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Dr. Gray has been an appreciative student of the history and teach- ings of the time-honored Masonic fraternity and is identified in an ac- tive way with its various bodies. ITis affiliations are here briefly noted : Durand Lodge, No. 344, Free & Accepted Masons; Emmet Chapter, No. 104, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is past high priest; Petoskey Council, No. 52, Royal & Seleet Masters, of which he is past thrice
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illustrious master; Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 36, Knights Templars, of which he is past eminent commander; De Witt Clinton Consistory, An- eient Accepted Scottish Rite, at Grand Rapids, in which he has received the thirty-second degree ; and Saladin Temple, Ancient Arabie Order of the Nobles of the Mystie Shrine, in the same eity. He is identified with various other fraternal and social organizations, including Petoskey Lodge, No. 629, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks. Both he and his wife are communieants of the Presbyterian church.
On the 23d of October, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Gray to Miss Ethel Galloway, who was born and reared in the province of Ontario, Canada, and they have a son, Archibald, who was born on the 5th of September, 1902.
WILSON H. SANBORN .- Professor W. H. Sanborn, principal of the Harrisville high school, which responsible and worthy position he has held since 1898, is well qualified by education and experienee to hold a high place in the ranks of Michigan educators. Professor Sanborn was born near London, province of Ontario, Canada, the date of his birth being the 12th of March, 1869. He is a son of Henry and Elizabeth San- born, who were born and reared in Canada, where was solemnized their marriage and where were born to them a family of eleven children. The father was engaged in the great basic industry of agriculture during the major portion of his active business eareer and his death oceurred in 1904. The mother is now a resident of Winnipeg. Four of their chil- dren came to the United States and of the number three are residents of Michigan.
Eighth in order of birth in a family of eleven children, Professor Sanborn received his preliminary educational training in the public schools of his native place, the same including a course in St. Mary's College. Subsequently he attended the London Institute, at London, Ontario, after which he engaged in the pedagogie profession, teaching in Canada for a time. In 1887 he emigrated to the United States, where he eventually received a teacher's life certificate. He began teaching at AuGres, Arenac county, Michigan, remaining in that place for a period of two years, at the expiration of which he obtained a position in the schools at Saginaw, where he resided for another two years, and he then passed the ensuing six years at Greenbush. In 1898 he came to Harris- ville, Alcona county, where he has gradually worked his way up to the principalship of the local high school. During his residence in this place he has given most efficient service as county school commissioner, to which office he was elected in 1901 and which he holds at the present time (1911). He has also been honored by his fellow citizens with the office of city assessor. He is the owner of considerable valuable real es- tate in and about the city of Harrisville and in all his business dealings he is known for his fair and honorable methods and for his genial cour- tesy. In politics he endorses the cause of the Republican party and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with the time-honored Masonic order, with the Knights of the Maccabees and with the Loyal Americans. Ever sinee his arrival in Michigan Professor Sanborn has been imbued with the spirit of enterprise which has always dominated this section of the
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country. In all his work he has been practical, accurate and straight- forward and his splendid reputation is unassailable. His affability and deference for the opinion of others have served to gain him an enviable position in the regard of his fellow men and such qualities make him well worthy of mention among the representative citizens of Alcona county.
In the year 1892 Professor Sanborn was united in marriage to Miss Sophronia Youngs, who was born in the province of Ontario, Canada. and who is a daughter of John Youngs, a representative eitizen of On- tario. To this union have been born five ehildren,-Nolle, Edith, Vera, Ward and Kenneth, all of whom remain at the parental home. The San- born family are devout Methodists in their religious faith.
EDWARD E. MILLER, who is the proprietor of a large and well equipped drug store at Traverse City, Michigan, is a man of indefatigable ill- dustry and fine business ability and he has built up his drug business to its present prominence from unimportant beginnings and a small amount of capital-if by eapital is meant money. Mr. Miller has devoted his whole energy to grasping the details of the business of his choice and each increase in his prosperity has been the logical result of some pre- vious, well defined business poliey, so that his large enterprise is founded on the rock of substantiality, financial integrity and reliability, and since its establishment has never suffered from the storms of financial calamity without or injudicious management within.
At Old Mission, on the peninsula in Grand Traverse county, Michi- gan, on the 26th of November, 1847, occurred the birth of Edward E. Miller, who is a son of Lewis and Catherine (Kiley) Miller, the former of whom was born in the state of New York, near the Canadian boundary line, in 1824, and the latter of whom was a native of Ireland. While a mere ehild Lewis Miller was doubly orphaned and after his father died he received no schooling at all. He spent some time in the Grand Trav- erse region, among the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, with whom he became a great favorite. After acquiring a very complete knowledge of the Indian language he became an Indian trader, continuing to be iden- tified with that line of business with much profit until the advance of civilization made the intervention of a middleman between the Indians and Whites unnecessary. In September, 1845, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Miller to Catherine Kiley, who had likewise been orphaned when quite young and who came to America from Ireland as a young girl. As time passed she made her way to Maekinae, then one of the out- posts of civilization, and it was at that place that she met and married Lewis Miller. To this union were born five children .- Henry L., who was engaged in mining near Butte, Montana, who died in 1905 in that eity; Edward E., the immediate subjeet of this review; Archibald A .; George, who was engaged in the elothing business in Traverse City, Michigan, died in Mareh, 1910, in that eity; and William, who died in 1883, at the age of twenty-five years in Traverse City, Michigan. Lewis Miller was summoned to the life eternal in 1899, at the age of seventy- four years, his cherished and devoted wife having preceded him to the great beyond in 1889, at the age of sixty-seven years.
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Edward E. Miller received his educational training in the old In- dian mission school at Old Mission, where he and his brothers were the only white pupils. Rev. Peter Dougherty and his two daughters, Nettie and Susie, were the teachers. Subsequently the school was removed to New Mission, now Omena, whither the Indians, in company with the Miller family, had journeyel in the late '50s. At Omena is located what is known as the "Cincinnati Resort," this being one of the most popular summer resorts on the northern lakes, it being frequented by residents of Cincinnati and suburbs. When Mr. Miller had attained to the age of fifteen years he secured a position as clerk in a general merchandise store at Northport, continuing incumbent thereof until 1864, in which year he established his home at Traverse City, where he secured employ- ment in the first drug store opened in Grand Traverse county. In 1875 he purchased a good supply of drugs, stationery, toilet articles and other wares kept in an up-to-date drug store and established himself in busi- ness in Traverse City. This store he continued to run for the ensuing twelve years, during which time he built up a large and lucrative pat- ronage and controlled a fine business. In 1887, however, he disposed of his business and entered the employ of Hannah, Lay & Company, as- suming the general management of the drug department of their general store. In 1897 he again launched into the drug business on his own ac- count and since that time he has built up an admirable trade. One of the most unique things in his possession is an old Indian cradle, of odd design, which has been proved to be over one hundred years old. It originally belonged to Kah-mis-kah-se-qua, a distinguished member of the Ottawas and a sister of Chief Nah-we-da-geshick, she being now seventy-five years of age. This relie appeals to the matron of to-day and shows how very primitive were the domestie arrangements for the care of the young and the conduct of the woodland households of one hun- dred or more years ago in the northern wilds. This cradle has a peculiar hickory handle, which answers a triple purpose .- it may be used to carry the cradle and papoose; in ease of accident it prevents the child from falling on its face; and thirdly, the cradle can be set up against a . tree and a string of beads hung upon the handle which, fanned by the wind, offers an attraction for the infant.
Time has only served to strengthen the relations between the Millers and their Indian friends. The members of the two tribes, the Ottawas and Chippewas, among whom the Miller boys were reared and educated. look upon them as a part of their own people. Born and brought up among them, the Indians insisted on giving each of the boys an Indian name, its bestował being accompanied by all of the Indian ceremonies, including feasting and dancing. The Indian name of the subject of this review is "Sha-win-e-ge-siek," which signifies Southern Day. In his political adherency Mr. Miller is a stauneh advocate of the principles and policies promulgated by the Democratic party and while he has never had aught of desire for political preferment he served one term as city clerk. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Traverse City Lodge of the Knights of Pythias and in his religious faith he is a devont member of the Congregational church.
On the 2d of November, 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
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Miller to Miss Sarah T. Beadle, who was born on England, a daughter of George W. and Sarah (Tucker) Beadle. The parents were likewise born in England and they became the parents of five children,-four sons and one daughter, three of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had two children,-Herbert E. and Florence C., the latter of whom is deceased. The son was born in the 20th of March, 1877, and was edu- cated in the city schools and in the Traverse City high school. He is now associated with his father in business and he married Miss Ethel Koyle, a native of the Dominion of Canada. The daughter was born on the 12th of April, 1885, and she was summoned to the life eternal on the 2nd of July, 1909, three days after the death of her mother, which occurred on the 29th of June, 1909. Concerning the daughter the fol- lowing article is here inserted, the same having appeared in the Detroit News shortly after her death, under date of July 7, 1909.
"Mah-e-wa-sig-e-num is dead. And because she is dead there is sorrow in the Indian towns of the Grand Traverse region, a lingering, poignant sorrow that will haunt the shacks of the sons of the braves for days to come; for Mah-e-wa-sig-e-num was the strongest link that bound them to the whites; they almost worshiped her.
"She wasn't an Indian girl. She was Florence Catherine Miller, daughter of E. E. Miller, prominent in society, a musician of talent and a friend of the Indians.
"Her father has more Indian friends, it is believed, than any other man in Michigan. They come to him for advice from the near-by In- dian towns; they write to consult with him from the deep forests of Canada and the far west. All his life Edward E. Miller has mingled with the copper-hued natives, and he has so worked his way into their lives that the name of Miller is one of the first learned by every papoose born within a radius of twenty miles of Traverse City. Before him his father knew the Indians.
"So the Indians came to know Florence Miller. She was a beauti- ful girl to look at and a woman of beautiful character. The natives were enamored of her. For each she had a smile and a word. She knew scores by name and they always addressed her as Mah-a-wa-sig-e-num. Almost two years ago Miss Miller was taken ill. She was then teaching in the Detroit Conservatory of Music, in which institution she was graduated. For months the end seemed inevitable; she gradually grew weaker until no hope was held out for a betterment of her condition. The Indians heard of this and they came to see her. Almost reverently they knocked at the door of the big white house that is one of the land- marks of Traverse City; awed and silently they entered her bedroom; softly they spoke to her. She answered in their own tongue. Dozens of them visited her during the last days of her life. Braves, squaws and papooses alike looked upon her. Mah-e-wa-sig-e-num died Friday, three days after her mother had passed away. And the Indians mourn as they perhaps would not mourn for any one of their own race."
FRANK T. TRUDE .- One of the alert, vigorous and resourceful busi- less men and loyal citizens of Traverse City is this well known and suc- ressful hardware merchant, whose finely equipped establishment is
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eligibly located at 104 East Front street. Ile handles a large and select stock of heavy and shelf hardware, stoves, ranges, etc., and makes a specialty of the installation of heating and plumbing systems.
Frank Thomas Trude claims the state of Nebraska as the place of his nativity. He was born on his father's farm in Pawnee county, that state, on the 29th of November, 1869, and is a son of Solomon H. and Mary Jane (Pierson) Trude, the former of whom was born in the state of New York and the latter in the province of Ontario, Canada. Solo- man H. Trude was born in the year 1838 and thus was sixty-nine years of age at the time of his death, which occurred in Traverse City, Mich- igan, in January, 1907. His wife still remains in Traverse City and is a member of the Baptist church, with which he likewise was long and actively identified. Concerning the six children the following brief data are given: Jennie is the wife of Charles Morgan, of South Dakota ; Frank T., of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; William J. is engaged in business in Traverse City; Mary Ellen is the wife of Barney Brillhardt and they reside in Battle Creek, Michigan; Eugene O., a busi- ness man; and Belle is the wife of Frederick MeKey, of Battle Creek, Michigan.
Solomon H. Trude was a son of Thomas and Elvina (Johnson) Trude, both of whom were born in the state of New York, the former of French lineage. The father was a farmer in the old Empire state, and the mother and father both died in Michigan. They became the parents of three sons and one daughter, and Solomon H. was the third in order of birth. The last mentioned was reared to the sturdy dis- cipline of the farm and his educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality and period. He continued to be actively identified with agricultural pursuits in his native state until the out- break of the Civil war, when he subordinated all else to go forth in de- fense of the Union. In 1861, in response to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Thirty-fifth New York Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front and with which he participated in the first battle of Bull Run and other engagements of minor order. He was soon incapacitated by illness caused by the drinking of impure water and after serving six months his condition was such as to necessitate his retirement, and he was given his honorable discharge. He remained in New York state until the late '60s, when he removed to Nebraska and numbered himself among the pioneers of Pawnee county, where he purchased and improved a tract of prairie land. In 1873 he sold this property and came to northern Michigan. He located in Leelanau county, where he reclaimed a farm from the wilderness and where he became a prominent and influential citizen, meriting and receiving the unqualified esteem of the community. He served a number of years in the office of justice of the peace and was one of the zealous workers in the local ranks of the Republican party. He held membership in MePherson Post, No. 18, Grand Army of the Republic, at Traverse City, Michigan, and ever retained a deep interest in his old comrades in arms. He made the best of improvements on his farm and at one time was the owner of a valuable lauded estate of one hundred and sixty acres.
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Frank T. Trude was four years of age at the time when, in 1873, his parents left the broad prairies of Nebraska and came to Leelanau county, Michigan, where he was reared to maturity under the scenes and influences of the pioneer farm, in the work of which he early be- gan to contribute his quota. He was afforded the advantages of the public schools of the village of Bingham, that county, and supplemented this by a course in the Traverse City high school, in which he was grad- uated in 1891, as a member of the same class as was George L. Crisp, the present school commissioner of Grand Traverse county. After his graduation Mr. Trude secured a position as clerk in the hardware store of J. A. Montague, of Traverse City, and he continued to be thus en- gaged, as a valued and trusted employe, for the long period of twelve years, within which he gained a thorough knowledge of all details of this line of enterprise. At the expiration of the period noted, in 1903, he initiated his independent career by purchasing in the same city the hardware business of William J. Hobbs, and he has since continued the enterprise with much of success, as he has a wide circle of acquaintances in the city and its environs and his personal popularity has contributed to the upbuilding of his substantial business quite as much as have his fair and honorable dealings. Mr. Trude exemplifies the most pro- nounced civie loyalty and public spirit and takes a deep interest in all that conserves the material and social advancement of his home city. In polities, while never a seeker of official preferment, he is a staunch adherent of the Republican party, and he is affiliated with Equality Lodge. No. 503, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Traverse City Tent No. 871, Knights of the Modern Maceabees.
On the 12th of June, 1892, Mr. Trude was united in marriage to Miss Millicent Gilroy, and she died on June 9th of the following year, being survived by one daughter, Millicent Gertrude. On the 5th of June, 1895, Mr. Trude contracted a second marriage, as he then wedded Miss Re- becca Lulu Rupert, daughter of Adam Rupert, of Reed City. Of this union have been born four children,-Lulu May, Rupert, Kathryn M. and Frances, all of whom are living except Rupert, who died at the age of six years.
F. J. SHIPP .- The Dayton Last Block Works of Gaylord, one of the largest and most promising industries in that section of northern Mich- igan, are managed by F. J. Shipp, an able executive, a business man of initiative and broad caliber, and a citizen of unusually broad education. The plant covers fourteen and three-quarters acres, includes twenty- seven buildings, employs some seventy men and has an annual capacity of four millions of last blocks. Its product is shipped to all parts of the United States, as well as to Germany and Australia, the details of this large and ever increasing trade having been firmly and energetically con- trolled since 1905 by its present thoroughly-equipped manager.
Mr. Shipp is a native of Marshall, Michigan, born in 1872, and in that city he was reared and received his education through the high school curriculum, after which he pursued a course at Albion College, gradu- ating therefrom in 1896. Fitted by disposition and mental training for the profession of a teacher he continued in the educational field from the
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year named until 1903, when he identified himself with the Dayton Last Block Company as bookkeeper. Subsequently he taught two years in Montana and located at Gaylord in 1898, acting for five years thereafter as its superintendent of schools. Mr. Shipp's unusual qualifications for the superintendency of the widely-extended interests of the Dayton con- cern had, in the meantime, attracted the attention of several of its larg- est stockholders, with the result that he was offered and accepted the re- sponsible position.
Besides being one of the most active and valued members of the school board, Mr. Shipp has the honor of being president of the village board of trustees. He is high in Masonry, being identified with the Blue Lodge and Chapter, and is also an earnest member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Shipp is the son of T. J. and Fannie (Skinner) Shipp, the father, a native of Marshall, Michigan, and the mother, of England. Besides the subject of this re- view, the first-born, the following were the juvenile members of the family : (Dr.) W. S. and Bessie M. Shipp.
In 1898 F. J. Shipp was united in marriage with Miss Vieva S .. daughter of Dr. N. L. and Violette (Tinkham) ) Parmater, and to their union have been born Eleanor B., Elizabeth and Leland P. Shipp. The parents of Mrs. Shipp were formerly from New York state, where the Doctor was born of Vermont ancestry. As early as 1874 Dr. Parmater and his wife moved to Gaylord, where he settled as one of the pioneer physicians of this section of northern Michigan. He continued in ac- tive practice until 1905, and also rendered good service in civil matters as probate judge and coroner. In his earlier manhood he also rendered fine service of quite a different nature, being one of those brave and sturdy men of the north who, equally through days of gloom and vic- tory, firmly sustained the Union cause. Enlisting at the outbreak of the war in Company E, Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he after- ward held the non-commissioned rank of commissary sergeant; fought in the Virginia campaign; re-enlisted, at the end of three years of hard and active service, and bound himself to stand by the Union until the close of hostilities; then marched and fought with Sherman in his great campaign which swept toward the sea; in all giving five years of his life in defense of the Union and being discharged with wounds and honor.
EARL J. CASE .- The little town of Kingsley. Michigan, includes among its enterprising business men Earl J. Case, who, as president of the Case Lumber Company, is also identified with business in Michigan. Indiana and Ohio, dealing in a wholesale way at these places in humber. lath, shingles and cedar products.
Mr. Case is a native of Michigan. He was born at Kalamazoo, March 15, 1880, son of Ralph and Emma (Snyder) Case, the former of Michigan birth and the latter a native of Pennsylvania. When Earl J. was quite small the family home was changed from Kalamazoo to Kingsley. Here he received his early training in the district school. Later he entered Ferris Institute, at Big Rapids, Michigan, where he took a commercial course and fitted himself for a practical business life.
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Upon his return home from school, young Case became associated in business with his father. ' Later, in 1902, he formed a partnership with Mr. A. W. Overholt, under the firm name of Case & Overholt, and en- gaged in the hardware and tinning business. Subsequently he disposed of his interest in this company and formed the Case Lumber Company, of which he was made president and with which he has since been identi- fied, and at present, as already set forth, conducts business in the town of Kingsley and the states of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Mr. Case and Miss Maud MacDonald were united in marriage Sep- tember 15, 1900, and are the parents of two sons, Donald R., born in 1903, and Kenneth C., born in 1905. Mrs. Case, as her maiden name in- dicates, is of Scotch descent, her parents, George and Hattie (Irwin) MacDonald, trace back to some of the best known early families of Scot- land. She was born in Canada, but at the time of their marriage was a resident of Kingsley.
Mr. Case has a progressive and enterprising spirit that is felt for good and appreciated in the village of Kingsley. For two years he was clerk of the township of Paradise and for the same length of time he filled the office of clerk of Kingsley, and again and again he has been elected president of the village. He was first elected president of Kingsley in 1907, every year since then he has been elected to succeed himself, and at this writing, 1911, he is the popular incumbent of that office.
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