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CHARLES EDWIN LAWRENCE .- The subject of this sketch, being in the mining business of iron ore, started in this employment thirty years ago in Cleveland, Ohio .. At twenty-two years of age he left the city of Cleveland, Ohio, to make his future home in the Northern Peninsula, with the other pioneers in that district, and has helped in this position his employers in the various capacities. As the business of mining iron ore has grown largely during this period, Mr. Lawrence has likewise advanced. Starting as an office employe at fifteen years of age, he has now under his care and supervision twelve hundred men, working at eight different properties, owned by Pickands, Mather & Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and he holds the position of general superintendent of the Menominee Range properties.
During this thirty years of mining experience, he has been con- nected with the Republic Iron Company, the Cleveland Cliff Iron Company, the Minnesota Iron Company, and last Pickands, Mather & Company. The knowledge and experience gained through this long period has added largely to Pickands, Mather & Company's field of operations, especially so in Iron county, where four big iron ore bodies were located and found, being developed from homesteads in that vi- cinity, and which are now in active production. These properties are finely equipped with the most improved modern appliances, and espe- cial care and attention being given to the protection of the workmen, also to their moral and intellectual benefit. There was erected at the Baltic mine the first club house in the Upper Peninsula devoted to employes and their families. This club house has all of the modern conveniences for rest and recreation of the workmen, being furnished with tub and shower baths, barber shop, toilet rooms, including bowl- ing alleys, billiard, pool and card tables, also equipped with a large, well lighted reading room, supplied with the latest magazines and periodicals, combined with writing tables, and music supplied by a pianola and graphophone. This club house is open from one o'clock to ten o'clock, P. M., seven days of the week, being free to all mining employes and their families. This club house has been in existence for three years, and it gives such satisfaction that Pickands, Mather & Company are shortly to erect a second club house at the Caspian mine for like purposes.
Other mining explorations are being continued in the district to develop and enlarge the company's scope of activity, and all of which work has been confined in the neighborhood of Amasa and Iron River, Michigan. The development of these large ore properties Mr. Law- rence counts as his greatest accomplishment in this business, having started them as iron ore prospects on homestead ground, and complet- ing them to a successful and developed producing state.
Politically Mr. Lawrence is a stanch Republican, and while super- visor at Amasa in Iron County he was influential in bringing the credit to the county back to a standard of sound financial basis, as its credit had been discounted during the Democratic times previous to 1896.
While at Amasa he was instrumental in building up and establish- ing a Methodist Episcopal church, free of all debt, being the first in the community. Mr. Lawrence is a director in the several mining com- panies of which he is general superintendent, also he is a director of the First National Bank of Iron River, Michigan. He is connected with other mercantile businesses. and he has always taken a lively interest in school matters of Iron County, and has lent his encour- agement to this line of work.
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Fraternally he is a member of Crystal Falls Lodge, No. 385, F. & A. M .; of Crystal Falls Chapter, No. 129, R. A. M .; of Hugh MeCurdy Commandery, No. 43, K. T .; of De Witt Clinton Consistory, A. A. S. R., of Grand Rapids; and of Ahmed Temple, Mystic Shrine, at Mar- quette. Religiously he and his family attend the Methodist Episcopal church.
Charles E. Lawrence was born September 26, 1865, in Cleveland, Ohio, of English ancestry. His grandfather, William Lawrence, was born and reared in London, England, also his father and mother. Brought up in Cleveland, Ohio, Charles E. Lawrence attended the public schools of that city during his boyhood and youth, in the mean- time making himself useful in his father's market during the vaca- tions. At the age of fifteen years he was apprenticed to a butcher to learn the trade, but an apprenticeship of two weeks sufficed him, and he returned to the parental roof. Turning his attention then to the iron industry he began his active career as messenger boy in the office of the Republic Iron Company, in Cleveland.
Mr. Lawrence was married September 26, 1893, to Eliza Gentry of Ishpeming, Michigan, and they have one daughter, Dorothy Lawrence.
ROMULUS S. BUCKLAND, M. D .- Devoted to the practice of his pro- fession, Romulus S. Buckland, M. D., of Baraga, deserves, and enjoys, the reputation of being one of the most skillful and successful physicians of this part of the Upper Peninsula, where he has won a large and lucra- tive patronage. A native of Illinois, he was born, September 29, 1866, at Paxton, Ford county, a son of Romulus S. Buckland, Sr. His grand- father, William Buckland, a native of Pennsylvania, coming from Scotch-Irish stock, removed from the Keystone state to Albion, New York, where he bought land, and on the farm which he improved spent the remainder of his days.
Romulus S. Buckland, Sr., was born at Albion, Orleans county, New York, where he obtained the rudiments of his knowledge as a pupil in the public schools. He afterwards continued his studies at the Wes- leyan University, in Lima, New York, the institution now known as the Syracuse University, and was subsequently graduated from the Law Department of the University of Rochester, at Rochester, New York. Migrating to Paxton, Illinois, he there began the practice of his pro- fession, continuing there until his death, in 1866, at the age of forty- four years. He married Isabelle Kilgore, who was born and educated in Indiana, of Irish ancestry. Her father, Joseph Kilgore, a Pennsyl- vanian by birth, was a pioneer settler of Rockville, Indiana, where he spent his last days. Mrs. Isabelle (Kilgore) Buckland survived her hus- band many years, dying in 1889.
The only child of his parents, Romulus S. Buckland, Jr., was a small babe when his father died. He was given excellent educational oppor- tunities, attending first the public schools of Lima, New York, and later the Wesleyan Seminary at Geneseo, New York. Going then to North Dakota, he began reading medicine with Dr. T. M. Merchant, and subse- quently entered the Fort Wayne Medical College, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, from which he was graduated with the class of 1892. Com- mencing the practice of medicine at Ewen, Ontonagon county, Dr. Buck- land remained there until 1906, when he came to Baraga, where he is fast building up a large and remunerative patronage.
Dr. Buckland married, in 1890, Mary A. Simon, who was born in Laotto, Indiana, a daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Simon, and they have two children, Isabelle and Martha. The doctor is a member of the Upper
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Peninsula Medical Society, and is special agent of the United States Government for the L'Anse, View Desert, and Ontonagon bands of Chippewa Indians. These three bands numbering one thousand and forty-five Indians, are all located in Baraga county.
WILLIAM P. PRESTON .- One of the patriotic and public-spirited sol- diers of the Civil war and one who has held many important positions of honor in the ranks of the Democratic party in the home of his adop- tion, is William P. Preston, who was born on the eastern shores of Mary- land, on the 10th of January, 1845, and is a son of Joseph and Rebecca (Wright) Preston. The subject of this review is a scion of a stanch old English family and his ancestral forefathers immigrated to America as early as 1690.
William P. Preston received his preliminary educational training in the public schools and in July. 1861, when but sixteen and a half years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company B, Fifty-third New York Volunteer Infantry, in the great civil conflict which jeopardized the integrity of the Union. In this regiment he served as a loyal and gal- lant soldier until the 25th of March, 1862, when he was mustered out. On the 7th of June, 1862, he further showed his patriotism by enlist- ing in Company A, Fourth Delaware Volunteer Infantry, for a term of three years or until the close of the war. He participated in many of the important engagements marking the progress of this internecine struggle. He served in the Army of the Potomac and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox and after an eventful and faithful ca- reer as a soldier he was mustered out of service on the 17th of June, 1865, at Wilmington, Delaware. Contracting a fondness for military work he later enlisted in Company B, Forty-third United States Infan- try and in the spring of 1867 he was appointed first sergeant of his company. In August, 1867, he was transferred with his regiment to Mackinac Island and there served with all of zeal and devotion until May, 1869, when he was discharged from service in the Old Fort on that island. Mr. Preston became deeply impressed with the wild beau- ties of this most attractive island and he decided to establish his perma- nent home in this place. He engaged in the real-estate business and so rapid was his advancement in popular confidence and esteem that the month of May, 1872, marked his election as president of the village of Mackinac Island. This office he held for the long period of fifteen years. So effective and satisfactory were his labors as administrator of the municipal affairs of the village that on the incorporation of Mackinac Island as a city, he was forthwith elected as mayor, of which office he remained incumbent for two terms. For eight years he served as chair- man of the county board of supervisors. In politics he gives a stanch allegiance to the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor and he has taken an active part in the affairs of its local councils. He served as a member of the state Democratic central com- mittee from 1880 to 1884 and in the latter year he was chosen to repre- sent his party as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, which was held in the city of Chicago and which nominated Grover Cleveland for the presidency. In 1891 he became sergeant at arms of the lower house of the state legislature, at Lansing, Michigan. In 1900 he was again chosen delegate to the Democratic National Convention, held in Kansas City, Missouri, which nominated William J. Bryan for presi- dent of the United States. In 1904 he was once more elected to serve on the Democratic state central committee. He was also elected a mem- ber of the Democratic executive committee, of which office he is incum- bent at the present time.
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Mr. Preston has ever shown himself a loyal and patriotic citizen and has given his aid in support of all measures and enterprises tending to advance the welfare of the community and state and he is held in the highest regard by all with whom he has come in contact, his circle of friends being coincident with that of his acquaintances.
On the 3d of May, 1885, Mr. Preston was united in marriage to Miss Emma Snell, who was born in Bethlehem, Northampton county, Penn- sylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Preston are the parents of five children : Henry W., Joseph R., Cassius F., Susie R., and Marjorie I.
JOHN F. GOETZ .- When it is stated that Mr. Goetz is president of the board of trustees of the village of Detour and also supervisor of the township it is unnecessary to offer further voucher for the high regard in which he is held in his community, where he is recognized as a repre- sentative business man and public-spirited citizen. He is the owner of the Hotel Detour, one of the most popular commercial and summer resort hotels in the Upper Peninsula and the same is conducted according to the highest modern standard, as its popularity well indicates.
John F. Goetz was born in Waterloo county, province of Ontario, Canada, on the 3d of April, 1867, and is a son of Matthew and Mary (Weiler) Goetz, the former of whom was born in Germany, in 1815, and the latter of whom was born in Waterloo county, Ontario, where their marriage was solemnized. The father was summoned to the life eternal in February, 1906, and the mother is still living, being seventy-six years of age at the time of this writing, in 1910. They became the parents of nine sons and three daughters and of the number nine are living,- namely : Joseph, Matthew, Alois, Lena, John F., Anthony, Joanna and George. The father of the subject of this review came to America on a sailing vessel and landed in New York City, whence he made his way to New Jersey, where he was employed for some time as a blacksmith and whence he finally removed to Waterloo county, Ontario. There he es- tablished his home at Little Germany, where he engaged in the work of his trade. Later he removed to Bruce county, Ontario, where he secured a tract of wild land and reclaimed a farm, also maintaining a blacksmith shop on his farm, finding much demand for his services as a workman at his trade. In 1880 he removed to Chippewa county, Michigan, where he repeated his pioneer experiences by reclaiming a farm from the wilder- ness. The town of Goetzville, this county, now known as Gatesville, was named in his honor, and he was numbered among the prominent and influential citizens of this section of the county. He passed the closing years of his life in the village of Detour, where he took up his residence in 1891. While a resident of Canada he was identified with the Con- servative party and after leaving Canada he maintained an independent attitude in all political matters.
Ignatz Weiler, maternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, emigrated from Baden, Germany, to New York City, in 1812, and of his five children, Joseph Weiler, grandfather of Mr. Goetz, was the founder of the family at Waterloo county, Ontario, where he was one of the first settlers in his section.
John F. Goetz was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm and gained his rudimentary education in his native county in Canada. He was thirteen years of age at the time of the family removal to Chip- pewa county, Michigan, where he was reared to maturity and where he assisted in the reclamation and development of the home farm. Upon attaining his legal majority in 1888, he identified himself with the lum- ber business, in which he eventually developed a most prosperous enter-
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prise, in which he continued until 1893. He then established his home in the village of Detour, where he opened the Hotel Detour, which he has since conducted and which has gained a high reputation under his effec- tive management. He was prominently identified in securing the incor- poration of the village of Detour, in 1896, and was a member of its first board of trustees, retaining this office from 1896 until 1899. Since 1905 he has been president of the village board and as chief executive he has maintained a progressive policy and done much to further the material and civic prosperity of the village. In the autumn of 1909 he was elected supervisor of his township and he has since continued incumbent of this position. He is a stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and takes a deep interest in public affairs of a local order. He and his wife are communicants of the Catholic church and he is affiliated with Cheboygan Lodge, No. 504, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks and with the Catholic Order of Foresters.
On the 23d of February, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Goetz to Miss Annie McDonald, who was born in Bruce county, Ontario, and who was a daughter of Angus and Mary (Gillies) McDonald, the former of whom was born in Inverness, Scotland, and the latter in Nova Scotia. Of the twelve children seven are now living,-namely : Annie (Mrs. Goetz), John L., Donald, Catherine, James A., Hugh and Robert. Angus McDonald was a lad of twelve years when his parents, John and Catherine (McLean) McDonald, emigrated from Scotland to America. The voyage was made on a sailing vessel and the family landed in the city of Quebec. Eventually the family home was established in Bruce county, Ontario, and there Angus McDonald was reared to maturity. There he continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits until he came to Chippewa county, Michigan, and located in Detour township, where he reclaimed a farm from the wilderness and where both he and his wife continued to reside until their death. He was a man of sterling integrity of character, was a Democrat in his political proclivities and was called upon to serve in various local offices of public trust. Mr. and Mrs. Goetz have six children, - Albert G., Francis P., Olive Mary, Angus, Cath- erine and John F.
FRANK H. BROTHERTON .- For forty-four years a resident of the Northern Peninsula. Frank H. Brotherton has been prominently identified with the development of its more important resources, and as one of its leading surveyors is, mayhap, as much acquainted with its mining and timber interests as any other one person. A son of Almeran Brotherton, he was born, August 8, 1850, in Oakland county, Michigan, of substantial New England ancestry.
Almeran Brotherton was born, bred and educated in Connecticut, living there until 1832, when he came to Michigan, joining his father, David Brotherton, a pioneer settler of Oakland county. He bought land, and in addition to cultivating the soil followed his trade of a carpenter, living there until his death, at the age of fifty-two years. He married Mary Marsh, who was born in Connecticut, and they be- came the parents of six children, five sons and one daughter, Frank H. being the fifth child in order of birth.
Brought up and educated on the home farm, Frank H. Brotherton began his active career when fourteen years old, coming, in 1865, to Marquette, Michigan, as chore boy for W. L. Wetmore. Subsequently entering the employ of the Northwestern Railroad Company, he began working as a helper in the woods, and was gradually given more im- portant positions, becoming in the course of time estimator of timber.
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Mr. Brotherton was afterwards associated for three years with Pro- fessors Brooks and Pumpelly assisting in the geological survey of the Northern Peninsula, and was later with Charles E. Wright, of Mar- quette, as surveyor, and as a miner. From 1900 until 1901 he was manager of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company's mines at Dell Island. Mr. Brotherton has during his entire active life been con- nected with the mining and lumbering industries of the Northern Peninsula, but his work has taken him all over the United States, and he is widely known throughout the country, but more especially in Northern Michigan. He is a stanch Republican in politics, and has served as a member of the City Council of Escanaba.
Mr. Brotherton married, in 1871, Helen Adams, daughter of Leon- ard Adams, of Oakland county, Michigan, and they have one son, Ray A. Brotherton, a civil engineer and surveyor, now with the Cleveland Cliff Company.
GEORGE E. GALLEN, M. D .- Holding high rank among the active and successful physicians of Hancock, Houghton county, is Dr. George E. Gal- len, who has gained marked prestige in his profession, and is well known as a progressive and public-spirited citizen. He was born, January 27, 1874, in Reval, Russia, being one of a family of six children born to Dr. William Gallen. A native of Germany, William Gallen was educated at the University of Dorpat, and after his graduation from its Medical De- partment was engaged in the practice of medicine at Reval, until his death, at the early age of forty-two years.
A regular attendant of the schools of his native town during his youthful days, George E. Gallen obtained a good education. Leaving home at the age of nineteen years, he emigrated to America, taking up his residence at Virginia, Minnesota. A man of his mental cali- bre naturally inclines towards a professional career, and he intuitively turned toward the study of medicine. Subsequently going to Chicago, he entered Rush Medical College, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1899. Coming directly to Hancock, Dr. Gallen here began the practice of his profession, and as a physician met with such encouraging success from the first that he has continued here until the present time.
Dr. Gallen married, in 1900, Catherine L. King, who was born in Calumet, Michigan, a daughter of Richard King, a native of county Cornwall, England.
The doctor is prominent in Masonic organizations, being a member of Quincy Lodge, No. 135, F. & A. M .; of Gate of the Temple Chapter, No. 35, R. A. M .; of the Knights Templar, and of Ahmed Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is likewise a member of Hancock Lodge, No. 381, B. P. O. E. Politically he is a strong Republican, and is now represent- ing Ward One as an alderman, and is chairman of the Hancock Board of Health. The doctor is an all-round sportsman, fond of fishing and hunting, and being a skillful yachtsman.
EMIL G. ENDRESS .- From his youth to the present time Mr. Endress has been actively identified with the fishing industry on the Great Lakes and he was for many years associated with his father in this line of en- terprise at Sault Ste. Marie. The business was finally sold to A. Booth & Company, the large fishing concern of the city of Chicago, and since that time Mr. Endress has been manager of the interests of the com- pany at Sault Ste. Marie, being also a stockholder in the corporation. He is also a vessel owner, is progressive and enterprising in his attitude
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and is recognized as one of the representative citizens of Sault Ste. Marie, where he holds a secure place in the popular esteem.
Emil G. Endress was born at Two Rivers, Manitowoc county, Wis- consin, on the 8th of June, 1856, where he was reared and educated. He is a son of Carl W. and Marie Elizabeth (Schwink) Endress, both of whom were born in Germany, where their marriage was solemnized. They had nine children. Carl W. Endress was born in the year 1823 and in his native land he learned the trade of shoemaker, to which he there devoted his attention until 1854, when he immigrated to America and finally located at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, where he turned his attention to the fishing business, in which he was destined to achieve excellent success. In the spring of 1871, for the purpose of availing himself of the greater fishing advantages of Lake Superior, he removed to Sault Ste. Marie, where he continued to be identified with this line of enterprise until his death, at the age of seventy-eight years, his wife having passed away when seventy-three years of age. In politics he gave his support to the Republican party,
When thirteen years of age Emil G. Endress became associated with his father in the fishing business at Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and he was admitted to a partnership therein before he had attained to his legal majority. Some of his brothers also became associated as partners in the business, which was for many years conducted under the firm name of C. Endress & Sons. Upon coming to the Upper Peninsula in the spring of 1871 the firm were the first to initiate fishing at what is now Grand Marais, where they made their first catches in their new field. Later they removed to Whitefish Point and the business was built up to an enormous annual tonnage. The firm operated at various points on Lake Superior; its fleet reached a valuation of fully seventy thousand dollars and the products were shipped to the Chicago market. In 1898 the business was sold to A. Booth & Company, of Chicago, in which the subject of this review became a stockholder at that time and he has since had the management of the large and prosperous enterprise conducted by this corporation at Sault Ste. Marie. Mr. Endress is a stanch Repub- lican in his political proclivities, is independent and public-spirited as a citizen and while he has never sought official preferment he has shown a loyal interest in all that has touched the general welfare of the com- munity in which he maintains his home.
Mr. Endress was united in marriage to Miss Matilda Bernier, daugh- ter of Edward and Matilda Bernier, of Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Her parents are both deceased and she herself was summoned to the life eter- nal in 1905. She is survived by three sons, -Ralph, Ora and Clinton.
DELEVAN A. BROTHERTON .- Noteworthy among the men of enterprise and energy that are identified with the growth and prosperity of Es- canaba is Delevan A. Brotherton, city engineer, and county surveyor of Delta county, and the manager of the firm of Brotherton Company. He is rightfully considered one of the best engineers and surveyors in this section of the Northern Peninsula, and is filling the responsible positions which he now occupies with credit to himself and acceptably to the people. A son of the late Charles E. Brotherton, he was born, January 21, 1867, in Marquette, Michigan, of pioneer ancestry.
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