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AR RIGGS, HON. ROBERT V., Lawyer, of Wyan- dotte, Michigan, was born August 12, 1837, at Potter. Yates County, New York. He received
condition of the State, a series of table- wa, prepared an academic education; and, at the age of nineteen, and submitted by him, showing in detail estimates of commenced the study of law in the ofice of B. W. receipts, expenditures, and appropriations for the year. : Franklin and J. S. Van Allen, at Penn Yan, New York. 1872 to 1878, inclusive. Memorable in Governor Bald- | Here he remained until September, 1858, when he was win's administrations were the devastating fires which 'admitted to the bar. at Rochester. New York, as attor- swept over many portions of the North-west in the fall ney-at law and solicitor in chancery. He then entered of 1871. A large part of the city of Chicago having the office of the Hlou. John I. Lewis, Jun., at Penn been reduced to ashes, Governor Baldwin promptly Van, remaining until the spring of 1850, when he came issued a proclamation, calling upon the people of Mich- to St. John's. Clinton County. Michigan, and commenced igan for liberal aid in behalf of that afflicted city. the practice of law. He delivered the Fourth of July Scarcely had this been issued, when several counties in oration the same year ; and was elected village Clerk in his own State were laid waste by the same destroying the spring election of 1860. In the fall following, he element. A second call was made, asking assistance for removed to Mississippi, and remained until the winter the suffering people of Michigan. The contribution, of 1861, when he returned to Michigan, and settled at for these objects were prompt and most liberal. more Wayne. In May. 1864, he removed to Wyandotte, where than seven hundred thousand dollars having been re- he still continues the practice of his profession. In ceived in money and supplies for the relief of Michigan December, 1863, he married Mis, Nellie K. Morse, at alone. So ample were these contributions during the Penn Yan. New York. Since his residence at Wyan- short period of about three months, that the Governor dotte, Mr. Briggs ha, held the office of Justice of the issued a proclamation, expressing, in behalf of the peo- Peace for five years, and that of City Attorney for
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seven years. He drew up the charter incorporating | for member of the State Legislature, but was defeated Wyandotte as a city; and also drafted a code of ordi- with his party. He was a member of the Detroit Board nances for its municipal government. In ISOS he was of Health for three years, this being the only public elected to the Michigan Legislature, as Representative ' office he has ever held. Dr. Brumme is a member of from the Third District of Wayne County. In IS70 he ' the Michigan State Medical Society, and also of the became State Senator, and served for the years 1871 and : American Medical Association. He was educated as a 1872. While acting as Senator, he was a member of ' Lutheran, but his religious views have changed some- the court for the trial of the impeachment of C. A. Ed. I what. He was united in marriage, May 2, 1852, to monds, Commissioner of State Land-office. Mr. Bring- Emilie Steiniger, daughter of a military surgeon. She has always been a Democrat. In 1872 he was a d. le. died June 30, 1873, leaving three children. In IS75 gate to the convention, at Louisville, Kentucky, which . Dr. Brumme visited his native country, and, while there, nominated O'Conor for President in opposition to Mr. married his niece, the widow of lawyer Augustus Hlenze.
Greeley. Since this time, he has not taken any active part in politics, but devotes his entire time to the prac -; tice of law.
RATSHAW. JOSEPH B. II., Banker, of Detroit, was born in Belper, England, in 1814. He is descended from an old English family, whose
RUMME, CARL CONRAD GEORGE. Physi- coatof arms adorn, the floors of the stone house in cian and Surgeon, Detroit, was born in the 'which he and his ancestor, for several generations were University of Gettingen, province of Hover. : born. In 1819 he emigrated, with his parents, to Germany, June 21, 1817. His father, Willem Die hich ; America, first settling in Annapolis, Maryland. In the Brumine, was born at Hamburg, Germany. Speil 4. following year, they removed to Wheeling, West Vir- 1777. His mother, Maria Dorothea C'at ine ( Machien- ginia, where six years of his boyhood were spent, and pfordt ) Brumme, was born May 4, ips;, in Gottingen. where all his school advantages were obtained. He His grandfather, on the maternal side, was born Deven- les not remember the time when he was unable to ber 16, 1726; and died May 2, 1So ;. He was a gobi fre.d. His father lost his mean by misfortune, and, at and silversmith, organist in St. Crucis Clutch, and Gas an early age. Mr. Beat-haw became the main support of Senator. Two of his ancestors of the same name, whe the family. At the age of twelve, he went to Wells- were prominent men of the city, were leaders in the Gang. West Virginia, and was employed in the glass- Reformation. Dr. Brunune, the subject of this shet. h. wacky until he was nineteen. In September, 1833, he was educated in the schools of Gottingen, entering the proceeded to Zanesville. Ohio, and there wrought in the high school when eleven years of age, and graduating ' gla-works for six years. Having accumulated a small five years later. It was his early desire and intention to capital, as the savings of his weekly wages, he embarked study medicine; but, his father having died when he was in the grocery business in Zanesville, in 1839. In this six years old, and his mother having married again, his he prospered from the outer: and, having in the course step-father, a surgeon and dentist, apprenticed him for of nine years built up a good retail trade, he began a term of six years to learn surgery and dentistry. the wholesale business in ists, and established a large During this time, he frequented surgical and medical house. In the year iSos. he remwed to the city of lectures, showing a persistent desire to obtain a knowl., Detroit, and opened a whole-ale grocery house, which edge of medicine. His parents finally allowed him to he continued until 1876. In that year he sold out the study the profession of his choice. In May. IS40, he, business; and, in connection with Joseph Black, and was matriculated a. - tudent of surgery: and. in the fall , Clarence A. Black, his son, established the banking- of IS42, as a student of medicine. At that time, the house of Bratshaw, Black & Co. His business career of term for medical study was four years; bat. during the . thirty-seven year- was a prosperous one, and he retired fall of 1843. Prof. Edward von Seibold mad. him assis fron commercial pursuits with a fair competence. Dur- tant physician in charge of the Royal Lying-in Hospital. ing his residence in Zanesville, Mr. Bratshaw did all in his power to encourage the growth and prosperity of the place. At the firing upon Fort Sumter, though he had previ-
the appointment being confirmed by the Government. He retained this position nearly nine year .. In June. IS52, he sailed for America, arriving at New York on oudy been a Democrat, he realously espoused the cau-e the 25th of July, and in Detroit, Michigan, July 30;h. of the Union, and presided over the first Union meeting He at once entered upon the practice of his profession, held in Zanesville. At this meeting, he made an earnest in which he has ever since continued. Ile is a Repub. . . recch, strongly urging every man who claimed to be a lican in his political views, and received the nomination ; loyal citizen, whether Democrat or Republican, to sup-
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port the Government in its effort to preserve the I'nion. | century, but emigrated, before many years, to New This speech, and his subsequent action, alienated him | London County, Connecticut. Judge Brown graduated from the Democratic party, and, from that time, he be- from Yale College in 1856; and then devoted a year to study and travel in Europe. In subsequent vi-its abroad, he ha- renewed and enlarged the acquisitions of his early foreign residence. He entered the law school at Harvard, and remained there some time; but finished his law studies in the office of Walker & Rus- sell, in Detroit. Hle was admitted to the bar in that city in 1860. After a long service as Assistant United Crapo, Judge of the Wayne Circuit,-the highest court of general law and chancery juri-diction at that time in the city of Detroit. The duties of this position he came an ardent Republican. During the war, he made numerous speeches in the encouragement of enlistments, and contributed liberally for the same purpose. In 1862, while General John Morgan wa, making raids through Ohio, Mr. Brat haw helped to raise and equip a company from the First Ward of Zanesville, for the purpose of going out to encounter him, and was elected commissary of the company. His company, with others raised in ! States District Attorney, he was appointed, by Governor the vicinity, proceeded about eight miles down the Mus- kingum River; but, not meeting the Confederate forces. returned again next day. In performing his duties as commissary, he impressed into the service the team and discharged to the satisfaction of the bar and the com- wagon of a disloyal sympathizer, and foraged upon sev- imunity. Leaving this ofice in 1868, he conducted a eral citizens of that class for his supplies. This expedi. successful practice in Detroit until his appointment by tion was replete with interesting and amusing incidents, Pre-ident Grant, in 1875, to the position of United States Di-tik: Judge for the Eastern District of Michi-
In 1861 he was elected County Treasurer of the county of Muskingum, which office he held uuti hi- renewal to gan. The varied and responsible functions attached to Detroit. Mr. Bratshaw has written many articles for the this position demand breadth of professional attainment, press, upon finances and matters pertaining to the fa.an- unwearied industry, and high executive qualities. The cial condition of the country. He has, of laste year-, "manner in which these requirements have been met has given special attention to subjects of this nature. Dus- gained for Judge Brown a very flattering support for ing the past year, he has written for the Detroit Pris advancement to the United States Circuit Bench as suc- Current, a widely circulated commercial paper. Mr. cessor to its present occupant. Judge Emmons. Judge Bratshaw has always been strongly in favor of total ab. | Brown has always been connected with the Republican stinence, and is an ardent worker in the cause of tem- | party. He married, July 13. 1864, Caroline, daughter perance. Hle never drank a glass of liquor; and, when 'of Samuel Pitt-, Esq .. of Detroit
a young man, was an active member of the celebrated ! temperance order known as the Washingtonian. In the fall of 1875, he was one of the prominent actor, and ; speakers in the "law and order" movement in Detroit, which resulted in the election of Alexander Lewis for Mayor, and the strict enforcement of the State law for the closing of saloons on Sunday. Latterly, Mr. Brat-
shaw has been a prominent worker in the " Red Ribbon" leading business man in the community, engaged in temperance movement, and has greatly aided the cause general merchandising, farming, etc., and gave his sons by his means and influence. He is a member of the'a common-school education and a trade as their start in Masonic Fraternity, and, for six years, was Master of life. Christian HI. Buhl, having learned the trade of Amity Lodge, No. 5, of Zanesville. Ohio. He is now hatter, started out. at the age of twenty-one, to seek a member of Detroit Lodge, No. 2. Hle married, in ! his fortune. After having traveled through some of the 1840, at Zanesville, Ohio, Susan J. Shimer, a daughter then settled portion of the West, he arrived in Detroit of one of the pioneer, of that State. They have two'in 1833; and there, in company with his brother, Fred- daughters, both married, and residing in Detroit.
UHH .. CHRISTIAN HI., Wholesale Hardware Merchant, of Detroit, was born May 9, 1812, in Butler County, Pennsylvania. His father, a
jetick Buhl, opened a hat and cap store, - manufacturing, : to some extent, their own goods. This business, in a place so small as Detroit was at that time, was far too limited for the ambitious aspirations of the young mer- chant. They entered upon the fur trade, which after- ward, assumed large propentions, extending throughout the whole North-west. This branch of the business was conducted principally by C. H. Buhl, his brother managing the hat and cap department, which, with the growth of the city and State, was also becoming exten-
ROWN. JUDGE HENRY BILLINGS, Detroit, was born March 2, 1826, at Lee, Massachusetts. $ His father, Billings Brown, was a manufacturer. His mother was noted as a lady of marked strength of character and clearne > of perceptions. The Brown family settled in Massachusetts early in the seventeenth | sive. About 1842 or 1843, after the failure of the so-
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called American Fur Company, their trading-posts falling | prosperity of the city. His whole business career has into the hands of P. Chouteau, Jun., & Co., of St. been characterized by energy and industry, which have Louis and New York, the Messrs. Buhl arranged with them for the purchase of furs, on joint account, in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and a part of Upper Canada. They carried on a very large fur trade until 1853, when the firm dissolved; F. Buhl taking the hat and cap depart- ment, and C. H. Buhl continuing to deal in furs, upon his own account, for two years. He then turned this over to his brother, and formed a partnership with Mr. overcome all difficulties, and placed him in the foremost ranks of the successful merchants of Detroit. He has been a Republican since the organization of that party, though he has never been a strict partisan, nor an aspi- rant for political honors. The only political office he has held was that of Mayor of the city of Detroit, for the years 1860 and 1861, having been elected on the Republican ticket. He was married, in 1843, to Miss Caroline De Long, of Utica, New York. They have Charles Ducharme, under the firm name of Buhl & four children-two sons and two daughters. His sons are associated with him in the hardware business,-the eldest, Theodore D. Buhl, being his partner.
Ducharme, for the purpose of engaging extensively in the hardware and iron business. They purchased the large wholesale houses of Alexander II. Newbold and Ducharme & Bartholomew, and consolidated the two, thus forming one of the largest hardware establishments in the West. After the death of the junior partner, Charles Ducharme, in 1873, Mr. Buhl purchased his LINDBURY, HON. JOIIN, of Detroit, was born February 22, 1806, in the town of Lyon, Wayne County, New York, and was the eldest son of Joseph and Mary Blindbury. His father served in the war of 1812. At the age of twelve, Mr. Blind- bury lost his mother, who died of consumption, leaving a family of seven children. This loss was a severe blow, and felt the more keenly because the family was, at this time, in straitened circumstances, and the chil- dren required a mother's care and experience. At their mother's death, the younger members of the family became the charge of an elder sister. John Blindbury was early trained to hard work. His education was limited; he had only a few months in the year to devote himself to study, and the district schools were far inferior to those of the present day. At the age of nineteen, in the year 1825, he emigrated to Michigan. His companion was his brother-in-law, James Grunning, who afterwards became Judge of the State. MI. Blind- bury purchased eighty acres of land in the town of Southfield, Oakland County ; he erected a log house on his purchase, and then sent for his father's family. After seeing them settled, he began chopping, in the forests of Michigan, at four dollars and a half per acre. Unlike most young men of this day, he considered his time as his father's until he came of age. Nine months before that time, he gave his father a note to cover the value of his labor during the remaining months. After this, he went to what was then known as the Black River country, and entered into the lumbering business, in the employment of A. M. Wadhams. Here he remained about four years, at the end of which time he returned to Southfield, purchased one hundred acres of wild land, erected a log house, and began to clear the land for cultivation. He married, December 2, 1831, Maria Rogers, daughter of Moses and Polly Rogers, residents interest, and then admitted his eldest son, Theodore D. Buhl, to the firm, which has continued to be one of the most prosperous of the kind in the West. About the year 1863, Mr. Buhl, with several other gentlemen, pur- chased the works and effects of the Westerman Iron Company, at Sharon, Pennsylvania, one of the most successful in that section. He has ever since been con- nected with this company, and, having purchased the interest of two of the parties therein, is now one of its principal owners. At about the same time, he bought the controlling interest in the Detroit Locomotive Works, whose affairs were then financially in a bad con- dition ; and, with other gentlemen interested, infused new life and energy into the business, which at once revived, and for some twelve or fourteen years was very profitable, giving employment to hundreds of mechan- ics. About the year 1863, shortly after the passage, by Congress, of the law to provide for the establishment of National banks, he was one of a number of gentlemen who, for patriotic purposes, started the Second National Bank of Detroit, making it the leading bank in Michi- gan. At its organization, he was chosen Vice-President, which position he has since held; and, for a considera- ble portion of the time, has performed the duties of President in the absence of the President, Hon. H. P. Baldwin, from the city, as Governor, and while travel- ing in Europe. Mr. Buhl has been mainly instrumental in building two lines of railroads,-the Detroit, Hills- dale and Indiana, and the Detroit, Eel River and Illi- nois; was President of both companies for a number of years, and is still President of the latter. During his active business life of forty-five years, in the city of De- troit, he has been one of its leading citizens; has built several elegant blocks and stores for business purposes, and has encouraged and liberally aided all public im- provements that have tended to the material welfare and | of Southfield, and granddaughter of John Rogers, who 4
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served throughout the Revolutionary War. They have ! Here he practiced his profession until the end of the had three children, none of whom are living. He year 1859. During this time, he assisted his father, as remained on the farm for six years; when, owing to editor of Brownson's Quarterly Review, and contributed poor health, he was compelled to leave it. In 1837 he ; a number of articles, principally on philosophical sub- removed to the Grand River road, eight miles out of ' jects. He translated Balmes' Fundamental Philosophy, Detroit, and opened a small hotel. This proved a very which was first published in 1856. Mr. Brownson profitable undertaking, as many immigrants were then went to France in 1860, remaining one year; but ie- entering the State. He remained in this place nine turned, as he went, in very delicate health. On the years, and then opened another inn, two miles nearer breaking out of the civil war, he joined the 15th New the city, remaining eight years and doing a profitable . York Volunteer Engineers, as First Lieutenant ; he business. While living in the township of Greenfield, served with that regiment until December, 1861, when he was elected to several offices of trust, acting as ; he was commissioned a> Second Lieutenant of the 3d Ar- Supervisor thirteen successive years. In 1844 he was tillery of the regular army. He served, during the war, elected Representative of Wayne County in the State with the Army of the Potomac; and was wounded in Legislature. In 1850 he sold the hotel, and erected the head, at the battle of Malvern Hill, July 1, 1802. a dwelling-house near by. About this time he wa- For gallant and meritorious services during that battle, appointed Mar-hal of Wayne County. In 1852 he Mr. Brownson was made Captain, by brevet. At the removed to Detroit, and erected what was known for, battle of Chancellorsville he was shot through the hand. many years as the Blindbury Hotel, on the corner of May 3, 1863, he was taken prisoner, and contined in Washington and Michigan avenues, now known as the Libby prison, from which place he was liberated and Antisdel House. Mr. Blindbury was brought up a Meth- cAchinged on the 21st of the same month. For distin- odist, but never united with any church. He held very guished valor and bravery shown during the battle of liberal views on religious subjects. His life wa- exceed- Chancellorsville, he was brevetted Major in the United ingly upright. In politics, he was always allied with , States army. On the 25th of July, 1866, he was com- missioned as Captain, and engaged in reconstruction business, in Georgia and Virginia. Upon the reorgan-
the Democratic party. Mr. Blindbury die on the Ist of March, 1867, leaving a comfortable estate to hi- -- widow, whom he made his sole executrix. His life was ; ization and reduction of the army, in December, 1870, eventful, and was marked by hard work, energy, and ! he was transferred, by the War Department, to the 25th perseverance. His labor, were finally crowned with success; and he stand before us in his works, as a representative pioneer of Michigan.
ROWNSON, HENRY F., Lawyer, of Detroit, Michigan, the son of Obertes A. and Sallie
Infantry, -- a colored regiment serving in Texas and New Mexico. I pon receiving this order, he immedi- lately resigned. In January, 1871, he resumed the prac- tice of law, at Detroit, in partnership with Philip J. D. Van Dyke, with whom he is still associated. In politics Mr. Brownson has always been a Democrat. He married, on the 8th of January, 1865, Josephine Desnoyers Van Dyke, of Detroit. They have six children, -four sons and two daughters. Mr. Brownson enjoys a lucrative
(Healy) Brownson, was born in Canton, Massa- law practice, and is as much a student as when he first chusetts, August 7, 1835. When he was a year old, his began the reading of Blackstone. father began preaching in the Masonic Temple, at Bos- ton, and then removed to Chelsea. Here Mr. Brown- son attended the common schools until he was nine years of age, when he was sent to the College of the Holy Cross, at Worcester, Massachusetts, and remained there for four years. He then went to the Seminary of
URNS, JAMES, Retired Merchant, Detroit, was born November 10, 1810. He left his home in Lewis County, New York, at the age of nine St. Sulpice, at Paris, France, returning in 1851, and years, and started in life for himself. In 1826 he com- spending three months at Worcester for the purpose of meneed to learn his trade as carpenter and joiner, in graduating a- Bachelor of Arts. Hle afterwards attended , Turin, New York. Subsequently, he attended the Low- the university at Munich, Bavaria, remaining until the ville Academy, studying in the winter, and in the sum- summer of 1854. In September of the same year, he mer working at his trade. In 1834 he removed to began the study of law in the office of John P. Healy, [ Detroit, Michigan, where he pursued his vocation as at Boston. His father removed to New York, in Octo- carpenter and joiner for one year. During the succeed- ber, 1855, and Mr. Brownyou continued his law studies' ing year, he traveled on horseback over a large part of in that city, with T. James Glover, until September, 1856, 'the wilds of Michigan, buying largely of the available when he was admitted to the bar at New York. | lands, for himself and others. Ile afterwards became
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clerk in the dry-goods business for Olney Cook, with RUSH, HON. EDMUND A., who died at Grosse Point, near Detroit, Michigan, on the 10th of July, 1877, was one of the oldest American natives of Detroit, and his life may be said to have covered almost the entire history of that city. He was born in the latter part of the year 1802. His father, Colonel Elijah Brush, was a graduate of Dartmouth College, who, having first settled in Marietta, Ohio, removed thence, about the year 1798, to Detroit. There he subsequently married Mrs. Adelaide Askin, whose father had for many years been a leading merchant in the last-named city. In 1806, Colonel Elijah Brush received a conveyance of the Askin farm, subsequently known as the Brush farm, and occupied it until the time of his death ; after which his widow, with her children, continued to reside upon it for many years. Colonel Brush was the first Attorney-General of Michigan Ter- ritory, and held that office up to the time of his death, which occurred in December, 1813. He left four chil- dren,-three sons and a daughter,- of whom Edmund, the subject of the sketch, was the eldest. At the time of his father's death, Mr. Brush was but a lad, not yet through with his preparatory studies. In 1814, he entered Hamilton College, in company with Peter Des- noyers, of Detroit, who still survives him. He there completed his collegiate course and received his degree. Throughout his life, he retained a love for classical literature. He also spoke French fluently, which gave him great influence among the old settlers of Detroit, a majority of whom were French. After he had com- pleted his college course, he returned to Detroit, where he entered into active duty in the care and development of his father's estate. He was associated with General Lewis Cass, who, in 1823, appointed him City Register. His handwriting fills a considerable number of the early books of registered conveyances. He was afterwards admitted to the bar of the Territory, although he never became a general practitioner. He was a member of the somewhat noted expedition conducted in the year 1826, by General Cass and Colonel McKenny, to the Upper Lakes, in which arrangements were made with the Indians for allowing mineral explorations. Mr. Brush, from his earliest manhood, took an important part in the municipal affairs of Detroit, and in all its local concerns. The town was incorporated as far back as 1802, and in 1815, becoming a city, it was then, and for many years after, the emporium of the great North- western fur trade, and the center of Indian affairs. Mr. Brush helped to organize the volunteer fire department, in which he served, and took great pride. He was also, for one or more terms, Recorder, when no compensation was attached to the office, and the amount of labor was by no means inconsiderable. In 1852, when it became whom he became partner after two years. April 20, 1838, he married Aurilla A. Bacon. The dry-goods house of Cook & Burns, which, for seven years, trans- acted its business in a store on Jefferson avenue, where the old Masonic Hall now stands, was, during that time, one of the best known houses in Detroit. Subsequently, Mr. Cook retired, and T. L. Partridge was taken into the partnership, under the firm name of James Burns & Co. In 1850 the business was removed to Woodward avenue. For twenty years, the firm of James Burns & Co. carried on a successful trade in Detroit. In 1866 Mr. Partridge retired, and Mr. Lucien A. Smith was admitted as partner, the firm becoming Burns & Smith, which continued until 1874, when Mr. Burns retired, having been in the dry-goods business in Detroit for nearly forty years. In 1861 the Legislature organ- ized the municipal boards of Detroit, and Mr. Burns was appointed by the Mayor, C. H. Buhl, a member of the first Board of Review. As such, he served the citi- zens of Detroit twelve years, having been nominated and re-nominated by five successive Mayors, and ap- pointed by five successive Councils of different political principles from his own. This position he resigned in 1873, when he was elected to the Legislature, and served two years. As a member of that body, he was appointed upon the Committee of Ways and Means, and on many of the most prominent special committees, and strove to make himself useful rather than conspicuous. In the same year, he erected what is known as the Burns Block, on Griswold street, in Detroit; and, in 1877, the Buhl & Burns Block, on Woodward avenue, on the site of the old Odd-Fellows' Hall. In 1876 he was ap- pointed, by the Governor of Michigan, a member of the Board of Control of the State Public School, situated at Coldwater, Michigan. In 1877 he was elected President of the Board, and still retains that position. Mr. Burns and his wife have been members of the Central Meth- odist Episcopal Church of Detroit for forty years, -longer than any other married couple in a membership of over seven hundred. During this time, the location of the church has been changed three times,-each time being moved northward on Woodward avenue, as the city grew in that direction. Mr. Burns has filled many of the most prominent positions in the church, and has given largely towards its support. As a business man, Mr. Burns' unfailing characteristics have been industry and integ- rity. As a citizen, he has taken a spirited part in every thing that tended to the prosperity of the city, doing much towards its material improvement by the erection of fine buildings, and contributing freely of his means to worthy and benevolent enterprises. In his demeanor, he is plain and unassuming; and, in all his relations to society, he is the type of a generous, whole-souled, necessary to enlarge our city water-works, and a Board Christian gentleman. of Water Commissioners was appointed and organized
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