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Robert Moore married, in Coshocton county, Ohio, Rebecca Thomp- son, who was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1818, and died in Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1894. Seven children were born of their union, of whom six are living, as follows: Belle, wife of J. Perry Dar- ling, of Ohio; John Q., of Canton, Kansas; James Thompson; Rebecca, wife of John J. Parrish; Effie M., wife of Rev. M. B. Mead, of Ohio; and Elizabeth S., wife of Rev. W. B. Taggart.
Brought up on the parental homestead, James T. Moore received his elementary education in the district schools, which he attended regu- larly during the winter terms, in the meantime becoming familiar with the various branches of husbandry. A diligent scholar and an ambitious student, he subsequently continued his studies at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1874. The ensuing two years Mr. Moore taught school, after- ward reading law in the office of Kent, Newton & Pugsley, at Toledo, Ohio. Being admitted to the Ohio bar, he was engaged in the practice of his profession in Toledo until 1883.
In June, 1882, Mr. Moore came to Sault Ste. Marie on legal business, and was so impressed with the advantages and possibilities of the place that a year and a quarter later, in September, 1883, he returned to this city, and took charge of the clerical department of the office of the regis- ter of deeds, serving under George W. Brown, registrar of deeds and abstracter. In 1885 Mr. Moore was admitted to the Michigan bar and prepared a set of abstract books of Chippewa county, and has since carried on an extensive business as an abstracter of titles, at the present time being the treasurer of the Soo Mutual Savings and Loan Asso- ciation.
Mr. Moore is an earnest supporter of the principles of the Republi- can party, and is influential in public matters, having served as secretary of the Sault Ste. Marie school board for the past seventeen years, while for three years he represented the Third ward as alderman. Fraternally he belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, and is a member, re- ligiously, of the Central Methodist Episcopal church.
On June 19, 1889, Mr. Moore was united in marriage with Elizabeth Donaldson, who was born near Windsor, Ontario, being the second child in succession of birth of the four children of John and Sophia L. (La-
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mond) Donaldson. Both of her parents were born in Canada, her father being of pure Scotch stock, while her mother was of French ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have three children, namely : Beulah R., Robert S. and James D.
ARTHUR A. JUTTNER .- It is a matter of gratification to find num- bered among the representative business men of the city of Menominee a definite quota of those who claim this city as the place of their nativity and who have here found ample scope for effective effort along normal and legitimate lines of business. Of this number is he whose name initiates this review. Mr. Juttner, who is the present incumbent of the office of county road commissioner, has also served as a valued member of the city council, has been a prominent figure in local affairs of a public order, and he is the proprietor of the National hotel, one of the most popular hostelries of the Upper Peninsula. He is also engaged in the real estate business, in which his operations have been of wide scope and importance.
Arthur Albert Juttner was born in Menominee, Michigan, on the 2d of December, 1865, and is the son of Joseph and Wilhelmina Juttner. both natives of Germany, where the former was born on the 6th of December, 1833. Their marriage was solemnized in Menominee, and of their five children three are living: Hugo, the first-born, was drowned in Green Bay, Wisconsin, when twelve years of age; the subject of this sketch was the next in order of birth; Emma is the wife of Nicholas Burr, of Green Bay, Wisconsin ; Otto J. is a resident of Milwaukee, of that state; and the fifth child died in infancy. The mother of these chil- dren died in 1868, and the father subsequently married Miss Mary Marshalek, who survives him, as do also seven of their children.
Joseph Juttner was reared and educated in his native land, from whence he came to America in 1853, making the voyage in a sailing vessel, and landing in New York City.' From the national metropolis he made his way to Chicago, and after remaining a short time in that city he re- moved to Muskegon, Michigan, where he was employed in a saw mill for a considerable time. From that place he removed to Flat Rock, Delta county, Michigan, where he continued to be similarly engaged until 1855, when he took up his residence in Menominee, where he continued to be identified with lumbering operations until the early sixties, when he turned his attention to the fishing business, in which he was interested until 1871. He then engaged in the hotel business, and in the spring of 1872 he opened the National Hotel, which at the time was the best hotel in the city. In 1881 he rented the hotel property and made a visit to his native land. Upon his return to Menominee he erected what is known as the National hotel, and this was one of the first brick buildings con- structed in Menominee. The hotel constitutes a portion of the Juttner Block, which was completed in 1883. He became an extensive dealer in real estate, and through his connection therewith did much to further the upbuilding and progress of the city and county. In 1884 he again actively identified himself with the hotel business, in which he continued to be engaged until the time of his death, which occurred on the 13th of October, 1890. He was a man of strong individuality, sterling integrity and marked business ability, and was one of the well known and highly honored pioneer citizens of this section of the state. He served for a number of years as a member of the board of county supervisors, and for several terms was a valued member of the board of education of Menominee, having held this position at the time when the first high-
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school building was erected. Before the incorporation of Menominee as a city he had been called upon to serve in various offices. He concerned himself actively in connection with the development of the iron industry and his capitalistic and business interests eventually placed him among the mnost substantial men of the county. In politics he was a staunch Democrat, and in a fraternal way he was identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Arthur A. Juttner, the immediate subject of this review, was reared to maturity in Menominee, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early education. He early became associated with his father's hotel and real-estate interests, and since the death of his father he has continued in the real estate business and is also proprietor of the National Hotel, which received a large and appreciative patronage from the traveling public and which has ever maintained a high reputation. In connection with his real-estate operations, he added a general insurance department in 1906. and in the autumn of 1908 he admitted to partnership C. Wein- hart, since which time the real estate and insurance business had been continued under the firm name of Juttner & Weinhart. As a business man and loyal public citizen, Mr. Juttner has well upheld the prestige of the honored name which he bears and is essentially progressive and public spirited. In 1899 he was elected to represent the Second ward in the city council, through which body he was re-elected in 1901 and 1903. He had the distinction of serving two terms as president of the council. and as a member of this municipal body he put forth his best efforts to conserve good government and to promote the best interests of the community. In 1898 Mr. Juttner was elected county road com- missioner for a term of six years, and in March, 1909, he was again elected to this office for a term of the same duration. He has been recog- nized as one of the leaders in the ranks of the Democratic party in this section of the state, and in 1900 he was a delegate to the national Demo- cratie convention at Kansas City. He was again elected to the city council in 1910. He is affiliated with the Marinette Lodge, No. 442, Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks; Menominee Lodge, No. 107, Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancellor; Menominee Aerie, No. 517. Fraternal Order of Eagles; and the Menominee Turn Verein.
On the 15th of February, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Juttner and Miss Anna C. Sieger of Detroit, Michigan, and of the two children of this union the elder died in infancy. Mary E .. the surviving child, was born on the 1st of July. 1907.
THE NEGAUNEE PRINTING COMPANY .- Among the noteworthy enter- prises that have been largely instrumental in promoting and advancing the business, industrial, educational and political interests of Negaunee, too much praise cannot be given the Negaunee Printing Company, which was established in 1903, with Thomas J. Flynn president, and Fred Dougherty treasurer, men of ability and enthusiastic zeal.
This company is doing an extensive and lucrative business in its special line of industry, among its other regular work printing the Negaunec Iron Herald, of which Mr. Dougherty is the managing editor. The paper was founded in Negaunee in 1873, by Clinton G. Griffey, who came here from Ohio, bringing with him his press and type, which Thomas J. Flynn, then a youth of sixteen years, and now president of the Negaunee Printing Company, helped to unpack and set up. When everything was in readiness for work, Mr. Griffey started the Negaunee Iron Herald. which was at first a small sheet, but was soon numbered
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among the influential papers of northern Michigan, becoming well known as its subscription list was increased. The paper has been Republican in sentiment from the first, and has exerted a healthful influence in party ranks, and has been an important factor in the upbuilding of Negaunee.
Under the active and efficient management given it for the past seven years, the Negaunce Iron Herald, the only newspaper published in Negaunee, has a very wide eirculation, and a long list of regular ad- vertisers. It is an eight-page quarto, issued weekly, and is in every re- spect a clean, up-to-date newspaper, a credit to the ability, enterprise and judgment of its proprietors and manager, and an honor to the city in which it is published.
THOMAS J. FLYNN .- Among the live, wide-awake and respected citi- zens of Negaunee, Michigan, is Thomas J. Flynn, president of the Negau- nee Printing Company, who stands high not only among those of posi- tion and influence, but among those in the common walks of life, his integrity and sterling traits of character being widely known and highly appreciated. A son of J. P. Flynn, he was born, November 22, 1856, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Prior to 1860, J. P. Flynn removed with his family to Ohio, opening a tailoring establishment at Ravenna. After the breaking out of the Civil war, he sold his shop, and enlisted in a Home Guard, as a member of this band of soldiers pursuing and assisting in the capture of Mor- gan, the noted raider, but not doing duty at the front. At the close of the conflict, J. P. Flynn eame with his wife and children to the Upper Peninsula, and after following his trade for a time in Marquette em- barked in the tailoring business at Negaunee, being in partnership for some time with Carl Rohl. He subsequently opened a shop of his own in Negaunee, and there resided until his death, in the early '70s. Of the children born to him and his wife, whose maiden name was Isabella Bullock, but three are living, as follows : Mrs. Isabella Roessler, of Jeffer- son, Wisconsin ; Thomas J., the subject of this sketch; and Winnifred, one of the Sisters of St. Joseph, and an instructor in music in St. Joseph's Academy at Sedalia, Missouri.
Brought up principally in Negaunee, Thomas J. was educated in the public schools. He began to be self-supporting in early life, and at the age of sixteen years began learning the printer's trade under Clinton G. Griffey, who came here at that time from Ohio, becoming printer's devil in the office of the Negaunee Iron Herald, with which he has since been identified. An apt pupil, Mr. Flynn soon became familiar with the duties of the office, being rapidly promoted from one position to another until made foreman of the office. In 1885 he bought a half in- terest in the business, continuing with Mr. Griffey until 1901, when a third partner was admitted. In April, 1903, the firm was reorganized, Mr. Flynn being made president of the Negaunee Printing Company, and Fred Dougherty the treasurer.
During his active career, Mr. Flynn has taken great interest in publie matters, and has served as school inspector, and for many years was city librarian. For a long time he belonged to the volunteer fire department, serving as its secretary for many years, and is now seere- tary of the Upper Peninsula's Firemen's Association. He is an active member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians; is a member of the Cath- olic Order of Foresters, helping organize the Michigan jurisdiction of this order, and serving as state secretary several years; and is like- wise a member of the Knights of Columbus, and of the Modern Wood- men of America.
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Mr. Flynn was united in marriage, November 22, 1877, the twenty- first anniversary of his birth, with Katherine Dee, of Ishpeming, Mich- igan, and they have one son, Gerald Flynn, seventeen years of age, who was graduated from the Negaunee High School with the class of 1910.
FRED DOUGHERTY .- A bright, brainy man, energetic and enterpris- ing, Fred Dougherty, managing editor of the Negaunee Iron Herald, is one of the most vigorous and successful journalists of the Upper Peninsula, and as treasurer of the Negaunee Printing Company, is connected with one of its most successful enterprises. A native of Michigan, he was born January 23, 1869, in Escanaba.
James C. Dougherty, his father, was born in Massachusetts, on Nantucket Island, July 5, 1841. Coming in early manhood to North- ern Michigan, he was a resident of Escanaba until 1879, when he removed with his family to Negaunee, where for ten years he was station agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company. He is now living in Munising, and is there connected with the Munising Railroad. He married, in Escanaba, Michigan, Emily Dunbar, who was the first school teacher in that place. She was born in Ohio, Sep- tember 12, 1842, and died in Munising, Michigan, May 22, 1907, leav- ing two children, namely: Fred, the special subject of this sketch; and Mary J., of Negaunee.
In 1886, having obtained a practical education in the public schools of Escanaba and Negaunee, Fred Dougherty secured a position as re- porter for the Marquette Daily Mining Journal, at first having charge of the Negaunee department of the paper, later superintending both the Negaunee and the Ishpeming departments. Going to Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, in 1890, Mr. Dougherty was connected with the Evening Wisconsin for twelve years, beginning as a reporter and for more than one-half the period named acting as telegraph editor. Re- turning to Negaunee, his former home, in 1903, he purchased the in- terest of Clinton G. Griffey in the Negaunee Iron Herald, and as its managing editor has met with eminent success, increasing the circu- lation of the paper, and making it one of the leading journals of the Upper Peninsula. After the retirement of Mr. Griffey from the paper, the Negaunee Printing Company was organized, in April, 1903, with Thomas J. Flynn as president, and Mr. Dougherty as treasurer, a po- sition which he is filling most ably.
JOHN H. PARKS .- Conspicuous among the foremost citizens of Crystal Falls. Iron county, is John H. Parks, head of the John H. Parks Mer- cantile Company, a clear-headed, progressive business man, who has met well merited success throughout his career. He was born June 4, 1845, at Standing Stone township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, a son of John Parks. Jr. His grandfather, John Parks, Sr., a native of Scotland, learned the trade of a rug and carpet weaver in his own country, and became an expert designer. In 1830, accompanied by his family, he came to America, crossing the sea in a sailing vessel, the voyage covering a period of three months. Locating in Thompson- ville, New York, he secured a position as weaver and designer, and there spent the remainder of his life.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John Parks, Jr. was but a boy when he crossed the ocean with his parents. Learning the trade of a weaver when young he followed it for a time in Thompsonville, New York, then moved to a farm in Standing Stone township, Pennsylvania. He was much given to trade and traffic, and on one occasion, leaving his
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family on the Pennsylvania farm, spent two years in the south, a part of the time being employed to superintend the slaves who were load- ing merchandise at the wharves in Charleston, South Carolina. That was a time when the slave trade flourished, vessels coming to port loaded with slaves, who were herded in the hold, and when landed were taken to the pen, and later put on the auction block. Visiting Wisconsin in 1854, he prospected successfully, and in 1855 took his family to that state, traveling by the lakes from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Milwaukee, from there going by train to Fond du Lac, the railway terminus at that time, thence with team to Outagamie county. That part of Wisconsin was then in its primitive wildness, with here and there a white man's cabin. Buying a tract of land in Bovina town- ship, he eut trees to make room for the log cabin, which was the home of the family for some time. A part of each year he engaged in log- ging, teaming the huge logs to the river and rafting them to Oshkosh, the remainder of the year being employed in clearing his land and till- ing the soil. He met with excellent success in his labors, in course of time having a valuable farm, well equipped with substantial frame buildings, and there lived until his death in 1884. He married Mary Hunter, who was born in Scotland, and came to the United States with her parents when young. Her father, George Hunter, settled in Thompsonville, New York, and there spent his remaining years. Mrs. Mary (Hunter) Parks survived her husband, at her death, in 1899, leaving five children, as follows: Jane, John H., William, Elizabeth and Nathaniel.
About ten years of age when his parents settled in Wisconsin, John H. Parks continued his studies in the log schoolhouse, with its rude, home-made furniture, acquiring a practical education. He began when quite young to work in the woods, and became an expert in the logging and lumber business. In June, 1864, his spirit of patriotism being aroused, Mr. Parks enlisted in Company E, Fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and with his regiment took part in many engagements of note. The first important battle in which he participated was against Early's army, in the Shenandoah valley, at the time when Sheridan made his famous ride on hearing, at Winchester, thirteen miles away,
"The terrible grumble and rumble and roar, Telling the battle was on onee more."
Mr. Parks was likewise present at the siege and capture of Peters- burg, as color bearer placing his colors on the fort while twenty-one Rebel flags were still flying from the ramparts. He witnessed Lee's surrender at Appomattox, standing within fifty feet of Generals Lee and Grant when the former passed his sword to General Grant, who passed it back to General Lee. In September, 1865, Mr. Parks was honorably discharged from the service, and returned to his Wisconsin home.
Soon after attaining his majority, Mr. Parks bought a tract of timbered land in Bovina township, Wisconsin, and while not employed in logging and devoted his energies to the improvement of his land. For- tune smiled on his efforts, and his land was in a comparatively short time transformed from a forest into a rich and productive farm. He was very successful as a lumberman, being a pioneer in that business in some parts of Wisconsin. In 1877 he entered the employ of P. Sawyer & Son, and subsequently continued with their successors, the Sawyer Goodwin Company, with whom he came to the Upper Penin-
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sula. Iron county was then a vast wilderness, the larger proportion of its broad acres being covered with a heavy growth of timber, while Quin- nesec was the nearest railway station. He continued his operations in lumber for a number of years; during which time he took out over three hundred million feet of lumber.
Locating at Crystal Falls in 1884, Mr. Parks, in company with his unele, George S. Parks, embarked in the mercantile business, putting in a stock of general merchandise, and at one time did a business amounting to more than forty thousand dollars a month. At the pres- ent time the John H. Parks Company carries a line of hardware and its accessories, only, having a complete stock, and is doing a sub- stantial business, its patronage being extensive and remunerative.
Brought up on a farm, Mr. Parks has never lost his love for agri- culture and horticulture, and now has a fine estate, nine miles from the city, bordering on Lake Chicago, where he has ample barn and stable room for his valuable stock, houses for his employes, and a com- modious, artistically constructed log cabin, situated on the lake shore, in which he and his family enjoy life seven months of every year.
Mr. Parks married. April 13, 1876, Eva A. Jewett, who was born in Wantoma, Waushara county, Wisconsin, a daughter of Eben and Mary (Parks) Jewett, natives, respectively, of Maine and Vermont, and pioneer settlers of that part of Wisconsin. Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Parks, Ulmer and Edna A. Edna A., wife of William Jolliffe, has three children, namely : Helen M. and Margaret J., twins : and John Parks. Mr. Parks has the distinction of having served as the first mayor of Crystal Falls, while previous to that time he had been president of the village board. Fraternally he is a member of Crystal Falls Lodge No. 385, F. & A. M .; of Crystal Falls Chapter No. 129, R. A. M .; of Crystal Falls Commandery No. 43, K. T .: is a charter member of Ahmed Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Mar- quette ; and a member of De Witt Clinton Consistory, at Grand Rapids.
JOHN N. FORSHIAR is the present treasurer of Schoolcraft county, and he is a life-long resident of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan, born at Escanaba on the 16th of February, 1875. His father, Joseph For- shar, came from his native state of New York to northern Michigan in the early sixties and settled among the early pioneers of this part of the state. He was associated with the Chicago and Northwestern Rail- road as an engineer, his home being at Escanaba, and he is now an engineer on the Manistique & Northern Railroad and a resident of Manistique. His wife, nee Mary Fagan, was born at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and is also living. John N. is their only son, but they have a daughter, Agnes, the wife of the Hon. George P. McCallum, collector of customs at the Soo, also an attorney there and a former representa- tive to the legislature.
John N. Forshar spent the first fifteen years of his life in his native city of Escanaba, attending school there and also at the Northern In- diana Normal College at Valparaiso, Indiana. At the age of about seventeen years he began railroad work as a fireman, thus continuing for fourteen years for the Delta Lumber Company, and he also ran an engine and was for two and a half years on the Soo road as a fireman. He finally left the railroad to become the locomotive engineer for the Manistique Iron Company, with whom he remained for six years, and then for some time he was engaged in the insurance business in this city. In the spring of 1907 Mr. Forshar was made the supervisor of the Third ward of Manistique, and re-elected to that office in 190S, and in
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the same year he was elected the treasurer of Schooleraft county. He made the race for that office with four other candidates, all prominent men, and he won the election by ninety-four votes. He is a stanch and true Republican, a prominent and influential local worker, and he has proved an efficient publie officer.
On the 28th of October, 1909, Mr. Forshar was married to Winifred Linderman. He is a member of the Masonic order, also of the Manis- tique Lodge of Elks, No. 632, and he is a member and the vice president of the local order of Knights of Pythias. He is also the secretary and treasurer of the Upper Peninsula lodge of that order, which met at Manistique in June, 1910. He is one of the active and influential residents of this city, prominent in its official, business and social life.
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