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After completing the curriculum of the public schools of his native place, including the high school, John M. Wuggazer was matriculated in the Grand Rapids School of Pharmacy, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1892, with the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy. He has been interested in the drug business ever since youth and his present fine establishment at Tawas City is well equipped with all the best and purest drugs. In politics he accords an unswerving allegianec to the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor and in a public way Mr. Wuggazer has been of great service to his fellow citizens. For two years he was incumbent of the office of alderman of Tawas City and in 1904-5 he gave efficient service as mayor of the city. In 1911 he was given further proof of the high regard of his fellow men in that he was then again elected to the office of mayor. He is proving a most admirable administrator of the municipal affairs of the city and it is always his aim to secure such legislation as will ad- vance the progress and development of the city. He is a man whose de- portment of character and loyalty to duty fit him for any municipal. social or civil position in life. He and his wife are devout members of the Lutheran church.
In the year 1903 Mr. Wnggazer was united in marriage to Miss Olive Culler, whose birth occurred in Illinois, where she was reared and edu- cated and she is a daughter of Henry Culler. Mr. and Mrs. Wuggazer have no children.
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DESIRE E. CARTIER .- A member of one of the honored pioneer fam- ilies of northern Michigan and a son of the late Antoine E. Cartier, who was long one of the most influential citizens and leading business men of the city Ludington, Desiré E. Cartier has from his youth been closely identified with the manifold and important interests that were projected and conserved by his father, and he is himself a man of large business affairs. A review of the life of his father appears elsewhere in this work, within whose pages are also sketches of other representative mem- bers of the family, so that it is not necessary to repeat the data in the article at hand. The city of Ludington gives well merited distinction to Mr. Cartier as one of its most influential and public-spirited citizens and as a business man of fine executive and administrative powers.
Desiré E. Cartier was born in the city of Manistee, Michigan, on the 31st of January, 1871, and when he was six years of age his parents es- tablished their permanent home in Ludington. His rudimentary educa- tion was secured in the Catholic parochial schools of Manistee and Lud- ington, in which latter city he also availed himself of the advantages of the public schools. In 1884 he entered the great Notre Dame University at South Bend, Indiana, in which institution he was graduated as a mem- ber of the class of 1892 and from which he received the degree of Bache- lor of Science. Upon his return to Ludington he became associated with his father's extensive business activities, with which he has since con- tinued to be identified and in connection with which he now exercises most noteworthy executive functions. He has been president of the Cartier Lumber Company since the death of his father, in March, 1910, and he is also president of the Cartier Manufacturing Company, an- other of the important industrial concerns of Ludington. The first men- tioned corporation gives employment to an average of two hundred and fifty men, and the latter company retains on its pay rolls an average of- ninety employes. Mr. Cartier is chairman of the board of directors of the Cartier-Magmer Company and is a director of the Ludington State Bank and of the Chicago, Racine & Milwaukee Line, which operates a fine line of steamers on Lake Michigan. He is also vice-president of the Northern Michigan Transportation Company and has other important capitalistic interests.
Mr. Cartier, like his father and brothers, stands exemplar of the most distinctive public spirit, and representatives of this sterling family have done much to foster the civic and material upbuilding of the city of Lud- ington. He is found aligned under the banner of the Republican party and both he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic church. He is one of the prominent and influential members of the Ludington organi- zation of the Knights of Columbus and he is secretary and treasurer of the local St. Thomas Society. In the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks he is identified with Ludington Lodge, No. 736, and was demitted to the same from Ashland Lodge, No. 558, of Ashland. Wisconsin, of which latter he was a charter member. He has also represented his lodge in the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the order.
On the 24th of April, 1890, Mr. Cartier was united in marriage to Miss Alice Coady, a daughter of Patrick Coady, who was a resident of Pana, Christian county, Illinois. The seven children of this union are:
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George E., Louise A., Alice and Alfred (twins), Rosemary, Elizabeth and Robert.
SILAS C. OVERPACK .- Among the influential and prominent citizens of the city of Manistee, Michigan, is Mr. Silas C. Overpack, who was born in Chemung county, Pennsylvania, on the 20th of March, 1842, a son of George and Mercy Overpack. The father was identified with carpentering and farming during the major part of his active business career and he removed with his family to Michigan about the year 1850. They settled in Oakland county, where the parents passed the residue of their lives and where they were summoned to the life eternal.
Silas C. Overpack, who was the sixth in order of birth in a family of ten children, received his educational training in the public schools of his native place and after his arrival in Michigan he entered upon an apprenticeship at the wagon-making trade. In 1868 he came to Man- istee, where he began the manufacturing of wagons and sleighs for lumbering purposes. Three years later he added to his original business the manufacturing of ten-foot logging wheels and salt and mill carts and eventually he introduced in his establishment a department for the sale of harnesses, whips, robes and blankets. He has constantly em- ployed a foree of from twelve to fifteen men and is recognized as an eminently successful business man. In polities Mr. Overpack takes a deep and sincere interest in the affairs of the Republican party and in connection with the general progress and development of the com- munity he has ever given most freely of his aid and influence. He has given most efficient service as a member of the board of supervisors of Manistee and has also served on the city council. In the time-honored Masonie order he has passed through the eirele of York Rite Masonry, holding membership in commandery No. 32, Knights Templars, besides which he is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In their re- ligious faith the Overpack family are members of the Unitarian church, but there being no church of that denomination in Manistee they attend the Congregational services. They are active factors in connection with all charitable movements in the city and contribute in generous meas- ure to all worthy measures advaneed for the public good.
At Manistee, in 1871, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Overpack to Miss Millie Magoon, who was born and reared in Manistee. To this union have been born three children,-Roy, Nellie and Stella. Roy was graduated in the local high school and thereafter entered the University of Michigan, at Aan Arbor, in the literary department of which he was graduated in 1903 and in the law department of which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1905, duly receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws. Immediately after graduating he became associated with his father in business. He is secretary of the Board of Trade of Manistee and is a stalwart Republican in his political convictions. In the Ma- sonic Order he is a Knight Templar and in the Knights of Pythias he is past chancellor. Miss Nellie is a musician. Studying first at Ann Ar- bor and later at Detroit under the instruction of Marshal Pease, she eventually went to the city of Chicago, where she continued her studies under Mrs. Willard Bracken, head of the Cosmopolitan School of Music.
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She is now engaged in teaching vocal music in the western metropolis and she has charge of the organization of vocal classes outside of Chi- cago. Stella remains at home, where she is attending school.
CHARLES B. TWEEDALE, M. D .- The son of an eminent physician and surgeon of the province of Ontario, the associate in his course in medi- eine of men who have since become renowned, and himself a diligent student and observant practitioner in several departments of his pro- fession, Dr. Charles B. Tweedale of Cheboygan has had some unusual advantages in his training for his life work in the circumstances amid which he prepared for it. His subsequent diligence in keeping the pace set for him by those circumstances, and the success he has won by this course, prove emphatically that he was worthy of their best lessons and that none has been lost on him.
The doctor is a native of Ontario himself, and was born at Vienna, Elgin county, in that province, on August 2, 1866. His parents, Dr. John B. and Frances (Beesley) Tweedale, were born in England and are both now deceased. Of the nine children born to them but two are living, the doctor and his older sister Florence, who is the wife of Frank Taylor, and is living in the state of Washington.
The father came to the New World in his young manhood partially prepared for a professional career, having begun the study of medicine and surgery in his native land. In continuation of his course he entered the Medical University of Buffalo, New York, and was graduated from that institution in 1857. He afterward pursued a special course of instruction in the Victoria University of Medicine in Toronto, and another in the medical department of Magill University in Montreal, and received a diploma from each of these great professional seats of learning.
He began, continued and ended his professional work in Elgin county and its eastern neighbor, Norfolk county, Ontario, passing the last eighteen or twenty years of his life and usefulness in the city of St. Thomas in Elgin county, continuing active in the practice until the end, which came in 1889, when he was sixty-eight years of age. He was highly endowed by nature and well trained by study and experi- ence for his professional duties, and rose to a leading place among the medical men of Ontario.
Dr. Charles B. Tweedale obtained his professional training in the University of Medicine in Buffalo, New York, being graduated . from the institution just thirty-one years after his father. After his grad- uation he took a post-graduate course in the university in company with nine other young men. One of these was Frank B. Hamilton, now famous as a surgeon. Another was Matthew D. Mann, also renowned in medical circles, and still another was Roswell Park, the eminent sur- geon who attended the late President MeKinley when the deadly aim of his assassin laid him on his deathbed.
Dr. Tweedale passed one year practicing in company with his father in St. Thomas, and then four trying years in eastern Michigan. In 1895 he located in Cheboygan, and here he has beeome one of the lead- ing physicians and surgeons of this part of the state. He specializes in
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blood, kidney and nervous diseases, and keeps himself up to the hour in knowledge of the latest developments in those lines of practice by a diligent study of the best literature published concerning them, and by frequent conferences with his medical brethren of other special lines and those in general practice. During the last fifteen years he has been secretary of the Cheboygan Medical Society, and for almost an equal period an active member of the State Medical Association, of whose meetings he is a regular and interested attendant.
The people of Cheboygan have not been ignorant of or indifferent to his ability and skill in his department of usefulness. He served as county coroner two terms, as county physician one term, and as city health officer in 1909, 1910 and 1911 at their behest, and gave all the interests involved excellent service. He was also surgeon for the De- troit & Mackinac Railroad. His fellow citizens have long held him in high regard as a physician of fine ability and great resourcefulness in emergencies, giving him their patronage in a considerable volume and depending on his services with absolute confidence and reliance. As a citizen he has been in the front rank for every line of civic duty and in popular esteem from his advent in the community and the beginning of his work among its people.
The big insurance companies, which always employ the best talent available to them for their needs, have also found him worthy of their confidenee and secured his services. He is at present (1911) medical examiner for the Mutual Life, the Indiana State Life, the Prudential, the Fidelity Mutual, the Manufacturers Life, the Security Mutual, the Michigan State Life, Detroit Life, and the Security Trust and Life insurance companies. He is also examining physician for numerous fraternal orders and beneficial societies. The doctor has taken a warm interest in fraternal life on account of its beneficent and social features, and given to several of the fraternities prevalent among men the ben- efit of his active and helpful membership. He belongs to and is a Past. Exalted Ruler of Cheboygan Lodge of Elks, and is also on the roster of Temple Lodge of Odd Fellows, Nekahnis Lodge of Knights of Pyth- ias, and Cheboygan Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. In polit- ical faith and adherence he is a steadfast and zealous Republican. Every interest of value in the city and county receives his studious and serviceable attention, and every worthy agency at work for the benefit of their people has his earnest, energetic and intelligent support.
EDWARD J. MCCARTNEY .- Among the representative citizens of Tawas City, Michigan, Edward J. McCartney is well deserving of recognition in this publieation, both on account of his business ability and also on account of his intrinsie patriotism to all measures projected for the good of the general welfare. He has here been engaged in the butter busi- ness, as junior member of the Tawas City Butter Company, since 1906. Mr. McCartney was born in Genesee county, Michigan, on the 2nd of February, 1871, a son of Henry and Ann (Purcell) McCartney, both of whom were born and reared in Ireland, whenee they came to America and to Genesee county, Michigan, in the early pioneer days. The father was engaged in the great basic industry of agriculture during the major
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portion of his active business career and he and his wife became the parents of six children, four of whom are now living. He was sum- moned from the scene of his mortal endeavors in the year 1873, at the early age of thirty-three years, and the mother passed away in 1898, at the age of sixty-two years.
Edward J. McCartney was the youngest in order of birth in a family of six children and he was reared to adult age on the old homestead farnı in Genesee county, Michigan, in the work and management of which he early became associated with his brothers. He was an infant of but two years of age at the time of his father's death and he was early in life thrown upon his own resources. However, he succeeded in getting a good common sehool education and in 1898, just after the death of his mother, he purchased a farm of eighty aeres in Maple Grove township, Saginaw county, forty of which are in a high state of cultivation. He was engaged in diversified farming until 1906, in which year he became an interested principal in the Tawas Butter Company. The firm consists of Mr. McCartney and H. A. Ammeron, the latter of whom has seven other creameries beside the one at Tawas City. Mr. Ammeron has been in the creamery business for a number of years and both he and Mr. McCartney are experienced butter makers. The Tawas Butter Company manufactures about thirty-five thousand pounds of creamery butter a year and it is recognized as an industry which adds considerably to the prosperity of the community and city at large. This concern has been located at Tawas City since 1908. The present finely equipped creamery consists of two rooms, one twenty-four by forty-six feet in lateral dimensions, and a boiler room twenty-four by thirty feet. In polities Mr. McCartney accords a stalwart allegiance to the prin- ples of the Republican party and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with various representative organizations of a local character. He and his wife are devoted members of the Catholic church at Tawas City and they are active factors in connection with church affairs. Mr. Mc- Cartney began life with nothing to back him but pluck and persever- ance and through close application to the affairs at hand he has made of success not an accident but a direct result.
On the 17th of October, 1898, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. McCartney to Miss Margaret E. Burns, a daughter of Patrick and Katherine (Hogan) Burns, both of whom are now deceased. The Burns family located in Saginaw county, Michigan, about the year 1872 and there the father became an eminently prosperous farmer, owning and operating a splendid estate of one hundred and sixty acres of most arable land. Mr. and Mrs. Burns had seven children and of the num- ber four are now living, namely,-Margaret E., Thomas, Annie and Frank. To Mr. and Mrs. McCartney have been born three children,- Henry, Francis and Kitty.
WILLIAM H. KIMBALL .- A well known and highly esteemed citizen of Ludington, where he is incumbent of the office of city treasurer, Mr. Kimball is well entitled to recognition as one of the representative men of Mason county, and he has passed the major portion of his life thus
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far in Michigan, where his parents took up their residence in the middle- pioneer epoch.
William H. Kimball was born in Schuyler county, New York, on the 1st of December, 1842, and is a son of John Kimball, who was born and reared in that state, where he continued to reside until 1859, when he removed with his family to Michigan and settled in Jackson county, where he purchased a tract of land and developed a productive farm. He was one of the sterling citizens of that section of the state and ever commanded the unqualified esteem of his fellow men. He lived to attain the patriarchal age of ninety-one years and virtually his entire active career was one of close identification with agricultural pursuits. He was a son of William Kimball, who was born in Maryland, and whose father was a native of Holland, a country from whence he emigrated to Amer- ica in the Colonial days. Mrs. Elizabeth (Horton) Kimball, mother of him whose name initiates this article, was likewise born and reared in the old Empire state of the Union, as was also her father, Thomas Hor- ton, a scion of stanch English stock. The lineage of the Horton family is authentically traced back to the sixteenth century. Mrs. Elizabeth (Horton) Kimhall passed the closing years of her life in Jackson county, Michigan, and was eighty-three years of age when she was summoned to eternal rest. Of the seven children five attained to maturity and four are living at the present time.
William H. Kimball, the sixth in order of birth of the seven children of John and Elizabeth (Horton) Kimball, is indebted to the common schools of his native state for his early educational discipline and was sixteen years of age when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Michigan, in 1859. He assisted in the work of the home farm in Jackson county until he was prompted by patriotism and loyalty to re- spond to the call of higher duty, when the integrity of the nation was thrown into jeopardy through armed rebellion. He was among the first to tender his services in defense of the Union. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a member of Company H, First Michigan Engineers, in which command he served for three years, during the major portion of which time he held the office of corporal. He took part in many of the impor- tant engagements marking the progress of the great conflict between the North and South, and it should be noted that he participated in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, the siege of Corinth and the battle of Stone River. He was never absent from his regiment during the entire period of his service as a valiant and faithful soldier of the republic, and he received his honorable discharge at Atlanta in October, 1864, at the expiration of his term of enlistment.
Upon the termination of his military career Mr. Kimball returned to Jackson county, where he continued to be aetively associated with the great basic industry of agriculture until 1873, when he came to northern Michigan and established his home in the village of Ludington, where he has thus resided for nearly two score of years, within which he has witnessed the development of this section into one of the most prosperous and attractive in the state. For many years he gave his attention to lumber inspecting, and in this line he had much to do with the exploit- ing of the magnificent timber resources which so long gave Michigan
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prestige and industrial prosperity. Mr. Kimball has been loyal and pro- gressive as a citizen and his sterling characteristics and unmistakable ability have marked him as specially eligible for offices of publie trust and responsibility. In 1894 he was elected sheriff of Mason county, and after giving a most admirable administration during his first term of two years he was elected his own successor, in 1896, thus serving four consecutive years in this exacting office. He was supervisor for the Sec- ond ward of Ludington three years and is now serving his third consecu- tive term in the office of city treasurer of Ludington. Strongly fortified in his political convictions and opinions, Mr. Kimball is uncompromising in his allegiance to the cause of the Republican party, and during the long years of his residence in Mason county he has shown a specially vital interest in public affairs and has given his influence and co-opera- tion in the forwarding of enterprises and measures that have tended to advance the general welfare of the community. Mr. Kimball is an appre- ciative and valued member of Pap Williams Post, No. 15, Grand Army of the Republic, is affiliated with Pere Marquette Lodge, No. 299, Free & Accepted Masons, and is a member of the Congregational church.
In the year 1873 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Kimball to Miss Laura Inez Fellows, a school teacher, and who was born and reared in Jackson county, this state, a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have two sons, Dr. Horton Fellows and Dr. John A. E., both of whom are skilled members of the dental profession and both of whom are engaged in successful practice in the state of Idaho.
HYMAN JOSEPH .- Especially fitted by natural talent, training and experience for a commanding position in the business world, Hyman Joseph is conspicuously identified with the promotion of the mercantile interests of Grayling as a member and the manager of the Grayling Mer- cantile Company, which was established in 1902 and is composed of the following named gentlemen: R. Hanson, Hyman Joseph, John K. Han- son and Marius Hanson. This is the largest and most important mercan- tile organization in Grayling as regards either capital, stock or building, bearing comparison with the large department stores of many of our thriving cities. The building in which this enterprising company is housed is two stories in height, and both floors are amply stocked with goods of a superior quality, a complete line of men's, women's and chil- dren's furnishings of the best qualities and most modern styles being kept constantly on hand. Under the supervision of its able and genial manager prompt and satisfactory service is given to its numerous pa- trons, and the business is extending and increasing in volume each year.
The youngest of the four children of Joseph and Martha Joseph, Hy- man Joseph was born in 1850, in Plock, Russian Poland, and was there reared and educated, living in his native country until twenty-five years of age. Emigrating then to the United States, he landed in New York city on April 15, 1875. In March, 1876. he made his way to Michigan, for three years thereafter making his headquarters in Bay City, but traveling throughout the northern part of the state as a dry goods sales- man. The business proved so profitable that in 1879 Mr. Joseph settled
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