding gubernatorial administration of William Woodbridge\\nfrom January, 1840, to February, 1851. when he became United\\nStates Senator and was succeeded by J. Wright Gordon, lieutenant\\ngovernor, the raihoad from Detroit to Ann Arbor was finished.\\nThe population of Detroit at this time was estimated at 9,101.\\nIn 1846 tlie tonnage of vessels at the port of Detroit was 26,928\\ntons, 8.400 of steam vessel and 18,537 of sail vessel tonnage giving\\nemployment to 18,000 persons. March 1st, 1848, the first telegraph\\ncommunication was established between Detroit and New York and\\nthe first message was flaslied over the wires the same day. Detroit\\ncontinued the Capital of the State, as it had been of the Territorial\\ngovernment, until 1845, when by act of the legislature it was\\nremoved to Lansing. As the most important shipping station on\\nthe lakes and as possessing the most superior facilities, Detroit began\\nfrom this period to assert its commercial supremacy and to acquire\\nthe trade of its naturally tributary territory. Large manufacturing\\nventures were undertaken and successfully prosecuted. Great\\nimprovements were projected and large fortunes realized. The\\nCity of the Strait began to attract the attention of the outside\\nworld and to bring into its trade the elements of its future progress\\nand identity as one of the leading markets of tlie cmmtry. Emerg-\\ning from the disastrous conflagration of 1805, the motto thence-\\nforward gracing its municipal shield, Meliora speramus cineribus\\nresurget has been\\nfuUy verified in the\\nchange from its\\nformer unsightly\\nand bizarre aspect to\\nitsi^resent grand and\\nmajestic outlines.\\nThis purgation,\\nthough destructive\\nof old land-marks\\nand the occasion of\\nmuch temporary dis-\\ntress, brouglit about\\nthe changes which\\nhave made Detroit\\ntlie splendid city of\\nto-day, with its parks\\nand drives, its boule-\\nvards, its palatial\\nhomes, its arbores-\\ncent beauty, and its\\nmerited identity of\\nprominence and dis-\\ntinction in manufac-\\ntures and general in-\\ndustries. The visitor\\nis agreeably im-\\npressed with the city s well-shaded streets and the general air of\\nthrift and prosperity that marks its business thoroughfares and the\\ndistricts in which reside its opulent and public-spirited citizens.\\nDetroit scarcely comports witii the typical Western city on the\\ncontrary it bears a striking resemblance to a New England model,\\nthe larger per cent, of its people having sprung from the hardy\\nscions of the land of the Pilgrim Fathers. It has, considered as\\na large city, a much smaller number of inhabitants of foreign birth\\nthan any other American city. Judging from tlie country s great\\nand rapid increase in population, Detroit will, in a few years, reacli\\ntho central point in the relation of the countrj^ s more important\\ncities, as premising from the last returns of tlie census (1890), it must\\nbe in a few years regarded as near the centre of iJO[)ulation. While\\nnot possessing the metropolitan characteristics of New York, Pliila-\\ndelphia, Baltimore, Boston and other cities entitled to such a dis-\\ntinction, Detroit may truly be styled in the category of the more\\nprominent and important municipalities of the United States as\\nexhibiting a condition, not only promotive of the most captivating\\nsensations, but as well indicative of the strongest claims to com-\\nmercial supremacy. In tracing tlie progress of Detroit from its\\nrude beginning as a French trading post in 1701 to the present time\\nas one of the most important and magnificent cities of the United\\nStates, tlie principal incidents of its history have been briefly intro-\\nGRISWOLD STREET.\\nduced and will serve to show the tireless enterprise and indomiiable\\nambition of its founders, the hardy pilgrims from the East and the\\nadventurers across the Atlantic who early cast in their lots with its\\nimperfectly foreshadowed fortunes In the merchants and manu-\\nfacturers of to-day, a record of whose lives and business experiences\\nembellish the succeeding pages of this work, Detroit has had its\\nsecure foundation and grand identity. In 1884 the value of real\\nestate and personal property in Detroit was $110,731,955, which had,\\nin 1889, increased to $14:5,993,438, and iu 1890, considering tlie value\\nover assessed estimate as almost double, it approximates $300,000,000.\\nThe rate of taxation is $14.29 per $1,000. With these facts in view\\nit may truly be declared that no city of equal size in the United\\nStates can compare with Detroit in wealth, degree of prosperity and\\nlow tax rate. In the relation of eilucation and the facilities for its\\nthorough acquisition Detroit takes a notably high rank. Its public\\nschool system is not excelled by any in the country in point of\\nendowment and methods of instruction. The school-buildings are\\nof admirable construction and afford every requisite acconimotlation\\nfor the comfort and convenience of pupils. The number of the\\nschool-buildings is fifty-one, principally the yiroperty of the city,\\nwith a seating capacity of 19.971, and 438 teachers. The value of\\nthese structures owned by the city is $1,500,000. The children\\neligible to instruction numbered in 1889, 63,009, against 65,133 in\\n1888. The assess-\\nment for 1890 was in\\nexcess of that of\\n1888. The public\\nlibrary building is\\none of the hand-\\nsomest in architec-\\ntural style and finish\\nin the city and was\\nconstructed especi-\\nally for the accom-\\nmodation of library\\nrequisites. It was\\nformally opened to\\ntho public January\\n22d, 1877. With the\\nadditions of a read-\\ning-room, museum\\nand offices, in 1885,\\nthe aggregate cost\\nwas nearly $100,000.\\nIt contains 90,000\\nbound volumes and\\nmore than 10,000\\npamphlets. The\\nhours of admission\\nare from 9 A. M. to\\n9 P. M., every day with the exception of Sundays and holidays. It\\nis a free institution, and any citizen of Detroit above fourteen\\nyears of age may, upon subscribing to an obligation to obey the\\nrules and regulations therein set forth and giving satisfactory\\nsecurit} in the written pledge of a responsible person, secure a\\ncard which entitles the holder to i-eceive books for reading at home,\\nbut any person, citizen or stranger, may use the books in the reading-\\nroom of the library upon a request in prescribed form. The reading-\\nroom, open daily from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M., and from 2 to 9 P. M. on\\nSundays and holidays, is Jree to all persons desiring to avnil tliem-\\nselves of its privileges. The leading newspapers and magazines are\\nkept on file and are supplied upon request, also various scientific,\\nreligious and literary publications in English, French, German and\\nother languages. Tlie building contains a well ordered museum,\\nfree to visitors every day from 3 to 5 p. M. The Public Library is a\\nprolific source of instruction, especially to the pupils of the public\\nschools, who, by a diligent course of reading in proper directions,\\ncan thus greatly facilitate the acquisition of a literary education.\\nIn the order of population Detroit is the fifteenth of the cities of\\nthe United States, as indicated by the census of 1890, a position it\\nhas attained since 1880 when it was reckoned tlie eighteenth. The\\nofficial boards of the city, represented in the Boards of Education\\nand Estimate?, are composed of members elected by the people from", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "lO\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nthe several wards. Tlio Jlotropolitan Police Comiuissioncrs are of\\nappointment by the Governor of llie State, and tlie Public Li jrary\\nCommissioners by the Board of Education. The Boards of Fire,\\nWater, Park and Boulevard, Poor, Building Inspectors and Insiiec-\\ntors of the House of Correction, as included in the Boards of Public\\nWorks, are of appointment by the JIayor and approved by tlie City\\nCouncil. What is terniecl a Municipal Improvement As-sociation.\\norganized for the ])urpose of jiurchasing and controlling electric\\nlight or other illuminating facilities, the street raihvay .systems and\\nother auxiliaries for the use of the municipal government, is of\\nrecent establishment, and will doubtless prove of great benefit in\\nthe direction cited in its constitution. Adequate police protection is\\nafforde l under the maintenance of an efficient corps of the custodians\\nof the jieace.\\nThe water supply, of a character and quality unsurpassed else-\\nwhere ill the country, is i)racticably inexhaustible. The water\\nsystem is furnished with :iC 7 miles of pipes, connecting with two\\nprincipal mains from the pumping station, and atlording wlien\\nselves amid its sylvan glades, through which run canals of pellucid\\nwater bearing upon its bosom a multitude of boats, laden with their\\nargosy of laughing lassies and their sturdy gallants who ply the oars.\\nNature has here, aided by art in varied attractions, established a\\nrespite from labor and the cares of business, and is a source of\\nrecreation eagerly accejited by the throngs of visitors who during\\nthe heat of summer have thrown around them its charms of wood-\\nland and water scenery.\\nThe history of the civil war recounts the valor of Detroit s\\nsoldier}-, perpetuated in an imposing monument on its Campus\\nMartins, where also stands a fountain donated by the late John J.\\nBagley, and a bronze statue of that eminent citizen, a gift to the\\ncity from a popular subscription.\\nThe City Hall, a large and imposing structure, fronts upon the\\nCampus Martins with entrances on CJriswold and Fort streets and\\nMichigan avenue. In the lawn in front are two of the cannon\\ncaptured in Perry s victory on Lake Erie, interesting souvenirs of\\nthat great historic event culminating in the restoration of Detroit to\\nI LBLIl LIUKAKV.\\nrequired a daily supply of 20,000,000 gallons, although as large a\\nquantity as il, 000,000 gallons have been pumped tlirough the con-\\nduits. The value of the city water works property in January,\\n1800, was represented by $;i,4U),910, to which, in 1801, \u00c2\u00a3.t least $:!00,-\\n000 in improvements has been added. Detroit justly ranks with the\\nlarger metropolitan cities of the United States in its excellent equiii-\\nment t)f municipal accessories, and presents in its government the\\nmost eflicient and the most salutary administration.\\nOr.e of the most interesting of tlie many and varied ])oints of\\nattraction in and around the city is llie grand natural park of Belle\\nIsle. It is located near tlio source of tlic Detroit river and, as its\\nname imiilies, is an isl nd. It embraces 070 acres and is the property\\nof the city, having been i urcliased by it in 1S79 for $300,000. The\\nimprovements since made thereon and the cost of its conduct aggre-\\ngate $300,000, exclusive of the bridge by which it is connected with\\nthe main land and which cost $:!00,000. Belle Isle commands in\\nsummer a daily resort for many thousands of people, and is especi-\\nally the delight of the children, who romp and heartily enjoy tliem-\\nthe United States. The City Hall is surmounted by a tower from\\nwhicli a fine view of the city, the river and the Canadian hamlets\\nopposite can be obtained.\\nThe press of Detroit, elsewhere treated of in this work, has able\\nrepresentatives, and notably in the Detroit Free Press, tlie Tribune,\\nniorning dailies, and the Evcuiiiij yewx, Journal, Sun and Times, of\\nafternoon issue, and all except the Journal and Times liaving\\nSunday editions.\\nDetroit is i)roininent among tlie great cities of the United States\\nas having, for its size, the hirgi st luuiiber of iiiillioiuiires, who have\\ngenerally greatly cuntributed lo the city s endowment of capital in\\niiuiiierous enterprises.\\nThe new government building, now in process of erection on the\\nsite of old Fort Shelby, corner of Fort and Shelby streets, will be\\nwhen completed one of the most magnificent structures of the kind\\nin the country.\\nThe Detroit Museum of Art, thrown open to the public Septem-\\nber 1, 1887, is a splendid building of the Gothic order of architecture.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n1 1\\nand cost |I56,385.44, The repository of tlie fine art lias receiitlj been\\nenriched by donations of rare and costly paintings by Mr. James E.\\nScripps and a large collection of Japanese curios and works of art\\nby Mr. Frederick Stearns, gentlemen intimately associated with\\nDetroit s greater enterprises.\\nThis liistory cannot more appropriately be concluded than by\\nthe statement that the trust expressed in the motto gracing the\\ncity s municipal shield let us hope that better things will arise\\nfrom the ashes, has in its present identity been abundantly verified-\\nReminisences of Jacob S. Farrand.\\nA few weeks before his death the late Jacob S. Farrand gave\\nthe following narrative to the publishers of this book. It is printed\\nverbatum, in his own peculiar style. The sketch of the life of Mr.\\nFarrand may be found in connection with the history of the drug\\nfirm of Farrand. Williams Clark\\nwere given where we desired to pay men, and all that. The pay.\\nment of men was done in those days very largely with orders.\\nWere not payments made very often in furs?\\nOf course there were dealei s in furs at that time, but it was\\nnot everybody that dealt in furs. James Abbott was the agent of\\nthe American Fur Company here and there were others that dealt in\\nfurs, but if anyone came in who wanted to sell you furs they were\\nreferred to some fur dealer because the common dealer would not\\nknow what the furs were worth.\\nWhat was the population of Detroit at that time?\\nWhen I came here it was about 1,500; in 1830 tlie N.ational\\nCensus made it 2,223, 1 think. The location of tlie town was princi-\\npally down by the river. Our store was on Jefferson avenue, next\\nto the corner where Burnham, Stoepel Company are now. It was\\na little building next to the corner. At that time the river bank\\nvras up this way further than it is now somewhat Atwater street\\nwas at the w.ater at that time that was the river front then. The\\n.1.\\nI\\nb0t-\\n\u00c2\u00a3i*r\u00c2\u00bb\\n^r r- r\\nElpf-\\np\u00c2\u00b0 fr\\nI\\nCI m S\\np^\\nBf J^: flEi i^f^i p \\\\m^\\nIR.I\\nJ. L. HUDSON S MAMMOTH STORE.\\nI was brought here by my father with the rest of the family\\nin May, 1825, on the oid steamer Superior, the only steamer then on\\nthe lakes anywhere. That was in the early days of steam-ship\\nmovements. My first business venture was made February 5th,\\n1830, when I entered the drug store of Rice Bingham, as clerk, in\\nmy fifteenth year, and I have been continuously identified with the\\ndrug trade ever since.\\nTell lis something of your methods of conducting business in\\nthose early days.\\nWell Dr. Justin Rice I don t know the time he came here,\\nbut Edward Bingham came from Hudson, New York, in the year\\n1838, and the firm was Rice Bingham from 1828 onward. I\\nentered their store as a clerk in February, 18.30. The day I was\\ntwenty years old I was made a partner of Mr. Bingham. At that\\ntime we did not have as mvich money in circulation as we have\\nnow. We had mighty little money then. We began keeping our\\naccounts from January to January and settled once a year. Orders\\nmarket was right in the middle of Woodward avenue, facing Jeffer-\\nson toward the river. The market was an open market where the\\nFrench people from Canada and from our side came and sold their\\napples and pears and produce. Beef was sold there also, cut up in\\nstalls. The whipping post was in front of the market.\\nDid you ever see a man whipped there?\\nI remember the sheriff whipped a man there, but I didn t see\\nthat done. I forget what offence he had committed, but such\\noffenders were whipped for misdemeanors such as we would put\\nthem in prison for for twenty or forty days now. Business was\\ndone in general stores then different from what it is now. All the\\ndrug stores sold groceries as well as drugs. The drug store of\\nChapin Owen was in the block below us and they sold groceries,\\nand Hinchman Company, their successors, sell groceries yet. We\\nkept groceries until way along in 1865 or 1866. There was no whole-\\nsale business done at that time and no manufacturing to speak of.\\nThe Bank of Michigan, where the First National Bank now is, was", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nat that time located at the corner of Jeflferson avenue and Randolpli\\nstreet, ami that building\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the First National Bank Building\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was\\nbuilt by the Bank of Jlichigan, out of wild cat money in 1837 or\\n1838. That is one of the oldest landmarks left. The first manufac-\\nturing was introduced here much latter tlian that. I think Chai)in\\nOwen did the leading busine-^s in the drug line at that time. We\\nhad very little trade witli the Indians in those days. Wo bought\\nour goods in New York, and brought them up here by canal antl\\nlake. We went to New York once a year to buy goods sometimes\\ntwice. Of course it took a good while to go down and buy and get\\nthe goods bai-k again by canal. The Erie canal was not opened\\nuntil late in IHi, or 1826, and goods had to be teamed through from\\nAlbany to Buffalo,\\nand it took some\\nthree months for\\nthem to get goods\\nup here. Collect-\\ning bills was quite\\nas disagreeable in\\nthose days as it is\\nat present. Levi\\nCook, a leading dry\\ng x)ds dealer on Jef-\\nferson avenue, had\\na way of doing it\\n])eculiar to him-\\nself. In the spring\\nwhen he started\\noffforNewYork,he\\nleft a list of the ac-\\ncounts wliich had\\nnot been paid and\\ntold his clerks to\\nsue tht mill his ab-\\nsence. By tlie time\\nhis new goods got\\nhere nil was for-\\ngotten they were\\nall good frieiidn\\nagain; his old del)ts\\nI .ad been collected\\nnnd lie saved him-\\nself the annoyance\\n)f it and retained\\nhis trade. Tlia\\nwas the way he\\ncollected his debts;\\nthe boys took all\\nthe scolding an l it\\nwas all over when\\nhe got home.\\nProiierty w a s\\nsoUl by the acre\\nheri in those days\\nand it \u00c2\u00abas very\\ncheap. This house\\nwe are now sitting\\nin was away out in\\nthe woods. [Jlr.\\nFar rand s resi-\\ndence 4i)7 Wood-\\nward avenue.\\nE 1.] Why, that lot where Newcomb Endicott are, when I was\\nin the Common Council I had to look up some titles there and we\\nhad (juite a time about it. The lot was given to one of tlio men who\\nlost his house and lot when everything was obliterated and there\\nwere no records here, and one of those lots on whicli the building\\nstands which is now oceujiied by Newcomb, Endicott Company,\\nw^as sold for ten dollars, and those lots where Mr. Sbeley s three\\nstores are, between Newcoinli, Endicott it t oini)any*s and Slate street,\\nMr. Slieley brought sixty feet front, running back to tlio alley of\\na man who went to Wisconsin, and paid him only twelve hundred\\ndollars for it, with the idea tliat I was to have half of it that I might\\nbuild a hotise on it. I was living in Mr. Sheley s house at that time\\non the lot since occupied b\\\\ the old church whicli has just been torn\\ndown. But I could not raise the money to make the payment of six\\nhundred dollars until the property was wurlh more, and so I never\\ntook it, for it came to be worth a gre it deal more than that. But he\\nbought that property for twelve hundred dollars and built his house\\non it and lived there till he went up to his present residence on\\nStimpson Place. I guess that transaction was as late as 1841.\\nCan you tell when the jobliing business began here the\\nwholesale business in any line of trade?\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Zach Chandler came here in 1833, and wlien he got up to the\\namount of fifty thousand dollars a year it was considered a most\\nex t raordinarj-\\nthing and was\\ntalked of over the\\nwhole town. That\\nwas in the whole-\\nsale d r V goods busi-\\nness wnicn includ-\\ned carpets and\\nsuch things. Yes,\\nfifty thousand dol-\\nla rs was considt red\\nan enormous busi-\\nness and he didn t\\nget his business\\nworked up to that\\namount before\\n1Sr,0. He was the\\nmost successful\\nmerchant here dur-\\ntlie time lie was in\\nbusiness.\\nDid he have\\ndrummers ho w\\ndid he sell his\\ngoods tlirou;;h-out\\nthe country?\\nHe did most of\\nthe drumming\\nhimself. Ho would\\nget onto his horse\\nand go oil to the\\ncountry selling\\ngoods and leave\\nhis clerks homo to\\nrun the busiiK ssin\\nhis absence. Zach\\nChandler was\\nabout the first man\\nwho went out from\\nDetroit. He would\\ngo to I ontiac and\\nFlint, Ypsilanti,\\nJIarshall and Kala-\\nmazoo on horse-\\nback. They were\\nlittle jilaces to be\\nsure. Th.re were\\nno railroads in the\\nearly days of busi-\\nness here in Detroit\\nand the roads were simply awful. All the business of the city was\\nlocated on Jefferson avenue, which was the main street. The old\\nAmerican Fur Company was down where II. P. Baldwin 2nd s store\\nis now. Baldwin and Chandler went down there and bought the old\\nAbbott property James Abbott was agent of the Fur Company, and\\nPost Master here at one time. After Jackson got to be President,\\nAblKitt was removed.\\nWhat was the method of getting the mail\\nWell, when my father came here in the fall of 1824, he took a\\ncontract for furnishing Dc;troit with water. He walked around\\nLake Erie, came up through Ohio, and went back through Canada,\\nYOUNU MEN S CHKISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUILDING.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n13\\nThe mail was brought through the Black Swamp in Ohio, on a man s\\nback. My father kept in sight of that man to find his way to\\nToledo and walked all the way. There were two steamers on the\\nLake in 1834. Walk-in-the- water was lost in 1814, down near\\nBuffalo in a storm. Of course the Superior then brought the mail\\nbv tlie same route. She would make two trips a week from here to\\nBuffalo and we got our mail twice a week from the East. In the\\nwinter it came around by stage, through Ohio. I don t know how\\nsoon it came by stage I can t recollect that but, of course, the\\nmails were pretty scarce here and pretty old when they got here.\\nWhen they came in everybody flocked to the post office, the drivers\\nof the mail coaches tooting their horns and having a great time.\\nThe mails from the west came on horseback. I carried the mail\\nmyself from Ann Arbor to Detroit in 1837 and 1828.\\nWhom do you think has been the most valuable man in the\\ndays gone by, to the commerce of Detroit?\\nNow that is a pretty liard question, but I can answer some of\\nit. From 183.5 onward Oliver Newberry was tlie largest owner of\\nvessels for years and years. Old Admiral Newberry, he was called.\\nHe had more vessels here than any other man or than any firm, and\\nthere were more vessels registered in Detroit tliau in Buffalo for\\n3 ears at least it was said so, and I guess it was so. One trip was\\nmade from here that I must tell you about. I can t tell you the\\nyear it was, but word came down here after the vessels were laid up\\nthat the people would starve before spring on the Island of Macki-\\nnaw and there was an appeal made to Newberry and his sailors to\\nsee if they wcjuld not go up there in December to take these people\\nsome pork and flour for the winter. Augustus McKinstry and Bob\\nWagstaff said they would go if they could get the sailors. Newberry\\nsaid that he would let them have a vessel. Of course, there could\\nnot be any insurance. They got a crew and they took the sails out\\nof Newbei-ij- s warehouse, tumbled in the freight very fast one day,\\nand went up the river, being towed by a little river steamer into\\nLake Huron, and they went to Mackinaw between Christmas and\\nNew Years, and returned, I think, on the seventh day, having had a\\nsuccessful trip, delivered their freight and laid the vessel up again.\\nI think that was one of the most valliant things ever done.\\nWagstaff s son is up here on Lake Huron somewheres, in one of the\\nlife saving crews I saw him last spring just before he started off.\\nI think that was a wonderful trip.\\nThen you think Newberry was more important to the com-\\nmerce of Detroit than any man of recent date\\nIn proportion, I do he was the founder of the shipping inter-\\nests of Detroit. He was an uncle of John S. Newberry and a brother\\nof Henry Newberry, who went to Chicago when Chicago began to\\nloom up and who kept a dry goods store here, just wliere the First\\nNational Bank is, and he went to Chicago and made enough money\\nto be able to leave that city two or three million dollars for the\\nLibrarj tliat we have heard about lately. I can remember when\\nbusiness was entirely confined to Jefferson avenue, and when it was\\nconsidered a wonderful thing and very presumptions for a man to\\nmove liis business from the avenue. Old Robert Smart leased\\nCharles Merrill that corner which is now called the Merrill Block,\\nand then it was built out to Larned street. That was about the first\\nbreak that was made out Woodward avenue. Then, on the 10th of\\nJanuary, 18.54, the old First Presbyterian Church burned down. It\\nwas located corner of Larned and Woodward avenue. My store at\\nthat timj was just north of it. Our store was built in 1853, and\\nHolmes Company had a double store north of mine. Holmes had\\nthe largest dry goods store in this city then. That was in 1853 and\\nabout the time when the first business venture was made up Wood-\\nward avenue. The depot of the Michigan Central Railroad Com-\\npany was where the city hall is now, and the Michigan Central\\nRailroad ran in along Michigan avenue to the depot. My wife went\\nto school where the City Hall now stands, in 1838, in an old yellow\\nbrick house a young ladies seminary facing on Gr swold street.\\nThe depot was built in 1838 or 1839 I think the road was finished to\\nYpsilanti that winter. At that time the present location of the City\\nHall was about the most northerly part of the town. In fact there\\nwas nothing up as far as the depot, where the city hall stands, and\\nthere was absolutely nothing in the way of population beyond that\\npoint. Henry H. Leroy s house, corner of Grand Circus Park, wa^\\nnot built until long after that. In 1830 the City of Detroit lay\\nmainly between Larned street and the river, I might say almost\\nentirely. The old Mansion house, standing about where Cass street\\nis, was about the most western limit of the city. Below that was\\nGeneral Cass house and farm, and just below that was Colonel\\nJones house but the city as a city, extended only down to about\\nCass street and vip the river as far as Brush. This was then the\\nCapital of the Territory of Michigan and the present High School\\nBuilding was the old Capitol Building. It is practically the same\\nbuilding just altered a little. Oh, yes I have been up there and\\nheard big speakers in days gone by. General Cass died in 1866 he\\nwas then eighty-three years old. He was at Hull s surrender, when,\\nyou remember, he broke his sword rather than give it up. Old\\nMajor Rowland had a Company of Ohio troops and was coming up\\nhere to join the army he was down near Monroe and was surren-\\ndered on paper by Hull, as a part of the army, and the old Major\\nsaid to the raeosengers who carried the suirender, Hull can t sur-\\nrender me down here, and made them prisoners and marched back\\nwith his company and the messengers as prisoners into Ohio\\nThere was considerable excitement in Detroit at the time of\\nthe English invasion, wasn t tliere?\\nI was not here then that was before my time. Yes, that was\\nten years before my time, for that was in 1812 or 1813 or 1814. I\\nbelieve the treaty of peace was in January, 1815. General Cass,\\nDegarmo Jones and Colonel Brooks were at the battle of the Thames\\nwhen Harrison went over there and fought that battle. The officers\\nof the army stationed here pt that time, used to have jjrivate theat-\\nricals and all that sort of tilings. It was one of the most social\\ntowns that I ever knew of, or had any knowledge of personally, or\\never heard of. They lived i retty much all by themselves all winter.\\nWas there any caste?\\nOh, yes to some extent but they were a social people. The\\nold French peojile were a social people, and those old inhabitants\\nand the members of the army mingled with each other and there\\nwere well-to-do merchants here who owned the ground tliey lived\\non and the farms they lived on, running back three miles, and some\\nwere five ai poiits frontage, some three some more and some less.\\nA French arpont is not quite as much as one of our acres. General\\nCass farm was seven arponts Colonel Jones five, and they varied\\nconsiderable in their frontage but they all ran back about three\\nmiles. There were no carriages here in those days; people rode", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\naround in ordinary French two-wheeled carts, just such as they\\ncarried on their busini-ss with, for there were no drays. We put\\nsome liiiy in the bottom and a. buffalo roho on tliat and rode every-\\nwliere in them, except in llie winter, when we used oUl Frencli\\nsleiglis. Those old carryalls were very nice and handy. I can\\nremember seeing those French carts l)acked up to tlie church as we\\ncame out ten or fifteen of them standing there. They were much\\neasier to get in and out of than tlio carriages of to-daj-. Everybody\\nrode in them they could be unliooked and dumped like a coal cart.\\nMrs. Governor Porter was unhooked and dumped out once in front\\nof the First National\\nBank. They wero\\njust like these coal\\ndump carts and had\\nno springs. It was\\nvery muddy in those\\ndays. Speaking of\\nmuddy streets re-\\nminds me that the\\nfirst paving in De-\\ntroit was done on\\nJefferson avenue,\\nnot so many years\\nago. It was made\\nof blocks of wood\\nput down by Jlr.\\nEldridge, near the\\ncorner of Wood-\\nward and Jefferson\\navenues,and extend-\\ned about half a\\nblock. lie wanted\\nto show ho w it cou Id\\nbe done. He used\\nlarge blocks about\\na foot deep and they\\nlay there for years.\\nThere were plank\\nroads up Woodward\\navenue when this\\nhouse was built in\\n1854 and 1855 and\\nwe rode on the plank\\nroads in our rock-\\naway for a good\\nwhile. We moved\\ninto this house in\\n1855, so, you see, it\\nis one of the oldest\\nhouses in this city.\\nThere were plank\\nroads built when\\nGeneral Cass came\\nback from beiiiK\\nMinister to France.\\nMr. Ledyavd, his\\nson-in-law, took hold\\nof the business and\\ntried to get roads\\nout into the country\\nGeneral Cass came\\nback liere in 1841, I\\nthink, though it\\nmight have been\\nsomewhat earlier\\nthan that. Mr. Le lyard gave an impetus to the road and\\ngot up these i)lank road companies and put roads out in various\\ndirections the Pontii C road, the Jlichigan avenue road, the Gr.ind\\nRiver road and others. There was toll cliarged on these roads then\\nas tliero is yet.\\nWhat was the first inannfactnring done of any account here\\nin Detroit, Mr. FarrandV\\nLumber was the first thing mamifactured here, Detroit used\\nto be quite a lumber market. Outside of lumber, boots and shoes\\nBUSINESS UNIVERSITY BUILDINO.\\nthev\\nwere among the first things made here. A. C. McGraw and H. P.\\nBaldwin were the first manufacturers and dealers in boots and\\nshoes, and the Buhls manufactured and sold hats and were large\\ndealers in furs. Lumber was sawed hero before I came. Sawing\\nlumber in those days was a verj- primitive affair, one cut at a time.\\nShipping timber was sawed hy liaml, mostly long pieces. The first\\nshoe manufactory waa started in 1833 and I think by Jlr. McGraw.\\nThe fire of 1805 destroyed the whole town. Tlie block bounded by\\nJefferson, Woodward, Griswold and Woodbridge streets was burned\\noff on the night of the first of January 1843. It was all covered\\nwith stores and\\ndwelling houses. In\\n1830 the Mansion\\nwas the leading\\nhotel here the old\\nAmerican Hotel\\nwhere the Biddle\\nHouse now stands\\nwas Hull s head-\\nquarters and that is\\ntheoldest hotel here.\\nThe National Hotel,\\nwhere the Russell\\nHouse HOW stands\\nwas an old hotel\\nalso. From Second\\nstreet west, down\\ntoward the river is\\nnearly all made\\nground. The i)eo-\\nple here in the\\nearlier days of De-\\ntroit went along just\\nabout as the) were\\nmen in business\\nlived along in a con-\\nservative sort of a\\nway one year and\\nanother, deToid of\\nany aristocracy. All\\nthe old inhabitants\\nwere peoi)le of a\\nsocial nature invit-\\ning to each others\\nhouses and lived\\nalong in an enjoy-\\nable way. There\\nwas never any par-\\nticular move made\\nin the progress of\\ntlie citj- until about\\n1832 when General\\nCass sold his river\\nfront. The old\\nFrench church used\\nto front on Larned\\nstreet. The old\\nBishop was at one\\ntime a member of\\nCongress and a\\npretty good sort of a\\nman, too. You\\nknow the Governor\\nand Judges used to\\nrule this whole ter-\\nritory then there were a few mei in the legislative council and\\nthey used to ask Bishop Richard to come up and open council with\\nprayer, and the old Bishop one morning in praying that the Lord\\nwould bless them in their legislative acts, said Oh, Lord, put it\\ninto their hearts to make some laws for the peeps (people) as well\\nas for themselves. The First Presbyterian Cluzrch was the first\\n])rotestant society in tlio city. It was organized as a Presbyterian\\nchurch in 1825. When it was organized as a. Presbyterian church\\nthose who were Episcopalian in their tendency biult a church", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n15\\nTHEODORE H. HINCHMAN.\\nin that block we occupied, so that the two churches were in the\\nsame block between Larned street and Congress street on Woodward\\navenue. There was one Methodist church here also.\\nReminiscences of T. H. Hinchman.\\nIt was a long and tedious journey in those days, said Mr. T.\\nH. Hinchman, the veteran drug merchant of Detroit, speaking of\\nhis initial visit to the cit} of his adoption. I came to Detroit by\\nway of Lake Erie, said Mr. Hinchman. I was eighteen years old\\nat the time I started for the West. We made the journey west oa\\nboard the steamer Thomas Jefferson. Our dock was at the foot of\\nWoodward avenue. The dock was owned by Dr. J. L. Whiting.\\nNear by was the warehouse of Oliver Newberry. On the day of our\\narrival all the i)eople in the town, or a large proportion thereof,\\ncame down to the dock, according to custom, to see the steamer\\ncome in. At this time Detroit had 7,000 inhabitants, approximatly;\\nand certainly it must have been a strange siiectacle to see this great\\ngathering down at the wharf on steamer days. Yet, as I afterward,\\nlearned, this was a common procedure with early Detroiters, who\\nlooked upon a visit to the wharf as one of the special privileges of\\nthe day. We were very uncosmoiiolitan in those days. Often ha\\\\ e\\nI seen the leading men of the city going up and down the main\\nstreet veith their trousers tucked in their boots, and, jjerhaps. nib-\\nbling at a long wheat straw. The fashionable portion of Detroit\\nlived on Jefferson avenue and on Woodbridge street. This aristo-\\ncratic precinct was only broken over by the gradual expansion of\\nbusiness, and the widening of business centres.\\nI was in Detroit during tlio dreadful panic of 18.3G. To say\\nthat all business was conipletely prostrated would be the mere\\nexpression of the truth. Everybody failed all ventures went to\\nthe wall, and more especially in the real estate line. Tlie jjanic was\\nwide-spread and far-reaching. Tlie craze for real estate speculation,\\nhad led many jiersons to financial ruin. Values had been, just\\nbefore the panic inflated again and again, until they had assumed\\nproportions indeed startling. One of the good effects of the panic\\nwas to re-adjust on a relatively proper basis, the status of the realty\\nmarket. The pendulum now took the opposite sweep, the result\\nthereof being tliat land values went begging for purchasers. Every\\none was afraid to touch land. Those were the days that the founda-\\ntions were laid for the immense fortunes that were afterwards\\nrealized by the heavy real estate production of Detroit.\\nEarly Detroit was very hospitable and social in its ways. Its\\nentertainments were always characterized by a broad spirit of wel-\\ncome. Whist and card parties were the favorite social diversion.\\nOccasionally a dance would be given in the town hall. To these\\ndances all the city went. There were no closely drawn lines, as\\nbetween classes, but all stood on terms of equality, alike invited and\\nalike welcome. The language of the city was French. When I\\nthink back on the simply, unaffected diversions of the early days and\\ncontrast them with the methods and wages of to-day. you cannot\\nblame me if I say frankly that the memory of the olden time still\\nhas the warmest spot in my heart.\\nReminiscences of J. Wilkie Moore.\\nAmong a coterie of old gentlemen who, every jjleasant after-\\nnoon, assemble in the reading room of the Eussell House to recount\\ntheir experience of a past age, Mr. J. Wilkie Moore is especially\\nconspicuous for his courtly mannerism and venerable appearance.\\nWith flowing beard, bleached to the whiteness of snow with the\\nhonorable touches of time s fingers, and a form and mien almost as\\nstalwart as a youth, showing out imperfectly the burden of his\\nyears, he is ever the cynosure of the group about him, wlio like him-\\nself delights to recall the good old days of the long ago. Mr. Moore\\nis the President of the Wayne County Pioneer and Historical\\nSociety Vice-President of the State Pioneer and Historical Society,\\nand one of Detroit s oldest and highest esteemed citizens. He was\\nborn at Geneva, N. Y., May 13, 1814, and his life has been co-inci-\\ndent with the chief events which have afforded the surest supports\\nof our great Republic. He inherited a patriotic ambition from his\\ngrand-father, a general in the revolutionary army, and a stern and\\ninflexible heroism from his matei-nal ancestry the methodistic\\nScottish infusion so promotive of the stronger elements of the Amer-\\nican character. At an early age young Moore was put to learn the\\ntrade of silversmith in Livingston County, New York, but ill health\\nprevented the culmination of his purjiose in this direction, which\\nwas after two years ab.andoned, and he determined to seek his for-\\ntunes in the great west, at that time wielding an influence but little\\nless potent than the Spanish dream of an El Dorado. Embarking\\nJ. WILKIE MOORE.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nupon the steamer Paine, his tnp to Detroit, occupying five days\\nand five nights, is tlius related by Mr. Moore\\nI thought that I would never see land again. The lake was\\nvery rough. To nie it seemed like the ocean. At last we came in\\nsight of the Island at the mouth of the Detroit River, when we\\nbegan to feel that our trials were over. Oh, how glad I was to see\\nlanil again\\nMr. Mooro arrived at Detroit November 1, I.ISS. The customary\\nsignal of firiii:; a camion on the coming Paine, brought nearly all\\nthe inhabitants of t!ie city down to the dock. The city pro] er was\\nrea -hed from Jefferson avenue. The first market stood in the mid-\\ndle of Woodward avenue, and extended from Jefferson avenue to\\nAtwater street. The building was a French structure, in the quaint\\nold fasliioned style. It was the j)rjde of the town. Where now\\nstands the Russell Ilonse stood an old, dilapidated blacksniitli s\\nshop. At the corner of Woodward avenue and Congress street was\\nan old log bridge snanning the little stream, the Savoyard, whose\\nI ower. The horse was stationed on the hurricane deck. The power\\nwas communicated from a windlass, to which the horse was hitched,\\nto the screw of the ferry boat. Tlio inhabitants at that time were\\nmostly French Canadians. Everybody belonged to the fire depart-\\nment. Every family in the city had a tar bucket, constituting pro-\\ntection from fire. When an alarm was sounded everybody ran with\\nhis or her bucket, hastening to put out the blaze.\\nThe first circumstance in the way of city improvements was a\\nthree foot plank sidewalk. This was regarded as very extravagant.\\nGovernment lands could be bought at ten shillings per acre. When\\nMr. Jloore came to Detroit there were in tlie city seven brick build-\\nings. Seven churches stood below the blacksmith s shcp, above\\nreferred to. Toledo stood in Jlichigan ami was called Vistula.\\nThen it became Port Lawrence. At last the name was changed to\\nToledo. Mr. Jloore reiiorts often having seen deer and bears and\\nwolves on the old Knaggs farm, now the Bela Hubbard farr.i.\\nOn Sunday the people used to go to church in carts sitting\\nmonth was wliere now stands tlic jn-escnt ])ost office. Tliis stream\\nran in a direction north-easterly, toward the central market, finall\\\\-\\nwasting itself in the marslies of the back country. The stone uscil\\nin the construction of the old St. Anne s church was brought iij) tlic\\nriver from Wyamlotte and Ecorse in the scows of tlie Fici.cli fislici-\\nmen. The water works in tliose days was a red painted b;irrel\\nanybody wanting water went to the public pump at the foot of\\nRandolph street and paid the man in attendance there for a barrel\\nof water. Later the water was delivered to any part of the cit\\\\\\nThe late Henry Berthelet, father-in-l:i\\\\v of Jlr. M.u.iv, IkkI the\\ncliartcr from the city in reference to the pump. M.iy s creek was\\nanother little stream, having its source in a marsliy spot where now\\nstands the Cass market. The stream took a wmding course, and\\nfinally reached the Detroit somewhere in the vicinity of Sutton s\\npail factory, West Fort street, near Eleventh. The boys in those\\ndays used to fish near the Ca!=s market, and were Sir. Moore s lips\\nnot sealed many, indeed, are tlie fish stories he could recite of that\\nearly time. The ferry boats of the day were propelled by horse\\nflat in tlie liottom Ci the conveyance. The carts were drawn by\\nFrencli ponies. Mr. Jloore saw tlie corner stone laid of the old\\nState Capitol, where now stands the Detroit High School, or, more\\nproperly, the back end thereof.\\nThe people used candles in their homes. Cias was unknown.\\nBut, after all, there was a vast fund of genuine comfort in the olden\\ndays comforts, too, that now, in this unresting age, seem gone\\nforever.\\nReminiscences of Alanson Sheley.\\nOf the older residents of Detroit, who has contiiiuously since\\nhis identification with the city been numbered with its leading busi-\\nness representatives, Mr. Alanson Sheley, of the drug house of\\nWilliams, Sheley Brooks, affords a striking instance. This gentle-\\nman came to Detroit fifty-nine years ago and his recollections of\\ntliat early period in the city s history are narrated by himself as\\nfollows:\\nI came to Detroit August 31, 1831. The town at that time did", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nI\\nALANSON SHELEY.\\nnot contain above 2,500 inhabitants. There were then but two\\nwharves here one called the government wharf and the other,\\nJones wharf. The market stood in the middle of Woodward\\navenue, just below Jefferson avenue. It was built of wood and was\\nthen the only market in Ihe city. There was but one business street\\nof any kind or description, which was Jefferson avenue. Randolph\\nstreet, at that time, represented the east end of the city. Wood-\\nward avenue extended beyond the city limits, and Woodbridge\\nstreet ran up as far as Ri-ver street. Larned street did not go\\nfurther eastward tlian Randolph street. There was no street except\\nRandolph street leading up from the river and that did not extenti\\nany further than Grand River avenue. Thei-e were but two hotels\\nthen, the Woodward Hotel and the Mansion House, down near the\\nCass farm. Judge Woodward came here from Washington to laj\\nout the city. He and Judge Wetherell laid out the city of Detroit.\\nIt was for Judge Woodward that Woodward avenue was named,\\nother streets being given presidential names, etc. Judge Wetherell\\nextended Woodward avenue above the Grand Circus park, making\\nit sixty feet wide. The Judge once facetiously remarked You\\nmay call it Wither street, because it has withered all of my pros-\\npects. Cass farm was just beyond the Mansion House, whicli was\\nlocated on First street on the river bank, twenty-five feet above the\\nwater, and General Cass house stood just beyond it, a little miser-\\nable wooden building. There were no streets running: west, except\\nMichigan and Grand River avenues, and none east further than\\nRandolph street. Where the Russell House now stands the property\\nwas owned by one Dr. Brown. He offered to sell it to me in 1833\\nfor $750. It was swampy ground in the centre of which stood a,\\nlar_;e building, and I would not buy because I was not assured that\\nit would ever be worth more. Land right out on Woodward avenue\\ncould be purchased for from $50 to $100 per acre. You could buy\\nanything you wanted at about $50 per acre. When I came here\\nEvan Davis, William Brewster, I. L. King and Enoch Jones were\\nthe dry goods merchants. I remember that E. Bingham was con-\\nducting the drug business. The fact is there were not many stores\\nhere at that time. Goods came to Buffalo by canal from New York\\nor Albany and thence by boats to Detroit. When navigation was\\nclosed, there was no way of getting goods at all. I will give you an\\ninstance Navigation was closed one fall and there was no salt\\nhere, except what Mr. Oliver Newberry had. No salt could be had\\nfrom Syracuse then. Mr. Newberry was a kind-hearted man, but\\nt2]\\nhe would sell but one barrel of salt to any one person at a fair price.\\nThus the farmers and others witli their families were supplied.\\nOliver Newberry was about the principal merchant at that time,\\nlie built boats and gave employment to a good many men in the\\ntown and was the leading man in all of our commercial relations on\\nthe lakes. There weie no manufacturing establishments here in\\n1831. There was afterward a man named Hill, who had a cabinet\\nmaker s shop, which was the first beginning of manufactures in\\nDetroit. There had been for some years prii)r to my coming, wagon-\\nshops and such places, where were made French carts, as they were\\ntermed. There was not a single carriage owned by any family in\\nDetroit. Everybody rode in carts and wagons. Such a thing as a\\nbuggy was not known. The mail came by boats and in winter by\\nstage. The postmaster, when I first came was James Lambert, but\\nhe was succeeded in the fall of that year, by John Nerval, a friend\\nof Andrew Jackson, from whom he received the appointment. The\\npost office w^as on the site of the old Michigan Exchange, but was\\nremoved by Norval to the little building just below. His wife\\nassisted him. He had no clerk. The mail received by stage came\\nin about once a day from Cleveland by way of the Black Swamp.\\nThe first wholesale dry goods merchant, I think, wasZach Chandler,\\nand about the same time Mr. Baldwin was the leading dealer in\\nshoes.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The liist bide walk in Detroit was built by Zach Chandler at\\nthe corner of Jefferson and Woodward avenues. It was six feet\\nwide and the wonder. Shortly afterward Dr. Bagg introduced an\\nordinance in the city council, requiring the construction of side-\\nwalks three feet wide on the jirincipal streets. Our fire department\\nwas of the most primitive kind. Every householder was obliged to\\nkeep two buckets of water in the house. When there was a fire\\neverybcK .y turned out with their buckets, arranged themselves\\nill a line froui the river to the fire and passed buckets along the line\\nto the old-fashioned hand fire engine. The first theatre was built\\nin Detroit in 1842, I think, on Gratiot avenue, where the public\\nlibrary now stands. It was an old wood building, such as nobody\\nwould attend now-a-days, but it served our purpose nicely in those\\ntimes.\\nbut\\nReminiscences of Alexander C. McGraw\\nThe gentleman who favored this publication with\\ninteresting interview, Sir.\\n.a brief\\nA. C. McGraw, is to-day the\\nALEXANDER C. MCGRAW.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "i8\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\noldest merchant in Detroit, in continuous service, and has been\\naas(jciatcil with Detroit s business interests since 1833, a period of fifty-\\nnine years.\\nThere is but little any of us old men could say, began Mr.\\nMcGraw, that would prove of interest to the rising generation.\\nTimes are so changed, and so many of us have passed away, that,\\nindeed, but few of us remain who could appreciate the full signifi-\\ncance of tales of the olden daj s. However, I recall many bits of\\nhistorj -personal or local that might bear rei)eatiiig\\nI was born in the Highlands of the Hudson, September 20,\\n1S((0, and left Newburgh with my father s family May 18, 18. )0, in a\\nsailing lioat for All)any, wliere we took passage on the Erie Canal\\ntliat had been finished but a few years, conseijuently many of tlie\\ntowns on the route were new. The boat stopped in many places.\\nI remember well the a|)pearance of Rix-hester. Tlio streets had\\nbeen laid out and the forest trees cut down, but the stumps were\\nyet standing. At that time there were no ])assenger railroads in\\nthe United States, but one from Albanj to Schenectady was being\\nconstructed, and one or two others. From Bufl alo to Detroit, we\\ncame up the lake on a tub of a steamer named the Peacock. Captain\\nPease it was a high position those days and Captain Pease was a\\nhigh-toned character tliat must be approaclied by a passenger with\\nhat in hand. Some few years afterward the steamboat Michigan\\nwas built and Captain Pease was promoted to the command, where\\nhis dignity was largely increased, and the day before arrival in\\nChicago, at the Captain s dinner a toast was drunk by the passen-\\ngers. The Steamboat Michigan too large a pod for small Peas.\\nOn our arrival in Detroit we hired rooms and commenced\\nhou.se-keoping. Soon afterwards my fatlier and I with two or three\\nothers started for Oakland County, on the Pontiao road on foot.\\nTlie day was warm and some of our parly became thirsty and\\ninquired of two or three persons we met, if wo would soon come to\\nwater, but was told old Jlotlier Handsom s at Koyal Oak would be\\nthe first place. Mother Handsom was so homely slie was called\\nHandsome. She had been through the war of 1813 to 1815, as a\\ncamp woman. When we arrived at her cabin, she stood in the door\\nwith a broom in her hand. My father was naturally ])olite and\\nhurried up to her and said, Mrs. Handsom, you lon t know how\\nglad we are to see you. Dam you, she said, if you call me Mrs.\\nHandsome, I will break tliis broom-stick over yniir head. My\\nlather s surprise can be imagined. Her name was (Miapel. She is\\nremembered by i..aiiy of tlie early settlers of Oakland County. My\\nfather soon after bought a farm near Pontiac and I opened a shoe\\nshop there and ran it until the cholera of 18^2 broke out in\\nDetroit. I was ordered out to stand guard to prevent stages with\\npassengers entering the village. I had previously rented a store in\\nDetroit and I moved in while the cliolera was raging and have con-\\ntinued business here up to date. May, 1891.\\nThe old time melliods of doing business were somewhat\\npeculiar. There was but little cash in the country in those days,\\nconsequently many employers were accustomed to ))ay their help\\nwith store orders, so-called. These orders were seldom for more\\nthan a few dollars, but settlement for the same was usually deferred\\n1 year. Sometimes we had settlements every six months, hut gen-\\nerally these accounts would run a year. The result was that busi-\\nness was quite stagnant.\\nWith the panic of 183V many failed. The forerunner of the\\npanic was the famous wild-cat bank era, when money depreciated\\nto such an extent that it was dangerous for a merchant to keep cash\\novernight. When a lady would go into a store to buy a piece of\\ndress goods the proprietor used to make here show her money before\\nhe would cut the cloth. These wild-cat banks sprung up ia wildest\\nprofur.ion all over the lan l. Hides were one of the few legitimate\\nsecurities of the day. I bought hides with the money and exchanged\\nthe hides for leather in New York, and worked the leather into boots\\nand shoes,\\nThe oamiiaign of 1840 always seemed to me the most remark-\\nable in point of general enthusiasm, this country has ever seen. I\\nrememlurthat I assisted in building a log cabin on Jefferson avenue,\\nopposite tli(^ Bidillo House, where we sang the praises of Harrison.\\nThe front door was duly decorated with coon skins, while near at\\nhand was the cider barrel for the masses. I went once to a grand\\nmeeting held at Tippecanoe, wliere thousands of young men had\\nassembled, coming many hundred miles from adjacent states. The\\nAlaumee river was filled with all sorts of craft for a distance of\\nabout twelve miles. Such a meeting I never saw before or since.\\nThe jieople were reckoned not by thousands but by so many miles.\\nThe orators of the day often loile through the c luiitry in wagons,\\nthe box of which was a miniature representation of a log cabin.\\nThe campaign was famous for the number of young men it brought\\nout. Horace (lieeley made his debut in this campaign, circulating\\na paper called the Log Cabin. The origin of the Log Caliin, as a\\npolitical symbol came through an accident. When Harrison was\\nnominated, the opposition was inclined to scoff. They advised him\\nto stay in his log cabin and eat coon meat and drmk his hard cider.\\nThis was at once taken up by the Whigs, who turned it into the\\ngreatest party symbol the country has ever known. Matty Van, as\\nMr. Van BuriTi was called, was ordinarilly figured as a used \\\\ip\\nman. Then the Whigs used to sing a song of many veries, to the\\ntune of The Little Pig s Tail. One Verse ran\\nFarewell, dear Van,\\nYou re not our man\\nTo guide our ship\\nWe ll try old Tip.\\nYes, indeed the campaign of 1810 will long be remembered as\\nthe most enthusiastic our country has ever seen and Detroitcrs of\\nthat early day were no exception to the rule. Drtroit in the Terri-\\ntorial years of her existence, was highly favored with strong men,\\nthe Governor and Judges being superior men to the politicians thr.t\\nhave governed many of the Territories since. The names of many\\nof theiii are well known to this generation and will be in future\\nvears to others.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Detroit in Commerce.\\nROM its original significance as an eligible trading station for furs and its\\noccupancy in that relation by Cadillac and his French garrison in 1701,\\nDetroit has assumed the distinction and prominence due to its geographic location and\\nthe facilities afforded by its water-ways and generally favorable trade essentials.\\nIt early attracted settlers of commercial inclinations, who established the founda-\\ntions from which have grown the vast enterprises of to-day. The introduction of\\nthe railway and telepraph contributed to the rapid progress of commercial and\\nmanufacturing relations and the extension of trade in tributary directions. Modern\\nmechanical art and science, prolific in the construction of labor-saving machinery\\nand appliances, have rendered manufacturing operations productive of great exten-\\nsion, and Detroit s products in varied relations find ready sale in all markets.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "DFTROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nBANKING AND FINANCE.\\nBY T. II. IIIN CHMAK.\\nFrom 18;5S to 18-1. tlie business of chartered lianks in Detroit,\\nanil also in Michigan was precarious or disastrous. The insurance\\ncoinpanj which coninienced banking in 18:^, in a small way (^IS,.\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a|)ltal), wiis the only survivor not under suspension and ditliculties.\\nIn 18-15 the State Bank and the Farmers Mechanics Bank\\nns eived their charters and continued business profitably, the first\\nuntil 18.M anil the latter to 1802. In 1849 the legislature granted two\\n(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.barters, one of wliicli was the Det-jit Savings Fund Institute,\\nwitliout capital, which was re organized into the Detroit Savings\\nliiiik in ISTI, with .f- Od.OOO capital, and is the oldest bank now in\\nDetroit or Michigan. The I ninsular Bank was also chartered in\\nthe same year with ^lOO.OdO capital, increased in 1853 to .t^OO.CKMl,\\nand in 1858 to $;J50,000. In 18 7 it suspended resumed in 1858, but\\nhad a jirecarioua and unprofitable business until 1870, when it\\ncKised, paying shareholders 20 per cent. Thus, from 1842 to 185i),\\nfive banks in Detroit ^vith aggregate capital of !f;5()l),01)() to $80(1,000\\ntransacted all city and much state business with the aid of able and\\nleliablo jirivate bankers, viz: J. L. Lyell commenced 1S4;J;\\nJ. O. (Jraves, 184:i CVie C. oit, 1843, succeeded by A. H. Dey, 1845\\nW. A. Butler Company, 1847; S. A. Ives Comjiany and C. A. Ives,\\nA. Ives Sons, 1847 to thi.-: ilale David Preston Company, 1852 to\\n1885 V. J. Sc Jtt, 1850 to 1885 and others of lesser imijortance.\\nIn 1857 a second general Banking law was pa.ssed by the legis-\\nlature, which was voted upon by the people in 1858, and took etfect\\nin 1859. Banks were slow to organize under the law. The State\\nBank of Jlichigan, at Detroit, was tlie first tliis was merged into the\\nFirst National Bank in 1865; The Michigan Insurance Bank, in ISOO,\\nwhich re-organized into the National Insurance ]5ank in 1804 and\\n(Oosed in IS(ii), after a successful career Mercliants Manufacturers\\nHaiUc. 18( iy, re-organized intoa National Bank in 1877. Oidy four banks\\norganized uncler the law in the first four years, and only\\nfifteen to 1871, when the law was amended with ])articulurreference\\nto Savnigs Banks, after which Savings Banks were organized\\nrapidly in 1871, thirteen, 1872, nine; by 188G the total of organiza-\\ntion had been eighty-four under the laws of 1857 and amendment of\\n1871, of which, at that date, thirty-five Savings Banks and twenty\\nState Banks remained doing business, twenty-nine having discon-\\ntimied or were re-organi/.ed into National Banks. Their business\\nwas generally fair, but few had accumulated much surplus or finan-\\nciil strength. In Detroit, prior to the j)assage of the National\\nHanking law in 18(i;t, were tlie following Itanks The Micliigan\\nliisiiiance Bank, Detrnit Savings Institute, State Bank and I cnin-\\nsular Bank. The Jackson City Bank, at Jackson, had a good\\nbusiness, and was the strongest State Bank. The reliance of the\\nstate was largely upon private bankers, who were prosperous and\\nai .quireil considerable capital. Following is a list of the stronger\\nAt Adrian, W. M. Waldby, L. II. Berry Albion, J. W. Sheldon Ann\\nArliiir, Miller Webster; Battle Creek, L. C. Kellogg; Collier,\\nKingman Skinner, A. C. Hamlin Bay City, C. \\\\V. Gibbon\\nDetroit. T. L. Lyell, W. A. Butler, Kellogg, Granger Sabin, C.\\nA. Ives, Parsons Fislier, David Preston; East Saginaw, W. L. I\\nLittle Comiiany, Biockway, Skeels Comi)any Flint, Stone\\nWetherbee, E. H. llazeltnn Company (irand Kaiiids, Ledyard\\nAldrich, M. L. Sweet; Hilsdale, Waldron Waldliy, C. J. Mitchell\\nHenry Waldron Hudson, Buies, Rude Company, J. M. Osboi-n\\nJackson, C^)oper Thompson, P. B. I.,oomis Com|iany Jonesville,\\nW. W. Murphy W. J. Baxter, E. O. Grosvenor Kalamazoo, T P.\\nSheldon, J. P. Sheldon Company Monroe, Wing Johnson,\\nDansard Sc Lafonlain Marshall, C. T. Gorham, Perrin Sibley, J.\\nFrink Niles, R. C. Paine; Pontiac, Comstock Stout Saginaw\\nCity, G. L. Buiiows Company St. Johns. H. C. Ilodges, A. G.\\nIligham Schoolcraft, Dykeman Ciibb; Ypsilanti, Follet, Conklin\\nCompany, B. Follet Company, E. F. P. Bogardus. R. U.\\nHempill, a l)artner with B. Follet, commenced in 1S5!).\\nPrivate Banks were more reliable and of imicli mon perma-\\nnent value to the iieople, state and Detroit, than were cliartered\\nBanks, until organizations under the National Banking law and\\n,;he state law of 1871, when several private banks changed\\nto National Banks, or Savings Banks. State Banking laws in\\nMichigan had not been passed upon or amemled since 1871 and were\\nnot satisfactory to Bankers or the public. Several attempts were\\nmade at different sessions of the legislature without result. In\\n1887 a bill was introduced by Hon. C. J. Monroe, revising the\\nsystem, adopting the most salient and desirable provisions of the\\nNational law. Acommis.sioner totakechargeof the e.M cutionof the\\nlaw by su] ervision and examination was jirovided. The bill jiassed,\\nwas apjiroved Juno 25, 1887, voted upon by the peojile in November\\nand took effect January, 1889. Since September, 18S7, forty-four\\nBanks have newly organized, five of which are in Detroit, and all\\nstate Banks are conformed to and governed by the law. Ot tlie\\nnew Banks twenty-eight have the title of Savings Banks. Any\\nBank, under the law, may have a savings department, and any\\nsavings Bank can transact all and any business of Banking as pro-\\nvided. The law is very acceptable, and has induced the organization\\nof Banks in many interior towns. Its ])riivisions are well suited to\\nthe pulilic needs and the law is popular with the pcDjile. It is much\\nto he desired tliat state Banks, under proper home supervision,\\n.should trans let the business of their localities and receive on deposit\\nsavings at an interest rate.\\nTliere were eighty state and savings Banks icpnrled in Michi-\\ngan in 18S8. Thirteen new Banks were organized i i ls.s!) ;ind iif teen\\nadditional in 1890. Of tliis number 108 Banks have iijiortcd to the\\ncommission wii h the iollowing totals Capital, $^.40O.. -i:!5 deposits,\\n$4;i,180..500; loans, $27,028,115; stocks, bonds and mortgages, ^18,-\\n840,637. Sixty-seven of the above are Banks witli savings depart-\\nments, having 12( ,604 savings depositors and a total of $27,779,136\\ndeposits at an average rate of interest of 3.76 jier cent. Commercial\\ndeposits, .^9.346, 646; certificates, $6,054,724. Total assets of 106\\nBanks and two trust companies, $56,950,395. Si.x of the fifteen state\\nBanks of 1889 are conversions from National Banks. Within four\\nyears, at least twelve Banks have given up national charters. There\\nare 113 National Baiik-i in the state, having an aggregate capital of\\n$15,(;74,liOO; surjihis fund, !j;3. 173,932 de|io.sits. $37,059,397; due to\\nBanks and Bankers, $0,052,261 loans and liiscounts, $47,527,375.\\nTotal of 221 Banks in the state, caiiital. $24,000,135; deposits, $80,-\\n539,905 duo to 15aiiks and Bankers, $7,:!77,304 loans and discounts,\\n.$75,155,520 stocks, bonds and mortgages, $23,136,308.\\nSa-o-inga IBai-n tes iia. IDe-tx^oit;-\\nOrKaiiization. Capitul. Deposit.^;.\\nTlptroit Savings Bank 1849 re-organized ISTi S. iMHK) St,:iUS,I(io\\nWavni-f ity Savings Bank Septeu,biTls, 1871 l.Vi.rcio r ,0i !),i,7 1\\nPe, pie sSaviiijs Bank lanuary 1, 18.^ iOO.(IOO C,-, 14 OS J\\nJleehaniis Hunk Oetober 4, 18T1 l()0,liOO l,(Klil.l\u00c2\u00abl\\nMicliigan S.-ivings Bank February in, is;r IW.OOO l,2. t,0lKI\\nGeiniiui American Bank Februai-y S, is\u00c2\u00ab:i lOti.iWO Nil). 000\\nDime Savings Bank April.5,lHHl \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Mt.lUk) 1,1*11, I5!l\\nI itizens Savings Blink March a. IKS. x iKl.iKii HSi.Sto\\nAmerican Hanking Havings As n April 1, IKKT \u00e2\u0080\u00a2iKi.txm kks i**)\\nMate Saving s Hank October 21. ISKi 2il0.ili)il .;,1SI1.1 9\\nIhimc Savings Hank October 11, IMS LliO.liiil rrr.ODJ\\n(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ciitral Savings l:auk April 111, 1.88 i lOD.IIOll .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0jli l.OOO\\nI cninsnlar Savings Bank August ST, IMW avl.iNio ],34. j., )l\\n1 it V Savings HaiiK October 1 8\u00c2\u00ab!i ^.Vi.iiiil 5li0,ri\u00c2\u00abj\\nHctniit, Itiver Savings Bank March 20, isyii idd.Ohi i:i6,!)s-_\\nTotal, Sa.lim.OOO S26,\u00c2\u00abS3.128\\nThere are three trust company organizations not yil in active\\noperation.\\nThe legislature of 1889 passed a law for the incorporation of\\ntrust, deposit and security companies, and to repeal other laws pre-\\nviously passed for that purpose. The same was approved May 23,\\n1889. The object of the law is stated in the enacting clause (those\\ninterested can consult imblic acts, session 18S!(, pp. Ill to 117.) A\\nvery strong organization under the law has been iiartially effected in\\nDetroit. It is not certain that active business will soon be com-\\nmenced, but the association comprising nearly all large capitalists in\\nDetroit will bo available when it shall be demanded or thought\\nadvisable. Representatives from all city Banks are on the board of\\ndirectors, so that the trust company may be subordinated, or, at\\nleast, work in harmony with exi; ting banking interests. The law at\\npresent, on careful examination by financial and legal experts, is not\\nsatisfactory to the incorporators of the company and its material\\namendment is sought at this session of the legislature, so that tlie\\nword iiKiiicn in articles to be deposited shall be stricken out, and\\nadditional limitations, restrictions and ))enaltii s shall be added and\\nenforced. As the law now stands trust coiniianies would be promi-\\nnent and have an extensive and profitable business.\\nIn 1802 the government was in need of largo amounts for war\\npurposes. Secretary of the Treasury Chase made trijis to New York", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n21\\nto consult Bankers with reference to tlie disposal of bonds, and the\\nissue of currency by Banks that would be national and at par in\\nall states and territories. A bill had been introduced n congress in\\n1861, which was reported upon favorably by the committee, of\\nwhich E. G. Spaulding, and Samuel Hooper were prominent. Mr.\\nJohn J. Knox and Hon. A. B. Potter advocated a national\\nsystem of Banking. In 1863 a bill was introduced in the senate by\\nHon. Jolin Sherman, reported upon favorably February 3, and\\nFebruary 13. passed the senate by a vote of twenty-three to twenty-\\none. The bill was mainly copied from the general Banking law of\\nNew York, but to adapt it to a national system prominent Bankers\\nin New York and Philadelphia were consulted. The bill passed the\\nHouse 20th of February, and was promptly approved. The law was su-\\nperceded by the act of June 3, 1864, without essential change, except-\\ning in title. The law was of immense advantage to the government.\\nIn three years .f390,000,000 bonds were purchased for Banks, upon\\nwhich 90 |)er cent, of notes were issued and circulated. The govern-\\nment taxed their capital twenty years, to 1883, aggregating $60,940.-\\n067, and the issues of bills to this date, realizing from both $137,664,\\n13.5, to January 1, 1890. In three years 1601 Banks organized under\\nthe law with |337, 000,000 capital and to November, 1889, 4,148\\norganizations (including re-organizations) had been effected, 3,318\\ncontinuing. In Michigan forty-two banks were authorized in the two\\nand one quarter years succeeding the passage of the act, and by the\\nclose of 1889. one hundred and thirteen national Banks remained,\\ndoing business in the state, out of about loO organizations and\\nre-organizations.\\nThe following National Banks have been organized in Detroit.\\nName. Date of iiei inissiou Capital. Surplus\\nto commence. during\\n189J.\\nFirst Nat lonal Bank October 5, 1603 $600,000\\nFirst National Bank, re-organized., June 19, 1888 f uo.iiOO $100,000\\nSecond National Bank October r, 186:3 50O 000 1\\nincreased to\\nsucceeded by 1,000.100 j\\nDetroit National J February 1, 1883 1,000,000 131,000\\nNational Insurance Bank Julj 13, 1865 onn nn\\nliscon inued, March 1, 1869\\nAmerican Nationil Bank ....August 39, 1863 400,000\\nsucceeded by\\nAmerican Ex ge Nat nl Ban .June 36, ISa? 403,000 100,000\\nMerch-ts- Mnfrs National Bank .July 13, isrr i^^,^^,^^ tolllii;^!! 1\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb\\nCommercial National Bank J- ...Novemberai, WSl jj|pj.g^j.j.j j^UI^J^JJ J- lOO.ftlO\\nUnion National Bank April 13, 1886 300,000 31.000\\nThird National Bank June 1, I ^l increased to otISI f I\\nPreston National Bank July 188?;^^.,..,^^, ^fw\\nAggregate Jll. 100,000 J,-)9J,O0O\\nTotal deposits (including Due from Banks), S16,30.j,403.\\nThe National Banking system was originated in aid of govern-\\nment finances primarily, and its history demonstrates great profit\\nand advantages realized. During and immediately after the war\\nbanks were managed so as to make the business largely profitable\\nto the stronger associations, and fairly so to others, since which the\\npolicy of the government has not been liberal, or, perhaps, just.\\nCongress has passed no bills favoring a continuance of the issue of\\ncurrency by them, or for the pei petuity of the system. There has\\nbeen too much open and secret hostility on the part of many politi-\\ncians. Notwithstanding that legislation and Banking should be for\\nthe interest, convenience and benefit of the people, and commercial\\ninterests, that was only a third consideration on the passage of the\\nbill and to this time. Commercial interests have, incidentall}\\nbeen well served, and general prosperity has been jiromoted by\\nthe large capital, immense deposits and the facilities for borrowing\\nfrom national Banks. Currency issued by them was the best ever\\ncirculated and should be continued to the exclusion of treasury\\nnotes green backs. The policy of the government with respect\\nto silver and paper circulation is that of commercial speculation for\\nprofit not warranted by public demand or approval. National\\nBanks have more general character and may be preferred by Banks\\nand correspondents in other states. They are also indispensable or\\ndesirable in large cities as legal reserve Banks. The larger class of\\ninvestors and depositors have preferred National Banks. That opinion\\nor preference is changing, especially in the state of Jlichigun, where\\nstate Banks are more popular. In Detrtiit and at some other points,\\nthey take the lead in total of deposits and in financial strengh.\\nMany state institutions are equally well managed and more profit-\\nable. They are free from loss by shrinkage of premium on bonds,\\nand have no tax upon unprofitable circulation. As a rule thev are\\nless expensively managed and yield larger returns to shareholders.\\nState Banks and savings Banks have powers not conferred on\\nnational Banks in loaning upon a greater variety of securities,\\nincluding mortgages and personal property. They can also deposit\\ntheir reserves in other banks, at an interest rate to be agreed upon,\\nretaining only a limited amount of idle money in the their vaults.\\nPrivate Banking in Detroit has long been a reliable and trust-\\nworthy aid to financial interests. Of names heretofore mentioned\\nseveral are yet in banking as large shax e holders in savings and\\nnational banks. The following firms continue in business as\\nBankers have high credit and are reliable, viz A. Ives Sons\\ncommenced in 1847; McLellan Anderson, 1879; J, L. Harper\\nCompany, 1883; Campbell, Broughton Company, 1888.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The number of Bankers throughout the state is over 300,\\nseveral of wliom have long been established, and justly have su-\\nperior credit and standing. The most prominent that continue in the\\nbusiness in interior towns are W. S. Wilcox and Channing Whitney\\nand Waldby Clay Company, at Adrian J. W. Sheldon, at Albion;\\nN. G. King, at Brooklyn I. M. Wattles, at Lapeer R. Kempf\\nBrother, G. P. Glarier Son, Chelsea Church, Bills Company,\\nIthica P. B. Loomis Company, Jackson E. O. Grosvenor\\nCompany, JonesviUe Bois, Eaton Company, Hudson Bills,\\nLilly Company, Tecumseh C. J. Church Company, Greenville\\nMaynard Allen, Portland W. S. Turck Company, Alma W.\\nS. Edsell tSc Son, Otsego Dausard, Monroe S. A. Bailey, Benton\\nHarbor Charles Jlontague, Caro H. A. Wetmore, Cheboygan\\nVan Tiiyle Silvers, Clinton; J. C. Ells work, Fowlerville; C rossman\\nWilliams, Williamston W. McPherson Company, Howell\\nUllrich Crocker, Mt. Clemens Webber, Just Company, Muir\\nJ. S. Lapham Company, Northville Hannah, Lay Company,\\nTraverse City Webber Chapin, Otsego N. Turrell Son, Litch-\\nfield; G. A. Smith, Addison.\\nA clearing house was established in Detroit in January, 1883,\\nthirteen Banks or bankers participating, others clearing through\\nnational banks. In 1890 and 1891 there were twenty members. Clear-\\nings, in 1883 V7ere $131,410.9.50; in 1884, $133,570,835; in 1885, $143,-\\n384.094; 1886, $165,798,958; 1887, $198,085,935; 1888, $337,536,339;\\n1889, $243,414,800; 1890, $300,6.58,010.\\nThe comparative business of all Detroit Banks can be estimated\\nby the following clearing house returns for the year 1890. The\\namounts stated include collections for other and distant banks, that\\nmay be witliout profit. Savings and other banks, may have large\\ntransactions that are not liable to go througli a clearing house.\\nClearing, for twenty-eiglit Detroit Banks and two private\\nBanks for 1890:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFirst National Bank,\\nDetroit National B ink,\\nAmerican P^xchange National Bank,\\nMerchants .Manufacturers National Bank,\\nCommercial Nalional Bank,\\nMechanics Bank.\\nGerman American Bank,\\nUnion Nafonal Bank,\\nThird National Bank,\\nPrestoj s National Hank, _\\nDetroit Savings Bank,\\nPeope s Savings Bank,\\nSta:e Savings Bank,\\nA. Ives Son,\\nCitizens Savings Bank,\\nPeninsular Savm s Baidc,\\nAmerican Banking tfc Savings .Vssociation,\\nDine Savings Batjk,\\nJ. L. Harper X Co,\\nCity Savings Bank.\\n831,.308,110\\n34,. ):!8,40o\\n33,176,685\\n2.3,308,349\\n30,048,076\\n13,!)34,.516\\n7,300,831\\n4,31. j,341\\n11,500,816\\n30,809,018\\n10,517,037\\nI3,164, I15\\n6,313,175\\n7,968,313\\n5,437.336\\n14,016,439\\n6,331,907\\n3,033,414\\n2,813.1.50\\n3,79,5,113\\n$300,058,010\\nAMERICAN BANKING AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.\\nJohn 51. Nicol, Cashier of tlie American Banking and Savings\\nAssociation, is one of Detroits most active business men, whose\\nvaried e.Kp3riences, in nuuierous successful enterprises, have fitted\\nhim to fill with peculiar ability the responsible position whicli lie\\nnow occupies.\\nMr. Nieol s father came to this country from Scotlaml. in 1829,\\nand was engaged in the manufacture of woolens in Oliio and Michi-\\ngin, operating Iiis mill at St. Clair until 1885, when he sold out.\\nJohn M. Nicol was born in G irrettsviUe, Portage County, Ohio,\\nJanuary 21, 1846, and removed to St. Clair with his parents when", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nJOHN M. NICOL.\\ntwo years old. lie remained liere till he was seventeen, attending\\nschool and assisting his father at the mill, during his vacations. He\\nthen came to Detroit and spent a year at school, when he entered\\nthe old Farmers Mtchanics Bank, situated where Burnham\\nStoepel s dry goods house now stands. He was teller here for two\\nyears, when tliat and tlie banking office of A. II. Dey were merged\\ninto the American Natiimal Hank. He held the position of general\\nl)ookkeeper in this bank for four yeais, in the meantime employing\\nwhat little capital he had in tlie steamboat business. In 1SG9 he\\nleft the bank and took a position with Captain KberWard, who was\\nthen engaged in running a line of lake steamers. After two years\\nthe steamboat company was re-organized as a stock company, of\\nwhich he was juade secretary. In 1H76 he became state agent of the\\nCanada Soutliern Fast Freight Line, remaining with the line for\\nfom- years, when he started the manufacture of chemicals and\\npharniaccuticuls with his brother-in-law, James II. Glover. In 1887\\nhe sold out bis interest here and organized the American Banking\\nand Savings Association and American Trust Company. The rapid\\ngrowth and financial success of the Bank have attracted attention\\nand commendation from its inception. Tlie Bank was organized\\nwith a capital of .fiOO.tJOO, and the Trust Company, with a capital of\\n$100,000. The business of the Trust Company, not meeting the\\nexpectations of the management, the company was dissolved and\\nthe cajiital merged into that of the Bank, making its cajiital $;5U0,000.\\nThe business of the Bank is botli commercial and savings, and t\\\\w\\ndeposits have increased from month to month, until they now\\naggregate nearly .$1,000,000. The removal of the business in Jlay,\\nISOI, to the elegant new offices in the Hammond Building, gives the\\nAmerican Banking and Savings Association one of the most con-\\nvenient and best e4uiiii)ed offices in the city. These offices have a\\nforty foot fi-ontago on Griswold street, with a depth of sixty feet,\\nand the fittings of onyx marble and white mahogany are rich and\\nhandsome.\\nThe officers of the Association are W. H. Stevens, President\\nJohn X. Jloran, First Vice-President Cliarles C. Hodges, Second\\nVice-President John M. Nicol, Cashier.\\nAMERICjVN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK.\\nM. S. Smith, President; George B. Sartwell, Vice-President:\\nHamilton Dey, Cashier Hermann Dey, Assistant C.ishier 73 and 74\\nGriswold ytreet. This Bank was organized originally in 1865, as\\nthe American National Bank, and re-organized in 1885, as the Amer-\\nican Exchange National Bank, and incorporated with a capital, fully\\npaid up, of f;400,000. Its putdished statement of condition, at the\\nclose of business, October 2, 1890, represented a surplus fund of\\n$100,000 undivided profits of $78,800.29, and loans and discounts of\\n$2,591,929.88. Its business has been of an exceptionally satisfactory\\nand successful character due to its prudent, consei vative and enter-\\nprising nianagement and direction.\\nThe Bank transacts a general Banking business in its varied\\ndetails, surli as the negotiation of commercial jiaper, the issuance\\nof litters of credit available in foreign countries, drafts upon corres-\\nponding Banks in leading cities, discounts, etc. The conduct of the\\naffairs of this Bank has been ably administered and reflects signal\\nhonor and credit upon its officers and Board of Directors, who are\\namong Detroit s leading and representative business men and influ-\\nential and progressive trade factors. The President, M. S.\\nSmith, is the Treasurer of the firm of Alger, Smith and Companj-,\\nextensive lumber dealers, and President of the American Eagle\\nTobacco Company, and is one of Detroits millionaires and most\\nsterling and useful trade exemplars. The Board of Directors is\\ncomposed of the following leading and prominent busine.-3 men, all\\nof whom have impressed themselves upnn Detroits commercial\\nelevation in imperishable characters; Simon J. Muri)hy, Thomas\\nW. Palmer, George B. Sartwell, M. S. Smith, AVilliam E. Quinby,\\nSamuel Heavenrich, William A. Moore, D. D. Thorp, Hamilton Dey\\nand George H. Hopkins.\\nHamilton Dey, Ciishier of the American Exchange National\\nBank, was descended fioni a prominent Dutch family, who came\\nover to America early in the history of the colonial settlements, and\\nwas born at Detroit, April 11, 1819. He received his educational\\nthe Michigan University, from which institution ho was graduated\\nin 1872, taking the degree of PIi. B. in the Latin scientific course.\\nDuring the same year Sir. Dey became associated with the American\\nE.Kchange National Bank, of Detroit, in which he has occupied the\\npositions of bookkeeper, assistant cashier and cashier, liaving\\nassumed the duties of the latter office in August, 1889. Mr. Dey\\nhas, since his connection with the Banking business, devoted him-\\nself exclusively to involved interests, and has ever shown an enter-\\nprising and convervative management, and a tireless adhesion to\\nprogressive jirinciples. His father was f.ir many years the honored\\nPresident of the Bank, and dying, bequeathed his son a fadeless\\nHAMILTON I)K\\\\", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nname and a blameless and distinguished record, which he has\\nIjerpetuated in the exercise of the noble example thus afforded and\\nwhich is to his great honor to have so successfully and so meritori-\\nously emulated.\\nCITIZENS SAVINGS BANK.\\nTlie Citizen s Pavings Bank was organized JIarch 2, 1885, with a\\ncapital stocli; of $100,000, which in May, 1890, was increased to\\n$300,000. The business of the Bank has been exceptionally pros-\\nperous under an able and judicious management and direction. Its\\noflBccrs are Collins B. Hubbard, President R. H. Fyfe, Vice-\\nPresident, and Edwin F. Mack, Cashier. The Bank has a svirplus of\\n$100,000, and is in a highly progressive condition.\\nEdwin F. Mack, Cashier Citizen s Savings Bank, was born at\\nAnn Arbor, Michigan, October 6, 18G0, of German parentage, his\\nfather being a native of Wuertemberg and coming to the United\\nStates when sixteen years of age. His father enguged in the dry\\ngoods business. The son received his preliminary education in the\\npublic schools and was graduated from the University of Michigan\\nwith tlie degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1883, afterward spending a\\nyear in the study of French at Lausanne, Switzerland. His fii st\\nventure in actual business was as a cashier in the Barnum Wire and\\nIron Works, in September, 1883, where he continued until Jlarcli,\\n1885, wlu n the Citizen s Savings Bank was organized, Mr. Mack\\nbeing selected as teller. In October, 188G, he became Assistant\\nCashier and was, in 1887, promoted to tlie position of Cashier, which\\nhe has since well and worthily filled. He was the originator of the\\nNicktl Saving Stamp System in the United States, which is being\\ngenerally adopted by leading savings Banks.\\nCOMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK\\nHugh SIcMillan, President Frank H. Walker, Vice-President\\nMorris L. Williams, Cashier Frederick A. Smith, Assistant Cashier\\n73 Griswcld street. This prosperous institution, incorporated\\nDecember 27, 1881, has a capital of .$500,000 and a surplus of $200,-\\n000. The Bank has had a remarkably successful career, marked bj\\nlirudent, conservative and enterjirising man. ,gement and directisn,\\nand may truly be regarded as one of the strongest financial institu-\\ntions in the country. Tlie general business of the Bank includes\\nreceiving deposits, the negotiation of loans, the making of discounts\\nand collections, issuing drafts upon corresponding Banks in leading\\ncities, foreign exchange, etc.\\nEDWIN F. MACK.\\nMORRIS L. WILLIAMS.\\nThe officers are prominent business men of eiiterprising and\\njudicious managerial abilities, and have established for this Bank\\nthe foremost place it occupies in public confidence and patronage.\\nThe President, Mr. Hugh McMillan, is also the President of the\\nfollowing important and leading corporations Detroit Electrical\\nWorks, Hamtramck Transportation Company, Grand River Street\\nRailway Company, and Vice-President of the Michigan Car Com-\\npany, Detroit Car Wheel Company, Baugh Steam Forge Company\\nand the Detroit Iron Furnace Company. The Vice-President, Frank\\nH. Walker, is a member of the firm of Hiram Walker Sons. The\\nCashier, Mr. Morris L. Williams, is the Treasurer of the Inter-State\\nCoal Car Supply Company. The Board of Directors is composed of\\nthe following well-known and eminent business men: Hugh\\nMcMillan, President Frank H. Walker, Vice-President Morris L.\\nWilliams, Cashier George Hendrie, Truman Newberry, J. H.\\nBerry, John B. Dyar, W. A. McGraw, and W. C. Williams. The\\nstatement of tlie Bank at the close of business, October 2, 1890,\\nshowed total resources of $3,799,996.85, and undivided profits of\\n$197,922.60.\\nMorris Lewis Williams. The little Island of Anglesea on the\\nnorth-east coast of Wales, famed in history as one of the principle\\nseats of the Druid priests, the law givers of the ancient Britons, and\\ncelebrated for its many interesting relics of past ages, was the birth-\\nplace of the subject of this sketch. Here he was born May 9, 1841.\\nHis paternal progenitors belonged to one of the most noted and dis-\\ntinguished of the old Welsh families, the name of Williams being\\ninseperably interwoven with the important events of the principality\\nof Wales from the earliest periods.\\nMr. Williiims became, in his early life, an apprentice in a large\\nBank in Liverpool, England, and served out his time of five years, as\\nrequired by the rules governing these institutions in that country.\\nHe was still a very young man when he came to Detroit. Soon\\nafter his arrival here he became connected with the American\\nNational Bank, of Detroit, as Assistant Cashier, a position he con-\\ntinued to fill, with credit and honor, for seventeen years He was\\none of the organizers of the Commercial National Bank, of Detroit,\\nwhich was established in 1881, receiving the appointment of Cashier,\\na relation he has since ably and meritoriously sustained. He is the\\nincumbent treasurer of the Inter-State Coal Car Supply Company,\\nand a director of the Clinton Woolen Manufacturing Company.\\nMr. Williams possesses a distinctively exemplary executive ability", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMFRCH\\n.lOSKl C. IIAkT.\\nand a rare financial jmlgnient, (jualities whicli liave placed him in\\nthe fore front of the Bank ofiicials of Detroit. He is practically\\ninterested in tlie sure advancement of Detroit s great financial\\ninterests and keeidy alive to their proper control and systematic\\nadministration. As a member of tlie Plymoutli Congregational\\nCliunli lie takes an exceptionally (lee|) interest in Sabbath Schools,\\nthe aims and olijecls of which lie constantly strives to secure. Mr.\\nWilliams married a Detroit lady, and is a citizen thoroughly\\nimpressed with the city s future, as emphasized in its resent highly\\nfavorable commercial status and rising iinaiicial power. Among\\nthose whose talents liave been specifically directed to the security of\\nthese philanthropic and laudable ends, no one is more justly and\\nhonorable distinguislied than Morris Lewis Williams.\\nCHNTKAL SAVIN(iS BANK,\\nGilbert Hart, President, (Joiirad (Jlippert, Vice President, and\\nJoseph C. Hart, Cashier, is located in the Detroit Opera House\\nBuilding, and rapidly gaining the favor and patronage of the public,\\non account of the convenience of the location and advantage of\\nhours, which are from 9 a. m. to 4::i0 p. M. and 7 to 8:;iU i m. Ihis\\nIMipular financial industry was organized under the State laws in\\nJune, 18^8, with a cajiital stock of JSlOD.dOO. While they -ive i)articu-\\nlar attention to savings accounts on which they pay four per cent,\\ninterest, compounding semi-;,nniially, their commercial depart-\\nment provides for the receiving of deposits and transaction of a\\ngeneral Banking business.\\nJosKi H C. IIaut, Cashier of the Central Savings Bank, was\\nborn at Adrian, Jlichigan, May 3, 1843, and was educated in the\\nUniversity of Alichigan, from which he graduated in the class IHfU,\\nwith the degree of A. M. He engaged in the mercantile business in\\nAdrian, which he continued until 1S70, when he came to Detroit\\nand was engaged in various enterprises until 1888, when the Central\\nSavings Bank was organized, of which he became the Cashier.\\nTHE DETROIT SAVINGS BANK.\\nThe Detroit Savings Bank was organized in 1849 and is incor-\\nporated with a capital stock of $300,000. It declares a surjilus of\\nover 00,000 and dei)osits aggregating $4,. j00,000. The history of\\nthis bank, the oldest institution of its kiiul in the State, is replete\\nwitli success and an enterprising and progressive management and\\ndirection. It has weathered all tlie financial storms and has always\\npaid its depositors when called upon. It inaugurated the principle\\nof Buiall savings, and the system of de^iosft-tokens introduced by\\nit has ])roven very beneficial.\\nElsTACE C. Bowman, Cashier of the Detroit Savings Bank, was\\nborn in England, Kcbruary 24, 18.-)4. He came to the United States,\\nlocating at Detroit, i i 1^70. His first employment here was as a\\nclerk in the freight (lei artiiient of the D. M. R. R. In 1873 he\\nbecame associated with the First National Bank of Detroit, as assist-\\nant bookkee.ier, being subsequently promoted to the position of\\ngeneral bookkeei)er and discount clerk, in which relations he per-\\nformed faithful and eflicient service for nine years. In A| ril, 1881,\\nhe entered the Detroit Savings Bank, as Assistant Cashier, and one\\nyear later became Cashier, an office he has since filled with great\\nability and credit. In Mr. Bowman are united the qualities and\\ncharacteristics which make successful men of business and advance\\nthem to the occupancy of positions which bring signal honors and\\nmeritorious distinction.\\nDIME SAVINGS BANK.\\nThis BanK was organized in April, 1884, with a capital of .$60,000,\\nwhich lias since been increased to $200,(100. Its record has shown\\ncontinual successes. an l it now has a surplus of $20,. )00. December\\n19, 1800, the deiiosits were .$1.(101,000, an l January 7, 1891, $1,0. 31,000.\\nThe dejiositois of this hank numlier over 3.5,000. The character of\\nthe business transacted is commercial and savings, a specialty being\\nmade of the latter principle. Its success was predetermined from\\nthe beginning, and has far exceeded the most sanguine anticipations\\nof its officers and directors, who have been indefatigably devoted to\\nits interests. There lias recently been added the room in the base-\\nment of the building occupied at l.^. i Griswold street, affording a\\nrequisite facility for the rapidly increasing business.\\nThe ofiicers are S. JI. Cutcheon, President James E. Scripps,\\nFirst Vice-President William H. Elliott, Second Vice-President, and\\nFrederick Woolfenden, Cashier, all of whom are enterprising and\\nsubstantial business men, and prominently identified with Detroit s\\nleading commercial interests.\\nFhederick Woolfendkx, Cashier Dime Savings Bank, was\\nlior 1 at Belfast, Ireland, of English jiarentage, July 7, 1S47. His\\neducation was obtained in the schools of M;uiehester, England. He\\ncame to the United States in June, ]SU:!, locating at Detroit, where\\nhe secured a clerkship i:i the banking office of Vincent J. Scott. He\\nwas afterward associated with the Banking house of Mr. David\\nJi^\\nIfm\\nEUSTACE C. BOWMAN.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n25\\nFREDERICK WOOLFENDEN\\nPreston, in the capacity of teller, and with the Merchants Manu\\nfacturers National Bank, which he left to take charge of the money\\norder department of the Detroit iiost-office, serving in that relation\\nfor two years and being promoted to the position of Assistant Post-\\nmaster in which he discharged incumbent duties with a zeal and\\nfidelity for ten years. Leaving this office, be organized the Dime\\nSavings Bank, of which he became Cashier and Manager, and has\\nsince maintained those relations with credit and distinction. Mr.\\nWoolfenden is an ordained minister of the Reformed Episcopal\\nChurch, a Director and the Treasurer of the Young Men s Cliristian\\nAssociation, and a Trustee of the Detroit College of Medicine and\\nSurgery. He has shown much interest in religious and educational\\naffairs, as well as in military and social organizations, having been\\na member of the Detroit Light Guard for two years, and is a member\\nof the Detroit Club and other social and boating clubs. He married\\nMiss Ella Raymond, the daughter of Mr. Francis Raymond, a\\npioneer settler at Detroit, and has four sons. In Mr. Woolfenden\\nare united the characteristics of enterprise, sagacity and a ripe\\njudgment, principles which have invested him with a merited\\nprominence in financial circles.\\nFIRST NATIONAL BANK.\\nEmory Wendell, President; Dexter M. Ferry, Vice-President\\nL. E. Clark, Cashier Robert F. Gibbons, Assistant Cashier\u00e2\u0080\u0094 150\\nJefferson avenue. This bank wa^ organize l in September, 18G3, and\\nbegan its record of business on November 16 of the same year, and\\nunder auspices wliich have advanced its fortunes to their resent\\nhigh standard. In December, 1864, the charter was transferred to\\nthe State Bank of Michigan, and the offices removed to the south-\\nEMORY WENDELL.\\nJOHN S. SCHMITTDIEL.\\neast corner of Jefferson avenue and Grisvvold street, where the\\nbusiness of the Bank continued to be transacted until marcli 1, 1869,\\nwhen it acquired, by purchase, the National Insurance Bank and\\nhas since controlled its business interests at its present location, the\\nsouthwest corner of Jefferson avenue and Griswold street. The\\nfirst President of the Bank, and who held that oflice up to December\\n37, 1861, was Philo Parsons, who was succeeded by S. P. Brady, who\\nwas President until January 14, 1868, when Jacob S. Farrand\\nassumed the duties of the office. Prior to December 29, 1864,\\nseveral changes were made in the relation of Cashier, Sir. Euiory\\nWendell succeeding to the position on that date. Mr. Farrand con-\\ntinued as President and Mr. Wendell as Cashier until 188 when,\\nthe charter having expired, a re-organization took place and a new\\ncharter was granted, under which the Bank resumed business June\\n19, 1882, witli a capital stock of !j!500,000, and under tlie following\\ndirectory Jacob S. Farrand, William B. Wesson, James McMillan,\\nEmory Wendell, Alanson Sheley, D. M. Ferry, M. I. Mills, L. E.\\nClark and George V. N. Lothrop, which, with few changes, remains\\nthe same, Messrs. Don M. Dickinson and AViiliam J. Cliittenden taking\\nthe places of Messrs. M. I. Mills and William B. Wesson. Of this", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nBank Mr. Emory Wendell has been and is tlie President Me. L).\\n31. Ferry, Vice-President and Mr. L. E. Clark, Cashier fnmi its\\nfoundation to the present time. The distinction of lieing one of the\\nstrongest and most prudently managed financial institutions in the\\ncountry is deservedly held by the First National Bank, which is\\nably oflii^ered and which includes in its Board of Directors some\\nof Detroit s wealthiest and most influential citizens.\\nTHE HOME S.VVINGS B.VNK.\\nThis institution was organized for l)usiness January 2, 1H89 and\\nits record since has been indicative of continual progress. In its\\nfirst two years of operation it reached the million dollar mark, and\\nat its last published statement of condition exhibited a surplus fund\\nof $1,305.93^ undivided profits of |30,410.23 commercial deposits of\\n1513,188.07, and savings deposits of $258,029.29. It has a capital\\nstock of $200,000 and total resources of $1,050,585.24. The Bank\\ndoes a commercial and savings business and its management and\\ndirection are eminently i rudent and conservative. Ihe Bank is\\nlocated at 151 Griswokl street, opposite the City Hall, with a branch\\nin successful o|)eration at the corner of Jlicliigan avenue and\\nTwenty-third street. The officers of tlie Home Savings Bank are\\nJanu s Mc(!regor, Presi lent William C. Maybury, Vice-President;\\nW. J. Gould, Second Vice-President Joseph Taylor, Third Vice-\\nPresident, and Jolni S. Schniittdiel, Cashier. The Board of Directors\\nare James McGregor, General Superintendent Michigan Car Com-\\npany and President Canada Malt Company Hon. AYilliani C.\\nMaybury, E. c-Congressman and member of the law firm of Conely,\\nMaybury Lucking W. J. Gould, of W. J. Gould Company,\\nwholesale grocers A. Ci. Bjynton, editor Free Press Joseph\\nTaylor, Secretary Michigan Car Company George W. Radford,\\nattorney at law W. II. Ellis, wholesale tobacconist O. W.\\nShipman, coal C. I. Farrell, JIanager Canada Malt Company\\nCarlton H. Mills, of C. II. Mills Company, John .S. Schnxittdiel,\\nEx-City Treasurer, and Cluirles Hryan, of I V. Bryan\\nCompany.\\nJohn S. Schmittdiel, Cashier of the Home Savings Bank, was\\nborn of German parentage in the City of Detroit, February 6, 1850.\\nHis education was received in the City public schools and the Busi-\\nness University. His first entry into actual business was as a paying\\nteller of the Wayne County Savings Bank, a position which he filled\\nwith honor and credit for fourteen years. In 18s:! he was elected to\\nthe office of City Treasurer and re-elected in 1885, serving two full\\nE. 11. BUTLEH.\\nOEOROE E. LAWSOX.\\nterms. In 1889 he organized the Home Savings Bank and became\\nits Cashier, an office whicli he fills with the signal abilities acquired\\nfrom many years experience in the details of the Banking business.\\nHe was for two terms a prominent member of the school board and\\nis the incumbent treasurer of that association. Mr. Schmittdiel is\\nenergetic and thoroughly imbued with demands of the responsibili-\\nties of his position, and is a factor, in Detroit Banking, of generally\\nacknowledged importance.\\nMECHANICS B.VNK.\\nE. H. Butler, Cashier of the Mechanics Bank, of Detroit, was\\nborn at Detroit, in 1841, and was educated in the City public schools\\nand at the State University. In 1800 he became associated with the\\nBank of William A. Butler Company, as messenger boy, becom-\\ning, in 1803 a member of the firm.\\nUpon the organization of the Mechanics Bank under the State\\nlaw in 1871, he was ap[)ointed Cashier and one of its Directors,\\nl)ositions he has since held. In 1882 and 1884 he served as State\\nTreasurer, the only public office which he lias consented to hold.\\nHis father, AVilliam A. Butler, was one of the oldest and most reput-\\nable Bankers in the State of Michigan. The Mechanics is one of\\nthe leading financial institutions of Detroit and has a capital of\\n$100,000. Its officers are: E. H. Butler, Ca.shier; William A.\\nButler Jr., Assistant Cashier, who, with M, A. and Frederick K.\\nButler, constituted the Board of Directors. AVilliam A. Butler, who\\nwas I resident of this Bank, died May 7, 1891.\\nPEOPLE S SAVINGS BANK,\\nM. W. O Brien, President; Anton Pulte, Vice-President; F. A.\\nSchulte, Second Vice-President George E. Lawson, Cashier; R. W.\\nSmylic, Auditor James T. Keena, attorney 123 to 125 Griswold\\nstreet. Among the financial institutions in Detroit which have\\nnia le the most substantial progress and which have secured a larj^o\\nshare of public patronage ami been invested with the most positive\\nidentity as conservative curators of public trusts, the Peoples\\nSavings Bank occupies a prominent position and one which has\\nculminated from prudential management and judicious direction.\\nThis bank was organized in 1871, and has made a record character-\\nized by the most exemplary ct)nchict of its affairs and continuous\\nprogress. The published statenu nt of its condition October 2. ]s!)0,\\nshowed a capital stock of $500,000 surplus, $100,000, and undivided", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n27\\nprofits of $60,849.16, with resources aggregating $6,436,491.05,\\nincluding cash on liand and call dejiosits of $883,343.67. In addition\\nto its savings department the Bank transacts a general Banking\\nbusiness accepts deposits subject to check discounts commercial\\npaper and negotiates loans on approved securities and on real estate\\nundertakes collections issues domestic and foreign exchange, etc.\\nThe officers are among Detroit s leading and influential citizens and\\nthe Board of Directors are eminent financial factors of Detroit s\\nmost substantial institutions.\\nGeorge E. Lawson. Detroit s identity as a great mart of trade,\\nand its recent phenomenal great financial institutions have been\\nprincipally achieved by its younger business men. To this class\\nbelongs Mr. George E. Lawson, Cashier of the Peoiiles Savings\\nBank, of Detroit, who was born at Howell, Michigan, in December,\\n1863. Immediately upon leaving college he entered the Banking\\nbusiness and has been associated for ten years witii the Peoples\\ning office on Jefferson avenue, opposite the then Masonic Hall,\\nunder the firm name of David Preston Company, the firm name\\nremaining unchanged until June 1885. In the last mentioned year\\nthe business was incorporated under the name of Tlie Preston\\nBank of Detroit, David Preston being the President of the corpora-\\ntion until the date of his death, April, 1887. In the following June\\nthe present organization was incorporated under the National Bank\\nAct of the United States, with a capital of $600,000, and the follow-\\ning Board of Directors R. W. Gillett, F. W. Hayes, C. A. Black,\\nWilliam H. Elliott, James E. Davis, James D. Standish, H. S.\\nPingree, A. E. F. White, W. D. Preston, W. R. Burt and John\\nCanfleld. The capital has since been increased to $1,000,000. The\\nBank receives the accounts of Merchantile and Commercial Houses,\\nManufacturing Establishments, private individuals and firms in\\naccordance with the prevailing custom of similar establishments,\\ndiscounts approved commercial paper and loans money on satisfac-\\nINTERIOR PRESToX NATIONAL BANK.\\nSavings Bank, in wliich he has been successively a clerk, teller,\\nAssistant Cashier and C asliier. During his whole period of service in\\nthese relations be has exhibited the characteristics and abilities\\nwhich have led up to his jiresent position, which is one he is\\neminently qualified to fill from his tliorough practical experiences\\nand sterling adaptabilities to every essential of the business. His\\nrecord as Cashier has been signalized for the most exemplary man-\\nagement and the exhibition of ripe judgment and generall}\\nmeritorious and conservative discretion.\\nPRESTON NATIONAL BANK.\\nThe accompanying illustration affords a fair view of the interior\\nof the office of The Preston National Bank, Campau Building, 07 and\\n69 Griswold street, capital $1,000,000. R. W. Gillett, President;\\nF. W. Hayes, Vice-President; J. P. Gilmore, Cashier.\\nThe business carried on by this Bank was established by David\\nPreston in 1853. In May, of that year, Mr. Preston opened a Bank-\\ntory names or collaterals at market rates. With a representative\\nBoard of Directors of good business judgment, thoroughly familiar\\nwitli the methods of conducting business, tlie needs of those keeping\\ncommercial accounts with tliis Bank have careful, intelligent and\\nprompt consideration, and when not inconsistent with prudent\\nprinciples of Banking, are cheerfully supplied. It is the desire of\\nthe management to make the Bank an important and successful\\nfactor in the healthy development of the commerce and manufac-\\ntures of Detroit and Michigan, and thereby promote the Bank s\\ninterest as well as the general prosperity.\\nThe Bank also makes a specialty of accounts for women. The\\ngeneral custom now being for a man of means to jilace an allowance\\nin the hands of his wife for the purpose of defra3 ing family exjienses,\\nthere has been created a demand for Banking accommodations and\\nfacilities for women. The Preston Bank lias a number of such\\naccounts, and extends every needed facility for the transaction of\\nsuch business. The keeping of a Bank account obviates the", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nnecessity of carrying moiiey in the jjockel, or having it in tlie house,\\nand, of course, the danger of loss is greatly lessened. The payment\\nof bills by checks practically secures a double receipt, as a check\\nmade jiayable to the order of the person to whom the money is due\\nmust be indorsed before the Bank will jiay it. Widows and women\\nhaving separate estates, desiring to transact their own financial\\nbusiness, are afforded every c(jnvenience of the Bank s several\\ndepartments, and its officers cheerfully render assistance desired in\\nthe matter of buying and selling investment securities and informa-\\ntion ujion subjects of business, value of stocks, bonds, scurities,\\netc.\\nThe Bank also makes a feature of special accounts from\\ncapitalists, trustees, executors, administrators, guardians, agents\\nand others having funds in their possession for investment or safe\\nkeeping, or awaiting the happening of certain events, or the deter-\\nmination of legal questions, and makes favorable arrangnients witli\\nsuch capitalists and other, allowing proj)er rates of interest on money\\nso deposited. This feature of flie Bank s business is conducted upon\\nthe plans jmrsued by the large English Banks jdans which centuries\\nof experience have developed and proven to bo of the most advantage\\nboth to the depositor and to the Banks. The Bank has its own\\naccounts in London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Vienna,\\nAmsterdam, Stockholm, Rome and other principal cities of the\\nEuropean Continent, and is prepared to quote the liighest buying\\nand lowest selling rates for foreign bills in large or small sums it\\nalso issues its own letters of credit, available to travelers in all ])arts\\nof the world, and the same may be secured at any time during\\nBanking hours. These letters have been used by a large number of\\nSlicliigan jieople with ])erfect satisfaction and have niven a source\\nof distinction to tlie Bank. The issuance of commercial letters of\\ncredit for merchants and others who wish to make i)urcliases in\\nforeign markets, has also i)roven one of the worthy and enterprising\\nf^itures of The Preston National Bank, which has sought the most\\nsatisfactory syi terns in the conduct of its large and constantly\\nincreasing business, and Tlie Preston National is the only Bank in\\nthe State which conducts all branches of the Banking business\\nilirectly in its own name without the intervention of i tlier Banks or\\nfinancial institutions. The Bank now issues to travelers in the\\nUnited States and other portions of Nortli America, Traveler s Cir-\\ncular Notes and Letters of Introduction and Identification. These\\nnotes are immediately availal)le in several hundred cities and towns\\nin the United States, Dominion of Canada and Mexico. They are\\nissued by no other B.ink, and afford the best, safest and most satis-\\nfactory means for tourists to carry funds, as they overcome all\\n(lifHcnlties experienced in getting identified, as well {is the uncer-\\ntiinty about getting drafts cashed because of the hesitation on the\\np.irt of Banks to casli drafts drawn by other Banks and between\\nwhich there are no direct business relations. The Preston National\\nhas definite arrangenier.ts made witli all of its hundreds of corres-\\npondents in North America, and furnishes purchasers of its Traveler s\\nCircular Notes with a list tliereof. Recognizing the ini])ortance and\\nvalue of confining all knowledge of the transaction between the\\nBank and its customers, the Directors of the Preston National\\nBank forbid all of its officers and clerks from disclosing transactions\\nof any of the Bank s customers under a penalty of immediate\\ndismissal.\\nThe buililing ocrii|iied is one of the handsomest and l)est\\nappointed in Detroit, its office accomodations being esjiecially well\\nadapted and affording every convenience and facility for the trans-\\naction of the various details of business of the Bank s several\\ndepartments.\\nPENINSULAR HAVINGS BANK.\\nThis highly successful Banking institution was organized in\\n1887, and began business September 1 of tlie same year. It has a\\ncapital of !i;:S. )ll, )0(l, deposits of ^1,2.)1),()()0, and undiviiled profits and\\nsurplus of ^41,000, though it has paid, in cash dividends, 21 per cent,\\nin three years. Its management has been exceptionally jwogressive\\nand promotive of the best financial results, while remaining suffi-\\nciently conservative to satisfy prudent investors. It transacts a\\ncomnieicial and savings business, jiaylng four jier cent, interest on\\nsavings dei]osits, and solicits commercial accounts. It has outgrown\\nits rpiarteis at 04 (iriswold street, and will soon oeeupy elegant\\noffices on Fort street west, having purchased the C. J. Whitney\\nCompany s building fnr S;100,000. Wlien this has been entirely\\nremodeled ami refitted it will constitute one of the most CDinmodious\\nand convenient Banking establishments in the city, ami will be\\nknown as the Peninsular Bank Building, part i f it being reserved\\nfor professional offices.\\nThe Bank s officers are as follows: Alexander Chapaton Jr.,\\nPresident; John M. Dvvyer, First Vic-President; Joseph Perrien,\\nSecond Vic-e-President Joseph B. Moore, Cashier J.H.Johnson,\\nAssistant Cashier,\\nJosKi H Bektiiki.I .t Moore, Cashier of the Peninsular .Savings\\nBank, was born at Detmit, SeiittMiiber l ISKi. The paternal grand-\\nfather of Jacob Wilkie Moore (Joseph B. Moore s fatlier), was (ieneral\\nWilliam Moore, of revolutionary distinction, who came to this\\ncountry in 1770, settling at Bolton. Massachusetts. The pres-\\nent generation is, therefore, entitled to the strong attributes of\\ncharacter transmitted from English and Scotch progenitors and\\ntheir New England descendants. Mr. Moore had a thorough eiluca-\\ntion in the Detroit public schools, graduating from the high school.\\nIn ixti i he ol)tained the iiosition of Cashier in the dry goods\\nhouse of E. S. Parker, and soon after became assistant bookkeeoer\\nJOSEPH I MOORE.\\nin the wholesale house of Allan Shelden Company. But he hail a\\nnatural predilection for the Banking business, and, in ISUU, obtained\\nthe position of corresponding clerk in the First National Bank at\\nJlilwaukee, Wisconsin. By strictest attention to his duties and a\\ntireless aiiibitlon to ac(iuiie a full knowledge of the details incident\\nto the business he was pursuing, he was soon advanced to the iiosi-\\ntion of teller. After two yearj in Milwaukee, he returned to Detroit,\\nto accept the position of discount clerk in the First National Bank,\\ndischarging his duties with great fidelity and efficiency for ten\\nyears. In 1878 he purchased the interest of Jlr. W. D. Hooper, in\\nthe firm of Jarves Hooper, fertilizer manufacturers, of this city,\\nand severed his connection v.ith tlio Bank to incoriiorate the Michi-\\ngan Carbon Works, capitalized at .^si),0i10; Jlr. Deming Jarves was\\nmade President; Mr. Moore, Secretary and Treasurer. He was a,\\npotent factor in building up this C iiiipany till lss8, when he with-\\ndrew to organize the Peninsular .S.ivings Bank. Of this iiistitulioii\\nhe became tlie Cashier and one of its Directors.\\nSTATE SAVINGS BANK.\\nThis prominent and successful Bankliiginstltution was organized\\nand incorporated in 1N83, with a capital stock of ^ir)0,00n, wliicli, in", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n29\\n1887, was increased to $300,000. It does a commercial and savings\\nbusiness, deals in foreign exchange, and issues letters of credit,\\nuvaiUible in anj part of tlie world. Its career lias been marked\\nby prudent, sagacious and conservative nianagciuent and direction,\\nand it has acquirod a position wliicli invests it witli the character of\\n[I solid financial identity. Its officers are G. H. Russel, President\\nM. S. Smith, Vice-President, and R. S. Mason, Cashier. Its Board\\njf Directors is composed of the following prominent and well-\\nknown gentlemen Hon. R, A. Alger, Ex-Governor of Michigan\\nI. K. Burnhani, of Burnham, Stoejiel Companj- H. M. Camjibell,\\nAttorney and Counselor; W. C. Colburn, Secretary and Treasurer\\nDttroit Bridge and Iron Works; C. L. Freer, Vice-President ai.d\\nrreasurur Peninsular Car Company; Frank J. Hecker, President Peni-\\nnsular Car Company H. B. Ledyard, President Slichigan Central\\nRailroad Gomp my Hugh McMillan, President Commercial National\\nBank W. C. McMillan, General ]\\\\Ianager Michigan Car Company R.\\n5. Mason, Casliier H. C. Parke, President Parke, Davis Company\\njreorge H. Russel, President of the Bank Henry Russel, General\\nattorney Michigan Central Railroad M. S. Smith, President Ameri-\\ncan Exchange National Bank, and Charles Stinchlield, of Whitney\\nS: Stinchfield; Attorneys for the Bank, Messrs. Walker Walker. The\\nlew quarters of the Bank in the Hammond Building to which a\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0euioval was made in 1890, are fitted ni) in handsome style and the\\nippointments are of such a character as charm every visitor.\\nSvery necessary facility is provided and affords convenien-\\n;es and accommodations for the Banking business vinexcelled in\\n,he city or State. The last statement of the State Savings Bank,\\nssued May 4, 1891, exhibited resources of |2,493,595.10 surplus and\\nindivided profits of $05,375.94, and deposits of $3,214,104.21.\\nR. S. Mason, Cashier State Savings Bank, was born in Ireland\\nn 1839, and came with his parents to Michigan. His fatlier, after\\n;onducting farming operations for sfime time in Greenfield and\\nDearborn townships, in Wayne county, Michigan, obtained a\\njosition on the editorial staff of the Detroit Tribune and moved his\\namily to this city. Mr. Mason began his business career in 1855, in\\nlie crockery and glassware establishment of F. Wctmore Com-\\n)any, then the most extensive dealers in that line in Detroit. He\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0emained with this house for one year, when lie became messenger\\nor the Michigan Insurance Bank, in the building now occupied by\\nhe First NaJonal Bank. From that time to the present he has\\n)een continuouslv identified with Detroit s Banking interests. He\\nR. S. MASON.\\nFREDERICK MARTIN.\\nfilled the position of jjaying teller in the First National Bank from\\n1809 to 1883, and upon the organization of the State Savings Bank\\nin the latter year, was called to the Cashiership of that institution,\\nwhich office he has since held with commendable fidelity and con-\\nspicuous ability. During Mr. Mason s association with the Banking\\nbusiness, covering a period of nearly tliirty-five years, he has\\ninvariably exhibited the most signal evidences of a faithful, honest\\nand unimpeacliable character, and an example of unselfish and per-\\nsistent devotion to confided trusts and interests. His intimate\\nknowledge of the Banking business in all o\u00c2\u00a3 its details has rendered\\nhim an important and valuable factor in the State Savings Bank,\\nand in other relations in which he has served, notably as Treasurer\\nof the Young Men s Christian Association during the time of the\\nerection of its new building. Mr. Mason was for years an active\\nmember of the Detroit Light Guard and attained the rank of First\\nLieutenant. He was married in January 1805 to Miss Pliebe Reilly,\\nof Brookl3 n, New York, and has three sons. The family residence\\nis a handsome villa on Canfield avenue. Mr. Mason is a member of\\nthe oflicial board of the Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Cliurch,\\nof which all of liis family are members. He is conscientious in all\\nof his relations and an upright and honorable man\\nTHIRD NATIONAL BANK.\\nThis Bank was organized in June, 1886, with a capital of $300,-\\n000, and has had an eminently successful career due to the prudent,\\nsagacious, enterprising and progressive management and direction\\nof its affairs. The business transacted is of a strictly commercial\\ncharacter and embraces large dealings with State Banks and\\nBankers. By the last iiublished statement of its condition,\\nDecember 19, 1890, it declared a surplus and undivided profits of\\n$30,000 and deposits aggregating $1,000,000. The Third National\\nBank ably sustains its generally recognized identity of conservatism\\nand jirogress and ranks among the soundest financial institutions in\\nthe country. Its officers are: H. P. Cristy, President; J. L.\\nHudson, Vice-President Frederick Marvin, Cashier, and J. A.\\nDresser, Assistant Cashier. Its Board of Directors is composed of\\nthe following well known and influential business men of Detroit:\\nWilliam H. Stevens, capitalist H. P. Cristy, pine lands J. L.\\nHudson, clothing W. J. Gould, of W. J. Gould Company, whole-\\nsale grocers; F. B. Dickerson, of F, B. Dickerson Company,\\npublishers Frank E, Snow, real estate, and President Riverside", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nstorage and Cartage Company W. A. Jackson, managing director\\nBell Tfle|ihoiie Company T. B. Ruyl, of T. B. Kayl Company,\\nlianUvaro Frederick Slarvin, Cashier, and De Forest Paine,\\nattorney.\\nFuEDERlcK JIakvin, Ca.sliier of tlie Third National Bank, of\\nDetroit, was born at Cooperstown, New York, November 7, 1W4.\\nThe death of his parents when he was very young deprived him of\\neducational advantages, and he began his business career at twelve\\nyears of age as an oflice boy in the emi loy of ^Vlexander McPlierson\\nCompany, Bankers, at Howell, Jlichigiin. He came to Detroit in\\nhis seventeenth year and entereil the Second National Bank as a\\nclerk, becoming, when twenty-two, a teller in the Jleichants\\nManufactmers National Bank and after faitliful and diligent\\nservice therein for eleven years. Assistant Cashier and Cashier. In\\nMarch, 1886, he resigned the Cashiership of tlie Ulercliants\\nManufacturers National Bank, and in Jime of the same year, organ-\\nized the Third National Bank, of which he is one of the largest\\nstockholders and the incumbent Cashier. Mr. Marvin is otherwise\\ninterested in various relations; is the Vice-President of the Clover\\nCondensed Milk Company, of Northville. Michigan: Vice-President\\nof the Michigan Lubricator Company, and Secretary and lYeasurer\\nS. DOW KI.WOOO,\\nof the ifanitob.a Fish Coini)aiiy. Ho owns considerable timbered\\nproperty in Wisconsin, and, with a syndicate, large tracts of land in\\nTexas. He is a charter member of the Rushmere Fishing Club, the\\nDetroit Club, and several other similar organizations. He is also\\none of the Directors of the Detroit Board of Trade. At the State\\nConvention at Grand Rapids, in October, 1S90, he came within eight\\nvotes of receiving the nomination for State Treasurer. He takes an\\nactive interest in politics and is a staunch Democrat. At the age of\\ntwenty-two be was married to a daughter of Judge Harmon and\\nhas one child an interesting and handsome little girl. Ho resides\\niu a pleasant home at 519 Second avenue.\\nWAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK.\\nThe building occupied by the AVayne County Savings Bank, at\\n33 and IM Congress street west, ij one of the best constructed and\\nliandsomest iu the city, alTording every requisite for the transactiim\\nof the large business which its constantly increasing patronage\\nbrings to it. When it was organized in October, IsTl its capital\\nwas $50,000, now it is .^150,000. Its last published statement showed\\na surplus fund and undivided profits of $404,673.43 savings deposits\\nof $4,969,547.29, and its total resources as $5,525,215.89. The most\\npositi.e security is furnished for deix sitors. Twenty per cent, of\\nthe dei)osits is held in cash and the balance is let out in loans, on the\\nBank s conservative principle of reijuiring the most unquestioned\\nsecurity in all of its transactions. Interest is reckoned semi-annually\\nand a lded to the jirincipal, when not drawn out. Deposits are\\nreceived in the amount of one dollar and upwards, and interest\\nallowed at the rate of four per cent, per annum.\\nThe Bank s officers are men of sterling character and include\\nS. Dow Elwood. President; William Stagg, Assistant Treasurer.\\nS. Dow Elwood, President of the Wayne County Savings Bank,\\nnumbers among his i aternal ancestors the earlj- adventurers from\\nHolland, who settled in New York, then Manhattan He was born\\nin Otsego County, New York, December 25, 1834, the home of his\\nparents being located near the pictures(iue valley so famed in story\\nbj- Cooper. His father dying while he was a young boy, his mother\\nremoved to Oneida Castle, New York. His progress at the school\\nhere gave him the position of teacher at the age of seventeen. In\\n18-13 he went to Rochester, New York, where his two uncles and his\\ntwo elder brothers were living, and secured a clerkship in a mercan-\\ntile business. In the following year he was appointe I to a position\\nin the post-office, and in about a year was assigned as mail agent in\\nthe United States JIail Seriice, contimiing in tliis position till a\\nchange occurred in the ailministration in 1849. He followeil in the\\ntrain of the California gold seekers iu 1H49, engaged in traffic with\\nthe mining camps, and subsetpieiitly operated an express line\\nbetween San Francisco and the southern mining regions by way oi\\nStockton. He left California iu about a year and returned to his\\nRochester home, where he was married to the daughter of the Hon.\\nE. M. Parsons of that city. Soon after his marriage he came to\\nDetroit, where he conducted a book and stationery business till 1866.\\nIn 1867 he engaged in l)anking at Petrolia, in the oil region of Canada,\\na relation he preserved for four years, securing the experience and\\nripe judgment which has since been of such inestinuible value to\\nhim. Mr. Elwood originated the ])lan of the foundation for the\\npresent Wayne County Savings Bank, in 1871, in which he succeeded\\nin interesting many of Detroit s wealthy and prominent citizens.\\nHe was made the first Secretary and Treasurer of the institution,\\npositions which he held up to the time of the death of its President,\\nMr. Wesson. His elevation to the Presidency was a fitting recogni-\\ntion of the services he hxd rendered. His time and talents always\\nhave been emi)loyed in making his Bank one of tlie strongest and\\nbest manageci finaii -ial corporations in existence, and has proved\\nnot only a useful citizen of Detroit, but an ni)right and honorable\\nman in all things. He is one of the two surviving members of the\\nUnion Lodge of Masons, founded in ls.-)3, and is a Unitarian in his\\nreligious views.\\nS. T. WILLIAMS,\\nExpert Accountant and Auditor, was born at Cin innati, Ohio,\\nMay 15, 1854, and was educated in the public schools of that city.\\nBefore his eighteenth year he held the position of account current\\nclerk in the Third National Bank of Cincinnati. He won rapid\\npromotion from one position to another, and at the age of twenty-\\nthree, having filled the desk up to first assistant receiving teller, he\\nresigned and engaged in the profession of accountant and auditor.\\nIn the latter connection Mr. Williams has achieved the most notable\\nprominence and distinction in services for cor|)orations in Ohio,\\nIndiana and Kentucky. Five years ago Jlr. Williams was appointed\\nexjiert examiner for the Board of Revision of the City of Cincinnati,\\nand during his service in this connection in the various municipal\\noffices was paid fees closely aiiproximating lj;30,0()0. This was the\\noccasion of the extinction of the Board of Public Works, and the eleva-\\ntion of Jlr. Williams to the high position he thereby gained. He was\\ncalled upon to assist in adjusting the affairs of the fiilelity National\\nBank of Cincinnati at the time of the failure of that institution, and\\nfor the past three years was employed as auditor of the Northern\\nAssurance Company, of London, England. Mr. Williams was also\\nemjiloyed by the Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton Railroad in tlie com-\\npilation of data and in the investigation of the accounts of Henry S.\\nIves, the young Naptdeon of Finance. For the jiast two years he\\ndevoted much time and attention to inventing labor-saving systems\\nof accounts for mercantile and manufacturing concerns. His income\\nfrom this source was over $30,000 the past year. ib\\\\ Williams has", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nS. T. WILLIAMS.\\nrecently moved to Detroit and is engaged in perfecting the Nickel\\nSavings Stain .System, wliich is in use by tlie Citizen s Savings Bank\\nand whicli lie has brought to a degree of perfection beyond any\\nprovious attempt. He occupies a magnificent suite of rooms in the\\nHammond Building.\\nHOME BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.\\nThis Association was organized in March, 1890, but did not com-\\nmence active operations until July of the same year, its first series\\nof stock being dated August 1, 1800. Its authorized capital stock is\\n$25,000,000, in shares of .|100 each, to be accumulated by monthly\\npayments of either one dollar or fifty cents per share. The one\\ndollar installment shares are estimated to matui e in from five and one-\\nhalf to six years, and the fifty-cent-installment shares in about eight\\nand one-half years. The one dollar installment shares may be jiaid\\nfor in advance by the i^ayment of Sfo-t per share. The fifty-cent\\ninstallment shares may be withdrawn with all accumulated profits\\nwhen they reach the value of .fijO per share, or tliey njay be carried\\non to maturity at the option of the holder, a feature possessed only\\nby this Association in this state. None but non-negotiable first\\nmortgages are taken for security, except that temporary loans may\\nbe made to the stockholders upon the stock of the Association at not\\nto exceed 8.5 per cent, of its withdrawal value.\\nAny member may withdraw from the Association before the\\nmaturity of his or her shares by giving thirty days notice in writing\\nto the Secretary of his or her intention so to do, and shall be entitled\\nto receive the full amount of installments paid, less the admission fee\\nand fines unpaid at the date of such notice also, to receive interest\\nat tlie rate of six per cent, if the shares have been in force three\\nmonths and under two years over two years and under four years,\\nseven per cent. over four years and under maturity, eight per cent.\\nThe mortgages may be paid up and discliarged at any time or\\n$100 or more may be paid at any time and future monthly payments\\nof borrowers correspondingly reduced, a feature first adopted by\\nthis Asoociation in this State. The Association has no separate\\nexpense fund and the business is conducted on the most con-\\nservative principles. Fifty-thousand dollars in non-negotiable\\nmortgages have already been accumulated, and nearly all on Detroit\\nproperty. It has more shares in force in Detroit than any other\\nAssociation, excepting only the oldest Association in the City from\\nthe list. Numerous homes in all parts of the city, varying from the\\nmechanic s cozy five-room-house to the more pretentious modern\\nresidence of the well-to-do business or professional man, attest its\\nvalue to the city. The officers and Directors are as follows John\\nWestern, President R. J. McLaughlin, First Vice-President J. B.\\nKenned) M. D., Second Vice-President; C. H. Prescott, Secretary;\\nC. O. Parnielee, Treasurer Frank T. Lodge, Attorney C. H.\\nWestern, Superintendent of Agents. The office is in the Whitney\\nOpera Hou.se Block, and the Association has twelve branch offices\\nlocated in various parts of the city for the receipt of monthly\\ninstallments.\\nJohn Western, tlie original promoter of Building and Loan Asso-\\nciations in Detroit, was born and reared on a Michigan farm vintil he\\nhe was eighteen years of age. During his school culture he taught\\nseveral terms and was graduated from the State Normal School in 1881.\\nAt the age of twentj -one he became superintendent of schools in his\\nnative township, and afterwards taught in the high school three years,\\nat the same time studying law. While acting as clerk of Genesee\\nCounty in 188.5 he was admitted to the bar. He practiced the legal\\nprofession at Flint until 1889, and while a resident of that town served\\nas Secretary of a ]irosperous Building Association. His attention hav-\\ning been attracted to the Building and Loan organizations coming into\\npopular favor all over the country, he directed his investigations to the\\nlarger Eastern and Western establisliments, and selected his plans\\nfrom tliose promising the best systems of co-operation and equity to\\nboth investor and borrower. Detroit appearing, as the metropolis of\\nthe State, to offer the most fitting location for the eventuation of liis\\nl^rojects in the direction of a Building and Loan Association, he\\nadopted that city as his home. He is tlie President of the Home\\nBuilding and Loan Association, of Detroit. He is a man of great\\nenergy a critical judge of character, and an organizer of more than\\nordinary ability.\\nMERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS NATIONAL BANK,\\nT. H. Hinchman, President; D. Whitney Jr., Vice-President:\\nH. L. O Brien, Cashier W. E. Reilly, Assistant Cashier 91 Griswold\\nstreet. This Bank was organized originally under the State Bank-\\ning Law as the Merchants and Manufacturers Bank and was incor-\\nporated June 1, 1809, with a capital of $100,000. July 13, 1877, it\\nwas re-organized as a national Bank, with a capital of $300,000,\\nwliich, July 2, 1882, was increased to $500,000. At the close of\\nbusiness, October 2, 1890, its published statement of condition\\nJOHNvWESTERN.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "V 3^\\nDETROIT IN HfSTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nKhoivcJ total rjsources of $2,371,298.54 and a surplus fund, in excess\\nof its (Mjiilul of SjioOO.OOO, of $100,000, and undivided profits of\\n$.30,082.88. The k* management of the aifairs of tliis Bank\\nhas been conservative, jirudent and sagacious. Its President, tlie\\nHon. T. II. Jlinchnian, is tlie senior of the wliolesale grocery and\\nilrug firm i)f T. II. Hinclinian Sons; an illustrons e.\\\\])onent of the\\nHanking Ijusiness, and the author of the justly meritorious work,\\nBanks and Banking in Michigan. The Vice-President, David\\nWliitney Jr., is President of tlie Michigan Fire Marine Insurance\\nCompany, and one of the most extensive lund)er dealers in Michi-\\ngan. The Board of Directors, wliich includes ^lessrs. llinchman\\nanil Whitney, is composed of the following well-known and higldy\\nreputable business men of Detroit; N. G. Williams, of Williams\\nMalt Company: .Jerome Croul, of Croul Brotliers, tanners and\\nleatlier W. I. Bi ace, of Phelps, Brace Company, wholesale\\n8;rocers H. K. White, of D. M. Ferry Company, seed. George\\nDRUGS AND CHEMICALS.\\nIn the relation of Drugs and Chemicals Detroit possesses a\\nremarkable distinction and one superinduced by the position tliat\\ncity holds from the nature and vast extent of the industry. As\\namong tlie e.ssentialsof commerce as supi)lying the needs of medica-\\ntion and attendant considerations, this department is invested with\\nespecial interest and importance, and places manufacturers and\\ngeneral business in a conspicuous position.\\nAs being the Beat of the two largest institutions in the country\\ndevoted to the manufacture of Drugs, Chemicals and Druggists\\nSundries, Detroit holds a position in this line invested with the\\nhighest consideration. These establishments, together with various\\nothers, command .a trade with the world; give great scope to tlie\\noperation of capital, and supply thousands of laborers with the\\nmeans of subsistence.\\n^J-\\n-m\\nPAKICI-;, liAVIS COMI A.W S l.ABUUATOKY.\\nH. Russel, of Russel Wluel and Foundry Company II. M. Cainiiliill,\\nof Kussel Caniiibell, attorneys, and Charles Stinchfield, liimber.\\nMiLELLAX AND .WDERSON.\\nThis tirm was established May 1, 1N7~. The business is private\\nBanking: is e.xclusively confined to commercial transaction, and is\\nconducteil uiioii the ])laii of national and state Banks. The mem-\\nbers of the firm are Messrs. .Viidrew McLellan and George Amlerson,\\nwho are intimately ideiililiecl with the detaUs of the Banking liusi-\\nness. Tl ley have ample \u00e2\u0080\u00a2apital and are prudent and conscu vative.\\nThey have achieved a notalile success and their business li:is been\\ncreateil entirely without solicitation. They keep an account with\\nthe Bank of Scotland, in London, England, a very strong financial\\ninstitution, org-.nized in 1G9.5, also Jlechanics National Bank, New\\nYork. Slessrs. McLellan and Anderson give their entire time and\\nattenticin to the business in D^tioit. Their offices are located in tlic\\nMoffat Building, 119 Griswold street.\\nPARKE, DAVIS COMPANY\\nManufacturing Chemists. Manufacturers of Pharmaceutical\\nPreparations, Fine Chemicals, Digestive Ferments, Empty Cajisules\\nand other Gelatin Products, Pressed Herbs, and Importers and\\nDealers in Crude Vegetable Drugs. From 1807 to 1873 this organi-\\nzation occujiied humble (piarters at the corner of lleiiiy and Cass\\nstreets. In 1S73, in order to aeipiire more e.\\\\tendeil facilities, it\\nremoved to its present site.\\nThe superior excellence and rclialiility of its medicinal products,\\nas also by its j)olicy of observing the mutual rights and obligations of\\nthe wholesale and retail druggist and the pliysician, recjuired such suc-\\ncessive additions to its buildings, that the laboratory and offices, in\\nwhich G!)5 people find employment, now cover over five acres of\\nll.ior space, while the stability of its financial concerns is backed by\\na paiil-up capital stock of ^1,000,000. The same exigencies have\\nnecessitated the establishment of branch offices at New York", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n3^\\nKansas City, London, England, and the branch laboratory a,t\\nWalker ville, Ontario.\\nTlie laboratories are all equipped with the most approved appar-\\natus for the manufacture of medicinal products, and every aid in\\nmachinery is ait orJed skilled employees to assist in producing the\\nfinest pharmaceutical preparations possible.\\nThe building situated on the corner of Fourth and Abbott\\nstreets, is wholly occupied in the manufacture of empty gelatine\\ncapsules, marketed by this firm, who first introduced this efficient\\nform of disguising nauseous medicines to the medical profession.\\nIn addition to the manufacture and sale of medicinal products,\\nParke, Davis Company, conduct a very large business in the\\nimportation and sale of crude drugs in original bales and packages.\\nNo other house has the facilities wliich this enjoys for securing full\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0stocks of crude drugs, properly identified, gathered and cured in\\ntheir respective habitats, by its own agents and correspondents.\\nThese transactions are carried on through the New York branch\\nwhich, located first at 60 Cedar street, was obliged to move for more\\nRobusta, Guarana, Coca, Verba Santa, Tonga, Manaca, Chekan,\\nBoldo, Pichi and Jaborandi. Several of these have found a place\\nalready in the Pharmacopoeias of America and Great Britain, and it\\nis not easy to understand on what principle of selection some of the\\nothers Jiave been ignored.\\nFREDERICK STEARNS COMPANY.\\nDetroit, among other things, is noted for having within its\\nlimits the largest manufacturers of pharmaceutical preparations of\\nany city in the United States. Of these none is more important\\nthan the house of Frederick Stearns Company, which was estab-\\nlished in ISoo by Frederick Stearns, and incorporated in 1882. It\\nhas a fully jiaid up capital of $200,000 employs over .500 persons in\\nits works, and sends its products not only to every portion of the\\nUnited States, but every important region on tlie face of tlie globe.\\nTlie building used as the laboratory by Frederick Stearns Com-\\npany is the largest of its kind in the world. It occupies one entire\\nsquare, 300 feet front by 180 feet deejj, and consists of three stories\\nFREDERICK STEARNS COMPANY S LABORATORY.\\nroom to GO Maiden Lane and 21 Liberty street, later to add 218\\nPearl street for warehouse purposes, and has now again been obliged\\nto seek still more room in tlie large building\u00e2\u0080\u0094 90, 92 and 94 Maiden\\nLane, and 9 and 11 Cedar street. The New York brancli also affords\\na convenient source of supply of the pharmaceutical products of the\\nhouse to the Eastern trade, as well as an available forwarding point\\nfor the benefit of its European customers, who are many.\\nThe seed from which has sprung the immense business now\\nattained has been noted. The secret of the growth of this house,\\nwhich is plienomenal even when compared with any manufacturing\\nbusiness in the world, lies in three underlying principles of its busi-\\nness metliods The superior quality and uniformity of its products\\nits devotion to the mutual interests of pharmacists and physicians\\nand its enterprise in the investigation of new drugs, eligible forms\\nof exhibiting old remedies, and improved processes of manufacture.\\nThese investigations have resulted in bringing to the attention of\\nthe medical profession such remedies as Cascara Sagrada, Grindelia\\n[3]\\nand a cellar. It is situated on Twenty-first street, near Baker, and\\nhaving been built for the express purpose of a manufacturing phar-\\nmacy, it is a model one in every respect, and is fitted with all the\\nlatest pharmaceutical appliances and machinery.\\nFrederick Stearns, the founder of the house, after having\\ndevoted himself to active business for thiriy-two years, retired from\\ntlie same at the close of 188G. He was succeeded, as President of\\nthe corporation by liis eldest son, Frederick K. Stearns, who has\\nbeen connected with tlie business for over fifteen years, and has\\npractically managed it for this period.\\nIn addition to their immense works at Detroit, Frederick Stearns\\nCompan} have a laboratory at Windsor, Ontario, which,\\nalthough not as extensive as the home establishment, is fully\\necpiipped in every particular for pharmaceutical work. Their New\\nYork office is 211 Pearl street. New York City, at which point they\\nattend to their own importing and exporting, and handle their\\nEastern trade. In addition to manufacturing a full line of pharmaceu-", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nfkki i:kick k. steakns.\\ntical iirciiHiiitioiis, sulIi as Pills, Fluid Extracts, Elixirs, etc., etc., tliey\\nhave a sijeoialty called Non-Secret medicines, which they original eil\\nand first offered to the tradi; in 1876. Non-Secret medicines arc\\nsini[)Iy popular medicines, put up without secrecy for liouseliold use,\\nthe formula being printed on each package, and are for the exj)ress\\npurpose of re|)Iacing secret and ijuack nostrums. The merit and\\npopularity of these medicines may lie understood when it is stated\\nthat nearly every retail druggist is the United States and Canada\\nhandles them, that the largest himses in Australia, South America,\\nCentral America, Mexico and India, push them in preference to\\npatent medicines. Thirty-five traveling representatives are\\nemployed by this firm for the United States alone two representa-\\ntives in South America, as well as one in Mexico and Central\\nAmerica. They have establislied agencies in London, Spain, New\\nZealand, Panama, Buenos Ayres, Valparaiso and tinee in Australia,\\nbesides a resident traveling salesman m the latter country. They\\ndo business with the retail drug trade alone, and have on their\\nbooks, as regidar customers over 20,000 names. There are few insti-\\ntutions that spreail the name and fame of Detroit abroad nu)re than\\ndoes that of Frederick Stearns Company.\\nFrederick K. Stearns, the President of Frederick Stearns\\nConipanj has been connected with the business since IsT.j, at\\nwhich time he left the Univei sity of Michigan, in the middle of his\\njunior jear, to take an active interest in the manufacturing part of\\nthe business. Determined to learn the busitiess thoroughly in all its\\nbranches, lie interested himself, i)ersonally, in every department\\nuntil he had thoroughly acquired a practical knowledge of all its\\nworkings. For the first few years he devoted himself entirely to\\nthe nuiiiufacturing part, and there is no single department in the\\nentire institution that he is not familiar with.\\nIn 1880, owing to the absence abroad of Sir. F. Stearns (wlio up\\nto that time had taken charge of the financial part of the business),\\nhe (F. K. Steartis) was obliged to relincjuisli the superintendence of\\nthe laboratory jiroper, and devote his attention to the departments\\nof traveling, correspondence and finances. For the fifteen years\\nthat Mr. F. K. Stearns has been connected with the business, he has\\nbeen absent from his duties but a few weeks at the most at any\\ntime, and to liis careful attention and management in no small\\ndegree is due the present successful and prosjiurous condition of the\\nhouse of Frederick Stearns Company. Mr. Stearns is still a young\\nman thirty-six years of age and, in popular parlance, is what\\nmight be termed a hustler.\\nOutside of business, Mr. Stearns main recreation and pleasure\\nconsists of amateur athletics and music. He is President of tlie\\nDetroit Athletic Club, which has an active mend)ersliip of 750,\\nincludes Detroit s best people, and which, inside of a few months\\nwill reach its limit of one thousand. Its splendid grounds, and fine\\nclub house are too familiar to Detroiters to need further comment\\nhere. Among its most famous athletes are John Owen Jr., champion\\namateur of the world at 100 yards, whose record of nine anil four-\\nfifths secends, made at \\\\V ashington at the last meeting of the\\nAmerican Athletic Union, is without a parallel, and Fred T.\\nDucharme, amateur champion of the United States at the hurdles,\\nin both one hundred and twenty and two hundred and twenty yards,\\nand wlio won his title at Washington at the same time. Mr.\\nStearns is also President of the Detroit Musical Society, the most\\nprominent and oldest established choral singing society in Detroit,\\nwhich has an active membership of two hundred and a large honor-\\nary membership. Four years ago Mr. Stearns was President of the\\nDetroit National League I5a.se Hall Club, which won not only the\\nchampionship of the league, but also wrested the world s champion-\\nship from the .St. Louis Hrowns. He was nuiinly instrumental in\\ngetting the then celelirated Miig 4, thereby forming the imcleus of\\nthe strongest ball team whicli ever represented any American city,\\nand which, unipiestionably, greatly extended Detroit s fame abroad.\\nOn the theory that nothing succeeds like success. Mr. Stearns may\\nbe fitly called a successful man, as wdiatever he has ever interested\\nhimself in, in business or outside, he has always made a success.\\nJOHNSON, NELSON COMPANY.\\nAmong the manufacturing houses for which Detroit is justly\\nfamous, none have achieved more marked and rapid success than\\nJohnson, Nelson Company, Manufacturing Chemists, the pro-\\nducts of whose laboratory are to be found in nearly every drug store\\nin the United States, and throughout several of the foreign count: ies.\\nTlie business having grown to the limit of the present plant, and\\nstill rapidly increasing, the lirm is now looking for a suitable site,\\nhaving plans prepared for an extensive new laboratory, which will\\nbe made as perfect and complete as possible in every i)articular.\\nThe establishment of this concern dates from 1880, and the otHcers\\nare: W. C. Johnson, President: H. G. Baker, Vice-Presider.l E.\\n11. Nelson, Secretary and Treasurer. These gentlemen liave all been\\nw. C, .JOHNSON.\\nII. NELSON.\\nH. (J. BAKEK", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n35\\nbefore the trade for many years past, and by their strict adherence\\nto tlie principles of fair dealing, integrity and courteous treatment,\\nhave established themselves firmly in the confidence and esteem of\\ncustomers and competitors alike. From their present history, briefly\\ngiven below, it will be seen that the practical experience of tlie\\nexecutive officers of the concern fully justifies the confidence placed\\nin their management and personal supervision of the business. Mr.\\nJohnson is a graduate of tlie University of Michigan, class of 1878,\\nand shortly after finishing his college course, began his practical\\nexperience in the manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations,\\nwhich extends tlierefore over a period of thirteen years and covers\\nall branches of the business. During the last ten years of this time\\nhe has had charge of the financial affairs of his firm and will con-\\ntinue to attend to tliis department of the business. He is also inter-\\nested in two of Detroit s strongest banks and other outside enter-\\nprises, but devotes his time exclusively to the business of which he\\nis President. Mr. Nelson is a grad-\\nuate of Belleville College and the\\nOntario College of Pharmacy, and\\nhas been continuously engaged in\\nthe drug business in its various\\nbranches, both retail and manufac-\\nturing, for the past fifteen years. He\\nhas a very wide personal acquaint-\\nance among the druggists of the i\\nUnited States, won in former days\\non the road, when he earned the\\ntitle of the banner salesman.\\nHe attends to the firm s interests in\\nthe management of the large force\\nof traveling salesmen it employs,\\nfor which he is eminently qualified\\nby his thorougli knowledge of the\\ncountry, energy, and natural ca-\\npacity for getting business. Mr.\\nBaker s career in the drug business\\ncommenced in tlie year 1809, and\\nin his continued experience of\\nnearly twenty-three years, he lias\\nbecome known as the best posted\\ndrug man between New York and\\nChicago, and thoroughly alive to\\nthe demands of the trade, whicli\\nabundantly testifies to his fitness\\nfor the responsible position he occu-\\npies as buyer. He also takes the\\ngeneral supervision of the labora-\\ntory and to him is largely due the\\nfirm s reputation for the prompt\\nand satisfactory execution of all\\norders.\\nCHARLKS WPJ.GHT MEDICINE\\nCOMPANY.\\nCharles Wright, of the Charles\\nWright Medicine Company, was\\nborn in AVolcott, Nev/ York, in 1850.\\nHe removed with his parents to\\nMichigan in 1856, and was educated in the State Normal School at\\nYpsilanti and in the University of Michigan, where he studied\\nchemistry. Subsequently he spent several years in laboratory work\\nin Detroit. In 1874 he secured employment with tlie wholesale drug\\nliouse of McKesson Robljins, of New York Cit} as traveling sales-\\nman, filling that position until 1880, wlien he came to Detroit, where\\nhe established a business under the firm name of Cliarles Wright\\nCompany, for the manufacture of non-secret and pharmaceutical\\npreparations. In March, 1800, the business was incorporated as the\\nCharles Wright Medicine Company, absorbing the Rheumatic Syrup\\nCompany, of Jackson, Michigan, with a paid-up cajjital of .f 100,000.\\nThe three buildings, 15, 17 and 19 Jefferson avenue, are commodious\\nand well appointed with requisite facilities, including the most\\nmodern machinery and appliances for manufacturing, with a cellar\\nand a large storage warehouse in the rear. Emjiloyment is given to\\n200 liands and the annual output aggregates $500,000 in value. The\\n^k ati!U!ifr. im ^is\u00c2\u00bbat,^\\nCHARLSS WRIGHT.\\nbusiness has been of phenomenal expansion, and has attained a\\nremarkable success. The trade territory embraces the United\\nStates and various foreign countries, including Australia. The\\ncompany issue a montlily publication entitled The Family\\nGleaner, to represent Wriglit s Family Remedies, and the Ameri-\\ncan Pharmacist, of general interest to the drug trade, published by\\nthe American Pharmacist Publishing Company, of which Charles\\nWright is President. It has a large and growing circulation in the\\nUnited States and Australia.\\nFREDERICK F. INGRAM COMPANY.\\nPharmaceutical Preparations, Perfumes, and Toilet Articles, a\\ncomplete line of reliable Non-Patented Remedies, with formula\\nand buyers address, 116 Jefferson avenue. The firm was estab-\\nlished January 1, 1883, as Milburn Williamson, and May 23,\\n1891. was changed to its present name and style of Frederick F.\\nIngram C!onipany.\\nMr. Ingram was born in Hast-\\nings, Michigan. His entire busi-\\nness life has been spent in practical\\npharmacy first as a retail drug-\\ngist, later as a traveling salesman\\nfor a manufacturing drug house,\\nand gained a tliorougli knowledge\\nof the recpiirements of the drug\\nbusiness both in this country and\\nCanada. Their trade extends over\\ntlie entire United States, and is\\nconstantly increasing by reason of\\nthe liigh grade and generally sal-\\nable character of the goods, their\\nvaluable qualities being readily\\nrecognized whei-ever they have\\nbeen introduced. The record of\\nthe house has been one of continual\\nsuccess from the start, and eacli\\nmember of the firm personally\\nexerts himself in the interests of\\nthe business, by the application of\\npractical knowledge to the consid-\\neration of involved details. The\\nrapid increase of new customers\\nand the continued confidence ex-\\npressed by the old customers of the\\nbouse, emphasized by frequently\\nrepeated orders, shows how closely\\nthe firm is in touch with the trade\\nill all markets throughout the\\ncountry. The honest cliaracter of\\nproducts secured through unremit-\\niug conformity to required details\\nhas won the highest commendations\\nand commensurate patronage.\\nOnly the purest and best materials\\nare used, and every article is guar-\\nanteed. The most reliable formulas\\nare faithfully followed, and tlie\\nuniform excellence of the products scrupulously maintained. The\\nproper and economical conduct of the business is assured by the\\nsystematic management and direction of the members of the firm,\\nall of whom are practical and experienced, having been for many\\nyears actively engaged in manufacturing and marketing the above\\nline of preparations.\\nThe domestic remedies manufactured by this house are aU non-\\npatent, and may lie non-secret or not, as preferred by bujer\\norders are filled with formula on wrapper, and buyer s address on\\nboth wrapper and label. Tliey also manufacture a complete line\\nof officinal preparations of the Pharmacopceia, and all of an unoffic-\\ninal character in common use, which are guaranteed of uniform\\nand standard strength. In perfumes, toilets requisits, druggists\\nnecessaries, and show-case goods, the products are of exceptionally\\nfine style and finish, and represent the high aims and ambitions of\\nthese manufacturers, who indubitably instance an example of prog-", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nSEELY MANITACTIIRINO C OMl ANY S LABORATORY.\\nress anil prosperity crctlitiilile and advantageous to tlio city of\\nDetroit, among tlie industrial rf])resentativcs of wliirli tliis lirni\\noccupies leading and liiglUy important position.\\nSEELY MANUFACTURING COMPANY,\\nJIannfacturers of Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Flavoring Extracts\\nand Grocers Specialties Factory and offices, corner Fort and\\nFourth streets. This estahlishment was founded by Mr. J. M. .Seely,\\nin 1863, and has steadily advanced to its present position among tlie\\nleading houses in its line in the country. Tlio building occupied is an\\nimposing brick structure of four stories and basement, r)(i.\\\\|:ill feet in\\ndimensions, and is provided with every re({uisite ai jiliance for\\nsecuring expedition and uniformity in manufacturing. The trade\\nterritory embraces the entire United Stales witli a large export\\ntrade to Mexico, South America, Australia and Ni W Zealand. The\\nline of products endiraces perfumery, toilet articles, flavoring\\nextracts and grocer s specialties. A force of seventy hands is\\nemployed, and the annual output is very large to meet the demand,\\nwhich is of continual expansion. The projirietors of llie business\\nare Messrs. George H. Smith and Justin E. Smith, thoroughly exjier-\\nienced and practical numufacturers, and among Detroit s distin-\\nguished trade factors, who have materially assisted in enhancing\\nthe city s general commercial interests.\\nWILLIAMS, SHELEY BROOKS.\\nThis house had its original fomidation in 1S15, an 1 was resolved\\ninto its prestnt n.-imeand style Feliruary 1, 1H90, as successors to Far-\\nrand, Williams Company. The firm as now constituted is compcetl\\nof Jle. -srs.William t .Willianjs, Alanson Sheley and AlansonS.13 ooks.\\nIts history has been a record of continuous successes and its present\\neminently judicious and capable management places it in a c-on-\\nspi uons position among the lea ling importing and manufacturing\\nwholesahi druggists anil dealers in druggists sundries in the country.\\nAs the State agency and depot for leading patent medicines it con-\\ntributes essentially to the denumds of a large and exiianding trade,\\nin the security of the best interests, of which the house is particu-\\nlarly and critically careful. The importation direct of\\ncrude drugs, essential oils, olive oils, chamois skins, hair,\\ntooth, and nail brushes and other toilet articles enables\\nthem to successfully compete with Eastern markets.\\nThey grind and powder their own drugs which are of the\\nmost superior selections and are thus empowered to guar-\\nantee their (juality, as well as to vouch for the reliability\\nand genuineness of their fluiil extracts, eUxirs, medicated\\nsyrups and fine pharmaceutical i-reparations. They make\\na specialty of filling mail orders, wliich receive as prompt\\nand strict attention as if the purchaser were present. No\\ngoiMls are solil to the cunsumer, the rights and interests of\\nthe retail trade being rigidly protected. The stock carried\\nis one of the largest and greatest variety in the State, and\\norders can be filled for any article denumded by the trade\\nin the most exi)editious and satisfactory manner. The\\ncustomers of the old house have found in the present mem-\\nbers of tlie new firm old acipiaintances and friends, who\\nare keenly alive to every reiiuiremeut of the business and\\nprepared to meet them with unswerving fidelity to con-\\nfided interests. The building occupied, corner of East\\nL;irned and Bates streets, is an ini|iosing structure of brick\\nof live stories above a large basement; isSllxKlO feel in\\ndimensions, and is fully provided with reijuisite facilities\\nand .accommodations for the transaction of the extensive\\nbusiness. The (inn do an annual business of about\\nijl, 000,001), and the trade relations embrace the districts\\ntributary to the Detroit market and numy remote sections\\nof the countrj-. Mr. Williams has been the Manager of\\nthe house for thirty-three years and exerts an active and\\ntireless superiidendence. Mr. Brooks is also an active\\nmendier of the firm and has acted in the capacitj of buyer\\nlor seven years. Jlr. Sheley devotes but little time to the\\nbusiness, being a very old man, but gives, still, consider-\\nable attention to his other and varied investments. He is\\nhale and hearty, and for many years labored with Mr.\\nWilliams in securing the position achieved by the house\\nand which ho is ever ready and willing to assist, both with\\nhis sound judgment and his j ecuniary ability. The firm of V. illianis,\\n.Sheley i^L Brooks takes an essentially high rank in the category of\\nDetroit s successful niircliants, who have won a laudable distinction\\nand a distinguished identity.\\nWILLIAM C. WlLLlAJlb.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n37\\nWilliam C. Williams was born at Anglesea, North Wales, in\\n1837. After the death of his father, he came, in his tenth year, with\\nliis mother and two sisters, to the United States, locating at\\nWaukesha, Wisconsin, and, in October, 1852, removing to Detroit.\\nHere he attended the public scliools until April, 18,53, when he\\nsecured a position in a drug store as an apprentice to learn the busi-\\nness under the instruction of Edward Bingham, soon becoming\\ncapable of putting up the prescriptions of eminent physicians. In\\n1859 Mr. AUinson Sheley became a partner in the business, and one\\nj ear later Mr. Williams became a member of the firm. Since this\\ntime Mr. Williams has continuously been the managing and active\\npartner, his thorough and intimate knowledge of all details incident\\nto the business rendering his relation in this regard of great and\\npermanent value. He was the constructor of the Peninsular White\\nLead and Color Works and holds the largest individual interest in\\nthat corporation. Mr. Williams was prominent in connection, with\\nCanada at w. rk on the Rideau Canal, after which he entered tiie\\nstore of Fuller Walton, at Alexandria Bay, Jeflferson County,\\nNew York. He came to Detroit August 31, 1831, and during the\\nsucceeding winter took charge of a general store at Saline, Michi-\\ngan, the principal trade of which was in hides. On his return to\\nDetroit he began work at his trade of builder, and in June, 1835, was\\nappointed the agent at Detroit of the Black River Steam Mill Com-\\npany, a position which he held for twenty years, when, together\\nwith Mr. Tilton Ames, he purchased from the heirs of Colonel\\nPerkins, of Boston, all of the interests of the Black River Steam\\nMill Company in Michigan, paying therefor !f;lOO,000. Mr. Sheley\\ncontinued to conduct this business up to 1859, when he bought a\\nhalf interest in the drug business of Jacob S. Farrand, which then\\nbecame Farrand Sheley, afterward Farrand, Siieley Company.\\nLater William C. Williams name was .substituted for that of\\nMr. Sheley. Farrand, Williams Company, were succeeded.\\nLABORATORY OF FREDERICK F. INGRAM COMPANY,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SUCCESSORS TO WILLIAMSON, INGRAM GRIGGS.\\nthree others in the organization of the Commercial National Bank\\nand has been an active and influential Director thei-ein since its\\nfoundation. He is a valued member of the Board of Trustees of the\\nDetroit College of Medicine and has been largelj instrumental in\\npromoting the high aims and principles of that institution. As the\\nmanaging factor of the firm of Williams, Sheley and Brooks, Mr.\\nWilliams has .succeeded in placing the house in a leading position\\namong the most prominent importing and manufacturing wholesale\\ndruggists and dealers in druggists sundries in the country. In all of\\nhis relations, Mr. W^illiams has preserved the most scrupulous and\\nthe most correct regard for those sterling principles, the employ-\\nment of which has advanced him from an humble beginning in\\nbusiness to the top round of the mercantile ladder.\\n*Alanson Sheley was born August 14, 1809, at Albany, New\\nYork. After receiving suca an education as the schools of that day\\nafforded, he began the actual battle of life. He spent two years in\\n*The portrait of Mr. Sheley may be found on page 17.\\nFebruary 1, 1890, by Williams, Sheley Brooks. Mr. Sheley is a\\nstockholder in the Firse National Bank and a member of its Board\\nof Directors. He is also largely interested in varied other relations\\nand is the owner of mu h valuable real estate. As affording an\\ninstance of almost uninterrupted health, never having been confined\\nto his bed from sickness since he has lived in Detroit, a period of\\nnearly sixty years, Jlr. Sheley may truly be regarded as of a\\nremarkable type, and when it is known that, throughout his whole\\nlife ot nearly eighty-two years he has never used tobacco or any\\nkind of intoxicating drink as a beverage, he presents a principle\\nwhich might profitably be followed by the rising generation. He\\nwas married in Detroit and has three children living two daughters\\nand one son. During a long and active life he has maintained the\\nmost incorruptible integrity and honorable identity, and the evening\\nof his days is full of the comfort and satisfaction that spring there-\\nfrom and gild his pathway with gleams of fadeless joy.\\nAlanson S. Brooks was born at Detroit, January 7, 1863. He", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE\\nAI..ANSON S. UROOKS.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was o lucate l in Pliili Pattorsons scliool, and in his fifteenth year\\nentered the enijiloy of Fanand, Williams i)nii)any. Bt f^inning\\nin an luimble cai)acily, lie successively filled all of the |)()sitions\\ninciilent to the wholesale drug husiness, heconiins a nieinher of the\\nfirm of Fanand, Williams C am])any in Jainiary, 1SS2, and at the\\nsuccession to that husiness of Williams, Sheley Brooks Fehruary\\n1, 1S!)0, his name appeared in the announcement of the changed\\nadministration. 5Ir. Brooks and Jlr. Williams are the active\\npartners, Jlr. Sheley not devoting his whole linn .iiid attention to\\nthe business. Mr. Brooks is the Secretary of the I liiinsular White\\nLead and Color Works, and the Secretary and Treasurer of the\\nLatimer Cash Register Company. He was married in ISSO to a\\ndaughter of Hela ITuhhard, one of Detroit s distinguish! d men, and\\nthe author of Jlemorials of a Half-Century, and valuahle -ontri-\\nbutions to the pioneer literature of Wayne County. Mr. I .rooks is a\\nmember of Detroit Athletic Association and Detroit Boat Club. He\\nhas been, sinc(^ his fifteenth year, continuously in his present busi-\\nness, in which he is an able, experienced and enterprising factor.\\nHe shares with Mr. Williams the management and active duties of\\nthe business and is also the buj er for the firm. Although young in\\nyeai S, Mr. Brooks has demonstrated those signal abilities v/hich\\nattach to successful merchants and which place them in the high\\npositions they are fitted to hold. As a member of the firm of\\nWilliams, Sheley Brooks, he has achieved a prominence through\\nhis experience in ami fidelity to the details of the bu.sincss that\\nreflects uiion him great and merite l dislinction.\\nFARRANl). WILLIAMS CLARK.\\nWholesale Druggists, M and ;!t Woodward .avenue. The ni.antle\\nof till late Jacoi] S. Farrand has most worthily fallen upon the\\nabove named firm, who are now continuing the business of which\\nhe was the successful iiioneer. Following in the footsteps of him who\\nso ably preceeded them, these gentlemen combine their own exten-\\nsive experience and executive ability with that of the original\\nfounder, Jacob S. Farrand. The firm date their establishment from\\nMarch IH, IsOO, with a large capital and first-class facilities for\\nprompt shipments of orders. They employ over sixty expert hands,\\nand their numerous patrons throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana\\nand adjacent territory can rely to the utmost tijion careful attention\\nto their riMjuirements. For first-class Pharmaceutical ]iroductions,\\npure drugs, perfumery and druggists sundries, this firm are noted\\nf 01 oxceil jnco and reliabitit^ each member of the firm being adepts\\nin the st-veral branches peculiar to the trade. Tlieir long jiractical\\nexperience and careful personal suiHTvisloa of all the important\\ndetails of the business insures the most desirable and agreeable busi-\\nness relations between these gentlemen and their ]iatrons. Their\\nelegant and commodious building, consisting of five stories and\\nbasement, is pleasantly and conveniently located at 32 and ;!l Wijod-\\nward avenue.\\n*JaCOB ii. F.U\u00c2\u00a3RA-N\u00c2\u00bb. The original founder and pioneer in the\\nwholesale drug trade of this city, was the late Jacob S. Farrand.\\n.Mr. Farrand was born in Mentz, Cayuga County, New York, May 7,\\nl n, and with his i)arents came came to Detroit in May, 182. After\\na brief stay lie moved to Ann Arbor. When a lad of thirteen he\\ncarried the mail on horseback between the latter town and Detroit.\\nIn l^iiiO becoming a clerk in the drug store of Rice Bingham\\nwhere in six years he arose to partnership with Mr. Bingham, con-\\ntinuing for live years, when he received the aiipnintmi-nt of deputy\\ncollector of the port and district of Detroit, extending around the\\nshores of Lakes Huron and Michigan, including the city of Chicago.\\nIn 1841 he was military secretary of the governor. Closing his term\\nof service he re-embarked in the drug business as senior member of\\nthe wholesale drug house of Farrand, Williams Company. Under\\nhis cai ef ul eye the business extended from a snuill nucleus to sjd.ODO,-\\n000 annuallj During his life Mr. Farrand, was connected with a\\nfew stock companies, was director and 2 esident of the First\\nNational bank. From 1S(!0 to IstU he was a member of the Common\\n(iiuncil. lie also served eight years as president of the jiolico com-\\nmission. For more than twenty years he was member of the water\\nhoard and for many years served on the board of education. Mr.\\nFarj and was from childhood a member of the First Presbyterian\\nchurcli and in religious and charitable work was ever active, not-\\nably in bringing about the union between the old ami the new\\nschools of the Presbyterians in the United States. In 1841 he mar-\\nried Olive M., the daughter of Rev. Harvey Coe, an early settler of\\nthe Western Reserve. After an honorable, exemplary ami busy life,\\nMr. Farrand died April 3, at his home 457 Woodward avenue after\\nan illness of a few days, from complicated lung troubles resulting\\nfrom a severe cold. His wife and three children .survive him, and\\nthe entire community and a wide circle of friends in the social and\\nbusiness world lament the loss of this most estimable man.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The portrait of Jacob y. t arrand may befouDdoupage Ifl.\\nJACOB S. I WIiHAMi, JU,", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n36\\nJacob S. Farkand Jr., Junior member of the firm of Farrand,\\nWilliams L lark, was born at Detroit. June 11, 1857, and was edu-\\ncated in the City iniblio schools, and was graduated from tlie Higli\\nschool. In 1876 he became associated with the wholesale drug house\\nof Farrand, Williams Company, becoming a partner in 1884, and\\nretaining that relation until the spring of 1890, when the new firm\\nof Farrand, Williams Clark was established, in which he became\\na partner. He creditably fills the office of buyer for the firm and is\\nthe Treasurer of the Peninsular White Lead and Color Works.\\nWliile yet quite a young man, Jlr. Farrand has demonstrated con-\\nspicuous business abilities, through which he has been advanced to\\nhis present responsible position.\\nRichard P. Williajis, of Farrand, Williams Clark, was born\\nin the historically celebrated Isle of Anglesea, in 1846, and came to\\nthe United States in 1808, locating at Detroit, where he entered the\\nemjiloy of Farrand, Sheley Company, wholesale druggists. He\\ncontinued with this firm, becoming a paitner in 1880, and retaining\\nthat relation until the organization of the firm of Farrand, Williams\\nClark in the spring of lnOO, in which he holds a partnership\\ninterest. Mr. Williams is the President of the Peninsular White Lead\\nRICHARD r. WILTIAMS.\\nand C olor Works. He married the daughter of Hon. Jacob S. Far-\\nrand, the venerable head of the house of Farrand, Williams Clark,\\nand who was one of Detroit s distinguished citizens. Mr. Williams\\nis descended from a very notable family, sprung from the old\\nWelsh Kings. Ilis great grand-mother was a cousin of the Duke of\\nWellington, and his mother, who is eighty-five years of age, resides\\nupon the estate which has been in possession of her family since the\\nyear 900. Mr. Williams has two brothers, prominent bankers of\\nDetroit. He received a liberal education in the schools of Birming-\\nham and Liverpool, England. He is active in the business to which\\nhe devotes his exclusive attention and is as merchant and citizen,\\nan honor and a credit to the cit} of his adoption.\\nHarvey Clark, member of the firm of Fai-rand, Williams\\nClark, was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, November 23, 1838. He\\nreceived his education in the public schools and at the Western\\nReserve College, from which he was gniduated. He came to Detroit\\nin 1861 and secured employment with Farrand, Sheley Company,\\nas salesman, continuing in that relation up to 1872, when he became\\na member of the firm of Farrand, Williams Company, withdraw-\\ning his interest with the other members of the firm in 1S90 when the\\nfirm of Farrand, W^illiams Clark was formed. Jlr. Clark since his\\nHARVEY C. CLARK.\\nfirst business engagement in the drug business has devoted his\\nexclusive time and attention to its details with which he has became\\nin a prominent manner identified and is justly esteemed as among\\nDetroit s most distinguished representatives in that line. He is one\\nof the stockholders of the Peninsular White Lead and Color Works.\\nMr. Clark s long experience in the drug trade has made him hosts\\nof friends, who are alwiiys pleased to mstance his eminent abilities\\nand generally courteous demeanor.\\nLAMBERT LOWMAN.\\nThis firm was established February 1, 1889 and is composed of\\nMr. Benjamin L. Lambert and Dr. Oscar Lowman, who are identi-\\nDK. OSCAR LOWMAN. BEN.IAMIN L. LAMBERT.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nfled as being the youngest wholesale druggists in the city. The man-\\nageun^iit and general sujiervision of the business are conducted by Jlr.\\nLambert, who was for ten years associated with Swift Dodils and\\nintimately ac(iuainted with tlic- details of the drug line. Dr. Oscar\\nLowman, who exercises suiierintendence over the manufacturing\\n(lei artment, was graduated from the Royal University of Munich,\\nand is as an analytical chenn st exceptionally cajiable. The firm are\\nnow turning out a large number of new and varied jiroducts made\\nin the most skillful manner and which are meeting with readv sale\\nwherever introiluced. The building occui)ied at 185 Jefferson ave-\\nnue is five stoiics and afFord.s amjde accommodations and facilities\\nfor the expanding busines.s. The first year s output was ^100,000,\\nand that of 18!t0 iji-r.t.OOO. The business is conduitii) on a strictly\\nconservative basis and trade relations have been established in iMich-\\nJAMES E. UAXlti COMPANY S WHOLESALK UKVH HOUSE.\\nigan, Ohio and Indiana. The firm carry a full line of drugs, cliemi-\\ncals, patent medicines and druggists sundries.\\nJAMKS E. DAVIS COMPANY.\\nThis firm, composed of Messrs. James E. Davis and George AV.\\nBissell, drug merchants, importers of druggists sundries and manu-\\nfacturers of standard pharmaceutical jireparations and dealers in\\npaints and oils, is located at 29, :51, 3:i and ;j. Larned street, west,\\nopposite the ])Ost-ofFice, and has the reiiutation of being identified\\nWilli the leading drug interests of tlie c ity. The house lias a notable\\nrecord and its jiroprietors are prominently associated with the best\\ndevelopment of the leading coniinercial interests of the city.\\nT. PI. IIINCIIMAN SONS,\\nWholesale Druggists. Prominent among tlie old land-marks of\\nDetroit is the well-known house of T. H. Hinchman Sons, bose\\nline of trade comprises all the general requirements of druggists.\\nThe original establishment dates as far back in the early history of\\nDetroit as the year 1819, the firm then being N. fhapin Company,\\nwliich afterwards changed to that of Chapin Owen, who were\\nsucceeded by T. H. Hinchman. Mr. Hinchman is a veteran in the\\nfield of business men and has so often been before the public in close\\nrelations with the welfare and interests of the city in which he has\\nso long resiiled, that multiplied words wouhl be superfluous as\\nencomiums. The present jirosperoiis condition of this old established\\nhouj^e is due to his untiring sujiervision. Associated with him are\\nJohn JI., Fdiil D. C. and Charles C. Hinchman, under the firm name\\niif T. II. llinchinan Sons, their jilace of business being at 70 and\\n78 Jefferson avenue. The size of their building is -lOxK. feet, where\\nthey employ about twenty-five assistants, and have numerous\\ntravelers on the road through the States of Michigan, Ohio and\\nIndiana, over which their territory extends. Added to their com-\\njjlete facilities for supplying and shipi)ingto their customers is that\\ngreatest of all consiilerations, long life of i)racti(al exjierience in their\\nline of trade. Mr. llinchmin s portrait apjiears on [lage l.j.\\nSrOVES AND RANGES.\\nDETROIT STOVE WORKS.\\nThe founilrv which afterw.ards became the Detroit Stove Works\\nwas established in 1800, ami was the first foundry of thi kind in\\nojieration in the northwestern section of the United States. In 1804,\\nthis establishment was purchased by a stock coini any, the principal\\nmember of which was the late Wni. H. Tetf t. The new company\\nwas incorporated with a capital of f. )(),000, under the name by\\nwhich the concern has ever since been known, the Detroit Stove\\nWorks. In 180. the capital of the company was increased to ^100,-\\n000, and subseipiently to $:!00,00ll. The Works now constitute one\\nof the largest industrial establishments in Detroit, giving emidoy-\\nnieiit to about 1.4(10 men, and melting sixty tons of iron daily.\\nThey cover ten acres of ground, the jilan: extemling from Jefferson\\navenue to the river. As shown in the illustration the establishment\\nis admirably located for water transportation; it is also connected\\nwith all the railroads entering Detroit, by the Transit and Belt Line\\nrailways, the former of which lias a terminus within its yards, and\\nthe latter terminating only two blocks away. The superficial area.s\\njof the warehouse, the foundry dep.artmeiit and the mounting deparl-\\nliiient floors are 108,117, 84,83:2 and 89,174 square feet respectively.\\niThese floor areas, together with those of a dozen minor shops and\\ndepartments, aggregate a grand total of 3 5.01() scpiare feet. The\\nvarious buildings comprised by the Works have been erected from\\ntime to time to meet the growing needs of the business; thej- are\\nsupplied with every appliance and convenience that the long exper-\\nience of the managers has been able to suggest or invent, and they\\nhave the reputation of constituting, as a whole, the best equipped\\nand best arranged stove-manufacturing establishment in the United\\nStates. The general offices of the company are eh gantly designed\\nand finished, and are supjilied with every nuxlern convenience for\\nthe rapid dis|i.atch of its immense business. The Offices and the\\nWorks extend from i;i20 to KiOO Jefferson avenue, and are reached\\nliy the Jefferson avenue. Loop and Fort street lines of street rail-\\nway. A large portion of the company s business direct with dealers\\nis done from its Chicago branch, located at 2G9 and 271 South Canal\\nstreet, and under the management of W. M. Shaddinger. The\\nEastern trade is cared for b\\\\- a branch in charge of Walbridge\\nC )mpany, at 317, 319 and 321 Washington street, Buffalo. The\\nconcern has many European agencies, the jirincipal ones of which\\nare those in Frankfurt, tiermany London, England Brussels, Bel-\\ngium; Paris, France and Vienna, Austria. It also has a fine export\\ntrade in South America, Australia and Tasmania. Of the goods\\nmanufactured by the Detroit Stove Works it need only be said\\nthat Jewel stoves and ranges, n.ade in more than 8(10 different sizes\\nand styles and adapted to eveiy form of fuel, ]iossess all the best\\nfeatures known to the modern art of stove-making. Re-modeled\\nannually to meet the ever-changing requirements of the trade, they\\nare everywhere regarded as the standard of excellence in stove con-\\nstruction and design, and the yearly sale of more that CO.OOO Jewels\\nis sufficient evidence that their liigh excellence is aii)ire iated by\\nthe jiublic at large. The ))resent officers of the concern are: E. S.\\nBarbour, President M. B. Mills, Vice-President L. H. Chamberlin,", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n41\\nt.\\nf\\nM-S\\nr\\nj:\\nCO\\nM\\n^^3\\n.-nt^^A\\nJM...\\n^o^\\nsi^^\\nLlI\\neg\\na?-\\n-S\\nSo.\\nH\\n00\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i\\nH\\n.^\u00e2\u0080\u00a23\\ni-H\\n2;2!g\\nQ\\n.+J OS\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00baJ -3 .2\\ngo-\\n1\\n\u00c2\u00abi\\nf*.;\\nog\\n1I\\n:;op\\nu\u00e2\u0084\u00a2\\n1\\nr 1\\n1^\\nHI\\n-i^\\n0\u00c2\u00b0\\nafq", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nK. s. n-vunoi-R.\\nSecretary; \\\\V. H. Irvine, Treasuri r; L. Cro%vIc\\\\-, Siiiicriiitciiilcnt.\\nE. S. Barbour was Ixirn in Cnllinsvillc, Connecticut, in 1836.\\nIIo attonileil ])rivato schooia in liis native town until he had reached\\nthe a^e of sixteen, when he left home to make his fortune. He at\\nonce secured .a ch rl slii|) in a larf^e dry goods liouse in New Haven,\\nwhere he remaini d four years, having been promoted to the head-\\nclerkshi|i at th(^ expiration of the tiiird year. Anihilious to succeed\\nand Jioijeful of finding a more jironiising business lield, lie tlien .jour-\\n^w ^nbv\\nn\\nf\\nneyed westward and settled in Chicago, at that time a small but\\ngrowing city. Not meeting with an occupation tliat suited his\\ntastes, he cjme to Detroit, where he soon found employment in a\\nwholesale dry gfKiils house. In the tliird year of his engagement\\nwith this house he married the only daughter of the late William H.\\nTefft. A year later, after having served four j-ears as salesman,\\nthe firm, recognizing his ability and push, gave him a partnership\\ninterest in the business. About this time Jlr. Barbour w;us solicited\\nto accept the secretaryship of the Detroit Stove Works, of which\\nMr. TefTt was then President. He thereupon sold his interest in the\\ndry go iils business, and has ever since been constantly and promi-\\nnently identilied with the growth and development of the establisli-\\nment of whieli he is the i)resent head. In lSs4 he was elected Vice-\\nPresident of the concern, and, upon the death of 5Ir. TetTt in ISH.\\nwas elected to the Presidency. He was also formerly President of\\nthe Chemung Hollow-ware Works, of Elmira, New York, an l is now\\nVice-President of the Frankfort Furnace Company, and one of the\\nDirectors of the Detroit Transit Railway Company. Jlr. Barbour s\\nlife has been a typical American career. Possessed of pluck,\\nshrewdnes.s, correct business h.abits, and liberal business ideas, he\\nhas succeed in the American fashion, which makes success mean\\nsomething. Socially Sir. Barbour is known as a pleasing conversa-\\n.ci\u00c2\u00bb\\ni^\\nLEWIS H. CHA.MliKULIN.\\nWTLLIAM H. IRVINR.\\ntionalist and a most amiable and courteous gentleman among his\\nimmediate friends he is the soul of good fellowship. As a citizen he\\nis public-spirited and generous, and no resident of Michigan s metroi\\nolis is held in higher esteem. His friends are legion.\\nLewis H. Cii.\\\\mberlin was l)orn in Wayne County, Michigan,\\nin 184:i. When he was fourteen years of age Ins parents removed to\\nYpsilanti, Michigan. There he atti iided the Seminary, and\\nacquired the practical knowledge and the mental habits wliicli,\\nwhen ajjplied in the administration of business affairs in after\\nyears, proved of inestimable value to him. On (luitting the Semi-\\nnary he engaged as clerk in a hardware store; but a few montli.*\\nlater ho became possessed of the war sjiirit, and I nlisled as a l)rivate\\nm the Twenty-fourth Miehigan Infantry. For three years he shared\\nthe varying fortunes of liis regiment, wliieh jiartiiipated in all tlie\\nprinci|)al l).ittles and skirmishes of the Army of the Potomac from\\n186:J to tlie I lose of the rebellion. In November, |.s()3, he v.as pro-\\nmoted to a First Lieutenaiu-y, and in July, ls(i4, he was promoted\\nto be Adjutant of llie Kegiment. He was mustered out of service\\nw.th his command on the UOth of June, 1865. Keturning to Michi", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n4.3\\ngan, lie settled in Detroit and entered the employ of Buhl, Ducharme\\nCompany. In 1873 he was admitted to a partnersliip in the estab-\\nlishment of Prentiss Brothers Company, wliolesale hardware mer-\\nchants. Selling his interests with that firm in 18T8, he engaged\\nwith the Detroit Stove Works, of wliich he is the present Secretary\\nand one of its Directors. He is also a Director in the Detroit Spiral\\nTube Company and in the Central Car Supplj Company. A quick\\nand clear discernment of facts and their relations, a trained judg-\\nment, a ready grasp of details, a faculty of practical, constructive\\nplanning, a habit of persistent industry these qualifications, com-\\nbined with a quiet, dignified, and amiable manner, are the charac-\\nteristics which have marked Mr. Chamberlin s business career, and\\nwhich assume a large importance in their daily application to the\\naffairs of the Detroit Stove Works.\\nWilliam H. Irvine was born March 4, 1849. He was grad-\\nuated from the Detroit High School at an early age, and very soon\\nthereafter accepted a situation in the office of the Detroit Stove\\nWorks, of which the late W. H. Teflft was then President. Sustain-\\ning the reputation of his family, whose members were conspicuous\\nfor their integrity and stability of character, he soon won the confi-\\ndence and esteem of Sir. Tefft, and was made his trusted clerk and\\nLAFAYETTE CROWLEY.\\nconfidential man. In this position he shared all the vicissitudes and\\ncares which fell to the lot of those men who were the pioneers in\\nthe stove-manufacturing industry in Detroit, and who, by their\\nuntiring labors, promoted its development to its present proportions.\\nHe is now the Treasurer and Cashier of the Detroit Stove Works, in\\nwhich capacity he has served for many years. He is also one of its\\nDirectors, and is the Secretary of the Frankfort Furnace Company.\\nAs the head of the financial department of tlie Detroit Stove Works\\nMr. Irvine has, by his undeviating integrity, won the confidence\\nand warm personal regard of a large circle of business men and\\nthis probity, combined with a genial manner, a thorough knowledge\\nof business methods, and a rare business sagacity, renders his daily\\nservices of great importance to the concern.\\nLafayette CRO^^ LEY was born August 16, 1846, at Cincinnati,\\nOhio. Quitting school when he was only twelve years of age, he at\\nonce^entered upon the active duties of life. For two years he\\nworked on a farm belonging to his father, when, in January, 1801,\\nat the age of fourteen (even then, as ever afterwards, ambitions and\\nperservering), he apprenticed Iiimself to learn the trade of molder.\\nHe continued to work at this trade till 1870. when he succeeded his\\nfather as foreman of the molding shop of Chamberlain Company,\\nof Cincinnati. He retained this position until the spring of 1879,\\nwhen he went to St. Louis, Missouri, to accept the formanship of the\\nshops of tlie Excelsior Manufacturing Company (G. F. Filley). In\\n1880 he came to Detroit, having previously engaged to act as forc\\nman of the Detroit Stove Works. He had held the formanship in\\nthis establishment but a short time when he was promoted to the\\nsuperintendency, a position which he still holds. He is also one of\\nthe Directors of the concern. A comprehensive, thorough, and\\npractical knowledge of all the allied mechanical arts employed in\\nstovemaking, a mind in which progressive ideas easily find lodg-\\nment, prompt executive abilities, a sound judgment and an affable\\nbut decisive manner of speech and bearing, abundantl}- qualify Mr.\\nCrowley to discharge the diverse duties devolving upon him, and\\nrender his services to the Detroit Stove Works well-nigh indispens-\\nable.\\nTHE MICHIGAN STOVE COMPANY.\\nIn the manufacture of stoves and ranges Detroit occupies a not-\\nably liigh position and one which invests its representatives witli\\ndistinguished merit as h.aving achieved continuous successes. The\\nMichigan Stove Company, which has grown into such proportions\\nas to render it the largest and distinctively the most representative\\nin the manufacture of stoves and ranges anywhere, has essentially\\ncontriliuted to the possession by Detroit of one of the strongest\\nlevers of its commercial i)rogress. From its foundation and incor-\\nation in 1871 the Michigan Stove Company has won for its jiroducts\\na continually increasing sale and the general satisfaction which has\\nbeen the result of their superiority of construction and adaptaljility\\nto prescribed purposes. Tha factory buildings, 1032 to 1054 Jeffer-\\nson avenue, are 300 x 700 feet in dimensions, (the grounds constitut-\\ning an area of over sixteen acres), and are thoroughly equipped with\\nimproved machinery and appliances and every requisite of the\\nextensive manufacture. The daily product of stoves and ranges,\\nwhich comprise the only complete line of cooking and heating\\nstoves and ranges, made under one name, one trade-mark, and one\\nequal and uniform grade of merit, averages from 250 to 300 and\\nfrom 60,000 to 70,000 yearly. Employment is afforded to from 1,000\\nto 1,200 hands, whose monthly wages aggregate $40,000. The\\nmaterial used is the best grade of the Lake Superior, Hanging Rock,\\nOhio, and the Chattanooga, Tenn. and Birmingham, Ala. iron\\nmines. A specialty is made of aluminum mixed with cast iron for\\nthe production of the Garland stoves and ranges, the only line of\\nstoves and ranges in the world made from this valuable combination.\\nThe employment of aluminum in combination with cast iron pro-\\nduces smooth castings, prevents cracking, gives additional strength,\\nprevents blow-holes, removes chill and contributes benefit to iron\\nin every particular.\\nThis industry, in the management and direction of which the\\nofficials of the company have shown the most conspicious merit, has\\nfar out-strippetl in quality, variety and extent of products any simi-\\nlar manufactory in the world, and stands a noble monument of the\\nenterprise and zeal of its founders, through whom it has reached its\\nculmination of distinguished priority. Large branch houses for the\\nsale of the Garland stoves and ranges have been established and\\nare in successful operation at Chicago, Buffalo, New York City, and\\nin several foreign cities. The nature and extent of the business con-\\nducted by this company may be inferred from the fact that their\\ncustomers are in every part of the habitable globe, and tliat the\\nname of Garland, as applied to the stoves and ranges manufac-\\ntured by them, is as well-known in every land and clime as are their\\nvirtues, which are proclaimed by the millions who have found in\\ntheir use a soverign blessing and an abiding comfort. The oflicers\\nof the company are Messrs. Jeremiah Dwyer, President; George H.\\nBarbour. Vice-President and Manager; C. A. Ducharme, Secretary;\\nMerrill B. Mills, Treasurer; F. W.Gardner, Manager Chicago House,\\nwho with F. F. Palms constitute the Ixiard of directors, all of whom\\nare leading and representative business men and pledged to the high-\\nest interest of Detroit and its strong grasp of the surest elements of\\ncommercial and manufacturing progress and importance. The\\naccompanving full page illustration of the works of the Michigan\\nStove Company at Detroit and its branches at Chicago, Buffalo and\\nNew York, fittingly portrays the extent of its possibilities by which\\nit has achieved its laudable distinction and prominence.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nas\\nz; i- ft)\\nC i;\\nCDO", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n45\\nCRACKERS AND CAKES.\\nThe distinction of being the first cracker baker in Detroit\\nbelongs to Mr. Clark, who began the industry in 1830. His shop\\nwas located on Woodbridge Street.in rear of tlie Michigan Exchange,\\nand his operations were conducted on a small scale in the most\\nprimitive manner. Five years later Mr. John Copland established a\\nfactory for the production of crackers with more enlarged facilities,\\nat the corner of Woodbridge and Randolph streets, on the site of the\\npresent Detroit Cracker Company. At that time the only system of\\nmaking crackers was by hand, and the consumption of a half barrel\\nof flour was deemed a full day s work for one man, the process\\nbeing necessarily slow and tedious. The introduction of the first\\nhand machine in Detroit, by a Mr. Osborn, in 1845, represented an\\nimprovement which was speedily adopted by Mr. Copland, and\\nthenceforward, for seventeen j-ears, the Detroit cracker product\\nnas made by its employment. The outbreak of the civil war cre-\\nated a demand for crackers beyond the ability of existing Detroit\\nbakers to supply, with such facilities as they then commanded. In\\n1803, Messrs. Marvin Guthrey, of New York, set up in Detroit a\\nReel oven, by the use of which they made a quality of bread char-\\nacterized as Aerated.\\nThis innovation was soon discovered by Mr. Copland to mean a\\nserious injury to his business, and with his brother, Mr. A. W. Cop-\\nland, since one of Detroit s jiostmasters, he purchased the new plant\\nand fixtures of Marvin Guthrey, re-arranging the factory and\\nintroducing additional machinery and ap|)liances for cracker baking.\\nThus was inaugurated the firm of A. W. John Copland, who, in\\n1864, made the first crackers in Detroit from a Reel oven, run by\\nsteam power. Since this period the Detroit cracker industry has\\nsteadily grown and prospered, and to-day there are five large factories\\nin successful operation, whose combined daily product will aggre-\\ngate 600 barrels of crackers, entaOing a consumption of 150 barrels\\nof flour, besides the other relations of the baking industry, such as\\nsweet goods and fancy cakes. Detroit takes high rank among the\\ncities of the country in this species of manufacture. The jirincipal\\nproduct of the Detroit bakers in the cracker line is the XXX butter,\\nwafer, soda and oyster crackers. While over-production in the\\ncracker and biscuit manufacture in Detroit has of late years been a\\nsubject of complaint, it has been efl ectually remedied by the superior\\nquality of the products, and to-day the consumer properly appre-\\nciates the fact, as shown by the rapidly increasing consumption by\\nevery family of these articles of indispensable consii.leration. Var-\\nious associations of cracker bakers have been organized during the\\npast few years, resulting in greatly improved products and uniform-\\nity of prices, as well as in the interchange of progressive ideas and\\nmethods, which have been found highly conducive to the interests of\\nboth the manufacturer and consumer. In these Associations were a\\nnumber of representatives of the industry, thoroughly acquainted\\nwith the needs of the business, and they organized the United\\nStates Baking Company.\\nAlexander W. Copland was born in London, England, in 1829.\\nHis father, a colonel in the British army, died whe;i tlie son was\\nbut four years old. He began his business life at an early age in\\ntlie bakery of his elder brother, John, at Detroit. The estate left by\\nhis father was adequate for the support of the family and no very\\nhard work was required of him. His first venture in trade on\\nhis own account was in the grocery line, upon the site tif the present\\nestablishment of Mabley Company. Afterward he was engaged\\nfor several years in the baking business at Sarnia, but returned to\\nDetroit and resumed the baking business in partnership with his\\nbrother, whom he bought out after a time. The establishment was\\nlocated at the corner of Woodbridge and Randolph streets. Just prior\\nto the outbreak of the civil war, he obtained control of the patents of\\nthe Reel oven and introduced aerated bread in Detroit. These new\\nprocesses in baking proved very profitable. He i moved his busi-\\nness to 20 Monroe Avenue, where it so greatly prospered that he was\\nforced to open a branch under the Russell House, which was very\\nsuccessfully conducted for several years. He subsequently removed\\nto Woodward avenue, between Woodbridge and Atwater streets.\\nIn 1883 he transferred the business to Mr. Lawrence Dejiew, his son-\\nin-law and former partner in the business. After retiring for a year,\\nhe again entered into business with his son, H. B. Copland, and up\\nto the time of his death, September 29th, 1889, maintained an interest\\nin the establishment, located at the corner of Randolph and Wood-\\nbridge streets. His whole life was devoted to his business and from\\nit he amassed a considerable fortune, Mr. Copland was elected an\\nalderman from the old second ward in 1865, and re-elected in 1867,\\nserving two full terms. He was president of the old fire depart-\\nment from 1880 to 1883, and a member of the poor commission from\\nMay 31st, 1S79, to January 28th, 1881. In December, 1885, he was\\nappointed postmaster by President Cleveland and was still the\\nincumbent of tliat office at the time of his deatli, September 29th,\\n1889. Ho was, in politics, a Democrat, and generally recognized for\\nwise and prudent counsel. He was chairman of the Congressional\\nDemocratic Committee and for some time a member of the State\\nCentral Committee, serving as chairman, a delegate to numerous\\nState Conventions and a delegate from the First District to the\\nDemocratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1876, when Samuel\\nJ. Tilden was nominated for the Presidency. He left a wife, three\\nsons and three daughters. He was a staunch Episcopalian and an\\nupright man in all of his duties and relations in life.\\nTHE UNITED STATES BAKING COMPANY\\nwas incorporated in May, 1890, with a capital of $5,000,000,\\nand is a consolidation of thirty or more prominent Cracker Bakeries,\\nALEXANDER \\\\V. COPLAND.\\nwhich compose the Branches of the company. The Vail-Crane\\nBranch, Copland Branch, Depew Branch and Jlorton Branch are in\\nDetroit. The United States Baking Company is composed of practical\\nrepresentatives of the baking business, who own and control its\\nstock. All the stockholders of the United States Baking Company are\\nactually engaged in tlie baking business, and bring into the company\\nthe requisite qualifications and experience to meet successfully all\\ncompetition. Its capital of |5, 000,000 will, in the near future, be\\nincreased to .$10,000,000, and it proposes faithfully to protect its\\ninterests by employing the facilities naturally arising from an inti-\\nmate knowledge of the demands of the trade, which it will be pre-\\npared to serve with the best and most salable products.\\nThe Detroit Branches of the United States Baking Company\\nare among the city s distinguished and leading institutions, and have\\nafforded to the Company into which th^y are merged the advan-\\ntages secured from their long and honorable records as manufac-\\nturers of appreciable goods. The Company is establishing an\\nextensive plant in Boston suitably to enlarge and extend their\\nfacilities and operations, to supply the trade of the country with", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\ndieir goods, wliicli have been gri atly iiiliaiio-ii in valuf by iuiprovea\\nprocesses and uniforniity of excellence.\\nW. S. Crane, the Second Vice-President of the United States\\nBaking Company was born in Yates County, New York, in 1\u00c2\u00ab43.\\nAt tlie age of 14 lio removed to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where ho com-\\nmenced his preliiMinary education and where he began his business\\ncareer as a clerk in a dry goods store, at ^1.1(0 i)er week and board.\\nHe established a grocery store at Yjisilanti in 1808, and in 1873\\nremoved to Detroit and eiigageil in tlio baking business, as a member\\nof the firm of Vail, Crane and Curtis, at l:iO Randolph street. The\\npanic of 187:{ threatened seriously to imperil the fortunes of the house\\nand led to the withdrawal of Jlr. Curtis from the firm. Vail Crane,\\nhowever, surmounted all tlieir difficulties and from that time suc-\\ncessfully i)rosecuted their business interests up to 18S. 5, when the\\nVail Crane Cracker Company was organized and incorporated,\\nwith a capital of $100,000. In June, 1800, the Vail Crane Cracker\\nCompany was nn rged into tlie United States JSaking Company, and\\nJlr. Crane elected the Second Vice-President of the corporation, a\\nposition he is eminently (jualified to fill and one in which he has\\ne.xhibited the most signal evidence of enterprising abilities. Mr.\\nCrane is a member of the Central M. E. Church, a stockholder in\\nthe Detroit Electric IJght and Power Company, a member of the\\nexecutive conmiittee of the Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange\\nand a member of the Board of Trad*.\\nW. S. CRANE.\\n{jEoitOE M. Vail, a veteran cracker manufacturer, has been for\\nover tliirty-fivo yi ars ontinm)Usly engaged in this industry in\\nMieliigan. lie acquired his trade of cracker baker at Syracuse, N.\\nv., and after some years established a bakery at Ypsilanti,delivermg\\ngoods by wagons to small dealers in the adjacent towns and villages.\\nHe removed to Detroit in 1873 and became a member of the firm of\\nVail, Crane Curtis, located at i:!;i Randolph street. In December,\\n187;?, Vail Crane succeeded to the business, .and in 1876 moved into\\nthe John opland factory, corner Randolph and Woodbridge streets,\\nwhich, in Se[iteMd)er, 1S77, was destroyed by fire, but rebuilt and in\\nrunning order witliin si.\\\\ weeks. The business of the firm, with the\\nintroiluction of new and improved processes, was of rapid expan-\\nsion, and the Vail Crane Cracker Company took high rank among\\nthe Detroit representatives of the baking industry. At the organi-\\nzation of the United States Baking Company, in May, 1800, the Vail\\nCrane Cracker Company became one of its branches and brought\\nGEORGE. .M. VAIL.\\ninto the consolidation one of its most valuable factore. Mr. Vail isa\\ngreat lover and p.ilron of field sports and is intensely fond of driving\\nhis magnificent team of hor.ses. He has never been engaged in any\\notlier business venture, confining his whole time and attention to\\nthe manufacture of crackers, cakes and such goods as belong to the\\nbaking line. Since the age of forty he has eschewed the use of\\ntobacco, by which he considers his i)liysical strength greatly\\nincreased. He is a regular attendant at the Fort Street Presby-\\nLAWKENCE DEPEVV.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n47\\nterian C^luircli, and is in all respects an exemplary citizen and one\\n(if Detroit s most eminent trade factors.\\nLawuence Depew was born in Peekskill, N. Y., September 6th\\n1841. His ancestors were of the Huguenot race. His family were\\nearly settlers at Peekslcill on the Hudson, where Ids father, Isaac\\nDepew, resided on the farm which liad been the home of his ances-\\ntors for 200 years. His early years were spent in the old homestead,\\nand his education was completed at Poughkeepsie College, from\\nwhich institution he was graduated in the class of 1863. He studied\\nlaw with his brother, the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, one year in\\nPeekskill, after which he removed to New York City and entered into\\nbusiness with the wholesale liouse of John W. Hait Company, at\\n129 Water street. In 1870 he took Horace Greeley s advice, o\\nWest, young man, and moved to Detroit, there connecting himself\\nwith the Hon. C. M. Garrison, who did a wiiolesale grocery business\\nin the old Board of Trade building until 18T5, when he removed to\\nJefferson avenue. Mr. Garrison retiring the same year, the business\\nwas continued by Mr. Dej^evv, under the firm name of Lawrence Depew\\nCompany, as sole proprietor. In 1883 he entered into the manufac-\\nHENRY B. COPLAND.\\nturing line, purchasing tlie wholesale cracker and biscuit business of\\nhis father-in-law, Mr. A. W. Copland, which he carried on very\\nsuccessfully, for the goods manufactured are e-xcelled by none,\\nequalled by few, and are to be found in every town in Michigan, and\\nparts of the states of New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. He\\nsold out his business June 25th, 1890, to the United States Baking\\nCompany, by which he is retained as manager of the Depew branch,\\nDetroit, Michigan. Upon his maternal side Mr. Depew is connected\\nwith the family of the celebrated Roger Sherman, of Connecticut,\\nhis mother being the granddaughter of the sister of that illustrious\\nstatesman.\\nHenry B. Copland, the son of Alexander W. Copland, and the\\nmanager of the Copland branch of the United States Baking Com-\\npany, was born at Detroit, November 17th, 1860. His education\\nwas received at the military school at Orchard Lake, Michigan, and\\nthe River View Slilitary Academy at Poughkeepsie, New York. He\\nbecame associated with the Detroit Cracker Company five years\\nago, a relation in which he exhibited the most commendable and\\nenterprising (jualities, which led to his present position as man-\\nager of the Copland branch of the United States Baking Company.\\nROBERT MORTON.\\nIn this connection Mr. Copland has demonstrated the most valuable\\nbusiness capabilities and shown a zeal and ambition which must\\nrapidly advance him to greater honors.\\nRobert Morton was born at Dunoon, Argyleshire, Scotland,\\nSeptember 17tli, 184. He came to the United States, arriving at\\nBrooklyn, N. Y., in 1850, in company with his parents. His early\\neducation was received in the Brooklyn public schools. His first\\nA. W. t OPLAND.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nventure in business was in 1871, when lie engaged in baking at\\nWinilsor, Ontario, where lie continueil three years. Coming to\\nDetroit in 1876, he resumed the baking business at 7:i7 Fort street\\nwest, afterward removing to Grand River avenue. In 1884 the pres-\\nent factory was built, more thoroughly to accommodate the expand-\\ning nature of the business, whicli Iiad, uj) to thio time, been conducted\\nunder the name of Robert Jlorton. In the same year the Morton\\nBaking Company wasorganizel, and in IMH) became a branch of the\\nUnited States Baking Company. Mr. Morton has recently made a\\ntour of Great Britain, for the purpose o[ inspecting the systems of\\nbaking as there jiracticed. lie is a distinguislud niaiuifacturer, and\\na citizen pledged to the best and higliest commercial advancement\\nof Detroit.\\nAlkxaNDER \\\\V. Cupl.A.Ni), a younger son of AU .\\\\ander W. Cop-\\nland, and associated witli the comluct of the Copland branch of the\\nUnited States Baking C imi any, was born at Detroit, November i7th,\\n18C8. He received his jireliminary education in the Detroit public\\nschools and sul)se(piently attemleil tlie iShattuck Military Academy\\nat l- ariliault, Minnesota. For three years he occupied tlie position\\nof assistant cashier in the money order department of the Detroit\\nIJOstofHce, and has been associated with the Detroit Cracker Com-\\npany, since its inceptit n with the Copland branch of the United\\nStates Baking Company, where his services have been highly\\nesteenu d as being directed to the details of tlie business in an enter-\\nprising and progressive manner.\\nTOBACCO AND CIGARS.\\nThe history of the manufacture of tobacco in Detroit covers a\\nperiod of nearly half a century, tl e original venture in this relation\\nhaving been undertaken by Mr. (Jeorge Miller, about 1811. In 1840\\nMr. Isaac S. Miller succeeded to the business, which was conducted\\nin tlie most primitive manner in a one-and-a-half-story frame struct-\\nure on Woodward avenue, opposite tlie olTl Mariners Churi-h. The\\nmotive power of the factor}- was furnished by an old blind horse in\\nthe cellar, which, after years of service, died literally in the har-\\nness. The crudest machinery and appliances were employed in the\\nmanufacture of the fine cut chewing and smoking tobaccos, which\\nwere sold at the nominal rate of three cents per paper package of one\\nounce. The excellent and rapid railway systems of the present\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ni\\n^1\\nM\\n^^Hiijj^^vjK i|^\\n1\\n^^^^^^^^^^R^B^JH^^^riB\\nJOHN .J. BAUI.EY.\\nHIR.VM GRANGER,\\nwere then but imperfectly foreshadowed, the only steam railroad in\\nMlcliigan being tlie Jlichigan Central, at that date completed as far\\nas Yiisilanti. The Detroit tobac:^-o jiroduct, therefore, lunl to be trans-\\nported to the tributary trade districts in wagons. Among the first\\nsalesineii in Iheeiiiploy of Jlr. Miller was Mr. Hiram Granger, who con-\\ntinued in that relation for ten years. Mr. Granger is still engaged\\nin the tobacco manufacture in this city and is identified as the oldest\\nliving tobacconist at the West. Mr. Daniel Scotten became asso-\\nciated with the firm of Thomas C. Miller Company, as a partner\\nin 18ri3, a relation which he sustained until 18,5R, when disjiosing of\\nhis interest to Thomas C. Miller, he formed a partnership with\\nMessrs. Iliraiu Granger and ^Villiam R. Lovett under the firm name\\nof Scotten, Granger Lovett, as successors to the business estab-\\nlished by Brevier Robinson. John J. Baglcy, who had, like\\nGranger, been in Miller s employ, with a capital of i. 0(1(1, loaned\\nhim by W. N. Carpenter, established a factory for the manufacture\\nof tobacco in 18o3, thus laying the foundation of what has since\\nbecome one of Detroit s most prominent and progressive industries,\\nMr. K. C. Barker, one of the first to engage in tlie tobacco trade\\nin Detroit as a traveling salesman, began the manufacture of tobacco\\non his own account in 184S, and left behind him the grand memorial\\nof the present American Eagle Tobacco Company. Thomas C.\\nMiller, a son of Isaac S. Sliller, and a former lawyer of Auburn,\\nN. Y., succeeded to the business found( d liy his father, and con-\\nducted it many years with great success. John Hanna was another\\ntobacco manufacturer who ac(julred distinction about this time,\\nwhose business after his death was assumed by Mr. Robert\\nMcGinnity, his son-in-law, who became a member of the firm of\\nIlanna McGinnity. Duncan, Hanna Codd was another of\\nthe firm engaged in the manufacture of tobacco here, as, also, Max-\\nfield Cook, who, after a few years of unsuccessful business, sold\\nout to Mr. James Spence, who in a short time abandoned it and\\nremoval to Cincinnati, where he became interested with a brother\\nengaged in the same line. Mr. Jacob Brown, the present head of\\nthe house of Jacob Brown (yompany, extensive manufacturers of\\noveralls and clothing, was, liki^wise, among the earlier tobacco man-\\nufacturers, but the venture proving unremunerative, he engaged in\\nmore profitable undertakings, from which he laid the foundation of\\nhis present establishment. In 18G2 Mr. Hiram Granger disposed of\\nhis interest to Messrs. Scotten Lovett, and bought the business", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n49\\nfounded by John Hanna, from his widow. This move led to the\\nestablishment of the jjresent Globe Tobacco Company. In 1850 Mr.\\nK. C. Barker formed a jjartnership with Mr. Frank Nevin, who after-\\nward became associated with Jlr. M. I. Mills, in laying the founda-\\ntion of the present Banner Tobacco Company.\\nMr. Hiram Granger, after withdrawing from the firm of Scotten,\\nGranger Lovett.to established a factory for the manufacture of plug\\ntobacco, taking in as a partner Mr. David Carter, the present Gen-\\neral Manager of the Detroit Cleveland Steam Navigation Company.\\nWalker, McGraw Company, of which Mr. Granger was a member,\\nwas the firm originating the business eventually knov^n as the Globe\\nTobacco Works and the present Globe Tobacco Company. Mr.\\nDaniel Scotten, after the purchase of the interest in the firm for-\\nmerly held by Mr. Hiram Granger, took in as partners, Stessrs. John\\nG. Colville and Joseph T. Dowry, employes, the firm name being\\nScotten, Lovett Company, which was so continued up to 1877. In\\n1878 Colville and Dowry withdrew from the firm, and in July, 1883,\\nMr. Scotten bought out Mr. William E. Dovett s interest in the\\nbusiness and changed the firm name to Daniel Scotten Company,\\nwhich has since remained the same, although Mr. Oren Scotten, a\\nnephew of Daniel Scotten, is a member of the firm. Israel Morey\\nwas another tobacco manufacturer, establishing his business under\\nthe firm name of Morey Company, in 1867, and generally recog-\\nnized as one of its best representatives. Mr. A. A. Boutell, the Sec-\\nretary and Treasurer of the Globe Tobacco Company, was a book-\\nkeeper and the financial manager of this firm and the executor of\\nIsrael Morey s estate. The firm name was afterward changed to\\nParker, Holmes and Company.\\nOf the many embarkers in the tobacco manufacture in Detroit\\nsince the nucleus of the business was formed by Mr. George Miller in\\n1841, there are in existence to-day and enjoying the fullest measure\\nof success, the following: The American Eagle Tobacco Company,\\nJohn J. Bagley Company, Daniel Scotten Company, The Ban-\\nner Tobacco Company, and The Globe Tobacco Company, special\\nnotices of which appear in this department. The growth of the\\ntobacco and cigar manufacture in Detroit has been phenomenal and\\nof continual extension. The internal revenue collections for the\\nfiscal year ending June 30th, 1890, for Detroit, show |1,100,5T6..33\\nfrom tobacco, and $338,673.83 from cigars, upon 13,757,304 pounds\\nof chewing and smoking tobacco and 79,557,950 cigars, as comimred\\nDANIEL SCOTTEN.\\nM. I. MILLS.\\nwith collections from tobacco of $935,430.67 and |324,657.97 from\\ncigars, upon 11,567,758 pounds of chewing and smoking tobacco and\\n74,885,990 cigars for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1889.\\nDANIEL SCOTTEN.\\nDaniel Scotten was born in the County of Norfolk, in England,\\nDecember, 11, 1819, and came to the United States in 1836, loca-\\nting at Palmyra, Wayne County, New York. He received a rudi-\\nmentary education before leaving his native land, but has since, by\\ndiligent reading and observation,acquired a large fund of knowledge.\\nHis first experiences in business were in a saw mill and coopering\\nshop, where he learned to make flour barrels; he also worked at\\nbook-binding in Cazenovia, New York, and other employments,\\nteaching school for one winter. He subsequently discharged the\\nduties of clerk in a general store at Lyons for a year or more.\\nReturning to Palmyra, he engaged as clerk with Joseph C. Lovett,\\na brother of William E. Lovett, who was afterward his partner\\nin the tobacco manufacture in Detroit, and four years afterward\\nformed a co-partnership with a man named Rogers under the firm\\nname of Rogers Scotten, in the general store business, which was\\ncontinued for three years, when Mr. Scotten again became associated\\nwith his old employer, Mr. Joseph C. Lovett, as a partner in the firm\\nof Lovett Scotten. He continued in the latter relation until 1853;,\\nwhen he came to Detroit, where during the same year he associated\\nhimself as a partner with Thomas C. Miller under the firm name of\\nThomas C. Miller Company, in the manufacture of tobacco. This\\nbusiness was conducted until 1856, when Mr. Scotten disposed of his\\ninterest to Mr. Miller. Buying out the business of Brevier Robin-\\nson, who were among the first toliacco manufacturers in Detroit,\\nMr. Scotten formed a co-partnership with Messrs. Hiram Granger\\nand William E. Lovett, under the firm name of Scotten, Granger\\nLovett, which continued until 1861, when Mr. Granger sold his\\ninterest to Scotten Lovett. Subsequently taking in as partners\\nMessrs. John G. Colville and Joseph T. Lowry, former employes, the\\nfirm name was clianged to Scotten, Lovett Company, and so\\nremained until 1877. In 1876 the firm moved from Cadillac Square\\nto the j)resenc location on Fort street west. Colville and Lowry\\nretired from the firm in 1878. In July, 1883, Mr. Scotten bought the\\ninterest of Mr. William E. Lovett, changing the firm name to Daniel\\nScotten Company, since which time it has experienced no change,\\nexcept the admission tJ an interest in the busine.-s of Mr. Oren\\nScotten, a nephew. In Daniel Scotten, Detroit possesses one of its\\nmost eminent and prosperous manufacturers, and a man whose yast\\nwealth, lie being many times a millionaire, has been directed into\\nchannels by which the city has largely profited.\\nM", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "so\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nBANNER TOBACCO COMPANY.\\nThe Banner Tobacco Company was established May 1, 1861,\\nwas incorporated June 1 1878, and since its inception lias kept full\\npace with the exactions of demand for the high (juality and uniform\\nexcellence of its products. Their spiendid factory of brick, 53 to 59\\nLarned street east, six stories in height, is thoroughly provided\\nwith machinery and appliances of the most modern and improved\\ndescription, including numerous special machines of the Company s\\nown invention and exclusively operated by them. From basement\\nto roof it is a verital)le marvel of order ami cleanliness, and is the\\ntheme of unstinted praise by all wlio inspect its admirable construc-\\ntion and arrangement. So great is the fame of this model tobacco\\nfactory that gentlemen from Europe have crossed the Atlantic, to\\nsee and report its excellent appointments and superior facilities for\\nmanufacturing. The building is of the most substantial construc-\\ntion and is 80x120 feet in dimensions. It is heated throughout by\\nsteam, lighted by electricity and has commodious storage accom-\\nmodations and steam elevators. The basement is used as a stripping\\nroom; the se ond story is provided with combined heating and dry-\\ning machiriery and requisite appliances, for the rapid and thorough\\ngive employment to over 150 hands and the products are among the\\nmost celebrated and widely sold in the United States. The principal\\nbrands are the Banner and Snow Flake smoking. In addition\\nto the main factory are several storage warehouses of superior con-\\nstruction. Water pipes are conducted through the buildings and\\nserve as a valuable safeguard against fire. The daily output is\\n4,000 pounds of fine cut and 15,000 of smoking tobacco. The Com-\\npany has ample capital and is officered by leading and prominent\\ncitizens, vvho have proven useful factors in Detroit s commercial\\nprogress. The officers of the Banner Tobacco Company are as\\nfollows: M. B. Mills, President; George H. Perry, Vice-President;\\nB. F. Haxton, Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager; Andrew\\nMarx, Superintendent; J. J. Paxton, Managing Salesman.\\nBANNER CIGAR MANUFACTURING COMPANY.\\nThis elegant, commodious and handsomely appointed factory\\nfor the manufacture of fine cigars was established in June, 1888,\\nand is constructed of red brick in an imposing style of architecture.\\nIt is equipped with vM the re(iuisite facilities and appliances for tb.\\ncigar manufacture, including the most improved machinery, appar-\\natus for preparing the leaf and extensive drying and storage rooms.\\nt\\nh\\nA\\nBANNER TOBACCO\\npreparation of the leaf for conversion into chewing and smoking\\ntobacco. Only the finest grades of Kentucky wliite and red hurley,\\nat least four years old, and the superior qualities of Virginia and\\nNorth Carolina growth are employed in the production of t lie chewing\\nand smoking brands of this company, wliich sustain tlio highest\\nreputation and have acquired an extensive sale all over the world.\\nThe fine cut chewing tobaccos are made from pure leaf, four years\\nold, treated with the finest and most apiireiiable flavoring, and care-\\nfully dressed three times before being packed in pails for sliipmenl.\\nAmong their facilities which insure the most perfect accomplish-\\nments in tobacco manufacturing are machines for removing lumps,\\ngrit and every species of impurity from tlio leaf; machines for heating\\nand drying, which save the labor of six hands, and improved\\nmachines for granulating. A large drying room of slieet iron is a\\nnovel feature, and one which attracts attention from its highly\\neffective arrangement and adaptation to intended uses.\\nEverywhere huge hogshea ls of the ]irecions old leaf greet tlie\\neye, and among them is the rare sight of a number containing\\nthe oldest leaf tobacco in the country. Tlie operations of the factory\\nCOMPAjrV S FACTORY.\\nThe building, 105 and 107 Randolph Street, is five stories in height,\\nand has a laige basement which is devoted to purposes of storage\\nand the preparation of the leaf for conversion into cigars. Only the\\nIjurest selected Havana and Sumatra stock is used and the products\\nare all strictly hand made by skilled workmen, under the personal\\nsuperintendence of Mr. Edward Fee, who lias had a practical experi-\\nence of a lifetime. Ho has been in the business in Detroit for ten\\nyears and the remarkable success he has won for the products of tlie\\nBanner Cigar Manufacturing Company evidences his abilities in the\\nmost emphatic manner. The cigars manufactured by the Compan}-\\nare unsurpassed in the country for purity and high quality of\\nmaterial, superiority of workmansliip and salable character. The\\njirincipal brands and the specialties for wliich a large and steadily\\nexpanding trade has been accjuired throughout the tributary districts\\nof tlie Detroit market, are the Banner, Standard Banner,\\nRoyal Banner and Travelers Banner, S.im B. Scott, and the Flor\\nDe Raleigh, manufactured for the Montana trade, and which\\nsell for |110 per tliousand. The Travelers Banner is made espec-\\nially for the Knights of tlie Grip, and is composed of Havana", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n51\\nfiller and Sumatra wrappers. It is smoked extensively by the travel-\\ning public and acknowledged by them one of the best cigars obtain-\\nable. Another new brand is the Merrill B. Mills, a clear Havana\\ncigar, made entirely from the finest leaf grown on the Island of Cuba\\nand pronounced the equal in all respects of the best imported cigar.\\nIt is made by hand by first-class Cuban workmen, who were engaged\\nsolely for the production of this cigar. It has already won the highest\\nfavor from connoisseurs who hail previously smoked only the finest\\nimported brands. Over 300 skilled hands are given steady employ-\\nment and the annual product of the factory aggregates about 8,000,000\\nfine hand-made ciga s, representing a value of |400,000. The stock\\nof cigars in the factory at all times is between 500,000 and 1,000,000.\\nThe Company has on hand a large quantity of high grade Havana\\nand Sumatra leaf and many bales of other clioice selections pur-\\nchased with view to the addi\\ntional flavor that time gives\\nstock. The factory is u nques-\\ntionably the largest for the\\nmanufacture of first-class\\ngoods in Michigan, the finest\\nand best appointed, and a ver-\\nitable triumph in construction\\nand valuable manufacturing\\nconveniences and equip-\\nment. The business offices\\nare fitted up in superb style\\nand fittingly exemplify the\\ngenerally magnificent char-\\nter of the establishment as\\none of the leading and most\\nimportant of Detroit s great\\nindustries. The general feat-\\nures and appointments of the\\nfactory are of the best and\\nmost modern description and\\nfurnish as auxiliai ies in man-\\nufacturing the most positive\\nand the most useful essentials.\\nThe g rowtli of the cigar man-\\nufacture, as conducted by this\\nCompany,has been exception-\\nally rapid and instances the\\nambition and high aims of its\\nofficers, who have been instru-\\nmental in instituting enter-\\nprising business relations\\nwhich have been greatly pro-\\nmotive of the city s forveard\\nmove to place and power\\nThe President of the Com\\npany, Mr, M. B. Mills, ha\\nproven a worthy successor ot\\nhis father, the founder of tht\\nBanner Tobacco Company\\nand one of Detroit s most di^\\ntinguished business men an\\nworthy citizens. Tlie affaii I\\nof both the Banner Tobacco\\nCompany and the Banner\\nCigar Manufacturing Com- banner CIGAR factory\\npany have greatly prospered and been continually advanced by Mr.\\nM. B. Mills, who has been ably assisted by Messrs. B. F. Haxton, the\\nSecretary and Treasurer, and Edward Fee, the Superintendent, both\\nof whom are capable, active and judicious in their relations with the\\nbusiness into which they have brought the essentials of an intelligent\\nand diligent co-operr.tion and practical experience. The special\\nproducts of the Banner Cigar Manufacturing Company find ready\\nsale in almost every state in the Union, and are pronounced by con-\\nnoisseurs a perfect triumph of the manufacturers art in quality,\\nfinish and generally appreciable characteristics. The twin indus-\\ntries, the Banner Tobacco Company and the Banner Cigar Manu-\\nfacturing Company, are among the most notable in Detroit, and\\nconspicuously typify the enterprising spirit and unwearied zeal of\\nDetroit s prominent and representative exemplars, who are worthily\\nentitled to bear the banner of progress stamped upon their\\nproducts.\\nBlERRiLL B. Mills, President Banner Tobacco Company and\\nBanner Cigar Manufacturing Company, was born at Detroit, October\\n13th, 1S54. He is tlie only son of the late Hon. M. I. Mills, an early\\nsettler at Detroit and one of the city s most eminent and wealthy citi-\\nzens. Mr. M. B. Mills attended the school of Philo M. Patterson\\nuntil his fourteenth year, when he entered the school of Professor\\nH. G. Jones, in which he pursued his studies for two years, subse-\\nquently taking a course for one year in the Cheshire Military\\nAcademy at Cheshire, Connecticut, preparatory to entering Yale\\nCollege, in accord with his father s urgent desire. He, however,\\ninfluencerl by his unconquerable inclination for business pursuits,\\ngave up his intention of going to Yale, and returning to Detroit,\\nreceived instruction for a year\\nin Mayhew s Business College,\\nIn 1872, upon the completion\\nof the extensive works of the\\nMichigan Stove Company, of\\nwhich his father was one of\\nthe organizers, he entered\\ntheir service as shipping clerk\\nand time keeper, retaining\\nthose positions for three years,\\nwhen for a year he represented\\nthe Company as traveling\\nsalesman. At the end of this\\ntime he became the purchas-\\ning agent of the Company\\nand continued to perform\\nelficient service in that capac-\\nity until his father s death,\\nhaving been continuously\\nassociated with the Michigan\\nStove Company for eleven\\nyears. He succeeded his\\nfather as Treasurer of the\\nMichigan Stove Company, as\\nVice-President of the Detroit\\nStove Works, and as Presi-\\ndent of the Banner Tobacco\\nCompany, one of the largest\\ninstitutions of its character in\\nthe country. Mr. Mills is the\\nPresident of the Frankfort\\nFurnace Company, Vice-Pres-\\nident of the Mesaba Iron\\nCompany, of Duluth, Minne-\\nsota, to which office he was\\nelected in June, 1889, Presi-\\ndent of the Ireland Mat-\\nthews Manufacturing Com-\\npany, of Detroit, and is a\\nDirector of all the above-men-\\ntioned corporations. He is a\\nDirector of the Detroit Fire\\nMarine Insurance Company,\\nthe Michigan Fire Marine\\nInsurance Company, the De-\\ntroit Transit Railway Com-\\npany, and the Glendale Tin Mining Company, of Chicago. He is the\\nPresident of the Banner Cigar Manufacturing Company, organized\\nin June, 1888. He is an honorary member of the Detroit Light\\nInfantry. Mr. Mills is naturally capacitated for the management\\nand direction of large business enterprises, possessing executive\\nabilities of a very rare order. He is a millionaire and a gentleman\\nin whom are united many excellent and conspicuous characteristics.\\nHe is genial, sociable, modest and unassuming; is in no wise bom-\\nbastic or bigoted, and merits and retains the highest respect from\\nall who come within his regard. In politics he is a Democrat, but\\nin all things prudent, conservative, and devoted to the interests of\\nthe numerous and large enterprises of which he is the manager and\\ndirector.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nGLOBE TOBACCO COMPANY.\\nThos. -McGraw, President; Eugene Robinson, Vice-President;\\nA. A. Boutell, Secretary and Treasurer; Itanufacturers ot Fine Cut\\nChewing and Smoking Tobaccos; So to 31 Fort street, east. Tliis\\nlarge and important tobacco industrj- was establislied in July, 1871,\\nby the firm of Walker, McGraw Co. at 35 Atwater street, west.\\nAfter experiencing numerous mutations in partnership relations, the\\nbusiness was, in 1880, incorporated as the Globe Tobacco Company,\\nsince which its operations have been attended by continued suc-\\ncesses. In 1889, the Globe Tobacco Company removed into their\\nnew and elegant building at the corner of Brush street and Fort\\nstreet, east, a measure necessitated by tlie expamling nature of the\\nbusiness and the consequent demand for enlarged facilities and ac-\\ncom mod ations. This\\nstructure, justly regarded\\nas one of tlie hamlsomest\\nand most a|ipr ii riately\\narranged in Detroit, has a\\nfrontage of 70 feet by 138\\nfeet in depth, extending to\\nan alley 20 feet wide. and is\\nseven stories in height.\\nIt is sulistantially built of\\nbrick and is ade(iuately\\nsupi)hed with light and\\nair. It is,* in the lang-\\nuage of Mr. Simpson, De-\\ntroit s building inspector,\\nvery strong and sul)stan-\\ntial, well ventihited and\\npractically fire ])roof.\\nThe flooring is ci instruct-\\ned ujxm the j)lan of what\\nis known as mill con-\\nstruction, tlie l)eams be-\\ning i laced about 4 feet\\napart, and in jilaces where\\nthe dust and other pro-\\nmoters of combustion may\\nbe dejwsited, the flooring\\nis uplield by be iins and\\ngirders, wliicli jiroduce an\\nunobstructed ceil big and\\nwliicli, between the layers\\nof flooring is absolutely\\nfire proof. The jiosition\\nof the columns, one upon\\nthe other, prevents the\\nsettling of fl(H)rs in an un-\\nequal manner through tlie\\nshrinkage of the supports,\\nthereby decreasing the\\npressure ujwn tlie walls.\\nThe iirincipal stairway is\\non the norlliwest of the\\nGLOBE TOBACCO CO. S FACTORY.\\nbuilding, and is an inclosed passage of brick, 15x15, having stairs\\nof easy ascent, five feet, six inches wide. At the extremity of\\nthe final stairway landing are door-waj s which are constructed\\nso as to open outwardly, and in juxtaposition to tliese is\\nthe elevator shaft, protected by a brick environment At the\\nfront on the east is an additional stairway, five feet in width.\\nAs having been the original tobacco factory in the United States\\nto introduce and operate successfully an electric motive\\nprinciple, which furnishes ample power for the extensive mechan-\\nical aiijiurtenances as well as a powerful lighting system, the Globe\\nTobacco Company aciiuins a special claim for enteprising and\\njudicious management and directions. The nine electric motors\\nare apportioned among the departments where their varying\\npower is to be utilized, aiid hence each is operateil separately\\nand with a valuable economy as to belting, shafting and fuel. The\\nchief motive principle is supplied by one 50-horse power dynamo.\\nThe Company have invested several thousand dollars in tlie patents\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f special machinery of their own invention, and they are by this\\nmeans, and the aid of 120 skilled operatives empowered to produce\\ntheir exceptionally salable and meritorious goods. Their princiiial\\nbrands for which has been acquired almost unixi-rsal sale\\nthroughout the United States and Canada are the Globe Fine Cut\\nand Hand Made Flake Cut, the generally acknowledged acme of\\nthe manufacturers art and the summuiii 6o/i\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbiof delicious chewing\\nand smoking accomplishments The company annually employs\\n100,000 jiounds of the purest granulated sugar and .50,000 pounds of\\nlicorice as flavoring for 1,100.(1(10 pounds of leaf tobacco, to which\\nare added 95,000 pounds of tin foil in the production and preparation\\nfor market of about 1,250,000 [lounds of their celebrated chewing\\nand smoking tobaccos. They also annually purchase about $45,000\\nworth of Kentucky leaf tobacco for the manufacture of chewing\\nand .f;75,000 worth of the\\nVirginia growth for\\nsmoking tobacco. The\\ndaily output of the fac-\\ntory is 8,000 pounds, of\\nwhich 1,500 pounds are of\\nthe celebrated flake cut\\nprotluct. The company\\nowns and operates large\\ncuring establishments in\\nthe princijial tobacco-\\ngrowing districts, to deter-\\nmine the unifiinu quality\\nof the leaf, which needs\\nthe most critical care to\\ninsure freedom from cli-\\nmatic abuses. The Adt\\ndrying machine, used by\\nthis company for the prop-\\ner preparations of the leaf\\nmaterial for smoking to-\\nbacco, has a capacity of\\n9,000 iiounds j er day, and\\nits operation effectually\\nrelieves the tobacco of the\\nexcess of nicotine which\\nrenders it obnoxious and\\ninjurious when smoked.\\nTlie packages used by the\\nGlobe Tobacco Company\\nand which are fully\\ncovered by U. S. patents\\nare handsome and con-\\nvenient tin boxes in the\\nshape of cigar boxes, with\\nglass covers. Their glass\\njars and barrels are unique\\nin construction and are es-\\npecially adapted to secure\\nthe uninterrupted mois-\\nture of the toliacco. The\\ntrade territory, which to a\\nlarge extent embraces the U. S. and Canada, is fully covon-d by 12\\ntraveling salesmen. The Company are e-xtensive advertisers and\\nown three large job presses by which they put out tons of printed\\nmatter. They make a specialty of the finest goods and guarantee\\ntheir ])urity and excellence. The Globe Tobacco Company has afforded\\nto Detroit one of its most valuable trade factors, through its enter-\\nprising and highly jirogressive management, and given to the world\\nan example full if the measure of success, as establishing a iirinciple\\nand system in the tobacco manufacture promotive of the most re-\\ninarkalily ]iroiiounced results. The officers of the Comjiany are\\nexperienced and capable mamifactuivrs and administrators and\\nhave reaped as they have sown, constitute fitting exemplars\\nand factors of Detroit s supreme position in the manufacture of\\ntobacco. Modern science in its application to mechanics has been\\nmade to play an important part in the special machinery and appli-\\nances of the Globe Tobacco Factory, through the use of which the\\nproducts of the company have been brought to the highest degree of\\nexcellence.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n53\\nM. B. MILLS.\\nA. A. BOUTELL, Secretary and Treasurer of the Globe Tobacco\\nCorupaiiy, was born in Steuben County, New York, January 13,\\n1840. He is descended front Huguenot ancestry. His grand-\\nfather was a Revolutionary soldier and fought in the battle of\\nBunker Hill, and his father served in the war of 1812. When Mr.\\nBoutell was four years old his parents removed to Monroe County,\\nNew York, where he attended a public school. In 1854 another\\nremoval was made, his parents locating in Oakland County, Michi-\\ngan, where his education was resumed in a country school to which\\nhe walked two miles every morning. He performed labor on his\\nfather s farm, teaching a school during the winter months, until he\\nattained his majority. For five terms subsequently he attended the\\nState Normal School at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and at the outbreak of\\nthe civil v,-ar enlisted in the First Micliigan Lancers. During the\\nwinter of lS(;4-.5 he was connected witii the quarter- master s depart-\\nment at Nashville, Tennessee. In the spring of 1866 he entered\\nEastman s National Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York,\\nsubsequently teaching in that institution for one year. In August,\\n186T, he became bookkeeper for Morey Company, tobacco manu-\\nfacturero on Jefferson avenue, Detroit, afterward acting as financial\\nmanager of the business, and as the executor of the estate of Isaac\\nMore} after the death of tliat gentleman in 1871. In the spring of\\n1874 the business of Slorey Company was merged into the Arm cf\\nParker, Holmes Company, and Mr. Boutell went to Coldvvater,\\nMichigan, where he became a partner in the law and banking busi-\\nness of Bowen McGovvan,in which he continued until August, 1876,\\nwhen he accepted a position as bookkeeper for Walker, McGraw\\nCompany, of Detroit. In 1878 he became manager of the factory\\nof Walker, McGraw Company, afterward Incorporated as the\\nGlobe Tobacco Company, at Windsor, Ontario, Mr. Boutell being\\nelected Secretary, Treasurer and Manager, and holding those offices\\nuntil the fall of 1879, when the business was sold out to P. Beniteau.\\nIn August, 1880, Mr. Boutell was elected Secretary and Treas-\\nurer of tlie Globe Tobacco Comjjany, of Detroit, an 1 has since filled\\nthose ottices. He is President of the Merchants and Manufac-\\nturers Exchange, of Detroit; Treasurer of the Baraga Graphite\\nMining Company, Secretary of the Graphite Electric Company, and\\na Director and Stockholder in several other organizations. Mr, Bou-\\ntell has taken much interest in the labor problem and his factory is\\nconducted upon the co-oi^erative basis, which has proved very satis-\\nfactory. He is a member of St. John s Episcopal Church and is\\nzealously devoted to the cause of religion and education. He is\\nalways jovial and engaging in discourse and manner, and never fails\\nto leave a pleasant impression with all who come within the charm\\nof his sunny nature. He was married at Ypsilanti,Michigan, in July,\\n1858, to Miss Harriet J. Carpenter, at that time preceptress in the\\nHigh School at Coldwater, Michigan, and they have one child, a\\ndaughter, yet in her teens.\\nTHE AMERICAN EAGLE TOBACCO COMPANY,\\nsuccessors to the old and well-known firm of K. C. Barker Company,\\nis situated on Woodbridge street, and is officered as follows: Presi-\\ndent, M. S. Smith, of Detroit; Vice-President, James Clark, of Louis-\\nville, Ky. Treasurer and General Manager, Charles B. Hull,of Detroit;\\nSecretary, George B. Hutchins, of Detroit. They are manufacturers\\nof Fine Cut Chewing and Smoking Tobacco and are among the largest\\nmanufacturers of this class of goods in the country being, by right of\\ntheir continued existence since the original establishment, one of the\\noldest in America. This institution had its origin in 1848, Mr. K. C.\\nBarker establishing himself in the business in this city at that\\ntime. He had associated with him, during the different portions of\\nhis business life, several partners. Among them was Mr. Nevins,\\nMr. Mills, also Mr. Charles Ducharme, of the firm of Buell,Ducharme\\nCompany. Tlie present Treasurer and General Manager, Mr.\\nCharles B. Hull, was Mr. Barker .s partner later in his life, also his\\nson-in-law. Mr. Hull was taken into the firm of K. C. Barker\\nComiJany, in 1867, and was constantly an active partner during the\\nbalance of the existence of the firm of K. C. Barker Company,\\nand the organizer of the present Comiiany in 1883. This\\nCompany has a full, paid-up capital of $150,000 and is officered\\nby prominent citizens, through whose diligence and enter-\\nprising direction have been secured for their celebrated products\\nof Fine Cut Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, a most meritorious dis-\\ntinction and extensive sale. The factory buildings are commodious\\nand conveniently arranged. There are 106 feet front on Woodbridge\\nstreet, running back 200 feet, four stories and a basement, thor-\\noughly equipped with the most improved modern machinery and\\nappliances. Among some of their most noted grades of Fine Cut\\nChewing Tobaccos, and those which hold the highest place in the\\nmarket, are the American Eagle, Oriental, Dew Drop, Plum, Sugar\\nCured and Double 5, while the Smoking Tobaccos are Eagle\\nCavendish, Fawn and Myrtle Navy Cut Plugs. Their Granulated\\nA. A. BOUTELL.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\ngoods are their Stork, Morning Dew and Eagle. In Long CuU, tlieir\\nFrog, Home Comfort and Growler are prominent. They also manu-\\nfacture a very fine line of Periijue Mixtur. s, for which they are\\ngetting large and increased sales. These goods are all included in\\nthe list of the most appreciateil and salable in the American market,\\nand represent the acme of the tobacco manufacturer s art. The vast\\nstrides made by this company in the face of the most strenuous\\ncompetition to the acquisition of the foremost jjosition in the tobacco\\ntrade in the country, bear evidence to the enterjirising vigor and\\nrare business management of its ofHcers, as well as to the excellence\\nand salable character of its j)roduets. They have traveling sales-\\nmen in nearly all sections of the country, but their goods are sold\\njven in sections where they have no representative. Both on tlie\\nAtlantic and Pacific Coast, large and i)romiiient liouses are handling\\ntheir goods. They can safely be recommended to give satisfaction\\nin any line of Fine Cut Chewing, Cut Plug, Granulated, or Long\\nCut Smoking Tobaccos. As they have not commenced manufac-\\nturing Plug Tobacco, they make no claims in that direction, but will\\nguarantee satisfaction to any of their customers, in the lines now\\nmanufactured by them.\\nCn.vRLES B. Hull. This eminent tobacco manufacturer and\\ndistinguished citizen was born at Algonac, Mich., October 21st, 1841.\\nHis parents were natives of the State of New York, but settled at\\nAlgonac, Michigan, where his fatlier conducted the milling and\\nlumber business. Here he received his early education, which was\\ncontinued at Cleveland, Hudson and Twinsburg, Ohio. His first\\nexperience in actual business was with Nichols Lefubor, he after-\\nward going to Rockford, Illinois, where he engaged with Tliompson\\nCompany in the banking Imsiness. At the beginning of the hos-\\ntilities of the late civil war he enlisted as a private and was soon\\npromoted to sergeant in Company D, of tlie Eleventh Illinois\\nregiment. At the date of his retirement from the military service\\nhe bore the rank of Captain of Coniirany A. of the 67th regiment\\nIllinois Volunteers. The war ended, he engaged with Aiken Norton,\\nwho afterward organized the First National Bank, of Chicago, for\\nwhich Mr. Hull opened the first sot of books. Coming subsequently\\nto Detroit he became paying teller of the Second National Bank,\\nfilling that position for three and a half years. After his marriage\\nwith Miss Carrie, the only daughter of Mr. K. C. Barker, ex-inayor\\nof Detroit and head of the tobacco manufacturing firm of K. C.\\nCHARLES B. HULL.\\nJOHN N. BAGLEY.\\nBarker Company, he associated himself as a partner in that busi-\\nness, the individual members at that time being Messrs. K. C. Barker,\\nCharles Ducharme, Joseph I. Barker and Charles B. Hull. At the\\ndeath of Mr. K. C. Barker, in 1875, Ur. Hull, with Mrs. K. C Barker\\nand Joseph I. Barker, formed a new co-partnership, Mr. Hull having\\nthe exclusive management and direction of the business until 1883,\\nwhen the present American Eagle Tobacco Company was organized,\\nof which he became Treasurer ani General JIanager, relations which\\nhe has since ably and meritoriously sustained. He has been Treas-\\nurer and one of the Directors of the Mc:-chants and Manufacturers\\nExchange since its organization. Mr. Hull has been a prominent\\nmember of the masonic fraternity for twenty years and belongs to\\nthe Detroit Commandery of Kniglits Templars; he is a member of the\\nG. A. R. and Loyal Legion, of the Detroit club, and a member\\nand ofi cer of the Lake St. Clair fishing and shooting club.\\nHe is yet in the prime of life and his many honors sit gracefully\\nupon him. In the tobacco trade especially he is identified and dis-\\ntinguished as one of its most prominent factors, and few men have\\nwon more friends in the many and highly creditable relations he\\nsustains than he. As a citizen of Detroit he has ever regarded the\\nprogress and importance of the cit\\\\-, in the security of which he has\\nbeen largely and meritoriously instrumental.\\nJOHN J. BAGLEY COMPANY.\\nThe inception of this noted institution in 185.3 by the late John\\nJ. Bagley, who was among the earliest manufacturers of toljaeco in\\nDetroit, and who had, prior to embarking in the business on his own\\naccount, been an employe in the capacity of traveling salesman\\nfor Mr. Isaac S. Jliller, the pioneer of the industry, gave but\\nslight evidences of what it has since become, one of the\\nlargest and most important of its character in the country. A\\nnumber of popular brands are jiroduced, chief among them being\\nthe famous May Flower, which has acceptably met the demand\\nfor a choice fine cut chewing tobacco. The present Company was\\nincorporated in 1879 with a capital stock of .|200,000, and is officered\\nby experienced and capable gentlemen, who are among Detroit s\\ninfluential and enterprising citizens. The buildings are two five-\\nstory brick structures, fronting sixty feet on Bates street, extending\\n120 feet on AVoodbridge street and uniting there with two additional\\nflve-story buildings of sixty feet frontage and running back 100 feet\\nto an alley way. The factory is thoroughly equipped with the", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n55\\nlatest and most improved machinery and appliances for securing\\nexpedition and thoroughness of manufacture. The Company-\\nemploys 145 hands and the annual product of fine cut chewing and\\nsmoking tobaccos aggregates 1,700,000 pounds. The celebrated\\nbrands manufactured in addition to the May Flower, are Lima\\nKiln Club and Old Colony, smoking tobaccos of rare excellenco\\nand purity, and Peach and Honey and Fast Mail, also fine cut\\nchewing tobaccos of generally acknowledged merits and salabla\\nqualities. The company has a large and efficient corps of trav-\\neling salesmen, through whom the most extensive trade relations\\nhave been establislied throughout the United States and Canada,\\nwhile a heavy export business with China, Japan and Australia has\\nbeen created and is steadily increasing under the stimulus of demand.\\nThe admirable system of business which is rigidly enforced in every\\ndepartment by competent and vigilant superintendents, insures that\\nuniformity and excellence of quality which have rendered the\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0oducts of John J. Bagley Company the popular and salable\\nconsiderations of every jjrudent tobacco dealer s stock. In its thirty-\\nseven years of existence tliis house has maintained the most distin-\\nguished identity among the leading tobacco manufacturers of the\\nUnited States, a fitting memorial and perpetuation of the principles\\nand aims of its illustrious founder, the Hon. John J. Bagley,\\nwhose eminent services as governor of Michigan and in varied\\nofficial capacities conferred great honor upon himself and great\\nbenefit and enduring blessings to his State and City. The officers\\nof the Company are: J. T. Mason, President; J. N. Bagley, Vice-\\nPresident; S. N. Hurlbut, Secretary; Geo. H. Hopkins, Treasurer.\\nROTHSCHILD BROTHER.\\nWhat can exceed the satisfaction derived from smoking a really\\ngood cigar? Comprised in its composition are, first, the material,\\nin the shape of the best and purest leaf tobacco, and second, its\\nmanufacture by skilled workmen into the finished product, which\\nemits the grateful smoke, bearing upon its perfumed wings surcease\\nfrom sorrow and a lessening of the woes which afflict humanity.\\nThe jiroduct of leaf tobacco of the Island of Cuba has for ag:s been\\nrecognized as the best the world affords for the manufacture of\\nessentially high-grade cigars, a fact which has as much significance\\nto-day as when the mighty secret first became known through the\\ndiscovery of the American continent by Christopher Columbus in\\n1492. The distinction of supplying the cigar manufacturers of the\\nSIGMUND ROTHSCHILD.\\nKAUFiL^N S. ROTHSCHILD.\\ncountry with the purest and best grade of seed leaf tobacco of for-\\neign and domestic growth has been won and is well and worthily\\nsustained by Messrs. Rothschild and Brother, of Detroit. This house\\nwas founded in 1854 by Messrs. Sigmund and Feist Rothschild, and\\nwas reinforced by the admission to partnership in 18G3 of Kaufman\\nS. Rothschild, a few years ago of Mr. Moses Schott, and January 1,\\n1889, of Messrs. Louis, Alfred and Harry S. Rothschild. Mr. Feist\\nRothschild died in April, 1890. As importers of Sumatra and\\nHavana tobaccos, this house has acliieved a distinction and promi-\\nnence which gives it the leading position outside of New York, and\\nconstitutes it the leading and most prominent house in the West.\\nIt is located at 77 and 79 Jefferson Avenue, with foreign offices at\\nAmsterdam, Holland, O. Z. Voorburgwal 290, and at Havana, Cuba,\\nPra lo, 64. Tlie custom duties on leaf tobacco annually imported by\\nthem, as per custom house records at Detroit and New York, aggre-\\ngate $350,000. A stock varying from 1,700 to 3.500 bales is carried,\\nin accord with seasonable demand, and the firm controls domestic\\nwarehouses in New York, Ohio and Wisconsin, while its supplies of\\nHavana and Sumatra leaf are imder the direct purchase of resident\\nagents. The administration of the business in Havana tobacco is\\nunder the management of Messrs Sigmund and Alfred Rothschild;\\nMr. Harry S. Rothschild, in the purchase of Sumatra tobacco; Mr,\\nKaufman S. Rothschild, in the packing of American leaf tobacco,\\nwhile the official direction in Detroit is under the ciuijeiintendence of\\nMessrs. M. Schott and Louis Rothschild. Onl} the best and most\\ncritically tested leaf tobaccos are handled by this house, and are\\nguaranteed in every instance equal to sample. As among the great\\nrepresentatives of the leaf tobacco interests of the country and at\\nthe West, the most prominent is the long established and sterling\\nhouse of Rothschild Brother, who experience the most eminent\\nand the most conspicuous commendation and abimdant tjatronage.\\nThe history of this houss marks it as peculiarly enterprising; as\\nremarkably attentive to the exigencies of trade and the specific\\nwants of customers, evidenced in its long establishment, and the\\nfact that not one of its patrons has ever known of a case in which the\\nstrictest conformity to honorable conduct and business integrity waa\\nnot employed.\\nSigmund Rothschild, penior member of the firm of Rothschild\\nBrother, was born near Frankfort-on-the-Main, July 1, 1837,\\nwhere he received his early education. At the age of thirteen ho\\nwas apprenticed to the wholesale dry goods business, in which he", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nserved for three years, and subsequently for one j-ear as a traveling\\nsalesman. To escape beinj^ drafted in tlie military service, lie came\\nto America in lSr)4, landing at New York, where for some time\\nhe was engaged in learning the trade of a cigar maker. Coming\\nafterward to Detroit, he secured the cigar stand in the old National\\nIlotel, the present Russell House, where he conducted business for\\none year. He next rented the building at the corner of Jefferson\\navenue and Bates street, and engaged in the manufacture of cigars,\\nwhich he conducted ui to 1H.-)S, when forming a iiartnershi]) with\\nhis brother. Feist, who had arrived in Detroit during that year,\\nthe firm of Rothschild Urotber was established, the business\\nbeing removed to the building opposite the Uiddle House. In\\n18(12, Kaufman S.. another brother, was admitted to partnershii).\\nIn the previous year another removal had been made to Firemen s\\nHall, corner Jefferson avenue and Randolph street, where the busi-\\nness was continued up to 181)9, to which had been added the impor-\\ntation of smokers articles. The firm at this time controlled the\\nlargest manufactory of cigars west of New York, under the name\\nof the Western t igar Company. In 187.5 the firm changed the busi-\\nness of cigar niannfactuiers to importers of leaf tobacco and jiackers\\nof domestic growth, and they are now known as the largest house\\nin this line west of New York, the annual duty )iaid on imiKirted\\nstock aggregating ij:!50,(l(10. Mr. Sigmuiul Rothschid has three\\nsons, Harry and Louis, members of the firm of Rothschild\\nBrother, and Fred, in the cigar nianafacturlng businesss in Chicago.\\nEnterj)rise and iirogress are the watch-words which have been kept\\nin view by Sigmund Rothschill, who may justly be classed among\\nDetroit s most reputable and distinguished merchants.\\nK.\\\\UI MAX S. ROTHSCIULD, a younger brother of Sigmund Roths-\\nchild^ and a member of tlie firm of Rothschild Brother, was born\\nat Frankfort-on-the-Main, October loth, 1838. Coming to Detroit\\nfrom the place of his nativity in lS(i2, lie joined his brothers in the\\nbusiness of cigar manufacturing. I rior to coming to this country\\nho had been, for seven years, engaged in the flour and grain busi-\\nness at Frankfort-on-lhe-Main. In 1870 he was admitted to a full\\npartnership in the business, which he has since lield. Like his\\nbrothers he has exhibited rare abilities of management and discre-\\ntion and lias matiMially assisted in placing the business in a leading\\nand prominent position.\\nk%-\\nr)\\nMi\\n^^^Km^^\\nLOUIS KCTTNAUER.\\nAUOUST KUTTXAUER.\\nLOUIS KUTTNAUER COMPANY.\\nLouis Kuttnauer, head of the house of Louis Kuttnauer Com-\\npany, was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, April 4, 1847.\\nHe was apprenticed wlien very young to a cloth merchant, serving in\\ntliat relation until si.vteen years old. after which ho traveled for two\\nyears for a wholesale grocery and cigar manufacturing firm of\\nFranklort-oM-tlie-Main. In IHIi. i he came to tlie United States,\\nlocating at Baltimore, where he obtained a position as a general\\nbookkeeper tor an oy ter and fruit packing establishment. Here he\\nremained for two years, after wliich he went to AVheeling, West\\nVirginia, establishing himself in the tobacco and cigar business\\nwhich, after conducting for one year, he sold out, coming to Detroit\\nand engaging in the manufacture of cigars and the business of\\ngeneral tobacco lealer, also handling leaf tobacco in large quantities.\\nIn 18S2 he abandoned the cigar riuuiufacture, and has since con-\\nducted an exclusive leaf tobacco business. In 18l~i7 he admitted his\\nyoungest brother, August, to partnersliii), changing the firm name\\nto Louis Kuttnauer Company.\\nThe firm has had a very successful career of business, marked\\nby enterprising and judicious management. As extensive handlers\\nof foreign and domestic leaf tobaccos, they have acquired distinc-\\ntion and prominence and are classed with the most rejiutable in the\\ncountry in their special line. The builling at 71 and 73 Jefferson\\navenue is five stories in height, 40x120 feet in dimensions, and\\naffords adeiiuate facilities for storage and the expeditious transac-\\ntion of the details of the busines!*. Four traveling salesmen effect-\\nually represent the interests of the house in its trade territory, which\\nembraces the states of Jlichigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Miss-\\nissi])pi, Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado, Nel)iaska, and ]]oitions of\\nCanada. The annual sales aggregate ^.lOO.OOO and are constantly\\nincreasing in volume. The conduct of the affairs of this establish-\\nment has been signalized by superior abilities and a steady progress.\\nThe character of the leaf tobaccos handled is of the best selections\\nand is critically inspected in every instance before being j^ermitted\\nto leave tlie warehouse. Their importations of Havana and Sumatra\\nleaf are a leading feature of the business and one through which\\nthey have ilerived the greatest satisfaction and profit. The great\\nsignificance which belongs to Detroit in the cigar manufacture\\ninvests Messrs. Louis Kuttnauer and Company with a name in the\\nrelation of leaf tobacco, which lias essentially advanced their interests", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n57\\nW. H. ELLIS.\\nand placed them in tlie front rank of leaf tobacco importers and\\ndealers in this conntrj-.\\nW. H. ELLIS,\\nCorner of Griswold and Fort street, who is so widely and favor-\\nably known as the largest jobber of tobaccos and cigars in Detroit,\\nis one of the many Canadian-Americans who has never had reason\\nto regret crossing the border strait of the Queen s domain. Very\\nfew native born Americans have achieved such honorable success in\\nbusiness as has Mr. Ellis, and at the same time had such large\\ninterests in such extended enterprises as he now owns. Mr. Ellis\\nwas born near Toronto, August 3, 1848, and remained there until he\\nwas about twenty-four years of age. Then he felt tluit he wanted\\nto start out for himself, he also felt that the United States was\\nIhe ijlace to make the start in. So he came to Detroit and entered\\nthe store of Theodore Schuemann, the former well known cigar\\nnian, where he I emained seven years. He then spent four years\\nwitli Daniel Scotten Company, where he gained a practical\\ninsight into the tobacco business, and a wide experience in the\\ninmunerable details, both financial and commercial, that go to\\nmalie up this branch of Detroit s trade, that has grown to such vast\\njiroportions. In 1880 he started in business for himself, where the\\nHammond building now rears its ten-storied mass, putting one half\\ntlie capital he had accumulated int j the wholesale and retail busi-\\nness, and leaving one half in the bank, a proceeding typical of his\\nsound judgment and excellent management. He has been the\\nexclusive city agent for Daniel Scotten Company s goods from the\\ntime he started in business, and his gratification at their largely\\nincreased sales year by year has been second only to that of the\\nlirm s. He carries all the high-priced fancy and standard goods in\\nbis line, purcliasing direct from the most celebrated manufacturers,\\nreceiving large shipments from Havana, Cuba, Key AVest, Florida,\\nNew Y ii-k City Pliiladelphia and all principal points, handling no\\nless than ~30 brands of fine cigars. All the pojiular domestic brands\\nof tobaccos and cigars are also in stock, and five years ago he\\nbecame special agent for the choice Queen Elizabeth. The La Dina,\\na Key West cigar, named by Mr. Ellis, and manufactured expressly\\nfor him, has become one of the best sellers on the market, and gives\\nunalloyed satisfaction to the consumer. He has a constantly\\nincreasing state trade, receives an immense number of mail orders\\nper diem, and has one man who travels in the state exclusi\\\\ely for\\nKey West brands. Two teams and two men are kept busy in the\\ncity the year around. In spite of the steady attention that this far-\\nreaching business demands, Mr. Ellis finds time to become identified\\nwith a large number of the interests which have been the means of\\nmaking Detroit what it is\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in the line of cities that take the firsc\\nrank. Mr. Ellis is a stockholder in the Detroit Motor Company, in\\nthe Detroit Electric Soap Company, a new enterprise developing\\nmost favorably, is President of tlie Clark Novelty Company, and a\\nDirector in the Home Savings Bank. He is pretty heavily interested\\nin the Illinois and Indiana Stone Coal Manufacturing Company,\\nin the Graham Twist and Drill Company, and in the Felix Mine,\\nMontana, which is making a good showing with rich prospects\\nahead. He is in the Car Heating Company, of Albany, New York,\\nan immense institution, which heats seven-eighths of all the cars\\nrunning. He owns st jck in the Rogers Typograph Company, the\\nDominion Typograph C ompany, the Michigan Company and the\\nInternational Typograph Company. Real estate has converted him\\nto a believer in its solid values, and, besides owning a consider-\\nable amount of property in Detroit, he owns some soil in Kansas City,\\nMissouri, and Pasadena, California. But all this is not enough for\\nhis activities, and he recently became the patentee of Ellis House-\\nhold Savings Bank, the popular little metal bank of the Home,\\nnow iu such general use. Best of all, Mr. Ellis does not owe a cent,\\nand because ho pays spot cash and discounts his bills, has his choice\\nfrom every market in the United States and Havana, Cuba, that\\ncan supply his business. Mr. Ellis is a Mason of the 33d degree and\\nCaptain Genei al of Damascus Commandery; is also a member of\\nGrace Church, and still finds time to devote many hours to his\\nfamily, consisting of two bright children and a wife, to whom he\\nwas married in 1878.\\nEDWARD BURK,\\nWas born in Germany, October 2, 1836, and came to the\\nUnited States in 1854 locating in Ohio. He had learned the\\ntrade of watch making in Switzerland and followed it in Ohio. He\\ncame to Deti-oit in 1856 and engaged as watchmaker for George\\nSchuler on Jefferson avenue, pursuing that avocation in this house\\nfor eight yeirs. In 1864 he purchased a jewelry store at Ann Arbor,\\nand after conducting it for about eight months, sold out and\\nreturned to Detroit, engaging with M. S. Smith Company, with\\nwhom he remained for three years. He afterward worked for J. S.\\nEDWAUU BURK.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCF.\\nCk)nklin lor about tea years. In l\u00c2\u00abTo iie and Jolm C. Sullivan\\nbought out Oliver GolJsuiitli, cigar uiaiiufacturer, whicli was liis\\nfirst venture in tliat l)usiness. Five years later he bouglit Jlr.\\nSullivan s interest and took in as partners C. A. Rieh, J. O. Van\\nAnden and George R. Gross, the firm ruuio being Burk, Hieli\\nConiiiany. In ISHS Mr. Burk succeeded lO the business by iiurchase\\nand has since conducted it as solo proprietor.\\nlie has, by the exercise of enteri)rise and judicious management,\\nlargely extended his manufacturing facililiis and secured a profit-\\nable trade in the leading Eastern and Western markets. The\\nfactory building at 86 Jlonroe avenue is four stories above a com-\\nmodious basement and is 2t)xl00feetin dimensions. The machinery\\nand appliances for manufacturing are of the best and most\\nimproved description. A force of 100 skilled liands are steadily\\nemployed and the annual output isabout !i.ii(IO,l )0, cigars valued\\nat f 121). 000. Jlr. Burk sujierintends every department of the busi-\\nness and thus is enabled to guarantee the genuineness and uniformity\\nof liis products. Among the leading and most prominent represent-\\natives of this industry in Detroit no one is more entitled to the\\ncharacterization than Mr. Burk, who has ever evinced t!ie most\\nenterprising and judicious conduct of business, and who is recog-\\nnized among the city s influential and progressive citizens.\\nHEATING APPARATUS.\\nMIcniGAN RADIATOR AND IKON 3IANUFACTURING\\nCOMPANY.\\nJolin B. Dyar, President; M. S. Smith, Vice-President; C.\\nCarijenter, Treasurer C. M. Woolley, Secretary. Manufacturers\\nof Cast Iron Steam and Hot Water Radiators. Factoi-y and OlKces,\\nSouth Side of Trombly avenue, between Russel street and Detroit,\\n(irand Haven Jlilwaukee Railway.\\nPerfection in steam heating is one of the greatest achievements\\nof modern science and the manufacture of specific appliances to\\ninsure household comfort and conveniences is one of the leading\\ndemands of the present age. This principle has been brought to its\\nhighest results by the Jlichigan Radiator and Iron Manufacturing\\n(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0omi)any, through the Perfection Radiator. Its superior construc-\\ntion upon the most scientifically exact conditions by which the\\nsectirity of free, unobstructed and large openings for the passage of\\nsteam and water is afforded, renders this radiator the most efficient\\nand durable in existence. The character of the loops insures the\\nfullest and most positive heating capacity, and the castings, whicli\\nJOHN B. DY.\\\\K.\\nare made from the finest grade of iron Viy competent and skilled\\nworkmen, possess the higliest degree of perfection jjossible to obtain.\\nAnother and prominent feature of the radiator is its artistically\\nhandsome appearance, its design being liiglily ornate and modeled\\nupon the acquisition of the most beautiful effects obtainable from\\nthe use of different colored bronzes in combination, and which can\\nbe made to blend with tlie complexion of the most elegant and\\nsumptuous furnishings and decorations of the apartment in wliich it\\nmay be placed. The ii[)per j ortion of the radiator is of faultless\\nconstruction and gracefully conforms to the general harmony and\\nbeauty of the design. The top is flat, unbreakable, and is so coii-\\nMICIIKIAN UADIATOli IHd.N M A.M FACTURINO COMl A.NY S WdKKS.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n59\\nstructed as to prevent the accumulation of dust and dirt. The loojis\\nare firmly adjusted and held in place by patent steel screws, which\\nmake a permanent joint, and which becomes tigliter the longer it\\nremains in place. Tlie Michigan Radiator and Iron Manufacturing\\nCompany is the largest industry of its kind in the world commands\\nan abundant capital employs 400 hands, and finds a market for its\\nproducts throughout the United States and the continent of Europe.\\nTlie jilant is the most extensive of its character in the United States,\\nand possesses every requisite in machinery and the most improved\\nappliances for manufacturing. The officers of the Company _\\nbelong to the great industrial representatives of Detroit, and\\nare prominently identified with the city s material and pro-\\ngressive interests.\\nJohn B. Dyar, President Michigan Radiator and Iron\\nManufacturing Company, was born at Romeo, Michigan,\\nJune 2G, 1846, where he received his education. His first\\nventure in business was as a dry goods dealer in his native\\ntown, in which he was engaged for five years. Coming, sub-\\nsequently, to Detroit, he became the propritor and manager\\nof the Detroit Metal and Heating Works, sustaining those\\nrelations for thirteen years. In 1888 he developed and organ-\\nized the Michigan Radiator and Iron Manufacturing Com-\\npany, of which he is the President and a member of its\\nBoa d of Directors. Mr. Dyar is one of the Directors of the\\nCommercial National Bank, and is interested in steamboats\\nand various other considerations. lie is a member of the\\nvarious Detroit Clubs and an enterprising representative of\\nthe city s forward move to a highly progressive identity.\\nDETROIT HEATING AND LIGHTING COMPANY,\\nThe largest manufacturers in the country of Hot Water\\nHeaters exclusively, and best known as makers of the cele-\\nbrated Bolton, commenced business under this style, in\\n1888, when it absorbed the Combination Gas Machine Com-\\npany. In 1887 Messrs. Berry Brothers, principal stockholders in the\\nCombination Gas Machine Company, having become interested in\\nthe Heating business, opened negogiations with George Bolton, of\\nPeterborough, Ontario, a heating engineer of over thirty years\\nexperience, and owning a boiler of most effective and novel con-\\nstruction. The firm obtained rights for the TTnited States. In the\\nfall of 1887 the} set uji sonii sample Heaters in Detroit, and their\\nin such high regard by the trade and others who have had an oppor-\\ntunity to become acquainted with its merits, that, in the selection of\\nan apparatus, the Bolton is, perhaps, the first in the mind of the\\npurchaser. In Detroit, especially, it has a very strong hold, as its\\nmany users and the class of buildings it warms conclusively show.\\nWe illustrate, herewith, some specimen residences heated by this\\nsystem, and the expressions of satisfaction the Company have\\nreceived from their owners and hundei-eds of other delighted users\\nof the Bolton can give an idea, perhaps, of the standing of this heater\\nResidenco of AV.\\nHeated by Bolton Heater,\\niiilielj) Detroit, Micliit ^iu.\\nMason Rice, Architects, Detroit.\\n4 -m i;\\nV\\nand why it deserves its prestijje. Full particulars of the system and\\nmethods of the Detroit Heating and Lighting Company, can be\\nfound in their handsome illustrated book, Warmth for Winter\\nHomes, which they send free of charge to any who are interested\\nin the subject of house warming.\\nThe Company s factory and home Office is at the corner of Lieb\\n:ii,d Wight streets, where the Combination Gas Machine is also\\nmanufactured. This is an apparatus for lighting all classes\\nof buildings remote from the supply of city gas, and is the\\noldest and most reliable apparatus in the market, having\\nbeen in use, in many instances, for twenty-five years with-\\nout a single break or failure. Most of the Grosse Pointe\\nresidences are lighted by the Combination Gas Machine and\\nit is almost imiversally known, machines having been in\\noperation in South America, Australia and the Sandwich\\nIslands for a number of years. A very exhaustive and\\nentertaining description of this apparatus is given in the\\nCompany s handsome pamphlet, Light for Evening Hours,\\nwhich can be had for the asking. Since the establishment\\nof the business of both the Heater and Gas Machines the\\nDetroit Heating and Lighting Company have established\\nlarge branches in New York, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis,\\nNew Orleans and Dallas, Texas, and in every prominent\\ncity in the United States tlieir interests are looked after,\\nand their goods are on exhibition by the leading members of\\nthe trade.\\n^i ictir.; of WlLLIAJI H. WeLLS\\nHeated by Dulloa Heater.\\nF.stj JelTerso^ Avonae, Detroit, IVIiehis:an.\\nW. H. Miller, jijclutect, Ithaca, New York.\\nThe Detroit Radiator Company are extensive man-\\nufacturers of Steam Radiators. Tlieir works are located at\\nthe corner of Lincoln avenue and Grand Trunk Railway.\\nmanufacture in Detroit was soon after commenced. In 1888 this\\nindustry was united with the Combination Gas Machine Company\\nunder the name of the Detroit Heating and Lighting Company.\\nAlthough not yet five years since the introduction of the Bolton\\ninto the United States, the Detroit Heating and Lighting Company\\nhave, by reason of the Heater s excellent record in the cold climates\\nof Manitoba and Quebec, and the high degree of satisfaction it has\\ngiven its many users in this country, placed the Bolton foremost\\namong the many hot water heaters on the market to-day. It is held\\nPAINTS, OILS, GLASS, ETC.\\nAs applied to our local industries, there are probably few cities\\nof the size of Detroit that possess better facilities for the rapid\\ngrowth and developement of the various arts and manufactures,\\ngenerally, and, more especially, upon which the trade in Paints,\\nColors and Oils has a direct bearing and an intimate relation.\\nWhile our city has many other resources that share in its develope-\\nment, it is an undoubted fact that to its great manufacturing", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "6o\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\ninterests Detroit owes its remarkable progress. Its extensive Car\\nWorks, its Carriage Works, its Bridge and Iron AVorks, its Linseed\\nOil Works, ils Wliite Lead and Color Works ami ils various fine and\\nuseful Art Works render the commodity, of Paints and Oils a most\\nimportant f ature in trade. Tlie jilace to manufacture suc-\\ncessfullj- is siucly at a point \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\vIicro the raw materials naturally\\naccumulate and are indispensable and in ready denuind, or where\\nthe supply can be made adequate to the consumption, an l u. ce versa,\\nat a point near to or easy of access to the original source of sujjpl}\\nwhere there is cheap jjower, skilled workmen, fuel, water or other\\npower, and where the facilities for shipping and marketing the\\njjroducts are am|)le. Detroit is (piite able to furnish ;dl these condi-\\ntions in an eminent degree. It) noted and extensive Car Works\\nalone consume a no small proportion of these goods, while the house\\nand sign painters require an almost unlimited supply, owing to the\\ngrowth of our city and its building interests, rendering tlie connno-\\ndity of Paint supply among the leading articles of home con-\\nsumption to say nothing of their demand abroad. This industry is\\nrepresented by the Detroit White Lead Works, Acme White Lead and\\nColor Works, Boydell Brothers and Peninsular White Lea l and\\nColor Works, all of which are noted far and wide as among the\\nmost successful of our imlustries.\\nWILLIAM REID\\nWas born in tlie County of Essex, Canada, in 1S42. His educa-\\ntion was received in the Canadian schools, and subsequent!} in\\nDetroit, to wliich he came first in 18i)6 and again in 1803. In ISO-I\\nhe went to Saginaw, Michigan, where he spent one j ear in a law\\noffice, returning to Detroit in October, I8G0, On January 1, ISO he\\nbecame a miMuber of the (irm of William Wright and t^ompany,\\nwhich Wi s succeeded by IJeid and Hillsin 1871, and identified as tlie\\nleading and most extensive dealers in Jlichigan in Glass, Paints,\\nOils, Varnishes, Wall I aper, etc. In ISTD Mr. Keid dissolved his\\nassociation with Mr. Hills, and established his pi-esent business,\\nwhich has been attended with uninterrupted successes. 5Ir. Reid\\nwas the first dealer west of New York to carry plate glass in stock\\nand still maintains that distinction in the relation of being the most\\nextensive an l the leading dealer. The new and commodious store\\nnow occiqiieil and into which Mr. Ri^id recently removed is located\\nat 121, 120 and 128 Larned street west, is 50x120 feet in liinensions,\\nand comprises six floors with ample accommodations for storage\\nWII.LIAJI Hl-.lll.\\n.TOIIX BOYDELL.\\nand all other demands of the rapidly expanding and extensive busi-\\nness. It is provided with an elevator oi)erated by an electric motor;\\nalso an api)aratus for moving heavy glass on and off the wagons,\\nand various other modern appliances and appurtenances. The trade\\nterritory extends from Western New York to Ohio, Pennsylvania,\\nIndiana, Jlinnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and remote points, and the\\nannual sales aggregate, in value, f;7oO,000. Steady employment is\\ngiven to a force of clerks, salesmen, mechanics and porters number-\\ning forty persons. Mr. Reid conducts a retail establishment at 12\\nand 14 Congress street east, where he carries a full and complete\\nslock of Paints, Oil-i, Varnishes, Glass, Painters and Glaziers Sup-\\nlilies and varied other articles incident to the business. He has a\\nbrjnch house at Grand Rapids which is doing a flourishing trade.\\nMr. Reid truly exemplifies the prosperous inerchaiit whose industry\\nand enterprise have won for him an eminent distinction.\\nBOYDELL BROTHERS.\\nJoliii J .oyilell was born in Liverpool. England, December 11,\\n1S42, and William Boydell in StalTord, England, February 22, 1849.\\nTheir pai eiils came to the L^nited States in 18.)0, settling near\\nDetroit. A coiiimim school education fitted these young men, who\\nwere naturally endowed with quick perceptions, for a business\\ncareer, and John, after serving for several years as a clerk in various\\nstores, secured the jiosition of bookkeeper for James H. Worcester,\\nwho at that time occupied the building where Boydell Brothers are\\nnow engaged in business. In 1803 Mr. Worcester s business was\\nresolved into the Detroit White Lead Works, and John established\\nthe paint business with a stock of painters supplies on his own\\naccount at lliO Randolph street. Just prior to this move William\\nhail secured employment with Mr. Worcester in the capacity of\\nshij)i ing clerk, in which he continued until the change was made to\\nthe Detroit White Lead Works and the removal of their office, when\\nhe became assoiiated with John in the painters supply bussiness,\\nwhich they conducted with mai ked success. William acted as\\nthe manager of this venture and John gave his attention to the\\nbusiness in the same line which he had previously established on\\nRandolph street. When John embarked in business for himself he\\nhad hut \u00c2\u00a7200 incash, but he possessed unlimited credit, and during the\\nnine years he comlucled business on Randolph street he was eminent-\\nly successful. Selling out his Randolph street store in 1874, he pur-\\nchased an interest in the Detroit White Lead Works, the style of the", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n6i\\nfirm being changed to Worcester, Boydell Company. William,\\nduring this whole period, had been personally conducting the busi-\\nness in which John owned an interest. In 1875 Worcester, Boydell\\nCompany failed and John went to England, where he remained\\nfive months. Tlie failure was not occasioned by any neglect or\\nwant of energy on John s part, but to the unreasonable and unnatural\\nuse of the business cajiital by his partners. Returning from England\\nin 1876, John formed a co-partnership with William, and they began\\nthe manufacture of paints in a small room over Michel s machine\\nsliop at the corner of Fort and Beaubien streets. Together they\\npossessed but .f 1,000 in cash and tlie stock of the Congress street\\nstore valued at between .|4,000 and !|;5,000. They exhausted their\\ncash capital in the i^urchase of machinery for grinding paints and\\nwere jalaced in an embarrassing jjosition as to finding the way to\\nsecure raw material for manufacturing. But a friend in need came\\nto the rescue, and to him Boydell Brothers ascribe the foundation of\\ntheir subsequent remarkable business successes. This gentleman,\\nMr. William H. Thompson, Piesident of the Missouri Lead and Oil\\nCompany, of St. Louis, Missouri, expressed to Mr. John Boydell,\\nduring a conversation about this time his most unqualified commen-\\ndation in the declaration that he could have any amount of goods\\nhe wanted, and such goods as his concern (the Missouri White Lead\\nand Oil Com]iany) did not make, the Boj-dell Brothers could pur-\\nchase elsewheie, using his name as reference. To inquiries concern-\\ning tlieir responsibility, Mr. Thompson s reply would be: Sell\\nBoydell Brotliers any amount, and if they don t pay, I will. In\\n1878, Boydell Brothers in order to secure better accommodations for\\ntlieir large and increasing business, removed to the corner of Second\\nand Larned streets. Outgrowing the capacities there, they, in 1880,\\nremoved to their present commodious and thoroughly equipped\\nfactory and salesroom. The facilities for manufacturing are of the\\nlatest and most improved character, and include specially devised\\nmachinery and all necessary appliances for conducting the manu-\\nfacture of jjaints upon the large scale demanded by the extensive\\ntrade relations of the house, which embrace Michigan, Indiana,\\nOhio and Wisconsin, and which is constantly being expanded under\\na strong and spirited demand. The buildings now occupied are a\\nlarge five-story factory, 5.3x75 feet in dimensions, and an additional\\nstructiu-e of five stories, 78x1.38 feet in dimensions. Tlie offices and\\nsalesrooms are at tlie corner of Bates and Congress streets and the\\nworks are located at 39, 41 and 43 Fort street east. A force of thirty\\nskilled hands is employed and the annual output of products aggre-\\ngates in value a quarter of a million. The line of products embraces\\nprepared jiaints, colored leads, zincs, brushes and painters supplies\\ngenerall}-. In the manufacture of paints Detroit is especially promi-\\nnent and distinguished, and in this relation the house of Boydell\\nBrothers is conceded to be one of the leading and most successful.\\n.^o^^ Z^ S^-^\\nV^ r.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009eit v y 5\\ni^\\nWy^^-^-^^^\\nWILLIAJI I5(.lYDEI.L.\\nDETKOIT LINSEED OIL WORKS.\\nThe great fame which attaches to the Englisli family of Boydell and\\nwhicli was chiefly transmitted by John Boydell, who, in 1-785, estab-\\nlished in London a gallery of paintings in illustration of the noted\\ncharacters in Shakespearean drama, has been well and worthily\\nsustained by his American descendants, of wliom John and William\\nBoydell (Boydell Brotherf), of Detroit, have, by their enterprise,\\nenergy and undaunted i3ush in business, furnished the most credit-\\nable emulations. Their illustrious ancestor, John Boydell, became\\nLord Mayor of London, but it has been quite as honorable and\\ndistinguished that Jolin and William Boydell, in the American\\nRepublic should hold as manufacturers the trade of their house\\nhas been pleased to accord, a position which distinguislies and\\nnaturally enobles them.\\nDETROIT LINSEED OIL Yv^ORICS.\\nTiiis industry was established in ISS.) and is a branch of the\\nNational Lhiseed Oil Company, having steailily advanced its inter-\\nests to the occupanc3 of o:i3 of the leading manufacturing identities\\nof the West. The products are Linseed Oil and Oil Meal, for which\\na large demand has been created east of Lake Micliigan. The\\nfacilities for manufacturing are of the best and most modern\\ndescription. The mid building occupied, corner of Lieb and Wight\\nstreets, is 73x100 feet in dimensions, and the seed house, 50x50,\\nwhich, with oil store sheds, afford ample accommodations for their\\nextensive business. The annual output is large and the trade is of\\nconstant ex|)ansion under the influence of increasing demand. The\\nOffices are at 23 East Congi-ess street, near Woodward avenue.\\nPENINSULAR WHITE LEAD AND COLOR WORKS.\\nPi-esident, R. P. Williams Vioe-President and Manager, O. D.\\nGoodell Treasurer, J. S. Farrand Jr. Secretary, A. S. Brooks\\nAuditor, H. C. Clark. Manufacturers of Fine Color.;, dry and in\\noil, Mixed Paints and Painters Goods generally. Factory and\\nOfficej, corner of Lieb and Wight streets. Auion,^ t .ie most prom-\\ninent and important manufacturing institutions of Detroit, and one\\nwhich has, since its foundation, been invested with the highest\\nclaims to recognition and patronage by reason of the exceptionally\\nsalable character of its products, is the Peninsular Wliite Lead and\\nColor Works, established 1)3 Fari-and, Williams Compan\\\\-, in\\n1880. It has since been conducted as a separate and distinct\\nindustry and has so advanced its trade relations as to embrace\\nevery section of the United States from JIainc to California. The\\nfactory buildings cover an area of 150x250 feet, with large area for\\nincrease, etc., and are substantially constructed of brick, tlio main\\nbuilding has three stories and the supiilemental structures, one", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nstory in height, with underlying basements designed specifically to\\nmeet the fullest demands of the business in all of its varied details.\\nTlie factory is coni|ileti l\\\\- ecjuiinied with the most improved\\nmodern machiner}- and appliances, affording facilitii?s for manu-\\nfacturing unsurpassed in the country. The annual output of\\ncolors, paints, and jjainters supplies represents a value of $150,000,\\nand the demand is so constantly increasing as soon to necessitate\\nadditional facilities to properly supply it. Tlie Company is com-\\nposed of some of Detroit s most distinguished and intluential citi-\\nzens whose ambitions are directed to the city s occupation and im-\\nI rovenient of general commercial resources. Tlie capital stock is\\n|;10(1,000 and ^300,000 is under safe investment by the Company.\\nA large force of skillccl bands are given constant employment and\\nevery department is under the ri ;i 1 direction and scrujiulous man-\\nagement of capable and i)ractical superintendents. Detroit pos-\\nessesses in this establishment a most valualile auxibary and one\\nwliich through its enterprising direction commands for the city in\\nits special products the most generally recognized distinction and\\ntrade sustenance.\\nOlivek D. GooDlcrx General JIanager and Vice President of the\\nPeninsular White Lead and Color Works, was born at Cambridge,\\nMass., January 20, is;i;!, and was sprung in the family line from\\nwhich Oliver Cromwell the Protector of England under the Com-\\nmonwealth emanate. Tlie sturdy character of his illustrious ances-\\ntors was committed to him ami the manner of its emulation is\\nshown in the following sketcli. During his early years he re-\\nmemoved with his jiaients to Salem, Mass., where he attended the\\nimblic schools, graduating from the noted Salem High School at\\nthe age of 15. During the six years succeeding, he was in his\\nfather s blacksmith shop, and subsequently accepted a position in\\nthe Globe Locomotive Works at Soutli Boston, where he continued\\nuntil 18. 5, when he went to California, locating at San Francisco\\nwhere he became engaged in the business of repairing steamship\\nmachinery. Returning to Boston in 18G0 by way of the Isthmus,\\nhe resumed his former connection with tlie Globe Locomotive\\nWorks in the relation of erecting naval engines. He erected en-\\ngines in the Housatoiiic and other noted ships of the United States\\nNavy. Inisr)4liewas appointed Assistant Superintendent of the\\nSt.Louis Lead and Oil Company of St.Louis. Mo., which position lie\\nfilled with signal ability and credit until 1808. He subsequently be-\\ncame interested in various enterprises at Elmira, N. Y. In 1871\\nhe was recalled by the St.Louis Lead and Oil Company to act as\\nPENINSULAR WHITE iAi.KD AND COLOR WORICS\\nOUVEK D. OOODELL.\\nSuperintendent, continuing in that relation until 1875, after which\\nhe became again associated in the paint and oil business at the\\nEast. In 1881 lie accepted the position of Superintendent of the Als-\\nton Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, remaining until Septem-\\nber, 188!). Failing health at that time demanding absolute rest, he\\nwent East and sjient some time in revisiting old friends and the\\nscenes of his boyhood. In October, 1889, he was induced to accept\\nthe management of the Peninsular White Lead and C olor Works\\nat Detroit, where he has since been instrumental in largely aug-\\nmenting the interests of the business\\nthrough his jiractical knowledge of its\\nvaried details. Mr. Goodell possesses\\nin a remarkable degree the qualities\\nand characteristics which fit him for\\nthe position he occupie-s and which\\nhe has invested with the most eminent\\ndistinction. He had a son who inher-\\nited liis fatl er s capabilities, who was\\ntlie Superintendent of the manufac-\\nture of paints and varnishes far tlie\\nJohn W. Masury and Sons Company,\\nof Brooklyn, N. Y., a position which\\nhe filled with distinguished zeal and\\nelliiiency. Mr. Goodell was murried\\nat Salem, Mass., and lia l three chil-\\ndren, one son and two daughters. One\\nof his daughters is the wife of Mr. E.\\nA. Ciozier of tiie staff of the New York\\nWoild. His brother, Abner C. Good-\\nell. Jr.. is the author of a compilntiou\\nof the Province laws of Massachusetts,\\npublished in several volumes and gen-\\nI rally recognized as a valualile contri-\\nbution to the legal history of that\\nstate. Ill all of his relations, Mr. Oliver\\nD. Goodell has exhibited the strong\\nphases of character which attach to his\\nexemplary progenitors and is a credit-\\ntable representative of them a.s well\\nas of the city which is the home of his\\nadoption.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n6\u00c2\u00a3\\nBOOTS AND SHOES.\\nShoes anfl foot wear are so essentially promotive of man s\\ncomfort and protection from incident natural foes as to have deter-\\nmined, under the inexorable demands of civilation, excellence of\\nmaterial, as well as skillful and artistic facilities for their proper\\nmanufacture. Boots and shoes express as potently as any other\\nconsideration of human demands for clothing the human form the\\nextent to which custom decrees that fashion shall be obeyed, and\\ntheir fabrication lo conform to this imperative exaction has severely\\ntaxed the ingenious inventions and corresponding abilities of the\\nmanufacturer. In the United States, prior to 1866, the manufac-\\nture of boots and shoes had been almost exclusively confined to\\nthe New England States, following the natural inclination of the\\npeople who had originally instituted the several principles of manu-\\nfactures which have since been so remarkably followed by the\\nhandy and enterprising pioneers of the West.\\nPINGREE SMITH.\\nThe ijioneer boot and shoe manufactory of the West was\\nfounded at Detroit by Messrs. Hazen S. Pingree and Charles H.\\nSmith in 18G6. Despite the untoward influences surrounding their\\nventure the ostensibly unsurmountable competition of the old\\nestablished Eastern manufacturers ami the great difficulty involved\\nin procuring skilled labor these enterprising and undaunted men\\novercame all obstacles and established a business which has steadily\\ngrown and which to-day in point of jjroducts, reputation and dis-\\ntinction, is not excelled by any similar industry in the whole\\ncountry. Such a record bespeaks the careful, consistent and criti-\\ncal management, so vitally necessary to the continued successes,\\nwhich have marked the history of the house and which constitutes\\nit the leading representative of its kind in Detroit and at the West.\\nA fact wliicli belongs to the credit of the house of Pingree Smith\\nis that within their entire administration of twenty-four years they\\nhave never accepted a chattel mortgage, their system of collections\\nhaving been brouglit to the greatest degree of i^erfection\\ntlirough their rare circumspection in making customers. Upon\\ntheir annual sales aggregating over one million dol-\\nlars the uncollectible accounts have not for many years\\nshown a higher average than three tenths of one per\\ncent. The product of the manufacture comprise a full assort-\\nment of hand-sewed, hand-welt, hand-turned, Goodyear sev^ed,\\nHAZEN S. PINGREE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 MAYOR.\\nF. C. PINGREE.\\nMcKay sewed and standard screw, in the finest and medium grades\\nof ladies misses children s, men s, br)ys and youths shoes and\\nslippers, and to secure the highest types of excellence in each sepa-\\nrate line, distinct forces of workmen and superintendents are em-\\nployed in the various departments. Since 1883, when Mr. Charles\\nH. Smith severed his connection, the firm has been composed of\\nMessrs. Hazen S. and F. C. Pingree and J. B. Howarth. It is fitting\\nto instance herewith some account of the personal history of these\\nsterling representatives of an industry which enjoys a supremacy\\nand is recognized as the most extensive of its character in Detroit\\nas well as being among the most distinguished in the country.\\nHon. Hazen S. Pingree, Mayor of Detroit and senior member\\nof the firm of Pingree Smith, was descended from Moses Pingree,\\nwho emigrated to Massachusetts in 1640, settling at Ipswich in that\\nstate. In 1780 the family spread out its branches, one of them lo-\\ncating at Rowley, Mass. and another at Georgetown, Mass.\\nHazen S. Pingree was born on his father s farm at Denmark,\\nMaine, in 1840^ and in his earlier years was engaged in\\nagricultural labor. He owes to this source his strong\\nphysical constitution and splendid vitality. His limited early edu-\\ncation was derived from the common schools, and at the age of\\nfourteen he was apprenticed to the trade of shoe cutter at Hopkin-\\nton, Mass., continuing at work in that relation until the call for\\ntroops in 1863, when he enlisted to complete the quota of 47 from\\nthat Hamlet, joining Company F. of the First Massachusetts\\nHeavy Artillery. He was on several occasions taken prisoner and\\nbore confinement at Gordonsville and Lynchburg, Virginia and\\nSalisburj-, N. C, being subsequently removed to Andersonville and\\nthe stockade at Millen, Georgia, from which he effected his escape.\\nComing to Detroit at the close of hostilities, he became engaged as\\na salesman with the hoot and shoe house of H. P. Baldwin Co. of\\nthat city, but soon afterward became associated with Mr. Charles\\nH. Smith in buying produce for the Eastern market. Mr. Pingree,\\nin 1866, bought the fixtures of H. P. Baldwin Co s shoe factory\\nand entered into partnership with Mr. Charles H. Smith. At this\\ntime their combined capital did not exceed i{ l,500 and they only\\nemployed eight hands. The sales of their products for the first\\nyear amounted to nearly $20,000. In 1883. Mr. Smith retired from\\nthe firm, and Messrs. F. C. Pingree and J. B. Howarth were ad-\\nmitted to partnership. Tlie business has had a phenomenal growth", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64\\nDKTROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nim\\nJ. r.. IIOWAltTH.\\nand tu-d;iy ranks witli the lar^.sl in tlio country. Steady cmploy-\\niiient is given to 1,000 hands and their products aggregate 3,000\\npairs of shoes per day. Mr. Pingree liad always heeu averse to\\nseeking ])olitieal lienors, and not until he was persistently urged to\\naccept the nomination for Mayor in issi), beyond his continual pro-\\ntests, would li(^ consent to make the run for lliat ollice to which he\\nwas elec-ted by a large majority. Tliis position he has ably and\\nconscientiously lilled and largely to tlie benefit of the city in various\\nways. Mr. Pingree is a member of Detroit Post, No. 384, G. A. R.,\\nand of several social and athletic clubs. lie was married in 1872\\nto Miss Francis A. Gilbert, of Ml. Clemens, Michigan, and two\\ndaughters and a son have blessed their union. lie is a regular at-\\ntendant of the Wootlward Avenue Baptist Church, and in all of\\nhis relations has ever maintained an incorruptible integrity and an\\numblemislied character.\\nF. C. Pl.\\\\(ilu;E, a brother of Ilazen S. Pingree. and a mem-\\nber of the firm of Pingree Smith, was born at Denmark, Maine,\\nin 1848, but removed with Ids parents to llopkinton, Mass., in his\\nearly youth. He came to Detioit in lb 68 and took cliarge of the\\nmanufacturing departments and designing of styles and patterns,\\na relation he has since ably and meritoriously sustained, lie be-\\ncame a member of the firm in 1883 and lias labored assiduously in\\nthe interest and advancement of its business. Mr. Pingree is a\\ntrustee in the First Congregational Clmrch and a Director of the\\nCity Savings Haidc, of Detroit. He is an exemplary citizen, a faith-\\nful factor in his business, an l a man whose aims and ambitions are\\nalways i)ledged to the advancement of Detmit in the surest and\\nmost prosperous ways.\\nJ. P.. HoWAUTH, member of the lirm of Pingree Smith, was\\nborn in 18o8 at (Jranileville, Slass., and came to Detroit in 18T5,\\ntaking a position in the office department of the house of Pingree\\nSmitli. He was admitted to partnership in 1883 and has general\\ncharge of thoofliee work, a position he has invested with the most\\nsignal merit and eminent distinction. Mr. Ilowarth possesses the\\nmost cons|iicuous executive abilities, and his superior numagcment\\nof detail in the ollice department has essentially contributed to the\\nmarked success of the great house of Pingree Smith. He is a\\nvestryman and the treasurer of Emmamiel I .piscopal Church and a\\nmember of the Executive Board of the Merchants and Manufac-\\nturers Exchange, of Detroit. Mr. Howarth is a man iu whom\\nare blended the most sterling characteristics of head and heart;\\na ripe judgment, and a tireless devotion to duty.\\nSNEDICOR H.\\\\THA\\\\VAY,\\nManufacturers of Boots, Shoes, Packs, Moccasins and Hunting\\nand Sporting Goods, 124 and 126 Jeflferson avenue. This firm\\noriginated at Tecumseh, Michigan, in 1872, and removed to Detroit\\nin 1880, since which time it has had a remarkable successful busi-\\nness career due to exceptionally high character of prcxlucts and a\\nju licious and conservative management of detads. It justly takes\\na meritorious rank among Detroit s leading and prominent manu-\\nfacturing industries. The line of ro(luets end)races men s custom\\nboots and shoes in calf, kip and grain, lumbermen s and log drivers\\nboots, mocca.\u00c2\u00abin8 and hunting and si)orting goods, for which has\\nbeen acquired an e.xteiisivc trade in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana,\\nand other sections as far west as the Missouri river. The record of\\nhouse has been one of continuous advances, and during 1887 it aug-\\nmented its trade by fully thirty-three and one-third [ler cent., an\\naccomplishment winch was surpassed in 1890 by an increase of one\\nhundred per cent, over the i)reviou8 year. In ad lition to the\\nproducts of the firm in the various lines represented, a large and\\nwell seli cted stock of the manufactures of noted eastern houses is\\ncarried for wluch an extensive and profitable trade has been created.\\nThe marked successes which have been secured by Messrs. Snedicor\\nHathaway have been due not alone to superior quality of\\nproducts, but to the management of details and the valuable assist-\\nance of the clerical force and the representative traveling salesmen.\\nSNEDICOK HATHAWAY S HIHIT AND SIIOK FACTORY.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n65\\nC. M. SNEDICOR.\\nPerhaps no manufacturing institution of the great West has liad a\\nmore notable and a more prosperous career and none more entitled\\nto the distinction of being eminent coumiercial factors. Tlie firm\\nhas throughout its business history maintained a conservative and\\nprogressive policy and has steadily and surely won its way to the\\nprominent and leading position it occupies which invests it with\\nan identity in the trade alike honorable as distinguished. In the\\nrelation of hunting and sporting goods there have been ac-\\nquired exceptionally high grade products and extensive sales over\\nthe great range of territory controlled by the house. A large\\nnumber of skilled workmen are given constant employment and\\nthe annual output of the factory represents a value of ilS. iO.OOU.\\nThe building used for manufacturing purposes is five stories above\\na coumiodious basement and is 50x125 in dimensions. It is\\nthoroughly piovided with new and improved machinery and appli-\\nances especially adapted to the nature of the produces and has a\\ncapacity of 1.000 jiairs per day. The reputation of these goods is\\nvery high and dealers find in them profitable considerations. This\\nfirm is among Detroit s influential and enterprising maiuifacturers\\nwho have distanced competition and established for their products\\na large and constantly expanding sale through the districts\\ncoveL ed by their traveling salesmen. In this species of maiiu-\\nfactures as great skill and precision are required as in any\\nother relation, as well as a management and direction of in-\\ncumbent essentials consistent with enterprise and conservatism.\\nIn all of these particulars, Messrs. Snedicor Hathaway have\\nachieved a remarkable proficiency and afforded an example fraught\\nwith the most pronounced and most satisfactory success. To such\\ntrade factors as these Detroit owes its present rank as a great manu-\\nfacturing center, as being of the men who have accomplished the\\nthe most established memorials of progress and trade elevation.\\nMr. C. M. Snedicor, the sole proprietor as successors to the business\\nestablished by Snedicor Hathaway, has carried the full responsi-\\nbility and worthily continued the great interests involved. The\\nfirm moved to their present building May 1st, 1891 and have fitted\\nout a model factory. It is one of the strongest and handsomest\\nbuilding.s in the city.\\nH. S. ROBINSON COMPANY\\nManufacturers of fine shoes and wholesale dealers in boots,\\nshoes and rubbers, No. s 99 to 105 Jefferson avenue and 268 Congress\\nstreet, corner Fifth. This house was established in 1865 with H. S.\\nRobinson as junior member of the firm and after some changes in\\npartnership lelations has been resolved into its present firm name.\\nThe individual names of the firm as now constituted are Messrs. H.\\nS. Robinson, Charle.s E. Suiith and Richard G. Elliott. The exten-\\nsiva storage and sales-rooms in their imposing buildnig on Jefferson\\navenue affoid every requisite convenience and accommodation for\\nthe varied details of the business. The building, which is the new\\nPalms block is situated at the corner of Jefferson avenue and Shelby\\nstreet and is one of the handsomest, most substantial and massive\\nstructures in the city. The west half of the block from No. s\\n99 to 105 has a frontage of seventy-six feet on the avenue running\\nback 100 feet and is five stories high with a basement. These spac-\\nious quarters are occupied exclusively by H. S. Robinson Com-\\npany, who require the entire room for there extensive business.\\nThe basement which is a splendid storeroom twelve feet between\\njoists, is used for the rubber department for which it is admirably\\nadapted. The firm have the general agency for the celebrated Can-\\ndee Rubber Company s goods and do a very large business in the\\nwhole line of rubber footwear, handling several lines of second and\\nthird (juality grades in addition to their specialty of the Candee\\ngoods. The first, second and third floors are used entirely for offices,\\nsample rooms and salesrooms. The offices situated on the first floor\\nare very spacious and attractive and are furnished with every con-\\nvenience and modern improvement that can assist in the rapid\\ntransaction of the business. The upper floors are devoted to storage\\nand at times are insufficient for the large and varied stock. The\\nFactory, 268 Congress street west, is fully equipped with entirely\\nnew machinery and all the appliances of the latest and most im-\\nproved description for the manufacture of fine shoes. The firm\\nmake a specialty of manufacturing fine hand turned, hand sewed\\nH. S. ROBINSON COMPANY S FACTORY.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nand Iiand welt, together -with the higher grades of machine Bewed\\nwork, using only high grades of stot-k, and employ none but skilled\\nworkmen, many of whom have been in their employ for the past\\nfifteen to twenty years. The manufacture of high grades of fine\\nshoes will be pushed stronger than ever before and some new\\nspecialties are being constantly introduced. The firm also control\\nan e.Ktensive wholsesale traile in boots and shoes of every descrip-\\ntiim known to the trade, for which they find ready sale in the lead-\\ning westei-n markets. The business has constantly grown into its\\npresent extensive proportions, and the annual out-jmt now aggre-\\ngates in value over ^800,000 and embraces as a trade territory, the\\nstates of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota and\\nWisconsin, in which the interests of the house are effectually main-\\ntained by a corps of twelve traveling men most of whom have\\nbeen identified with the house for many years and all control a\\nvaluable trade in their respective sections. The firm take great\\npride in the character of their representatives on the road. The\\nmost thorough system is enforced in every department of the busi-\\nnesss, and the reputation and popularity of the house have been of\\nuninterrui)tc l continuance. The members of tlie firm are. promi-\\nnent in the list of Detroit s distinguished trade factor.s, who have\\ne.ssentially C(mtril)Ute l to the city s elevation in general commercial\\nand industrial relations.\\nRICHARD HENRY FYFE.\\nDescending from a long line of Scotia s sons is found the name\\nof the noted shoe merchant. Richard Henry Fyfe. His grand-\\nK. H. FYFE.\\nfather, James I ytff (thi name so spelli-d in liis ilay) came to\\nAmerica one year jirevious to the Revolutionary war in which he\\nserved with the colonial foi-ces. He married Klizabeth Strong and\\nsoon after moved to Salisbury, Vt., his wife coming from one of the\\nmost distinguished New England families. .Several of his descend-\\nants were noted in science and literature. He died January 1st\\nl\u00c2\u00abl:!, leaving seven children, the youngest being Claudius I.ycius\\nFyfe, who wasboi-n January lird, lTi)S. His early life was devoted to\\nagricultural )Mirsiiils. later in the leather and tanning business.\\nIn ls:!T he eniisralcd to Jlicliigan, soon after he returned to New-\\nYork from wheiH(. he eventually settled in Michigan his last davs\\nbeing spent in Hillsdale, at which i)lace he died in 1S81. His wife s\\ndeath occurred in 184.S. Six children survived them, all being girls\\nexcepting the youngest, the subject of this sketch, who was born at\\nOak Orchard Creek, Orleans County, N. Y., Jannary 5th 1839,\\nAfter his parents had returned to Michigan, Richard Henry Fyfe,\\nwas placed at School at Litchfield but at the earlj- age of eleven\\nwas obliged to begin the battle of life for himself, becoming a clerk\\nin a drug store in Kalamazoo and subseijuently at HilUdale.\\nAlwaj s studiously inclined, he rapidly arose and develniitd the\\nsterling business cjualifications which have been the foundation of\\nhis success. In lS. iT he came to Detroit entering the employ of T.\\nK. Adams, dealing in the shoe trade where he remained about six\\nyears; afterwanls serving with Rucker Jlorgan in the same line.\\nIn 18C5 he purcha.sed the business of C. C. Tyler Co. who had suc-\\nceeded T. K. Adams, their establishment being then located at their\\npresent place of business viz: Fyfe Co s dov-n store 101 Wo xl-\\nward ave. After several struggles with reverses and strong com-\\nIietition ho has now reached the possession of one of the finest estab-\\nlishments m the west. In 1881 he bought out the shoe trade of A.\\nR. Jlorgan successor of Rucker Morgan located at 106 Woodward\\navenue; from tliat date to 18s. conducting a branch at that station\\nand laterly opening a new store at 183 Woodward avenue, where\\ntwoj-earsof increasing business foired them to add an extension\\nof 185 AVood ward avenue. A year and a half later they added the\\nbasement bargain department in the north side and again h ere\\nobliged to extend the basement to the south extremity. They\\nemploy at both establishments over 200 assistants. Mr. Mark B.\\nStevens has been a partner in the business with Mr. Fyfe since 187.!,\\nand under the skillful management of these gentlemen and their\\nstaff, they have attained an enviable reinitation in the important\\nbranch of their industry and control one of the most extensive cus-\\ntom and retail establishments in their line of trade. Mr. Fyfe is\\nvice ])resident of the Citizens Savings Bank, president of the Wood-\\nward Avenue Improvement Association, director of the Brush\\nElectric Light Co., trustee Detroit College of Medicine and interested\\nin various other business enterprises.\\nA. C. McGRAW CO.\\nThis establishment dates from 1833 and was founded by\\nMr. Alexander C. McGraw who still continues at the head of the\\nhouse. The other members of the firm, as now existing, are\\nSamuel G. Caskey, Wm. A. McGraw, Thomas S. McGraw and\\nFrederick W. Broad. The building used as a factory is six stories\\nin height. 88x110 feet in dimensions and is thoroughly\\nequipped with modern machinery and appliances for manufac-\\nturing on the large scale required by the extensive nature of the\\nbusiness. The daily output is fourteen hundred airs of boots,\\nshoes and rubbers. The annual sale of these goods represent a\\nvalue of about $1,000,000. The trade territory embraces the\\nwestern and southwestern states, as far as Washington west and\\nsouth as far as Kentucky. This house has had a career extending\\nover half a century, marked by abundant success and conservatism\\nand enterprise in the management of its affairs. The members of\\nthe firm are acknowledged as among Detroit s most influential citi-\\nzens, ever ambitious to advance leading conimen-ial interests and\\ngeneral prosperity, in the achievement of which tliev liave proven\\nearnest and iirogressive factors.\\nK. r. I!ai,i win 2nd Company are extensive manufacturers of\\nBoots and Sliues at 41 and 48 Woodward avenue\\nREAL ESTATE.\\nShortly after the fire which destroyed the City of Detroit in\\n1805, Congress passed an act giving to the city all that tract of land\\nknown as the Governor Judges Plan and ten thousand\\nacres besides. The ten thousand acres constitute what is\\nknown as the Ten Thousand Acre Tract, and the land on\\neither side of Woodward avenue generally called the Park Lots.\\nThe old residents of the city were permitted to select lots in the\\nnew plan in exchange for those owned or occupied by them prior to\\nthe fire. The remaining lots aiid the ten thousand acres were to be\\nsold and the jjroceeds used to build a court house and jail. The in-\\nhabitants were quick enough to select their donation lots but when\\nit came to the sales little progress was made.\\nA great auction sale of real estate took place March 6, 1809\\nwhen the Park Lots were sold. All the land between Sproat and\\nHenry streets. Woodward and Cass avenues, sold in one ])arcel to", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n67\\nSolomon Sibley for $123.52. On the same day John R. Williams\\npurchased the entire tract of land lying north of Adams avenue\\nand extending about one hundred feet nortli of Montcalm street\\nand reaching easterly from Woodward avenue to the Brush farm\\nline, for |188.75. In fact the entire tract of land reaching from\\nAdams avenue to a short distance south of the railroad crossing,\\nbounded on the westerly side by Cass avenue and on the easterly\\nside by (he Brush farm including all of the Park Lots was tliat day\\nsold for $1,882.09.\\nTlie war of 1812 came on; Detroit was surrendered to the\\nBritish, and after its evacuation money was scarce; few new people\\nwere coming to the west; no produce was raised for exportation\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nindeed much was imported; furs were about the only exportation.\\nNavigation was by sail boats; travel by horseback or on foot\u00e2\u0080\u0094 no\\nroads no real estate could be sold because there were no buyers.\\nThe jail was not built until about 1818, and the Court House not\\nuntil about 1823.\\nA large portion of the lands in the Ten Tliousand Acre Tract\\nwere taken by Thomas Palmer and David C. McKinstry as pay-\\nment on the contract for erecting tlie Court House, but the final\\ntransfer of something over 5,500 acres was not made until 1829.\\nC. M. BURTON.\\nAs early as 1817 an attempt was made to dispose of some of the\\ngovernment lands but the result was not satisfactory. The mone-\\ntary depression of 1818 and subsequent years was followed by a\\ngradual increase of business in all directions. The steamboat\\nWalk-in-the- Water, was followed, after its disaster, by the Superior,\\nand then shortly by other steamers until a daily line was estab-\\nlished between Detroit and Buffalo. The Erie canal had been\\nopened and railroads were being talked of, though few knew what\\na raih oad was. It was seriously proposed to make a canal\\nacross Michigan, using the Rouge, Grand, Calamazoo (as it was\\nthen spelled) and St. Joseph Rivers for feeders.\\nIn 1835 and 1836 everybody seemed to have taken the Western\\nfever and during the summer months of those years one thousand\\nstrangers landed each day in this city. The state was growing in\\npopulation and decreasing in size. The settlement of the Toledo\\nwar question had taken Toledo from the state and the entrance of\\nMicliigan into the Union had deprived us of all territory west of\\nLake Michigan, except the upper peninsula, not tlien very populous.\\nA constitutional convention had been held and a demand made of\\nthe general government to make Michigan a state, and\\nthereafter she acted as a state electing her own governor,\\nsenators and representatives. In our Legislature it had been\\nproposed that the state should bear the name of Huron\\nand that the present state of Wisconsin (or as it was\\nsometime.:) spelled Ouisconsin) should bear the name of\\nMichigan, bvit tiie proposition was defeated.\\nIn 1836 Chicago had 3,279 inhabitants and Detroit 6,937. Real\\nestate dealers went wild not only on city property but on farming\\nlands. The Detroit Journal of June 10, 1835, says:\\nBuying and selling is the order of the day. Our city is filled\\nwith speculators who are all on tip toe. Several snug fortunes of\\nfrom $10,000 to $20,000 have already been made. Gov. Cass has\\ndisposed of the front part of his farm, as far back as Lamed street\\nfor $100,000, and on the 17th it says: real estate is advancing in\\nthis city beyond all precedent.\\nThe C ass farm had belonged to the Macomb family and was\\npurchased by Gov. Cass in 1816 for $13,000, but there were\\nmany outstanding titles in the various lieirs and it was not until\\nabout 1830 that he considered his title perfect and ready to be put\\non the market.\\nIn 1835 a syndicate, composed of DeGarmo Jones, Augustus S.\\nPorter, Oliver Newberry, Eurotas P. Hastings, Henry Wliiting.\\nShubael Conant, Cltarles C. Trowbridge, Elon Farnswortli, Henry\\nS. Cole and Edmund A. Brusli, purchased the whole Cass farm\\nfront, soutli of Earned street, for $100,000, giving Mr. Cass their\\nmortgage and bond for the full amount. They at once platted the\\nland and put it on the market. Gov. Cass also platted other\\nportions of his farm and sold them at auction a few days later.\\nOn the 15th of July, 1835, the Journal says: The Cass farm\\ncost the present owner $12,000, nineteen years ago, and within five\\nyears the farm of nearly 500 acres lias been offered for $36,000. At\\nthe recent sales, less than twenty-four acres have been sold for\\n$168,000. Another sale took place on Thursday last, consisting of\\nseventy-five acres on tlie Gov. Porter farm, two miles below tlie\\ncity, which sold for $10,340. The whole farm contains 350 acres\\nand was purchased witliin two years for less than $6,000. A vil-\\nlage plat\u00e2\u0080\u0094 called Belgrade was laid out on the River Road ju.st\\neast of the River Rouge Bridge and just west of Delray. This was\\nowned by Henry M. Campbell (father of the late Judge James V.\\nCampbell) and Levi Brown. This village has so completely dropped\\nout of sight that it does not appear on any modern map, and few\\npeople know even of its existence. Another village called Cass-\\nandra was platted by the late Judge B. F. H. Witherell. Cass-\\nandra was eight miles north of the city and occupied land wliich\\nhas again been recently platted into village lots, but for years it has\\nbeen cultivated as farm lands, deserted by those who purchased in\\nthe wild times of 36. As an inducement to purchasers, Mr. Wither-\\nell advertised that an abundance of iron ore had been discovered in\\nthe immediate neighborhood of Cassandra, and work could be given\\nto all purchasers, as miners. Cities and villages sprung up all over.\\nThe city of Flat Rock, the city of Gibraltar, and many others, only\\nto be found now in the recorded plats in the Registry office.\\nThen came the first mutterings of the distant storm. One day\\nthe paper said: The eastern money market is very tight, showing\\nthe results of the extravagant dealings in land. A few days\\nlater the result was shown in lesser sales here: then those holding\\nencumbered lands sold for what they could get \u00e2\u0080\u0094then came the\\ncrash and the little real estate dealers were forced to dispose of\\nwhat they had or the sheriff would sell them out. The syndicate\\nthat had purchased the Cass farm front, surrended up their rights\\nto Gov. Cass, probably all of them poorer for the operation. Jlichi-\\ngan was a state, but the times were dull and business had to build\\nitself up again as it had in the years succeeding 1818. Again one\\nadvance after another was made until 1856. There were nearl_v ten\\ntimes as many subdivision plats filed in the Register s office from\\n1851 to 1856 as there were from 1857 to 1864. The city had greatly\\nenlarged its area in 1857, but nothing could prevent the certain\\nresult of that over speculation that had preceded. There are many\\ncitizens in Detroit who remember the utter stagnation of business\\nthat followed 1857. But the real estate business, as well as trade in\\nother departments, began to increase greatly after the war, and in\\n1872 and 1873 we went wild again on real estate speculation. Every", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\noffice obtainable on Griswold street was occupied by a real estate\\ndealer. Everj-body, who could find nothing else to do, seemed to\\nturn his attention to the purchase and sale of real estate. The pre-\\nceding eras of exaltation and depression seemed to hare left no\\nimpression on them. Land sold for more per acre in 1873 than can\\nbe obtaintd for it to-day. Then came the revolution and the\\ndisasters the mortgage foreclosures the evictn)n of those holding\\nunder contracts the closing of the shops and factories tlie long\\nyears of waiting for tlie ti le to turn\u00e2\u0080\u0094 then came the turn. My\\nrecollection is that the large sale of land by Ir. fharles B. Lothrop\\nas administrator of the Theodore J. and Dennis J. Campau estates,\\nin 1878, was tlie first indication of the upward change. The real\\nestate he sold at auction went, as we deem it now, very low, but for\\nthe times, he got good prices and the tendency from that moment\\nwas uiiwards.\\nSince 1883 1 have maile an annual statement of the amount of\\nreal estate sales as shown by the County records, and the amount is\\nas follows:\\n188.3 !I.8S0..38:5\\n(I,:. si).(r, i;\\nlii.:{st;.iii()\\nll,(i)!). IIS\\nU.liOt.lfll)\\nUM), T.li-. o\\nir)..V)7,7iU\\n2n.7:!i).77;5\\nC. M. BCKTON\\nCl.\\\\rence M. Burton was born November 18, lSo;j in the min-\\ning regions of California, where his parents had gone to get cured\\nof the gold fever. His parents brought him with them to\\nHastings in this state in the year 18.w, where they still reside.\\nAfter passing through the Hastings high school he entered tlie\\nliterary department of the Univei sity of Michigan in 180!), but did\\nnot graduate in that department. He graduated from the law depart-\\nment in the spring of 1874 and immediately came to Detroit and\\nentered the law office of Ward Palmer, devoting his time almost\\nexclusively to the examination of land titles. Tlie experience thus\\nobtained and the researclies made by him in the abstract office (of\\nwliich Mr. AVard was part proprietor) qualified him for the active\\nwork of abstract making, and it was no new work to him when he\\nobtained active, working interest in the Wayne County Abstract\\noffice in the spring of 1883. A year later he took the exclusive con-\\n1884.\\n188.-).\\n188(\\n18S7\\n1888.\\n1S89.\\n1890.\\nW. W. HANNAN.\\nWILLIAM Y. HAMLIN.\\ntrol by buying out the interest of E. C. Skinner and has remainad\\nat the head of the institution since. He has made liiniself familiar\\nwith the history of the city and is an ardent collector of all materi-\\nals whicli the nature of liis business as an examiner of titles would\\ninterest him, books of travel and history relative t t!ie city and\\nstate, documents and unpublished manuscripts of like historical\\ncharacter and inai s and plans of the city and the river, some quite\\nrare and of value in such connection. The abstract office of Mr.\\nBurton is the largest in Micliigan and, outside of Chicago, is one of\\nthe largest in the West, and for completeness is probably not e.\\\\;-\\neelled anywhere.\\nW. A\\\\ HANNAN,\\nHas had his hand on tlie lever labeled push about\\nas often as any man in Detroit, and certainly no one has\\nhelped the city to forge aliead in the matter of building, and in\\nthe direction of general and decidedly apparent improvement, more\\nthan he. It is ((iiite likely tliat apart of h is u liiuenchaljle activity is\\ndue to the fact that ho first gazed upon this land of the free on July 4,\\n18. in Kochester, New York, a day cl dmed by the sniall boy as\\npeculiarly his own, and one well calculated to give a youth appear-\\ning on that star-spangled day the liveliest kind of a reception.\\nEverybody gets a lively reception who goes to see him at the Han-\\nnan Real Estate E.xchange, 153 Uriswold street. As he talks to you,\\nhis superfluous energy flows out at his fingers en Is, for he draws\\nquite presentable pictures wliile his brain is workin.g, and his li|)S\\ndetailing some interesting transaction in his line. But his handi-\\nwork does not detach his attention or dissipate his forces, as is so\\noften the case, and when througli talking, every sense of the man is\\nalert and ready to be concentralc 1 on a big deal. Though born\\nin New York, he is esentially a Michigan man by force of education\\nand inclination. He came to Dowagiac with his parents when only\\ntwo years old, and after graduating from the high school there took\\na preparatory course at Oberlin College. Entering the University\\nof Michigan in 1870, he took his degree of B. A., then graduated\\nfrom the de|)arti.ient of law in 1883. As can be imagined by those\\nwho kiiosv him, bo took his vacations working. Wlien quite young\\nhe gathered in the jiennies by selling pop corn and lemonade, and\\nduring his college vacations conducted with some other collegians, a\\nseries t.f railway excursions, which proved very popular and succes.s-\\nful. and where realy thorucleua for the extended system of summer", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n69\\nexcursions for which the various points of Michigan are noted. He\\nfound time to gain considerable fame among athletes as a sprint\\nrunner, and was enrolling and engrossing clerk of the House of\\nRepresentatives in the winter of 1881-83. In 1883 he started in\\nprofessional life as a lawyer, but this was too slow for him, and\\nhe soon found his natural vocation in the real estate business,\\nwhich has developed to an extent far beyond his most sanguine\\nexpectations. He was first connected with the firm of Hannan\\nSnow in the Buhl block. Snow doing the outside work. Then\\nHibbard Baker had a subdivision on Woodward avenue which\\nhe wanted worked up, and he gave Mr. Hannan permission to\\nuse an unlimited quantity of printers ink. This was his oppor-\\ntunity and he improved it. When Mr. Waterman died in 1885,\\nhis businef s naturally fell into Hannan s hands and this has more\\nthan doubled from year to year since. To enumerate all the great\\nrealty in which W. W. Hannan has been engaged would be tedious;\\nbut among the largest may be mentioned the Hammond building\\ndeal, representing nearly fl, 000,000. Another was the property\\nof the Unitarian church and Mrs. Menzie s, costing |125,000, the\\n$30,000 site purchased liy Mrs. Hammond for the University build-\\ning, and $123,000 for the new Hudson building. He has also closed\\na deal for 300 aci es to a syndicate of city railway men; terms pri-\\nvate. He induced E. W. Voigt to buy 116 acres on Woodward\\navenue, opposite the four mile house, for $42,500, on which he\\ncould clear $250,000 at any time if he would sell. The Hannan\\nReal Estate Exchange has a commercial insurance department\\ncomprising several of the best companies in the world, which is\\nrapidly growing under the management of E. W. Porter, and prom-\\nises to be one of the most useful factors in the real estate business\\nof the city, the two seeming to be naturally connected in interests.\\nIt also controls the largest renting department in the business of\\nthe city, has from 500 to 1,000 acreage in subdivisions, and is con-\\nnected with twenty or thirty syndicates. Mr. Hannan is a member\\nof Chi Psi college fraternity, which numbers Senator Palmer, Eon\\nM. Dickinson and other prominent Jlicliigan men among its mem-\\nbers. He is a member of the Michigan Bowling C^lub, Detroit Club,\\nRushmere Fishing and Shooting Club, is a stockholder in the City\\nSavings Bank, Peninsular Savings Bank and American Savings and\\nLoan Association. The Hannan Real Estate Exchange has recently\\nenlarged its quarters so that with its present conveniencies it is the\\nbest fitted office of its kind in the city. This Exchange is consid-\\nTHOM.\\\\S N. FORDYCE.\\nHOMER WARREN.\\nered an authority on values in all portions of the city, as was well\\nillustrated in the condemnation proceedings of the Union depot, in\\nwhich the services of this agency were in constant demand. In-\\nvestors desiring to place their moneys where they will surely be\\nsafe and at the same time yield them a large percentage, will find\\nin this Exchange all they can desire. Home seekers who are de-\\nsirous of placing their hard earned savings so that they may enjoy\\ntheir old age in peace and happiness need have no fear of putting\\nthemselves into the hands of this Exchange where they will have\\nthe advantage of the many years experience of its proprietors, with\\nthe benefit to result from their tact and extensive dealings. A de-\\npartment of this firm to which we wish especially to draw the\\nreader s attention is its renting department under the management\\nof Mr. Thomas B. Goodwillie, who is also cashier of the Exchange.\\nOne needs only to meet this employe to learn with what kindness,\\ncourtesy and painstaking he meets every want of the applicant for\\ninformation. Persons owning houses, stores or real estate of any\\nkind will save many times the small fee asked by the real estate\\nbroker by leaving the same in his hands for general care and super-\\nintendence. For the collection of rents, payment of taxes with\\nprompt remittances of revenue etc. is a desi(feratum for which\\nlandlords long have sought.\\nHAMLIN FORDYCE.\\nWilliam Y. Hamlin, senior member of the firm of Hamlin\\nFordyce, was born in Marshall County, Mississipiii, December 9, 1846\\nand \\\\^as educated at Menqjhis,Tennesee and the St. Louis University.\\nAfter leaving school, he entered the First National Bank of Memphis\\nas discount clerk, becoming receiving teller, then paying teller.\\nHe remained here for eight years and became cashier of the Emmett\\nBank of Memphis. Subsequently he engaged for two years in the\\ncotton trade at Memphis. In 1880 he came to Detroit as manager of\\nthe Godfrey estate in which his first wife held an interest. He has\\nsince made his home in Detroit and has devoted his attention to the\\nManagemen of the Godfrey estate and extensive building and real\\nestate operations. In 1886 he established the firm of Hamlin\\nFordyce which has been very successful has made extensive pur-\\nchases of property at Iron Mountain, Michigan, upon which in 1890\\nthey had erected thirty houses. The firm also own large tracts of\\ntimbered lands in Eastern Kentucky. Mr Hamlin is active in busi-\\nness and is enterprising and progressive. He has accumulated con-", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": ";o\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nsiderable property in Detroit and makes investments with a sagacity\\nderived from his long and intimate association with hirge financial\\ninstitutions. He is a member of the various Detroit cluljs and\\nretains his membership in tlie noted Tennessee Club of Memphis.\\nHe has been twice married, liis present wife being a Miss Ht-lm, of\\nNewport, Kentucky, by whom he has one child. Mrs. Hamlin is a\\nnative of Havana, Cuba, at which point her father served as the\\nspecial commissioner of the Con federate States during the four years\\nof the civil war. Mr. Hamlin has been an extensive traveler, having\\nvisited nearly all of the most interesting countries in the world. His\\nsketches of travel published a year or two ago in the Detroit Free\\nPres i, covering as they did, a journey by dahabeah on the Nile,\\nexi)eriences of tent life in the Hnly Land, archaeolngical researches\\nin Greece and wandernigs through Norway, Sweden, Denmark and\\nRussia attracted widespread notice anl most favorable criticism\\nfrom sources that must have proved very gratifying to the writer.\\nThomas N. Fordyce, member of the real estate firm of Hamlin\\nFordyce, was born in A irginia in ISfll and came to Michigan in\\n1883. He followed the business of salesman until IHS. i when he\\nengaged with Mr. AVilliam Y. Ilamlin in the sale of real estate on a\\ncommission,, selling during the first j car vacant lots to tlie value of\\n.^180,000. In October, 18MG, he was admitted to partnersliip with\\nMr. Hamlin under the firm name of Hamlin Fordyce. He has\\nbeen especially active in the business and with Mr. Hamlin has\\nacquired extensive real estate and other interests. The firm own a\\nlarge subdivision at Iron Mountain, Michigan, upon which up to\\nFebruary, 1891, tliey had erected over forty houses. They are also\\nheavy stockholders in the Bessemer Spike Nail and Staple Company,\\nof Chicago of which Mr. Hamlin is vice-president and both he and\\nMr. Fordyce members of its lioard of directors of \\\\V. N. Carlisle\\nCompany harness manufacturers, of which Jlr. Hamlin is ])resident\\nand Mr. Fordyce secretary and Treasurer, and of tlie Michigan\\nBrewing Comi)any. capitalized at .*T5,0(I0, of which Mr. Fordyce is\\npresident and of the stock of which he and Mr. Ilamlin are tlie largest\\nholders. Mr. Fordyce has demonstrated in the real estate and other\\ninterests with which he is associated conspicious abilities, and for so\\nyoung a man a ripe judgment and an enterprising and conservative\\ndirection,\\nHOMER WARREN,\\nWho has handsome real estate oltices in the Buhl Block, was\\nboru near Romeo, Michigan, December 1st, 180.5. As his father\\nC. W. HARR.\\\\n.\\nE. C. VAN HUSAN.\\nwas a Methodist minister, he traveled over a good portion v( the\\nstate in his youth, and obtained a good English education, coming\\nto Detroit at the age of seventeen. He first entered the bookstore\\nof J. M. Arnold Company, where he remained for six years, and\\nthere became cashier in the Custom House, which he retained for\\nnine years. For the past three years he has been engaged in the\\nreal estate business, being formerly located in the Moffat Block.\\nHis first year s transactions were largely in Woodward avenue\\nacreage property, selling .i;8i:5,Onn worth the first year. His present\\nsubdivisions are Euclid and Belmont avenues, both Woodward\\navenue subdivisions, Osborii McCallum s Fourteenth avenue sub-\\ndivision, north of the Boulevard, the Waltz subdivision, and a tract\\non Ferry avenue, near the Peninsular Car Works. Mr. Warren\\ndoes a general business in subdivisions, building lots, residences,\\nbusiness property etc., both on commission and speculation.\\nAssociated with him are Frank C. Andrews, CuIIen Brown and\\nGeorge C. Morse, all young men full of energy and ambition. Jlr.\\nWarren is not only a first-class business man, but one of the most\\npopular society men in Detroit. He is a memlter of the Detroit\\nClub, Micliigan C lul;. Lako SuClair Shooting and Fishiiij; Club, and\\ntlu Detroit Athletic Club. He is widely and favorably known as a\\nvocalist of a rare order. He has been a member of the Fort Street\\nPresbyterian church choir for ten years, and has probably sung for\\nsweet charity s sake more times than any other man in Detroit.\\nC. W. HARRAH,\\nIs one of Detroit s youngest real estate men, having been born\\nat Davenport, Iowa, February 23nd, 1863. He came to this city at\\nthe age of fourteen and after graduating from the high school and\\nbusiness college, went to work for J. K. Burnham Company, and\\nwas with H. P. Baldwin 2nd Comi)any, for six years. In March\\n1880, after six month s investigation he started in the real estate\\nbusiness bj buying a tract of land in the northeastern jiart of the\\ncity, and subdividing it at a time wlien there was much less compe-\\ntition in tliis line than thei is now. He was married in December\\nISiMJ to Miss Lela Kussell, daughter of Francis U. Russell. After a\\ntrip through the iiuuh boomed cities and districts of the West, he\\nreturned, feeling that while these places may do to live in, Detroit\\nis the best ])lace for the real estate business, because the rise in\\nvalues in this city is steady and legitimate, without booms and\\nconsequent depressions. Mr. Harrah s business has increased most", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nsatisfactorily and he now employs four clerks and six agents in\\nplace of no clerk and two agents as at first. His specialty is selling\\nsuburlian lots, and in 1890 lie disposed of about 2,000 in various\\nsections of the city largely around Milwaukee Junction and the\\nRiver Rouge districts. He has had reiiiarkalile success with his sub-\\ndivisions of Urbanrest, and Glenurban at Toledo. He is a heavy\\nadvertiser and his lists include property of all sorts. He has an\\nespecially large German clientage and his German agents are the\\nbest in the city.\\nE. C. Van HUSAN,\\nReal estate broker and dealer, is descended from a Dutcli family\\noriginally settling at Palmyra, New York. His father the late\\nCaleb Van Husan, was one of Detroit s prominent citizens and at\\none time a member of the Michigan Legislature. E. C. Van Husan\\nwas born at Detroit, May 13, 1801, and received his education in the\\ncitj public schools and in the east. In 1S78 he became associated\\nwitli the Detroit hardware house of Standart Brothers as clerk, retain-\\ning that position until 1881, wlien lie entered the service of the\\nDetroit Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of wliicli his father\\nwas president, remaining witli that institution until 1886. He next\\nembarked in the real estate business in which he has since been con-\\ntinuously engaged conducting a brokerage business and handling his\\nown property in Detroit, of which he has acquired extensive tracts.\\nHe owns and controls several subdivision, among them being Van\\nHasan s East End, one of the largest in the city, containing over\\nsixty acres platted, in 1889. Mr. Van Husan has been notably suc-\\ncessful in his real estate ventures, and conducts his transactions ui:on\\na very large scale. His sales witliin the past few years have aggre-\\ngated several hundred thousands of dollars and naturally place him\\nin tlie front rank of prominent real estate brokers and dealers. He\\noccupies a fine suite of offices in the Hammond building.\\nSANDERSON KIRTLAND.\\nPhilip G. Sanderson, senior member of tlie firm of Sanderson\\nKirtland dealers in real estate and operators on the Board of\\nTrade as commission dealei s, was born at Detroit, August 19, 1866\\nand was educated in the public schools, graduating from the high\\nschool in 1883. His first venture in business was with the Black\\nHardware Company, subsequently becoming freight cashier\\nfor the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company\\nand for three years afterward served as secretary and treasurer of\\nPHILIP Q. SANDERSON.\\nWILLIAM U. KIRTLAND.\\nthe Belle Isle Ice Company. He embarked in the real estate busi-\\nness, making a purchase of twenty acres on Chene street, which he\\nsubdivided into 197 lots all of which he disposed of in a few montlis.\\nHe next created a subdivision of fifteen acres on Caniff road, forty-\\neight acres on Woodward avenue, ninty-five acres on Grosse Isle and\\nfive acres on Vandyke avenue, nearly all of these lots have been sold\\nclearly indicating Mr. Sanderson s ability to secure desirable prop-\\nerty. The firm of Sanderson Kirtland was established in Decem-\\nber 1890, by which a combination of talent directed to the achieve-\\nment of the highest success was instituted. As extensive grain dealers\\non the Board of Trade they have acquired large patronage from south-\\nern and southwestern grain producing districts as well as tlirough-\\nout the state of Michigan. They have acquired the business\\nformerly operated by the Wendell Grain Company and have already\\nadvanced themselves to a prominent position which being young\\nmen reflects signal honor and credit upon them.\\nWilliam B. Kirtland, member of the firm of Sanderson\\nKirtland, was born at Vernon, New York, September 3, 1866 and\\nremoved with his parents to Detroit, when a mere bo}-. He was\\neducated in the public scliools and at the age of thirteen became\\nmessenger on the Board of Trade; afterward acting as a commercial\\nreporter, and as assistant grain accountant at the Michigan Central\\nelevators. After being for several years connected witlr various\\nfirms operating on tlie Board of Trade, he opened an office for the\\nconduct of the grain and seed business, becom.ing an active member\\nof the Board of Trade and continuing in that relation until April 1,\\n1891, when he became associated with Mr. Sanderson in tlie real\\nestate and grain commission business. Mr. Kirtland, among\\nDetroit s younger business men, takes a consijicuous position for\\nbusiness sagacity and enterprise evinced throughout his successful\\ncareer.\\nSAMUEL A. PLUMER,\\nReal estate dealer was born at Sleredith, New Hampshire, May\\n30, 1831 and there received liis education. He was engaged in the\\nwholesale beef business in Boston for eight years. For tlie past\\ntwenty years he has industriously prosecuted the real estate business\\nin Detroit, also supporting his interests in stock raising in Colorado\\nand New Slexico and manufacturing interests in Detroit. In liis\\nreal estate operations in Detroit he has been very successful and has\\nestablished various subdivisions which Iiave largely contributed to", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nthe city s extensions particularly in the western ilistrict= Mr.\\nPlumer with the co-operation of liis son, John H. Plumer,\\nnegotiates loans for eastern capital and huys and sells real estate\\ndirect or upon a commission hasis. The annual volume of business\\nof this establishment is very large and gives it a higli rank in real\\nestate circles.\\nMclaughlin brothers.\\nRobert J. Mc LAl iHl.lN was Imrn in 1k4!), on the 18th\\nday of July. After attaining his education in the public\\nschools at Birmingliam, he went to Greenville, Michigan.\\nHere he was in the hardware business until 1879, when lie\\nengaged in the excursion business witli his brother. He was\\nconnected with various enterprises in different parts of the state till\\nISH. J. when he went into the real estate business. He has made some\\nheavy transfers in this line, his first subdivision being at the corner\\nof Hancock avenue west and Seventh \u00e2\u0096\u00a0treet. This was platted into\\nseventeen lots, all sold in a short time under a building restriction,\\nand now contains fine residences. He bought ten lots, r)()xl34 feet\\neach on Lincoln avenue platted a subdivision of twenty lots on\\nSAMUEL A. PLU3IEK.\\nHancock east and Warren avenues, which sold in sixty days and\\nhas doubled in value. With otiiers he bought thirty-three lots on\\nFrederick street and Kirby avenue; in 1887 he purchased a subdi-\\nvision of 16;J lots lying on Vinewood avenue, known as the Banner\\nsubdivision. All these were soon resold and many of them are\\nbuilt up with fine residences, due to the building restriction under\\nwhich they were sold. In 1888 in connection with liis brother, lie\\npurchased 1,000 feet front on the Boulevard, north of Jefferson\\navenu which they sold during the year. In January, ]s!)0, he and\\nhis l)rotlur joined forces for good. Among tlieir deals have been\\nthe punliase of four acres on Milwaukee avenue, Avliich was platted\\ninto tliirty lots and sob! in two months; twenty-nine acres on\\nWoodward avenue north of the toll gate, running through to Craw-\\nford street and subdivided into 1.j3 lots; 120 acres on the River\\nRouge afterward sold for .\u00c2\u00ab;:iO,000. The last Woodward avenue sub-\\ndivision has been about half sold, and the remainder is beino-\\nhandled by the McLaughin Brothers to the best possible advantage.\\nThis firm s dealings in real estate have all been conducted on the\\nsound basis of practical knowledge. Knergctic, upright and pro-\\ngressive, they have done much to lielp build up the city s best\\ninterests.\\nIIOBEIM- .J. .Mi^ LAUtiULlN\\nJoseph R. JIcLauuhlin was born in Detroit, June 5th, 1851.\\nHis father ami mother were Oakland County people. His parents\\nmoved from Detroit when he was about two years okl, returning to\\nOakland t oimty; thence they went to Brighton, Livingston County,\\nwhere his father was engaged in farming. In 18(13 t\\\\ie family\\nmoved to Birmingham, where they resided for four years, going\\nthen to the oil region in Pennsylvania, where his father was\\nengaged in the grocery and provision business. His mother died in\\nPitthold City, Pennsylvania, in 1866; shortly after this the family\\nJOSEPH R. MCLAUGULI.N.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nI o\\nreturned to Birmingham, where Mr. McLaughlin s fatlier suon after\\n(lied. At the age of eighteen years, Mr. McLaughlin entered the\\nhigh scliool in Birmingham, and continued his endeavors for an\\neducation for ten consecutive years, graduating at the University\\nof Michigan in the literary and law departments. He was a\\nmember of the class of 1877 in the literai-y department, and of 1879\\nin the law department. During this period, Mr. McLaughlin paid\\nthe entire expenses of his education, earning the money as he pro-\\nceeded. In 1S76, Mr. McLaughlin was in the junior class at the\\nUniversity. Desiring to go to the Centennial Exposition, and the\\nexpense being great, he arranged an excursion fr(_)m Detroit to\\nPhiladelphia, whicli was one of the largest and most conspicuous\\nexcursions that left the state during that year and was named The\\nUniversity of Michigan Excursion. This enterprise gave him an\\ninsight into railway busiaess, and an acquaintance with raih-oad\\nmen which he afterwards utilized. He was the first man in Michi-\\ngan to make local excursions from the interior of the state to\\nthe city a business, and engaged in this in company with his\\nbrother, Robert, with considerable profit for several seasons after-\\nwards. In 1879 he entered into the practice of law with William L.\\nCarpenter, and retained this rclati(inshi|) for three years. In 1883\\nMr. McLaughlin organized the Micliigan Lumber Company for the\\npurpose of manufacturing hard-wood bill stuff. This comi)any\\nfurnished all the oak used by the Union Depot C ompany in the con-\\nstruction of their docks and elevators. Early in 1886 Mr.\\nMcLaughlin thought he could see a future for electrical enterprises\\nand undertook the organization of the Edison Company in Detroit.\\nThis company was organized in just six weeks from the time he\\nundertook it, although at the time it was the lai-gest Edison illumi-\\nnating company in the United States except one the Pearl Street\\nStation, New York City and had a capital of .^250,000. Besides\\norganizing this company, Sir. McLaughlin was its Secretary and\\nManager during the constiuction of the plant and tlie first two\\nyears of its operation, placing it upon a good paying basis. The\\nEdison General Company, however, recognized his ability as an\\norganizer, and made him their general agent for Ohio, where lie\\norganized several companies, among which is the Columbus Edison\\nElectric Company. He was appointed during this same period the\\nagent of the Sprague Electric Railway Motor Company, and\\nsold several large railway equipments in Cincinnati, Columbus,\\nDayton, Piqua and other Ohio towns. Mr. McLaughlin\\nw. T. MCGRAW.\\nFRANK J. WILLETTE.\\nhas been directly and indirectly engaged in real estate business in\\nthis city for tlie past eight years, and is now giving his entire time\\nto that business. Besides the real estate transactions of the firm of\\nMcLaughlin Brothers, Mr. J. R. McLaughlin is interested in the\\nfollowing on his own account; he has a subdivision on Woodward\\navenue, known as the Josephine Avenue Subdivision, also an\\ninterest in thirty acres on the corner of Woodward avenue and the\\nCaniflE road, which will be subdivided and put into the market in\\nthe spring of 1893.\\nWILLIAJl T. JIcGRAW,\\nProprietor of tlie Detroit Tobacco Company and jjart owner of\\nMcGraw s subdivisions, was born at Livonia, Michigan, and edu-\\ncated in the public schools at Plymouth, Michigan, and Goldsmith s\\nBusiness University at Detroit. After leaving school he entered the\\nFirst National Bank of Plymouth, Michigan, where he continued\\nfor two years, subsequent!} engaging in the fire insuiance business\\nfor one year. His next employment was with the Globe Tobacco\\nWorks. Detroit. _ He next engaged in the real estate business, open-\\ning up McGraw s subdivision of fifty-three acres on Grand River\\navenue in 1883, an enterprise in which he was eminently successful.\\nIn 1884 he, together with his brother, 11. McGraw, established the\\nDetroit Tobacco Comijany, as a general jobbing business and has\\nacquired a trade which extends throughout the United States. In\\n1890 he opened up with Mr. Philip G. Sanderson, tiie Grosse Isle\\nsubdivision of 100 acres, known as Edgewater, and one of the most\\neligibly located and handsomest of the Detroit suburlian districts.\\nMr. McGraw is veritalily a man of success who has steadily won his\\nway to a notably high position as a manager and owner of valuable\\nreal estate interests. He was married to Miss llarret L. Fuller, of\\nPlymouth, Jlichigan, in 1887. He is a member of the Michigan\\nclub. He is having built at Edgewater, on Grosse Isle, a handsome\\nresidence, which will be ready for occupancy this summer.\\nFRANK J WILLETTE,\\nReal estate dealer was born at Detroit, August 2, 1864 and after\\na preliminary education in the public schools, entered the Detroit\\nCollege. His first experience in business was with C. C. Randall,\\nphotographer, in which he was engaged for seven years. He subse-\\nquently became associated in the real estate business with Hamlin\\nFordyce, and one year afterward established himself in the same\\nbusiness on his own account. His first purchase of real estate was", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nORRIN W^UJDELL.\\neighteen acres on Livernois avenue, from which he created a sub-\\ndivision of ir)3 lots characterized as the Barium Willette subdivi-\\nsion. Witliin the space of five months lie lias disposed of two thirds\\nof these lots at remunerative prices. IIu subseipiently bought Mr.\\nBariums interest in the business and formed a co-partnership with\\nMr. Charles T. ^Vilkins, with whom he purchased twenty acres with\\na frontage on Woodward avenue paying therefor ^;i(),0()0. They\\nhave since subdivided this property into 100 fifty-feet lots which\\nthey are improving with sidewalks six feet wide, shade trees, and\\nwith buildings restricted to a cost of ^2,000. This property is\\nexceptionally desirable by reason of its location on the principal\\nthoroughfare within the city limits and within four miles of its\\ntrade centre. Mr. Willette is a member of tlio Catholic club and a\\nzealous democrat in jiolitics. He is the secretary of the Detroit\\nElectric Soap Company which was organized January 10, 1801, with\\na capital stock of ijs.jO.OOO. Among the younger notable business\\nmen of Detroit, Jlr. Willette may justly claim the merit wliich\\nattaches to his successful business career.\\nORRIN WARDELL.\\nAVas born at Rainham, Ontario, April 1, 1836. He continued\\nto reside with his parents upon a farm on the shore of Lake\\nErie until his thirteenth year. He earned his first money by\\nchop])ing wood at sixty cents per cord. In 18,50 ho was apprenticed\\nto the harness business at Gowanda, New York, where he continued\\nfor about one year and a half. Returning to Canada, he worked at\\nhis trade for about two years. He subsequently engaged in the\\ntrucking business in Hamilton for about a year, after which he con-\\nducted a butclier shop in Selkirk for about the same period, and then\\nresumed the harness business in Wellington Square. He was married\\nabout this Ihiie to Miss Mary Tenock. Removing to Grimsby, he\\nagain made a venture in the harness business, but soon disposed of\\nit in a trade for a patent churn which proved a failure. He next\\nstarted an eating house at St. Catherines, and at the lapse of six\\nmonths he began his duties as overseer of construction of the Great\\nWestern Railroad. The panic of 1867 deprived Mr. Wardell of every\\ndollar he possessed. He walked from Hamilton to Toronto, a dis-\\ntance of forty miles, with only six cents in his pocket. Arriving at\\nToronto, he procured work at house-moving, an occupation he after-\\nward followed, combining it with wrecking, for several years, doing\\na very profitable business. Raising a sunken vessel loaded with\\ncrockery and other kinds of merchandise, which fell to him, he dis-\\nposed of it at auction realizing a large amount of cash. From this\\ntime forward he was engaged in the auction business. Coming to\\nDetroit in 1872 he opened large auction rooms and subsequently\\nmerged the business into a wholesale relation. In 1883 he began to\\ninvest in real estate and to give his attention to extensive operations\\nin that line, ac(}uiring a merited i roniinence and distinction. The\\npresent firm of O. Wardell Son make a specialti of selling real\\nestate at auction. During Ix JO tliey .sold 743 vacant lots and sixty-\\nnine houses and lots. Mr. Wardell has essentially contributed to the\\nimprovement of Lincoln avenue upon which he resides. He is a\\ngenial, sociable and hospitable gentleman, fond of fine horses and\\nthe g(K)d things of life. His son Charles R. is actively engaged in\\nthe business. Mr. Wardell owns an elegant cottage at Maceday\\nLake where his summers are spent anii l the refreshing and refining\\ninfluences that there surround him.\\nJ. B. MOLONEY.\\nIf the rapid progress, steady growth and flourishing condition\\nof the market in real estate in and around Detroit, can be popularly\\nstyled a boom then Mr. J. B. Moloney deserves credit as one of\\nthe chief among boomers, for with this enterprising gentleman s\\nname is insejiarably connected that of Detroit s prosperity as a rap-\\nidly growing city. Mr. Moloney was the prime mover in advancing\\nthe value and consequent improvements in property in and around\\nMichigan avenue and vicinity, also in suburban property at Dear-\\nborn, which handsome and desirable location for residents, prom-\\nises to become a city in itself at no distant period of time, which Mr.\\nMoloney is so instrumental in hastening. He has long been an ex-\\ntensive dealer in property in the northwest portion of the city, and\\nhas perhaps bought and sold more acres in that region than most\\ndealers have during the same period of time. Jlr. Molonej has also\\nbeen ]irominently connected with the (iovernment and also with\\nlocal afliairs. He has served as clerk of Wayne county wliich\\nposition he resigned for the Revenue department as collector of\\nrevenue, from which oOice he proceeded to the Controllersliip of the\\ncity, which he was linall)- compelled to resign in order to attend to\\nhis rapidly growing business in the line of real estate which seems\\nto be his peculiar forte. Mr. Moloney has resided in Detroit since\\n186.5; he was a native of Illinois and received his education at\\nBishops College, in Lenno.xville in Lower Canada. Under his\\nwatchful eye the northwestern portion of Detroit has rapidly ad-\\n.1. I;. .MuLu.NEY.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n75\\nalso purchased 200 lots from John M. Dwyer near Nallville, and in\\n1890 lie sold $3ij,000 of property on Woodward avenue, besides\\nextensive tracts in other directions. He has an office at 614\\nHammond building and is prominently identified with the great\\nreal estate interests of the city.\\nALBERT E. PEPPERS.\\nvanoed in the value of its real estate. He now controls a large tract\\nnorth of the city. From his youth lie lias been attached to the in-\\nterests of his home and fellow citizens, and is permanently located\\nin business at No. 519 Hammond building.\\nPEPPERS IRVINE.\\nAlbert E. Peppers, of the real estate firm of Peppers Irvine,\\nwas born February 21, 1843 at Terre Haute, Indiana, and was edu-\\ncated in the schools of that city. He served his country in the war\\nbetween the States as a soldier of the 133rd Indiana Volunteer\\nInfantry. He began his business life with his father, William Pep-\\npers, a railroad contractor, was employed in the Terre Haute post-\\noffice as a clerk for about three years, when he went to Vandalia,\\nIllinois, where he entered the retail shoe trade which he conducted\\nfor nearly three years. While living in Vandalia he was married\\nto Miss Ella Prentice, of Springfield, Illinois. In 1871 he came to\\nDetroit as an accountant for tlie Singer Manufacturing Company,\\nin whose employ he continued for tliirteen years. During the last\\ntliree years in this relation he began to speculate in real estate and\\nin 1885 opened an office for the transaction of that business, and\\nwas prominently identified in the opening up and development of\\ntlie northwestern part of the city. In 1890 he took in as a partner\\nMr. Frank C. Irvine, the firm name becoming Peppers Irvine.\\nThey buy and subdivide large tracts of land and their sales average\\nabout 300 lots per year. Mr. Peppers is president of the Detroit,\\nRouge River and Dearborn Railway Company, an electric line, a\\nportion of which has already been constructed and in operation\\nfrom Woodmere avenue on Fort street west to Oakwood on the\\nRiver Rouge. He is a member of Damascus Commandry, Knights\\nTemplar, Detroit Fisliing and Hunting association, (Rushmere)\\nKnights of Honor; member of Detroit Post 384, Grand Army of the\\nRepublic; member of the Cass avenue M. E. cliurch.\\nWILLIAM EDWARD COULTER,\\nReal estate dealer, was born in Canada in 1854. In 1881 he\\nbecame associated with James Nail Company as a salesman con-\\ntinuing in that relation for six years, during which time he em-\\nbarked in real estate speculations with profitable results. In 1887\\nhe engaged regularly in tlie real estate business on his own account\\nat 161 Jefferson avenue. Among his largest investments in real\\nestate was the purchase from W^illiam Y. Hamlin, property at Mil-\\nwaukee Junction for ijil0,850, which he profitably disposed of. He\\nBUILDERS AND BUILDERS SUPPLIES.\\nALEXANDER CIIAPOTON, Jr.,\\nContractor and builder, was descended from Dr. Chaiioton, who\\nwas the first surgeon of Fort Pontchartrain at the occuiiation of\\nDetroit by Cadillac in 17C1, and was born in that city in 1839. His\\ngrand-father, Eustache Chapoton, one of the prominent representa-\\ntives of the pioneer French families, was a builder and an exemplary\\ncitizen. His father, Alexander Chapoton, was also a builder, but\\nretired from business in 1884, and from all active pursuits in 1888 after\\nserving Detroit as a member of the Board of Public Works for ten\\nyears. Alexander Chapoton, jr. was the first president of the Build\\ners Exchange, and has been a delegate to its annual conventions\\nsince its organization, He superintended the construction of the\\npresent Russell House; the Board of Trade Block on Jefferson avenue;\\nNewberry McMillan s Block;Campau Block; Moraii Block; Parker s\\nBlock; M. S. Smith s building; the Palm buildings; Wliitney\\nblock; Westminister (Presbyterian church); First Congregational;\\nSt. Mary s (Catholic); St. Joseph s Retreat for the Insane at Dearborn;\\nSt.Vincent s Orphan Asylum; St.Mary s Hospital; tlie Home of the\\nAged Poor and the new Detroit College on Jefferson avenue. At\\nthe organization of the Peninsular Savings Bank in 1888\\nhe was made its president. He is a trustee of the\\nGrand Council of the Catholic Benevolent Association. He\\nmarried Miss P. Marion Pelletier, daughter of Charles\\nPelletier and Eliza (Clicott) Pelletier, the descendants of the\\nfirst settlers at Detroit, among the fur traders. The Chapoton\\nfamily has been since the foundation of the city, prominently\\nidentified with its progressive interests and many of its branches\\nhave become celebrated throughout the west.\\nALEXANDER CHAPOTON.\\nThis gentleman was born in Detroit, February 2, 1818. The\\nChapotona are descendants of an old aristocratic French family of\\nALEXANDER CHAPOTON, .IR.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nALEX.VXDKR fllAPOTON.\\nDuges, Languedoc in the soutli of France. Many old citizens of\\nDetroit remember Eustache Cliapotoii, father of Alexander, as a\\ngentleman of energy, honor and ititegrity, and t)ne who acquired\\nconsiderable wealth which his decsendants now share. The ances-\\ntors had been builders for generations back, and Alexander learned\\nthe trade of stone and brick mason in his boyhood with his father\\nEustache whom he eventually succeeded in business in which he\\nhas continued thriving and prosperous and is honored and respected\\nas a citizen of public spirit and integrity, faithfully serving the city\\nand state in various important positions. Mr. hai)0ton is one of\\nDetroit s wealthy citizens, being estimated as worth about $2.50,000.\\nHe has voted the Repidilican ticket since the Orant campaign of\\n1868, but in local elections adheres to the best man rather than to\\nparty. In 1.SG3, he served a term in the state Legislature, and dur-\\ning Governor liladwin s administration was chosen one of the three\\nbuilding commissioners to supervise the erection of the state Cap-\\nital at Lansing, completing it at less cost than the appropriation\\nfund, an achievement scarcely equaled in the history of American\\npublic building. In 1881 he was one of those who selected the site\\nfor, and constructed the Northern Asylum for the insane at Tra-\\nverse City. Jlr. Chapoton served five years as member of the\\nDetroit board of pu .)lic works, from 1^74; resigning, he was in three\\nyears, afterwards re-appointed by MayorOrummond and served four\\nyears more, making nine years succe.ssful service in this most im-\\nportant municipal oilice of his native city. Mr. Chapoton is the\\nfather of ten children, five of whom are now living. Their names\\nare Alexander Chapoton, Jr., the well-known builder and partner\\nof liis father for many years, Mrs. Josephine Baby, Mrs. Emily\\nBush, Doctor E. A. Chapoton, and Miss Felice Chapoton who resides,\\nwith her parents in this city. The Chapotons are related by mar-\\nriage with the Campaus, St. Aubins, Godfroys, Cicotts, Peltiers,\\nLabadies and other old French families of this locality, which com-\\nprise many of Detroit s best citizens. Among the many notable\\nbuildings erected in this city by Mr. Chapoton, may bo mentioned\\nthe Detroit Opera House, the National Hotel (now the Russell\\nHouse), the Michigan Exchange Hotel, Frei lman s store, (Hein s\\nBazaar). The Godfroy block, the Jeflfersoii Avenue Presbyterian\\nchurch, Merrill block, numerous stores on Woodward and Jefferson\\navenues, the Lewis block, Buhl block, Telegraph block, Burns\\nblock and many of the finer residences that are memorable records\\nof Mr. Chapoton s industry and skill.\\nHENRY HEAMES SON.\\nHknky Heames, member of the firm of Heiu-y Ileames Son\\nand W. E. Heames Co., was born at Taunton, .Somersetshire,\\nEngland, October 20, 1823. In his fourteenth year he was appren-\\nticed to the trade of mason and builder, attending night school for\\nhis education, at the same time receiving instructicm in mechanical\\ndrawing in which he became an expert. Finishing his apprentice-\\nship, Jlr. Heames went to France, where for a number of years he\\nwas employed in the construction of gas works and railroad build-\\nings. In 18IS he came to the United States and subseipiently for\\nseveral years was engaged in tl:e building business. Many of the\\nlargest smelting furnaces, gas works, and other similar construc-\\ntions throughout the countrj- represent liis abilities in this\\nconnection. In 1873 he established at Detroit with his son, W. E.\\nHeames, a partnership under the name of H. Heames Son, for the\\nmanufacture and sale of lime, stone, building material, etc., a\\nbusiness which has since been industriously and successful!}- prose-\\ncuted. He is alio a member of the firai of W. E. Ileames Com-\\npany, dealers in flour, fire-brick, etc., at 79 AVoodbridge street,\\nwest. Mr. Heames has several times been called to fill offices of\\ntrust, and the manner in which he discharged incumoent duties is a\\nmatter of municiiial history. He served two terms as Alderman of\\nthe Twelfth ward, one term as President of the Common Council\\nand one term as chairman of the board of supervisors and was a\\nmember of the Poor Commission for about seven years. Mr.\\nHeames is at an advanced age still active in business and as full of\\nambition and enterprise as when he was a much younger man.\\nWILLIAM AVRIGHT,\\nArtistic interior decorator, 32 and 34 Fort street, west,\\nwas born in the County of Norfolk, England, November\\n12, 1833, and was educated to his profession of painter and\\ndecorator at Cambridge. In 1854 he went to London, where he\\ncompleted his studies in artistic decoration and in 1857 he came to\\nthe United States arriving at Detroit on the steamer City of\\nConcord, November 3rd of that J ear, stopping at the old Biddle\\nHouse on Jefferson avenue. He opened a shop on the site of the\\nI)resent Ferry building on Woodward avenue, pursuing his avoca-\\ncaticm of ])ainter, interior decorator and paper hanger. Finding\\nthis venture succ?essf 111 he associated himself in a ])artnersbip under\\nthe firm name of Laible, Wright Hopkins, for the more extended\\nconduct of the business, occupying premises on Jefferson avenue,\\n-vf.^\\nf\\nHENBY HEAMES.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nbetween Bate3 and Randolph streets. The business prospered, and\\nafter five years, Mr. Wriglit bought the business and took in as a\\npartner, Mr. William Reid, and they continued as William Wright\\nCompany for several years. They afterward bought out Aspin-\\nwall Company on Woodward avenue, the firm name remaining\\nunchanged and so continuing for seven years. After this Mr.\\nWright retired from active business, during which time he visited\\nEngland, and on his return to Detroit resumed business in the\\ngeneral decorative line. Mr. Wright in deference to the philan-\\nthropic aims which have ever characterized him, recently enlisted\\nhis employes in a co-operative consolidation, entitled the William\\nWright Company. Since 1857, when Mr. Wright began business\\nin Detroit, he has been the leader in the decorative art, and splendid\\nmemorials of his genius are to be found in the elegant and costly\\nhomes of Detroit s opulent citizens. His designs and products\\nare standard all over the United States, and his name a\\nhousehold word wherever excellence of decorative essentials is\\nmentioned. Mr. Wright s eai s are ever open to a meritorious plan\\nfor pecuniary aid from the young and promising men who seek the\\nproper paths to fortune, and few men in Deti oit have more\\ngenerously coiitribvited to this noble purpose.\\nWILLIAM WRIGHT.\\nWILLTATiI A. BOURKE COMPANY.\\nWilliam A. Bourke, head of the firm of W. A. Bourke\\nCompany., was born of Irish parentage in the city of Detroit,\\nAugust l;), 1864, and received his education in the public schools.\\nHis father, Richard Bourke, established in 1870 the salt and salt fish\\nbusiness, and his son at an early age became associated with him\\nunder the firm name of R chard Bourke Son, who were succeeded\\nby Ryan Bourke, who, March 10, 1886, were succeeded by the\\npresent firm of W. A. Brouke Company. The business embraces\\nsalt fish, salt, builders and roofers materials, pressed hay, etc., at\\nwholesale. The facilities are very extensive and include a storage\\nwarehouse and dock at the foot of Bates street, 120x230 feet in\\ndimensions. The trade territory embraces the whole United States\\nand the annual output of tlie business aggregates ,f200.000. Mr.\\nBourke is active and enterprising and brings into his administration\\nof incumbent affairs an experience and acquaintance with the\\ndetails of the business which will continually advance his interests.\\nHe is still a young man, but he has already passed the bounds of a\\nhighly successful and prosperous career.\\nWILLIAM A. BOURKE.\\nMichael J. Bourke, a brother of William A. Bourke and a\\nmember of the firm of W. A. Bourke Company, was born at\\nDetroit, March 27, 1857. He was educated in the public schools and\\nbegan his business life as a clerk on one of the boats of Ward s Lake\\nSuperior Line in 1872. In 1876 he became associated with his\\nfather s business in a clerical capacity, and two years later was\\nadmitted to a partnership interest, a relation he sustained until 1886\\nwhen he became a member of the firm of W. A. Bourke Company.\\nIn 1886 he married the daughter of the late Thomas Nester and since\\nM. J. BOURKE.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nthat time has had charge of the lumber business established by his\\nfatlier-in-la\\\\v at Baraga, Michigan. In this direction. Mr. Bourke\\nhas demonstrated coniuiendaljle abilities and paved the way for a\\nnotably successful business career.\\nMACDONALD, RICH COJIPANY.\\nTliis firm was established in 1890 as successors to Macdonald\\nBrothers Company who in 1886 succeeded tlie oris;inal founders,\\nMessrs. V. Probasco Coini)an y. who began business in 1880 at 201\\nWoodward avenue, the present location. The lirni as now con-\\nstituted is composed of Messrs. George S. JIacdonald, Charles F.\\nRich, L. Burton West, of Detroit, r.nd J. Henry Lancashire, of\\nSaginaw, Jlichigan, general partners, and Ammi AV. Wright, of\\nAlma, Jlichigan, special partner. An extensive l)Usiness is con-\\nducted in the wholesale and retail relations of ga. and electric\\nfixtures, mantels, grates, tiling, lamps, bric-a-brac, and artistic\\nwares for interior decoration. The firm are jmjwrters of and sole\\nagents for Craven, Dunnhilt Co., and Maw s celebrated English\\ntiles; agents for Archer Pancoast, manufacturers of gas and\\nelectric fi.xtures; tlie Tent Tile Works, manufacturers of domestic\\ntiles, and Sturm Speigel, manufacturers of artistic mantels. The\\nOEORGK S. JtACDONALD.\\nbuildintj contains five floors and basement, and is 20x100 feet in\\ndimensions. Employment i.i given to thirty-eight men in the\\nvarious departments, and the annual output of the business aggre-\\ngates in value .^140,000. The trade territory embraces Blichigan,\\nOhio and Canada and is being constantly enlarged under a steadily\\ngrowing demand. The members of the firm are exiterienced and\\nable factors and devote special attention to tlie details of the busi-\\nness.\\nGeorch S. MA i)0.\\\\.\\\\LD, .senior member of the firm of Macdon-\\nald, Rich Company, was born May 1. 1857, atGuelph, Ontai-io.and\\nremoved willi his i)aients to Detroit when about seven years old.\\nHere he attended the public schools until his seventeenth year, when\\nhe began to learn the plumbing trade with Samuel Ferguson\\nCompany, devoting his evenings to the study of book-keeping under\\nProfessor Ilinman. He subseciuently kept books for Mouat\\nMacdonald, becoming tlieir manager and later manager for Mouat\\nSheley. At the dissolution of partnersliip of the hitter fhin, ho\\nbecame the junior nieml)er of the firm of Slieli y Macdonald. He\\nafterward organized the ilnii of Mardoiiald Hrothcis Company,\\nwhich was in 1890, succeeded by Macdonald, Rich 5c Company. Jto.\\nfllAKLES 1 mcu.\\nMactlonald is an experienced business man and is possessed of an inti-\\nmate knowledge of the details of the business in which he is\\nengagid and in wliich he has achicvcil a merited prominence and\\npu| ul:u ity.\\nCharles V. Rich, member of the firm of Macdonald, Rich\\nCompany, was born at Richville in the State of Xew York,a village\\nnameil in honor of his paternal ancestors, June 11, 1862. His edu-\\ncation was received in the High School ;it Ogdenshurgh, Now York,\\nB. WEST.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n79\\nafter which he entered the employment of the dry goods house of\\nNorris Winslow Company, at Watertown, New York, as cashier,\\nfilling that position for one year. He subsequently accepted a\\nclerical situation with the Ulutual Benefit Life Insurance Company,\\nat Newark, New Jersey, in which he continued for nine years.\\nComing to Detroit in 1888 he became associated with the firm of\\nMacdonalil Brothers Company, as a partner and bears that rela-\\ntion to the newly constituted firm of Macdonald, Rich Company,\\nin which his name ajipears. Mr. Rich is enterprising, conservative\\nand practical, and is an important factor in the extensive business\\nof Jiis house which he has assiduously labored to secure. While yet\\na young man he has evinced business qualities and capabilities of a\\nhigh order and which must rapidly advance him to great and per-\\nmanent honors.\\nL. Burton West, member of the firm of Macdonald, Rich\\nCompany, was born at Mendon, New York, September 4, 1849, and\\nremoved with his parents to Mt. Clemens, Michigan, when but four\\nyears old. He received his education in the schools of that village,\\nafterward taking a business course at Sprague Kleiner s Business\\nCollege at Detroit. His first employment was as a drug clerk for J.\\nS. Farrar, of Mt. Clemens serving in that capacity for three and a\\nhalf years. His parents removed to Detroit in 1871, and in 1874 Mr.\\nWest became connected with the old and well known furniture\\nhouse of Marcus Stevens Company as salesman and shipping\\nclerk. Tliis business was subsequently purcliased by Mabley\\nCompany and became a part of their establishment, Mr. West con-\\ntinuing in their employ in the same relations, his wiiole period of\\nservice in the two houses being nine years. In 1883 lie entered the\\ncelebrated house of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, taking charge\\nof the parlor furniture and wood mantel departments. Returning\\nto Detroit in 1883 he took charge of a set of books for Macdonald\\nBeck, plumbers, and steam fitters, and ujion the organization of the\\nfirm of Macdonald Brothers Company, became superintendent\\nand buyer, and upon the change of the firm to Macdonald, Rich\\nCompany in August, 1890, was admitted to partnership. Mr.\\nWest s practical experience and sujierior knowledge of detail emi-\\nnently fit him for the business in which he is engaged and in which\\nhe has proven a most valued acquisition.\\nBUICK SHERWOOD.\\nManufacturers of plumbers woodwork and manufactm\\ners of and dealers in sanitary specialties, corner of Cham-\\nD. D. BinCK.\\nWILLIAM SHERWOOD.\\nplain street and Jleldruni avenue, established their business in\\nthis relation in July 1884. The building occupied has a frontage of\\n162 feet on Meldrum avenue and 153 on Champlain street, with an\\nadditional structure of 80 feet in the rear. They employ 133 hands\\nand the annual product aggregates $260,000. The trade territory\\nembraces the whole United States and a considerable export trade\\nwith Canada and South America, has been established. The firm\\nhave a branch office at 44 Cliff street. N. Y. which is under the\\nmanagement of Mr. B. F. Freeman.\\nD. D. BuiCK, senior member of the firm of Buick\\nSherwood was born in Scotland, September 17, 1854, and\\ncame with his parents to the the United States in 1856, locating\\nat Detroit. His early education was received in the city public\\nschools and his first venture in the actual business of life was as\\na carrier for the Free Prcas in the mornings and the Daily Union in\\nthe afternoon. After this he worked for some time on a farm,\\nand returning to Detroit, became associated witb Flower Bro s. as\\nan apprentice to the brass finisliing trade in which occupation he\\ncontinued for twelve years. In 1879 he became foreman of the\\nfactory performing efficient service in that direction until 1881\\nwhen he commenced business for himself. In 1884 lie formed a\\nco-partnersliip with his present partner, Mr. Wm. Slierwood, the\\nfirm name being Buick Sherwood, and under which the business\\nhas since been conducted.\\nWilliam Sherwood, the junior member of the firm of Buick\\nSherwood was born in Lincolnshire, England, October 20, 1851, and\\nwas educated at London. He landed at New York city in 1873 and\\nfound a home at Toronto for a sliort time, coming to Detroit in 1873\\nand engaging witli Flower Brothers as a brass moulder subsequently\\nbecoming superintendent of tlieir brass foundry in wliich relation\\nhe served until 1884, when he became a member of the firm of\\nBuick Sherwood.\\nR. S. BAKER.\\nManufacturer of parquetry floors, wood carpets and ornamental\\nborders, and dealer in building materials, was born at Stroudsburg,\\nPennsylvania, August 3, 1835. His ineliniinary education was\\nreceived in his native town and resumed and completed at Flint,\\nMicliigan, to which place his grandparents removed about 1848. In\\n1853 he entered into the lumber business at Port Huron, Michigan,\\nwhich he conducted up to 1863, when he enlisted in the military", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "8o\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nR. S. BAKKR.\\nservice as Captain of Company F., 37th A[ichigan Volunteer\\nInfantry, serving to 1864. After retiring from the army\\nhe engaged in the speculation of oil. After two years\\nhe went to Chicago where he instituted the manufacture\\nof parquetry flooring, but had the misfortune to be burnt out\\nin the great lire of 1871. lie. however, despite this serious loss,\\nre-engaged in business, at the same time dealing In real estate, and\\ncontinuing therein up to 1888, wlien he established a branch at\\nDetroit, removing to that city, where he has since successfully\\n0r^\\n-I\\nS\\ng\\nconducted business. Mr. Baker handles building materials, par-\\nquetry flooring and brick in large quantities. He is general agent\\nfor the Findlay Hydraulic Press Brick the Indianapolis Terra\\nCotta Company; the Columbus Fire Brick Company, and Wilson s\\n{New York) Rolling Blinds and Partitions. In the manufacture of\\nparquetry flooring, wood carpets and ornamental borders, foreign\\nwoods are largely utilized and contribute essentially to their beauty\\nand effectiveness. The offices are at 58 and 60 West Congress\\nstreet. Jlr. Baker is a member of tlie G. A. R. and the Michigan\\nClub.\\nTOPPING FISHER.\\n1k.\\\\ Toi i lN(i, senior member of the firm of Topping Fisher,\\nwas born at New York city, August 28, 1828. His father was a\\ncontiaclor and builder. The son was educated in jirivate schools\\nand at the New York University which he attended for two years.\\nIn Isli! he entered his father s service to leain the building trade.\\nHe embarked in business on his own account at Jackson, Michigan,\\nin 1861, where he constructed a number of large buildings. While\\nresiding at Jackson he received the contract for the erection of the\\nPontiac Insane Asylum, and during his work in that relation he\\nlUA TOPPING.\\nGEOROE W. FISHRR.\\nremoved with his family to Detroit where he has since lived. His\\nbusiness was j)ermanently established in Detroit in 1S7.J and In 1880\\nMr. (ieorge W. Fisher was admitted to partnersliip. The resent\\nlocation of the business is Room 11 Walker block. Among the\\nmost notable buildings constructed by this firm are the Harper\\nHospital, Detroit, First Presbyterian church on Woodward\\navenue. Church of Our Father, Park, Davis Company s works,\\nMunicipal Court building. Fire Department headquarters, and\\nnumerous fine residences in Detroit. The facilities are of the most\\nmodern descrii)tion and include every requisite of the extensive\\nI)usiness. Employment is given to 100 hands and the character of\\ntheir workmanship is the eipial of any in the country. The most\\nvigilant superintendence and dliecton are exercised and every\\ndetail is made to conform to tlie best models as recognized by\\nleading architects.\\nGicoRCE AV. Fisher, of Toi)ping Fisher, was born at Jit Ver-\\nnon, Ohio, in 1S44, and removed wlien quite young to Monroe,\\nMichigan, coming later to Detroit where he completed his educa-\\ntion in the city public schools. He began business on his own\\naccount in 1874 as contractor and builder, and in 1880 formed a", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\npartnership with Sir. Topping. During tlie late civil war Mr.\\nFisher served as a member of the First Michigan Horse Artillery\\nand participated in numerous heavy engagements, notably Gettys-\\nburg and in Sherman s western campaign. Topping Fisher\\nhave recently completed the construction of the grand and impos-\\ning building of J. L. Hudson, the clothier, at the corner of Farmer\\nand Gratiot streets. Mr. Fisher is a member of the masonic frater-\\nnity; a member of the board of trustees of the Michigan Sovereign\\nConsistory, and a trustee of the Third avenue Presbyterian church.\\nHe married the daughter of Mr. Robert Stead, a noted pioneer\\nsettler at Detroit, and has one child a bright little girl.\\nTHOMAS HYLAND.\\nBuilder and real estate broker, 97 Shelby street, was born at\\nKingston, Ont., July 11, 1861, removing with his parents to Toronto\\nin 1863. He was graduated from the Lasalle Institute at Toronto, in\\n18T7, and took a business course in the British-American Business\\nCollege, Toronto, afterward entering the office of O Keefe and Com-\\npany where he remained six years. In 1885 he came to Detroit and\\nengaged in the real estate business. Two years ago he associated\\nbuilding with the real estate business and within the past two years\\nhas contructed eighty-five houses, one church, one club house, and\\nfour stores. He employs the best architectural talent to design\\nplans for the numerous buildings he has in process of erection and\\ncontemplation. Mr. Hyland conducts his business upon the most\\napproved system and is jireijared to furnish specifications for build-\\nings ranging in price from 1800 to $10,000, of modern design,\\nfixtures and sanitary appliances. He has desirable building lots in\\nvarious localities and will build houses for purchasers for a small\\nadvance and monthly installments. Mr. Hyland deserves the suc-\\ncess in business which has been achieved through its upright and\\nconsistant conduct.\\nW. J. BURTON COMPANY.\\nThe house of W. J. Burton and Company was founded March 1,\\n1886, with W. J. Burton as sole proprietor. In April, 1890, Mr.\\nJohn JI. Anderson jiurchased an interest, the firm name becoming\\n\\\\V. J. Burton and Company. As manufacturers of the Eastluke\\nmetallic shingles, galvanized iron cornices, sheet metal work and\\nroofing materials this firm has won a distinguished reputation and\\nidentity commensurate with the generally acknowledged merit and\\nsalable character of the i roducts. The facilities for manufacturing\\nW. J. BURTON.\\nJ. M. ANDERSON.\\n[6]\\nTHOMAS HYLAND.\\nare ample azid include si)ecially devised machinery and all requisite\\nappliances. Skilled hands to the number of twenty-five are given\\nsteady employment, and the the annual output aggregates in value\\nover $40,000. The trade territory embraces the entire United States.\\nThe manufacture of the B ventilator is an important feature and\\none which, though but recently introduced, has been received with\\ngreat favor. Slessrs. W. J. Burton and Company have in this\\nas in their other products distanced competition and acquired an\\nextensive patronage, the best evidence of their ability to acceptably\\nsupply the demand for their products.\\nWilliam J. Burton, the senior member of the firm of W. J.\\nBurton and Company was born July 9, 1863 in Lambton county,\\nOntario, and was educated in the public schools at Petrolia. At\\ntlie age of 19 he was apprenticed to the tinning trade with Hopkins\\nBrothers at St Clair, Michigan, remaining with them for three\\nyears. He then engaged with H. E. Hatch of Lapeer, Michigan,\\nfrom whence he came to Detroit and engaged with Coulson\\nMorehouse as clerk, but soon decided to return to his former trade\\nand engaged with Leadley Hutton in the galvanized iron cor-\\nnice trade, remaining with them six months, when Messrs. Mears\\nand Rusch startei in the same line at 74 State street, April 1, 1884,\\nand pursuaded him to take an interest in the business with them.\\nThat firm dissolved by mutual consent December 81, 1885. He\\nthen commenced his present business which has become a leading\\nand successful manufacturing establishment in the line of galvan-\\nized iron cornices, window caps, sky-lights and other architectural\\nmetal work.\\nJohn M. Anderson, of the firm of W. J. Burton Company,\\nwas born at Oakland, Michigan, in 1864, and continued to reside\\nthere until his seventeenth year. His early education was received\\nin the schools of his native town and was finished iu Mahew s Busi-\\nness College in Detroit in 1883. In 1886 he was engaged in busi-\\nness as a traveling representative of the Capewell Horse Nail Com-\\npany in Iowa and Neliraska, in which position he continued for\\ntwo yeai s, subsequently filling the position of traveling salesman\\nfor Limbach Webber, hardware dealers, for one ear. In 1888\\nhe formed a cojiartnership with Henry H. Holland in the sale of\\ncarriage hardware in the state of Michigan, with offices at room 1\\nWhitney Opera House block. In April, 1890, he bought an interest\\nin the business of AV. J. Burton Company, in which he has since\\nproven an active and invaluable factor.\\nDETROIT LEAD PIPE AND SHEET LEAD WORKS.\\nThis business was originally established in 1870 by the firm of\\nJ. N. Raymond Company, Mr. Samuel Ferguson being the Com-", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\npany. Mr. Ferguson purchased Jlr. Raymond s interest in 1S79\\nand continued the business unchT liis own name until 1883 when\\nthe present company was formed, which was incorporated and\\ncapaitalized at $50,000. The line of goods manufactured includes\\nlead pipe and other lead products, such as bar lead, lead sash\\nweights, lead wedge for monumental and stained glass work. A\\nlarge stock of plumbing, steum and gas fitters su])plies and tools\\nis also carried. The Ijuildings occupied at 57, 59 and 01 Second, and\\n180 and 183 Larncd street west, are three stories in height, the\\nSecond street biiihling being 63 x 100 feet, and tlie Larned street\\nbuilding SO x 03 feet in dimensions, and suitably ei|uii ped with\\nfacilities and appliances for t!ie the conduct of the extensive\\nbusiness in its varied details. The trade territory embraces the\\nstates of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana and is of constant exi)ansion.\\nThe officers of the company are: Saniuel Ferguson, president; John\\nW. Wilson, vice-president; E. A. Jlorris, secretary and treasurer;\\nC. D. Jlontrose, assistant secretary. Mr. E. A. Morris has been\\nBlack walnut has nearly vanished from the forests, oak is very\\nscarce, while close cuttings are made from cottonv-ood, basswood,\\nbeech, maple, ash, sycamore, birch, cherry, whitewood and elm,\\nand new mills are going up j early in order to utilize these woods.\\nThese facts have resulted in the extensive purchase of pine lands in\\nother states by Michigan lumbermen, especially in Winsconsin,\\nMinnesota and the southern states. Methods have improved in the\\nlumbering industry as in every other, logging railroads having been\\ncarried into the very heart of vast forests, which wero before con-\\nsidered totally unavailable on account of their distance from streams\\nlarge enough for log floating. Those who long ago proi)hesied the\\ndeath of the Michigan lumbering industry have thus seen it\\nextended years beyond what would have been its natural life.\\nNot longer ago than 1856, a log must have at least a fifteen inch\\ndiameter at the top to be considered manufacturable, and logs\\ncould not find a ready market on the Saginaw river that measured\\nless than sixteen inches at the top, such logs bringing $3.50 per\\nDETROIT LEAD I IPE AND SHEET l.KAD WORKS,\\nidentified with this business since its establishment and is (hi\\nactive administrator and director of tlie affairs of the company.\\nLUMBER.\\nNature has been prodigal cif in-r favcjrs in making Michigan one\\nof the best timbered regions of the globe, and by thus instituting a\\nprinciple and direction of labor, has paved the way for the founda-\\ntion of some of the most profitable enterprises in her metropolis.\\nThe lumber district of Michigan has been stcadilj- receding north-\\nward for many years, and the character of the lumber product is\\nvastly different from what it was even ten years ago, owing to the\\ndemolition of acre upon acre of certain woods, in demand for com-\\nmerce. The Huron Peninsula, once covered witli jiine, has been\\ndenuded in the Saginaw Valley the year 1883 marked its highest\\nproduct of pine Montcalm, Gratiot and Kent counties are no\\nlonger logging centres. Where i)ine was formerly used, hemlock\\nis substituted, and cedar shingles are taking the place of pine ones.\\nthousand. Where many saw mills formerly buzzed ujion the banks\\nof the Detroit river, onlj- one is now heard cutting the jiine lumber\\ndirect from the log, that of Mcffat, Eatherley Com-\\npany, on Chene street. But though little sawing of this\\nkind is done here, the trade in hard wood and the consumption\\nof the same here is very great and constantly on the\\nincrease. The ship yards use between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000\\nfeet of oak timber. It is difficult for them to find a suffi-\\ncient quantity of the best white oak, as they obtain the greater\\npart of what they need from Ohio, Indiana and Canada. Wayne\\ncounty can no longer boast of its dense oak forests, as in former\\nyears, but considerable red oak in scattered trees is cut and brought\\ninto the city by teams, for spile driving and for building purposes.\\nThe car companies here are large consumers of both oak and pine,\\nand these make heavy drafts upon the forests of the state, besides\\n.shipping considerable lumber, especially oak, from other states.\\nThe manufacturers of wooden ware ai-o large consumers of timber,\\nmuch of the sycamore and other wood required by them being", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n83\\nRUSSELL A. ALGEE.\\nbrought from Canada in bolts. Much of the lumber used by the\\nlarge establishments manufacturing staves and heading comes to\\nDetroit from the Canadian forests. This city being a center for the\\nmanufacture of furniture, the factories engaged in this worii use\\nimmense quantities of tlie lighter Michigan woods, besides scour-\\ning otiier states and even foreign countries for the best quality of oak\\nwhich they require. The picture frames and backing, cigar boxes\\nand other finished wood products requiring their hmiber, wliich\\nare manufactured here, find tlie state supply usually adequate\\nto their needs. The building interests here use a largely in-\\ncreasing supply of lumber each year so, tliough Detroit can\\nscarcely be called a lumber center in a shipping sense, it is a\\ngreat centre in the lumber trade from a financial point of view,\\non account of tlie millions which are invested in the lumbering\\ndistricts by the moneyed men of Detroit, and in the amount of\\nthe forest product that is yearly consumed by the manufacturers\\nof the city. The total lumber movements for 1890 were as fol-\\nlows: Received by rail, 184,.538.000 by lake, 78,085,000 manu-\\nfactured, 9,000,000 sliipments, 34,203,000.\\nALGER, SMITH COMPANY.\\nAmong the great lumber dealers of Michigan who, through the\\nexercise of enterprising and progressive methods, liave advanced\\nthe business to its present magnitude and distinctive importance,\\nMessrs. Alger, Smith Company, especially deserve the liigli repu-\\ntation resulting from the sagacious and conservative conduct of the\\nvast interests under their control, which have culminated in such\\nextensive holdings, and in so satisfactory a manner. Messrs. Alger,\\nSmith Company, succeeded to the business originally establislied\\nby General R. A. Alger in 1874, afterward Moore, Alger Com-\\npany, and wliicli was incorporated under the j^resent name of Alger\\nSiuitli Company in 1SS2, with a capital stock of .f 1,500,000, and\\nunder auspices wliicli Iiave continued to secure the most gratifying\\nsuccesses. The company gives employment to 1,000 hands and the\\nannual output of timber, logs and lumber aggregates 90,000,000 feet.\\nTliese products are shipped to Buffalo and Tonawanda, New York,\\nToledo and Cleveland, Ohio, and Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan.\\nThey own 75,000 acres of timber land at Black River, Michigan, the\\nproducts from which are transported by the company s large\\npropellors, the Volunteer and the Gettysburg in connection with\\ntheir steam tugs, Torrent and Westoott. The officers of the com-\\npany are enterprising and progressive business men, and are prom-\\ninently associated with various leading industries, among which\\nare the Detroit, Bay City Alpena Railway, of which they are the\\nchief owners. General Alger being its president, M. S. Smith its\\nvice-president and treasurer, and T. H. Newberry its secretary.\\nThey also possess a controlling interest in tlie Manistique Lumber\\nCompany, of which General Alger is president, Abijah Weston, of\\nPainted Post, New York, vice-president, M. S. Smitli, treasurer, and\\nJ. C. McCaul, secretary. They own the controlling stock of the\\nManistique Railroad Company of which M. S. Smith is president,\\nL. A. Hall, vice-president, and J. C. McCaul, secretary and treas-\\nurer.\\nRussell A. Alger is not only the self made man and success-\\nful business man, but a gallant soldier, a broad minded philanthro-\\npist, and a devoted husband and father. He was born in tlie town-\\nship of Lafayette, Medina county Ohio, Eebruary 37th, 1836. His\\nparents, Russell and Caroline Moulton Alger, were both of English\\nand Scotcli descent, their ancestors having emigrated to America dur-\\ning the early history of tlie colonies. Young Russell, like many others\\nof America s patriots, served his time living in a logliouseand work-\\ning for the neiglibors around the little clearing in tlie woods, at\\ntimes, he says, for three or four teacupfuLs of flour per day, and\\nat another time he worked for a bag of corn, carried it on his back,\\non foot, nine miles to a mill. His parents died when he was twelve\\nyears of age, leaving a younger brother and sister to his care. All\\nthese responsibilities, assumed so early in life, went to fit him for a\\nsingularly successful career as a man. While working out from\\n1850 to 1857, lie managed to attend school, thus laying a basis for\\nthe industry and self reliance that has always distinguished him.\\nIn 1857 lie began to study law with Wolcott Upson of Akron,\\nOhio, and after being with them for two years, was admitted to tlie\\nbar by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was with Otis Coffinbury,\\nof Cleveland, for a short time, but never practiced at the bai. In\\n1860 he removed to Grand Rapids and engaged in the lumber busi-\\nness. No sooner was he well established than the call to arms in\\n1861 swept away all his thouglits from business. In August, 1861,\\nhe enlisted as a private soldier in the Second Michigan Cavalry,\\nbeing commissioned as Captain when the regiment was mustered in\\non the second of September. He saw much active service, was\\nwounded several times, taken prisoner in 1863 resigned and honor-\\nably discharged in 1864, made Brevet Brigadier General United\\nMARTIN S. SMITH.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nstates Volunteers for gallant and meritorious services, to rank from\\nthe battle of Trevillian Station, Virginia, June llth, 1864, and Brevet\\nMajor General United States Volunteers June llth, ISC for gallant\\nami meritorious services during the war. Such is the briefest out-\\nline of his war record, during the making of which he won tlie last-\\ning friendship of gallant Phil Sheridan. At the end of the civil\\nstrife he entered private life as :i citizen of Detroit, poor in health\\nand jjurse. lie was engaged in the lumber business with Stephen\\nand Franklin Moore, the (irni name being afterward clianged from\\nMoore, Alger A; ornpanj to Moore Alger. Under its ]iresent\\nniaiiageiueiit, llie firm of wliiili General Alger is jiresident lias ex-\\ntend d its business rapidly, and witli the Manisti(|ne Lumber Com-\\npany of whirli General Aigi-r is abo iiresident, o\u00c2\u00abnsll5U,(HI0 acres of\\npine lands, on which are nion than 1,000,000,0(10 feet of standing\\npine. These two companies cut over 140,000,000 feet a year, and\\nemploy about 1 ,200 men. To their lasting credit be it said that there\\nhas never been a strike or disturbance among their eni|)loyes.\\nGeneral Alger also owns large quantities of i ino lamls in Wisconsin\\nand in the Southern states, with tracts of re l wood lands in Cali-\\nfornia and fir in Washington. He is interested in extensive iron\\nmilling operations in Jlichigau and the \\\\\\\\est, is the ])rincipal owner\\nof a cattle ranch in New Mexico, the largest stock liolder in the\\nDetroit, Hay City and Alpena Railroad, is a director in the Detroit,\\nNational Hank, has largo invcstmentsin a numberof manufacturing\\nconcerns in Detroit, besides numerous smaller investments in otlie.-\\nplaces. In spite of these multiple interests. General Alger is one of\\nDetroit s stauncliest admirers, and a loyal son of Michigan,\\nas his able term as Governor testified, during which the duties of\\nliis ofUco were administered with tireless industry and intelligent\\nconiprebenslon. Ho retired from office January 1st, 1SS7. There are\\nthree Kuiijects upon which General Alger s charming frankness, al-\\nways wins him friends. He says: I never had but one law suit in\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0my life, which I won I never made a dollar by specu-\\nlation I never claimed anything as a speaker, and never\\nmake long addresses. General Alger was nxarried to\\nJliss Annette H. Henry of Grand Rapids, and three boys\\nand three girls have made a happy domestic life complete. The\\nelegant Alger home, on Fort street west is the center of much\\ngenerous and genuine hosi itality.\\nMAiiTiN S. Smith, was born at Lima, Livingston County, New\\nYork, November 12, 1834. His parents. Ira D. and Sarah Snvder\\nDAVID WIIITXEV, Jli.\\nMAfl;V 1). I .EXTLiiY.\\nSmith, removed from Columbia County, New York, of which they\\nwere both natives, to Lima, v.liere they continued for a iirief period\\nafter the birth of their son, when they settled at Geneseo, Living-\\nston County, New York. At the age of ten Martin came with his\\nparents to Michigan, where they established their residence in the\\nvicinity of Pontiac. When fourteen years of age j-oung Smith\\nobtained employment with a clothing merchant in Pontiac, from\\nwhich time dates his actual experiences in business jjursuits. Ilis\\nonly education had been derived from the common schools, in\\nwhich he accpiired the foundation for his sub. eipient knowledge.\\nLeaving his original employt-r after a short term of service, he\\naccejited a position in the ofhce of the Pontiac Gazette, where he\\ncontinued for two years. After this he secured more lucrative\\nemployment of various kinds in Pontiac, finally coming to Detroit\\nand engaging in the jewelry business with a leading house, through\\nwhich he rapidly advanced until ISoO, when he jiurchased the busi-\\nness. With a cash capital of ^1,000, saved from ten j ears of hard\\nand unremitting labor, he began his career, whidi has been one of\\nuninterrupted success until he iias become one of Detroit s wealth-\\niest, in(jst influential and cultured men. His eminent abilities have\\njjlaced him at the head of many iiniiortaut enterprises in the con-\\nduct of which he has achieved an enviable distinction and promin-\\nence. He is the incumbent President of the American Exchange\\nNaticmal 15:vnk; Vice President of the Slate Savings Bank; P.esident\\nAincrii-an Eagle Toliacco Company, and Vice President of the Jlichi-\\ngau Radiator Company. No man has done more for Detroit and no\\nman more deserves the exalteil position he holds in public estima-\\ntion than Martin S. Smith.\\nDAVID WHITNEY, JR.,\\nThe well know lumberman and one of Detroit s wealthiest men\\nis a native of Westford, Massachusetts, where he was born, August\\n23, 1830. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and\\nfinished a course at the Westford Academy. Wlien twenty-four\\nyears old ho commenced his business career in the lumber trade at\\nLowell, Massachusetts in a small way, which by his energetic and\\nproper methods was rapidly extended, until lie counted the wnole\\nof New England and some of the adjoining states his trade territory.\\nAbout this time ho formed a partnership with his brother Charles and\\nothers. They organizing large receiving and distributing yards at\\nOgdensburg, New York, Tonawonda, New York, Burlington, Ver-", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n85\\nLESTEK B. FRENCH.\\nmont and Albany, New York, with head office at Boston, Massachu-\\nsetts. The same remains at this time with the exception of the\\nAlbany yard under the name of Skillings, Whitney Barnes Lum-\\nber Company of which Mr. Whitney is president. Michigan was at\\nthat time (18. )7) being developed as a lumbering state, and to that\\nsection Mr. Whitney directed his attention. He invested heavily in\\ntimber lands and made money rapidly. In 1801 he took up his resi-\\ndence in Detroit where he has remained ever since and has been one\\nof the chief factors in advancing the city s varied interests. He has\\nbuilt several of the largest business blocks in the city, notably the\\nWhitney block cornei of Grand Circus Park and Woodward avenue,\\nstores of R. H. Traver, Woodward avenue, William Reid, Lirned\\nstreet, Leonard Carter, Schwankovsky, W. E. Barker, J. E. Davis\\nCompany and others. Besides liis heavy holdings in lumber, Mr.\\nWhitney is one of the largest vessel owners on the lakes. He also\\nowns large interests in various manufacturing, banking and mining\\nindustries. To such men as Mr. Whitney, Detroit owes its progress\\nas a manufacturing and shipjiing centre. Mr. Whitney has been\\ntwice married, his first wife was Mrs, Flora A, Veyo; second, her\\nsister Sara J. McLauchlin. He has one son and three daughters.\\nBENTLEY LUMBER COMPANY.\\nMaury D Bentley was born in Rome, Michigan, in 1860, and\\ncame to tliis city when quite young, obtaining a thorough public\\nschool education. In 1878 he entered the employ of his father, who\\nwas in the oil business on Jefferson avenue. In 1883 he became a\\npartner in this business, and the firm name was changed to the\\nBentley Oil Company. The business was sold to the Standard. Oil\\nCompany in 1890, and in June of that year he oi-ganized the Bentley\\nLumber Company. This was formerly at 36 Seitz Block, is now\\nlocated in handsome offices in the Buhl Block. Mr. Bentley is pres-\\nident and treasurer, Charles V. Sales, secretary of this company.\\nThe firm s specialty is cutting white pine and oak sliip timbers and\\nhandling heavy long timber.\\nLESTER B. FRENCH,\\nDealer and broker in pine and mineral lands, was born at Can-\\nnon, Michigan, in 1856, and lived on a farm, attending school until\\nthe age of 14, when he removed to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where\\nhe comijleted his education. At the age of 17 lie began the\\nactual battle of life for himself in the hotel business at Muskegon,\\nMichigan, subsequently taking up photography, he and his brother\\nat one time owning and operating eleven galleries in different cities\\nof the United States and Canada. His next venture was in the\\nmanufacture of cigars at Cincinnati and in the conduct of a jobbing\\nbusiness in that line, in which he was engaged for over two years.\\nSubsequently removing to Detroit, he engaged in the real estate\\nbusiness, which he has since successfully conducted, latterly con-\\nfining his attention to the purchase and sale of pine and mineral\\nlands and in developing his property in Detroit. Mr. French has\\nbeen from boyhood familiar with pine lands, having been born in\\nthe region of Michigan celebrated for its extensive growth of that\\ntimber. He owns large and valuable tracts of pine lands in Mich-\\nigan and does a brokerage business in pine lands located in various\\nsections of the country. His investments in Detroit real estate\\naggregate over $20,000, and he has valuable real estate property at\\nGrand Rapids, Michigan, besides 120 acres of mineral lands in the\\nujaper Michigan Peninsula situated near the Republic mine which\\nwas sold for 15,000,000, and other property in Chicago on Indiana\\navenue. Mr. French may justly be classed ranong the younger\\nmen of Detroit who have achieved notable successes.\\nBesides the above, among the leading lumber dealers in Detroit\\nmay be mentioned A. Backus, Jr., Sons, Brownlee Company,\\nDelbridge, Brooks Fisher, Delta Lumber Company, Hutton,\\nMyles Weeks, Moilat, Etherly Company, S. J. Murphy, and\\nthe estate of Thomas Nester.\\nPICTURE FRAMES, MIRRORS ETC.\\nTHE HARGREAVES MANUFACTURING COMPANY.\\nThis industry, the leading establishment of its character in the\\ncountry, was organized and incorporated in 1872, with a capital\\nstock of $150,000. Ic has since its inception been of continual\\nadvancement and expansion, and its trade relations embrace the\\nentire United States and the Dominion of Canada, with a large\\nanl steadily increasing exjiort trade. The line of goods manu-\\nfactured consists of fine picture frames, moldings and art goods, of\\nwhich in high character and volume of output this company far\\nexceeds any similar institution in America. The buildings com-\\nprising the varied manufacturing essentials of the business cover\\nthe whole block, represented in Howard, Seventeenth and\\nEighteenth streets, with commodious and handsomely appointed\\nTHOMAS E. REEDEB", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nLV.MAX. II. liAI.DWIN.\\noffices and slcnk rooms at 60 Eighteenth street. The macliinery\\nand appliances for the expeditious and thorough conduct of the\\nextensive operations of the factory are of tlie latest and most\\nimproved description. Constant employment is given to 2J0 hands,\\nand their products represent 1.200 different varieties of inoldin^;s,\\nin addition to picture frames of ornate and elegant designs, iini(|iie\\ntoilet cases and art goods of the most superior fabrication and\\nornamentation. The best quality of material only is used, and eich\\narticle of tlie manufactures is critically inspected before leaving\\nthe factory. The company employ four traveling salesmen, who\\nrepresent it in the leading markets of the country. Tlie official\\nadministration is in capable and experienced hands, and is con-\\nducted in the most thorough and efficient manner by the following\\ngentlemen: F. T. Sibley, president; W. J. f hittenden, vice-\\npresident; Thomas E. Reeder, manager, and Lyman II. Baldwin,\\nsecretary and treasurer, all of whom are identified willi the\\ninterests of tlie company and tlie factors of its culmination into the\\nlargest and most progressive industry of its kind in tlie country.\\nTnojL\\\\s E. Reeder, manager of the Ilargreaves Manufacturing\\nConiiiany, was born at Detroit November 4, 1861. He was educated\\nin the city public schools, and has been connected witli the\\nIlargreaves Manufacturing Company since 1879, beginning as\\noffice boy, and rising to his ))resent responsible position, which he\\nhas filled witli signal credit and consiiicuous abilities for live years.\\nMr. Reeder is of English parentage, and his father was among\\nDetroit s early settlers, tlie old Reeder homestead, more familiarly\\nknown to the older residents as the Reeder farm, being now\\nincluded in the city limits. His fatlier was for forty years identified\\nwitli Lake Superior copper interests. In Mr. Thomas E. Reeder\\nDetroit possesses one of its most eminent industrial representatives.\\nAs manager of the Ilargreaves Manufacturing Company, of which\\nhe is a Director and one of the largest stockholders, he has\\nessentially contributed to tlie marked success which has attended\\nits operations. He is a prominent member of various social,\\nHARQREAVES MANUFACTURINO COMPANY S FACTORY.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n^7\\nathletic, hunting and fishing clubs, in several of which he is an\\nofficer. He married Miss LeBeau, of Montreal, and has one child, a\\nson. He is active, experienced, sagacious and critical, and person-\\nally superintends the detiilaof every department of the extensive\\nbusiness.\\nLyman H. Baldwin, secretary and treasurer Hargreave\\nManufacturing Company, was born at Detroit, April 18, 1844. His\\nparents removed from Connecticut to Detroit in 1842. His father\\nwas a member of the firm of Hay den Baldwin, extensive\\nmanufacturers of harness and saddlery hardware. Mr. Baldwin\\nwas educated in the city public schools and at Goldsmith s Business\\nCollege. He entered his father s employ in the fall of 1860, and\\ncontinued with him and after his death with the firm of P. Hayden\\nCompany, up to Match, 1883. During the same year he became\\nassociated with the Hargreaves Manufacturing Company, becoming\\nin 1884 its s cretary and treasurer, which offices he has since held,\\ndischarging his duties with commendable zeal and fidelity. He is a\\ndirector and stockholder in the company, and gives his exclusive\\ntime and attention to incumbent interests. He was married in 1871\\nto Miss J. Adele Strong and has two sons.\\nJ. C. WIDMAN.\\nC. D. WIDMAN COMPANY.\\nThis establishment for the manufacture of mirrors and mirror\\nframes, was founded in 18(35, as C. and C. D. Widman, at Rochester,\\nNew York, and was removed to Detroit in 1867, tlie business having\\nbeen purchased by Mr. C. D. Widman, who subsequently formed a\\ncopartnership with Messrs. J. C. Widman, Sylvester L. Rich and J.\\nW. Ailes, under the firm name of C. D. Widman Company. In\\n1884, after the death of Mr. C. D. Widman, the business was re-\\nsolved into a joint stock company, the firm name being retained, of\\nwhich Mr. J. C. Widman became jiresident, Mr. Sylvester L. Rich,\\nsecretary and treasurer, and Mr. J. W. Ailes, a director and practi-\\ncal representative. The capital stock is |G0,000. The buildings and\\nyards on Trombley avenue cover three acres. The equipment for\\nmanufacturing is of the latest and most improved order, and in-\\ncludes specially devised machinery and requisite appliances. This\\ncompany is recognized as being the most perfect in facilities and\\nappointments of any similar institution in the country, manufac-\\nturing their own frames and doing the work of silvering and bevel-\\ning, thus completely finishing the mirrors in their own factory.\\nAbout 100 hands are constantly employed and the products find\\nSYLVESTER L. EICH.\\nready sale in the markets of the United States, Canada and South\\nAmerica. The character of the goods manufactured is excelled by\\nnone in the country, the ambition of the company being to distance\\ncompetition by superior workmanship, new ideas in design and\\nfinish and the employment of the best and most critically selected\\nmaterial. They are the only manufacturers in the United States\\nmaking mirrors in completed shape in their own factory, which can\\nbe produced of any required size, from the smallest to the largest\\nknown. A constant demand keeps the factory running on full\\nJ. W. AILES.\\nJ", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMFRCE.\\ntime and characterizes it as among the leading and most prominent\\nindustries of its kind in tlie country.\\nJ. C. WlDMAX, president of C. I). A\\\\ uluian Company, was\\nborn at Rocliester, New York, November 30, 1848, and received his\\neducation in the public schools of that city. At the early age of\\nthirteen he entered tiie employ of Thomas Turpin in his native city,\\nat that time the only manufacturer of picture mouldings west of\\nNew York City. At tlie ageof seventeen, he and his brother, C. 1).\\nWidnian, the founder of the irresent Inisiness of C. D. Widman\\nCompany, came to Detroit and established tliat industry. Three\\nyears later with the capital a(i|uinil from his hard-earned savings\\nhe embarked in business for himself in a retail grocery at Uochesler,\\nNew York, and after a successful career of ten years returned to\\nDetroit and became associated as a partner in his brother s business.\\nIlis entire time and attention have since been directed to the details\\nof the manufacture of mirrors ami niirrror frames, liis perogative\\nbeing the management and direction of the mechanical dei)art-\\nment of the business.\\nJ. W. AiLF.s, a director of C. D. SVidman Company, was\\nborn at Alliance, Ohio, April 23, 1858, and atthe age of IGgraduated\\nfrom the high school of that town with the liighest honors of his\\nclass. He began his business career as a traveling salesman for a\\nCleveland firm in his seventeenth year, and after two years\\nbecame as-sociated in the same capacity with C. D. AVidman\\nCompany, at Detroit. After five years of service he was admitted\\nto jiartnership, and has since proven an invaluable factor of the\\nbusiness. He stdl represents the interests of tlie company as a\\ntraveling salesman, and is a director and practical administrator\\nof its affairs.\\nLeonard Laurense Company are extensive manufacturers of\\nmoulding and jiicturc frames.\\nHOTELS.\\nThere are few cities in the union whose hotels have a better\\nreputation than those of Detroit. Their fame has gone abroad and\\nKUSSELL HOUSE.\\nSylvester L. Rich, secretary and treasvirer of C. D. Widman\\nCompany, the son of George M. Rich, one of the [lioneer settlers\\nof Detroit, was born in that city July 22, 1853. Ho was put to\\nschool, completing his education in 1864, at which time he began\\nto earn his own living as an office assistant in the employ of M. S.\\nSmith Company, serving in that relation for five years. He next\\nbecame associated with the business of C. D. Widman Com-\\npany, beginning in an humble capa ity. and by dint of industry and\\ncareful attention to imiilii d duties, rising to the management of the\\naffairs of the manufacture. He was given an interest in the busi-\\nness by reason of his superior abilities displayed in liis successful\\nadministration, to which he lias since directed his exclusive time\\nand attention. At the incorporation of the company he became its\\nsecretary and treasurer, and as the financial man of the concern\\nhas evinced exceptional judgment and sagacity.\\nextended far and wide to other cities and the traveler sojourning\\nhere to enjoy the advantage Detroit offers to the pleasure seeker,\\nthe health seeker or the man of business, will find a wide range\\nupon which to fi.x his choice while he cannot go amiss if he selects\\nany here represented. Besides those of which views of the build-\\nings and portraits of the proprietors are given, may be mentioned\\nthe Hotel Leideis, situated at the corner of Randolph and Croghan\\nstreets also the Biddle House occupying an entire square and which\\ntor several years has unfortunately been closed to the public. Besides\\nthese the Cass Avenue Hotel, the Perkins Hotel, the (Jooodman\\nHouse which are located on Grand River avenue, the Franklin House,\\nRice s Hotel, the Hotel Benedict, Gies s European Hotel, the\\nRandolph Hotel, and various others of lesser dimensions. It is esti-\\nmated on good autliority that the hotels of Detroit will afford\\ncommodious accommodations for at least 13,000 guests.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n89\\nTHE RUSSELL HOUSE.\\nThis famous hostelry, which, for a quarter ot a century, has\\nappropriately dispensed the comforts and conveniences involved in\\nthe projjer entertainment of its guests, still represents the leading\\nand most notable of Detroit hotels. Its location upon the Campus\\nMartius, opposite the City hall, and within easy reach of the\\nbusiness districts, theaters and objects of general interest, constitutes\\nit the most distinctively advantageous point of interest in Detroit,\\nThe building is constructed of brick with an imposing front of\\nstone, and while of unpretentious exterior, its interior arrangements\\nand appointments are in strict con.ervance with the most modern\\nideas, as representing the most refined and elegant accessories.\\nSuch improvements have been made as have from time to time\\nbeen demanded thus has constantly been preserved the identity of\\nthe hotel as among the best in the country. The offices, lobby and\\nreading room fitted up in handsome style, are on the ground floor,\\nwliich is composed of marlile tiles. The guests chambers, num-\\nbering 235, open into commodious halls and corridors, and are\\nreached by spacious marble stairways and swift elevators. The\\nappointments and fixtures are of the most naodern description, and\\nconform to the essentials of cultivated tastes. Steam heat, electric\\nlights, electric enunciators and call bells, prompt and efficient\\nservice, sui erior tonsorial and bathing establishments assist in\\nrendering the Russell House one of the most comfortable, conven-\\nient, and desirable stopping places for the tourist seeking immunity\\nfrom monotony and its incident cares. During the past year\\nmagnificent improvements, embracing thirty additional bath rooms\\nand gentlemen s public and private toilet rooms exquisitely finished\\nin Italian marble has been made. The ordinary and breakfast room\\nhas been remodeled, and is wainscoted in Spanish mahogany, and\\nornamented with elegant chiseled stone and tile fire-places, which,\\nwith new electric combination gas fixtures, new furniture and\\ncarpets with other modern appliances of comfort appreciably\\ncontribute to its attractiveness and conveniences. Its splendidly\\nappointed billiard hall affords a pleasing recreation to the lovers of\\nthe captivating siinrt. Among the most pleasurable experiences of\\nDetroit that can be borne away by visitors who have sojourned at\\ntlie Russell House are the pleasant and agreeable imjiressions thus\\nengendered, and the courteous demeanor of the proprietors and\\ntheir attentive assistants, who are ever pronounced in their efforts\\nto insin-e the comfort and satisfaction of their guests.\\nWILLIAM J. CHITTENDEN.\\nL. A. MCCREARY.\\nWilliam J. Chittenden, member of the firm of Chittenden\\nMcCreary, proprietors of the Russell House, was born April 28,\\n1835, and was educated at tlie Jeffo son County institute at Water-\\ntown, N. Y. Coming to Detroit in 1853, he obtained a clerksliip in\\nthe postoffice, where he remained for two years. Returning to\\nWatertown, N. Y., he became a clerk in a bank, which position he\\nretained until 1858, when he returned to Detroit, and for six years\\nsucceeding he served as a clerk in the Russell House. Upon the\\nsuccession to proprietorship of VVitbeck Chittenden, tlirough a\\nlease of the property in 18G4, Mr. Cliittenden became directly\\nassociated with its management and its good fortunes since. By\\nthe admission to partnership in 1877, of Mr. L. A. McCreary, tlie\\nfirm s name was changed to Witbeck, Cliittenden Company,\\nand which upon the death of Mr. Witbeck, in January, 1882, it\\nwas altered to W. J. Chittenden Company, and in 1890 it became\\nas now constituted Chittenden McCreary. Mr. Chittenden was\\nmarried in 1866 to Miss Irene Williams, daughter of Gen. AlpheusS.\\nWilliams, and has five childi en. He is the president of the\\nHargreaves Manufacturing Comj^any, a director of the First\\nNational bank and of the Michigan Wire and Iron Works.\\nL. A. McCreary, member of the firm of Cliittenden\\nMcCreary, proijrietors of the Russell House, was born September 1,\\n1844, at Independence, a small town in Western Pennsylvania, on\\nthe Virginia line. His father was a prosperous merchant and\\nfarmer, and the son was educated at the best schools of that period.\\nIn 1863 Mr. McCreary made his first venture in the hotel business\\nwith Jolm McDonald Crossan, proprietor of the historic Monongha-\\nhela House, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, which prominently\\nmaintained its reputation and priority among the more notable\\nhotels of that day. He continued in this relation up to 1866, when\\nhe engaged with Kirkwood Brothers, of Washington, D. C, as chief\\nclerk of the Weddell House, at Cleveland, Ohio, where he remained\\nuntil the spring of 1869, when upon the retirement of the firm\\nfrom business, he came to Detroit, taking the position of chief\\nclerk at the Russell House, which he retained until 1877, when he\\nwas given an interest in the business, the firm being Witbeck,\\nChittenden Company, which upon the death of Mr. Witbeck\\nin 1883, was changed to W. J. Cliittenden Compan} and again\\nat the beginning of 1890, Cliittenden McCreary as it is now\\nconstituted. Mr. McCreary has, since his connection with the Rus-\\nsell House, been instrumental in promoting its high reputation and", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "go\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nstas: Kss\\n;VB,* sax rism-\\nMfii-. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2^A^ f^5?fci\\nVi.\\n%L .SS^. S^", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n91\\nprosperity througli liis enterprising and popular principles and\\nsuperior management of tlie details of the business.\\nHOTEL CADILLAC.\\nKeeping pace with the vigorous growth of our enterprising city,\\ntlie Hotel Cadillac has renewed its youth and gained strength\\nand beauty in its rapid development. This popular house\\nwas opened by Van Est Gi-aves in 1S88, and altliough from\\nthe start it ranked among the first-class and leading hotels of this\\npart of tlie country, its energetic proprietors were not satisfied until\\nthey liad done all in their power to perfect and beautify it to its\\npresent inviting proportions, and considering the enormous labor\\nand expense in putting up and ojier-ating so magnificent an hostelry,\\nit is a marvel seldom realized that it was filled with guests and en-\\njoyed a prosperous and paying condition from it earliest history. In\\norder to meet the growing demands of its patronage, the proprietors\\nwere compelled to extend its already large capacity by the addition\\nof an extension which now nearly covers the area reaching from\\nWasliington, State and Rowland streets. The imposing structure as\\nit now stands consists of five stores and a basement, and is con-\\nstructed throughout with all the modern improvements from\\nground to roof. It contains between 300 and 400 rooms, elegantly\\nQUARTOS A. GRAVES.\\nfurnislied and elaborately fitted and equipped. Its long corridors,\\nmagnificent plate glass mirrors, cool retreats, palatial parlors, commo-\\ndious sample rooms, newsroom, smoking rooms, bar, telegraph ofilce,\\nlavatories, etc., are marvels of comfort and convenience. Passing up\\nthe marble stairway to the dining room on the second floor, the plate\\nglass windows reveal a magnificent dining liall capable of seating\\nover 450 guests, where all that delights tlie palate can be indulged.\\nIn brief, the wayfaring man cannot err if he goes therein expecting\\nto find all desirable comforts outside of home. The Cadillac held\\nits formal re-oiiening reception on its comiiletion to its present con-\\ndition, on May 18th, and throngs of deliglited visitors inspected its\\nimprovements which are indeed an ornament to any citj-, and the\\nespecial pride of residents of Detroit. Quartus A. Graves, one of its\\npopular proprietors, whose portrait is here presented, was born in\\nNorwich, New York, January 37th, 1842. His fatlier was an ex-\\nperienced liotel keeper, and liis son comes naturally fitted to the\\nsame position wliich he adorns with credit to liiinself and to the\\nperfect satisfaction of all who favor him with their patronage.\\nJAMES E. HAVES.\\nWAYNE HOTEL.\\nJames R. Hayes, proprietor of the Wayne Hotel, was born at\\nMorrisville, New York, Marcli 23, 1854, and removed with his parents\\nto Grand Rapids, Micliigan, when but eleven years of age. It was in\\nthis city that he received his education and where his first venture\\nwas made in actual business as a clerk in a grocery store. He con-\\ntinued to perform service in tliis relaticm for four years, after which\\nhe became steward of Sweet s hotel and clerk in the Morton House,\\nALBEET MAXWELL.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nGrand Rapids, steward of the Bancroft House, Saginaw, and again\\nsteward of Sweet s hotel, Grancl Ra])ids. He next undertook the\\nmanagement of the Arlington at Petoskey, which is conducted as a\\nsummer resort, during the winter, managing the Exchange hotel at\\nMontgomery, Alabama, Sanford House, at Sanford, Florida, and\\nHotel Indian River at Rock Ledge, Florida, up to the winter of 18S7\\nwhen lie came to Detroit to open the new Wayne Hotel under the\\nproprietorship of W. P. F. Meserve. In the succeeding fall Mr.\\nHayes became the sole proprietor of the Wayne which he has suc-\\nceeded in making one of the essentially popular hotels of the country.\\nIt is located opposite the Michigan Central dejxit and within a few\\nminutes walk of the j)rincipal business districts, objects of interest,\\ntheatres, art museum, parks and boulevanls and the grand and\\nboai tiful Detroit river, in summer teeming with the sail and steam\\ncraft by whicl may be reachccl the almost inrmito jioints of attrac-\\ntion along its borileis and upon the great lakes. The Wayne is\\nentirely new and is fitted up in avdern style in the most superb\\npopular Griswold House, lias been a man of many enterprises, most\\nof wliich have been eminently successful. But he counts his\\npresent venture as his most satisfactory one, and hopes that he is a\\nfixture in it for many years, a wish which his hundreds of friends\\nthroughout tlie United States will echo. He was i years olil on\\nthe ith of April, 1891, and was born in Toronto. His education was\\nof the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2rough-and-tumble district school variety, under teachers\\nwhose love of discipline was greater than their book learning;\\nbut he kept at school as regularly as the somewhat irregular school\\nsessions of those times allowetl, until he was about 17 years of age,\\nalso working on the farms of his father and brothers. This was\\nnot to his taste, and he started a countrj- store for general mer-\\nchandise, which did not meet his expectations. When 2^! years old,\\nhe entered the Royal Hotel, at Hamilton, Ontario, as manager,\\nwhere he remained for seven years. He was married to Jliss\\nMaria Van Norman, of this place, in 18.%. Mr. JIaxwell had a\\nstrong desire to start in the liotel business on his own account, and\\nWAYN]-; llDTEL.\\nmanner, the appointments including electric lights, electric call bells,\\n(.team heat, K:imtary plumbing, elevators, icl every requisite of the\\nfirst-class hotel. It contains 2O0 guest cho -ibers, handsomely fur-\\nnisheil and opening into spacious halls ricnly cari)eted and brill-\\niantly lighted. The cuisine and service are of the best and have\\ngiven the Wayne a reputation and distinction amply evidenced by\\nits patronage, almost continually re(|uiring the fullest extent of its\\naccommodation. In the spring of 1890 Mr. Hayes oecame the lessee\\nof the Grand Hotel at Mackinac, which is celebrated among the\\nsummer resorts of the lake country. He also still conducts the\\nArlington at Petoskey, of which he is one of the proprietors. Mr.\\nHayes is a veritable host and tluirougldy understands and ai)preci-\\nates the necessity of appropriately administering to the demands of\\nthe traveling public.\\nURISWULD HOU.SE.\\nMk. ALBEitT MjVXWEll, the popular proprietor of the equally\\nin isfi. he went to New York as manager of the Union Club, where\\nhe remained for four years. This brought to him the long-desired\\nchance, and he and Mr. Coleman bought out the old Cooper House,\\na famous summer liotel in Coopcrstown, New York. After five\\nyears of variable success, Mr. Maxwell concluded he would enjoy\\nworking in a larger field and sold out. Mr. Ma.xwell con-\\nducted si.x eating houses on the line of the Michigan Central\\nRailroad for several years. These were wonderfully popular and\\nsuccessful until the flyers were put on the road, with their\\naccompanying dining cars. Foreseeing the cut that this would\\nmake in his profits, Mr. JIaxwell sold out all his eating houses and\\ncame to Detroit. After t le death of James Gerrans, of the Gris-\\nwold, the hotel was carr;:_ d on by his executors until Mr. Maxwell\\nsecured the lease and to..k charge of the hotel in the spring of 1889.\\nlie bought the furniti;; e from the estate, and in addition, has spent\\nabout $4,000 remodeling the oftices, putting in steam, natural gas,", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n93\\nl Pl**li..i ll!\\niiiiMiii-iJiiy\\nMl\\nm\\nto d\u00c2\u00bbr^-TSwr-\\n1S9 P9\\nHOTEL NOEMANDIE.\\nFRANK H. CAER.\\nEDGAR F. REEVE.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\netc., handsome new velvet carpets having been put down in the\\nhalls asain in the spring of 1891. Mr. Maxwell says with the\\nemphasis of truth: This is one of the very best locations in\\nDetroit, and if a handsome new building with all tlie modern\\nimprovements went up here, there would be no limit to its\\npatronage, beyond the limit of its capacity, its reputation is so well\\nestablished from its beginning.\\nliOTKL NORMANDIE,\\nOne of Detroit s most notable hostelries is located on Congress\\nstreet, near Woodward avenue, was opened April 23, 1890, under\\nthe i)roi)rietorship of Jlessrs Frank H. Carr, and Edgar F. Reeve,\\nbotli of wliom are tlioiiniughly experienced in hotel management.\\nThe building occupied is of handsome architectural desi-; ii, 50x ir)0\\nin dimensions, and of a height of six stories. It is coiiiplittly fur-\\nnished with modern accessories in furnishings, and is fully e(iuipped\\nToledo, Ohio, in which he continued for five years and which office\\nhe creditable served. In June 1882, he together with Mr. A. B.\\nDickinson of Hillsdale, Michigan, purchased the furniture and lease\\nof the Hotel Brunswick, at Detroit, which they successfully con-\\nducted for seven years. Mr. Carr is also interested in the Bryant\\nHotel at Flint, Michigan. In the Spring of 1889 the business of the\\nBrunswick was transferred to Flint and merged into that of the\\nBryant, over which Mr. Carr devotes most careful attention\\nand of which he is the moving spirit of success. Through-\\nout his whole career in the hotel business, Mr. Carr has main-\\ntained a distinguishe l reputation, few men in any business\\nhaving more friends, and few deserving them more than he.\\nEdgab F. Reeve, of Carr Reeve, proprietors of the Hotel\\nNormandie, was born at East Moriches, Long Island, New York,\\nJanuary 28, 1858, where he received his education in the public\\nGRIFFIN HOUSE.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with every convenience and facility for the accomodation of its\\nguests. Its cuisine is of the most appreciable character and nothing\\nis omitted by the management to insure the utmost comfort and\\nsatisfaction. The Hotel Normandie is an institution of which any\\ncity might be proud as being in every respect a first-class hotel.\\nThe proprietors were previously associated with the Hotel Bruns-\\nwick in Detroit, tlirough which tlipy incurred a laudable recog-\\nnition.\\nFuAXK 11. Caru, senior member of the firm of Curr Reeve,\\npro[nic lors of the Hotel Normandie, was born in Ontario county,\\nNew York and came to Michigan twenty-five years ago, locating at\\nColdwater as night clerk in the ilkhigan Southern Hotel of which\\nhis i)resent partner, A. B. Dickinson, was llion the proprietor. In\\n1877 Mr. Carr accepted the position of cashier of the Boody House at\\nschools. At the age of sixteen he left his home and went to Toledo,\\nOhio, where he became connected with the IsUuul House, remain-\\ning for six years. He was afterward in tlie Burnet House, Toledo,\\nfor one j ear. Subsequently for five years he served as clerk in the\\nBoody House, and coming to Detroit accepted the position of chief\\nclerk in the Brunswick Hotel. After iliis house was closed, he for a\\nshort time became connected with the Wayne Hotel, and associated\\nliimseir with Mr Carr at the opening of the Hotel Normandie, of\\nwhich he is one of the proprietors.\\nGRIFFIN HOUSE.\\nJouN Guti KiN proprietor of the tiriffin House, was born in\\nCounty Kerry, Ireland, May 8, 18(i0, and came to Detroit in 1881, when\\nhe became associated with liis brother in the lioti l business on Jef-\\nferson avenue as clerk, occupying that position for two years.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nAfter tins he engaged in business on his own account purchasing\\nthe fixtures and lease of the Western Hotel which he successfully\\nconducted for two years, wlien he had constructed the present mag-\\nnificent and commodious building completed in 1885. This is the\\nfamous GritlSn House located on Jefferson avenue diagonally across\\nfrom the Michigan Central railroad depot, and which as a favorite\\nresort of visitors to the city has been attended with notable and\\nmeritorious success. Mr. Griffiin has recently leased the large\\nbuilding adjoining the Griflin House formerly known as the Union\\nHotel and which as an addition thereto has been remodeled and fur-\\nnished at an expense of ^15,000. This adjunct gives the Griffin\\nHouse 125 rooms all of which are sumptuously furnished and fit-\\nted witli modern appliances including electric lights, electric call\\nbells, and all other essentials of comfort and convenience. The\\ntable which has always been a prime feature of this house is main-\\ntained in the most superior manner, and would of itself demand\\nextensive patronage. The rates, considering the accommodations\\nafforded, are exceptionally low, being placed at |3.00 per day, $3.50\\nto|3.00 for front rooms with bath. Mr. Grifl^n gives his persona)\\nJOHN C. GRIFFIN.\\nattention to every detail implied in the management of the house\\nand omits no proper expedient to faithfully serve the best interest\\nof his guests.\\nGRAIN AND PRODUCE EXCHANGES.\\nBY GEO. iGE M. LiNE.\\nFor what purpose are Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce\\nand other like commercial associations organized? What end do\\nthey serve in the movement or the marketing of the products of\\nthe country, and how are the general interests of trade promoted\\nby their existence? Under the limited resources and wants of our\\ngrandfathers and great-grandfathers, when carts sufficed instead of\\ncars, the coach instead of the Pullman, and the weekly mail instead\\nof the telegraph and the telephone, associations for the oj^ening of\\nchannels of trade, for the expediting of business and for furnishing\\nthe facilities now supplied by exchanges were not thought of or\\nneeded. Fifty or seventy-five years ago the farmer and the\\nmechanic thought and knew almost nothing of the market beyond\\nthe nearest village. There he bartered his limited su]iplies for che\\nfew articles he needed or could not produce, and which satisfied\\n95\\nhis simple and limited wants. The miller ground the wheat and\\ncom for his neighbors and not for the market 1,000 miles away oi-\\nacross the ocean. Almost nothing was brought into the commu-\\nnity, or exchanged with other sections, except the little that was\\nhandled by the village merchant, and his operations were so limited\\nthat the identity of whatever was sold was almost preserved until\\nconsumers hands were reached. In such conditions of trade,\\ncommercial organizations were as unnecessary as the fifth finger or\\nthe fifth wheel and no conferences relative to values or markets\\nwere needed, outside of the daily gathering of farmers upon the\\ntown corners or of the village solons in their evening sessions at\\nthe country store.\\nToday we live in a different world. When its annual wheat\\nproduct has increased to over two billions of bushels, and the\\nyield of corn in the United States alone reaches near the\\nsame quantity, it is easy to understand that system and organiza-\\ntion must exist; first, to properly care for such almost unlimited\\nharvests; second, to furnish markets for the surplus, and third,\\nto organize channels and means for supplying countries andstctions\\nneeding the surplus. Individuals in their single capacity could not\\naccomplish this, and would fail did they attempt it. It is a well-\\nknown fact, tliat for almost every need there will come in some\\nway a supply, and the two will grow together. It is in compliance\\nwith this that railroads, canals, telegraphs, telephones, our system\\nof exchanges, and our commercial organizations have come into\\nexistence and hold the positions they do, as essential and indis-\\npensable factors in the business world. To remove any one of\\ntliese, would be like taking an important wheel from the CL-ntcr of a\\ncomplicated machine it would bring disaster and almost ruin to\\nvaluable interests.\\nUnder the order and systems which have grown with the\\nrequirements of trade, the markets of the world have come to\\nto be almost one. Wall street dictates values for listed stocks and\\nsecurities throughout the whole country. The grain trade of the\\nwhole land is very largely dependent upon, and is established by\\nChicago and New York values. That always, and in every par-\\nticular, the condition of trade as existing is an unmixed good\\ncannot be maintained but the greater advantage to the producer\\nand the holder is this, viz: That a quick and ready market is\\nalways available, and full New York or Chicago values can be\\nsecured in almost every market of the land less the cost of trans-\\nportation and the handling. It is not now as formerly, the labor of\\ndays and of weeks, with attendant expenses, to secure this advan-\\ntage but generally a few hours will convert the product or the\\nmanufactured article into that which will suj^ply needs in households.\\nThe establishing and the maintaining of these advantages has\\nbeen largely the work of the commercial associations of our\\nseaboard and inland cities, known as Boards of Trade and\\nChambers of Commerce. How? do you ask? First, by the\\nconcentration of interests, whereby a market is established which\\ncan absorb the surplus product or the manufactured article.\\nSecond, by collecting and publishing information relative to the\\nsupply and the demand which are always influential and ruling\\nfactors in every market in establishing prices. Third, thej always\\nhave been at least influential in furnishing cheap and quick\\ntransportation, their interests being generally one with those of\\nthe producer and the shipper. Fourth, where the ceral products of\\nthe country are estimated by billions of bushels, and the surplus to\\nbe moved, at millions, it is readily understood that the identity of\\nwhatever is sold cannot be preserved beyond farmers hands.\\nTherefore, to move such a surplus or accumulations at intermedi-\\nate markets and still give the producer or seller all the advantages\\ndeserved, a system of grades and inspections must be established.\\nAnd these should be as nearly uniform as possible throughout the\\ncountry. In the establishment of such a system, commercial\\norganizations have been instrumental and should be credited with\\nthe advantages derived by these features in the grain trade of the\\ncountry. Fifth, with all the evils attributed to these associations,\\nbegotten of that speculation which is favored by privileges thus\\nafforded, it nevertheless is true that speculation is not infrequently\\na desirable factor in commercial circles. When there is no in-\\nducements for investments, we have dull markets. This condition\\nis almost without exception unfavorable for e fery class. But when", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nGEORGE M. LANE.\\nthere is a profitable margin, possibly little more than simple\\ninterest, a steady healthy market can generally be realized,\\nproducts can he moved, labor is wanted, and thus employment is\\nsecured for those otherwise unemployed. True, speculation some-\\ntime runs wild and becomes an unhealthy factor; but generally\\ncommercial organizations under regulations now quite uniformly\\nprevalent, are like balance wheels that give steadiness to values\\nand curb wild and reckless manipulatiuns. To the uninformed and\\nthe ])rejudiced, this may seem strange, and nxay he treated with\\nridicule, but it is nevertheless true. There will always be differ-\\nences of opinion, and views will vary uixm any (piestion, these\\nbeing formed or influenced largely as interests dictate. This is\\ntrue ujion exchange floors; and where there are two parties, each\\npushing tlieir own interests, an eipiilibrium is quite sure to follow.\\nNow and then the market swings like the pendulum to the extreme,\\nbut the return soon takes place, and the mean is established.\\nWhile in the past. Boards of Trade have been organized chieflv\\nfor the movement of grain and produce, latterly their scope has been\\nenlarged, and in many cities they have become exchanges where\\nthose representing not only the grain and j)roduce, but also mer-\\ncantile and manufacturing interests, assemble not only f(]r trade,\\nbut for consultation and comparison of views; where questions of\\npulilic concern relating to national, state and municipal affairs are\\ninformally discussed; where carriers and shippers gather and\\nconfer relative to mutual interests. Questions of freight and\\ntransportation are now vital ones, and freight bureaus liave come to\\nbe important adjuncts to not a few of the exchanges in our large\\ncities. Along these lines and others, commercial associations are\\nenlarging their boundaries and are including representatives of\\nalmost every leading business interest. It is in tliese ways that\\nassociations reach their maximum of usefulness, and are made\\nworthy of support and patronage. Of late such organizations have\\nmultiplied rapidly. In Michigan, Detroit, Bay City, Saginaw,\\nGrand Rapids, JInskegon, Sault Ste. Marie, ami jiossibly other cities\\nof our State, have each from one to three or four associations. In\\nthe United States there are about 700 bodies formed for the pur-\\nposes already indicated. New York State has the greatest number,\\nviz.^ upwards of 1 i Pennsylvania, GO; JIassachusetts, 80; Iniliana,\\n45; Ohio, S Illinois, 22, and other States from 1 to 2. each. It is\\nunfortunate that Detroit has not an exchange in every respect\\nworthy of a city of nearly a quarter of a million of people. The\\nBoard of Trade is the oldest and largest association. Besides this\\nwe have the Merchants and Slanufacturers Exchange; while\\ncoal merchants, insurance agents and possibly other interests have\\norganizations. If all these and others could unite and form an\\nexchange of 400 or .500 members, its influence would be felt in\\nmany ways. Detroit would then rank with other cities in having\\na body of men united to push wliatever was undertaken to almost\\nsure success. The members of the Board of Trade are earnest in\\ntheir endeavors for this, but success depends much ui)on the\\nresponse made by other associations and the representative business\\nmen of our city.\\nThe Board was organized in ls 5G and incorporated in 1863.\\nIts membership has included, first and last, many of the\\nmost ](roininent business men of the city. Its active influence\\nhas always been exerted for every interest looking to the growth\\nand business prosperity of Detroit. In questions of transportation,\\nincluding the building and the imjjrovement of water routes in the\\nconstruction of railways inwards and outwards from Detroit; in\\nthe enlargement of the resources and business of the city, and the\\nmaking of this point an important one for the distribution of\\nproducts, the association has always taken an earnest interest. The\\nlocation of Detroit certainly is favoraVjle for greatly enlarged\\noperations in almost all lines. The farms, the forests and the mines\\nof no state are more i)roductive than these of Michigan. AVilh an\\nactive organic union of the solid interests of Detroit through its\\nrepresentative business men, all of these sources of wealth could be\\nmade tributary to this market, to a larger extent, and the limit of\\ntlie growth of the commercial and industrial pursuits of our city\\ncould scarcely be estimated.\\nGeorge M. Lane, Secretary of the Detroit Board of Trade was\\nborn near Romeo, Michigan, ^lay 28th, 1833. His education was\\nreceived at the Romeo Academy and the University of Michigan\\nfrom which he was graduated in 1853 with the degree of A. B. and\\nsubsequently, A. M. For several years after leaving college he fol-\\nlowed the profession of civil engineer, in which capacity he was\\nemployed on the D. M. and tlie Grand Trunk railroads, surveying\\nthe line of route between Detroit and Port Huron, remaining in\\nDetroit until its completion. At the outlireak of the late civil war\\nlie went to the front as Captain of Company B., First M chigan\\nVolunteers, comjiosed of engineers and mechanics. Becoming dis-\\nabled after one years service, he was ordered on detached duty in\\n^P^*^^\\nJAMES H. DONOVAN.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n97\\nKentucky, and served until the close of the war, when he resigned\\nhis commission and returning to Detroit accepted an editorial po-\\nsition on the Tribune which he held for nineteen years. In 1885 he\\nwas elected secretary of the Detroit Board of Trade, and has since\\ndischarged tlie duties of that position witli singular credit and\\nfidelity. He has been identified as an ofificer of the First Congre-\\ngational cliurcli for about sixteen years. Mr. Lane is a gentleman\\nof cultivated and engaging manner and intellectual abilities which\\nhave been directed in the various channels promoting the city s\\nprogress and prosperity.\\nJAMES H. DONOVAN,\\nPresidejit of the Detroit Board of Trade, was born of Irish par-\\nantage in Rochester, New York, August 8, 1850, where he resided\\nuntil his tenth year, when lie removed to Mt. Morris, New York.\\nHere he attended the public scliools from %vhich lie was graduated at\\nthe age of fifteen, afterward becoming associated with liis fatlier in\\nthe business of contractor and builder. Coming to Detroit in 1870,\\nhe went througli a course of business training in Mayhew s Commer-\\ncial College. In 18 i l he became connected with tlie Detroit, Lan-\\nsing and Norhern Railroad as billing clerk, and was the first to hold\\nthat position after the establishment of the company, subsequently\\nperforming clerical work in the freight department of the Michigan\\nCentral Railroad until 1874. From this time until 1880 he was\\nengaged in book-keeping for Jacob Beeson Company, grain deal-\\ners, after which he formed a partnership with George H. Done,\\nunder the firm name of George H. Done Company, which was\\ndissolved in 1883, when ho became associated with Sherman,\\nWaldron Company, as special partner, a relation which he sus-\\ntained up to 1888. He has since been a member of the firm of J.\\nF. Zahm Company of Toledo and has the management of the\\nDetroit house. This firm are among the largest receivers and ship-\\npers of grain in this city, and Mr. Donovan has in the control of its\\naffairs in tliis market exhibited an enterprising and sagacious direc-\\ntion especially promotive of continued successes. Mr. Donovan has\\nbeen a member of the Board of Trade since 1881; for several years\\nfrom 1883 one of its directors; second vice president in 1888; first\\nvice-president in 1889 and 1890, when through the resignation of\\nMr. Cliarles V. Bryan from the presidency he was selected to fill\\nthat office, and was elected president of the Board in 1891. Mr.\\nDuncvan is a thorough man of business and intimately identified\\nwith Detroit s commercial progress.\\nF. J SIMMONS.\\nGEORGE H. WARD.\\nF. J. SIMMONS COMPANY.\\nF. J. Simmons, the head of the house of F. J. Simmons Com-\\npany, was born in Oneida County, New York, February 10, 1846. He\\nreceived his ultimate education at the Michigan University, class\\nof 1866, in the Literary department, and coming to Detroit in 1885\\nbecame associated as senior partner in the Simmons Clougli Organ\\nCompany, now the Clough Warren Organ Companj for about ten\\nyears. He was for two years the general agent of the Equitable\\nLife Insurance Company of New York. After this, upcjn the form-\\nation of the firm of F. J. Simmons Company, he became the sen-\\nior member. As dealers in grain and seeds, operating on the Board\\nof Trade, the firm control a business of from 14,000,000 to $5,000,000.\\nThe individual members of the firm are F. J. Simmons and J. B. Roe,\\nwho are enterprising and progiessive trade exemplars and pledged\\nto the supreme interests of Detroit in all appointed commercial ways.\\nGEORGE H. WARD.\\nGeorge H. Ward was born at Battle Creek, Michigan, Octo-\\nber 16, 1863, of AniL rican parentage, his parents removing from\\nNew York State and settling at Battle Creek in 1841. His early\\neducation was received in the public schools in Battle Creek, and in\\nhis sixteenth year he entered Dufferin College at London, Ontario.\\nCompleting his collegiate course, he engaged in business as a clerk\\nin the grain commission house of Mclntyre and Wardwell, New\\nYork, one of the most extensive in the country. He served in this\\nrelation for about two years, deriving information which has since\\nproven of incalculable assistance. Coming to Detroit in 1884, he\\naccepted employment with J. F. Zahm Company in the Board of\\nTrade building as clerk. In October 1889, he embarked in busi-\\nness on his own account in room 37, Board of Trade building.\\nHis annual business aggregates about $1,000,000 and is of constant\\nexpansion. Mr. Ward is an enterprising and progressive merchant\\nwith undaunted zeal and ambition and is rapidly climbing to the\\ntopmost round of the ladder. He is a genial and popular gentleman\\nand a true, honest and upright citizen.\\nW. E. HEAIMES COMPANY.\\nW. E. Heames, (if the tirni of W. E. Heames Company, was\\nborn at Marquette, Jlichigan, JIarcli 38, 1851, and came to Detroit\\nwhen but an infant. He received his education in the city public\\nschools and at the age of 13 passed examination for admission\\nto the high school but neglected the opportunity, and embarked in\\nm", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nW. E. UKAMES.\\nbusiness in 1870 as a ilour mercliant and dealer in lire brick and\\nfoundry supplies at 75 and 79 Woodbrid^e street west, the present\\nlocation of the business of W. E. Heames Company. Mr.\\nAlfred G. Curtis, who liad been previously with the firm about\\nfifteen years, was admitted to partnership July 1st, isso. lie is an\\nactive member of the firm. The firm as now constituted is com-\\nposed of W. E. Ileames, Henry Heames and A. Curtis. Mr.\\nHeames for twenty years has been successfully engaged in this line\\nof business, of wliich, for several years, he has been the active\\npartner. He is also associated witli his father under the firm\\nname of Henry 1 leames Son, lime manufacturers, at the corner\\nof Woodbridge and Twenty-third streets. Mr. Heames is a director\\nof the Western Club, recently organized a director of tlie Inter-\\nlaken Club at Pine Lake, Michigan, and is warden of St. George s\\nEpiscopal Cluircli, Detroit. He is married and has four children,\\ntwo boys and two girls, ilr. Heames is a worthy citizen and his\\nlife has been woven of good deeds and noble aims.\\nII. E. EMMONS COMPANY.\\nH. E. Emmons, head of the firm of H. E. Emmons Company,\\nwas born at Orion, Oakland Count} Michigan, Marcli 2S, 18.58, and\\nwas educated in the scliools of his native village. His father, the\\nmore effectually to imijress upon him liabits of frugality and practi-\\ncal business ideas. rc iuirod liim to assist in work around tlie home-\\nstead, paying him lor liis services and deducting from his earnings\\nthe cost of his board and clothing. In February, 1875, he entered\\nthe Jlichigan Agricultural College at Lansing, pajing the expenses\\nof his tuition by alternately teaching and working upon the farm\\noperated by the students of that institution.*- He graduated with the\\ndegree of Baclielor of Science in November, 1878. He came to\\nDetroit in the Spring of 1870 and obtained the position of assistant\\nforeman in tlie ilrug establishment of Parke, Davis Company,\\nwhere lie continued for about two and a half years, when he entered\\nthe hat department of C. R. Mabley Company, subsequently\\ntaking charge of the (lc|)artment devoted to the finest grade of\\ngoods. His intention was to engage in the clothing trade, but in\\n1881, owing to the death of Robert G. Rudd, wlio had been conduct-\\ning the milling and feed business formerly under the proprietorship\\nof Mr. Emnions father, and there being no one in Detroit to man-\\nage the business, Mr. H. E. Emmons and his mother bought it out\\nand established the firm of H. E. Emmons Company, wliicli has\\nBince been conducted under the management of Mr. Emmons in a\\nhighly satisfactory and successful manner. Mr. Emmons is a\\nyoung man of sterling business qualities and has steadily won his\\nwaj- to eminence and distinction in Iiis business. About two and a\\nhalf years ago his whole outfit was destro3-ed by fire, but lie un-\\ndauntedly resumed business and speedily recovered from his losses.\\nThe location of the business is foot of Second street and a large\\nlot:al trade and heavy shipments east and south represent tlie out-\\nput which is constantly being incre;ised. Mr. Emmons is a member\\nof the Board of Trade, representing the Board as committee of ap-\\npeals, and is treasurer of the West End Club.\\nMITCHELL BROTHERS.\\nThis establishment was founded by Mr. William Mitchell, the\\nfather of John H. and David F. Mitchell, the present proprietors, in\\n1871, at which time the business was located at 139 Woodbridge\\nstreet. It was removed to the present site corner of Lamed and\\nSecond streets, in 1880, and in 1881 the property was purchased by\\nMr. William Mitchell and the business has since been conducteil at\\nthat location. The industry controlled by tlie (inn emliraces the\\nmanufacture of feed in all of its relations and granulated corn meal\\nby the roller process. The building occupied is three stories in height\\nand 8().\\\\80 feet in dimensions and is suitably provided with the latest\\nniiUing machinery and appliances. The trade is princii)ally local,\\nbut large car lots of goods are sliipped to lake points and the east.\\nTho annual output aggregates .$300,000. The firm occupy a notably\\nhigh position in their line and has been genex-ally successful since\\nthe foundation of the business.\\nWilliam JIitchkll, the father of John H. and David F.\\nMitchell, composing the firm of Mitchell Brotliers, who succeeded\\nto the business at his death, was born near Edinburgli, Scotland, in\\n1822. Ho passed his earlier years at Dundee, Scotland, where he\\nserved an apprenticeship to the trades of mechanical engineer and\\nmachinist, at the same time attending school. In IS.ji he accom-\\npanied a number of machinists to Montreal, Canada, where for\\nsome months he was employed in work at his trade. Coming to\\nDetroit in 1855 he secured work in Kendrick s machine shop, and\\nsubse(iuently became superintendent of machinery for Hiram\\nWalker, of Walkerville, Ontario, filling that position with credit\\nand a jility for nine years. After this he bought out the milling\\nbusiness of Smith Maitland, at 139 Woodbridge street, for $2,500,\\nH. E. EMMONS.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n99\\nWILLIAM MITCHELL.\\nto raise which sum he mortgaged his whole property. He con-\\ntinued to conduct tliis business very successfully for seven years,\\nafterward leasing and then buying the present site at the corner of\\nLamed and Second streets. During his entire business career he\\nmet all of his obligations without waiving a day or exacting\\ndiscounts. He was eminently successful in his business ventures\\nwas scrupulously economical, but never unreasonable or niggardly.\\nHe was in all of his relations conscientiously upright and honorable\\nand left to his children the legacy of a blameless reputation. Mr.\\nMitchell died July 3, 1889, leaving a widow and six children. His\\nwife was Miss Fair, a Scotcli lady of exemplary character. He was\\na member of the Christian church and a member of St. Andrews\\nsociety.\\nGILLETT AND HALL.\\nThis firm was established in 1864 as P. Voorhees and Company\\nwith Jlr. Theodore P. Hall as the Company, and was so continued up\\nto 1868. During the same year Mr. E. W. Gillett and Mr. Theodore\\nP. Hall formed a co-partnership and became successors of P. Voor-\\nhees and Company. Mr.Gillett had previously been a member of\\nthe firm of Bissell Gillett, and Mr. Hall of the firm of P. Voor-\\nhees and Company. In 1878 Mr. William Carson, wlio had been in\\nthe employ of tlie firm since itsfoundation was taken into partner-\\nship, as was Mr. Tliomas G. Craig, also several years in the firm s\\nservice. The record of the house has since been one of continued\\nsuccesses. Mr. Carson is the financial and Mr. Craig the active\\npartner on the floor of Detroit Board of Trade. The firm are\\nextensive handlers of grain, clover seed, dressed hogs and other\\narticles included in the provision trades. They do an exclusively\\ncash business and their transactions for 1890 will aggregate nearly\\n$6,000,000. Their office is Room 5, of the Board of Trade liuild-\\ning. Messrs. Gillett Hall personally superintend tlie general\\naffairs of the Inisiness, tlie younger members of the firm being\\nactively engaged in the management of incident details.\\nE. W. WARDELL,\\nWas born in Canada in the County of Haldimand and was on\\nhis father s farm on tlie shores of Lake Erie until he was 20 years\\nold, and came to Detroit in 1880, where he engaged in business for\\nhimself in the year 1885, commencing in a small way in the flour\\nand feed business. Fortunately meeting with no special losses or\\nreyerses, his trade rapidly increased from, a small beginning to its\\npresent prosperous condition, until at the present writing it has\\ngrown to very extensive proportions. Mr. Wardell is now doing\\na trade amounting to about $50,000 annually. During the entire\\nperiod he has received no outside aid or capital, and the rapid\\ngrowth and development is due entirely to his careful management\\nand enterprise. Mr. Wardell deals in hay, grain, flour and feed.\\nAn esjiecial line is his extensive dealings in grain and hay. His\\nestablishment is located at 840 Fort street west, where lie possesses\\nevery facility for storage and shipment. Ever attentive to the\\ndetails of his business, although comparatively a young man, his\\nprospects of success in this important line of trade are very prom-\\nising, and liis example of perseverance from a small beginning is\\nwortliy of emulation by every young man starting out for himself\\nin the business world.\\nJ. B. DUTTON COMPANY.\\nJoseph B. Dutton was born at Findlay, Ohio, September 4,\\n1848. His father, a niercliant tailor, died when the .son was but two\\nyears old, and liis mother removed to Pontiac, Micliigan. Here\\nJoseph was put to school until his twelfth year, when he was ap-\\nprenticed to the milling trade under A. B. Mathews. He continued\\nin tliis business for ei^ht years, when he engaged witli Bennett,\\nKnickerbocker Company in Jackson and Albion, Michigan, with\\nwhom he remained for five and a half years. For one year after\\nthis he was employed in the Union Mills at Detroit. In 1877 he\\nremoved to Chatham, Ontario and embarked in business on his own\\naccount, starting tlie first new process mills ever operated in\\nCanada. He continued liere, doing a profitable business until 1884.\\nIn 1883 he first began experiments upon an automatic scale, which\\nhe perfected and secured patents for in 1884. Since then he has\\ngreatly perfected his invention and now holds eighteen patents to\\ncover the improvements upon it. In June 1884 he began the manu-\\nfacture of his automatic scale at 211 Jefilerson avenue, Detroit, with\\nA. Linabury as a partner. In 1886 Mr. Dutton formed a stock com-\\npany witli a capital of $100,000, ten per cent, of which was paid\\nin. The business was continued in this relation for one year, when\\nMr. Dutton bought in the stock and became the sole proprietor. The\\ndesign of J. B. Dutton s Automatic Grain, Flour and Feed Scale and\\nRegister is for handling grain, flour and feed and in weighing and\\nregistering grain as it is fed to the first break of rolls. Besides\\nweighing the grain, it automatically regulates its flow upon the\\nE. \\\\V. WARDELL.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "lOO\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nJOSEPH B. DfTTON.\\nrolls. It is especially adapted for use in elevators where it becomes\\nnecessary to weiKli large quantities of grain expeditiously, as also\\nin breweries and malt houses for handling malt, barlej etc. Mr.\\nButton also supplies the trade for all kinds of mill furnishings\\nthrougliout the United States and Canada. The annual output is\\nabout 200 scales valued at $15,000 and the entire business amounts\\nto $12. ),000 per annum.\\nJ. S. LAPHA.M COMPANY,\\nRoom 13 Chamber of Commerce, are among our heaviest ship-\\npers of all kinds of grain, by l\u00c2\u00bbke as well as by rail, supplying a large\\nmilling tr.adeat lake ports, and a niilHng and feeding trade in interior\\nNew York and New England. Messrs. Lapliam Company liave long\\nbeen convinced that Detroit, which is midway between the corn and\\noats pi oducing districts of Illinois, and tlie eastern territory requiring\\nthese cereals for consumption, and on direct ro\\\\ite between tliem,\\nis the ideal distril)uting point from whicli to supply the buying\\ntrade. Not only this; but as Detroit is the natural market for the\\nexcellent grades of Michigan white and red winter wheat, and\\nchoice lilicliigan white oats, the eastern buyers should be educated\\ninto looking to Detroit for supplies, rather than to the distant\\nwestern markets. In pursuance to tliis conviction Messrs. Lapham\\nC ompany have, by persistent effort, not only established for\\nthemselves a generous and profitable order tra le in New York and\\nNew England, but have done mucli to make Detroit weights and\\ninspectiim popular in the districts mentioned. A special depart-\\nment of their business is their traftic in choice grades of feed, bran,\\ncoarse and fine middhngs, the product of tlie best Micliigan mills.\\nThis trade has more than doubled in the past year. The Grain and\\nCommission business of J. S. Lapham Company at Detroit is in\\ncharge of Jlr. James T. Shaw, as managing partner. The same\\nfirm, under the same name, is established in tlie banking business\\nin Nortliville, AVayne County, Michigan.\\nprominently instanced the characteristics of enterprising manage-\\nment and unvarying progress. The facilities of the business are on\\na very large scale, an J embrace a dock 300 feet long at the foot of\\nBeaubien street, a large dock at Anilierstburg on the Canadian side,\\nand six yards in the city. Employment is given to HO hands. The\\nannual output of the Detroit house represents a value of $1,000,000.\\nThe trade territory emljraces the Northwest, Canada and New\\nEngland. Mr. Sliipman owns a one tenth interest in four of the\\nlargest coal mines in Ohio, each capable of turning out 1,000 tons\\ner day a controlling interest in two coal mines in Pennsylvania,\\nwith a capacity of 40lt,()(l0 tons per year, and is the general man-\\nager of tlie Inter-State Coal Car Supply Company. lie operates 600\\ncars in running coal from his Pennsylvania mines to Canada. Mr.\\nShi|)man is otherwise prominently idenlilied with leading indus-\\ntries in Detroit is president of the Michigan Savings and Loan\\nAssociation a director in the Home Sivings Bank, the Frontier\\nIron and Brass Works, and owns stock in three Detroit banks. He\\nis now organizing a company with $1,000,000 capital to develop\\nmining projierty consisting of 25,000 acres in Pikeville, Tennessee.\\nPITTMANS DEAN,\\nWhose coal offices are at 92 Griswold street, in the Lewis block,\\nhave a coal trade which is constantly increasing. The original busi-\\nness was founded thirty-five years ago by James E. Pittmans, and\\nsix years ago the business was assumed by Messrs. L. M. Pitlmans\\nand Charles A. Dean, James E. Pittmans retiring from active ser-\\nvice to take the superintendency of the police, though retaining an\\ninterest in the business. They own yards on Atwater street, Ijetween\\nHastings and Rivard streets, at the corner of Gratiot avenue and the\\nBelt line, at the Woodivard avenue railroad crossing, and a dock\\nand yard at the foot of Riopelle street, these covering in all about\\nfive acres. They ship direct from the Hocking Valley mines, from\\nmines in Jackson, Ohio, from the Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields,\\nand soft coal from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They own about forty\\nhorses, but are obliged to employ many more during the busy\\nseason, when they also work 125 men, with an office foice of ten\\nmore. They are thus fully equipped to fill all onlers received with\\nabsolute fidelity and promptness, all their yards being connected\\nwith the railway system of Detroit. About three years ago the firm\\nentered into the ice business on a small scale, which has since grown to\\nlarge dimensions. The ice is cut from a lake near Hillsdale, and is\\nexceptionally pure. Five ice houses, substantially built and con-\\nCOAL DEALERS.\\nO. AV. SIIll .MAN.\\nThe consideration of coal in Detroit has been invested with\\ngreat importance through the extensive operations of its local\\ndealers. Among these, O. W. Sliipman, whose business was estab-\\ntablished in 1874, is entitled to conspicuous notice as having", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nlOl\\nL. M. PITTMANS.\\nveniently situated, are used in storing tlieir product.\\nL. M. PiTTMANS, is a native of this city, born July 22nd, 1856.\\nHe received an excellent education from the Detroit public schools,\\nand during liis vacations served on the United States Lake Survey,\\nas recorder. October 4, 1887, he was married to Miss Steuart, of\\nBaltimore, and they have two children, both boys. Mr. Pittmans\\nis fond of aquatic sports, and trained the winning Junior Four in the\\nregatta of the National Amateur Rowing Association, held at\\n-feh\\nDetroit in 1883, pulling bow. He has been one of the most active\\nmembers of the Detroit Boat Club, and also belongs to tlie Michigan\\nYacht Club, the Michigan Athletic Association, and the Detroit\\nClub, and having considerable nmsical ability, is a valued member\\nof the Boylston Club. His energy as a business man has won for\\nhim well deserved financial success, and his genial social qualities\\ncommand for him lasting popularity among his many friends.\\nCharles A. Dean was born in Detroit, March 26th, 1854. and\\nhas developed into one of the city s most solid and substantial busi-\\nness men. After leaving tlie high school in 1871, he entered the old\\nSecond National Bank, now the Detroit National Bank, where he\\nremained until 18S1, when he went into the coal business at the\\nWoodward avenue railroad crossing. May 1st, 1885, he became a\\nmember of tlie present firm of Pittmans Dean, of which he always\\nlias been an active and efficient factor. He is a member of the\\nDetroit Club, of the Detroit Athletic Club, of which he has been a\\npopular director, and of the Rushmere Hunting and Fishing Club.\\nHe was married October 8, 1878, to Miss Esselstyn, daughter\\nof the late Henry Esselstyn, and has two children, a boy and\\na girl.\\nCHARLES A. DEAN.\\nW. J. GorLD.\\nGROCERIES AND KINDRED LINES.\\nIn this department of trade Detroit occupies a notably distin-\\no-uished position in the examples afforded of its representatives, who\\nmay well be characterized as among the more reputable and eminent\\nin the country. The dis .inctive signification accorded the grocery\\nline was among the results of competition and the modern i lea of\\ngiving a separate identity to branches of business which in the\\nearlier history of the country were classed together. Originally\\nthe store keeper kept a stock of great diversification. The general\\nstore feature of business necessarily and naturally included not\\nalone groceries in the sense ot actual and vital necessities, but all\\narticles comiirised in the demands of clothing, hardware and\\nbuilding materials and the items of luxury, all of which now par-\\ntake of a separate and distinct classification. To the grocery line,\\ntherefore, have been assigned, not only provisions in the sense of\\nmeats, which belong more particularly to the butcher, especi.^lly in\\ntheir fresh condition, but coffee, tea, sugar, condiments and spices\\nwith the numerous considerations of canned goods and such articles\\nas are classed as grocers sundries. The year 1890 was an esjieci-\\nally prosperous one in the grocery trade of Detroit, and the volume", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "I02\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nof output far exceeded that of any previous year. Besides the\\nlarge firms herein described in this line, may he mentioned Johnson\\nWheeler, C. W. Inslee Companj-, Peter Henkel, and Sinclair,\\nEvans Elliott. W. H. Edgar Son, sugar dealers.\\nW. J. GOULD COMPANY.\\nAV. J. (iouLD, head of the wholesale grocery house of AV. J.\\nGould Company, was born in England in 1830, and came with\\nhis parents to the United States in 183G, locating at Detroit. His\\nfather was eaigaged in the grocery business here, but failed in 1839,\\nand W. J. Gould there.ifter resided with his grandfather who con-\\nducted a grocery upon the site of Pingree Smith s old shoe\\nfactory. He attended school and helped about the store, in this\\nway becoming acquainted with every detail of the retail grocery\\nbusiness. Naturally endowed with apjjrehensive and sagacious\\nbusiness instincts from his boyhood, he gradually developed the\\ncharacterists which have since placed him in the fore front of the\\nrepresentatives of the wholesale grocery trade in Detroit, and\\ndetermined his highly successful mercantile career. In 1864 he\\nentered into partnership with JI. S. Fellers, and engaged in the\\nwholesale grocery business at 22 Woodward avenue. Buying Mr.\\nFellers interest in 1873, Mr. Gould removed to 83 Jefferson avenue,\\nwhere he conducted, as sole proprietor, a very prosperous business.\\nIn 1880 the firm of W. J. (jould Company was formed, the\\nmembers which were W. J. Gould, D. D. Cady and Lewis F.\\nThompson. In 1S88. Mr. Gould s son, Clarence, was admitted to\\npartnership. The firm removed to the commodious building at 59,\\n61 and 63 Jefferson avenue, now occupied, in 1882. W. J. Gould is\\na veritable self-made man. He is prudent, circumspect, and\\nwhile at times may be characterized as hazardous in some of his\\nventures, he never fails to hit the nail on the head. He is an\\ninfluential and exemplary business man, and is intimately identified\\nwith all movements directed to the commercial advancement of\\nDetroit in the surest and best ways. The business of his house is of\\nconstant expansion, and is recognized by the trade for its principles\\nof superior management and strict observance of the rights and\\ninterests of customers. Mr. Gould is vice-president of the Home\\nSavings Bank and a director in the Third National Bank of Detroit.\\nD. D. Cadt, member of the wholesale grocery firm of W. J.\\nGould Company, was born on a farm in Wayne County, Michigan,\\nand was educated in the schools of Ypsilanti, Michigan, completmg\\nhis course in the State Normal School at that place. His first venture\\nD. D. CADT.\\nJOHN M. DWVKK.\\nin business was in the grocery line, in which he has since been con-\\ntinuously engaged, with the exception of two years as the pro-\\nprietor of a general store at New Hudson, Michigan, Returning to\\nDetroit in 1873, he re-engaged in the grocery business as a traveling\\nsalesman for the wholesale grocery house of W. J. Gould, contin-\\nuing in that relation up to 1880 when he became a partner, the firm\\nname being changed tt) W. J. Gould Company. He has been an\\nactive factor in the business and has largely contributed to its suc-\\ncess, ilr. Cadj- is a stockholder in the Dominion Typograph Com-\\npany; in the Portland Chemical and Phosphate Company and in the\\nMerchants National Bank, of Battle Creek, Michigan. He is a\\nmember of all the Masonic bodies, and has attained the thirty-\\nsecond degree. He is a member of the Detroit Athletic and the\\nDetroit Hunting and Fishing Clubs. He married Miss Elizabeth\\nBrewster, of Detroit, and has four children.\\nDWYER VIIAY.\\nThis house, the oldest in the line of wholesale fancy groceries\\nand fruits in Detroit, was established in 1809; has enjoyed unin-\\nterru]itt d progress and prosperity for twenty-two years, and durnig\\nthat whole period has experienced no change in the personnel of\\nof the firm and with but few excejitions in its clerical force. It\\nhas continued at the same location, 60 Jefferson avenue, since the\\nbeginning of the business. The annual oulpiit is from ^300,000 to\\n$300,000 in value. The trade territory is principally Michigan, but\\nextends to Northern Ohio and Indiana. The buildmg occupied is\\n20. Ll2r) feet in dimensions, extending through to Woodbridge street,\\nand affords ample accommodations for the business. The firm also\\nuse tiie building on the opposite corner of Jefferson avenue and\\nCass streets for purposes of storage. An extensive importing trade\\nin fiiii canned goods, fruits, sardines, maccaroni and various other\\ngoods incident to the nature of the business, is conducted. The\\nhistory of the house has been one of phenomenal success, and the\\nfirm of Dwyer Vhay take a notably high rank among the repre-\\nsentatives in their line of business in Detroit and at the West\\nJohn M. Dwyer, senior member of the firm of Dwyer Vhay,\\nwas born in Ireland in 1838, and came when quite young with\\nhis parents to the United States, settling in New Y ork state and\\nrenuivmg to Jlichigan in 1852. His father was for many years\\nengaged in the fruit trade at Detroit and the son followed in the\\nsame line, in which he has since been continuously engaged. After", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nlO^\\nJAMES H. VHAY.\\nconducting tho business alone for seven years, he formed a co-part-\\nnership with James A. Vliay in the wholesale fancy grocery and\\nfruit business at the present location, 66 Jefferson avenue. Mr.\\nDwyer is a stockholder in the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navi-\\ngation Company and in the Fort Wayne and Elmwood Street Rail-\\nway Company, and is the First Vice-President of the Penninsular\\nSavings Bank, of Detroit. He is the owner of much valuable real\\nestate and is a prosperous merchant and a prominent business man.\\nHe is married and has five children.\\nJames H. Vhay, member of the firm of Dwyer Vhay, was\\nborn at New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1839, and was educated in\\nthe sciiools of that city. He worked for four years on a farm, and\\nafterward engaged in the printing business. In 1863 he came to\\nDetroit, and was among the first to establish the business of sup-\\nplying that market with vegetables and fruits from Cleveland,\\nOhio, conducting at the same time a fruit store. John M. Dwyer\\nwas at that time a competitor, but in 1869 these gentlemen formed a\\ncopartnership for the conduct of the wholesale fancy grocery\\nand fruit business, which they have since successfully prosecuted.\\nIn tlK interval to the present time they have become interested in\\nvarious mercantile and manufacturing enterprises. They hold\\nstock in street railways and in the Detroit and Cleveland Steam\\nNavigation Company. Mr. Vhay is tlie president of the Fort\\nWayne and Elmwood Street Railway Company, as successor to\\nJustice Brown, of the United States Supreme court a trustee of the\\nMt. Elliott Cemetery Association, and was a director of tlie Detroit\\nInternational Fair and Exposition. He has given much attention to\\nvarious clubs, and has been president of the Catholic Club and a\\ndirector in several similar institutions. Mr. Vhay was married at\\nBoston in 1866 to Sliss JIary Farrell, and has Ave children. He owns\\na farm of fifty acres, five miles from the City hall, near Nallville,\\nupon which his system of experimental farming has proven very\\nPHELPS, BRACE COMPANY.\\nThis wholesale grocery liouse was established in 1836, and is\\nnow the oldest house in this line in the city. Its founder, William\\nPhelps commenced business in a small store on Woodward avenue\\nwith less than one hundred dollars in stock. As the business grew,\\nhe admitted his brother, Samuel Phelps, to an interest, and the firm\\nbecame William Phelps Brother, removing soon after to Jefferson\\navenue In 1808, Samuel Phelps withdrew and Mr. O. Staples\\nbought an interest in the firm, the name being changed to William\\nPhelps Company. Mr. William H. Brace, the present senior\\nmember, was admitted to the firm in 1861, having been with them for\\nfive years. He at once assumed active management of the business,\\nWilliam Phelps being with the troops at the front during the entire\\nperiod of the war. Mr. Staples retired from the firm in 1870, a short\\ntime before his death. Col. Phelps died in 1879, and after his death\\nthe firm name of Phelps, Brace Company, was adopted and con-\\ntinued to the present time. In the early history of the house, the\\nmanufacture of candy and fireworks formed an important part of\\nthe business. This was continued until 1870, wlien they sold out\\nthis brancli of the business to J. B. Fox Company, who afterward\\nconsolidated with Gray Toynton, forming the great manu-\\nfacturing confectionery lnjuse of Gray, Toynton Fox. The\\npresent firm is composed of Wm. H. Brace, Calphurnia B. Phelps\\nCharles B. Phelps and William V. Brace. They have occupied\\ntheir present quarters twenty-two years. The building is a brick\\nstructure with four stories and a basement, 40x100 feet. This con-\\ntains the commodious, well lighted offices and sample rooms of the\\nfirm, among the handsomest and best appointed in the state. To\\naccommodate tlieir increasing business, it was necessary a few\\nyears ago to build an immense storage warehouse 00x130 feet on\\nLamed street in the rear of their store. The business of the firm\\nincludes all branches of the wholesale grocery trade and continues\\nto grow in volume witli a strong and steady increase. The firm were\\namong the first to import teas in this state, and their warehouses\\nare bonded for the United States inspection of Japan Teas. This\\nplaces Detroit on a par with New York and Chicago for the direct\\nimportation of teas. The business of the firm in this line has grown\\nto large proportions.\\nWilliam H. Brace, the senior member of the wholesale grocery\\nfirm of Phelps, Brace Company, was born April 3, 1834 at New-\\nburg, a small town which now is a part of Cleveland, Ohio. When he\\nwas about nine years old, he moved with his family to Plattsburg,\\nNew York and two years later from there to Janesville, Wisconsin.\\nThis latter trip was made behind a team of sturdy farm horses at-\\ntached to what was then known as a prairie schooner. After a\\nfive weeks journey, much of which was through unbroken and un-\\nsettled country, they reached Janesville and at once settled down\\non a farm, building their own log house and barns. The next two\\nyears he spent here working hard during the summer months and\\nWILLIAM H. BRACE.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I04\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nattending school during the winter time. He entered the District\\nschool in an advanced class, his early eilucation having been\\nbegun at Newburg, and finished his schooling in tlie Janesville\\nAcademy. In ISoS he came to Detroit and at once became engaged\\nas salesman for tlie wliolesale candy and fruit house of William\\nPhelp-i Brother. After three years experience in the house he\\nwent out on the road as a traveling salesman for this firm, being the\\nfirst traveling salesman out of Detroit to represent goods in tliis line\\nthrough Slichigan. In IHGI he left the road to assume active man-\\nagement of the firm s business, William Phelps being called to the\\nwar, and was admitted as a partner, the firm name being changed\\nto William Phelps Company. This firm name was contiinied for\\nten years when it was changed to Phelps Brace and since the\\ndeath of the founder of the house, William Phelps, it has been\\nPhelps, Brace Company. Jlr. Brace is a director in the Y. M. C.\\nA., and a prominent member of the Jlercliants and Manufacturers\\nExciiange. lie is prominent in Detroit financial circles as i)resident\\nof the ity Savings Bank and director in the Merchants and Manu-\\nfacturers Bank. He is also a director in the Michigan Wire and\\nIron Works, Auxilliary Fire Alai-m Company, Rockafellow Mercan-\\ntile Company, of Carson City, Michigan, and of other institutio! s.\\nHe is a stockholder in the Detroit White Lead Works, Michigan\\nMutual Life Insurance Co?npany, Detroit Fire and Marine Insurance\\nCompany, tlin Portland Phosphate Company of Florida, and tlie\\nDominion Typograph Comiiany.\\nMORAN-FITZSIMONS COMPANY, LIMITED.\\nPatrick Fitzsimons, of the wholesale grocery house of Moran-\\nFitzsimons Company, Limited, was born in 1834, in County\\nLeitrim, Ireland. His father. Doctor Fitzsimons, hold a leading\\nposition, in liis section. Mr. Fitzsimons education was received\\nat home and afterwards at the National school. AVlien he was 14\\nyears of age liis father died, and one year later his mother died.\\nEarly in the spring of 1853 he sailed to America, and came west as\\nfar as his money would allow, arriving in Detroit in April, 18.52,\\nand has remained liere ever since. Soon after his arrival he\\nobtained a situation with Mr. E. W. Jones, who kept a retail\\ngrocery store on the corner of Lamed and Wayne streets. Mr.\\nJones was strictly honest and economical to a degree, but had a\\nstrong predjudico against Irishmen, so in starting in. Mr. Fitzsimons\\nhad that to contend against. Mr. Jones always paid exactly what\\nhe agreed, but in Sir. Fitzshnons case he paid more. He agreed to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2TV *fe^\\nPATRICK FITZSIMONS.\\nJOHN V. MOHAN.\\npay $4.00 [ler iiKnith but paid him $6.00, and took a great interest in\\nhis welfare. Jlr. Jones obtained a situation for Mr. Fitzsimons with\\nM. P. Hutchins, at that time one of the largest wholesale grocery\\nfirms in Detroit, where he remained for five years. The first year\\nhe received $1.jO and board and his wages were advanced .$200 each\\nsucceeding year, and were fixed in a novel way. Neither of the\\nparties wanted to fix on a figure, so each made an amount on paper\\nand agreed to compromise so that any difference would be divided,\\nand it is a singular fact that the amount put down by eacli was\\nexactly the same, so that there was nothing to divide. B. G. Stim-\\nson was then book-keeper for Mr. Hutchins and when he retired\\nfrom business Mr. Stimfon stalled and Jlr. Fitzsimons went with\\nliim. He next accepted a position with Stephens Beatty as\\ntraveling salesman and collector and was quite successful in\\nIjoth. He obtained a large increase of salary each year, receiving\\n|2,000 the last year. He feels great; satisfaction in saying that he\\nearned every cent of salary paid him, working early and late, some\\ntimes until the small hours of the morning to finish what he was at,\\nand not; an unpleasant word v^as ever said to liim as clerk or part-\\nner in the whole of his business career. Stephens Beatty dis-\\nsolved in lS(i4 and James Beatty, P. Fitzsimons and Simon Mandle-\\nbaum formed a new partiiersliip which continued till March 1872.\\nThis firm dissolved and Mr. J. V. Moran bought out Mr. Mandle-\\nbaum s interest. This firm continued under the style of Beatty,\\nFitzsimons Company until Mr. Beatty s death in 188. when it\\nwas changed to Moran, Fitzsimons Company and in 1891 it was\\nchanged to the corporation of JIoran-Fitzsimons Company, Limited,\\nwith J. V. Moran, President, P. Fitzsimons, Vice-President and\\nSlanager and F. A. Thomas, Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. Thomas\\nhas been with the firm for over twenty-five years. The increased\\nnumber of stockholders and capital will add largely to the success\\nof the new firm whoso business during the different firms has\\nalways been successful. Mr. Fitzsimons has confined himself to\\nthis business and never engaged in outside speculation. He was one\\nof the original stockholders in the Peo])le s Savings Bank and has\\nbeen a director from the time of its organization to the present.\\nJohn V. Moran, of the wholesale grocery house of Moran,\\nFitzsimons Company, Limited, was born at Detroit, December 25,\\n1840. His father was one of the early French settlers here and secured\\nlands under patents from President JIadison. After receiving\\npreliminary instruction in the Christian Brothers schools, who", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n105\\nwere connected with old St. Anne s and Sts. Peter and Paul s\\nparishes, he attended the Detroit High school and Philo M.\\nPatterson s private school, taking a course of higher mathe-\\nmatics in each. Before entering upon a business career, he went\\nthrough a course of training at a commercial college. In 1876 he\\nbecame associated with the wholesale grocery house of Moses W.\\nField Company, as clerk, continuing in that relation for fifteen\\nmonths. He then engaged with John Stepliens Company, in the\\ncapacity of assistant book-keeper, their store being the one now\\noccupied by the Moran-Fitzsimons C ompany. After remaining\\nwith tills house for eighteen months, he became connected with\\nthe firm of Beatty Fitzsimons, as shipping clerk. This firm\\nwas subsequently succeeded by the firm of Moran, Fitzsimons\\nCompany, the location being at 16, 18 and 30 Woodward\\navenue. After continuing with Beatty Fitzsimons for two\\nyears, he purchased the interest of Mr. Simon Mandelbaum,\\nthe special partner in the business. The firm name changed to\\nBeatty, Fitzsimons Company-, and at the deatli of Mr. Beatty, in\\n1885, it became Moran, Fitzsimons Company, and so con-\\ntinued until 1891. Mr. Moran is the secretary and one of\\nthe directors of Ward s Detroit and Lake Superior line of\\nsteamers a director in tlie Peoples Savings bank vice-president\\nof the American Banking and Savings Association director of the\\nCatholic Club and Detroit Boat Club. He was one of the\\norganizers of the Detroit Club, of which he was the treasurer, and\\nwas prominently identified with the organization of the Merchants\\nand Manufacturers Exchange. He assisted in the organization of\\nthe Gale Sulky Harrow Company, now known as the American\\nHarrow Company. He is a member of the St. Vincent de Paul\\nconference, and is a faithful, earnest anl distiiiguislied represen-\\ntative of every movement and interest jirompted by philanthrophy\\nand good citizenship.\\nWARD L. ANDRUS COMPANY.\\nThe notable elevation of Detroit as a commercial emporium\\nand its conspicuous position among the markets of the country\\nhave been secured by its younger business men, many of whom\\nhave won meritorious distinction for eminent abilities and sterling\\ncharacteristics. In the ranks of these distinguished representatives\\nmay well be placed Mr. Ward L. Andrus, who has, for over nine-\\nteen years, been actively identified with the wholesale fancy\\ngrocery and fruit trade of this city. He was born at Washington,\\nWARD L. ANDRUS.\\nF. WILLIAM LICHTENBERG.\\nMacomb county, Michigan, July 13, 1853. His parents were among\\nthe early settlers in the IMicliigan Territory, to which they came in\\n1816. Mr. Andrus received his early scholastic training in tlie com-\\nmon schools of his native village, and subsequently took a com-\\nmercial course at Goldsmith s Business College at Detroit.\\nJanuary 38, 1871, he accepted a position with D. D. Mallory Com-\\npany as book-keeper, and continued in that relation with this firm\\nfor eleven ysars, when he was promoted to the responsible post of\\nassistant general manager of the business. After filling this\\nposition very creditabh for three years, Mr. Andrus and Mr. Gilbert\\nW. Lee, Mr. H. M. Gilman, tlie active partner, retiring by reason of\\nill health, purchasing the interest of that gentleman, became the\\nsole proprietors of the business. May 1, 1885, changing the fii-m\\nname to the D, D. Mallory Company. Mr. Andrus becoming tlie\\ngeneral manager and active partner, relations he sustained with\\nsignal success and honor. In May, 1890, Mr. Andrus severed his\\nconnection with Sir. Gilbert W. Lee, and opened a large wholesale\\nfancy grocery and fruit house at 88, 90 and 93 Jefiferson avenue,\\nwhich has since been attended by lAenomenal success, due to his\\npectiliar command of tlie details of this business and his generally\\nrecognized popularity in the trade with wliich lie has so long and\\nso prominently been identified.\\nD. F. MCDONALD COMPANY, LIMITED.\\nTliis estalilishment was founded by Mr. D. F. McDonald in\\n1877. The line of business is wholesale jM-oduce, dried fruits, grain,\\ncanned goods, etc. The trade territoiy extends from New Orleans\\nto Duluth, and from St. Joe, east to Boston. New York, and other\\nlarge eastern cities. Mr. D. F. McDonald is manager of the busi-\\nness to which he gives his personal attention in all of its depart-\\nments.\\nLICHTENBERG SONS.\\nV. William Liclitenbei-g, head of the firmof Liclitenberg Sons,\\nwas born at Baden, Germany, April 30, 1843. He came with his\\nparents in his 10th year to the United States, locating at Detroit,\\nwhere he resumed and completed his education. In 1863 the firm\\nof Lichtenberg Sons, consisting of John J., father, and F. Wil-\\nliam and Christian J., sons, was forme l for the conduct of the\\ngrocery and produce business. The father retiring in 1873, the sons\\nbought the business and embarked in the produce and grain trade on\\nWoodbridge street, near Woodward avenue, retaining the same firm", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "io6\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nname, and removing some years later to the present location at 19\\nWooilbrirlge street, west. The firm lias built up an extensive trade\\ntliroiigliout the United States, the annual output of which Uijgre-\\ngates ^750,000. 3Ir. Lichtenberg has been for ten years one of the\\ninspectors of the House of Correction, and is ex-president of the\\nBoard of Trade. He is a prosjierous merchant and a worthy citi-\\nzen. Ho is married and has four children. During the late civil\\nwar Mr. Lichtenberg served in the United States Navy.\\nTHE STANDARD OIL COMPANY,\\nWith barreling works permanently located in Detroit at Michi-\\ngan and Lovett avenues, and an otlice at 46 Jefferson avenue, has\\nfacilities for storing and handling oils oijual to any station in the\\ncountry. This company has bulk stations at East Saginaw, West\\nBay City, Flint, Owosso, Port Huron, Pontiac, Ypsilanti, Jackson,\\nKalamazoo, Lansing, Ionia and Battle Creek, where the Detroit\\nf.acilities are duplicated, the trade supplied pr ini tly and to the\\nbest advantage. AH goods are received direct from the Cleveland\\nrefineries and are handled and Bhipi)ed in the most economical\\nmanner. The Michigan trade is catered to with the best products\\nfrom the Cleveland works and at the lowest market prices. In the\\nDetroit ofBce a full line of samples of this company s fine lubrica-\\nting oils is kept for the local and tributary trade, including the\\nCapital cylinder and Eldorado engine. Correspondence addressed\\nto the Standard Oil Company at any of the points above men-\\ntioned will receive prompt attention.\\nJOHN DAVIS COMPANY.\\nJohn Davis, manager of the house of John Davis Company,\\nwas born at Westfield, Massachusetts, May 2o, 1844 and received his\\neducation in the schools of his native town. His first venture in\\na( tual business was as a clerk in the drug line. He enlisted in the\\nmilitary service at the age of 18 in the Thirty-fourth regiment of\\nMassachusetts Volunteers, and after one year was ajipointed hospi-\\ntal steward in the regular army, being stationed successively at the\\nhead ]uarters of Generals Hunter, Sheridan and Crook. The close\\nof hostilities found him at his post at the headquarters of General\\nCrook at Cumberland, Maryland, from which point he was honorably\\ndischarged from the service. For one year succeeding this he was\\nemployed in the wholesale drug business in New York City, the death\\nof his father compelling his return to Westfield, Massachusetts,\\nwhere he engaged in the drug business on his own accoimt. His\\nJOHN DAVIS.\\nGILHEKT W. I.ICE.\\nmother s declining health caused him to sell out after the tli st year,\\nand he removed to West Bay City, Michigan, where he resumed the\\ndrug business, from which he gradually developed his present line\\nas a manufacturer of grocers specialties in baking powders, spices,\\nextracts, condiments, etc. He operates a brancli establishment at\\nWindsor, Ontario. He also about one year ago established a plant for\\nthe manufacture of jihosphates used in baking powder, under the\\nname of the Detroit Chemical Works. The firm of John Davis\\nCompany is incoi-porated anil has a capital fully paid up of \u00c2\u00a730,000.\\nThe officers are F. M. Tlionipson, president John Davis, secretary\\nand treasurer. The trade territory is represented by Ohio, Michi-\\ngan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Canada, with an annual out-\\nput of ^MOjOOO. Mr. Davis has three sons, the eldest of whom is\\na member of tlie reportorial stalf of the Detroit Free Pi ess.\\nTHE D. D. MALLORY COMPANY.\\nGilbert W. Lee, who is known over a wide territory as one of\\nDetroit s youngest and mo t successful business men, was born in\\nRomeo, March 28, 1861. He was educated at the Romeo Union\\nschool, receiving his diploma when 17 years of age. He soon came\\nto Detroit to accept a positiim with George C. Wetherbee Com-\\njjany, and when 21, was maile a member of the firm. He remained\\nwith them till 1885, when with Ward L. Andrus he bought the\\nlarge wholes de fancy grocery house of 1). D. Mallory (Company.\\nThis had been established in 1861 by Mr. JIallory, and was then the\\nfirst exclusive oyster and canned goods house in the West. Mr.\\nLee believed that the perpetuation of a business name so well\\nknown as Mr. Mallory s was of more importance than personal\\nglorification, so the only change made in the firm name\\nwas to prefi.x a the, so it now stands as The D. I). Mallory\\nCompany. In 1890 he i)urchased his partner s interest in the\\nbusiness, and is now sole proprietor, as well as financial and\\nmanagerial head, of what is still one of tlie largest establishments\\nof its kind in the West. Nearlj every article handled by wholesale\\ngrocers is now to be found in stock at )7 JelTerson avenue, and\\nowing to tins addition to trade outlets the business has increased\\nfully one-third in the past five years. Mr. Lee is also director in\\nthe Peninsular Savings Bank, vice president of the Detroit Electric\\nLight and Power Company, (of which he was oneof the organizers),\\na member of the Detroit Club, Grosse Pointe Club, and the Detroit\\nAthletic Club. Being a firm believer in Detroit s rapid advance-", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n107\\nALFRED CATO.\\nJ. C. EICHHOKN.\\nH. a. HOKTON.\\nment in size and wealth, he concUided he would like to own a\\nsmall share of it, and has been quite an active dealer in real estate\\never since. One of his transactions was buying a Woodward\\navenue suburb for $38,000 and selling it for $50,000 in less than six\\nmonths. His residence at 67 Ferry avenue is one of the hand-\\nsomest in the city. Mr. Lee married Miss Sara Hammond,\\ndaughter of the late George H. Hammond, in 1885, and has one son:\\nGeorge Hammond Lee.\\nHORTON, CATO COMPANY.\\nHoRTON, Cato Company, manufacturers of fine table con-\\ndiments, was established as the firm of Horton Cato, in 1877.\\nTliey are natives of England, and have, through their superior\\nmanagement, brought the business to its present liigh degree,\\nunder the superintendence of Mr. J. Charles Eichhorn. Their\\nproducts of the Royal salad dressing is not surpassed by any in the\\nworld, and their Royal Worcestershire sauce is generally acknowl-\\nedged as the finest of piquant relishes. Their entire line of high\\ngrade table goods are not anywhere surpassed in character and\\ngeneral desirability.\\nCARL H. MICHELL,\\nWholesale and retail grocer, corner of Monroe avenue and the\\nCampus Martius, is an exemplification of what energy, activity,\\nindustry integritv and sound business methods will do tor a young\\nman who starts in life with no other capital than the qualities above\\nmentioned, and a fixed determination to succeed in the race for for-\\ntune and position. He was born at Kirch-hain, Province of Hessen,\\nin Soutliern Germany, June 5, 1853, and secured sufficient scliool-\\nin r to enable him to add and expand liis book learning, while put-\\nting in hard work and taking hard knocks in his subsequent efforts\\nto earn a livelihood. He served a thorough and practical apprentice-\\nship to the mercantile business, at Herzberg, in the Harz\\nmountains, and when a little over 18 years of age, he embarked for\\nAmerica, landing in New York City on October 6, 18.1. Unlike\\nmany of our young men, who nowadays go west to seek their\\nfortunes, he had no letters of introduction from complacent and\\nwell wishing friends, which would secure him a good position on\\nthe start. He could not speak a single word of English, and had\\nno other credentials than appeared in his countenance and\\nhonest eyes but as soon as he landed, he commenced hustling\\naround for a job. (he has been hustling ever since, by the way) and\\nin exactly four hours from the time he passed through the precincts\\nof Castle Garden, he was engaged to go to work as a stock keeper\\nin the dry goods house of Walter McSorley on Grand street. He\\nremained with the firm about one and a halt years, during which\\ntime he learned to speak the English language fluently. In the\\nspring of 1873, being anxious to see something of the great west, he\\ncame to Detroit, and found no difficulty in securing employment\\nwith C. H. Locke, then a leading Woodward avenue dry goods mer-\\nchant. After four years service there, he concluded to go into\\nsome kind of business for himself, and with a capital of $.500, he\\nbought out a small tea store at 311 Michigan avenue. He did so\\nwell in this venture that in the succeeding spring he opened a\\nbranch store at number 7, Russell House block, and in the same\\nyear established a tea store (and subsequently a branch) at Toledo.\\nIn 1880, by reason of failing health, he disposed of all his business\\ninterests except the store at 86 Monroe street, Toledo, but in the fall\\nof 1881, his health being restored, he branched out on a larger scale\\nthan any of his former efforts, and with his establishment at 33\\nCadillac Square, he kept the tea business in Detroit on the jump for\\neight years. During this time he established branch house s\\nat Buffalo, Fort Wayne, Toledo, Milwaukee and several other cities,\\nconducting them all successfully. In 1889, Hull Brothers, of this\\ncity, failed, and the successful tea merchant made arrangements to\\npurchase their enormous stock of groceries and provisions and con-\\nsolidate all his business interests in the immense establishment, in\\nthe conduct of which they had just proven insolvent. It was taking\\na considerable risk, and very few had any idea that he would make\\na success in the field where men of so much experience had failed.\\nNevertheless lie sailed in, and with characteristic energy and in-\\ngenuity, developed additional attractions for purchasers, added new\\nlines of goods, and soon had a profitable business, far more exten-\\nsive than the old one ever was. His present establishment is\\nundoubtedly the largest, best stocked and most conqjletely appointed\\nof any retail grocery in Michigan. One of the pleasant features of\\nthis handsome and commodious store, which makes it a fashionable\\nresort for the best families of the city, is the neat and tasty luncli\\ndepartment. This is conducted with scrupulous neatness, and is so\\narranged that it is a luxury for a lady, while giving her orders for\\nhousehold supplies, to satisfy the cravings of the inner woman\\nwith such delicacies as chocolate, ice cream or bon-bons. This\\nbeing a department largely for accommodation of regular patrons of\\nother branches of the establishment, the prices are placed at rock\\nbottom figures. It is an attraction which no other business house\\nof a similar nature possesses. Mr. Michell is a manufacturer, as\\nCART, H. MICHELL.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io8\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nwell as a merchant, and makes a superior line of confectionery,\\nextracts and groimd spices, the purity of which he guarantees,\\nbecause he knows wliat thej are made of. It retiuires the constant\\nuse of two of Burns largf; coffee roasters to supply tlie demand for\\nMichelTs coffees. Tliougli tlie business is extensive in all its rami-\\nfications, Mr. MIchell finds time to give his personal attenion to\\nsuperintending the wants, necessities and conduct of every depart-\\nment.\\nJ. G. II.VMBLEN.\\nWas l)orn in Newmarket, New Hampsliire, in 1844. His early\\ndays were spent in Boston and in Maryland until he was about 10\\nyears of age. He was educated at Dickinson college, Carlisle,\\nPennsylvania, and graduated in 1W86 at the age of 23. He came\\nto Detroit in ISflS and entered the employ of Hamblen, Baker\\nCompany, remaining with them until 1880, in the wholesale fruit\\nand canned goods business. On the dissolution of that firm lie\\ncommenced business for himself, opening at 66 and 08 Woodbridge\\nstreet, where he remained imtil two years ago, when he removed to\\nhis present Bt:ind, 97 Jefferson avenue. Mr. Handden has always\\nbeen in tins line of business, making a si ecialty of the oyster\\ntrade. He employs travelers on the road covering Michigan, Ohio,\\nJ. Ci. IIAMHLEN.\\nIndiana, and his trade also extends into Canada. His business has\\nbeen prosperous from the start, and is constantly increasing. Mr.\\nHamblen devotes )iis entire time and attention to his business, and\\npossesses every facility for satisfactorily supplying his customers.\\nHis qualifications, consisting of long experience, integrity and\\nenergy, gives him a most ex ellent rating among the business men\\nof Detroit.\\n(iEORGK B. IIOLLOWAY.\\nGeorge B. Holloway, merchandise broker and importers and\\nmanufacturers agent, was born at Buffalo, New York, October 13,\\n1849, and was educated in the schools of that city. Ilis first\\nventure in business was as clerk in the coal trade in which he\\ncontinued until ISTI, when he came to Detroit, there becoming\\nassociated with the wholesale grocery house of L. J. Staph S\\nCompany, as salesman. In this relation he continued for about\\ntwo years, after which he engaged in his present business of mer-\\nchandise broker and importers and manufacturers agent at 55\\nGrisvvold street, subsequently removing to 95 Jefferson avenue, and\\nto his present location at 54 Shelby street, where he has handsomely\\nGKORGE B. IIOLLOWAY.\\nappointed offices. Mr. HoUoway represents leading houses in\\nvarious lines, and among them are Spreckles Sugar Uefinerj-, Phila-\\ndelphia the American Glucose Company, Buffalo, and the Rock-\\nford Oat Meal Company, Rockford, Illinois. He does an extensive\\nbusiness with the trade tributary to the Detroit market, and is\\nenterprising and conservative in the management of implied\\ninterests. Mr. Holloway is prominently identified with leading\\nindustrial enterprises and liolds stock in various corporations. He\\nFRANK S. DAVIS.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n109\\nindustry. The popular demand is for fancy confectioneries and\\nsuch as are generally classed as French, and to produce them\\nrequires much more care and skill than formerly. Messrs. Gray,\\nToyiiton Fox are eminent in this line, and have kept steady pace\\nwith the fullest e.xactions of the trade which has grown into very\\nextensive proportions. The business was established in ISFO, and\\nincorporated in 1881, with a capital of 1150,000. The factory\\nbuilding at 20 to 36 Woodbridge street, east, is five stories above a\\ncommodious basement, 80x80 feet in dimensions, and is fully\\nequipped with the latest and most improved machinery and\\nappliances for manufacturing demanded by its extensive oper-\\nations. A force of 1.50 skilled hands are given regular employ-\\nment, and the annual output aggregates in value $400,000. The\\nfirm also carry a full line of fire-works of the best manvifacturers.\\nThe trade territory embraces the whole United States, but princi-\\npally Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,\\nKansas and CDlorado. The officers are John S. Gray, president\\nCharles H. Andrew, vice-president Walter S. Campbell, secretary\\nand treasurer.\\nHARRY J. PURSE.\\nis a member of the Detroit Hunting and Fishing (Rushmere)\\nAssociation and several other organizations. He married a Detroit\\nlady and has a promising son.\\nFRANK S. DAVIS COMPANY.\\nFrank S. Datis, merchandise broker, was born at Medina,\\nOhio, in 1853, and was educated in the schools of liis native village.\\nAt the age of 18 he went to New York city, where he found em-\\nployment as a salesman in the wholesale grocery business, at which\\nhe continued until 1874, having in the meantime been promoted to\\nthe position of manager of the tea department, which was con-\\nducted upon an extensive scale. From this he became associated\\nwith the tea impoi ting business, and in January, 1875, came to\\nDetroit as the representative of Roswell, Skeel Company, tea\\nimporters, ihcrefrom developing his present relation as merchandise\\nbroker, in which ho has found success and prominence. Mr.\\nDavis represents oome of the leading houses of the country in\\nvaried lines, and has acquired an extensive trade for the goods\\nhe handles through Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. He is prudent,\\nconservative and enterprising, and gives faithful and consistent\\nattention to confided interests.\\nHarry J. Purse, member of the firm of Frank S. Davis\\nCompany, merchandise brokers, was born at East New Market,\\nMaryland, November 2, 1864, and received his education at Seaford,\\nDelaware. His first entry into business was as a clerk in a general\\nstore at Felton, Delaware, in which he continued for two years.\\nAfter this he entered the employ of Nathan Trotter Company,\\nimporters of tin plate and metals, at Philadelphia, remaining for\\nfour years, subsequently becoming associated with another firm in\\nthe same line in that city. He came to Detroit in 1888, and en-\\ngaged with R. C. Wilby Company, merchandise brokers, who\\nwere bought out by the present firm of Frank S. Davis Company,\\nJanuary 1, 1890, of which he became a memljer. The firm repre-\\nsents a number of the leading manufacturers and imjiorters of the\\ncountry, and controls a large trade in the districts tributary to the\\nDetroit market. Mr. Purse is progressive and enterprising, and\\nwhile quite a young man has made a record among merchants as\\nhonorable as it is characteristic of energy and ambition.\\nGRAY, TOYNTON FOX.\\nIn the manufacture of confectionery at the present day, in order\\nto successfully meet competition, the products must be in acct)rd\\nwith those of the leading and prominent representatives of that\\nDRY GOODS, CLOTHING, FURNISHINGS, HATS, ETC.\\nThere is probably no other city of its size in the Union that is\\nbetter supjjlied with high class establishments coming under the\\nabove head than Detroit. In fact, although the growth and devel-\\nopment of the city is not complete, it already outnumbers many\\nlarger cities in fine wholesale and retail dry goods, clothing and\\nother kindred lines of trades, these lines having kept pace with the\\ncity s progress in other directions. No other city of its size is better\\nrepresented in the style and character of its buildings, and it has no\\nsuperior in the quality, quantity, or variety of stocks carried by this\\nclass of merchants, who are able to compete successfully with other\\ncities of the west. The large capital invested by leading firms in\\nthis line of business, renders Detroit a most advantageous market\\nfor country dealers to obtain their supplies, and many residing\\nwithin the boundaries of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, come to De-\\ntroit from iireference, to purchase, instead of in the eastern\\nmarkets. Among tlie many successful leading merchants in tliis\\ndepartment, besides those mentioned in detail, may be named,\\nEdson, Moore Company, Strong, Lee Company, Burnham,\\nStoepel Company, dry goods A. C. Bacon Company, liats H.\\nA. Newland Company, furs Mabley Company and R. H.\\nMARVIN M. STANTON.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "1 lO\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nTraver, retaQ clothiers, and Heavenrich Brotliers, wholesale\\nclothiers, all of whom are doing a thriving and prosperous business.\\nIn ready made clothing, hats, caps, and furs, an eijual enterjjrise is\\nfound thro\\\\ighout the wholesale and retail trade of this city.\\nDetroit is surrounded by a rich country and numerous large prosper-\\nous towns whicli makes this an important trade centre, and pro-\\nmotes this market to a highly satisfactory condition.\\nSTANTOX, MOREY COMPANY,\\nManufacturers of Men s Furnishing Goods and Lumbermen s\\nWear, 120 and 122 Jefferson avenue. This business was originally\\nestablisliod October 1, 1873, by O. P. Hazard, James E. Brewster\\nand M. M. Stanton, under the firm name of Hazard Brewster,\\nwhich January 1, 1881, was clianged to Brewster Stanton, June 1,\\n1887, to Stanton, Sampson Company, and to its i)resent name and\\nstyle, December 1, 1890. It is conducted upon a very extensive\\nscale and its record has been one of continued and meritorious suc-\\ncess. The death of Mr. Brewster, November 22, 1880, placed Mr.\\nStanton in the relation of sole proprietor until the formation of the\\nexisting firm. The factory building is five stories above a commo-\\ndious basement 50x100 feet in dimensions, and is fully equipped\\nwith reipiisite modern machinery and appliances for the expe-\\nditious and tliorougli production of the goods, which find ready and\\nrapid, sale througli tlie United Slates and principally in Maine, Xew\\nYork, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin. Steady emploj--\\nment is given to 2. )0 hands and the annual product equals in\\nvalue ^oOO,000. A specially is made of the manufacture of the\\nPeninsular brand of pants, shirts and overalls, which are par-\\nticularly adapted to lumbermen s wear as being warranted not to\\nrip. Each garment is guaranteed as represented, and a ticket is\\nplaced upon it requesting tlie purchaser, in case of a defect, to\\nreturn it to the merchant from whom purchased and receive a new\\none in its stead. This liighly commendable principle of business\\nhas always been rigidly and scrupulously adhered to and has helped\\nessentially to lay the foundation of llie present extensive trade\\nrelations of the firm and their conse(iuent large measure of pros-\\nperity and importance among the leading manufacturing industries\\nof Detroit. Pursuing the design of tlie house to produce the best\\nand most salable gooils, their trade relations have been so enlarged\\nas now to include the whole country. Their products are justly\\nclassed among the great staples of all principal markets, and the\\nsatisfaction expressed by all purchasers is the surest and best evi-\\nAL STIN E. MIJUKY.\\nGEORGE 1,. SAIII SOX.\\ndence of their superiority and adaptability to intended purposes.\\nThe members of the firm are thoroughly experienced in the i)racti-\\ncal details of their line of manufactures and give their critical\\npersonal attention thereto, thereby insuring the seciu-ity of cjuality\\nand general essentials. Tliere is no in lustry in Detroit more entitled\\nto commendation as having perfectly met confided interests and\\nattained tlie highest cliaracter of products, thaji Stanion, Morey\\nCompany, wlio are justly classed witli the leading and most promi-\\nnent trade exemplars who have distanced competition and won a\\nname and prestige as honorable as distinguished Tlieir products\\nare everywhere recognized as among desirable and salable goods\\nupon which are placed the stamp of genuineness and undisputed\\nexcellence.\\nJIarvis M. Stanton, senior member of tlie firm of Stanton,\\nMorey Company, was born in Otsego County, Xew York, ^n 1847,\\nand wlieii but 7 years old came with his parents to MicliigaU;\\nsettling at Oxford, where his father conducted a general store and\\nwhere he had other business interests. He was educated at Alfred\\nuniversity in New York state, completing his course at the age of\\n20. After this he traveled for some time tlirough the Western\\nsections of the country. In 1870 he engaged as traveling salesman\\nfor Charles Higgins, a prominent jobber, and continued in that\\nrelation until he established his present business in 1872. Ho has\\nsince that time been the chief instrument in bringhig the business\\nof Stanton, Jlorey Comjiany up to its present prominent elevation\\nas manufacturers and jobbers of mens furnishing gomls. He is a\\npioaiiiient iiienil)eri^)f the Detroit Commandery, K. V., and of the\\nWestminsler Presbyterian church. He was married in j872 to Miss\\nxMico Lee, and has one cliild, a promising boy of 6 years.\\nAustin E. SIorey, member of the firm of Stanton, Jlorey\\nCompany, was born at Lyons, Ohio, April 8, 1853. In his 5th year\\nhe removed with his parents to Adrian, Michigan, wliere his educa-\\ntion was received in the public schools. He first engaged in\\nbusiness in 1872, as a book-keeper for the Adrian Paper Mill\\nCompany, retaining that position for three years, and was after-\\nward for five years associated with the lumber firm of Todd\\nGerrish, at Earwell, Michigan. In 1880 he entered tlie employ of\\nSampson Black, Detroit, as a book-keeper, continuing until his\\nadmission to partni rsliip in the present firm. He is a member of\\nDetroit Commandery, K. T., and is a prominent and prosperous\\nmerchant.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nI II\\nGeorge L. Sampson was born at Lancaster, New Hampshire,\\nNovember 11, 1839. He lost liis mother when he was an infant.\\nAt the age of 13 he was put to school in Boston, where lie received\\na liberal education. Completing l\\\\is studies lie was given,\\nby his brother William, a clerkship in his shoe store at\\nCambridgeport, Massachusetts, a position which he creditably filled\\nand in which he exhibited the qualities and abilities which subse-\\nquently so greatly contributed to his successes in business. He\\nafterward became connected with Lampkin s shoe house, in\\nBoston, and continued with it vmtil failing health obliged him to\\nreturn to his home at Lancaster, New Hampshire, where he re-\\nmained for two years. Coming to Detroit in ISG.^, he entered the\\nemploy of A. R. Morgan, in the shoe business, v.-here he continued\\nuntil 1867, when he became associated with the wholesale grocery\\nhouse of J. B. H. Bradshaw, as traveling salesman. In 1878 Mr.\\nBradsbaw sold out to Sampson,\\nFletcher Company, the firm\\nname in 1880 being changed to\\nSampson, Black Grant, and\\nsubsequently to S a m p s o n.\\nBlack Company and George\\nL. Sampson Company. Mr.\\nSampson, after disposing of his\\ninterest in the grocery business,\\npurchased an interest in the\\nfirm of Stanton, Sampson\\nComjiany, subsequently\\nchanged to Stanton, Morey\\nCompany. Mr. Sampson mar-\\nried the daughter of his oM\\nemployer, Mr. J. B. H. Brad-\\nshaw. As a merchant and man\\nof business, Sir. Sampson has\\nafforded a signal example of\\nsuccess and as a citizen a\\nnotable instance of strict de-\\nvotion to the city s leading\\nposition in whatever concerns\\nits vital elements. As a mem-\\nber of the house of Stanton,\\nMorey Company, Rlr. Samp-\\nson has been especially active\\nand enterprising, and has dem-\\nonstrated those rare business\\nqualities which constitute him\\na model merchant.\\nJACOB BROWN COMPANY.\\nJacob Brown, head of the\\nhouse of Jacob Brown Com-\\npany, was born in Germany, in\\n1836, and came to the United\\nStates in his 13th year. He, at\\na very early age, evinced a\\nstrong inclination for mercan-\\ntile pursuits, and soon after\\nreaching Detroit, to which\\nplace he proceeded directly\\nupon landing in this country,\\nhe essayed the business of a\\npeddler, beginning with a stock of goods valued at |3.7o, obtained\\non credit. He tramped through Michigan, and while but little\\nversed in the English tongue, he managed to do a highly profitable\\nbusiness. Subsequently investing a portion of his bard earnings in\\na horse and wagon, he was enabled to more satisfactorily and\\nexpeditiously conduct a business, which ere long permitted him to\\nopen a notion store at the little village of Tvemont, in Shiawassee\\nCounty, Michigan, wiiich he conducted for about two years. The\\ncollapse of this hamlet drove him to Flushing, and ultimately to\\nf_ ,t. Johns, Michigan. He returned to Detroit in December, 1868,\\nand undertook the manufacture of fine cut tobacco, which be\\nprosecuted seven years without appreciable profit. Abandoning the\\n(obacco manufacture, he, in the fall of 1874, purchased the business\\nof Shaw Marvin, jobbers in notions and gents furnishing goods,\\nJACOB BROWN.\\nat their old stand on Jefferson avenue, the present location of the\\nfur house of H. A. Newland Company. Here he continued to\\nconduct the business with great success for five years, after which\\nhe removed to 180 Jefferson avenue, where he began the manufac-\\nture of pants, shirts and overalls. In this relation of his large and\\nrapidly expanding business, Mr. Brown has exhibited the most con-\\nsummate skill and a ripe judgment. His trade embraces the West\\nand Northwest. Over 400 hands are employed, and the annual\\njiroduct of pants, shirts, overalls and luml crmen s supplies aggre-\\ngates in value |300,000. The building occupied at 193 and 19.5\\nJefferson avenue is a commodious structure of brick, six stories in\\nheight, 4oxl00 feet in dimensions and provided with the most\\nimproved manufacturing appliances and facilities. Identified with\\nthe supreme interests of the manufacturing industries of Detroit as\\none of its prominent exemplars, and as President of the Detroit Alas-\\nka Sock Company, Mr. Brown\\njustly merits and receives the\\nsupport of the trade and the un-\\nlimited confidence and credit\\nwhich attach to strict integrity\\nand unfaltering adhesion to\\ncorrect mercantile principles.\\nArthur Brown, son of Jacob\\nI .rown, and a veritable chip\\nof the old block, was born at\\nVernon, Michigan, in 1859.\\nTen years later he accom-\\n])anied his parents to Detroit\\nwhere, for the ensuing seven\\nyears, he received the best in-\\nstruction the city schools\\niifforded. Entering his father s\\nservice as an office boy, he\\nwon his way by successive pro-\\nmotions to his jiresent respon-\\nsible position as a partner in\\nthe business of Jacob Brown\\nCompany and the offices of\\nSecretary and Treasurer of the\\nDetroit Alaska Sock Company.\\nSince 1883 lie has been a mem-\\nber of the firm of Jacob Brown\\nCompany, for which he has\\naccomplished much of its\\npresent prominence and im-\\nportance through the display\\nof eminent qualities and abili-\\nties, generally recognized and\\nappreciated by the trade he\\nlias been so instrumental in\\nsecuring for the house. He is\\n.ilert, enterprising and conser-\\nvative; knows how to serve\\ncustomers acceptably, and is\\nindispensable to the business as\\na vigilant and judicious super-\\nintendent and director. He is\\nthe happy father of a boy of\\nnine years, who pi-omises to be\\nan lienor to his parents and a worthy successor of his father s\\ntruly merited mercantile distinction.\\nSCHILLING CORSET COMPANY.\\nManufacturers of Corsets and Sole Manufacturers of Dr. Schil-\\nling s Corsets Seventh and Abbott Streets. This industry was estab-\\nlished in 1883 as the Detroit Knitting and Corset Works and in 1886\\nchanged to its present title. The proprietors of the business, Messrs.\\nJoseph, Jacob and Abram Siegel, have by the exercise of rare\\ntalent and enterprising management constantly advanced\\nits interests, and to-day the Schilling Corset Company takes high\\nrank among the leading manufacturing considerations in this Une\\nin the United States. The facilities for manufacturing are ample,\\nand include a commodious four story and basement building,", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "1 12\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n70x120 feet in dimensions, which is thoroughly equipped with the\\nlatest iinproveil machinery ami appliances for securing expedition\\nand thorougliness in the operations of tlie factory. Tlie special\\nprodui-t, and which has been received with hiKh favor, is a corset\\ninvented hy Dr. ScliilUng and characterized hy reason of its adapta-\\nliility to recpurcd essentials in its construction as the Dr. Schi ling\\nIlealth Preserving Corset. In this commendable achievement in\\nthe manufacture of corsets, due regard has been had to the health\\nof the wearer, while in beauty of finish, durability and construction\\nto meet the demand for conformity to natural positions, it is\\nunquestionably superior to all others in the market. In addition to\\ntliis specially, tlie Company manufacture from sixty to seventy\\ndifferent styles of corsets and waists, the output of which is IS.\\ndozen per d.-iy. Among the more noted of these, and wliich are\\n(inisheil in many and varii l styles, are the Jlodel Form, No. 850,\\nthe Nonpareil, Imperial, Krench Shajies, Detroit Ladies\\nWaist and others of equal\\ncelebrity and salable quality,\\nbesides sanitary garments,\\nsuch as corsets for nursing,\\nabdominal corsets, etc. The\\ntrade teiTitory embraces the\\nentire United States and the\\nproducts wliich represent JSO,-\\n0(10 dozen jicr year are of gen-\\nerally reco;, nized merit in all\\nleading markets. This exten-\\nsive industry deservedly holds\\nhigh rank among Detroit s\\njirominent manufacturing in-\\nstitutions, as well by reason\\nof the exceptionally superior\\ncharacter of products as on\\naccount of the diligent and\\nexemplary management of its\\nproprietors.\\nS. SIMON COMPANY.\\nS. Simon, the head of the\\nhouse of S. Simon Conqiany,\\nwas born at Bingen on tlie\\nRhine, in 1834. Coming to the\\nUnited States in his fifteenth\\nyear, ho settled at Danville,\\nPennsylvania. His father was\\nengaged in the mercantile busi-\\nness in Pliihulelphia, where be,\\nafter some years, died. The\\nson came to Detroit and be-\\ncame connected with the cloth-\\ning house of E. Lieberman.\\nMarrying the daughter of Jlr.\\nS. Jacobson, he became associ\\nated with his father-in-law in\\nhis dry goods business. Mr.\\nSimon occupied for two years\\nthe jiosition of President of the\\nWayne County Poor Coniniis-\\nsinn and still serves as a mem-\\nber of the Commission. He is\\na member of the Odil Fellows and several other orders ami societies\\nThe firm to H-hich Mr. Simon belongs was established in ISOO uiid r\\nthe name and style of S. Jacobscm Conqiany, Mr. S. Simon being\\nthe company. The original place of business was on Jefferson\\navenue, opposite the Biddle House, in a small building, 20x. )0 feet\\nin dimensions, both parties living above the store. Tlie business\\nwas continued at this location until Jlr. Jacobson s death, in ISCT,\\nwhen Mr. Simon became sole proprietor and removed the business\\nto Woodward avenue, ujion the site of tlie store now occupied by J.\\nH. Black. During this whole period Mr. Simon successfully con-\\nducted a wholesale and retail business. He continued in the\\nWoodward avenue store up to 187. when ho disposed of the retail\\ndepartment and entered into business with Schloss Brothers, on\\nJefferson avenue, under the firm name of Schloss Brothers Simon,\\nAliTHlR BROWN.\\nin the wholesale clothing, dry goods and furnishing goods line. In\\n1879 the firm was dissolved and Mr. Simon with Mr. Isaac Mendel-\\nson began business in the same line at 185 Jefferson avenue, where\\nit was continued for about two years, when Edson, Jloore Com-\\nI):iny having vacated the store at 100 and 103 Jefferson avenue, they\\nremoved to that location. This, their present establishment, is a\\nfine building, five stories above a commodious basement, and is\\n40x100 feet in dimensions. From 220 to 275 hands are given con-\\nstant employment, and six traveling salesmen represent the inter-\\nests of the house in its trade territory, which extends from Maine to\\nCalifornia. In the manufacture of gents furnishing goods they use\\nKiO sewing machin es. The house is celebrated as a manufactory of\\nlumtiermen s wear and is recognized as selling more goods in tliis\\nline than ail other factories combined. They supi)ly the jobbing\\ntrade in this line^rom Maine to California and visit the retail trade\\nin JlicliigMii, Wisconsin. ]\\\\Iinnesota, and Dakota. The Peerless\\n(trade mark) neglige shirts,\\nmade of flannel, silk, etc., have\\nno superior in fit and make.\\nTheir products in pants, over-\\nalls and other article:, em-\\nbracing gents furnishing\\ngoods, are highly appreciated\\nby the large trade of the house\\nwhich aggregates in value\\n*.500,000 per year.\\nWALTER BUHL CO.\\nJlore than half a century\\nago the founders of the present\\nhouse of Walter Buhl Com-\\npany began in an humble way\\nthe business which to-day ex-\\nceds in volume that of all the\\nmercantile establishments in\\nI troit at the time of its incep-\\ntion taken together. The city\\nwas then a struggling hamlet,\\nwith none of the premonitions\\nexistent of its present growth\\nand general manufacturing\\nand mercantile importance.\\nThe extension of trade rela-\\ntions and the enterprise and\\nambition of its commercial\\nrejiresentatives have evolved\\nthe magnificent City of the\\nStraits with its assured position\\namong the great cities of the\\ncountiy. The house of Walter\\nBuhl Company has kept\\n-teady pace with modern pro-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2xress and ably maintainsits rep-\\nputation and identity through\\nthe character of its jiroducts,\\nwhich are rather to be judged\\nliy their generally appreciable\\ni|Uality flian by quantity of\\noutput. Even their lowest\\npriced goods are made by ex-\\npensive skilled labor. As manufacturers of hats, caps, and furs in\\nall of their varied relations, and as inqiorters of materials for their\\ngreat range of products, the firm of Walter Buhl Company has\\nacquired a distinction and prominence which place them in the\\nfront rank, and they control a trade territory whiuh continually\\naffords an abumlant patronage. The present business premises, at\\nMG and 148 JeiTi rsoii avenue, were constructed over forty years ago\\nunder tlie siqiervision of Mr. Frederick Buhl, the father of Mr.\\nWalter Buhl, and since unchan^jed except in the direction of such\\nimprovements as were from time to time necessitated hy the ex-\\npanding nature of the business. Jlr. Walter Buhl, the successor of\\nhis father in the business, was born at Detroit, July 25, 1845, and\\nhas been continuously interested therein since his seventeenth j-ear.\\nHis education was received in the city public schools, and few men", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n1 1\\nJACOB BROWN COMPANY.\\nISAAC MENDELSON.\\nof his age have had a more extended experience and\\na more notable and lionored record as merchant and\\ncitizen. He has ever exliibited an ardent inclination\\nfor every species of organization pledged to the pro-\\ngress of the city.\\nBUTZEL BROTHERS COMPANY.\\nThis firm are the successors of Heineman, Butzel\\nCompany, of which they were for many years the\\nmost active members, and which firm they succeeded\\nin January, 1890. They have been in active business\\nin Detroit since 1861, devoting their time exclusively\\nto building up and maintaining one of the leading\\nwholesale clothing firms of the West. The portraits\\nof Messrs. Martin and Magiuis Butzel, the actual\\njjartners in the firm, ai-e herewith introduced as\\nrepresentative types among Detroit s merchants who\\nhave, by enterprising and conservative management\\nand direction in business achieved an eminent and\\nmeritorious distinction and prosperity. They have\\never exhibited a progressive and philanthropic dispo-\\nsition, and their names have often figured as con-\\ntributors to movements in aid of public and\\nbenevolent enterprises. The building at 143 and 144\\nJefferson avenue is five stories in height; 48x210 feet\\nin dimensions, and is provided with all the requisite\\nfacilities and appurtenances of the business. The\\nmerits of their products of men s youths and boys\\nclothing have essentially contributed to the elevation\\nand conspicuous position the firm has attained. This\\nculmination has been largely due to the assistance\\nrendered by the employes of the firm, whose business\\nqualities have aided in securing the extensive trade\\nrelations of the house, which embrace Michigan and\\nthe Northwestern States.\\nSCHLOSS BROTHERS COMPANY.\\nThis establishment was founded in 1853 by Em-\\nmanuel and Seligman Schloss, and its record has\\nbeen one of meritorious success and exemplary man-\\nagement. As manufacturers of clothing and piece\\n18]", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nWAl.TJili JtL HI*\\nRooils this iiiin is iiivL-steti with great distinctiDii us occupying a\\nixisition fortified l y an able, conservative and judicious administra-\\ntion of hiisiness. The facilities for numufacturing are of th latest\\nand most iniproved description, including specially devised ma-\\nchinery and appliances and electric power. The factory huilduig,\\nat 184, 180 and 188 Jefferson avenue, is four stories above a commo-\\ndious basement, and is 60x100 feet in dimensions. Skilled liands, to\\ntlie number of 300, are given steady employment, and the annual\\nSt^^\\nvalue of the output is |400,000. The trade terri-ory emliraces\\nMichigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The firm, as now constituted,\\nis composed of Messrs. A. and Albert W. Schloss, who are inti-\\nmately acquainted with all tlie details of the business, over which\\nthey exercise the most critical superintendence. The line of goods\\nmanufactured includes a large variety of articles of clothing which\\nare finished in a superior manner by competent workmen. A stock\\nof about ^150,000 is constantly carried to supply the demand, which\\nis very pronounced, owing to the desirable character and quality of\\nthe goods.\\nJ. L. HUDSON, CLOTHIER.\\nJ. L. Hudson was born in p^ngland, October 7, 1.84(3. anie to\\nthe United States with his parents when he was 9 years of age. He\\nattended school at Hamilton, Canada, four years; then worked in a\\ngrocery store there at a month, l)oarding at home. At the end\\nof three months his i)aients moved to Grand Kapids, where he went\\nto school six months, and in tiie spring and summer workeil on a\\nfarm. In June, 18(11, his parents moved lo Pontiac, Michigan,\\nwhere ho immediately went to A\\\\ork for the late C. R. Mabley,\\ngetting $4 for the first three weeks, then ^S a month. He remained\\nMARTIN Hl TZEI..\\nJIAUNUS BUTZEL.\\nwith Mr. JIabley five years then at the age of 19 went to Ionia,\\nMichigan, engaging in business with his father. The death of his\\nfather in 1873 ])laced the interests of his estate in the hands of the\\nson as the trustee for the heirs. The panic of 187:5 involved a large\\nloss, and consequent losses in outside business, together with a loss\\nof ,f8,(IO0 caused by the failure of E. Colby Company, comi)elled\\na settlement with creditors which was made at 60 cents on the\\ndollar. Tliis was accepted bj- New York, Rochester and Boston\\nhouses. The liome matters and all endorsed [juper was i)aid in full.\\nIn June, 1877, C. R. Mabley engaged him to take charge of his\\nestablishment in Detroit. In January, 1878, he was given a fourth\\ninterest in the profits of the establishment with a guarantee of\\n|7 !)00 per annum. This partnership terminated January 10, 1881.\\nOn Apiil 2, of the same year, he opened in the Detroit Opera House\\nbuilding with a capital of ijsno, 000. Since retiring from the Mabley\\nconcern he has established branch houses at Cleveland, Buffalo,\\nToledo, St. I aul, St. Louis an l Crand Rapids. Nearly all of these\\nconcerns were bought from people who had been unsuccessful in\\nthe management of them. In 18S7 lie paid his New York creditors\\nthe balance of their old claims, with interest. His liraneli houses", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n5\\nars the uiost irupoitaiit and successful in the cities and towns in\\nwhich they are located. His annual sales amount to more than\\n12,000,000. Mr. Hudson spends the greater portion of Ids time in\\nDetfoit, where he resides at 14 Madison avenue, with his sister, who\\nkeeps house for him. In Mr. Hudson are strikingly exemplified the\\ncharacteristics of indomitable will and tireless devotion to business.\\nHe has won, as a merchant, the most enduring and the most\\neminent distinction.\\nH. HITCHCOCK, SON COMPANY.\\nThis firm dates its existence from 18G8 when it was formed by\\nMessrs. Horace Hitclicock and Willard and Henry Esselstyn. At this\\ntime the business was located at 147 Jefferson avenue, but was after-\\nward several times removed to more commodious quarters to ac-\\ncommodate its continual expansion. In 1881 tlie firm moved into\\ntlieir present large and well appointed building at 111 to 113 Jeffer-\\nson avenue, which is four stories in height and 35x100 feet in\\ndimensions. The firm as at present constituted, is composed of\\nMessrs. Horace and James H. Hitchcock, father and son, E. R.\\nHascall and W. E. Kelsey, the two latter gentlemen having been\\nadmitted to partnership in 1886, after the purchafe by Mr. Horace\\n1^\\nA. C. SCHLOSS.\\nHitchcock of the interest formerly held by Mr. Henry Esselstyn and\\nhis son, Elton A. Esselstyn, Mr. Williard Esselstyn having died soon\\nafter the original firm went into business. The firm are wholesale\\ndealers in and importers of woolens and tailors trimmings, for\\nwhich they have acquired a large and profitable trade in Michigan,\\nOhio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, in which the interests of the\\nhouse are well represented by several traveling salesmen. A\\nspecialty is made of the finest grade imported goods from the best\\nforeign looms, which are considered the best brought into this\\ncountry. The annual sales express a value of from $300,000 to .$400,-\\n000. Mr. James H. Hitchcock superintends the trimming depart-\\nment and Jlr. Horace Hitchcock the department of woolens. This\\nfirm holds a high rank in the trade of Detroit and has won a position\\nwhich is honorable and distinguished.\\nHorace Hitchcock, the head of the house of H. Hitchcock,\\nSon Company, was born at Orangeville, Pennsylvania, in 1836.\\nHis father was an itinerant Methodist minister, whose duties\\nrequired frequent changes of residence. The son s earlier education\\nwas received in the common schools of the period. He was subse-\\nquently fitted for college in Gouverneur Seminary in the State of\\nJ. L. HUDSON.\\nNew York. He taught for several years in the public schools and\\nin 1857 removed to Central Iowa where he organized and conducted\\na large private school at Cedar Falls. In 1859 he engaged in the\\nclothing and merchant tailoring business at Clayton, New York,\\nwhich he successfully carried on until 1863, in which year iie\\nremoved to Lansing, Michigan, where he resumed business in the\\nsame line upon a more extensive scale. Coming to Detroit in 1868,\\nhe embarked in the wholesale business in the same relations and\\nALBERT W. SCHLOSS.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "ii6\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nHORACE LUTCHCOCK.\\nfounded tlio firui of Hitchcock, Esselstyn Company, which,\\nafter various clianges, was resolved into the present style of H.\\nHitchcock, Son Company, the successes of whicl\\\\ belong to\\nDetroit s commercial historj- as affording a potent and an illustrious\\nexample. Mr. Hitchcock is identified with various organizations,\\nis a member of the executive board of the Slerchants and ]Manu-\\nfacturers Exchange for ten years a trustee of Albion College, and\\notherwise interested in the development and spread of education.\\nHe is a member of the Methodist church and a citizen pledged to the\\nhighest good of the public in all sure and consistent ways.\\nFRANK J. LIGHT,\\nTailor, 175 3Iichigan avenue. This enterprising gentleman,\\nwho has justly earned the nom de plume oi 1\\\\ie Nobby Tailor,\\nis one of that species of whom it does not take nine to make a man,\\nwas born in Monroe, Michigan, March 2, 1860. Having been\\nconsiderable of a traveler he learned his trade, locating in his\\nnative town in that business, after wliich he went westward, and\\nfrom thence eastward, working a.s a successful journeyman in\\nCleveland, Pittsburg and other prominent cities. He finally per-\\nmanently fixed his clioiee upon Detroit, where he established his\\npresent business in 1880. By dint of pushing energy, perseverance,\\nbusiness integrity and all the qualifications pertaining to liis trade,\\nhe has won the enconiums of a large and increasing patronage.\\nHis store is well stocked with an elegant line of cloth and\\nfurnishings, and his prices ai e as pleasing to his many i)atrons as\\nhis excellent fits, wliich are guaranteed to suit the most fastidious.\\nHe has filli d tlie position of secretary of tlie Tailors E.xchange of\\nthis city, and altliough young in years bids fair to rank among the\\nmost successful men in his line of business.\\nFIU.NK J. LICHT.\\nGEdKlJF. C. WKTIIKHHEE.\\nWOODENWARE.\\nGEORGE C. WETIIEUBEl COMPANY.\\nGeorge C. Wetherbee, head nt ihr house of George C.\\nWetlierbee Company, was born at Harvard, Massachusetts, July\\n27, 1840. He attended the schools of his native town, and at an\\nearly age assisted his father in a general store, in tlie conduct of a\\nhotel and in his duties as postmaster, tlius acijuiring a practical\\nknowledge of details of mestimabk; value to liim. At the age of\\n18 he went to Boston, securing emjiloyment in the jirovision busi-\\nness. At the outlireak of the rebellion lie returned home to enlist\\nin the Twenty-thinl Massachusetts Infantry, rising to the rank of\\nMajor and serving tliroiigli the war. He came to Detroit in 1865\\nand embarked in the retail grocery business, forming a co-partner-\\nsliip under the name of Farquhar Wetherbee. He afterward sold\\nout his interest to a Mr. Livingston and engaged in the woodenware\\nbusiness with William Saxby, under the firm name of William\\nSaxby Comjiaiiy, in a store opposite the old Board of Trade\\nbuilding on Woodbridgo street. He afterward removed to the cor-", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n117\\n.JEt? ^1\\n^^^^H \u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abs- Vi\\nm\\nWKt\\nMARK G. MORRIS.\\nBERNARD G. MORRIS.\\nHARRY S. MORRIS\\nner of Jefferson avenue and Cass streets, and again to liis present\\nlocation at 49 and 51 Jefferson avenue. In 1883 the business was\\nincorporated with a capital of |T.5,000 and with the following oiifi-\\ncers: George C. Wetherbee, president; M. E. Wetherbee, vice-\\npresident William Callahan, secretary and treasurer. This Com-\\npany conducts an extensive business in wooden and willow ware,\\nbrushes, cordage and all articles incident to their line of nade.\\nTliey are supplied principally from their large factory at the corner\\nof Vinewood avenue and the crossing of the Grand Trunk Railway,\\nwhere they give steady employment to about seventy hands. The\\nvalue of the annual output aggregates about $300,000, and exten-\\nsive trade relations are maintained with the entire country. Mr.\\nWetherbee is president of the Michigan Elevator and Engine\\nWorks, secretary and treasurer of the Columbian Brusli and Fibre\\nCompany, president of the United States Truck Company, one of\\nthe directors of the Merchants and Manufacturers Mutual\\nInsurance Company, and is prominently identified with other lead-\\ning industries. He is a member of the Detroit and Michigan Clubs, and\\na director of the Home of Industry. He married a Massachusetts\\nlady and has two children, a son recently graduated from the Bos-\\nton Institute of Technology, and a daughter in her teens.\\nB. G. MORRIS COMPANY.\\nThis firm, which is composed of three brothers, Bernard G.,\\nMark G., and Harry S. Morris, was established in 1882, and has had\\na successful business career, due to enterprising and judicious man-\\nagement. Bernard G. Morris, the senior partner and founder of the\\nbusiness, was born in New York City, December 25, 1855; Mark G.\\nMorris, who became a member of the firm in 1883, was born in New\\nY ork City, May 18, 1860, and Harry S. Morris, admitted to partner-\\nship in 1886, was born at Detroit, June 1, 1865. This firm does an\\nextensive wholesale business in woodenware, brushes, toys, child-\\nren s carriages, store fixtures, etc., at 63 and 64 Jefferson avenue,\\ncorner Cass street, and commands a large and growing trade with\\nOhio, Michigan and Indiana. They are the owners of the American\\nPatent Brush Company, manufacturers of patent horse, scrub and\\nwhitewash brushes, and are identified with other leading industries\\nand banks, Mr. Mark G. Morris being the vice-president of the\\nHome Brewing Company. The business has grown from small be-\\nginnmgs to its present position among the first in its line in Michigaii.\\nSix traveling salesmen are employed, and the annual output is\\nvalued at $200,000. The firm is progressive and conservative and\\ncommands extensive patronage, which is retained by strictly\\ncorrect business methods. Mr. Bernard G. Morris is a member of\\nthe Michigan and Ph\u00c2\u00abnix Clulis, the Detroit Musical Society, the\\nRoyal Arcanum, A. O. U. W., and various other organizations.\\nMessrs. Slark G. and Harry S. Morris are members of the Michigan\\nand Phoenix Clubs.\\nJEWELRY.\\nF. G. SMITH, SONS COMPANY.\\nF. G. Smith, Sons Company, diamond merchants, import-\\ners, jewelers and silversmiths, corner Woodward avenue and\\nState street, had its original establishment in 1858, by Mr. M. S.\\nSmith, the brother of Mr. F. G. Smith, the senior member of the\\npresent firm. The firm name after the original foundation of the\\nbusiness, became in 1880, M. S. Smith Company, and was incorpo-\\nrated in 1889 as F. G. Smith, Sons Company, with a capital of\\n.|!75,000. The building occupied has a frontage of thirty feet on\\nWoodward avenue, extending back 100 feet on State street. Emijloy-\\nment is given to thirty-five men in the several departments and the\\nannual output of the business is valued at about $300,000. This firm\\njustly takes i-ank among the leading representatives of its kind in\\nDetroit and maintains its position with scrupulous fidelity.\\nF. G. Smith, Senior, head of the house of F. G. Smith, Sons\\nCompany, was born at Catskill-on-the-Hudson, New York, July 17,\\n1828, and was educated in the public schools. In 1844 he came\\nwith his parents to Michigan, arriving at Detroit June 4, of the\\nsame year. He subsequently went to Pontiac, Michigan, where he\\nbecame connected with the dry goods business in which he con-\\ntinued until 1849 when he returned to Detroit, and for two years\\nthereafter, was associated with Mr. Clark in a general store. After\\nthis for three years he was connected with Holmes Company, and\\nthen was engaged with George P. Pease Company in the dry\\ngoods business. He married in 1855 and from that time conducted\\nbusiness on his own account. Soon after this he formed a partner-\\nshijj with his brother-in-law under the firm name of Judson Smith,\\nlocated on Woodward avenue near the Russell House and which\\nwas continued for five years, when the business was closed out.\\nAt the outbreak of the civd war, he received the appointment as\\nchief clerk under Cul. George W. Lee, assistant United States\\nQuartermaster, serving three years. He next engaged in business\\nin the jewelry line with his brother Mr. M. S. Smith, a relation sus-\\ntained until 1880, when the business was incorporated as M, S.\\nSmith Company, and which was succeeded in 1889 by F. G. Smith,\\nll^P\\nF. O. SMITH, SR.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "ii8\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nF. O. SMITH, JR.\\nSons Company, of which he l)ooame president, the position wliinli\\nhe has since held.\\nF. G. Smith, Jdni u, niembor of the firm of F. G. Smith, Sons\\nConii)any, was born at Detroit, Novembers, 1857, and was educated\\nin the c lty public schools, afterwards taking a business course in\\nDusseldorf, Germany, where he was graduated. When the present\\nfirm was incor])oraU d he became an active member and has since\\nsustained tliat relation.\\nSTURGEON WARREN.\\nOne of the most inviting j^laces of interest in Detroit is the\\nelegant diamond jjarlors of Sturgeon Warren located at 17 State\\nstreet, where the eye of the visitor is regaled with a scene of\\ndazzling lieauty. Their collection of diamonds, gems and precious\\nstones is as large as any in the west and quite as choice in selection.\\nTheir handsome cases present a most tempting display of those rare\\nand ostly gems. The proprietors of this Aladdin-like palace,\\nthough young men, are both noted in experience relating to their\\nbusiness. William A. Sturgeon was born in Detroit in 1804. About\\nfifteen years ago lie engaged with M. S. Smith Company now\\nF. G. Smith, Sons Company) with whom he remained until April,\\n1891, when he and Mr. Warren engaged in Imsiness together, dealing\\nexclusively in diamonds and gems. C. W. Warren was born in\\nPortlan l, Maine, in 18(11. lie learned his business in St. Louis with\\nThe Mei moid Jaccard Jewelry Company, one of the largest firms\\nof its kind in {he United States. He also served with Wright, Kay\\nCompany in the diamond department of their store. Both Mr.\\nSturgeon and Jlr. Warren are married men having wedded Detroit\\nladies. The diamond parlors of Messrs Sturgeon Warren are\\nmodeled after the Parisian style and are considered among the\\nfinest in the United States. Their arrangements for the comfort\\nand entertainment of visitors are complete and their outlook for\\nsuccess is verv brilliant.\\nELECTRIC WORKS.\\nDetroit is unquestionably tlie most pruminent city in the Union,\\nas an electric works centre. It may be properly called the birth-\\nplace and home of what is known as the storage battery. The vast\\nmanufacturing facilities of the city make an almost milimited\\ndemand for the various modern electrical api)aratus and ajipliances\\ninchuling telegraph and telephone apparatus, dynamos for eloclro-\\nphiliiig and lighting purposes, electric bells, electric motors for\\noperating machinery, etc. The more important establishments are\\nmentioned at length in the following sketches. The oldest organ-\\nization in this line is that of the D -troit Electrical Works, estab-\\nlished in 18S3; and among the prominent promoters of electric\\nworks here maj be mentioned W. A Jackson who is inseperably\\nconnected with the progress of this important line of business.\\nBesides the above may be mentioned the Detroit Motor Company,\\norganized in 1886, with Hon. W. C. Mabury as president; the\\nDetroit Electrical Works, Brush Electric Lighting Works, Edison\\nIlluminating Company, Thompson Houston Electric Light Com-\\nCompany, the Fisher Electric Company, the Fontaine Safety\\nSignal C omi)an_v, and various others dealing in the diversified\\nforms of electrical supjilies, the demand for which is continu-\\nally increasing.\\nDETROIT ELECTRIC LIGHT POWER COMPANY.\\nWilliam II. Fitzgeu.vld, Secretary and General Manager of\\nthe Detroit Electric Light Power Company, was born in the\\ncounty of Leeds, Ontario, February 23, ISOG. His progenitors were\\nScotch-Irish and among the early and influential settlers in Canada.\\nHe was graduated from Farmersville Grammar School, in his native\\ncounty, and for three succeeding years was engaged in teaching,\\nafter which he accepted a clerkship in a general store at Addison,\\nin Leeds county. He continued to follow clerking and book-keep-\\ning continuously to 1877, when he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where\\nhe procured a situation in tlie wholesale and retail dry goods house\\nof E. JI. McCiillan Company. In 1S79 he engaged in the electrical\\nbusiness with the Telegraph Supply Company, which was later\\nmerged into the Brush Electric Company. He remained at Cleve-\\nland in this relation until the spring of 1882, when ho was sent by\\nthe Brush Electric Company to Detroit to fill the position of a prac-\\ntical electrician for their local plant. Six months afterward he was\\nappointed superintendent and manager of the Brush Electric Light\\nConqiany, of Detroit, holding that position from January 1, 1883 to\\nMay 1, 1880. In the latter j-ear he became interested in the organ-\\nization of the Commercial Electric Company, in which ho is a half\\nowner. In September, 1889, he helped to organize the j)resent\\nDetroit Electric Light Power Company, becoming its secretary\\nand general manager, also one of its largest stockholders. Mr. Fitz-\\ngerald, in connection with Messrs. William B. Moraii and Ralph\\nPhelps, Jr., who constituted the executive board of the company.\\nri ft\\nC. W. WARUEN.\\nW. A. STDRUEON.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n119\\nWILLIAM H. FITZGERALD.\\nsecured the contract for ligliting the city of Detroit, which was\\ngranted in January, 1890. Mr. Fitzgerald succeeded in estal)lishing\\nan underground system of arc lighting wliioh has proven entirely\\nsatisfactory and affords a notable instance of his superior skill and\\nmanagement of electric lighting essentials. While still a young\\nman, Mr. Fitzgerald has accomplished many signal triumphs in\\nconnection with the electrical business, and has acquired during his\\nresidence in Detroit much valuable real estate. He married Miss\\nBurke, of Cleveland, Ohio, and has one cliild. He is a member of\\nthe Detroit Hunting and Fishing, the Michigan Yacht, Detroit\\nAthletic and the Catholic Clubs. He resides in his beautiful home\\nat the corner of Fourth and Joy streets. The Detroit Electric Light\\nPower Company was organized and incorporated in September,\\n1889, with a capital of .f300,000, which has tince been increased to\\n$600,000, and is officered as follows: William B. Moran, President;\\nWilliam S. Crane, Vice-President; Joseph B. Moore, Treasurer;\\nWilliam H. Fitzgerald, Secretary and General Manager.\\nTHE COMMERCIAL ELECTRIC COMPANY.\\nThis company was organized in April 1888 for the purpose of\\ncarrying on the business of electrical engineering and construction,\\nand in this line of work have been remarkably successful, making a\\nspecialty of electric lighting plants for cities, towns, villages,\\nfactories, buildings, boats, and in the organization of electric light-\\ning companies. Since beginning operations the company has\\nequipped and built over sixty plants representing a very large busi-\\nness. They were instrumental in organizing the Detroit Electric\\nLight Power Company, whose system is now lighting the city.\\nThey have also organized companies in tliis and other states, which\\nare operating very profitably. Nearly all the largest buildings in\\nthe city have been equipped electrically by the Commercial, among\\nwhich might be named the Hammond and Hudson buildings, the\\nplant in the latter building representing nearly |20,000. The com-\\npany are territorial agents for several large manufacturers of electri-\\ncal apparatus and at present are propagating the National Trans-\\nformer system of incandescent (long distance) lighting. The\\nSperry system of arc-ligliting, the Detroit electric motor and the\\nFisher automatic dynamo and generator for isolated incandescent\\nlighting, apparatus that is selected for their trade on account of the\\nsuperior points of merit they possess over that of other manu-\\nfacturers. To this and the retention of skilled electrical engineering\\ntalent and labor, and untii ing hustling in the business department,\\nmay be due their success. The company also have an extensive\\nsupply department, having two stores and basement filled with\\nelectrical goods of every description, mainly such as are used for\\nequipping electric light, railway, telephone, telegraph, buildings,,\\nfactories, etc. They are agents for the celebrated Okonite wires and\\ncables, which have a national reputation, and have recently issued a\\nhandsome catalogue of three hundred pages, illustrating their goods\\nin this line fully. The officers of the company are Joseph B. Moore,\\nPresident; George E. Fislier, Secretary and General Manager; O.\\nD. Chase, Superintendent of Construction with office and sales-\\nrooms at 55 and 57 Gratiot avenue.\\nGeorge E. Fisher, Secretary and General Manager of the Com-\\nmercial Electric Company, was born at Detroit, August 1, 1861.\\nHis education was received in the public schools and completed in\\na business course at Goldsmitli s University. He began his actual\\nbusiness career as a clerk in Greening Comi^any s dry goods store,\\nwhere he was employed for three years. He was afterward associ-\\nated with Isbell Merrill, as cashier and bookkeeper, continuing in\\nthose relations until the dissolution of tliat firm, when he became\\ninterested with their successors, Isbell Company, until 1883. He\\nnext became manager of the Merchants Store Railway Company,\\nwhich was continued up to the time when it was sold out to the\\nLamson Store Railway Company, of Boston. He, thereafter,\\nbecame connected with the Electric Accumulator Company, of New\\nYork, wlio founded the Electiic Accumulator Lighting Company\\nof Detroit, of which he became general manager, and so acted up\\nto April, 1888, when he resigned to organize the Commercial Elec-\\ntric Companj of which he is the secretary and general manager,\\npositions in which he has incurred distinguished recognition and\\nprominence.\\nTHE MARKLE ENGINEERING COMPANY.\\nJohn R. SIarkle, steam and electrical engineer, was born at\\nAncaster, Ontario, June 23, 1845. His father being an attorney at\\nlaw and an itinerant minister, the duties of this latter calling made\\nfrequent changes of residence necessary, and the son s education\\nwas obtained in various western towns, but principally at Maquo-\\nketa, Iowa. When only 16 years of age he enlisted in the ninth\\nregiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry. After two years of hard\\ncampaigning, attended by considerable illness, he was honorably\\ndischarged. After recui era ing, he re-enlisted at Cleveland, Ohio,\\nGEOROE E. FISHER.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "I20\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nJOHN R. MARKLE.\\nin the ISOtli regiment of Ohio Infantry, and served w)iile this regi-\\nment was iierfoxinhig garrison duty in tlio fortifications at Washing-\\nton, District of Columbia. After tlie war lie went to Denver, Colo-\\nrado, where he engaged in cigar manufacturing and general mer-\\nchandising, achieving good success. After the great fire of 1871 he\\nwent to Chicago, to embark in the grain and produce business on\\nthe board of trade, in which he continued up to 1881, when he came\\nto Michigan in tlie interest of Edison s electric light, taking charge\\nof the state dei artnient of business, with headnuarters in Detroit.\\nHe sold the first incandescent light plant in the state to O. N. Tay-\\nlor, at Ludington. He has established the Markle Engineering\\nCompany at -t -i Jellerson avenue, and owns an interest in seven\\nelectric lighting ci ntral stations estalilished by him. Nearly 100\\nisolated electric lighting plants have been established under his\\nmanagement. He has invented a number of useful and practical\\nelectrical devices, which are applicable to electrical construction,\\nand these articles are now manufactured by the Markle Engineer-\\ning Company. Mr. Markle is chairman of one of the most\\nimp.jrtant committees of the association of the Edison illuminating\\ncompanies for standardizing ])roper api)aratus and practices in the\\nbusiness. He is an active electrical expert and proficient in the\\nknowledge of gas as a fuel and as a lighting agent, having been\\ninstnimental in organizing the first jn actical developments in the\\ndirecti.in of artificial fuel gas. He takes a deep interest in the ques-\\ntions of social and i)olitical economy, and in all branches of scien-\\ntific research, his contributions to the press on these subjects having\\nbeen received with marke l favor.\\nPAPER iJEALERS.\\nPAIGE STRACHAN.\\nThis firm, manufacturers of paper and wholesale dealers in all\\nkinds of paper, stationery, wall papers and shade goods, was estab-\\nlished in 1885, and is composed of Messrs. Fred O. Paige and Albert\\nR. Strachaii. They have achieved a notable success and liave con-\\nstantly advanced their interests b} enterprising and judicious man-\\nagement, opening up a large trade in the more important eastern\\nand western trade centers for sugar bags and wrapping\\npapers of their own manufacture and in establishing extensive job-\\nbing relations with Michigan, Oh o, Indiana and Canada. The\\nannual output of the business is valued at $370,000, and, under the\\npresent stimulus of active demand, will in the near future\\nlargely exceed that limitation. The firm employ ample capital and\\ncommand every reijuisito facility for transacting extensive opera-\\ntions. The salesrooms at 141 and 143 Jefferson avenue comprise two\\nbuildings with dimensions of 00x100 feet with four .stories and base-\\nment, adequately adajited to the requirements of the business.\\nWhile the members of the firm are young men, they liave already\\nachieved the distinction of being identified with the most promi-\\nnent and successful merchants of Detroit. This firm enjoys the\\ndistinction of being the onh- exclusive jobbers of wall paiier in the\\nstate of Michigan. They conduct a large rintiiig establishment\\nprincipally devottfd to the execution of railroad, cii cular and map\\nwork.\\nJOHN B. PRICE COMPANY.\\nJoHX B. Price, head of the house of John B. Price Company,\\ndealers in paper and printers supplies, 123 Jefferson avenue, was\\nthe pioneer founder of this line of business in Detroit, his associa-\\ntion with it beginning thirty-si. C years ago as an employe of the\\nhouse of Pease Fuller. After being connected with this house\\nfor eleven years he became a member of the firm of Cornwells,\\nPrice Compaii} succeeded by the jiresent firm aoout ten years\\nago. In the fall of is.j Mr. Price furnished the first comjilete news-\\npaper outfit ever i ut up in Detroit. Previously Michigan printers\\nhad procured their printing sujiplies from the East. The business\\nhas been greatly extended and embraces large trade territory, and\\nits conduct lias been signalized by increasing enterprise and pros-\\nperity. January 1, 1S90, Mr. William C. Jujip was admitted to\\npartnership, the firm name becoming John B. Price Company.\\nPAIGE STRACHAN.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n121\\nJOHN B. PRICE.\\nThis liouse carries a full and complete stock of all styles, weights\\nand sizes of paper, Farmer, Little Company s type, printing inks,\\nChandler Price, Peerless and Cranston printing i resses\\nand paper cutters, and printers supplies of every conceivable char-\\nacter. Mr. Price is an able exponent of the prosperous merchant,\\nwhose long experience and knowledge of the demands of the trade\\ninvest him with notable distinction. He is a Mason and a promin-\\nent member of Damascus Commandery, Knights Templar, member\\nof the Detroit Boat Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Past Grand Master\\nA. O. tJ. W. and treasurer of the Singer Fire Alarm Company. The\\npaper on which this book is printed was furnished to order by this\\nfirm.\\nWiLHA.^i C. Jupp, member of the firm of John B. Price Com-\\npany, was born at Detroit, July 23, 1859. After receiving Lis edu-\\ncation in the public schools he entered the employ of Stephen F.\\nSmith Company, wholesale boots and shoes, as salesman. In\\n1883 he visited Dakota, where he purchased and still owns a farm\\nof 160 acres. After one years exptrience in tl-.e cultivation of his\\nDakota farm he returned to Detroit and became associated with\\nJohn B. Price as book-keeper, in which relation he quickly estab-\\nlished a proficiency and direction in the management of the details\\nof the business which culminated in his admission to partner-\\nship January 1890. He is secretary and treasurer of the North-\\nwestern Amateur Rowing Association, director of the Detroit Boat\\nClub and one of the original members of the Detroit Athletic Club.\\nHe is an enthusiastic admirer of all amateur manly sports in\\nwhich he has always taken an active interest. Mr. Jupp has\\ndemonstrated those sterling abilities and general business\\ncharacteristics which constitute commercial integrity and dis-\\ntinguished elevation.\\nWILLIAM C. JUPP.\\nFACTORY OF DETROIT PAPER NOVELTY COMPANY.\\nDETROIT PAPER NOVELTY COMPANY\\nThis concern was re-organized in April, 1890 and capitalized at\\n$100, 000. The officers are W. B. Thompson vice-president, F. H.\\nFarnsworth, secretary and treasurer. The annual output of prod-\\nucts in paper boxes, lard and oyster jiails, etc. is about \u00e2\u0096\u00a0150,000.\\nUnder the present efficient administration of its affairs it is taking\\nleading ground among Detroit s great industries. Its trade territory\\nincludes Michigan, Ohio, Indiana. Minnesota Wisconsin, Nebraska,\\nKansas and Missouri with agencies, at New York City, Philadelphia,\\nBaltimore and Washington, D. C. The printing is done entirely\\nthrough their own outfit which has facilities adapted to every\\nimplied consideration. The works are located at the corner of\\nCongress and Fifth streets, and comprise 150 feet on fifth street and\\n100 feet on Congress, five stories in height, properly lighted and\\nadequately equipped with machinery of the invention and patent of\\nthe company. This is the only envelope plant west of Buffalo\\nmaking hand made envelopes and a nuuiljer of specialties produced\\nby no otlier concern.\\nAMERICAN PAPER COMPANY.\\nDavid Blumenthal, head of the firm of L. Blumenthal Sons,\\nproprietors of the American Paper Company, was born in Europe\\nand came, when ten years old, to the United States, locating at\\nIndianapolis, Indiana. Here he was put to school, his education\\nbeing continued at Detroit, to which he removed in 1870. Upon the\\nacceptance by his father of an agency for S. Simon Son, paper", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMiMERCE.\\nDAVID IIUJIEXTIIAL.\\nstock dealers, he became associated with that hrancli of business,\\nand some years later, with liis fatlicr and brothers, establislied the\\nlirm of L. Blunieiithal Sons, the founders of tlie American Papei\\nComi)any. In 1\u00c2\u00bbS3 this firm was consolidated with tlie firm of\\nS. .Simon Son, but the jKUliiership after one year was dissolved,\\nthe business since having been conducted under its present style.\\nThe business lias been of continual growth, and througli the addi-\\ntion of building acconiinodations and other requisite facilities has\\nattained extensive proportions. The lirm are brought into close\\nconnection with paper mills, and liandle large quantities of paper\\nin excliange for stock, and manufacture to order a large variety of\\nwrajiping )japer. Tlie trade territory embraces Ohio, Micliigan,\\nIndiana and New England. Tlie annual output aggregates in value\\n,|5UII,H()t). The buildnigs occupied at 207, 209 and 21 1 Larned street,\\nwest, and 2!I-j, 2!)T and 2!)!) Orleans street, afford anii)le acconiinoda-\\ntions and are ruvi(led witli requisite machinery and appliances for\\nmanufacturing. l\\\\Ir. liluiueutlial is the active member of tiie iirm\\nand is tliorougldy conversant witli tlie details of the business.\\nBEECHER, PECK I.FAVIS.\\nThe above named company located at 139 Jefferson avenue\\nwest, dates its establishnieiit from September 1, ISiss, and are noted\\nas among the most successful and enterprising dealers in their im-\\nportant line of trade, operating as wholesale jobbers of all varieties\\nof ijaper and stationery, including the general requirements of deal-\\ners in every department of that branch of business. The present\\nfirm includes Marshall W. Beechei Albert F. Peck and John E.\\nLewis. All of these gentlemen, though young in years, are old in\\nthe exi)erience and knowledge of their business, and since the date\\nof their establishment tliey have by industry and good management\\ncombined with integrity of business principles, worlied up one of the\\nmost important industries of its kind in Michigan. Their success,\\ndating from theit first endeavor, has continuously advanced, until\\nthey cover the entire field of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, where\\nthey are represented by seven travelers. Thej- also employ three\\ncity salesmen to look after their large local trade. Tlie size of the\\nl)uilding they occujiy is 30x100 feet and includes five stories. Tney\\nfiiinish employment for about twenty-five hands. This firm is par-\\nticularly note l for possessing perfect facilities for the iirompt filling\\nand shipment of orders, riding themselves on the fact that all\\norders are shipped the same day upon which the order is received.\\nMAK.SHALL W. Beecher, senior member of the firm of Beecher,\\nPeck Lewis, was born in Jefferson County, New York, in 1849,\\nand came to Michigan at the age of 17, engaging in the lumber\\nbusiness at Spring Lake, where he remained aliout three years.\\nComing to Detroit in ls69 he engaged in the drug Vmsiness, which\\nhe continued until ISSl, when in a small way lie starteil in the\\nwboIes;ile paper trade for himself, which he carried on for about\\ntwo years, at the expiration of which time he forme 1 Ids present\\npartnership with Jlessrs. Peck Lewis. Mr. Beecher is a\\ntliorougldy practical business man, seldom, if ever, engaging in\\naffairs outside of liis business, he has consequently never been in\\npolitics or public office, and his strict devotion to the commercial\\ninterests of liis firm has much to do with their present prosperous\\ncondition.\\nAlbekt F. Peck, of the firm of Beecher, Peck Lewis, was\\nborn at Port Jarvis, Orange County, X. Y., Septeiiil\u00c2\u00ab r 8, 180:5, where\\nhe received his schooling, afterwards attending Eastiiiairs Business\\nCollege, at Pouglikeepsie, N. Y. After coiiipleting his studies he\\ncame to Detroit and entered the oflice of the Northwestern Trans-\\nportation Company, which position he lield for four j ears, when he\\nthen formed a partnershi]) with Jtessrs. Beecher Lewis. Sir.\\nPeck s department of the business is the charge of the office and\\nfinancial part of the establishment. Young and vigorous, he is an\\nactive business man, and fills an iinporlant niche in the liusiness lie\\nsuccessfully represents.\\nJohn E. Lewis was born at Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio,\\nMay 10, 18i. When lie was eight years old he removetl to Flint,\\nMichigan, with liis parents, and from thence he came to Detroit\\nin January, 1801. Mr. Lewis has been in the paper business\\nfor various firms during a period of seventeen years, and\\nsince the organization of the firm of Beecher, Peck Lewis, his\\ntime has been chiefly occupied on the road in the interests of his\\nfirm, whose success is largely liie to bis excellent qualifications as a\\ntraveling salesman.\\nNEWSPAPERS.\\nThe Press of the city of Detroit occupies a position pre-emi-\\nnently above any city of similar size in the United States, being\\nfully up to the highest standard of newspaper enterprise in modern\\nlimes. Detroit s newspapers are true representatives of the prog-\\nress and prosiierity of the city. The Detroit Free iVcss has an inter-\\nnational reputation and a high standing in this country and in\\nEurope, where a branch office is located. A more extended notice\\nMAUSHALI, W. BEECHER.\\nALBEUT F. I ECK.\\nJOHN E. LEWIS.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n123\\nis given in the special sketch relative to that paper. The Tribune\\nis an old established morning paper of which James E. Scripps is\\npresident. The Tribune Company is incorporated with a capital\\nstock of .flOO.OOO and has recently become the property of Mr.\\nScripps and others. It is Republican in politics. R. B, Gelatt is\\neditor-in-chief. The evening newspaper field is occupied by four\\ndailies: The Sun, noticed more fully in a .special article following;\\nThe Evening Jonrnal, established in 1883, Republican in politics,\\nwith W. H. Brearly editor, manager and proprietor; The Evening\\nNeu-s, established in 1873 and incorporated with a capital stock of\\n$50,000, J. E. Scripps treasurer, independent in politics; The Tiinen,\\npublished by Tlie Times Publishing Company, incorporated with a\\ncapitial stock of 50,000, the officers of which are not publicly men-\\ntioned; Robert T. Deacon is\\ngeneral manager and two\\neditions are published daily.\\nThis paper is also independent\\nin politics.\\nDETROIT FREE PRESS.\\nInseparably connected and\\nclosely identified with the\\nhistory and progress of De-\\ntroit, from 1831 to 1891, is the\\nrecord of the Free Press.\\nVenerable in years, but lively\\nand vigorous as if in its youth,\\nfounded in tlie presidential\\nera of Andrew Jackson, it has\\never been tlie staunch and\\nconsistent advocate of Demo-\\ncratic principles. Older than\\nthe state of its birth, it has\\noutgrown the commonwealth\\nand attained tlie pinnacle of\\nfame and fortune until it has\\ngrown from a small sheet of\\nfour pages to rank among the\\nlargest and most elegant\\npublications of its class in the\\nnewspajier world. Its daily\\neditions circulating in every\\nportion of Michigan and ad-\\njoining territory, and its\\nhandsome weekly editions are\\nread and admired wherever\\ntlie Englisli language is spo-\\nken. It is jiointed to with\\npride as the earliest success-\\nful journal of the great North-\\nwest, and has established\\nbranch offices over the sea\\nwhere it has made a decided\\nhit and become a liouseliold\\nword and favorite. In the\\nyear of its first issue, the Free\\nPress printed 38,000 papers,\\nin the year 1890, its circula-\\ntion books record 24,000,000\\ncopies of its various editions.\\nIt began its existence in small quarters on the corner of Bates and\\nWood liridge streets, under tlie proprietorship of Slieldon McKiiiglit.\\nIt now occupies commodious offices on Lamed street and has estab-\\nblished various branches as its demands required. Three times this\\nenterprising journal has suffered by fire, each time arising Plioenix\\nlike from its ashes. It has ever employed the best of literary talent\\nupon its staff, many of its writers attaining brilliant fame as shining\\nlights in journalism. In 183(3 L. L. Morse of tlie Ontario, New York,\\nMessenger, and John S. Bagg purcluised the plant, and later on Mr.\\nBagg became sole iiroprietor, continuing so formanj years. He died\\nin this city in 18T0. Col. John S. Harmon took a third interest in\\nthe ]iaper, even while it lay in tlie ashes of conflagration, possessing\\nnothing but its name together with the surviving brothers of Mr.\\nBagg he conducted it onward to success. From 18.J.3 to 1861 Wil-\\nDETROIT FREE PRESS BUILDING.\\nbur F. Storey was its editor and proprietor, Henry N. Walker suc-\\nceeding him until 1872, since which time Mr. William E. Quinby\\nhas been principal owner, the present officers being William E.\\nQuinby, president; A. G. Boynton, vice-president, and F. Fayram,\\nsecretary and treasurer. Such is the brief outline of the continued\\nrise of what is not only one of the first newspapers of the state, but\\none of tlie leading journals of the present day,\\nWilliam E. Quinby is known throughout the length and\\nlireadth of the land as the ruling spirit of that universally popular\\nnewspaper the Detroit Free Press, with which he has been connected\\nfor over thirty years\u00e2\u0080\u0094 half the span of the life of tliat paper. Mr.\\nQuinby was born in Brewer, Maine, December 14, 1835. In the year\\n1850 he came with his parents to Detroit, beginning his journalistic\\ncareer upon the Literary Mlis-\\ncellany, his fathers magazine.\\nIn 1858 he graduated from\\nthe literary department of\\nMichigan University and,\\nafter studying law with the\\nfirm of Walker Russell, was\\nadmitted to the bar. His nat-\\nural tastes leading to journal-\\nism, he soon after connected\\nhimself with the Free Press,\\ndoing the legal reporting;\\nwithin a short time he was\\nmade City Editor, from which\\npositson he rose to be Manag-\\ning Editor. In 1803 Mr. Quin-\\nby purchased an eighth in-\\nterest in the capital stock of\\nthe Free Press C ompany, and\\nin 1872 he also bought the in-\\nterest of Col. Norvell, and\\nsoon after that of H. N.\\nWalker, thereby gaining con-\\ntrol of the paper. Since this\\ntime Mr. Quinby, as principal\\nproi rietor and Editor-in-Chief\\nhas shaped and directed the\\n[lolicy of the paper. C onserv-\\ntive, yet eminently progress-\\nive and enterprising, the Free\\nPress owes to his energy and\\nability its high standing and\\nfar reaching influence. Mr.\\nQuinby s keen insight into\\ncliaracter has enabled him to\\nsurround himself with a most\\nefficient editorial and busi-\\nness staff, a number of whom\\nhave been associated with\\nhim for years. Always ap-\\nproachable, he is a most\\ncourteous and affable gentle-\\nman, possessing qualities\\nwhich greatly endear him to\\nhis friends and associates.\\nTo Jlr. Quinby and the Free\\nPress Detroit is indebted for\\nmuch of her reputation abroad and her progress and success at\\nhome. Ever identified with her business interests; striving for the\\nenlightenment and entertainment of her citizens; having in mind\\nher political, social and moral welfare, the paper and its editor\\nhave been and are a great jiower for good in the municipality and\\nin the country at large.\\nFrederick Fayram, secretary, treasurer aii l business iHanager\\nof the Free Press C ompany, was born near Sheffield, England, April\\n1853. Ill 1861 his parents emigrated to Canada taking up their\\nresidence in Hamilton, Ontario, a few years later removing tD Tor-\\nonto. While in these two cities Mr. Fayram received a common\\nschool and business education. In 1870 he removed with his\\nfather s family to Detroit where lie has since resided. His first\\nbusiness venture in this city was in the manufacture of cigar, shelf", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nWII.I.IAlt K. i.iL INHV.\\nmill ]jacking lioxcs, in wliich enterprise he was ongageil, wilh (Jeo.\\nIluiit. for about two years, when lie sold out his interest to take a\\n]iosition with tin; Ilargreaves Manufacturin;; Companj-. March 20,\\n1ST5 he accopteil a position with the Free Press Company as sub-\\nscription clerk; after a time he was made superinten leiit of the\\nsubscription department, in wliioh capacity, by liispush and energy,\\nhe was largely instrumental in working up for the Free Press its\\nsplendid daily and weekly cii-culation. In March, 1887. Mr. Fayram\\nwas \u00c2\u00b0lected to succeed N. Eisenlord as secretary, treasurer and\\nl usiness manager of the Free Press Company, he purchasing Mr.\\nEisenlord s stock interest in the Company. Under his management\\nthe business of the paper has grown very rapidly, so much so. that\\nit has been necessary to considerably enlarge the plant and premises\\nto afford proper facilities. Mr. Fayram is also vice-mesident of the\\nDetroit Free Press Printing Company. Socially Mr. Fayram is very\\npopular; for many years he was prominent in n\\\\usical circles, being\\nthe possessor of a rich and well trained baritone voice. For two\\nyears past, however, lie has been conipelh d by pressure of\\n^k^. f^c\\nFREDERICK FAYRAM.\\nTU13 SI X BriLIlINl\\nbusiness to retire from the active iiuisiral ranks, thoup;h he is still\\none of the board of directors of the Detroit Musical Society. Mr.\\nFayram is a member c.f Detroit Coniinandery No. 1, Knights Temp-\\nlar, and Michigan Sovereign Consistory Ancient Accejited Scottish\\nRite JIasons, also of Moslilem Tenijile Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.\\nTHE SUN.\\nNewspapers are like indivi luals, some are born gre,%t, some\\nachieve greatness and others have greatness thrust iii)on them.\\nThe iSiitn was not born great, for it started on the fifth day of May,", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n125\\n1885, on fifty dollars capital; it did not have greatness thrust upon\\nit, for it has never had any assistance from outside capitalists, it\\nsimply achieved its present condition by enterprise and pluck. The\\nstruggles of this undertaking against moneyed enterprises, and in\\nthe midst of strong rivalry and opposition, have been such as wouki\\nhave driven less spirited men than its j^roprietors from the field in\\ndespair, but tlie Sun, in its onward pathway, was not to be eclipsed,\\nand is now in the zenith of its prosperity. On March 10, 1890, the\\nEvening Siin, a six column four page paper, was started on its Jady\\nrounds and was a signal success from tlie start, it being tlie official\\npaper of the city. The Sunday Morning Sun and The Illustrated\\nSun are sharing with the Evening Sun a similar success. The estab-\\nlishment now employs between eighty and ninety hands, which\\nstaff will be largely increased in the near future, when their build-\\ning is completely fitted and equipped. Their present weekly outlay\\nof expense averages about $1,800, and no money or labor is being\\nspared to render their facilities equal in every respect to any similar\\nestablishment outside of the largest cities. The proprietors of the\\nSun have judiciously chosen a most commanding site for their\\nlocation, at 108 Woodward avenue, it being the first and only news-\\npaper office ever situated on that important public thoroughfare,\\nDetroifs leading business avenue, and when all tlie improvements\\nare completed it will be an ornament to that portion of the city.\\nThe Sun building comprises four stories and a basement. Starting\\nfrom the basement, where the massive engines are located, the\\nentire structure will be lighted with electricity, manufactured by\\nthe company s own electric plant. A Bullock folding and perfect-\\ning press prints the various editions from the web with electric\\nspeed. On the second floor is the public reading room, furnished\\nwith easy chairs, lounges, reading desks, etc., where complete files\\nof the leading periodicals, books and stationery, may be found for\\nthe visitors convenience and comfort. The newspaper files are the\\nmost complete in America, embracing all the leading papers of the\\ncountry. The first floor containing tlie finest of counting rooms,\\nequaling that of any city bank. The furniture of this room cost\\nover .fo.OOO. The room is finished in solid cherry with crystal plate\\nglass, and oxydized bronze work. It contains, first the office of\\nT. K. Hunt; next is the advertising counter of very elaborate design,\\nnext the cashier s desk caged by bronze work and plate glass, then\\nfollows the foreign agency and the city agency departments under\\nthe supervision of R. S. Shenston, then the subscription, advertising,\\nT. K. HUNT.\\nL. 8. ROGERS.\\nbook-keepers and general accountants offices; opposite is D. P.\\nMcKay s office, then that of Malcolm C. Marr general superinten-\\ndant, advertising solicitors the toilet and general supply rooms\\ncomplete the arrangement of this floor. The elevator ascends from\\nthe basement to the top story, where the composing and editorial\\nrooms are located, where abundant light is furnished by sky-lights.\\nrendering them among the most commodious and comfortable\\nknown. The front of the Sun building, jjainted porcelain white.\\nwith appropriate signs and ornamental electric lights, forming\\nletters for evening illumination, presents a fine appearance to the\\npasser-by. Mr. McKay, the senior partner, was twelve years in the\\nbusiness department of the Buffalo Courier, and afterwards reporter\\nfor the Detroit Evening Journal, and is the riglit man in the right\\nplace in the office of tlie Sun. Mr. Hunt, the prime moving factor\\nof the Sun establishment, is a graduate of Upjier Canada College of\\nToronto, and is a man of great personal magnetism, of energetic\\ndisposition, and possesses the attractive make-up of a thorough and\\ngenial business gentleman; he is a ready and poignant writer, and\\nmuch of the prosperity of the various editions of the Sun is due to\\nhis devotion to the interests of the company. The proprietors of\\nthe Sun give much credit to the able superintendence of tlieir\\nmechanical department and press rooms, which are looked after by\\nMr. Henry Pool, who has entire charge of the basement of the Sun\\nbuilding.\\nTHE HERALD OF COMMERCE.\\nTliis paper is the oflicial organ of the various commercial\\norganizations in Detroit, and is devoted to the interests of trades-\\nmen and manufacturers generally, and is particularly an advocate\\nof Detroit as a commercial centre. Indeijendent in all things, it is\\nthe organ of no sect or party, and is not owned or controlled by\\nany wholesale or manufacturing concern, but is published in the\\ngeneral interests of its constituents. Filling, as it does, these\\nimportant requirements, it could not be otherwise than successful\\nand popular, and during its five years of publication there has been\\na steadily increasing gain in its circulation, and it has now attained\\na high position among 2.), 000 retailers tliroughout Michigan, Ohio\\nand Indiana. The Detroit Lerald of Commerce is a handsome four-\\ncolumn, sixteen p ge paper, containing among its various depart-\\nments special columns of great interest to dealers in dry goods,\\ngroceries, hardware, tobacco, etc., which, with its pithy trade\\nmarks form a valuable encyclopedia of reference, covering every", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\ntown in the States above named. Altogether it is a commercial\\nrecord tliat no manufacturer or dealer can afford to do without,\\nwhile its general miscellany comprises much to in-truct and enter-\\ntain the general reader. T}ie Detroit Herald of Commerce is\\npublished every Wednesday at 18 Butterfield Building, 43 and 44\\nLarned street, west. Mr. L. S. Rogers, the proprietor and managing\\neditor, is a gentleman well known among the journalistic frater-\\nnity, having been connected with various successful publishing\\nenterprises. For three years lie traveled for the Associateil Press in\\nnearly every State in the Union and the Canadian Provinces. He\\nis a native of JIassachusetts, and received his education in the\\nclassical schools of that State. AVith his usual business enterprise\\nMr. Rogers has made a new feature in trade jovirnals, that of adopt-\\ning an original humorous department in the llcriilil, which is\\ndescription, and include a five-story and basement building, at\\nLarned and Shelby streets, designed and constructed especially to\\nmeet incident reipiirements, 80x100 feet in dimensions, with an\\nannex 25x80 feet, with a full equii ment of machinery and appli-\\nances. A force of from 300 to 3o0 hands is given constant employ-\\nment. The business involves chromo and commercial lithography\\nin all its branches, from the largest theatrical bill to the finest class\\nof office stationery, and the work accomplished in artistic essentials\\nwill compare witli any executions in the line anywhere. The best\\ntalent is laid under contribution, and tlie ambition of the company\\nto produce the highest types of excellence is constantly exercised.\\nThe Calvert Lithograi hing and Engraving Company iiave through-\\nout tlieir existence succeeded in creating some of the best and most\\ncommendable achievements known to the art, and are recognized\\nconducted by an old and versatile writer, whose quaint sayings,\\nhumorous pai agraphs and jioetic hits have for many years gone the\\nrounds of the leading literary journals in the United States and\\nCanada under tho 7ioM depluina of O. P. Deldoc, and which fea-\\nture will brighten the homes as well as the ofticis and factories of\\nthe Herald s many readers. The subscription price of the Herald is\\n$1.00 per year.\\nLITHOGRAPHERS.\\nCALVERT LITIIOGKAPIIING AXU ENtiHAVINO COMPANY.\\nThis industry, among tlie most prominent and distinguished of\\nits character in the country, was established as the firm of Calvert\\nCompany, in 18G1, and incorporated with its present title in ISGT.\\nThe facilities of tho business are of the best and most modern\\nCALVKRT LITHOGRAPHING AND ENGRAVING COMPANY.\\nas amoni; the leaders in their line,\\nThe company have branches in\\nthe principal cities of the United States, and keep a large corps of\\ntraveling salesmen on the road.\\nFIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE.\\nNearly evei-yone is interested in fire insurance, at least to the\\nextent of jiaying premiums for inilemnity against possible loss, and\\nyet comi)aratively few are aware of tlie magnitude and steady\\ngrowth of tlie business in the State of Michigan, nor what i ropor-\\ntion of the busine=s is done by Michigan companies, and what by\\ncompanies of other States and countries. Of the 145 stock com-\\npanies doing business in the State but three are Michigan companies,\\ntwo of these being located in Detroit and tho third one in Grand\\nRapids. Of the 143 companies admitted to do business in the State", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE\\n127\\nthirty are companies of foreign countries, twenty-three being\\nEnglish, two Scotch, three German and two Canadian companies,\\nthe other 113 are companies of other States in this country. All\\nfire insurance companies, before they can gain lawful admission to\\ndo business in this State, must submit a sworn statement of their\\nfinancial affairs, sliovving their assets, liabilities, etc. to our State\\nCommissioner of Insurance, at Lansing, who, if he finds their\\nfinancial conditions sound, a license is granted by him to such com-\\npanies, permitting them to do business in the State for one year. If\\nsuch companies desire to continue doing business in tlie State they\\nmust make out new financial statements annually, showing a sound\\ncondition and obtain new license. If tlie capital of any stock com-\\npany becomes impaired beyond a prescribed limit, such company is\\nnot regarded safe and sound and no license is granted by our State\\nauthorities. Tlie State has farther provided for the secm-ity of its\\npeople against an inequitable contract of insurance, by prescribing\\na standard form of policy which all stock companies authorized to\\ndo business in the State must adopt. All of the stock fire and fire\\nand marine insurance companies admitted to do business in Michi-\\ngan for several years have paid their losses and such as have retired\\nfrom business have provided for the protection of their policy\\nholders by reinsuring tlieir risks in other companies, and policy\\nholders who are insured in stock companies that are duly admitted\\nto do business in the State may have every confidence that their\\nindemnity against loss is and will be amply provided for.\\nDuring the twenty years, from 1870 to 1889 inclusive, the amount\\nof premiums paid in Michigan for insurance in stock fire and\\nmarine insurance companies, as reported to the State authorities,\\nis as follows, viz.:\\nAmount of premii.uiis on Michigan business 151,996,970 89\\nAmount of losses paid on Michigan business 28,607,936 87\\nExcess of premiums paid over losses 23,389,034 02\\nAllowing thirty-five per cent, of premiums for ex-\\npenses 18,198,939 81\\nLeaves for the payment of dividends the sum of 5,190,091 21\\nIn addition there is an income from interest and dividends on\\nstocks, bonds, rents, mortgages, etc., accruing to the insurance\\ncompanies. The aggregate amount of capital of the three Michigan\\nstock companies is !|9.~0,000; their assets are $2,186,976, and their\\nnet surplus over all liabilities, including capital, is $734,767; their\\npremium receipts during tlie year ending December 31, 1890, on\\nMichigan business, were $360,453, and they incurred losses amount-\\ning to $175,037, showing a difference between premiums received\\nand losses incurred of $185,416; their receipts for interest, rents and\\nother sources amount to about $130,000 in round numbers, in\\naddition to their premiums. In 1889 the aggregate receipts of the\\nthree Michigan stock companies for premiums were $730,184.48;\\ntheir receipts for interest on mortgages, bonds, etc., were\\n$125,699.06; total, 855,883.54. The dividend paid in the stock of\\nthese three companies in 1889 amounted to $79,000, and they paid\\nlosses amounting to $454,179. Their Michigan business in 1889 was\\nas follows: Premiums received, $352,903; losses incurred, $176,866;\\ngain in premium receipts in 1890 over 1889, $10,551; decrease in\\nlosses incurred in 1890, as connx-ired with 1889, $1,839. The aggre-\\ngate capital of the other 143 stock companies doing business in this\\nState, allowing .$200,000 each for the thirty foreign companies, is\\n$58,960,000, and tlieir business was so well managed that they paid\\ntheir stockholders dividends in 1889, amounting to $5,703,488, or an\\naverage of 9.69-100 per cent, on their capital. These companies, in\\ntheir Michigan business last year (1890), collected $3,641,036 for\\npremiums and incurred losses, amounting to $3,396,353, showing an\\nexcess of premiums received over losses incurred of $1,344,074.\\nSixteen of the stock fire and marine insurance companies doing\\nbusiness in Michigan during 1890 incurred losses in excess of their\\npremium receipts, and seventeen other stock companies were heavy\\nlosers. Twelve of the thirty-three companies referred to were\\nforeign companies. The average ratio of losses incurred to premi-\\nums received by fire and marine stock insurance companies on their\\nMichigan business, during twenty years, ending December 31, 1889,\\nwas fifty-five per cent. The average ratio of losses incurred to\\npremiums received by such companies on their Michigan business\\nin 1889 was forty-three per cent., and in 1890 it was sixty-one per\\ncent. The ratio of losses for the three Michigan stock companies in\\n1890 on their Michigan business was forty-eight and a lialf per cent.\\nThe ratio of losses by the stock companies of other States on their\\nMichigan business in 1890 was fifty-nine per cent. The ratio of\\nlosses by foreign companies on their Michigan business during the\\nsame period was seventy-one per cent. The mutual fire and marine\\ninsurance companies of olher States, authorized to do business in\\nthis State, show a gain during 1890 on their premiums over losses\\non their Michigan business of .$3,410, and a loss on their marine\\nbusiness of $8,328, or a net loss on tlieir total business in Michigan\\nof .$5,912.\\nDETROIT FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.\\nJames J. Clark, entered the North Western Insurance Com-\\npany, at Oswego, New York, when a boy in 1852, and arose to the\\nposition of secretary of that company. In the winter of 1865 he\\nleft them to take a position in the Harmony Fire and Marine Insur-\\nance Company, New York, and from there he went to the Inland\\nMarine department of the Home Insurance Company in New York,\\nfrom thence he came to Detroit in the Spring of 1808 to take the\\nSecretaryship of the Detroit Fire and Marine Insurance Company,\\nwhich then had a capital of $150,000, and a net surplus of $45,474,\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-v\\nJAMES J. CLABK.\\nwhich was increased by its business to a net surplus of $65,446 in\\nJanuary 1871. In the Fall of 1871 its whole capital and surplus\\nwere wiped out by the Chicago fire and the fires in Michigan at the\\nsame time, in which the net losses of the company in three days\\namounted to about $300,000. The stockholders at once paid in\\nagain the whole $150,000 capital, and paid all losses as fast as\\nadjusted, and since that time the company has had almost unin-\\nterupted jirosperity, paj ing a regular semi-annual dividend of five\\nper cent, and from its earnings increasing its capital from the bare\\n$150,000 in 1870, until in February 1891 it was made $400,000 with a\\nnet surplus of $498,410. The company has never sought to do an\\nimmense business, but has been conservative in both its Fire and\\nMarine brandies, and has thus been able to show a healthy and\\nstrong growth with but few, if any, paralells in the history of\\ninsurance companies in this countrj\\\\ Mr. Caleb VanHusan was\\nelected the first president of the company, and held the office until\\nhis death in 1884, when William A. Butler was elected to succeed\\nhim. Mr. Butler filled the office until his death in May of the\\npresent year, when William xV. Morse was elected president, J. J\\nClark, vice-iiresideut, C. L. Andrews, secretary and A. H.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n0TS,4\u00c2\u00ab2.14\\n273,829.45\\nra2,TST.19\\n300.3.58 70\\n7:B,931 do\\n301,736 68\\n7%,o2r.i8\\na l,228.4a\\n857..J73 81\\n413,993.06\\n8Br,S!M.K7\\n3W,490 M\\n9*7,749.05\\n438,775 71\\n973,100 as\\n477,787.81\\nMcDonoU, Assistant Secretary. The following figures taken from\\nthe annual statements of the company to the State Insurance\\nDepartment, evince its capable management.\\nDate. Cash Capital. Assets. Net Surplus.\\nJanuary 1, 1S07, SUM.OOJ SM3.744..32 5.31, ^.67\\nMix IW.l 00 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00c2\u00ab3,434.72 45,474.72\\nIfWO 150,000 224,750 4 41,107.10\\n1870 J50.000 2til,212(U 64.040.32\\n1871 150,000 271,842.20 65,410.22\\n1872 150,000 273,503,:\u00c2\u00bb 1,0.35.40\\n187.3, 1.50,000 267,818.02 40,.368.00\\n1874 150,000 316.\u00c2\u00abI508 58,914.02\\n1875 155,000 3yj,000.34 152,04121\\n1870 130,00) 451.9.59.50 218,23897\\n1877 *2.50,000 483,1.3.398 163,968 18\\n1878 230.C00 501,927.86 185,22190\\n1879 250,(100 517,329.51 20a,75\u00c2\u00ab 01\\n1880 250,000 547,20:i.43 2\u00c2\u00ab,695,83\\n1881, 250,0.H) 682,779 08 282,2:M.42\\n1882 SOO.OOO e20.9.5-1.57 22^,519 15\\n138.3 SOO.OIX)\\n1884 300,000\\n1885 300,0\\n188li 800,000\\n1Sk7 300,000\\n1S88 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2:)30.000\\n1889 350,00)\\n18i\u00c2\u00bb, a50.(X)0\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6January 1, 18(;8, Capital increased to 815(1,000\\n1, 187. 250,000\\n\u00c2\u00bbFeb ry 1-5, 18SI, 300 IKK)\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6April 3 IKS?, 33 1,000\\nLosses paid since organization 2,391,358.09\\nWilliam A. Butler, who died May G, 1891, was born in Deposit,\\nNew York in 1813, ami passed the days of his boyhood on a farm.\\nWhen 1-4 years old he left home to begin his business career, and at\\nthe age of 23, he arrived in Detroit wliere he resided continuou.sly\\nup to the thne of his death. His first venture was in mercantile\\npursuits until 1S4T when he engaged in tlie work of his life, that of\\nthe banking business, first as a partner with the late A. H. Dey.\\nWitlulrawing from that in a short time, he established a banking\\noffice of his own, which was succeed in 1870 by the Mechanics\\nBank of which he remained president until his death, he having\\nbeen longer in that pursuit than any other resident of Detroit, and\\nwas considered one of Detroit s most successful and enterprising\\nfinanciers. In 18G6 the Detroit Fire and Marine Insurance Com-\\npany was organized and Mr. Butler became a leading stockholder\\nand soon attained a high position in its management. He was\\nelected president of the company after the death of its former presi-\\ndent, Caleb Van Husan, and continued to hold that office while he\\nlived, and to his remarkable executive ability, much of the success\\nof that company is due. Mr. Butler was also an original stock\\nf\\\\\\nL\\nN\\nf\\nWILI.l.VM A. liUTI.Klt.\\nGEOKGE \\\\V. CHANDLER,\\nholder of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, whose organization\\nhe assisted in 1807, and with which he was prominently identified\\nduring his life, and upon the death of President Farrand, April 3,\\n1891, was elected from the vice-presidency to the office of president.\\nMr. Butler was not a politician although he 5vas a Republican in\\nsentiment. He attended the First Congregational church and was\\ninfluential in its prosperity; he was one of the heaviest holders of\\nreal estate in Detroit, and was characterized by strict integiity in all\\nhisdeahngs. Asa citizen hewas highly esteemed and his departure is\\na loss severely felt by all who knew him. ]Mr. Butler left a widow\\nand tliree sons, E. II., W. A., Jr., and Fred E. Butler, who were\\nassociated with him in business. He had been marrie l for fifty-two\\nyears and his own death was the first occurring in his family during\\nthat period.\\nGEORGE W. CHANDLER.\\nGeo. W. Chandler, general insurance agent, rooms 3 and 3\\nMerrill Block, was born at Livonia Centre, Livingston County, N.\\nY., February 7, 183.5, and removed witli his parents to Buffalo, N.\\nY,, when but five years old. Here he atten led scliool until his\\ntenth year, when his parents came to Jlichigan. establishing them-\\nselves at Howell, 5vhere his education was comi)li ted. At the age\\nof fifteen he became clerk in a general store, and in ls. ),i he, with\\nMr. Wm. L. Carlysle, opened a general store at Fowlerville, IMich.,\\nwhich was successfully conducted up to 18o7, when, his father\\ndying, he sold out his interests and returned to the family home-\\nstead, of which he took charge until 1860, when he engaged as clerk\\nwith J. C. Bailey Company, in a general store at Lansing, Mich.\\nAugust, 1801, he enlisted in the Eiglith Michigan Infantry. His\\nwar record is contained in a book entitled, Michigan in the War,\\nby Genera John Robertson, as follows: Entered service August 12,\\n1801, as Sergeant Company P Eightli Infantry; Second Lieutenant\\nApril 13, 1802; First Lieutenant September 1. 18G2; Captain and\\nCommissary of Subsistance L nited States Volunteers, April 20,\\n1804; Brevet Major United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for\\nmeritorious service in subsistance de|)artment during the war;\\nmustered out December 27, 1800, and honorably discharged.\\nReturning to Hovs ell he settled up his fatliers estate, his mother\\nbeing dead. October 1, 1807, lie went to Lansin.g, where, from that\\ntime up to 1870 he acted as assistant se retaiy of the Michigan State\\nFire Insurance Company. He was, in 1871, ap|H)inted agent for", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n129\\nMichigan of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford,\\nConnecticut, which he still retains. January 1, 1882, he established\\nhimself in Detroit. He has a suite of offices in the Merrill Block.\\nHe represents the following companies: JEtna, of Hartford, Con-\\nnecticut; Hartford Fire, of Hartford, Connecticut; California, of\\nSan Francisco, California; New York Underwriters; German, Free-\\nport, Illinois; Liberty Fire, of New York; New Hampshire, of\\nManchester, New Hampshire; Oakland Home, California fire.\\nTravelers, of Hartford, Connecticut\u00e2\u0080\u0094 accident, and general agent\\nfor Michigan of the New York Plate Glass Insurance Company.\\nHe oiierates the oldest agency in Detroit, its foundation dating\\nfrom 1836. He is prominently identified with the Loj al Legion of\\nthe United States, being the Recorder of the Michigan Coui-\\nmandery. From May, 1881, to May, 1882, he served as Grand\\nCommander of the Knights Templar of Michigan. Mr. Chandler is\\nhon homie and a fitting representative of the numerous interests\\nwhich he faithfully and successfully conducts.\\nTHE MICHIGAN FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.\\nThe Slichigan Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Detroit,\\nranks among the younger of the fire insurance companies of this\\ncountry, having just completed its first decade, but it is rapidly\\ncoming to the front as one of the strong ones.- It commenced busi-\\nness in March, 1881, and from that date the increase in assets and\\nnet surjjlus has been steady and continuous each year, with the\\nexception of 1887. Its officers are D. Whitney, Jr., president; M.\\nW. O Brien, treasurer; D. M. Ferry, vice-president; Eugene Har-\\nbeck, secretary; E. J. Booth, assistant secretary. The first annual\\nreport contained the record of ten months only, and at that time the\\ncompany had assets of $313,244, and a net surjilus of $1,377. The\\nprogress eacli year from that time on is shown by the following\\ncomparative table:\\nYear. Assets. Net Surplus. Premiums.\\n1881 $313,-244 1,377 J 82,625\\n168S 248,444 15,048 73,126\\n1883 287,608 35,142 79,224\\n1884 315,3.51 41,035 118,939\\n1885 346,228 53,796 1:37,808\\n1886 366,602 64,073 161,770\\n1887 362,547 43,209 18:3,690\\n1888 \u00c2\u00bb715,451 13:3,880 289,615\\n1889 735,115 114,746 388,214\\n1890 822,891 160,481 480,078\\nCapital stock inci-eased to $400,000.\\nThe gains for the year 1890 were in assets |87,776, in net surplus\\n$45,635, and in premium income $91,864. The total income for 1890 was\\nEUGENE HAEBECK\\nANDREW P. COULTER.\\n$525,969, as compared with $434,495 the preceedingyear, and the total\\nexpenditure $447,068, including an 8 per cent, dividend. Since its or-\\nganization the company has received in ijremiums .$2,200,150, and paid\\nout upwards of $1,000,000 for losses. The company s losses incurred\\nlast year amounted to $331,299\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a ratio of a trifle over 48 per cent, of\\nthe premiums received. As the percentage of losses incurred to\\npremium receipts of all the companies doing business in Michigan\\nduring the past ten years was 56 per cent., the Michigan was cer-\\ntainly very successful during the year. The management of this\\ncompany is both progressive and conservative, and while it mani-\\nfests a commendable push for business, it does so with a caution\\nwhich insures an excellent and profitable class of risks. This added\\nto a careful financial policy has enabled the management to build\\nup a strong company and at the same time make a good profit for\\nthe stockholders.\\nEugene Harbeck, secretary of the Michigan Fire and Marine\\nInsurance Company, was born at Batavia, New York, in 1853, and\\nreceived his education at the High School at Battle Creek, Michigan.\\nIn 1870 he went into an insurance and real estate office, remaining\\nwith one employer nine years In 1881 he became special agent\\nfor the Detroit Fire and Marine Insurance Company, succeeding E.\\nC. Preston, who resigned to become secretary of the Michigan Fire\\nand Marine Insurance Company, then just organized. In 1883 Mr.\\nHarbeck became State agent for the Phoenix Insurance Company of\\nNew York, which office he resigned in November 1887, to become\\nsecretary of the Michigan Fire and Marine Company, a position\\nrendered vacant by reason of the sudden death of Mr. Preston.\\nSince the date of Mr. Ihirbeck s connection with the company, its\\naffairs have been in a highly prosperous and satisfactory condition,\\nthe income having increased from $200,000 in 1887, to over $500,000\\nin 1890. There has been a handsome gain in assets, the surplus has\\nlargely increased and regular dividends to stockholders of the com-\\npany have been paid. Mr. Harbeck devotes his entire time and\\nenergies to the interests of this organization and his valuable\\nservices have contributed much towards its present prosperity.\\nDETROIT MANU.^ACTURERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.\\nAndrew P. Coulter, Secretary of the Detroit Manufacturers\\nMutual Fire Insurance Comijany, was born in Whitby, Ontario, in\\n1839, came to the United States in 1806, and settled in Hokah, Min-\\nnesota, where he was employed as book-keeper for the car and ma-\\n19]", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMHRCE.\\nchine shops of the Southern Minnesota railroad, and was afterwards\\nmade station and express agent at Kusliford, Minnesota. In IsflO lie\\nwas apiKjinted superintendent of the Western Division of the road.\\nOn account of asthmatic trouhle lie removed to Colorado and subse-\\nquently settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where ho conducted a\\nlocal fire insurance agency, then removed to Jl .iskegon, where he\\ncontinued for three years. He then disposed of his agency and was\\najipointed special agent for the New York City Fire Insurance Com-\\npany and subsequently acted in the same capacity for the Standard\\nof England, and two years later for the Home, of California. His\\nfield was very extensive, including all the Northwestern states.\\nThe information accjuired at this tiiiu- has piMvcd very heneficial to\\nthe Detroit JIanufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In\\n1^8. he was offered special inducemenls to take charge of the office\\nof the JIutual Fire Association of Chicago where he accpiired a\\nthorough knowledge of the mutual fire insurance business. Believ-\\ning that this plan of insurance, if properly conducted is the correct\\ntheoiy, in 1887 he came to Detroit and commenced the organization\\nof the Det roit Manufacturers Mutual Fire Insurance Conijiany, with\\nsuch men as N. G. Williams, D. D. Thorp and George C. Wetherbee,\\nof Detroit, J. W. French, of Three Rivers, and other influential\\nmen throughout the state as incor])oi ators. The comjiany secured\\nits charter June 10, 1!S.S7, and iiiiiiiecli.itely commenced business\\nwith the following officers, who still hold the same i)Osition. N. G.\\nWilliams, President; J. W. French, vice-President; D. D. Tliorii,\\nTreasurer; A. P. Coulter, Secretary. The conijiany is authorized to\\nwrite manufacturing establishments of all kinds and their products,\\nincluding elevators, grain, etc., and can accept risks anywhere in\\nthe United States. The business is strictly mutual and the intention\\nis to provide its members with insurance at actual cost. The com-\\npany has paid about $100,000 in lo.sses since its organization. It is\\nconservatively and economically managed, enjoys the confidence of\\nits members and is well regarded in insurance circles.\\nHOMER McGRAW.\\nWas born in New Baltimore, Michigan, January 22, 1856. His\\nfather, Richard McGraw, having for several years conducted a\\ngeneral store at New Baltimore, disposed of his store fi r a farm in\\nLevonia township, where he moved wiili Ins family. Upon this\\nfarm Homer passed his boyhood. His education was begun in a\\ndistrict school, near the farm. When he was fifteen years of age\\nhis father died. Soon after, with his iiiothcr and younger brother.\\nHOMEE MCGEAW.\\nGEORGE. W. PARTRIDGE.\\nhe went to live at Pl3-mouth, Michigan; here he attended the Union\\nSchool, and during the vacations worked for D. R. Penny in a\\ngrocery and crockerj* store. In the absence of Mr. Penny he had\\nfull charge of the store. Pn 1876, at the age of twenty, Mr. McGraw\\ncame to Detroit to take charge of his uncle s (Thos. McGraw) wool\\nlofts. At the same time he attended the night school of Brj-ant\\nStratton s Business College. He remained in this jiosition three\\nyears and then went into Thos. McGraw s office. In 1880 Jlr.\\nMcGraw made a contract with the Globe Tobacco Company to sell\\nthe entire output of their Windsor branch through the Dominion of\\nCanada. During the following three years lie traveled Ihrougli\\nCanada, visiting all the principal cities, going as far as Halifax,\\nNova Scotia, and the Prince Edward Islands. In 188-4 he severed\\nhis connection with the Globe Tobacco Company and entered into a\\nco-partnership with his brother, W. T. McGraw; the firm being\\nknown as the Detroit Tobacco Company. They engaged ia a\\ntobacco business and had their goods manufactured under their\\nown special bnuids. Mr. McGraw finding the close confinement of\\nthis business was undermining his health, disposed of his interest to\\nhis brother and retired from business for a time. He then became\\ninterested again with Mr. Thos. McGraw, taking charge of the\\nMcGraw building. In 1889 Mr. McGraw establishislied, in connec-\\ntion with his other business, a fire and marine insurance agency.\\nHe i J recognized as a most prudent underwriter and fully conver-\\nsant with every detail of firo and marine insurance. In politics Mr.\\nMcGraw is independent, but usually acts and votes with the\\nRepublican party. He is a member of the Jlichigan Club, and of\\nthe Protestant Episcoiial Churcli. In 1884 Jlr. McGraw married\\nMiss Anna Anthony, only daughter of the late B. M. Anthony, who\\nwas prominently connected with the Michigan Stove Company.\\nMr. IMcGraw was obliged from early life to depend entirely upon\\nhimself. As a business man he is possessed of strict integrity and\\nis persistent in every imdertaking. He devotes all the jwwer and\\nenergy he possesses to achieve success.\\nPARTRIDGE GURNEY,\\nFire and plate glass insurance agents. Room 1, Whitney s Opera\\nHouse Block, 173 Griswold street. This firm is v.ell and f.ivorably\\nknown in this community, and is carrying on a large and growing\\ninsurance business. Among their patrons are many of the most\\nprominent citizens of Detroit, who avipreciale the jiroiiipt, courteous,\\nrelialilc and satisfactory methods of doing business for which these", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n131\\nagents are noted. Mr. Partridge has been engaged in the insurance\\nbusiness in this city for more than six years, and is as tliorouglily\\nposted in tlie business as perliaps any otlier agent here, and is able\\nto compete with them successfully in securing public favor and\\npatronage. Mr. Gurney is a native of St. Joseph County, Jlichigan,\\nand came to Detroit in 1884. He was an agent for several fire\\ninsurance companies before coming to this city, and has been asso-\\nciated with Jlr. Partridge in business since 1SS9. They represent\\nstrong, reliable, successful and popular companies, among which\\nare the Germania, Agricultural, and Buffalo German Fire Insurance\\nCompanies, and Lloyds Plate Glass Accident Insurance Company,\\nof New York, also the German Insurance Company, of Pittsburgh,\\nthe St. Paul German and Hekla, of St. Paul. Losses are promptly\\nadjusted and paid; and no proper effort spared to give general satis-\\nfaction. Tlie senior member of the Arm, Mr. George W. Partridge,\\nwas born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has been a resident of Michi-\\ngan for more than thirty years, and of tliis city since June, 1877.\\nHe has a thorough business and legal education, prepared for\\ncollege at the Wesleyan Methodist Seminary, of Albion, Michigan,\\nand graduate in the law department of Columbia College, class of\\n1873. During the early part of the late war he was a clerk in tlie\\nCommissary Department in the field; for nearly eiglit years a clerk\\nin the Quartermaster General s office, Washington, District Colum-\\nbia; for four years clerk for the United States Senate Committee on\\nCommerce; law clerk, Department of the Interior, and first assistant\\nexaminer United States Patent Office; private secretary for tlie late\\nSenator Zach Chandler for eight years; special deputy collector of\\ncustoms, port of Detroit, from 1877 to 1883; afterward special\\ninspector Treasury Department, and special agent United States\\nCensus Office; bookkeeper and confidential secretary for Newberry\\nand McMillan. He was for several years one of the directors of the\\nDetroit Post and the Post and Tribune, also Washington correspond-\\nent of the Detroit Post and other Western newspapers. In 1873 he\\nwas assistant secretary of the Union Republican Congressional\\nCommittee, Washington, District Columbia, and in 1878 was\\nappointed secretary of the Reijublican State Central Committee of\\nMichigan, by Senator Chandler, and afterward held the same i^osi-\\ntion imder Governor H. P. Baldwin.\\nLIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE.\\nOur country has, perhaps, no more encouraging or distinctive\\nfeature than the comparative absence of poverty. We have, it is\\ntrue, like all other countries, the poor always with us, and in large\\ncities, enough of them too, but widespread and abject pauperism,\\nsuch as is common in Europe, is happily unknown to us. Many\\ncauses, of course, contribute to produce tliis desirable condition of\\naffairs. It is owing, in part, to the charactir of our population, to\\nthe more general distribution of wealth, and to the wide extent of\\nour territory, which offers to every man who will work for it, a\\nhome, and a chance to surroiind hnnself with the necessities and\\ncomforts of life.\\nAll these factors are recognized as contributing to and establish-\\ning the self-supi)orting character of our iiojiulation, but there is one\\nfactor whose potency in this direction is too often forgotten, that of\\nthe institution known as life insurance. Before a nation can\\nbecome thoroughly prosperous its members must lie trained in the\\nhabits of self-control and frugality, and a means must be found to\\nprovide for those who cannot provide for themselves, and whose\\ninability is attributable to their weakness and not to their miscon-\\nduct. Now, both these ends life insurance accomplishes. The man\\nwhose life is insured, knows that the annual payments must be\\nmet, and his regard for his fond ones is a sufficient incentive to\\ncause him to meet them promptly in order to prevent lapse. It\\nmay necessitate self-denial; it may oblige him to watch his email\\nexjienditures closely, but he gladly makes the sacrifice, and at the\\nsame time acquires haliits of prudence and economy tliat are of the\\ngreatest advantage in aiding his success in the walks of life. There\\nare thousands of young men in tlie United States to-day who are\\nbeing trained in this school and whose training is giving stability to\\ntheir characters and making them better citizens and better men.\\nFew appreciate the magnitude of the work wliicli the institu-\\ntion has done in this direction. Many, no doubt, will be surprised\\nto learn that the existing companies liave paid policy-liolders since\\ntlieir organization over $1,200,000,000 and that for the past forty\\nyears they have distributed on an average over $30,000,000, and for\\nthe past ten years over foo, 000,000 per year. No account is taken in\\nthese figures of the industrial or assessment insurance companies,\\nboth of which have a large business, and annually distribute\\nmillions of dollars to beneficiaries. No one can estimate the desti-\\ntution and suffering that has thus been prevented. No one can\\nmeasure the good that has been done to the country by this distri-\\nbution of property, the reduction of poverty, and the chances given\\nto many young people to prepare themselves for the duties of\\ncitizensliip.\\nIn view of these facts it is gratifying to know that the advan-\\ntages of life insurance are becoming every year more thoroughly\\nappreciated; tliat nearl} all of the life companies show an increased\\nbusiness as each year is ended, and that life insurance,|emphasizing,\\nas it does, a better side of a man s life, unites on a common basis\\nthe princijiles of business with benevolence.\\nTime was when a policy of .flO.OOO, payable at the death of the\\ninsured, was all tliat any company would assume, now there are\\nseveral companies that will issue $50,000 on one life and a few who\\nOSCAR R. LOOKER.\\nwill hazard $100,000 in one iiolicy. Many of the gentlemen who\\ninsure for tliese large sums combine in these insurances the ele-\\nments of investment and protection or benevolence. Tliey notice\\nfrom time to time how disasterous it is to a large concern or busi-\\nness enterprise when the manager or founder is carried away\\nsuddenly, in a great many cases leaving the business in jeopardy.\\nOn this account many of the heavy insurers carry their policies in\\norder tliat the necessary support may be given their business and\\nthus save the concern.\\nLife insurance business in Michigan does not vary from the\\nbusiness in other states; the same industry and enterprise which has\\ncharacterized the citizens of older states has not been lacking in\\nMichigan. In 1870 the various life insurance companies doing busi-\\nness in this state were interested in the lives of our citizens on tlieir\\npolicies of life insurance amounting to $o9,498,000.00. At the close\\nof 1890 (twenty j ears after,) there was in force jjolicies representing\\n$92,437,000.00. If to these figures, which are confined to the busi-\\nness of the regular life companies only, there is added the policies\\nor certificates issued on the lives of our citizens by as jjssment and\\nbenevolent societies, tlie total auiout of life insurance at risk in this\\nstate would reach upwards of $150,000,000.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "^3^\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nIn the year 1807 Tlie Jlidiigan JIutual Life, tlie first regular\\nlife insurance company in the state, was organized and incorpo-\\nrated. Tliia companj^ is still doing business and making satisfac-\\ntory progress. Since this date tliere have been varioiis assessment\\nsocieties or companies that have had a musliroom existence,\\neither going out of business altogotlier or merging their business\\ninto thrA of some other concern. One of the most ably managed\\nassessment companies, which fur years did Inisiness as The Western\\nUnion Jhitual Life, in 1891 transferred ils business to anutlier asso-\\nciation from the East. Another assessment society known as the\\nImperial Life Insurance Society transferred its business in 1880 to\\nwhat is now known as the Imperial Life Insurance Cnmpany, dating\\nits organization from the time of the transfer in July, 1886. There\\nare but two regular old line companies deriving their corporate\\nexistence from the State of Michigan, bat nearly all the regular\\ncompanies from other States have agencies in Detroit or some other\\ncity in the State, and all apjiear to be doing a satisfactory business.\\nMICHIGAN ilUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.\\nSamuel R. Mumford, vice-president; 0. R. Looker, secretaryr\\nH. F. Frede, assistant secretary; (1. AV. Sandeis, actuary; southwest\\ncorner of Jefferson avenue and Ciriswold street. This progressive\\nand solid organization dates from tlie year 1SG7, when it was incor-\\nporated, with John J. Bagley as i)resident, afterward Governor of\\nMichigan; he was succeeded by Jacob S. Farrand, who continued\\nas president up to Ajiril, 1891. The Company was originally incor-\\nlioraled in 1807 with a capital of $ir)0,000, of which but $15,000 was\\npaid in, but in 1809, in Older to more fully carry out its plans for\\nproviding a perfectly secure [jrincijile of life insurance in competi-\\ntion with the eastern companies and at the same time encourage\\nwestern industries through the retention of monies in home in-\\nvestments, the company made a deposit of .^100,000 with the treas-\\nurer of the state of Micliigan, and tlie ciipital stock was increased\\nto $2r)0,000, all of which was fully subscrilied and paid in. Agencies\\nwere established in Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia, and the busi-\\nness of the company was thus largely extended. Ever since its\\norganization the company has steadily grown and prospered, ex-\\nemplifying in a prominent manner the abilities of its executive\\nofficers as shown by tlieir conservative and enterprising conduct of\\nits affairs. In the following tabulated statement of the company s\\nbusiness are witnessed the safe acnnnulation and constant increase\\nJOHN H. KOBI.NSO.V.\\nof its assets and the steady rise of its surplus and insurance in force:\\nDate.\\nJanuary 1, 1SS4.\\nISSn,\\nISSIl,\\nItW,\\n1888,\\n188!),\\nISIH,\\n1801,\\nTns. iu Force. Assets. Surplus.\\nSln..-,Tn. *in.lll1 $l,2;il,878.00 jssi.iin.iio\\nI1,;-,S.1 4.(W l,3 0,8T(i.(0 -IM.ISSIX)\\n1;1,I1SS.^ -JO.OO 1,537,5(13.00 2!lli,0:i-).ll0\\nli;,,-|5ll,4n.(ID 1,765,333.00 3I ),2. 5 00\\n18.11,-8, l.-.S.OCP 1,996,189.(10 312,378.00\\nIli,il!l .l.3sil.iK) 2,891,231.00 ;M7. .lia00\\nX 0,37.i,(W6.1K) 2,613,313.01 3il7.9U0.(X)\\n2;. ,823,730.00 3,007,553.13 4.39,550 95\\nHERMAN F. FliHOE.\\nThese figures incontestibly evidence the careful, prudent and\\nsystematic management and the progressive nature of the company\\nwhich from small beginnings has culminated in one of the strong-\\nest and most conservative institutions of ils character in existence\\nIts business during 1800 amounted to over if!.), 000,000 of new insur-\\nance, and in 1891 will probably write over $0,000,000. Tlie com-\\npany s oilicers and directors are recognized as among Detroit s most\\nprominent and influential citizens, and have been ever foremost in\\npromoting and encouraging the city s interests. Mr. O. R. Looker,\\nthe secretary, has been associated with the Michigan Mutual since\\n1871, first as clerk, then bookkeeper, chief clerk, cashier, and since\\n1883 in his present capacity as the company s executive officer.\\nTlie company deservedly takes high rank- among life insiu ance\\norganizations, and is prepared to offer the best forms of policies,\\nconsistent with character of risks concerning which it maintains\\nmost scrui)ulous and critical identity.\\nOscar R. Looker, the secretary and executive officer of the\\nMichigan JIutual Life Insurance C ompan}-, was l)orn in Columbus,\\nOhio, Juno lU, 1840, but his bojiiood was passed on a farm near\\nColumbus. About sixteen years later at the time when the country\\nneeded men of courage at the very commencement of the rebellion\\nalthough legally under the age for enlistment, but physically\\ne(iual to the task, he joined the army, and continued in tlie service\\nuntil April, 1865. After the war he became connected in a clerical\\ncapacity with the Ohio State Bureau of Military Claims, subse-\\nquently being engaged in a lawyer s office at Columbus, and in 1869\\nremoved to Cleveland, connecting himself with the Cleveland office\\nof the Berkshire liife Insurance Company. In 1S71 ho removed to\\nDetroit and began his first work in the office of the Michigan\\nMutual Life, occupying the position of clerk, later cashier, and in\\n1883 succeeded Jlr, John T, Liggett as secretary, and was given\\ngeneral charge of the affairs of the company, under the supervision\\nof the board of directors. In his social and business relations Mr.\\nLooker occupies a high rank in Detroit, being a member of the", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n^33\\nseveral military and Masonic organizations; he is liberal and\\ncliaritable, strong in his friendships, and also very popular among\\nthe company s agents, as evidenced by tlie various valuable tokens\\npresented to him by them on several occasions since his appoint-\\nment as secretary,\\nHerman F. Frede, assistant secretary of the Michigan Mutual\\nLife Insurance Company, was born in Detroit, October 9, 1856,\\nreceiving his education in the same city. He went into the service\\nof the Michigan Mutual, as clerk, in October, 1871, four years after\\nthe organization of the company. From that day to the present,\\nnearly twenty years, he has rendered faithful service in various\\npositions, and as a sure result of continued good conduct and ability,\\npromotion followed promotion, until the duties of his present\\nposition are next in importance to those of Mr. O. R. Looker, the\\ncompany s executive officer. Jlr. PYede is genial, sociable and faith-\\nful in all the relations of life.\\nJohn H. Robinson, general agent of the Michigan Mutual Life\\nInsurance Company for Michigan, born in Canada, 1861, began\\nbusiness as clerk in an insurance office in 1876; in 1879 was\\nappointed general agent of the Ontario JIutual Life Insurance Com-\\npany for the counties of Frontenac, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario;\\nin 1880 was general agent for the Sun Life Insurance Company, at\\nMontreal, with headquarters at the company s office, 164 St. James\\nstreet, Montreal; in 1883 went to Wisconsin under contract with tlie\\nManhattan Life Insurance Company, of New York, as State agent\\nfor Wisconsin, with office at 108 Grand avenue, Milwaukee;\\nremained in Wisconsin until early in 1885, and then moved to\\nBetroit to assume a position in the employ of the Michigan Mutual\\nLife Insurance Company as one of its special agents in that city.\\nUnder the civil service ideas, which prevailed in the business of\\nthat company, Mr. Itobinson advanced step by step during his years\\nof service, and has at present an important position in looking after\\nthe company s agency business in Michigan. His extended life\\ninsurance experience, covering a period of twelve years, together\\nwith an ambitious desire to master the details of the business, to\\nstudiously apply all his energies snd ability in advancing the inter-\\nests of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company, and his\\npractical knowledge of field work, in all that the words imply,\\nrenders his services of value to the company. Mr. Robinson is also\\nduly admitted in the various State and United States Courts as an\\nattorney and solicitor at law.\\nc. W. MOORE.\\nWILLIAM T. GAGE.\\nNEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.\\nC. W. Moore, Manager for Michigan of the New York Life In-\\nsurance Company, was born at Canterbur}-, New Hampshire, near\\nthe birth place of the great statesman, Daniel Webster, in 1845.\\nHis education was received in the schools of his native town, and\\nhis parents designed to have him instructed for the ministry, but\\nhis ill liealth preveiiteil the execution of the plan. His first business ex-\\nperience was in the dry goods line. In 1803 he engaged in life insurance\\nand has since devoted his attention to that business. He was for some\\nyears the New Hampshire manager of the Phojnix Mutual and\\nsuperintendent of agencies of the same company at Albany, New\\nYork. In JIarch, 1880, he came to Detroit as manager for Slichigan\\nof the New York Life Insurance Company. At that time the agency\\nwas in bad shape, but Mr. Moore by dint of exemplary enterprise\\nand strict attention to details has placed it from the sixth place in\\npoint of premium income to the first among life insurance corpora-\\ntions in the State of Michigan. He is active and zealous in his\\nwork and takes high rank among the leading life insurance repre-\\nsentatives in the country. He is a member of the Michigan Club\\nand a thirty-second degree Mason.\\nWILLIAM T. GAGE.\\nThis gentleman enjoys an enviable reputation among the enter-\\nprising representative business men of Detroit. Jlr. Gage served his\\ncountry creditably in the war for the Union, and in private life is a\\nmost estimable citizen. Being of a scholastic turn of mind he\\nbecame early in life a graduate of Dartmouth College, after which\\nhe taught for several years. He held the position of president in\\nthe Highland university of Kansas, and later was professor of\\nEnglish literature and history in the State university at Lawrence,\\nKansas, and was afterwards principal of the female seminary at\\nHartford, Connecticut, Mr. Gage came from Hartford to Detroit\\nin 1883, as manager for Michigan of the ^tna Life Insurance Com-\\npany. This position he held for six years, when he resigned to\\naccept the general agency of the Northwestern Life Insurance\\nCompany of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which position he holds at the\\npresent time. Mr. Gage has also taken great interest in the Michi-\\ngan Life Insurance Association, of which he is president. His office\\nis at 25 Whitney Opera House Block, where he exliibits every\\nindication of a successful and prosperous business.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a234\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nf\\nDR. A. C. MILLER.\\nPREFERRED MASONIC MUTUAL ACCIDENT ASSOCIATION.\\nDoctor A. C. Miller was born near Hamilton, Ontario, in\\n1839, and his early days were spent on a farm. His father was also\\na native of Canada, and his grandfather on his father s side came\\nfrom Hesse Darmstadt and served as a Hessian soldier. Doctor\\nMiller HI his boyhood received a public and private school education\\nin Ontario, remaining with his jiarents until after he was 21 years\\nold, when he entered the service of the Great Western Railway for\\nthe period of two years, as special supply station agent and\\nother i)Ositions, secured through his social relations and influence\\nwith Judge Miles O Reilly of Hamilton, and W. S. Champ, who is\\npaymaster on the Great Western Railway. Resigning his railway\\nposition he entered the study of medicine and practiced his pro-\\nfession fourteen years, after which he ab.andonKl practice and\\nmoved with his family to Ann Arbor to gain the educational advan-\\ntages tliere offered to his children, remaining there for six years. He\\nthen eng.aged with the -Etna Insurance Company, and after eight\\nmonths service was ofliered the management of that company for\\nthe State of Michigan, which he declined, and went with the New\\nYork Life Insurance Company, remaining five years as their general\\nspecial agent in Michigan. He was offered the management of that\\ncompany for the State of Tennessee whicli he also declined, and\\nmoved with his family to Indianai)olis where he did a large business\\nfor the company for two years, when he was offered the manage-\\nment of the Provident Savings Life Association for the State of\\nMichigan by the note l actuary Sheppard Thomas, president of the\\nAssociation, a position which he accepted, remaining manager for\\nover three years, when be resigned in September 1W9, to org.anize\\nthe Preferred Masonic IMutual Accident Association, with which he\\nis engaged at the present time as secretaiy and general manager,\\nan office which from his long experience and good general business\\n(pialities he fills with marked ability. The Preferred JIasonic\\nMutual Accident Association, as its name implies, is decidedly and\\nexclusively confined to members of the JIasonic fraternity, whose\\noccupations are such as to be classified in accident insurance terms\\nas Preferred. It numbers among its officers such names as C. J.\\nWhitney, president, so pronn nently identified in financial circles\\nft)r forty years, A. C. Miller, secretary and manager; Frank T.\\nLodge, attorney; C. J. Whitney, J. B. Book, A. C:. Miller, AV. B.\\nWillson and G. E. Van Syckle, trustees. Among its large list of\\ncharter members and constituents, are such men as Hon. James\\nMcMillan, Hugh McMillan, Gen. R. A. Alger, M. S. Smith, and\\nmany other well known leading men of Detroit. The Association is\\nin a highly i)rosperous condition and owes much of its prosperity to\\nthe excellent management of Dr. A. C. Sliller, so prominently\\nconnected with its interests. The offices of the association are in the\\nWhitney Opera House block.\\nUNION JIUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.\\nJlroH A. Holmes, Manager for Michigan and Western Ontario\\nof the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Portland, Maine,\\nwas born at Palermo, New Y ork, February 10, 18.57, and came to\\nMichigan, locating at Ovid, where he received his education. His\\nfirst experience in business was as a telegraph operator and clerk\\nfor the Detroit, Grand H .ven and Milwaukee Railroad. In 188.5 he\\nwent to Ferrysburg as joint agent of the Detroit, Grand Haven Mil-\\nwaukee and Chicago and West Michigan Railroads, having charge of\\nall freight originating on that line for the Detroit, Grand Haven\\nMilwaukee Railroad. During this connection he became associated\\nwith the Michigan Jlutual Life Insurance Company of Detroit. In\\n1880 he removed to Detroit, and .since that time has been interested\\nin various manufacturing and industrial enterprises, and notably as\\npresident and manager of the Holmes Lumber Company, theOwosso\\nLumber Coal Company, and other organizations. In 1886 he organ-\\nized the Detroit Building and Loan Association. During ten years Mr.\\nHolmes was engaged in the lumber trade, doing the largest wholsale\\nbusiness in that relation in the state. Throughout this whole period\\nbe maintained his life insurance connections. July 1.5, 1890, he was\\najipointed the manager for Jlichigan and Western Ontario of the\\nUnion Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Maine, which he has\\nworked up to a high place in the consideration of life insurance\\nagencies in the territory represented. Mr. Holmes is a jirominent\\nmember of the Masonic fraternity having attained the thirty-second\\ndegree, and is Illustrious Grand Secretary of the Jlichigan council of\\nDeliberation Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons; a member\\nof the Michigan Athletic Association; the Detroit Fishing and Hunt-\\ning Association, (Rushmere) the Travelers Club, the Y M. C. A.\\nand the Knights of Pj thias.\\nNORTHWESTERN MASONIC AID ASSOCIATION.\\nSamlt;l Adams, the Detroit manager of the Northwestern\\nMasonic Aid Association, was born October 18, 1832, in Cookstown,\\nIreland, and was self educated. He came with his parents to Mon-\\nHUGH A. HOLMES.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n133\\nSAMUEL ADAMS.\\ntreal, Canada, in 1847, where Jie was apprenticed to a wire-cloth\\nmanufacturer, serving four years and eight montlis. He afterward\\ncame to Detroit, obtaining employment with Wm. Snow, a wire\\nmanufacturer, which ho continued for five years. In 1857 he\\nestablished a factory for tlie production of wire-cloth and wire\\ngoods, at 107 Woodward avenue, in which he continued for fourteen\\nyears. In 18T7 he removed to Spruce street, where, through a\\npatent liligation, lie incurred heavy losses. He next became associ-\\nated with the Bainum Manufacturing Company, preserving this\\nrelation until 1884, when he became the assistant Detroit manager\\nof the Nortliwesteru Masonic Aid Association, of Chicago, Illinois,\\nin which he has achieved his greatest success. He is a thirty-\\nsecond detrree Mason, and has been a member of Union Lodge No.\\n3, F. A. M., for thirty-four years. He served one term as grand\\nmaster of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., of Michigan, and acted for\\ntwo years as grand representative to tlie sovereign grand lodge of\\nOdd Fellows, at Baltimore. In the insurance relation in Detroit he\\nhas accomplished great success, and his management of the North-\\nwestern Masonic Aid Association has been exemplary and consistent.\\nIn Jlr. Adams management of the affairs of this association in\\nDetroit has resulted a considerable increase of its fortunes. This\\nassociation has a memliership of over 58,000, with insurance in force\\nJanuary 1, 1801, of $100,000,000, and a surplus of $339,488.50. The\\noffice of the Detroit agency is at 88 High street west.\\nC\\nYork.\\nofficers of the company are: C. C. Wormer, president; Lucian S.\\nMoore, vice-president; C. J. O llara, secretary and treasurer. Geo.\\nW, Moore and Eugene Austin are also members of the company,\\nMr. Austin having the superintendence of tlie mechanical and\\nengineering departments. He is a thoroughly practical machinist\\nand is appreciated by the company as a most reliable expert in its\\nmechanical affairs. Mr. Lucian Moore, Mr. C. J. O llara and Mr.\\nGeo. W. Moore, in their relative positions in the organization, are\\nequally worthy of sharing the success and prosperity the combina-\\ntion has ever enjoyed. The C. C Wormer Machinery Company\\nrepresents about forty of the leading houses in the United States.\\nTheir specialties are engines, boilers, wood and iron working\\nmachinery, steam pumps and power connections. They ship goods\\nto all parts of Michigan, Oliio and Indiana and a portion of Illinois.\\nThey also have a large Canadian trade, and ship goods to Califor-\\nnia, Tennessee, Washington, Nebarska and Arkansas. From its\\nfoundation the business has been continually growing and pros-\\nperous. The first three months of the present 3 ear (1891) their trade\\nincreased fifty per cent, over what it was last year for the same\\nperiod of time. Tlie prosperity of the company unquestionably\\nowes much of its rapid development to the capable management of\\nits president, Mr. C. C. Wormer.\\nCharles J. O Hara, secretary and treasurer of the C. C.\\nWormer lilachinery Company, was born in Toledo, Ohio, May 7,\\n1854. At the age of nine he removed with his parents to Cliicago,\\nand remained there four years, during which time lie attended tlie\\ncollege of the Christian Brothers. In the fall of 1807 he removed\\nwith liis parents to Cincinnati, and for several years attended the\\nFarmers College situated at College Hill, a suburb of that city.\\nAt the age of seventeen, determining upon entering business, he\\nconnected himself with a prominent Insurance Company of Cincin-\\nnati and continued with them for a little over one year. His tastes\\nrunning to manufacturing, he secured a position with the Straub\\nMill Company, manufacturers of flouring mill and feed machinery\\nand continued with the comiiany for eleven years. He severed his\\nconnection with that company to enter business for himself. After\\ntwo years, extra inducements were offered for his return, which\\nwere accepted, and he continued as manager of that company until\\nMarch 1887, when he removed to Detroit to accept the general\\nmanagement of the Eagle Iron Works, continuing as such with that\\ncompany until his resignation, which was tendered in order that he\\nHARDWARE, MACHINERY, ETC.\\nTHE C. C, WORMER 1\\\\IACHINERY COMPANY.\\nC. Wormer was born October 26, 1850, at Oswego, New\\nHis parents were Hollanders of the Knickerbocker stock.\\nThey moved to Detroit when the subject of this sketch was quite\\nyoung. Mr. Wormer was educated in the public schools of this\\ncity, and after graduating he entered the employ of his father and\\nbrother as clerk, the firm being then known as G. S. Wormer\\nSon In 1873 he entered into p.artnership with them, the firm con-\\ntinuing business as G. S. Wormer Sons, the father having founded\\nthe original establishment in 1857, This firm continued untd 1884\\nwhen G. S. Wormer retired from business. On the first day of\\nAugust, 1889, the Michigan Machinery Depot was permanently es-\\ntablished at its present location, 55, 57 and 59 Woodbridge street\\nwest. It is incorporated with a capital stock of $15,000, and the\\nC. C. WORMER.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nCHAULUS J. O lIARA.\\nmight be able to give all his time and attention to his ])i-escnt inter-\\nests. He is the son of Charles O Hara and Elizabeth Knaggs, his\\nfather for many years being a wholesale merchant in Toledo, Ohio.\\nHis father was born in London, England and came to this country\\nat the age of eigliteen. He was a descendant of one of the oldest\\nfamilies of his name in Dublin, Ireland. His mother was a native\\nof Detroit, and a daughter of Col. Jan-es W. Knaggs, who was born\\nat Detroit when it was but a village. Mr. O Hara was married\\nOctober, S), ISM!), to Jennie Way Howland, of East Greenwich,\\nRhode Island, sne being a descendant of Generals Green and Knaper\\nof revolutionary fame.\\nPENBERTIIY INJECTOR COMPANY\\nHon. Seth D. North, president; Charles B. Johnson, vice-\\npresident; ,S. Olin Johnson, secretary and treasurer; manufacturers\\nof the Penberlhy automatic oil cups and injectors, northwest cor-\\nner of Seventh and Abbott streets. This justly celebrated institu-\\ntion for the manufacture of the Penberthy automatic oil cups and\\ninjectors, was established under the present official management in\\nthe fall of ISSO and is incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000.\\nThe factory buihling is three stories in height, 54x78 feet in dimen-\\nsions, and i-i thoroughly equipped with the latest and most improved\\nmachinery and appliances, including the Warner and Swasey moni-\\ntor lathes and other siiecially adapted devices for securing expedi-\\ntion and uniformity in the products. A force of forty skilled hands\\nis given constant employment and the annual output aggregates in\\nvalue |100,000. The fame of the Penberthy injectors is almost uni-\\nversal. Since their introduction, seme four years ago, 39,000 have\\nbeen sold, a fact which bears the weightiest evidence in their favor.\\nThe company has succeeded in giving the.se products an identity\\namong steam users which at once places them ahead of all similar\\ncontrivances for intended ])urposes, and acquired for them a sale\\nsuch as few articles of any kind have attained in the same space of\\ntime. In a test made by Professor Mortimer E. Cooley of the Michi-\\ngan University, in connection with other injectors, he made the fol-\\nlowing report: The next injector tested was the Penberthy, size\\nB a machine wliich not only worked most easily, being perfectly\\nautomatic within wide range \u00e2\u0080\u0094but also with a high degree of econ-\\nomy, as reference to the tables will sliow, forcing against aconstant\\npressure of sixty-five pounds, and with steam pressure varying from\\n45 to 00 pounds. The proportion of water forced to steam used.\\nrises Bteadil)*, while the duty or work and the efficiency as a boiler\\nfeeder undulate. Tlie efficiency of ninety-nine and a half per cent,\\nas recorded in the table XIV, being a phenomenal result. The\\ngreat advantages of the Jet Pumps manufactured by this\\ncompany are summed nj) in the following facts of much moment to\\nall steam users: They are provided with independent couplings\\nseparate from the body, and the inner working elements are\\nremov.ible and interchangeable. The significance of these features\\nis that wliere the parts subject to wear, form a portion of the body,\\nas is the case with a large majority of Jet Pumps, when these\\nparts become worn out, the whole pump is valueless, while with the\\nJet Pumps of tliis manufacture, not only will the body last for\\nan indefinite period, but the tubes can be renewed at any time at\\nsliglic cost. As being the only Jet Pumps manufactured with\\nseparate cou])Iings and working parts, their vast superiority can be\\nreadilj seen and ajipreciated. The phenomenal and meritorious\\nsuccess of the company has been derived tlirough the most critical\\nsuperintendence and direction of every detail of their manufactui-es\\nby Mr. S. Olin Johnson, the efficient manager, who has conducted\\nthe business in an e.xceptionally creditable manner and through\\nwhich their goods have won the highest ecomiums from all who\\nhave used them. Every single article is fully warranted by\\nthe company and each and every one is subjected to the most rigid\\ninspe -tion before being allowed to leave the factory. Among the\\ngreat industries of Detroit, none is more deserving of the distinction\\nachieved than the Penberthy Injector Com|)any, and to none\\ncan be ascribed a greater renown as manufacturers.\\nFRONTIER IRON AND BRASS WORKS.\\n^V. V. Moore, president; Tliomas S. Christie, secretary, treas-\\nurer and manager; engineers, founders and valve manufacturers;\\ncorner Atwater and Chene streets. This important industry wa.s\\nestaliiished June 1, 1S85 and incorporated with an authorized capi-\\ntal slO(-k of iSir 0,000, and an actual capital of ^100,000. The origi-\\nnal jiroprietors were Christie DeGraff. The business has steadily\\ngrown in volume to its present proportions of one of the largest of\\nits character in the country. The works occupy an area of 200 x\\n150 feet and are suitably equipjied with improved machinery and\\nappliances for the production of the varied manufactures. Over\\nlOOskilled hands are given constant employment and the value of\\nthe annual output aggregates .$150,000, embracing marine engines,\\nhoop machinery, water heaters and ])urifiers, straightway valves\\nS. OLIN JOHNSON.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n^11\\nand hydrants, the specialties of the products being Weber s patent\\ngate valves, AVeber s lubricator, Weber s lawn fountain and Ward s\\nhoop machinery. These goods are not surpassed for durability,\\nmaterial and high grade of finish and adaptability to required\\npurposes in the country, and a large trade has been secured which\\nextends over the Western states and lakes. A superior uial e of\\nengines for ocean steamers has given the Frontier Iron and Brass\\nWorks a justly merited and generally recognized supremacy in this\\nline of manufactures, and places them in the front rank of the most\\nnotable and distinguished in the world.\\nDETROIT COPPER AND BRASS ROLLINa MILLS.\\nC. H. Buhl, president; R. W. Gillett, vice-president; L. H.\\nJones, secretary and treasurer. This company was organized in\\n1880, and began business in June, 1881, in a building erected at the\\nfoot of Fourth street, corner of Lamed. The amount of capital\\noriginallj- paid in was .flOO,000; this sum was soon found to be\\nmuch too small for the demands of the business, and within the first\\nand brass and copper tubing, etc. The company are also refiners of\\npig and electro-litic copper from Arizona, Colorado and Montana\\nores. The trade of this company extends tluoughout all portions of\\nthe United States and Canada. Tlieir facilities for receiving and\\nshipping are perfect, and their business has become one of large\\nproportions.\\nL. H. Jones, secretary, treasurer and business manager of the\\nDetroit Copper and Brass Rolling Mills, was born in Detroit in 1856,\\nand received his education in the public schools of tliis city, gradu-\\nating from the Barstow school; he afterwards received a commercial\\ncourse at Goldsmith s Business University. Mr. Jones first import-\\nant business connection was with the Second National Bank of this\\ncity in 18T3, where he was advanced to the position of collection\\nclerk, which position he held until 1877, when he resigned and\\nengaged in private enterprises, devoting his time to travel and other\\npursuits until July, 1882, when he joined the company which he\\nnow represents, acting as bookkeeper and cashier until he was\\nDETROIT COPPER AND BRASS ROLLING MILLS.\\nyear the amount was increased to $300,000; business rapidly\\nadvancing rendered it necessary to again increase the company s\\ncapital, wliicli was subsequently done, raising the amount to\\n$300,000, which is the present capital emplo} ed. In 1886 the com-\\npany found their quarters too small to maintain their rapidly\\ngrowing business, and determined to remove to more commodious\\npremises, when the present site was chosen; for this purjiose eight\\nacres was purchased in the western part of the city, on the line of\\nthe Wabash railroad, on JIcKinstry avenue, tiieir premises lying\\nmainly between the Wabash railroad and the line of the river, upon\\nwhich their present extensive works were erected, and were ready\\nfor business in the spring of 1888. The dimensions of tlieir main\\nbuilding is 480x130 feet, the boiler house is 60x00, the casting shop\\n40x80, the copper refining house 60x60, and the office 50x50 feet\\nThe extensive Ijusiness of tliis company furnislies employment for\\nupwards of 200 men the year round. The principal goods manufac-\\ntured are of slieet, copper and brass, brass and copper wire, rivets\\npromoted to tlie responsible position he wov, holds. For a young\\nman Mr. Jones has been signally successful. His active, energetic\\ndisposition and attentive business methods has 2)eculiarly fitted him\\nfor the work in which he is engaged, and upon which much of the\\nsuccess of the establishment depends.\\nAMERICAN HARROW COMPANY.\\nAs the only manufacturers of agricultural machinery in Detroit,\\nand the largest representatives of their class of that industry on tlie\\ncontinent, the American Harrow Company is invested with\\npeculiar distinction and inominence. This company was established\\nin 1882, and, under the superior management and direction of its\\nenterprising and experienced officers, has steadily and surely ad-\\nvanced its fortunes to their present highly successful complexion.\\nIts ofiicers are D. M. Ferry, president; R. W. Gillett, vice-president;\\nW. W. Collier, secretary and treasurer; and O. R. Baldwin, man-\\nager of sales. All of these gentlemen are intimately associated with", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nDetroit s highest commercial and financial interests, and lend to the\\nadministration of tlie company the most supprior aliilities. The\\ncompany confine their oi)erations to the manufacture of sprin;; toolh\\nharrows, cuhivators, seeders and stalk cutters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 imi)hMnents which\\nare now considered hj every progres!-ive and scientific farmer indis-\\npcnsahle to success in a ;ricuUural jjursuits, and l)y the use of wliicli\\nthe soil may be made more productivo and the lial)iUty to faihire of\\ncrops materially lessened. The fact that the products of the Ameri-\\ncan Harrow Company, are sokl over the entire continent directly to\\nfarmers, brings them into immediate contact with agriculturists\\nwhereby they are enabled readily to imderstand and supply their\\nwants in the most saisfactory manner. The company has a\\ncapital stock invested in the Inisiness of $300,000 and the annual\\noutput aggregates :f;. )00,000. Some idea of the magnitude of this\\nindustry may be gained from the fa t that 110 men and 200 horses\\nare constantly employed on the road in various districts of the\\ncountry supplying the demand, while a large force of mechanics\\nand other assistants is necessary in the shops ami offices for the jiro-\\nduction and shipment of the implements. A feature of the industry\\nworthy of special note is the high quality of material used. The\\nwood is carefully selected from the best grades and kept under\\nL. II. .lOXES.\\ncover till thoroughly seasoned, while the steel is rolled expressly\\nfor this purpose and every piece oil-tempered and put to the\\nseverest test before being iierniittcd to leave the shops. The Imild-\\nings are large, well ventilated, scrupulously clean, and with the\\noutiloor space cover an area of four acres. A new brick building\\n50.\\\\l.~)0 feet, which was found necessary for the accommodation of\\ntheir increasing business, has just been completed. Tlie companj\\nhave in deference to the demands of their Canadian trade, in suc-\\ncessfid operation, a branch factory at Windsor, Ontario, where\\nthe implements are made and whence they are distributed to all\\nparts of the Dominion. The combined experience of the company s\\nactive oflh crs and their accurate knowledge of the wants of farm-\\ners, gained from many years of experienceon the road and the farm,\\ntogether with the honorable, liberal and courteous treatment\\nalways accorddl their customers, hive won for the American Har-\\nrow C om|)aiiy a large and increasing business and an enduring\\nfame and jiopularity.\\nWilliam W. Collier, secretary and treasurer of the American\\nHarrow Company, was born at Battle Creek, Michigan, November\\n19, 1850. His education was received at the Highland Military\\nWILLIAM W. ((ILLIKR.\\nAcademy at Worcester, Massachusetts, from which he was\\ngraduated in 1870. He was engaged in the iron trade for ten years\\nand upon the organization of the American Harrow Company be-\\ncame its secretary and treasurer.\\nOrrin R. Baldwin, manager of sales of the American Harrow\\nCompany, was born at Springboro, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1848\\nand was educated at the State Normal School at Edinborough,\\nPennsylvania, subsequently taking a business course at the Stratton\\nORIN R. BALDWIN.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n139\\nSmith Business College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, from which\\nhe was graduated in 1867. Upon the completion of his education he\\nengaged in the lumber business. Mr. Baldwin has had long ex-\\nperience in farming and in the management of sales of varied\\nindustries whose products were adapted to the needs of farmers. He\\nbecame manager of sales of this Company soon after its organi-\\nzation and is peculiarly fitted for the position he occupies and in\\nwhich he has acquired a notable and laudable distinction.\\nMICHIGAN ELEVATOR AND ENGINE COMPANY.\\nJ. A. Grosvenor, secretary and general manager of the Michi-\\ngan Elevator and Engine Company, was born in the State of New\\nYork, and came from Boston to Detroit in 1881. He liad been for\\nseveral years in the machinery business in Boston, which he\\nresumed on coming to Detroit. He reorganized the Middlebrook\\nElevator Jlanufacturing Company, wliich was in July 18S9 incorpo-\\nrated as the Michigan Elevator and Engine Company, with a capital\\nof $50,000, and officered as follows: George C. Wetherbee, presi-\\ndent; A. G. Boynton, vice-president; Jacob Hull, treasurer;\\nJ. A. Grosvenor, secretary and general manager, and R.\\nW. Gardner, assistant secretary and treasurer. The manu-\\nJOHN TRIX.\\nrated in 188G and of which lie is the president. Since the founda-\\ntion of this industry, Mr. Trix lias given Ids exclusive time and\\nattention to its interests, bringing it up to a liigh standard as among\\nDetroit s leading manufacturing enterprises. He is otherwise inter-\\nested in several manufacturing considerations in whicli he has\\nachieved a distinguished identity. He married an estimable Detroit\\nlady and has three children.\\nHiram Morse Keeler, secretary and treasurer of the Ameri-\\nJ. A. GROSVENOR.\\nfactures consist of high speed, hydraulic, passenger, and belt and\\nhand power freight elevators. The building occupied at 123 and 12.5\\nCongress street west, is commodious, well adapted to the business,\\nand is thoroughly equipped with modern machinery and appliances.\\nThe trade territory embraces Michigan and adjoining states. Mr.\\nGrosvenor devotes Iiis time and attention to the details of the\\nbusiness with which he is thoroughly acquainted.\\nAMERICAN INJECTOR COMPANY.\\nJohn Trix, president of the American Injector Company, was\\nborn at New Orleans, Louisiana, December 13, 1848, and whenquite\\nyoung removed with his parents to Sandusky, Ohio, where he was\\neducated in the public schools. At the age of thirteen he began the\\nactual business of life as the engineer and fireman of a small port-\\nable engine used in a saw mill. He was afterward employed in the\\nmanufacture cf tobacco in New Y ork City and other principal cities\\nof the United States, being for sixteen years tlie superintendent for\\nJohn J. Bagley Company, at Detroit. Subsequently he embarked\\nin business on his own account as a manufacturer of steam injectors,\\nthus laying the foundation of the present American Injector Com-\\npany, at 175 Larned street, west, which was organized and incorpo-\\nH. M, KEELER.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\ncan Injector Company, was born at Grass Lake, Michigan, January\\n13, 1853. After preliminary instruction in the common scliools, he\\nentered the State University at Ann Arbor in 1868, grail uacing there-\\nfrom in 1872. The following four years were employeil in the con-\\nduct of the mercantile business at Jliddleville, Jlichigun, during the\\nformer two years of which time he ajJiilied himself to the study of\\nchemistiy and in 1874 took a master s degree in the State University.\\nComing to Detroit in 1.S7G, he began the study of law and was\\nadmitted to practice in tlie Sujireme Court in 1878. He continued\\nthe practice of his profession until 1885, when he became associated\\nwith the American Injector Company as an accountant and business\\ncorrespondent, which led to a partnership interest upon the incorpo-\\nration of the company in October, 188G. Mr. Keeler has since\\ndevoted his exclu-\\nsive time and aten-\\ntion to the affairs of\\nthe Anaerican In-\\njector Company, of\\nwhich he is an im-\\nportant and enter-\\nprising factor.\\nBUHL, SONS CO-\\nThis firm dates\\nfrom 1855, when it\\nwas established by\\nMessrs. Christian H-\\nBuhl and Charles\\nDucliarme, as Buh^\\nDucharme. The\\nadmmission to part-\\nnership, iu 1872, of\\nMr. Theo. D. Buld,\\na son of Mr. Cliris-\\ntian H. Buhl,\\nbrought about the\\ncli.ange of firm\\nname to Buhl, Du-\\ncharme Com-\\npany. Mr. Du-\\ncharme died in 1873,\\nbut the firm name\\nwas retained by tlie\\nsurviving mcmljers\\nuntil 1880, when\\nthe present organi-\\nzation was effected\\nby the admission of\\nMessrs. Frank H.\\nBuliI, David Ad-\\nams, J. M. Thurber\\nand Charles II. Ja-\\ncobs, under the firm\\nname of Buhl, Sons\\nCompany. The\\nbuildings at Nos.\\n103, 105, 109 and 111\\nWest Woodbridge\\nstreet are repre-\\nsented in four\\nstories 100x300 feet\\ndevoted to tlie large stock of hardware in all of its varied phases, in-\\ncluding builders and cabinet hardware, shelf goods and general\\nhardware, mechanics and machinists tools, locksmiths and\\nbutchers implements, blacksmiths and carriage makers supplies,\\nAmerican and foreign iron and steel, bar. band, hoop, tank and\\nsheet iron, liglitT-rails, steel nails, spikes, bolts, horse-shoes and horse\\nshoe nails, chains, tin i-late, guns and pistols, cartridges and amuni-\\ntion, fisliing tackle and sjiorting goods, table and pocket cutlery and\\nhouse furnishing utensils, and tools for all trades. These goods are\\nordered in large invoices from the leading American and European\\nmanufacturers, with special reference to superior ((uality and at a\\nlarge saving in cost from the m.agnitude of purchases. Tlie trade\\nterritory embraces Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the w hole north-\\nmilll,, SONS k roMI ANY S WHOLESALE HAKDWARE HOUSE.\\nwestern section of the continent. This firm owns and operates the\\nSharon Iron Works at Sharon, Pennsylvania, which give employ-\\nment to 1,000 liands whose products inclu le bar, band, hoop, tank\\nand sheet iron, Trails and steel rails. These works have a blast\\nfurnace with two slacks, one 73x53 1-3 feet, constructed in 1865 and\\nreconstructed in 1887, the other 73x15 feet, constructed in 1866 and\\nenlarged in 1883, The rolling mill turns out 70,000 net tonsannually.\\nThe facilitie.s embrace eleven double and thirteen single\\npuddling furnaces, twelve heating furnaces, seven traias\\nof rolls and sixty-four nail machines. The annual output is\\nrepresented by 30.000 net tons of iron and 150,000 kegs of nails. The\\nmembers of tins (irm are especially iirominent in the iron and hard-\\ntvare business of the country, with which they are associated as\\nprominent factors.\\nHENRY C. HART\\nM F G. CO.\\nHenry C. Hart,\\npresident; J. AV.\\nCross, vice-presi-\\ndent; Charles J.\\nHayden, secretary;\\nAlltert Ives, Jr.,\\ntreasurer; manu-\\nfacturers of rail-\\nway, cabinet and\\nspecial hardware;\\n493 to 513 Franklin\\nstreet. This estab-\\nI i s h m e n t was\\nfouniled in 1879 by\\nHenry C. Hart\\nCompany, and has\\nsince been incorpo-\\nrated as the Henry\\nC. Hart Manufac-\\nturing Company\\nwith a capital stock\\nof $100,000. The\\nbuildings occupied\\nare of substantial\\nconstruction, 175x\\n40 feet in dimen-\\nsions, five stories in\\nheight, and com-\\nprise a main build-\\ning, foundry, out\\nbuildings, etc. The\\nline of jtrodiicts\\nembraces railway,\\ncabinet and special\\nhardware, for\\nwhich a large trade\\nhas been secured\\nthroughout the\\nUn ited States.\\nConstant employ-\\nment is given to\\n450 competent\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0workmen, and tlie\\nannual output of\\nmanufacturing are\\nthe factory equals ;375,000. The facilities for \u00e2\u0080\u009e,c\\nof the most improved modern description, including various special\\nmachines adajited to tlie requirements of leading features. Every\\narticle manufactured by this company is fully inspected before\\nleaving the factory, the strongest proof that can be given of relia-\\nbility and genuiness. Tlie officers are well known and enteriirising\\nbusiness men and belong to Detroit s prominent and leading trade\\nexemplars and earnest promoters of the city s general commercial\\ninterests. The company have established and flourishing branch\\noffises at No. 8 Warren street. New York, of wliicli Jlr. II. D.\\nMoore is resident salesman; at No. 261 Wabasli avenue, Chicago, of\\nwhich Mr. Stephen Black is resident salesman, and at No. 57 Second\\nstreet, San Francisco, of which Mr. W. H. Brown is the resident", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n141\\nWALTER S. BURN.\\nsalesman. The general affairs of the company are In a highly\\nprosperous condition and their business record is full of honor and\\ncontinual successes.\\nSTAMPING, WIRE AND HYDRANT WORKS.\\nBUHL STAMPING COMPANY.\\nThis extensive establishment, started in the Spring of 1888, has\\nrajiidly become one\\nof the important\\nenterprises of the\\ncity. The president\\nof the comi^any is\\nTheodore D. Buhl;\\nWalter S. Burn,\\ntreasurer and man-\\nager, and William\\nH. Burn, secretary.\\nThe Messrs Burn\\ncame to Detroit\\nin 1888, when the\\nBulil Stamping\\nCompany was or-\\nganized. They are\\n33 and 30 years old\\nrespectively; were\\nborn at Toronto,\\nCanada: educated\\nat the high school\\nat Coburg, at the\\nUpper Canada Col-\\nlege, Toronto, and\\nat the Trinity Col-\\nlege, Port Hope,\\nCanada. The} both\\nentered and learned\\nbranches of the busi-\\nness witli two of the\\nleading wholesale hardware concerns\\nentered into manufacturing and\\nengaged in the manufacture of shelf ]iardware, circular and cross-\\ncut saws, full lines of deep sheet metal, drawn and stamped wares,\\njiMd\\nBUHL STAMPING COMPANY S WORKS\\nat Montreal. They then\\nwere jirominently and actively\\nWILLIAM H. BURN.\\ntubular and railroad lanterns, central brass burners, lamps, etc.\\nAmong the leading articles in the manufacture of wliich the Buhl\\nStamping Company have obtained considerable note, and the lines\\nwhich have been placed upon the market so largely since its organ-\\nization, are the tubular lanterns, of which the present factory has\\na capacity of about 3.500 daily; the stamping of all parts for milk\\ncans so extensively used in raih-oad sliipping of milk and the carry-\\ning of milk to the\\ncheese factories in\\nthe country, wliich\\nparts are sold\\nthrough the large\\nmetal jobbing hous-\\nes to dealers in dai-\\nry supplies, also a\\nnice line of jap-\\nanned bird cages.\\nThe Buhl Stamping\\nCompany liave one\\nof the largest stamp-\\ning presses in the\\nUnited States, and\\ntheir manufa-tures\\nfind ready sale\\nthroughout the en-\\ntire Union. In the\\nmanufacture of\\nmilk can stock the\\ncompany r e q u i r e\\nquantities of spe-\\ncially rolled sheet\\nsteel, which they\\ntin and re-tin in\\ntlieir extensive mill\\ntin plating depart-\\nment. The tin parts\\nand sheets equal the\\nfinest quality produced in this line. Tin plating is quite a feature\\nof their business. This company furnish employment to 130 persons\\nthe year round. The railroad shipping facilities are most excellent,\\nthe factory being in close proximity to the Micliigan Central,\\nI-*.-/\\n-^-T^", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nWabasli, Lake Shore Michigan Southern, Cliicago Grand\\nTrunin and the Detroit Lansing Xorlhein Railroads. The company s\\nworks have been operated so far in the premises hitely occupied by\\nthe Buld Iron Works and the Detroit Copper and Brass Rolling\\nMills, situated in the block bounded by Third and Fourth, and\\nLarned and Congress streets. Their growing business requires them\\nto ])repare promises specially adapteil to their line of business. The\\nengraving which we show representing the new works is a good\\nperspective view. Possessing every convenience, the general\\narrangements of the estal)lishment are fully up tothe latest require-\\nments of modern manufactories.\\nE. T. BARNUM.\\nThe increase in the use of wire and iron work in all the arts for\\nthe past few years has been enormous, and the enhancement in\\nartistic merit, in beauty of design, and grace of proportion, has\\nkept even pace with the demand, until to-day a ghyce at the illus-\\ntrated catalogue of a leading\\nK*.- iy^\\nfll\\n1^\\nmanufacturer is a revelation\\nin that the somber iron and\\nglittering brass can so com-\\njjletely exjjress artistic fan-\\ncies and dreamy rythme.\\nEugene T. Barnum has done\\nmore, perhaps, than any\\nother man in the country to\\ndevelop the numerous uses\\nof wire and iron work, and\\nhas labored, not in vain, to\\nimbue tlu^ usef id with artistic\\ngrace. He started in a small\\nway in 18G0, in a store on\\nWoodward avenue, making\\na few articles in ornamental\\nwire work; from this small\\nbeginning grew one of the\\nlargest institutions in the\\nworld, c vering acres of\\nground, and employing hun-\\ndreds of operatives, the\\nj)rodncts uf which were\\ndistributrd to all parts of the\\nworld. Willi characteristic\\nenterprise and push, Mr.\\nBarnum kept pace with the\\nincreasing demands for wire\\nand iron work he had made,\\nby constantly adding new\\narticles to his extensive line,\\nuntil his catalogue assumed\\nhuge j)roportions, and was\\nmailed by the thousands to\\njjeople demanding it in every\\npart of the United States\\nand the outside commercial\\nworld; it covered almost\\nevery conceivable form of\\nwire and iron work for\\nbuilders and fine decorative purposes, from wire window guards to\\njionderous cemetery gates and immense jails of chilled steel work.\\nAt one time TOO operatives were employed, with a small army of\\nclerks an I salesmen. The increase of this business from so small a\\nbeginning to such proportions, and during its (juarter of a century\\nof existence, was not without its vicissitudes. A disastrous fire in\\n188.5 laid the whole immense establishment in ashes. It is part of\\nthe history of the trade how Jlr. Barnum, with undaunted courage,\\nset himself, almost single handed, to build up liis business again,\\nand how soon he succeeded. Since that time the j)rogress of his\\nbusiness has been steadily going upward and onward. Aside from\\nthe excellence of workmanship, the artistic designing of his work\\nhas received constant and careful attention from Mr. Barnum, new\\nfeatures being continually added, as is shown by beautiful and\\nornate brass and wrought iron bank and ofiice fittings in hundreds\\nof banks throughout the United States, in ornamental balconies and\\nfire escapes on buildings all over the country, and by artistic\\nwrought iron fences surrounding public and private buildings in\\nthe principal cities and towns from Maine to Texas. There would\\nseem to be no limit to the uses of brass and iron, as sliown by the\\nextensive illustrated catalogues issued by Mr. Barnum. Among the\\nleading articles made by this old established firm might be men-\\ntioned, wrought iron fences, stairs, balcony railings, wire and iron\\nfences, wire flu., ir pot stands, and innumerable other articles in\\nornamental wire work, iron settees, chairs, vases, lawn fm-niture\\nfor private residences and i)arks, cemetery fences, fountains, stable\\nfixtures, wire cloth, wire netting, wrought iron and wire orna-\\nmental window guards, grills, roof cresting, ornaments, weather\\nvanes, wire signs, bank and ofTice railings, in ornamental iron,\\nbrass and bronze work, and last but not least, cells and jail work of\\nall descriptions. Office and salesroom 179 Jefferson avenue. Fac-\\ntory on Grand River avenue. An artistic catalogue of the goods\\nmade by this concern will be mailed to anyone requesting it.\\nGALVIX VALVE AND\\nHYDRANT COMPANY.\\n1\\n1\\n1}.\\n3\\ni\\n3\\nWIRE CLOTH, RAILING.CRtSTING\\nE. T. BARNUM AVIRE AND IRON WORKS.\\nTliaddeus Galvin, presi-\\ndent; Charles W. Casgrain,\\nvice-president; John Galvin,\\ngeneral manager: James Gal-\\nvin, superintendent; Tliomas\\nL. Nolan, Secretary. Tliad-\\ndeus and John Galvin estab-\\nlished business in Detroit on\\nthe corner of Third and\\nCongress streets, in 18G9,\\nstarting with less than |200\\nin the bank. The firm was\\nthen known as Galvin\\nBrothers Central Brass\\nWorks, and during the first\\nyear did all their work them-\\nselves, but early in the\\nsecond year they were com-\\npelled to hue ten additional\\nhands working upon brass\\nand iron goods. Seeking\\nlarger quarters, they pur-\\nchased the buildings and\\nlease of the premises corner\\nof Larned and Second streets,\\nin addition to the two story\\nbrick building 50x10 feet.\\nThey Imilt a brass foundry\\nand boiler room 60x10 feet,\\nwhere they cast all kinds of\\nbrass valves, hydrants, loco-\\nmotive and car brasses for\\nthe Michigan Central and\\nother railroads, also marine\\nwork and bra s bearings for\\nsome of the largest steam-\\nboats on the great lakes,\\nthe heavy brass bearings for\\nthe new water workj engine. They also cast the gim metal\\nand bronze bearings for the largest stationary engines in the world,\\nhaving a capacity of GOOO horse power each, and manufactured for\\nthe Chicago Rolling Mills, The immense brass pillar blocks, con-\\nnecting rod brasses and cylinder rings being made without a single\\ndefect. The low pressure steam cylinder was 86x110. The\\nhigh pressure steam cylinder was 48x110 making 1.50 i-evolutions and\\nseven reverses per minute. They also made all the fog signal\\nwhistles used by the United States Government up to 1884. On of\\nthe Largest and most expensive window sashes in the front of New-\\ncomb Endicott s store on Woodward avenue was of their peculiar\\nconstruction. They also did the first nickel stove plating in Detroit\\nfor the Detroit and Michigan stove companies. Never following\\nany lead r or copying any others, the company always sought to do\\nthe best in their lino of trade, they are conseqently the inventors of\\nmany new devices, such as their twin and triplet lawn founts,", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nH3\\nTHADDEUS GALVIN.\\nwedge fire hose coupling, for which a challenge was issued with no\\ntakers in competion at the national convention of chief engineers\\nof fire departments; a water gauge; a glass float indicator for boiler\\nglasses; premium journal oilers and sight feed lubricators, the first\\nautomatic lubricator with Jiand jiump combination; die cast iron\\ncurb conduit for underground electric wires; automatic dry valve\\nfor use in extreme cold weather; radiator valve with automatic\\ncarbon vent; a device for flushing sewers with hydraulic pressure;\\nvarious gate valves; conical stand pipe fire iiydrant with removable\\ndrij) and rotary shut off nozzle; also independent cut off nozzle,\\nari-anged so that the thread which ojaerated the cut off, would\\nnot be in the water, and consequently could not become\\ndisabled with ice in cold climates, many of which are\\nused by the Detroit fire departments and in other large\\ncities. All through the successful working of their business,\\nthe brothers, Thaddeus, John and James, have each contrib-\\nuted their entire time and attention, and to each alike belongs the\\nsuccess attending upon the establishment. They organized the Gal-\\nvin Brass and Iron Works in 1884, with F. F. Palms, John Collins\\nand others, Mr. Palms being then at the head of the firm, the\\nGalvius liaving disposed of their interest in 1888 when their present\\ncompany was organized. They now liave one of the most com-\\nmodious sites in the United States for their line of business. Their\\nmachinery is all new and of improved pattern. Their site covers\\ntwo acres of ground. Their main building is three stories with truss\\nroof VoxlSO, offices two stories, 30x40; iron foundry, lOOxoO; brass\\nfoundry G0x40; blacksmith shop, 40x40 with ]iattern room and store\\nhouse all complete and capable of working 500 men. Thtir build-\\nings are located upon the river front with the railroad at the rear\\nand street car line passing by the main office.\\nThaddeuS Galvin came to Detroit from Boston, Massachusetts,\\nin 18.j0, with his parents, both of whom are still living. The father\\nof the Galvin brothers is 88 years past, is one of the most active\\nold men in Detroit, and was ai iron worker in liis younger days,\\nand his sons inlierit much of their genius from him. At the age of\\nfourteen Th.addeus was apprenticed for four years to learn the trade\\nof brass moulding and finishing; at the expiration of this time, to\\nbetter perfect himself in tlie business than he could in Detroit, went\\nback to his former home in Boston to complete his trade, and in\\n1805 returned to Detroit, where, four years later with his brother\\nJohn, he established the Galvin Brothers Central Brass Works, and\\nafterwards the Galvin Brass Iron Works, and attained such\\nsuccess that in 1888 they disposed of the above named works and\\nestablished their present business, known as the Galvin Valve and\\nHydrant Company. Thaddeus Galvin, the senior member of the\\nfirm, while in Boston, gained much valuable practical knowledge\\nadvantageous to his trade, and also made niT.ny important inven-\\ntions and discoveries. He also cast and finished brass work for the\\nMonitors, then being built for the government in East Boston and\\nCharlestown, making the brasses for the deck lights, which weighed\\nfrom eight to ten hundred pounds, and also the highly finished\\nsteam valves for the engines of the same boats. He saw the United\\nStates Gunboat Kearsarge wlien it landed at the Commercial wharf\\nwith the rebel shell wedged in its stern, and advised the best plan\\nto safely remove it, which advice was accepted and well rewarded.\\nMr. Galvin also made improvements in many Fox lathe tools, then\\nmanufactured in Boston, and was first to operate such lathes in\\nDetroit for general work, and which has since been used in all the\\nlea ling establishments in the country. There are few cities in the\\nUnited States where some of his artistic work and mechanical\\ngenius is not displayed. The only public office Mr. Galvin has ever\\nheld was in 1888, when elected to tlie board of estimates here, upon\\nthe Democratic ticket, he being alwa} s a consistent Jack.;onian\\nDemocrat. Mr. Galvin devotes his attention to tlie business, which\\nhas grown to its present gigantic proportions by his faithful\\nco-operation with his younger brothers, who were ever ready to\\naccept his council and advice.\\nJames G. V.LVIN, superintendent of the brass department of the\\nGalvin Valve and Hydrant Works, the youngest of the Galvin\\nbrothers, was born in Detroit, in the old eighth ward. He attended\\nschool at the Houghton, going through the studies in the various\\ngrades, after which he attended the Mayhevv Business University,\\nleaving there with the customary diploma. He decided to learn\\nthe brass and iron business with his brothers. He served his\\nai prenticesliip of four years in a most satisfactory manner; he then\\nbegan as a regular mechanic and worked his way up until he\\nbecame a partner, his admission into the company making the third\\nbrother engaged in the firm, and like tlie older brothers he is fast\\napproaching their originality, being the inventor of several useful\\ndevices which are now indispensible in the manufacture of brass\\nvalves, also the patentee and inventor of two styles of gate valves,\\nused very extensively. The name Galvin, Galvan or Galvani,\\n3k\\nJAMES GALVIN.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n1^\\ni\\n/y\\nIm\\nt\\nJOHN OAL-\\\\aN.\\nwhich are tlio same name, is well known in history and among\\nuiventors, consecinently accounts in no small degree for the origi-\\nnality wliich they inherit. The accompanying illustration is a very\\nfair likeness of James Galvin.\\nJohn Galvin, the general manager of the Galvin Valve and\\nHydrant Works, is the second in age of the tln-ee brotliers. He is\\nan active, energetic and tlioroughly qualified business man and\\nsecond to none in the branch of business which he has adopted.\\nKeeping close watch upon the meclianical departments as well as\\nfamiliarizing himself with the wants of the trade, his productions\\nare always in anticipation of tlie market. He keeps well up to the\\ntimes in the outside world of mechanics and in the shop he is first to\\nadvance ideas and perfect tools for turning out the best work in\\nl)rofitable time to the concern. It is through his inventive genius\\nand original ideas tliat the firm successfully produce the various\\nvalves and fire hydrants as well as the labor saving tools with\\nwhicli to manufacture them; also the many other devices manu-\\nfactured by other companies, giving employment to hundreds of\\nmen outside of his own works. The portrait herewith presented is\\na very good likeness, but imagine a man six feet, four inches tall,\\nwearing a seven and three-fourths hat, and you have John Galvin\\nin the works.\\nSAFE WORKS.\\nDETROIT SAFE COMPANY.\\nThis establishment was established in 1865, and is incorporated\\nwith a i)aid up capital of .f:i. )0,000 and an authorized cajjital of\\n|;.j(K),(M)(). Tlicir facilities and appliances are of the latest and most\\nimi)roved description. The factory on Fort street, east, is a large\\nand imposing structure of brick, three stories in height, and is\\n350xl;)8 feet in dimensions. Employment is given to 200 skilled\\nmechanics, and twenty-five traveling saltsmen represent the inter-\\nests of the company throughout the United States. The products\\nembrace fire and burglar-proof safes, bank vaults and prison work.\\nAn export trade has been created and extends to Cuba and South\\nAmerica. The auiuial output aggregates in value .|500,000, and is\\nconstantly being augmenied under the stimulus of dcinand. The\\noflicers of the company are E. Y. Swift, president; Charles Endicott,\\ntreasurer; A. VV. Baxter, secretary; A. S. Wiley, manager The\\nsafes manufactured by this company are imexcelled for perfection\\nof workmanship and adaptation to prescribed purposes, and are\\nwarranted in everj particular to meet all exigencies and reijuire-\\nments. The company have recently completed a barglar-proof\\nvault for tlie National Bank of Commerce, of Pittsburgli, Pennsjd-\\nvania, vliich is in certain respects unique and peculiar, being more\\nthan double the strength of an3 vault in the world, the walls com-\\nposing the vault lining consisting of steel bars and tempered steel\\nplates fourn cn and five-eighths inches in thickness, tlie weight of\\nthe outer doors and frames being over ten tons. The apparatus for\\nopening the ponderous doors consists of a series of gears, the lower\\none playing into a rack built into the floor, the hand wheel, from\\nwhich the motion originates, is so geared up that a child could open\\nit. The jiatent under which this vault was constructed is owned by\\nMr. Wiley. The lieavy door of the vault is not jiierced by spiniUe\\nor arljor, nor is there any hole of any kind through it. The massive\\nbolt work which .secures the door is thrown in place both in opening\\nand closing by an electric current operating through a double system\\nof solenoid magnets. This is also the invention of 3Ir. WUey. The\\nsteel jamb safe, manufactured by this company, is generally con-\\nceded to possess the property of more successfully resisting the\\naction of heat than any other. The door frames and jambs of these\\nsafes are made of mallealjle rolled steel, of great tensile strength,\\ncrimped and rolled into six offsets or flanges, under the exclusive\\npatents of this company. The following advantages are claimed\\nfor them and represent their varied points of superiority: The\\nthinness of tlie metal connecting the outside with the inside box;\\nthe toughness of the metal forming the door frames and jambs; the\\nlose fitting of the door frame to the janili; the Jlo^ition of the bolt-\\nwork on the inner flange of the door; the round corners of the safe.\\nIn all other safes made in the United States the door frames and\\njambs are of cast iron, requiring that it be of exceptional thickness\\nto secure the necessary strength, causing it to act as a conductor of\\nheat to the interior of the safe, and to become cracked when\\nexjiosed to fire by reason of its brittleness. By tlie employment of\\nthin steel in the construction of their safe flanges the Detroit Safe\\nCompany has effectually solved the problem of making the front of\\na safe as impervious to tlie action of fire as its other walls. The\\nflre-proof filling used renders the contents of the safe fully protected\\nfrom any fire to which it can be exjiosed in a burning building, and\\nthe round corners afford double protection against the bursting of\\nthe safe from heavy falls. The fact that in no instance where these\\nA. S. WILEY.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nH5\\nsateb Li to fire has there been any damage to their\\ncontenia iS potent as showing the superiority and excellence of con-\\nstruction and arrangement. Detroit possesses, in the Detroit Safe\\nCompany, one of its most important and enterprising trade factors,\\nand one whicli has been advanced through its products to the most\\neminent distinction.\\nAbraham S. Wiley, the manager of f.e Detroit Safe Company,\\nwas born at Boston, Massachusetts, April 9, 1833. His father was\\nconnected with the United States Branch Banlf, at Boston, until the\\nchange in the banking system; subsequently he became treasurer of\\nthe Fitchburg Railroad, of which he had been one of the organizers.\\nThe early education of the son was received in the academy at\\nLunenberg, and later at a school in Westford, Massachusetts. At\\nthe age of sixteen he went into the wholesale drug house of Brew-\\ners, Stevens Gushing, at Boston, and in 18G5 became a member of\\nthe firm of Carter Wiley, in the same line, at Boston. He con-\\ntinued in this relation for eight years, when, disposing of his\\ninterest, he came to Detroit, where his two brothers, William and\\nJefferson, were located, Mr. Jefferson Wiley being a member of the\\nfirm of Jackson Wiley. Mr. A. S. Wiley was elected vice-\\npresident of the Detroit Safe Company in 1874, and in March, 1890,\\nbecame its manager. He is a member of tlie Masonic fraternity.\\nCAR WORKS.\\nMICHIGAN CAR COMPANY.\\nThe business of the IMicliigan Car Company is among tlie oldest\\nof its kind in the United States, having been established in 1864.\\nTlio plant of this company is located at West Detroit, a point most\\nconvenient for receiving timber, iron and coal. The plant is\\nequipped throughout with the latest and best machinery, and all\\nrailroads entering Detroit pass by the works. The capital of the\\nMichigan Car Company is $500,000. About the same time the\\nMichigan Car Company commenced the business of manufacturing\\nfreight cars, the Detroit Car Wheel Company was formed with a\\ncapital of $250,000. These two companies, although their stock is\\nheld by tlie same individuals and though the plants are in the same\\ninclosure and the companies are mainly officered by the same\\ngentlemen, are kept distinct, yet they are practically united.\\nThe Detroit Car Wheel Company have a capacity of about 425 cast\\niron wheels per day, besides making 150 tons of miscellaneous car\\nand other castings. This product mostly goes into cars manufac-\\ntured by the Michigan Car Company. The capacity of the Mich-\\nigan Car Company is from 9,000 to 10,000 freiglit cars per annum.\\nIn the month of August, 1890, they built 902 box cars of 25 tons\\ncapacity, on one day building as many as forty cars. This is the\\nhighest maximum they have ever reached. The business of the\\nMichigan Car Company consists in building all kinds of freight\\ncars, svich as are in use on the North American continent box, flat,\\ncoal, ore, oil tank and refrigerator cars and cars for carrying cattle\\nand hogs, a well as all kinds of specialties, cabooses, snow plows,\\netc. It also does a very large business in repairing cars for various\\nrailroads. Following is a list of the ofiicers of the Michigan Car\\nCompany: Hon. James McMillan, president; Hugh McMillan, vice-\\npresident; W. C. McMillan, general manager; W. K. Anderson,\\ntreasurer; Joseijh Taylor, secretary; R. E. Plumb, general agent;\\nJames McGregor, general superintendent George O. Begg, pur-\\nchasing agent. Following is a list of the officers of the Detroit Car\\nWheel Company: Hon. James McMillan, president; Hugh McMillan,\\nvice-president; W. C. McMillan, secretary and general manager;\\nW. K. Anderson, treasurer; J. H. Whiting, superintendent. They\\nhave also connected with them the Michigan Forge Iron Com-\\npany, which, under the name of the Baugli Steam Forge Company,\\nwas incorporated in 1876. The capital of that company is $250,000.\\nIts plant consists of a rolling mill and steam forge. From this com-\\npany the Michigan Car Company obtains its wroght iron bars used\\nin car construction, and its axles. The Forge Company makes, in\\naddition thereto, immense quantities of special heavy forgings and\\nlinks and pins, which it has made almost a specialty of for some\\ntime jjast. This company in not in the same inclosure as tlie Mich-\\nigan Car Company and the Detroit Car Wlieel Company, but is\\nlocated in one of the suburbs of Detroit called Springwells. The\\nfollowing are the officers of the Michigan Forge Iron Company:\\nHon. James McMillan, president; Hugh McMillan, vice-president;\\nW, C. McMillan, general manager; John B. Baugh, general super-\\nintendent; Samuel A. Baugh, superintendent. W. K. Anderson\\ntreasurer, R. D. Field, secretary. There is in the inclosure of the\\nMichigan Car Company, and Detroit Car Wheel Company the\\nThe Detroit Pipe Foundry Company; the officers of which are as\\nfollows: James McMillan, president; Hugh McMillan, vice-president-\\nand general manager, W. C. McMillan, secretary and treasurer;\\nJ. H. Whiting, superintendent. The capital of the Detroit Pipe\\nand Foundry Company, is $100,000. Its principal product consists\\nof oast iron pipe for water mains, gas mains, culverts, and general\\ndrainage systems, large quantities of which are used by all railroad\\ncompanies. The immense tunnel under the St Clair river between\\nPort Huron and Sarnia is lined throughout with cast iron, about\\nfour-fifths of which, approximating 20,000 tons, was made by\\nthis company. The aggregate output of the four above mentioned\\ncompanies would be close onto $6,000,000 per annum, and the total\\nnumber of men employed would be about 3,000. It has always been\\nthe practice of nearly all American railway companies to contract\\nfor equipment with manufacturers of same, and some of the few\\nwhich were exceptions to this tiractice are gradually adopting the\\nJAMES MCMILLAN\\ngeneral course, it being found that companies like the Michigan Car\\nCompany and the other companies herein mentioned can manufac-\\nture their specialties much more cheaply and satisfactorily than the\\nrailroad companies themselves.\\nJames McMillan, was born at Hamilton, May 12, 1838;\\nwas prepared for college, but in 1855, removed to Detroit\\nwhere he entered upon a business life. In 1860, Mr. McMillan\\nmarried Miss Wetmore, of Detroit, and they have five\\nchildren living, four son. and one daughter. In 1863,\\nhe with others, established the Michigan Car Company, of which\\nenterprise, with its various branches, he is president. He has been\\nchairman of the Republican state central committee for a number of\\nyears; he was president of the Board of Park Commissioners for\\nthree years, and for four years was a member of the Board\\nof Estimates; was a presidential elector in 1884; received the\\nnomination of the legislature and was elected to the United\\nStates Senate to succeed T. W. Palmer and took his seat March 3,\\n1889.\\nPENINSUT.AR CAR COJIPANY.\\nFrank J. Hecker, president; C. I.. Freer, vice-president: E. J.\\nReulbach, secretary; John Doyle, superintendent; manufacturers of\\n[10]", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nrequirements, i^ Pu/Poses, andption.\\namusement and reading rooms are\\non the ground floor and are elegantly\\nfurnished to atlord home comfort. The\\nprivate rooms are well lighted, have\\nj)erfect ventilation and are attended\\nby a staff of trained nurses who reside\\non the premises, and resident physi-\\ncians are ever in readiness to attend to\\nthe invalids reijuirements. The Sani-\\ntarium has a most complete arrange-\\nment of baths, electro-hydric, vapor,\\nalkaline, Turkish and medicinal batlis,\\nattended y skillful operatives. Elec-\\ntrical ai)pliaiices of modern api)roval\\nafford all desirable forms of electric\\ntreatment. The cuisine is under com-\\nlietent sui)ervision, and the charges\\nare e.vtreuicly moderate. Established\\nin 1884, this institution has been a\\ndecided success. The officers are Bela\\nHubbard, president; C. 15. Hubbard,\\ntreasurer; James Inglis, secretary, and\\nA. W. 81\\\\aw, manager.\\nCLARK S\\nRIVERSIDE\\nSPRINGS.\\nMINERAL\\nDK I KdlT SAN ITAKH M.\\nfreight cars, car wheels and castings; works and otlices, north side\\nof Ferry avenue, between Russell and Dequindre streets. This\\nhighly nnportant and valuable nianufactme was established by the\\npresent company, January 1, ISNO, with a capital stock of ^;!00,000.\\nThe woiks cover forty acres and possess every requisite facility and\\nappurtenance for the conduct of the extensive manufacture. A\\nforce of 1,500 hands are given steady employment and the annual\\noutput is J,000cars, having a value of $-1,000,000. The trade terri-\\ntory embraces the entire United States and the character of the\\nproducts controls a large and constantly increasing demand.\\nDetroit has found in this industry one of i ts g r eatest t rade elements\\nand one which has essentially aided in\\npromoting the city s supreme interests\\nin general relations. The officers of\\nthe company are public spirited and\\nenterprising and have infused into the\\nmanufacture that critical supervision\\nand management which have made it\\none of the greatest of its kind in the\\ncountry, and destined to still greater\\ndevelopment and importance.\\nThis institution was established by\\nMr. A. S. Clark in July, 1889, for the\\npurpose of utilizing the mineral water\\nfrom a spring located at the corner of\\nFort street, west, and Clark avenue.\\nHere he has fitted up a large bathing\\nestablishment in modern style and which is provided with all the\\nessentials of comfort and jileasing accessories. Analysis of the\\nwaters gives them estimable curative properties, especially in the\\ntreatment of rheumatism, skin diseases, blood poisoning, female\\ndiseases, neuralgia, dyspepsia, catarrlial and kidney troubles. A\\n(^ai)ital of \u00c2\u00a740.000 is invested in the Inisiness which is conducted\\nupon the most scientific principles. Tlie building contains forty-\\neight bath rooms, which are handsomely furnished and provided\\nwith every modern appliance and convenience including polite and\\nattentive assistants. As a health resort this institution enjoys a\\ndistinction which invests it with the strongest claims to patronage\\nHYGIENIC INSTITUTIONS.\\nDETROIT SANITARIUM.\\nThere are but few institutions of the\\nkind that have attained a more justly\\nearned celebrity than the Detroit Sani-\\ntarium, situated at 250 West Fort\\nstreet. The location being near the\\nbusiness centre and yet retired from\\nthe noise, heat and dust of the city,\\nsurrounded by shaded lawns, pleasant\\nwalks and a good neighborhood; it is\\neasily accessible by street cars, which\\npass the door. The grounds cover an\\nentire sciuare, and the large and com-\\nmodious building is complete with all\\nthe modern improvements; heated with\\nsteaiu aoid equipped with all sanitary\\nWi\\nJ\\n110*1\\nlUVKUSlDK MINKUAl. Sl KISGS BATH HOUSE,", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n147\\nALVIN S. CLARK.\\nby many who would be benefited Iiy the use of the waters.\\nAlvin S. Clark was born at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, June 9,\\n1845, of American parentage. His father was John P. Clark, who,\\nwhile the son was yet a small boy, removed to Detroit, locating\\nupon the farm, tlie present site of Clark s Riverside Mineral Springs,\\nat the corner of River Road and Clark avenue. Here Alvin s early\\nyears were passed, his education being received in the city public\\nschools, the one he attended Ijeing situated upon the present location\\nof Scotten s tobacco factory. He spent aljout twenty-two years on\\nthe lakes and fishing grounds. His first actual venture in business\\nwas in the grocery line, at the corner of River and Campau streets\\nthe firm being Clark Hawley. He continued in this business fo\u00c2\u00bb\\ntwo years prior to becoming a clerk on the steamer Alaska, a\\nposition he occupied for seven years. July 11, 1889, he opened the\\ncelebrated Clark s Riverside Mineral Springs, a description of which\\nprecedes this sketch.\\nJOSEPHUS C. CHAMBERS\\nWas born at Cedar Grove, Franklin county, Indiana, December\\n10, 1842. His early education was received in the public schools\\nduring the winter months, the summer season being devoted to\\nlabor on the farm, as was the custom at that day. In 18G3 IjC began\\nteaching tlie school in wliich he had been a pupil, continuing in that\\nrelation for four years, after whicli he accepted a position with the\\nwholesale dry goods and notion house of Lockard, Ireland Com-\\npany, in Cincinnati. About this time he began experimenting with\\nelectrical machines. He remained in the employ of Lockard, Ire-\\nland Company three years, and then accepted a better position\\nwith Barbour, Stedman Company, in the same line, still continu-\\ning his electrical experiments. It was about this period that he\\nmarried the daughter of Dr. Trainer. In 1877 he took out his first\\npatent on an electrical device for the treatment of disease, with\\nwhich he conducted a series of tests upon subjects free of charge.\\nAfter making some remarkable cures, he, in 1878, ojiened an office\\nat Cincinnati, proving himself efficient in the management of the\\nmost obstinate cases brought under his care. He continued his\\ninventions and secured patents upon them. After some time the\\nfirm with which he had been associated closed out tlieir business to\\norganize a company to conduct tlie sale of his patents, with a paid\\nup capital of $100,000. In this venture Professor Chambers achieved\\na notable success, withdrawing in 1884 and retaining his one-fourth\\ninterest. He came to Detroit at the solicitation of Mr. W. A. Jack-\\nson, manager of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company, in order to\\nperfect his experments on telegraph and telephone lines and cables,\\nto prevent the disturbing influence of induction. After putting in\\nlines for experimental purposes he was engaged in service for eleven\\nmonths at the Detroit Electrical Works. Professor Chambers and\\nMr. W. A. Jackson secured five patents for their inventions. Pro-\\nfessor Chambers having become attracted to Detroit determined to\\nremain here with his family, who had some time before rejoined\\nhim. He established the Electric and Medical Sanitarium, at 60\\nWashington avenue, the only institution of its character in the\\nUnited States. So great has been the demand for the form of\\nelectric treatment jiresoribed by Professor Cliambers outside of this\\ncity that he has been induced to open branch houses in Grand\\nRapids and Jackson, Michigan; Toledo, Oliio, and at Wasliington,\\nDistrict Columbia. He is also ijreparing to open establishments in\\nPittsburgh and New York City. During the past year he has given\\nover 30,000 treatments, doing more tlian double the sum in cash\\nthan any other institution in the city. He has recently taken in a\\npartner, Mr. W. A. Iligbe, formerly of Reed City, Michigan, and\\nthey have leased the property now occupied at 60 Wasliington\\navenue, for ten years, and will remodel and improve it, rendering it\\none of the cosiest and best appointed sanitariums in the State of\\nMichigan. He last year purchased a splendid residence at 693 Cass\\navenue. Professor Chambers values the necessity of securing the\\nmost exjierienced and proficient medical and surgical talent in the\\ncountry, and his thousands of patients liave given him the strongest\\nl)Ossil le testimonials regarding the peculiar efficacy of his treat-\\nment.\\nBUSINESS COLLEGE.\\nDETROIT BUSINESS UNIVERSITY.\\nOriginally founded in 1850 as the Commercial Institute, corner\\nof Woodward avenue and Lamed street, under William Cochrane;\\nremoved in 1859 to the Merrill block, under the name of the\\nBryant Stratton Mercantile College, witli J. A. Goldsniilli for\\nprincipal, he having succeeded Mr. Cochrane in 1857, and in 18G5\\nremoved to the Seitz block, William F. Jewell, of Cliicago, being\\ncalled to the principalshi)), and introducing practical features in the\\ncurriculum of stuiy. In 1876 the name was again changed to Gold-\\nCllAMIiERS.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nWILLIAM F. JEWELL.\\nsmith s Business University, and larger quarters were sought, at the\\ncorner of Griswt)l(l street and Lafayette avenue. In 1882 Mr. Jew-\\nell became sole proprietor, and in 1885 the University and the\\nSpencerian Business College, established by Messrs. Spencer, Felton\\nLoomis, of Cleveland, who had purchased the Mayhew Business\\nCollege were consolidated. From this combination sprang the\\nDetroit Business University, with a corps of efficient teachers in\\nevery department. On April 1, 1S90, the University was removed\\nto the commodious and elegant building at 11 to 19 Wilcox street,\\ndesigned and constructed especially for the University. The build-\\ning is lOOxlGO feet, is imjiosing and graceful in architecture, unique\\nin arrangement, and is substantially constructed of brick, with\\ncopings of red sandstone. The halls, class and recitation rooms,\\ncloak and toilet rooms, are models of comfort and convenience.\\nThere has been over 1,100 students in attendance during the past\\nyear, and 2G,000 since it was established in 18.50. The officers are\\nWilliam F. Jewell, president; Piatt R. Spencer, Junior, Secretary.\\nWiLLL\\\\M F. Jewell, president of the Detroit Business Univer-\\nsity, was born on a farm at Oneida Lake, New York, March 7, 1837,\\nof sturdy New England parents. He received excellent tiaining,\\nboth from his iiarents and at school, and at the age of eighteen\\nentered Wheaton College, Illinois, taking both the classical and\\nscientilic courses. He taught a district school for some years and\\nboarded round, after the manner of the time. He was a pro-\\nnounced success as a teacher from the first. In 1854 Mr. Jewell\\nentered Bryant Stratton s Business College at Chicago, and gained\\nthere the thorough commercial education which he has since used\\nto such great advantage to himself and scores of young men A\\nlumbering firm at Green Bay, Wisconsin, employed his time for a\\nfew months, but the work was not congenial, and he resigned to\\naccept a situation as inslruc^tor in the Bryant Stratton college of\\nChicago. His fame as a practical and thorough instructor soon\\nreached Detroit, and Messrs. Goldsmith, Bryant Stratton wrote\\nfor him in 1805, inviting liim to become associated with them.\\nSince then he has been a faithful and appreciated trainer of the boy\\ninto the capable scholar and business man. Until April 1, 1883,\\nProfessor Jewell had exclusive control of the scholastic department\\nand Mr. Goldsmith of the business department. On this date Mr.\\nJewell became sole proprietor and president of the University.\\nJuly 1, 1885, the institution and the Spencerian Business College,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which succeeded the Mayhew Business College, were consolidated.\\nPlatt R. Spexcf.r, Jr., secretary of the Detroit Business Uni-\\nversity, was born May .3, 1835, at Geneva, Ohio, and started his\\nschool life when only three years old, at Jeffer.son, Ohio, where his\\nparents were then living, his father being then treasurer of the\\n(Ashtabida) ciunit3-. At the age of eight he entered the Jefferson\\nacademy where his father (author of the famed Spencerian system)\\ntaught penmanship. The son early evinced the talent inherited\\nfrom his father, and at fourteen years of age was made assistant\\ninstructor in Spencer s Log Seminary, one of the most popular of\\nthe schools of that day. Platt, Jr., attended select school, taught\\nand worked on the farm until his fifteenth year, when he went to\\nEast Ashtabula, Ohio, and taught his first cla.ss in writing, inde-\\npendent of his father. The class was composed not only of boys\\nand girls but of young ladies and gentlemen much older than the\\nboy teacher. After teaching in other places in this state, he\\nattended Hiram College, (was a pupil of James A. Garfield, after-\\nwards gi eat statesman and President of the United States) paying\\nhis e-xpenses by teaching iienmanship, as he did afterwards in\\nKingsville Academy, and West Springfield, Pennsylvania. He took\\na complete business course at the Bryant Stratton College, of\\nCleveland. Ohio, being i)rincipal for a year in the department of\\npenmanship. He next taught in the Iron City College, Pittsburg,\\nPennsjlvania, and was then associated for several years with the\\nBryant Stratton College at C hicago, ami later with Mr. B.\\nMcGann, opened the B. S. College in Pliiladelphia. He was\\nmarried to Miss Mary E. Duty, of Cleveland, about this time,\\nmaking their home in Philadelphia. In 1863 Mr. Spencer acijuired\\na half interest in the Bryant Stratton College, at Indianapolis,\\nwhich college was highly successful under his principalship. In\\n1865 he founded the Spencerian Institute of Penmanship at Geneva,\\nOhio, which was afterwards removed to Cleveland, becoming\\nincorporated with the Union (original Bryant Stratton) College.\\nIn 1877 he became sole pro|irietor of the latter institution, changing\\nits name to Spenceri in Business College which name it still holds\\nand is the largest institution of the kind in Ohio. As secretary of\\nthe Detroit Business University and principal of the department\\nof penmanship, Mr. Spencer has proved himself devoted to his pro-\\nfession, and has taken a deep interest in his pupils, both from an\\neducational and a personal standpoint. He has doubtless taught\\nmere penmen than any other man in this country. He is earnest,\\nconscientious and honorable, a man with a successful career and a\\nwide reputation.\\nPLATT R. SPENCER.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n149\\nBIOGRAPHIES.\\nDON M. DICKINSON.\\nDon 51. Dickinson was born at Port Ontario, Oswego County,\\nNew York, January 17, 1846, of long American lineage, witli wliioh\\nlatter fact lie seems perfectly satisfied, seeking no foreign honor.\\nHis father, Col. Asa C. Dickinson, was a native of Massachusetts,\\nbut was quite a traveler for those days, exploring the shores of\\nlakes Erie, Huron and Michigan, in 1820, in a canoe of birch bark,\\nand gaining a great admiration for Michigan. He removed here\\nwitli his family in 1848, to settle in St. Clair County. The mother\\nof Mr. Dickinson was the daughter of Rev. Jesseniah Holmes, a\\ndivine known throughout New England. So, from both sides of\\nhis family the boy Don inherited those sturdy characteristics of self-\\nreliance, energy, earnestness and executive ability, for which he is\\nso noted. As Don M. Dickinson was but two years of age when\\nbrought to the beautiful lake state, which he now so proudly claims\\nas his own; all his early recollections center around the St. Clair\\nriver, and his boyish love of river sports still continues. Aunt\\nEmily Ward, whose name is always affectionately associated with\\nthat of the Dickinsons describes him as not much like other\\nboys. He was inclined to read books and acquire information from\\nhis elders. He was extremely methodical and systematic in all that\\nhe undertook, and earnest in his efforts to accomplish it. He\\ngraduated from the University before he was twenty-one and\\nstudied law. In 1867 he began the practice of law, for which he\\nwas so well fitted by natural inclination and thorough application.\\nHis career has included clients who have represented momentous\\ninterests in many states. In addition to many difficult cases of\\nsomewhat less importance, in which he was active, he conducted\\nthe following in the Supreme Court of the United States: Tlie great\\ntelephone case, when he made the leading argument for Draw-\\nbaugh; the Schott and Feibish cases, which involved a conflict\\nbetween the jurisdiction of the Federal C^ourts and Michigan State\\nCourts, state jurisdiction being sustained after seven years contest;\\nParis, Allen Company vs. Wheeler Garfield, in which the old\\nMichigan prohibitor} law was involved; Pewabic mining case,\\ninvolving validity of Michigan s Corporation Reorganization Act;\\nL. M. Bates Comjiany vs. Peoples Savings Bank of Detroit;\\nHammond Company vs. Hastings. In the Federal and State\\nCourts he conducted the case of the Lake Superior Ship Canal Com-\\nDON M. DICKINSON.\\nGEORGE C HUEBNEE.\\npany; acted as counsel for Emily Ward in the Ward will case; was\\nin the Campau will case and the Johnson will case. To sum up he\\nhas been engaged in all of the leading cases under the Bankruptcy\\nAct of 1867, and in almost every important litigation for fifteen\\nyeai s, and has been successful in all those named above, except the\\ntelephone case, in which an adverse decision was rendered by a\\nmajority of one. Mr. Dickinson stepped into the outer ring of the\\npolitical arena in 1873, and his party soon perceived that he was the\\nman for secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee.\\nHere he rendered efficient service, and was recognized as the leader\\nof the young Democracy of Michigan, and was chairman of the\\nState Committee in the Tilden campaign. He was chosen to repre-\\nsent his state as a member of the National Democratic Committee,\\nin 1880, and his earnest activity and organizing ability secured for\\nhim the admiration of his friends and the respect of his opponents.\\nIn 1886 President Cleveland appointed liim Postmaster-general, and\\nthe citizens of Detroit, glad that their state was thus honored,\\ntendered him an impolitical banquet. He was the fourth represen-\\ntative from Michigan to achieve tlie honor of a portfolio\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cass,\\nMcClellan and Chandler having preceded him to the cabinet. The\\nlaw again claimed him at the close of his term of governmental\\nservice, and he is as indefatigable in its pursuit, as ambitious to be\\nknown as the thorough student in his profession, as in early days.\\nAs a citizen Mr. Dickinson is affable, sympathetic, generous, and\\nwhen to this is added the gift of being a capital storj -teller, the\\nsecret of his abiding popularity is revealed. In 1869 he was married\\nto Miss Francis L. Piatt, daughter of Dr. Piatt, of Grand Rapids,\\nwhose charming manners have added materially to the social\\nsuccess achieved at home and abroad by her husband.\\nGEORGE C. HUEBNER.\\nGeorge C. Huebner, treasurer of Wayne County, Michigan, was\\nborn at Detroit, March 6, 1857 and received his education in the\\nGerman-American Seminary and other private schools. He took a\\nbusiness course at O Brien s Commercial School. He became asso-\\nciated in business with his father, Edward Huebner, manufacturer\\nof sash doors and blinds, and at the age of eighteen took the road as\\ntraveling salesman, achieving in tliat relation the most meritorious\\nsuccess. During his second years service on the road he noticed a\\nwire door screen, from which he conceived the idea of manufac-\\nturing wire door screens on au extensive scale. Mr. Huebner intro-", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "ISO\\ntJETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nduced this special feature of manufactures and was tlip first man\\nin the United States to sell wire door screens to a joljber. This\\nindustry has since tin-ougli the Huebner Manufacturing; Conipany\\nattained vast proportions and constitutes tliat conii)any one of tlie\\nlargest in this Inie in tin- worlil. Jlr. Huebner was for many years\\ntlie secretary and treasurer of tlie Huebner Manufacturin-, Com-\\npany and still retains a large interest in the business. Jlr. Huebner\\nis an ardent Democrat and has always taken an interest in ward\\npolitics. He was elected to the State Legislature of 1889 by the\\nlargest majority of tlie seven members from tlie district and served\\none term with the liighest approbation from his constituents. In the\\ngeneral election in November, 1890, he was elected treasurer of\\nWayne County, by nearly 5,000 majority. He is a membi r of Pal-\\nestine Lodge, No. ;5.-)7, F. A. M., and of the Druids and the Mystic\\nCircle. He is married and has one child, a son.\\nWILLIAM MAY.\\nWilliam May, clerk of Wayne County, Michigan, was oorn in\\nNew York City in 185.3 and came with his parents to Detroit when\\nhe was but one year old. He was educated in the city public\\nschools and took a commercial cotn se at Mayhew s Business College.\\nlie learned the jjrinting trade and worked in that relation from\\n18G7 to 1870, liaving been one of the first compositors on the Even-\\ning iVetcsand for some time was foreman of the composing depart-\\nment. January 1, 1876, he engaged in the retail shoe business, in\\nwhich he continued uj) to 1882, when he accepted the position of\\ndeputy under John J. Enright, clerk of Wayne County, being con-\\ntinued in tlie same capacity under his successor, William P. Lane,\\nserving for four years under each. At tlie general election in\\nNovember, 1890, he was elected clerk of Wayne county by a major-\\nity of 6,284, tlie largest ever given to any candidate in this county.\\nMr. Jlay is an experienced oflScial and brings into the position his most\\nefficient executive abilities. He is a member of the Detroit Light\\nInfantry, and of various clubs and societies. He has been twice\\nmarried and has four promising boys.\\nJOHN A. HEAMES.\\nRegister of Deeds for Wayne County, Michigan, was born at\\nDetroit May 22, 1859, and was educated in the city public schools\\nand at Hellmutli Business College, London Ontario. His first busi-\\nness experience was as a clerk for D. M. Ferry Company, the\\nnoted seed merchants, afterward taking a position as office boy in\\nJOHN A. IIEA.MKS.\\nthe employ of the Detroit Leather Company, from whirli he was\\nadvanced to book-keeper and cashier. He subseijuently became\\nassociated with his failier, Henry Heames, in the building\\nmaterial business, in wliioh he continued until his election in\\nNovember, 1890, to tlie ofiiee of Register of Deeds for Wayne county,\\novercoming his competitor by 2,075 majority. Mr. Heames is\\nlargely interested in gold and silver mines in New Mexico and in his\\nfather s business as a dealer in building materials. He belongs to\\nvarious clubs in the city and is a director of the Detroit Club; a\\nmember of the Detroit Athletic, Michigan Yaclit, Lake St. Clair\\nFishing and Shooting, the Ilarmonie and West End Clubs. He is a\\nmember of the Masonic fraternity; a Knight Templar; member of\\nScottish Rite and of the Mystic Slirine. Mr. Heames married Miss\\nHarriet L., daughter of George F. Moore of tlie well known dry-\\ngoods house of Edson, Moore Company., who died in Juh 1888.\\nHe has since remained unmarried.\\n^VILLIAM MAY.\\nHARNESS, SADDLERY, TRUNKS, ETC.\\nJOHN NAYLON tt COMl ANV.\\nJohn Naylon, senior member of the house of John Naylon\\nComiiany, manufacturers and wliolesale dealers in saddlery and\\nsaddlery hardware, liorse clothing, robes, etc., 98 and 100 Jeli erson\\navenue, was born at Rutland, Vermont, December 14, 1850. At tlie\\nage of eighteen ho began to acquire the trade of harness maker,\\nand at the age of twenty-one removed to Binghamton, New York,\\nwhere he found employment in a wholesale saddlery store in which\\nhe remained for one year. He next associated liimself with the\\nhouse of Duguid, Wells Company of Syracuse, New York, in tlie\\nsame line, representnig it as a traveling salesman in Eastern\\nmarkets .mil in Canada. In 1877 he represented the Norton Dick-\\ninson Manufacturing Company of New York, wholesale saddlery,\\nas manager of sales at Detroit. In 1878, tliis (inn having failed,\\nMr. Naylon, together with Duguid, Wells Company, piuchased\\ntheir effects, resuming tlio business IS John Naylon Comiiany.\\nat 95 Jefferso:.! avenue. In 1881 the present location at 98 and 100\\nJefferson avenue, four stories and basement each, 25x100 feet, was\\noccupied as affording better and more commodious facilities and\\naccommodations. The firm, as it now exists, is represented by\\nMessrs. John Naylon, J. E. Wells, J. F. Roehrig and Tliomas\\nNaylon. 5Ir. Naylon has prospered with the years, and has made", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n151\\nknown far and wule. From his boyhood days Mr. Miles was an\\nardent lover of horses, and his extensive experience peculiarly fitted\\nhim for his present business as dealer in turf goods. His reputation\\nis world-wide, as the inventor of the toe weights, tips, horse boots,\\nstallion shields and driving bits, all of which inventions are of such\\npractical value and superior quality that his business in these and\\nin general turf goods has grown to immense proportions. His\\ndiscoveries and inventions being based upon practical knowledge of\\nthe horse and its requirements, his establishment has become one of\\nvast importance among the industries of Detroit. An important\\nspecialty is the stick fast toe weights, and stick fast interfering\\npads, Die inventions of Mr. Miles, whose business is now located at\\n326 Jefferson avenue. Previous to locating here Mr. Miles was\\nengaged in business at Fenton, Michigan. The establishment is\\none of the largest of the kind in the United States, dealing\\nexclusively in turf goods. The premises occupied are highly com-\\nmodious; a four story building 30x100 feet having been constructed\\nespecially for this business, having an elevator for the handling of\\nbuggies, road carts, robes, etc. The stock carried embraces every\\nvariety of horse furnishings and turf goods, and the trade extends\\nJOHN NAYLON.\\nlarge investments in Detroit real estate. He is enterprising and\\nprogressive, ami is a fitting exemplar of the large interests he so\\nprominently controls.\\nE. G. MILES\\nWas born at Tpsilanti, Michigan in 1843, and moved to Detroit\\nin 1886 where he commenced his present business. By the intro-\\nduction of a number of jjatented specialties, wlmse ingenious char-\\nacter attracted the attention of horsemen, his name soon became\\nUtARTIN JIAIER.\\nnot only throughout the United States but has reached many-\\nforeign lands, and is continually growing and prosperous.\\nMARTIN MAIER COMPANY,\\nManufacturers and jobbers of all styles of trunks, traveling\\nbags and tourist goods. Office and factory 113, 115, 117 Twelfth\\nstreet; retail salesroom 103 Woodward avenue. Mr. Martin Maier,\\nthe founder of this business, was born January 20, 1840, at Baden,\\nnear Karlsruhe, Germany. After serving three years at his trade\\nin the old country, Mr. Maier, in 1861, came to this country and\\ntraveled to different large cities, working at his trade until 1863,\\nwhen he enlisted in the United States Army, and was with General\\nSherman through the great Sherman s march. In 186.5 Mr. Jlaier\\nreturned to Detroit, establishing himself in business with very\\nlimited means, but industry, perseverance and integrity, combined\\nwith an accurate knowledge of the business, led him to success. In\\n1870 he secured the services of Mr. A. M. Duck, a man with practical\\nknowledge and many warm friends, who, in 1885, was taken in as\\npartner, this co-partnership existing until Mr. Duck s death, which\\noccurred the winter of 1800, when Uv. J. Allen Rose, who had been\\nassociated with the firm four years as confidential assistant, and\\nE. G. MILES.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "^52\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE\\nwho had previously been identified with this hue of business for\\neleven years, was ailniitted to partnership, assuming, in 1891, the\\nbusiness management and direction of tlie affairs of tlie house. Mr.\\nRose is eminently capacitated to administer tlio business in all of its\\ndetails, and has acquired a popularity wliich extends throughout\\nthe United States, anil which largely contributes to the success of\\nthe establishment. At tlieir factory the firm liave their own lumber\\nyard and all necessary appliances, including planing machines, rip\\nand circular saws, large dry kiln, together with all the latest im-\\nproved machinery for the manufacture of trunks, traveling bags\\nand travelers goods, using a fifty horse-power engine to run the\\nmachinery. The building is 50.\\\\200 feet, five stories high, including\\nbasement, lieated throughout by steam, owning their ow n electric\\nplant; in all, the largest and best eipiipped truidi and bag factory\\nin the United States. Thej- employ about 160 hands throughout the\\nyear; employ four traveling salesmen to dispose of their goods,\\nwhich, owing to tlieir reputation for style, dvirability and cheapness,\\nfind a ready market in nearly all the cities and towns froni Boston\\nto San Francisco. Their sales for the past year amounted to nearly\\n$300,000.\\nFURNITURE.\\nDetroit is a prominent center for the manufacture of furniture,\\nand is especially noted for the manufacture of chairs. One of the\\nlargest factories of tiiis kind in the city, and probably in this\\ncountry devoted to that enterprise is that of Murphy, Wasey Com-\\nI)any, vi hose specialties are chairs, wire mattresses and spring beds;\\nchairs being the leading feature of this establishment. They are\\nexclusive dealers in chairs and wire mattresses, this company\\nhaving an annual output of $400,000. Their daily product averages\\n2000 completed chairs. The Wolverine Manufacturing Company\\nmake centre tables a leading specialty; as does also the firm of\\nC. H. Habbercorn Company. Aertz, Jleyers Company are\\nnoted as manufacturers of chamber suites and office desks. Besides\\ntlie above and others named in this book, there are a large number\\nof general manufacturers and dealers in various lines of household\\nfurniture, rendering Detroit an important trade center for this class\\nof merchandise.\\nW. E. BARKER COMPANY.\\nWilliam E. Bauker, senior inemlier of the firm of W. E.\\nBarker Company, dealers in furniture and carpets and manu-\\nW ILTJA -M T. SIMPSON.\\nfactui ers of upholstered goods at 188 and 100 Woodward avenue,\\nwas born in Niagara county. New York, Ajiril 34, 1848 and was edu-\\ncated at a public school in Lockport, New York. At the age of\\nfourteen he became clerk in a grocery store, a position which he\\nfilled for about three years, when, becoming convinced of the ad-\\nvantages of acquiring a trade, he devoted his attention to the\\nupholstering business for two years. Coming to Detroit he became\\nassociated with the uj^holstery department of the business of Mr.\\nP. Blake for one year, after which he established the business of\\nmanufacturing lounges and spring beds which he has since suc-\\ncessfully conducted. He subsequently removed to 212 Woodward\\navenue and to 178 Woodward avenue, where he continued about ten\\nyears. In 1881 he took possesion of his present quarters at 1S8 and\\n190 Wootlward avenue which include a five story and basement\\nbuilding 3.5.\\\\100 feet in dimensions and which is stocked with a full\\nline of upholstered goods, furniture, carpets, and curtains, tlie fifth\\nfloor being devoted to upholstering. The firm as now constituted\\nconsists of Messrs. W. E. and H. B. Barker. Mr. W. E. Barker is\\nthe treasurer of the Adrain Furniture JIanufacturing Company, one\\nof the largest institutions of its kind in Michigan, and of which he\\nwas one of the principal organizers and among its principal stock-\\nholders and directors. He is the president of the Wolverine Manu-\\nfacturing Company, manufacturers of center tal les and woven\\nwire springs, corner Twelfth street and Grand Trunk Railroad,\\na director of the Centi al Savings Bank, member of Detroit Lodge,\\nNo. 2, of Masons. He lives in a splerrdid residence on Adams\\navenue, near the Grand Circus Park.\\nARTIFICIAL LIMBS.\\nW. E. BARKER.\\nWILLIAM THOMAS SIMPSON,\\nThe sul)ject of this article, was born at Northport, Ontario, in\\nJanuary, ls;!9. He received his eai ly education at Oshawa, to\\nwhich jilace his parents had removed shortly after his birth. At\\nthe age of fourteen jears he comnrerrced the battle of life as a\\nbridge builder, under the instruction of his father. At the age of\\ntwenty-one he left his native country and came to Rochester, New\\nYork, where an opportunity presented iteelf for hi.n to enter a\\nbusiness more in accordance with his inclinations, that of the manu-\\nfacture of artificial limbs; his natural adaptaliility for this business\\nsoon enabled him to become master of the art. During and after", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n153\\nthe late war an unprecedented demand sprung up for artificial\\nlimbs, and Mr. Simpson went South, when he entered the service of\\nsome of the most prominent artificial limb manufacturers of that\\ntime, wliere the Union and Confederate soldiers, alike, received the\\nbenefit of his skill and experience. In 1875 Mr. Simpson accepted\\nthe superintendency of the artificial limb factory, established in\\nDetroit by the late James A. Foster, and it was at his suggestion\\nthat some of the improvements that have made the Foster limbs\\nfamous were adopted. In July, 1881, Mr. Foster died, and in\\nOctober, following, Mr. Simpson became sole proprietor and only\\nsuccessor in Michigan to Mr. Foster, in the artificial leg branch of\\nthe business. At this time the Foster limbs had attained a reputa-\\ntion second to none, and were represented in fourteen states and\\nthe Western part of Ontario. Tlie close of the present year finds\\nthem in thirty-two states, all the provinces of Canada and the\\nNorthwestern Territory. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans have been\\nno barrier to the names of Foster and Simpson, for orders have been\\nfilled from England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and New Soutli\\nWales. We may also mention tlie fact that Mr. Simpson has a con-\\ntract with the United States Government for supplying limbs to her\\nlength upon these various railroads and their many branches con-\\nnecting this with otlier cities; brief mention is therefore made of\\nthe leading lines in their 1 elation to Detroit. There are twelve\\nlines of railway uniting this city with the surrounding country and\\nthereby aiding its commerce. As far back as 1833 the Detroit and\\nSt.Joseph Railroad Company was incorporated, and the road built\\nin 1836 and sold to the State of Micliigan, and in the year of 1846 it\\nwas purchased by tlie Michigan Central, and e.xtended to Chicago\\nin 1853. The first telegrapli line was put up in the state in 1847,\\nsending the first dispatch from this city to Ypsilanti, November 39\\nof tliat year, and the following year a line \\\\\\\\as completed to Buffa-\\nlo. Detroit received its first telegraphic dispatch from New York on\\ntlie first of March 1848. Up to the year of 1S63 there had been five\\nrailroads constructed whicli enter Detroit. The Jlichigan Southern,\\nMichigan Central, Detroit Port Huron, Detroit Milwaukee,\\nand the Detroit Toledo. The Jlichigan Central is now a leading\\nand important main line from Chicago to Buffalo, a distance of 530\\nmiles; its various branches are all in excellent condition and over\\n13,000 cars are owned by the company. The general offices are at\\nthe Central depot at tlie foot of Third street in this city. Their\\nMICHIGAN CENTRAL DEPOT AND THE RIVER FRONT, DETROIT\\nmaimed soldiers. A call at 113 and 114 Bates street will find Mr.\\nSimpson at his bencli, aproned and at work with his employes, some\\nsix or eiglit in number, all experts in his particular branch. Mr.\\nSimpson is not trammeled with the cares of public office, but is an\\nactive member of the Masonic Order, up to the thirty-second degree,\\na past-grand officer of the I. O. O. F., a member also of the Royal\\nArcanum, the A. O. U. W., and Order of Chosen Friends. In\\npolitics and religion he is liberal, his motto being charity to all,\\nwith malice towards none.\\nRAILROADS.\\nNo city in America lias better railway connections with trade\\ncenters and the outside world than Detroit; its peculiar location\\nforming an important link in the great chain of lakes with which\\nthis point is nearly surrounded, extending commerce and passenger\\ntraffic by the most direct route in all directions, and uniting this\\ncity with the Atlantic and the great Northwest, combiningclose con-\\nnection with various branches and subdivisions to all points of the\\ncompass. The vast amount of important matter in this book does\\nnot admit of space sufficient to allow its publishers to dwell at\\ndepot cost about .f250.000 and is a fine and commodk us building.\\nThe Lake Shore and Michigan Southern has a main line extending\\nfrom Chicago to Buffalo, and five branches, making a total of 1,340\\nmiles. Ticket offices and depot at foot of Brush street, and freiglit\\noffice at the foot of St.Antoine street. The Grand Trunk forming\\nthe western portion of the G. T. R. of Canada forms a complete\\nextention from the Atlantic coast to Chicago and the west. The\\npassenger and general freight office and depot, foot of Brush street.\\nThe Flint Pere Marquette, from Slonroe, Michigan, to Luding-\\nton Manistee, on Lake Michigan, forms an imjiortaut line\\nof commerce with Detroit. The headquarters of this road are at\\nEast Saginaw. Detroit office at Michigan Central depot, foot of\\nThird street. The Detroit, Lansing and Northern, has a main line\\nfrom Detroit to Howard City, a distance of 100 miles. Their general\\noffices are in the Hammond building. Captain William A. Gavett\\nis the local manager. The Wabash line, with general offices at\\nSt.Louis, Missouri, and passenger and freight dejmts at the foot of\\nTwelfth street, Detroit, is of great value and imj)ortance to this\\ncity, especially in its connection with the grain trade from the\\nSoutliwest, whose future possibilities are almost unlimited. The", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "154\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nDetroit, Grand Haven Milwaukee, running from Detroit to\\nGrand Haven, a distance of 189 miles, connects tliese points by\\nsteamers to Milwaukee. Passenger office, corner of Woodwaid and\\nJefferson avenue, with offices and depot at the foot of Brush\\nstreet. Besides the above named roads whose trains run directly\\ninto Detroit tliere are various other branches radiating from tlie\\nmain central lines, and thus form important connections with tiiis\\ncity as acommercial point. The Detroit, Monroe Toledo railroad\\nhas its office and depot at tlie foot of Brush .street. The road is\\nowned and controlled l)y the Lake Shore and Micliigan Soutliern\\nCompany. Tlie Detroit Jlacinac JIaniuette, wliose general otiices\\nare in Marfpiette, was incorporated in 1879, and has an office at No.\\n1, Newberry building. Detroit Bay ity Railroad, from Detroit\\nto Bay City, 109 miles, is owned by the M. C. R. R. Company. The\\nCanadian Pacific Railway lias its city ticket office at No. 11, Fort\\nstreet west. The passenger station is at the foot of Twelftli street.\\nThe new imion passenger depot, now in process of construction, on\\nFort street west, extending from Tliiiil lo Sixtli streets, promises to\\nbe a magnificent structure, and wlien completed will be an orna-\\nment to tliat portion of tlie city, as well as one of the most\\ncommodious depots in this ))art of the country. The incinn:di.\\nHamilton Dayton road has its Detroit office at ITi Jelfersoii\\navenue. The Lake Erie, Essex Detroit River Railway, connecting\\nDetroit with Kingsville, has an office at tlie foot of Canijiau avenue.\\nThe Detroit, Bay City Alpena Railroad has offices at lOO GriswoUl\\nstreet. The road extends from this city to Alger, over the M. C. R.\\nR., and from Alger lo Aljieiia, a distance of 105 miles. All of tlie.se\\nroads are in a most piospt-roua condition, enjoy an enviable poim-\\nlarity, and are indispensibly identified with tlie general welfare ami\\ncommercial prosperity of Ditroit. No otlier city in the union of its\\nsize offers better accommodations or facilities for transportation of\\npassengers or traffic than do the railway lines centering here,\\nand radiating to all parts of the United States.\\nSHIPPING.\\nDetroit has been noted since llic days i l Admiral Oliver New-\\nberry for its great shipping facilities; iis harbor formed by tlie river\\nbearing its name, is tlie largest and safest on the lakes, and affords\\nthe most perfect accommodation for the tourist, or for trades and\\ncommerce; it being a favorite channel for the shipping of freiglit,\\nas well as for an immense passenger traffic. Among the many fine\\nJOHN p. CLARK.\\nJESSE H. FAHWliLL.\\nvessels afloat Upon its waters may be named those of the Detroit\\nand Cleveland Steam Navigation Company, their City of Detroit\\nand the City of Cleveland are two as magnificent steamers as are to\\nbe found in Northern waters. Grummond s Slacinac line, Ward s\\nDetroit Lake Superior line, the Lake Superior Transit Company,\\nand numerous of lesser magnitude, including the Ferry Company,\\nmake up a compliment of sailing craft worthj of any country. The\\nDetroit Dry Dock Company have the largest ship building institu-\\ntion on the lakes. In the year 1S90 their output amounted to no\\nless than .f3,500,000.\\nJOHN PERSON CLARK,\\nWho died Sejjtember 3, ISSS, was one of the important pro-\\nmoters of shipping and tran.sportation in Detroit in the early days\\nof its history. He was born near Catskill, on the Hudson, April 10,\\n1808, and at the age of ten years he came to Jlichigan. In the year\\nuf IH X he made his first venture in tlie fish business. 51r. Clark\\nwas a large vessel owner; up to the time of his death he had built\\nand owned five passenger steamboats. He constructed the dry\\ndock at the foot of Clark avenue, and one half of the present AVest\\nEnd Park was donated by liim to the city, wliicli h.as good reason to\\nremember liim with respect and honor.\\nJESSE H. FARWELL.\\nThis gentleman was born at North Charlestown, Sullivan\\ncounty. New Hamjishire, January 22, 1834. His great grandfather,\\nWilliam Farwell, being aiiiong the first settlers of that town. Isaac\\nFarwell, a great uncle of this sketch, did valiant service at Bunker\\nHill. A great uncle, Wm. Farwell, was one of the first Universalist\\nministers of Northern New Hampshire, and Mr. Farwell spent the\\nfirst sixteen yeai S of his life at the family homestead, which\\nhas been in the family for over one hundred years. In 18. )0, ,at the\\nsolicitation of an uncle, a then prominent business man of Buffalo,\\nNew York, he went to the latter place, where he served tliice years\\nas an apprentice, and two years with his uncle, E. Farwell. at the\\nundertaking Inisiuess, at the end of which time he came to Detroit,\\nlate in the fall of 18. on the steamer Plymouth Rock. The boat\\nlanded at Di troit at 10 p. m., and before eight o clock ihe next\\nmorning lie had formed acquaintances in a citj where he was an\\nentire stranger, and the foundation was laid before breakfast\\n\\\\vhereby his new acquaintances, Marcus Stevens and Samuel\\nZugg, were to furnish the capital of $3,000 against his undivided", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\n155\\ntime and attention for five years, )ie taking one-third of the gain,\\nthe business being that of undertaking, which was continued for\\ntwelve years and tlien sold to Geo. W. Latimer in 1867, whereupon\\nhe embarked in the contracting business, under the firm name of\\nSmith, Cook Company, and later as the Ironizing Paving Com-\\npany. The patent of the Nicolson pavement was controlled by the\\nabove firm, and extensive operations were carried on in this and\\nother principal cities of Michigan. Upon the dissolution of the\\nabove mentioned company the business was carried on by him in\\nconnection with E. Robinson from 187.3 to 1885. For eight years,\\ncommencing in 1872, he was connected with the Clough Warren\\nOrgan Company, of this city, and during his connection with it it\\ngrew from a small begining to its present great proportions, being\\none of the largest manufactories of its kind in the United States.\\nDuring the depression of marine interests, following the panic of\\n1873, he commenced investing in vessel property, which has steadily\\nincreased and is to-day one of the largest vessel owners on the great\\nlakes. His eiforts in defeating the various bridge schemes for\\nbridging the Detroit River are well known and highly appreciated\\nby all in sympathy with the opponents of a bridge. His efforts for\\nimproving and caring for the great water routes of the Northern\\nand Northwestern points are second to none. A few years ago\\nwhen a blockade of St. Clair canal, through the recklessness of\\nvarious navigators coui)led with insufficient authority vested in the\\nlocal management of that important work, he penned the following\\ndispatch to President Cleveland:\\nDetroit, Mich September 6, 1888.\\nTo President Cleveland, Washington, D. C.\\nThe lake commerce of the entire Northwest is in hourly danger\\nof a permanent blockade at the St. Clair Flats Canal. The power\\nintrusted to Gen. Poe is entirely inadequate to enforce the needed\\nregulations for the safety of commerce and the protection of govern-\\nment works. Please issue the necessary order to Gen. Poe to use\\nthe means necessary for the protection of the canal and the safety\\nof the commerce i^assing through the same.\\nThis dispatch was responded to immediately, and at the request\\nof Mr. Farwell the United States Revenue Cutter was immediately\\nordered to the scene of danger. General Poe, acting with his usual\\nenergy in compliance with orders from the President, took charge\\nof the canal, and with the aid of dredges and tugs that were sum-\\nmoned from above and below, the olistsuctions were speedily\\nremoved, and one of the greatest calamities to the commerce of the\\nNorthwest was averted. Mr. Farwell was active in the removal of\\nDARIUS COLE.\\nWALTER 0. ASHLEY.\\nthe post office site to Fort street and subsequently secured the entire\\nblock for that purpose. He was president and princijial owner of\\ntlie Dominion Organ Piano Company of Bowmanville, Ontario,\\nthe largest of its kind in the Dominion; also president of tlie Farwell\\nTransportation Company, controling a large number of the largest\\nsteamers and sail vessels on tlie lakes. A democrat in politics and\\nunitarian in religion he was for many years trustee of the First\\nUnitarian society in Detroit, and president of the Michigan Uni-\\ntarian association. Mr. Farwell V7as married April 2. 18.59, to Miss\\nEmma J. Godfrey, only daughter of the late Jeremiah Godfrey of\\nDetroit. Three children are the result of this marriage, two sons\\nand one daughter, the elder son, George Farwell, being an exten-\\nsive contractor of nearly three miles of tlie Croton aqueduct, and\\nis at present prosecuting contracts with the United States Govern-\\nment for the new canal at Sault Ste Marie. The second son, Jerry G.,\\nis secretary and treasurer of the Dominion Organ Piano company\\nof Bowmanville. The early start which each of the sons h.avemade\\nand the extent and boldness of their oi^erations gives promise that\\nthey will not fall behind their father s example. Mr. Farwell was\\nat one time j^rincipal owner and first presi(Jent of the Evening\\nJournal company of this city, and to his care and firmness that\\npaper is largely indebted for its existence. One prouiinent, note-\\nworthy feature in Mr. FarwelTs life labor, and one whicli probably\\naffords most pleasing memoi-ies to himself and m.any friends, is the\\nfact of his donating tliat elegant structure in his native town,\\nknown as the Farwell School building whose corner stone was laid\\nJuly 4, 1889. Built of ruble stone secured in the neighborhood, and\\nfinished in natural wood in tlie most perfect manner, this ijuilding\\nstands as a lasting monument to the memory of its donor. While\\nother men have built academies, colleges and public halls as their\\nendowment, Mr. Farwell did more, he built for the children of his\\nnative town the foundation of their educational system in which\\nthey may grow to call him blessed, and which structure will be\\npointed out with pride and credit given to its liberal donor in year*\\nto come when Mr. Farweil s name is written down as one who\\nloved his fellow men.\\nCAPTAIN DARIUS COLE\\nWas born in Wales, Erie county. New York, in 1818. his early\\nlife was spent on a farm and in mercantile jiursuits. In ISriO he\\nbecame interested in the steamboat business. The first steamboat", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\nto run between B^y City and Saginaw, the James VValcott, was\\nput on tliat route by Cajitain Cole, wlio also started tlie first line\\nbetween Detroit and Saginaw with the steamer Columbia, in 1835.\\nThe Huron, the Forest Queen, and tlie Northerner, were also run\\nover his line, the latter boat making one trip was wrecked by the\\nForest Queen, the vessel and cargo being a total loss, and the second\\nengineer of the Northerner was drowned in the collision. Since\\n1874 aptain Cole has continued his lake shore line, his present\\nboats being the iron propeller Arundel and tlie Metropolis. The\\nsteamer Darius Cole, built in 1885, is his masterpiece, and has few,\\nif any, superiors; this boat is now on the Port Huron route.. Captain\\nCole is cue of the oldest vessel men along the lakes and is widely\\nknown and universally respected.\\nASHLEY DUSTIN,\\nSteam vessel owners and transportation agents, foot of First\\nstreet, operate the following boats: The new and magnificent steel\\nsteamer Frank E. Kirby, the fastest on the lakes plying between\\nDetroit, Put-in-Bay and Sandusky; the steamer Riverside, be-\\ntween Detroit, Wyandotte, Crosse Isle, Amherstburg and Sugar\\nIsland; the steamer Gazelle, between Traverse City and Macki-\\nnac, and are agents for Crunnnond s Mackinac line of passenger and\\nfreight boats.\\nWalter ,\\\\shlky, seriior member of the firm i f Ashley\\nDustin, was born at Clareniont, New Hampsliire, October 20, 1835,\\nwhere he was educated at the public sclio /ls and at tlie Claremont\\nAcademy. He served as a clerk in a general store in his native\\ntown until the age of twenty-one, when he came to Michigan,\\nsecuring a position with W. H. B. Dovvling Company, at Port\\nHuron, which he retained for one year. For several succeeding\\nseasons he served as clerk on river boats between Port Huron and\\nDetroit, and Detroit and Sandusky. In 1867 he, together with the\\nlate John P. Clark, built the steamer Jay Cooke, for the Detroit,\\nPut-in-Bay and Sandusky route, of which he became manager. He\\nhas since lieen associated with the management of boats plying\\nbetween Detroit Sandusky. He is the managing owner of the\\nFrank E. Kirl)y. Mr. E. A. Austin, his nephew and partner in\\nthe business, is a native of Detroit, and a prominent representative\\nof marine affairs. Mrs. Ashley is a daughter of the late John P.\\nClark. Tlio family residence is 1 14 Adelaide street.\\nJOHN W. WESTCOTT.\\nCaptain John W. Westcott, marine reporter and general freight\\nnm\\n\u00c2\u00abtf^\\nJOHN W. WESTCOTT.\\nEDOAR A. DAVIS.\\nand vessel agent, was born December 19, 1848, at Warnersvi .le on\\nLime Island in the Sault Ste Marie river, Chippewa county, Mich-\\nigan. His family were the only white people on tlie island where\\nthey went to reside in 1847. He was educated in the public schools\\nat Marine City, to wliicli place his parents removed in 1850. When\\n13 years old he became waiter and porter on the steamer Forest\\nQueen positions which he held for three years, subsequently serv-\\ning as steward of the May Queen, and was afterward watchman,\\nmate and wheelman. In 1871-2 he commanded the propeller\\nAdmiral Rock running to lake Superior, and in 1S73 the jiropeller\\nPhil Sheridan. In the fall of 1873 he established bis ])resent\\nbusiness of marine reporter and general vessel agent at the ))ort of\\nDetroit, which consists in reporting the jiassage of vessels at this\\nport for owners, agents and the press. He was the originator of\\nthis business on the great lakes, and has demonstrateil in its man-\\nagement the most superior abilities. He owns an interest in several\\nboats and throughout his career has been successful and prosperous.\\nHe was married in 1879 and has iwo sons and two daughters. He\\nhas a splendid residence on Trumbull avenue where he lives sur-\\nrounded by captivating influences and the accessories of an enjoy-\\nable existence.\\nDAVIS BOAT OAR COMPANY.\\nCaptain Edgar A. Davis, president and manager of the Davie\\nBoat and Oar Company, w-as boi-n at Detroit, September 24, 18fi3.\\nHe received a limited education in the city public schools, his in-\\nnate disposition for boating overcoming any desire for knowledge\\nof a literary character. His mind continually ran upon boats and his\\nschool books were embellished by his rude pencil sketches of boats\\nU|)on the fly leaves. Losing his mother in his fourteenth year, his\\nlong lestrained amliition was given full sway by the consent of his\\nfather, though grudgingly given, to engage in service as a sailor on\\nthe lakes. The subseijiient elTorts of his father to induce him to\\nreturn to school were unavailing, and he was thenceforth permitted\\ntJ indulge his unconquerable facination for boating. He was by\\nnature a veritable boatman and his later career developed the\\nattributes which in his youth were so remarkably characteristic.\\nAs a sailor on a steam vessel on the lakes when but fourteen years\\nold, he exhibited abilities which can only belong to those by nature\\nadapted to such occuiiaticnis. After two years in this service he\\nbecame associated with his father in the fishing business in wliich\\nhe continued for eight j-ears, during the latter four years of wliich", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n157\\ntime he personally conducted and managed his own boats and fish-\\ning operations. He sold out his fishery interests in 1885, and in the\\nfollowing year embarked in boat building, having acquired consider-\\nable skill in this direction from liis knowledge of the proper\\nprinciples of construction and adaptation of boats in various\\nlocalities. His peculiar proficiency in this regard has been the\\noccasion of the most pronounced success in business and a promi-\\nnence of national identity. In October, 1890, he changed the title\\nof his industry from the Davis Boat and Oar Manufacturing Com-\\npany to the i\u00c2\u00ab-esent incorporated style of the Davis Boat and Oar\\nCompany, and lias won the mo t meritorious success and distinction.\\nHe still maintains a very small interest in the fishery business, his\\nhis attention being energetically and enterprisingly directed to the\\ncontrol of affairs of which he is the president and general manager.\\nDuring his experiences upon the great lakes. Captain Davis\\nexplored every bay and arm, chiefiy in small boats, in the manage-\\nment of which he is exceptionally skillful. He controlled the pleasure\\nboats at Belle Isle, the largest boat station in the world, containing\\n250 boats. In Captain Davis are remarkably exemplified the char-\\nacterest^c 5 and attributes which constitute the successful menin their\\nchosen vocations. His life has been largely made up of tlnilling\\nexperiences tinctured with a romance at once fascinating and\\ncharming, but in all of his ventures he has preserved the most\\nsterling integrity and honorable distinction. He was married in\\nJuly, 188-1 and his home is a true haven of rest and comfort. In\\nOctober, 1890, Captain Davis was elected Commodore of the Detroit\\nRiver Rowing and Yachting Association.\\nJ. C. GOSS COMPANY.\\nThe manufacture of sails, tents and awnings, has grown from\\nthe days of Shem to the present era to most gigantic proportions.\\nNot alone do they belong to the parajjliernalia of war and the equip-\\nments of arenic exhibitions, but are alike usefid and ornamental,\\nrespectfully to the marine, the tradesman, the Bohemian and the\\ncitizen, to eacli and all of whom they serve as articles of utility,\\ncomfort and pleasure. From the mammontli pavillion of Barnum\\nor Forei augh, to the most diminutive specioien of garden tent,\\nnothing in that line is out of reach of the capabilities of J. C. Goss\\nCompany to manufacture and supply, while their sails whiten\\nthe craft of many waters near and far, and their awnings shelter a\\nmighty host of patrons throughout the land, for their present trade\\nextends toward all points of the compass, not pent up in Detroit, but\\nreaching most states and territories as well as some foreign shores.\\nThe senior member of this firm, Mr. J. C. Goss, served his apprentice-\\nship when a boy at the age of thirteen with Mark Whitwell, Gibson\\nEDWARD GRACE.\\nCompany, Bristol, England, with whom he remained seven years,\\nwhen to better advance his knowledge he took a three years voy-\\nage to China, and Japan to gain a practical experience in the use of\\nsails on shipboard, coming to this country directly after, and work-\\ning at his trade eight years before engaging in business with a part-\\nner, T. W. Nobb, which partnership lasted five years, going alone\\nfor the succeeding seven years, when his business showed marked\\nimprovement. Early recognizing the fact than on account of the\\nlarge steamboats which would effect the large volume of sails being\\nmanufactured at his establishment, he made a gigantic effort to\\nsecure the patronage of the circus fraternity which has succeeded\\nbeyond his expectations. His partner, Mr. Beck, and himself\\nhaving for the past eight years made a special study of this impor-\\ntant and growing branch of business. Twenty years ago Mr. Goss\\nlanded at New York and came on to Detroit, starting sail making\\nin a small way, finally merging into that of tlie late Mr. Donaldson,\\nwho conducted the oldest factory of the kind in the state, first estab-\\nlished in 1858. By remarkable industry and energy, Mr. Goss has\\nnow established a manufactory of gigantic proportions, and finding\\nconstant and ever growing demands for his productions. Eight\\nfactory shops or lofts are conveniently situated near the river over\\n18, 20, 23 and 24 Woodward avenue, where from seventy to\\neighty hands find steady employmentduringtlie season lasting from\\nearly spring to autunm. Associated with him in the business, is Mr.\\nA. L. Beck, who for many years was an employe, and now an\\nactive and pushing partner in the firm. They fit out annually\\nnumerous of the largest steam and saihng vessels on the lakes and\\nrivers, and their ornamental awnings adorn and shelter a vast\\nnumber of the finest public and private buildings in tliis and other\\ncities tbrou rhont the land.\\nJ. C. GOSS.\\nA. L. BECK.\\nriDELITY STORAGE COMPANY.\\nEdward Grace, manager of the Fidelity Storage Company,\\nwas born in Ireland, March 21, 1846. After receiving a rudimentary\\neducation in the schools of his native country, he embarked with\\nhis parents for America, arriving at Quebec in his seventh year.\\nHere he was again put to school in the Notre Dame de Levis College\\nfor five 3-ears, completing his course in 1862. His first entry into\\nbusiness was in the capacity of clerk in the oflice of Duncan, Patton\\nCompany, lumber dealers, of Quebec, subsequently becoming a", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "158\\nDETR\\nN I -y\\nIN HISTORY AND COMMERCE,\\nI .1. SCHWAN KdVSKY\\nmember of the lirni. Willulrawiiig liis interests from Uiis firm in\\n1871 he went to Saginaw, Michigan, and re-engaged in the lumber\\ntrade in connection with an Euglisli firm, shijijjing lumber to the\\nEnglisli market. He continued at Saginaw until 1883, when he\\nremoved to Detroit and organized the Micliigan Lubricator Com-\\npany. Subseiiuently disposing of liis interest he founded the Acme\\nLubricator C omiiany, and acted as its manager until IS.sO. In 188-t\\nhe establislicd tlie Fidelity Storage Company, located at 27 and 29\\nWoodward avenue, in a four-story and basement l uilding. r)llxl2.5\\nfeet in dimensions, for storage purposes, and ailequately appointed\\nfor the extensive nature of the business. This liuildiug affords 3,000\\nsquare feet for storage acconnnodation, in addition to thirty rooms\\nfor jjrivate storage. Thomas Grace, the father of Edward Grace,\\nhas an interest in tlie business, but its management is conducted\\nexclusively by the son. Tliis venture lias proven highly successful\\nand the patrons of the business are of the best families of Detroit.\\nMr. Grace has been exceptionally fortunate in his Detroit institu-\\ntions, all of which have proven endnently succ-essfid and prosperous.\\nHe is tlie possessor of much valualilc real estate in suburlian districts\\nand in Clieboygan county, Michigan. He owns a half interest in\\nthe Long Lake summer resort in Cheboygan county, and consider\\nable tinilxr property. He is happily married, has three daughters,\\nand rcsid s in a handsome home at G98 Cass avenue.\\nF. J. SCHWANKOVSKY\\nIs the son of a Lutheran minister, and was born in 18.59 in Wis-\\nconsin. His education was gained in the parish and public schoo s\\nof Cundjerland, Maryland, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, whither\\nthe migratory olllce of liis father caused him to be for some time\\nlocated. In 1S70 his family moved to Detroit, Jlicliigan, and j oung\\nFrederick enteriMl the nuisic store of Hernum Bischop, on\\nJefferson avemie. Here tiie boy soon displayed great sagacity and\\nfine commercial qualities, and became fully imbued with the idea\\nthat he was destined to a great career in tlie music business. He\\nsoon mastered the details of the Bischop concern, and advanced so\\nrapidly that in 1879, three years after their becoming connected\\nwith that business, he had iiurchased it and was i)ushing it to the\\nfront with an energy that comnuinded the admiration of his neigh-\\nbors and customers. In 1880, having just attained his majority, he\\nhad absorbed into liis establishment the music concern of the\\nveteran dealer, Adam Couse, and finding his Jefferson avenue store\\ntoo cramjicd for his growing trade he removed to tlie former\\nquarters of Mr. Couse, No. 2;i Monroe avenue, where he remained\\nuntil lie look possession of the new jialatial edifice now occupied by\\nhim, at the corner of Woodward avenue and John R street. In\\ntwelve years he has developed his business from extremely diminu-\\ntive proportions to a course which turns over yearly a quarter of a\\nmillion dollars. The new temple of music having been built\\nexpressly for Mr. Schwankovsky s business just referred to, is one\\nof the most imposing and admirably equipjied music houses in the\\nWest. It is built of pressed brick and Ashland brown stone, and is\\nsix stories and basement, each story containing a floorage of ii, )O0\\nsquare feet. The basement contains the musical instrument depart-\\nment; the first floor consists of offices and salesroom for .sheet\\nmusic and musical lildature; the second floor is elegantly equipped\\nas a concert hall: on the third floor are tlie piano show-rooms; on\\ntlie fourth pianos, like the Kiiabe, Haines Brothers, Vose\\nSons, Wheelock and Vocalioa Peloubet Reed Pipe, and Carpenter\\norgans, may be seen in profusion. The fifth and sixth floors are\\ndivided into musical studios and rooms for tuning, repairing, etc.\\nA platform at the fifth floor, at the top of the bay window on the\\ncorner of the building, serves for outdoor concerts. The edifice is\\ncomplete, substantial and handsome, and constitutes a lasting and\\nworthy monument to Jlr. Scliwankovsky s entei prise and brilliant\\nsuccess.\\nFREDERICK .SANDERS.\\nThis gentleman is prominently identified with the epicurian\\npleasures of Detroit, and his jialaceof sweets is known far and wi le,\\nand is popular alike with young and old. His pavillion, situated\\nat 131 AVoodward avenue, occupying a commanding position for\\ntrade, where his parlors are hourly thronged with both sexes and\\nall ages. Mr. Sanders started business in 1875 without capital,\\nbeginning in a small way at his present location, which premises\\nhave been enlarged to commodious proportions. Mr. Sanders\\nworked alone at the outset, and by dint of hard labor and perseverance\\nhis business rapidly grew until he now employs about thirty people.\\nHis establishment is open the year round excepting on Sundays.\\nHe was the first to introduce in the L^nited States the now widely\\npopular ice cream soda water, which in the summer season is a\\nleading specialty with him. He also makes a specialty of fine\\nFKHDEHK K SANDEKS.", "height": "3461", "width": "2457", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "DETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\n59\\ncandies, and in the cold months his liot coffee, chocolate, beef tea\\nand chicken broth, are luxuries which he has introduced into this\\ncity. Mr. Sanders devotes his entire attention to the retail trade,\\nand old travelers have remarked that he sells more ice cream soda\\nthan is sold in any other city in the Union, which feature alone has\\nsecured him a neat fortune.\\nJ. WESLEY HUGHES.\\nWas born in Ontario, Canada, February 9, 1860, vrhere his\\nearly days were passed, and where he received Ids education. He\\nobtained his early knowledge of his profession from the well-known\\nphotographic artists Parke Company, who rank as the most\\nprominent photographers in Canada, with whom he remained for\\nfour years; when he moved to Detroit remaining four years in this\\ncity with Millard; when he began business for himself in Cold water\\nMichigan, staying at that place for two years, when he returned to\\nDetroit and formed a partnership with A. G. McMichael. Upon\\nthe dissolution of that firm he engaged in business for himself at\\nhis present stand 374 Woodword avenue, where at tlie present time\\nhe has one of the finest locations in the city bis commodious studio\\nfronting that important thoroughfare and overlooking Grand\\nCircus Park, As intimated elsewhere in this book Mr. Hughes has\\nmade the majority of the jihotographs from which the engravings\\nhave been furnished for this publication. Mr. Hughes has been\\nremarkably successful in building up one of the largest photo-\\ngraphic businesses in the city considering the short period he has\\nbeen established here. Having a true artist s ambition in every\\nsense of tlie word, he contemplates many improvements in his\\npremises and business in tlie nt.afuture.\\nTHOMAS W. PALMER.\\nHon Thomas W. Palmer, one of Detroit s most widely known\\ncitizens, was born in Detroit, January 25, 1830, of New England\\nparents. On his maternal side he is a direct descendent of Roger\\nWilliams. At the age of 13 years he entered the St. Clair Aca-\\ndemy and later attended the University at Ann Arbor, but owing\\nto a temporary difBculity with liis eyes, was obliged to discontinue\\nhis studies in his junior ear. In 1848, with five others, he made\\na tour of Spain on foot, visiting the Alhambra in Grenada and\\nother points. Returning to his native country he engaged in\\nbusiness at Appleton, Wisconsin, conducting a general store, which,\\nin 1851 was burned, Mr. Palmer losing everything lie had. He\\nthen came to Detroit and with his father engaged in insurance and\\nreal estate business. He was married in 1854 to Miss Lizzie Merrill,\\ndaughter of the late Charles Merrill. In 1878, Mr. Palmer was\\nelected to the Michigan State Senate by a handsome majority on\\nthe Republican ticket. Two years later he was elected to the\\nUnited States Senate and served for six years to the gi-eat advan-\\ntage of Michigan and the country at large. In 1889 he\\nJ. WESLKY HUGHES.\\nwas appointed minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to\\ntlia Court of Spain. While there be exhibited his love for the\\ncourt of Queen Isabella b} adopting a son, Murillo Castelar Pal-\\nmer, a child of singular beauty and remarkable brightness, whose\\npresence is the sunshine and deliglit of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer.\\nSenator Palmer is a man of extensive libei-ality, with a cheerful\\nand amiable disi^osition, and is deservidly popular with all who\\ncome in contact with him. He is closely indentified with the\\nbusiness interests of Detroit. Although a man of great business\\nconnections, the wise and thorough management of which have\\nmade him several times a millionaire, Senator Palmer is the\\ngenerous patron and lover of all mediums tliat tend to promote and\\nimprove the liest interests of the masses. His handsome and sub-\\nstantial contributions to charitable and pliilanthropic causes are\\nnumerous and unostentatious, and his own sjilendid home richly\\nabounds in all the deliglitful evidences of liis fondness for the best\\nmanifestations of modern refinement and advancement. He is\\npresident of tlie World s Columbian Commission, a position he fills\\nwith signal ability.\\nSANDERS PAVILLION.\\nMERCHANTS MANUFACTURERS EXCHANGE\\nThis institution was organized in 1878, and has grown to be one\\nof the most important business associations in the west. The organ-\\nization was completed on the 2Gth day of March, in the year named,\\neighty-two members signing tlie constitution on that day. Since\\nthat time the exchange has so increased that it now numbers among\\nits members a very large proportion of the manufacturers and\\njobbers of Detroit. It has not only kept pace witli the commercial\\ngrowth of the city, but has constantly gone in advance and so pre-\\npared the way that the business of the city miglit reach out to new\\nfields by new methods. The objects of the exchange are many. It\\nseeks to maintain a high and exact standard of business morality\\namong the thousands of dealers who buy in Detroit, and to guard\\nagainst fraud and imposition. By the intercliange of infonnation\\namong its members they are informed of any tardiness, irregularity,\\nneglect, or positive dislionesty on tlie part of any cuslonier of an\\nindividual member. As nearly every merchant in tlie whole region\\ntributary t i Detroit has dealings with members of tlie exchange,\\nthis serves to give an excellent system of reporting, pr()l)ably more\\nexact and reliable than is possible for any otiier system to supply.", "height": "3445", "width": "2416", "jp2-path": "detroitinhistory00mitc_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "i6o\\nDETROIT IN HISTORY AND COMMERCE.\\ny^-\\nTHOMAS W, PALMER.\\nIt is not only toward delinquent debtors that the efforts of the\\nexchange is directed. It is quick to recognize good business (juali-\\nties and lionorable business niothods, and to protect and advertise\\nthe credit of buyers who deal exactly and i)ay promptly. Thus it is\\nas valuable lo the reliable retailer as it is to its own members, an l\\ntends on every hand to foster a healthy and liberal trade spirit.\\nUowever import.ant Ibis system may be, it is not the only nor the\\nbroadest function of the exchange. Nothing of importance to the\\ninterests of Detroit is foreign to its aims. It endeavors to protect\\nits members against unjust discrimination on the part of common\\ncarriers, and to secure e(iuitable rates from the railroads entering\\nthe city. It is always interested in securing the construction of\\nnew railroads, where such are needed and seem likely to favor the\\ninterests of Detroit merchants. It has also done good service in\\nbreaking combinations of insurance companies, niadi to exact\\nexcessive i)reniiuins, and has everywhere arrayed itself against\\nevery fraud and imposition which attacks the business interests of\\nthe citj Two results have followed from the work of the exchange.\\nFirst, the nuinufacturers and jobbers of the city have found that\\nthey cannot afford to do without the assistance and jjrotection it\\ngives; second, the various agencies which formerly victimized busi-\\nness men as individuals have found that they cannot do so when\\nunited in so strong a combination. To defy the Merchants and\\nManufacturers Exch.ange of Detroit is to throw down the glove to\\nthe combined capital, shrewdness and determination of the business\\nmen of the city, and even a railroad or an insurance pool would\\nhesitate to attempt this. The exchange maintains executive, trans-\\nportation, arbitration, insurance, manufacturers and real estate\\ncommittees, each consisting of five members. The membership of\\nthe exchange is gradually increasing. Its officers are: President,\\nAlex. A. Boutell, of the Ulobe Tobacco Company; first vice-presi-\\ndent, John 8. Gray, of Gray, Toynton Fox, manufacturing\\nconfec tioners; second vice-president, Harvey C. Clark, of Far-\\nrand Williams Clark, AVhoIesale Durggists; treasurer, Frederick\\nWoolfenden, of the Dime Savings Bank; actuaiy, S. S. Seefred.\\nExecutive committee: William S. Crane, of the Vail-Crane Branch,\\nUnited States Baking Company; Horace Hitchcock, of H. Hitch-\\ncock, Son t^mipanj wholesale woolens and tailor s trimmings;\\nWilliam Reid, wholesale glass merchant; John B. Howarth, of\\nPingree Smith, manufacturers of shoes; John N. Bagley, of John\\nJ. Bagley Company, tobacco manufacturers. The president, vice-\\npresidents, and treasurer are ex-officio members of this committee.\\nThe hanilsome ofU -eR of the exchange are on the sixth flix r of the\\nMoflat Ijlock, corner of tiriswolil and Fort streets, and are always\\nopen for meetings of members and other business men.\\nSilas S. Seefued, the actuary of the Merchants and Manufac-\\nturers Exchange, feels, when he looks about him and realizes how\\nmany well known citizens of Detroit there are who have lived here\\nnot more than ten or twenty years, that he is entitled lo the distinc-\\ntion of being called one of the old citizens of this old city. Fifty\\nyears ago his grandfather, Daniel Seefred, swore allegiance to the\\nUnited States before the now venerable John Winder, then clerk of\\nthe United States Court, renouncing all allegiance to foreign prince\\nor potentate, especially the Grand Duke of Baden. At or alwut\\nthat time Daniel Seefred was in business at tlie corner of Jeflferson\\navenue and Cass street. For nearly sixty years the father\\nof the subject of our sketch, John C. Seefred, has been an\\nalmost continuous resident of Detroit, and is now living in\\nquiet retirement in a cosy semi-country home, on Vinwo jd\\navenue. His eldest son, Silas S., was born in this city in 1819, and\\nattended the Barstow Union School until ISO-l when with a desire\\nto strike out and see the world he took French leave of home\\nawl entered the regular army, serving at Forts Schuyler, Lafayette\\nand Richmond, in New York habor, until the close of the war,\\nwhen his regiment, the Seventh Infanty, was sent to Florida, where\\nhe performed duty as adjutant s clerk at post and regimental\\nheadquarters at Jacksonville and St. Augustine. At the end of\\nthree years of army life he went to school at Poughkeej)sie, New\\nYork. After graduating there he returned home and entered the\\nwell known Merc:iiitile Agency of R. (1. Dun Company, where\\nho remained until 1S79, serving as chief clerk for seven years of\\nthat time. He then acceiiled a situation in the office of the Mer-\\nchants IMamifacturers Exchange and was soon after jirouioted to\\nthe position which he has filled for the past eleven years. His\\nacquaintance with the leading busine.s8 men of the city is neces-\\nsarily very extensive, but he hopes to e.\\\\tend it still further as others\\nbecome better acquainted with the work and aims of the Exchange,\\nand, seeing its usefulness and importance, place their names upon\\nits roll of membership.\\nSILAS S. 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