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For a long term of years Mr. McLeod has
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been one of the most prominent and enthusi- astic figures in yachting circles on the Great Lakes, and the speedy boats with which he has been concerned have effectually trimmed the sails of many a worthy rival. In 1884 he served as vice-commodore of the Michigan Yacht Club, in 1898 as commodore of the In- ter Lake Yachting Association, and for the year 1905 as commodore of the Detroit Yacht Club. He is the owner of the yawl "Frances A.," named in honor of his wife, and the same is a fine specimen of its type, being thirty-five feet in length and the winner of many races. In 1887 he was the head of the syndicate which built the "City of the Straits," constructed by the Detroit Dry Dock Company, from the de- sign of Brady Wandell. This yacht has a long series of victories in hard fought strug- gles, with Commodore McLeod at the stick, the most notable of which was sailed in a snow storm, on Lake Erie, on November 21, 1888, and which resulted in a victory over the "Alice Enright," of Toledo, the then cham- pion of the lakes of fifty-seven minutes over a thirty-mile course. Again in 1900, when the honor of Detroit seemed to be at stake, Commodore McLeod organized another syn- dicate, which built the famous forty-foot sloop "Detroit," which cleaned up everything in her class, finally going the long trip overland to San Diego, California, where she beat every- thing on the Pacific coast and won the trophy given by Sir Thomas Lipton. Mr. McLeod is one of the few surviving members of the old International Yacht Club, of which the late Kirk C. Barker was the commodore and leading spirit. In 1884 the subject of this re- view effected the organization of the Michigan Yacht Club, the immediate predecessor of the present Detroit Yacht Club, and largely through his efforts was secured from the board of park commissioners of Detroit the franchise and concession which made possible the erec- tion of the club house on Belle Isle.
Mr. McLeod is a member of the Fellow- craft Club, the Bankers' Club, the Detroit Board of Commerce, the Detroit Motor Boat
Club, and a life member of the Detroit Yacht Club, besides being identified with the Inter- Lake Yachting Association. He holds member- ship in the Harmonie Society of Detroit and is affiliated with the various York and Scot- tish Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained to the thirty-second de- gree.
On the 28th of October, 1876, Mr. McLeod was united in marriage to Miss Frances A. Millington, daughter of John Millington, who was a leading architect in New York city, and they have one daughter, Frances Janet.
WILLIAM H. ELLIOTT.
This is a name that long represented a com- manding power in the retail commercialism of Detroit, and the record of the life and labors of Mr. Elliott is without blot or stain. He was a man who made his own opportunities and lived up to their full possibilities. He was a man whose integrity was inviolable; whose ability in the administration of large affairs was most admirable, and whose hold upon the confidence and regard of the people of Detroit and the state of Michigan was secure. The great retail dry-goods store of which he was so long the head still perpetuates his name and accomplishment, as the business is con- ducted under the title of the William H. Elli- ott Company. He rose to prominence also in connection with financial institutions of lead- ing order, and was a citizen whose services and influence were freely given in aiding such interests and movements as make for the gen- eral welfare of the community.
Mr. Elliott was born near Amherstburg, province of Ontario, Canada, on the 13th of October, 1844, and was a son of James and Elizabeth (Pastorius) Elliott, both of whom passed the greater portion of their lives at Kingsville, Essex county, Ontario, where the father was for many years engaged in the mer- cantile business and in the operation of a grist mill. The family of which he was a worthy scion was early founded in America and is
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one which has given to the work of the world men of force, ability and rectitude, as one gen- eration has followed another on to the stage of life. The original America progenitor was Andrew Elliott, who immigrated from Eng- land in the year 1640 and became one of the settlers of Beverly, Massachusetts. He took a prominent part in the affairs of his com- munity, as did also his descendants in the co- lonial and Revolutionary days. A number of representatives of the family were found en- rolled as valiant soldiers in the Continental line during the war of the Revolution, and the annals of New England, that cradle of much of our national history, bear record of the worthy lives and deeds of many of the scions of this sterling stock. Thomas Elliott, grand-" father of the subject of this memoir, settled at Amherstburg, Ontario, in the early part of the nineteenth century, and there he passed the residue of his life.
William H. Elliott was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, as his father was the owner of a well improved farm, which he operated in connection with his other enter- prises. William H. attended the common schools until he had attained to the age of fifteen years, when he became a clerk in a gen- eral store in his native town. No undue dig- nity or emolument attached to his initial services in the field of practical business, but the mettle and ambition of the youth were definitely manifested early in his career. In 1864 he secured a clerkship in a small dry- goods store in Detroit, and two years later he became an employe of George Peck, whose name is written large on the record of mer- chandising and banking in the Michigan metropolis. In 1872 Mr. Elliott became a member of the firm of George Peck & Com- pany, and this statement bears its own signifi- cance, in that it shows the appreciative esti- mate placed upon him by so able a business man as Mr. Peck. In 1880 Mr. Elliott retired from this firm and engaged in the same line of enterprise individually, at 139 Woodward avenue. He brought to bear indefatigable
energy, intelligent methods and thorough knowledge of the business, so that the enter- prise soon became noted as one of the fore- most of the kind in Detroit. In 1895 he erected the fine six-story building at the north- west corner of Woodward and Grand River avenues, and this has since been occupied by the great dry-goods establishment of which he was the founder and at whose head he con- tinued until his death, which occurred on the Ist of May, 1901. It is not necessary to enter into specific details as to the upbuilding of the splendid enterprise which thus brought Mr. Elliott to a position as one of the leading merchants of the state, for the name and repu- tation of the house indicate all this with dis- tinctive clarity. Mr. Elliott was one of the original directors of the Preston National Bank and long held this position, and he was also a member of the directorate of each the Union Trust Company and the State Savings Bank of Detroit. He was for some time a director and the treasurer of the Thompson-Houston Electric Light Company, was a trustee of Har- per hospital and a director of the Dime Sav- ings Bank.
Mr. Elliott was essentially a business man, but he was fully alive to all the duties of citi- zenship and his public spirit was of insistent and helpful type. His allegiance was given to the Republican party, of whose cause he was a stalwart supporter, though he never en- tered the arena of "practical politics." Gov- ernor Rich conferred upon him appointment as a member of the board of control of the state prisons and he was a delegate to the national convention of his party in 1892, at Minne- apolis. He was called upon to serve as presi- dent of the Michigan Club, a strong factor in Michigan politics, and he was also identified with leading social organizations in his home city, including the Detroit Club, the Country Club, and the Lake St. Clair Fishing & Shoot- ing Club. He was the owner of a fine stock farm in Oakland county and gave to the same much attention.
In 1870 was solemnized the marriage of
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Mr. Elliott to Miss Lena Caverly, who died in March of the following year. On the 21st of April, 1875, he wedded Miss Susan Fidelia Hogarth, a daughter of the late Rev. William Hogarth, D. D., a former and venerated pas- tor of the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian church, Detroit. Of this church Mr. Elliott was a zealous member and supporter, as is also his widow, who still retains her home in De- troit. Mr. Elliott stood "four-square to every wind that blows," and his life was one of signal usefulness and honor. He was gener- ous and considerate in his intercourse with others, and many a deed of unostentatious charity and influential helpfulness stands to his credit. His name merits an enduring place in the history of Detroit and the state of Michi- gan.
GEORGE S. CUDDY.
Through his own ability and efforts the sub- ject of this sketch has risen to a position as one of the progressive and substantial business men of his native city, being treasurer and also manager of the experimental department of the Enterprise Foundry Company, of which specific mention is made on other pages of this work, so that further reference to the de- tails of the business is not demanded in the present connection.
Mr. Cuddy was born in Detroit on the 29th of November, 1869, and is a son of James and Mary A. (Thompson) Cuddy, both natives of Ireland. The father was reared and edu- cated in the Emerald Isle, whence he immi- grated to America when a young man, and soon after his arrival in the new world he took up his residence in Detroit. In his na- tive land he had learned the trade of brick mason, and this he followed for some time after locating in Detroit. He was energetic, ambitious and frugal, and finally he became a successful sewer contractor in this city. He was a man of sterling integrity and had the respect of all who knew him. He died in De- troit, in 1875, and his wife survived him by a number of years. Both were consistent com-
municants of the Protestant Episcopal church.
George S. Cuddy, the immediate subject of this sketch, was afforded the advantages of the public schools of Detroit and supplemented this discipline by taking a course in the Gut- chess Business College, of this city. In 1880 he entered upon an apprenticeship at the moulder's trade, in the Michigan Stove Works, where he gained a thorough knowledge of his trade and became a specially skillful work- man. He served a full apprenticeship of three years' duration, and from 1883 until 1893 he was employed as a journeyman moulder in the shops of the Cribben & Sexton Company, stove manufacturers, in Chicago. In the year last nientioned he returned to Detroit, and here he was employed in the foundry depart- ment of the Ideal Manufacturing Company un- til 1896, when he associated himself with others in the organization and incorporation of the Enterprise Foundry Company, as is shown in the article descriptive of that con- cern. He was made a member of the direc- torate of the company at the time of its in- corporation and also became superintendent of the foundry department. In 1900 he was elect- ed treasurer of the company, and this office he has since retained, in connection with the superintendency of the experimental depart- ment of the well equipped plant of the con- cern. The success of the enterprise has been in a large degree due to his expert technical knowledge and to his executive ability in regu- lating the various agencies involved in the prosecution of the business, as well as to his effective generalship in gaining and retaining the good will and esteem of the employes, who have thus been impelled to render the best possible service. He has shown indefatigable energy and has given close attention to the details of the business. The company began operations upon a limited capital but within a decade has built up, against decisive compe- tition, a business which is recognized as one of the foremost in its particular province in the city of Detroit.
In politics Mr. Cuddy is a stalwart adher-
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ent of the Republican party, and he and his account. A short time afterward his brother wife are communicants of the Protestant Epis- . William joined him in the enterprise, and copal church. He is a member of the Inter- national Moulders' Union, and as a practical workman himself is thoroughly in sympathy with organized labor,-a fact which the men in the employ of his company fully appreciate. they met with distinctive success. This led them to venture into the manufacturing field, in which they initiated operations in the year 1877. Careful and conscientious effort and correct principles brought to them continued On the 29th of December, 1895, was solem- nized the marriage of Mr. Cuddy to Miss Anna B. Pritchard, who was born and reared in Detroit, being a daughter of Samuel Pritch- ard. Mr. and Mrs. Cuddy have two children, -William G., who was born on the 20th of December, 1896, and Samuel Pritchard, who was born on the 12th of July, 1897. success and they soon gained a reputation for reliability and for the superior character of products. With the rapid expansion of the enterprise it became necessary to seek larger quarters, and they accordingly erected a three- story building at Nos. 39 to 43 Fort street east. From that time their success was con- stantly cumulative, as they had initiative pow- er, keen business sagacity and definite purpose. JOHN BOYDELL. From time to time it was found necessary to add to the plant, and it is now recognized as one of the largest of its kind in the Union.
It was given the subject of this memoir to attain to a large measure of success in the business world, to make a definite impress up- on the commercial activities of Detroit and to leave a reputation unsullied in every respect. He was the founder of the great paint manu- facturing industry now conducted under title of the Boydell Brothers' White Lead & Color Company, and he and his brother William were the pioneers in this important line of enter- prise in the Michigan metropolis.
John Boydell was born in Liverpool, Eng- land, on the IIth of December, 1842, and his death occurred, in Detroit, on Thursday, Oc- tober 17, 1907. He was a boy at the time of his parents' immigration to the United States, and the family settled in the vicinity of De- troit, where he was reared to maturity and where he received the advantages of the com- mon schools. After serving several years as a clerk Mr. Boydell became bookkeeper for the James H. Worcester Paint Company, of De- troit. The business of this concern was re- solved into the Detroit White Lead Works in 1865, and with the latter he remained only a brief interval, having determined to initiate an independent business career. He accordingly purchased a stock of painters' supplies and es- tablished a modest paint business on his own
As already intimated, Boydell Brothers, as the firm was known for a term of years, were the pioneer paint manufacturers in Detroit. When William Boydell died, in 1901, John Boydell, with the aid of his son, J. Frank Boy- dell, present president of the company, took over the business, and he continued to be ac- tively identified with its management until his death.
From an attractive brochure recently issued by the Boydell Company are taken the follow- ing pertinent extracts concerning the Boydell brothers and their work:
John was born in Liverpool, in 1842, and William in Stafford, England, in 1849. It is thus seen that John was the elder by seven years. In personal characteristics they were not alike, but one was a good foil for the other, and, combined, they made a potential working team. John was probably the better self-con- trolled,-more dignified, more forceful, an ex- cellent financier, and the dominant factor in their dual lives. He had hosts of friends, al- though he did not yield his friendship easily ; but when once given it stood like a rock- stood the test of time. William was a better "mixer," generous almost to a fault, and with a personal magnetism that drew men to him. There was no blindness of pride or impatience of ambition in his makeup. He was a lovable
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man and men loved him. John's initial work was with the Worcester Paint Company, which, in 1865, became the Detroit White Lead Works, when he withdrew and started in business for himself. William became asso- ciated later. And they prospered! The fine block of six and eight story buildings, which to-day covers the area of almost an entire square of down-town property, illustrates their growth,-and the business is still growing. Both John and William had ideas about suc- cess,-sane ideas, ideas that commanded re- sults,-and results came quickly. They were not merely splendid dreamers, but they were also splendid workers, and it is work which counts every time. The management was vested in John. He was not a voluble man, and his reticence was sometimes mistaken for exclusiveness; but that was a great mistake. When he was the least talkative he was the most thoughtful, and his thought bore fruit, luscious and ripe. He knew when silence was golden, but, nevertheless, he had the gift of effective speech, and could, when he deemed it essential, forcibly impress his views upon others. He knew the value of concentration- understood that rays are powerless when scat- tered, but burn in a point.
As their interests were mainly centered in paints, both John and William naturally thought paint, talked paint and dreamed of paint ; but they could also talk, think and dream of other things, as they were cultured, well read and thoroughly en rapport with the so- cial amenities of life. They were both ideal- ists in one sense, believing in those ideals that give zest and charm to realism; but first of all they were practical men, and had no use for the visionary who seeks a pathway among the stars as a short cut to mundane good. In their business they believed in a community of interests-a trinity of manufacturer, deal- er and painter. They had no sympathy with John Boydell was past master of Detroit Lodge, No. I, Free & Accepted Masons, and was identified with Monroe Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Detroit Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templars; and Michigan Sovereign Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. In Masonic circles he ranked very high, the 1908 class of Michigan Sovereign Con- sistory being named the John Boydell class, as a distinct token of the fraternity's affectionate the policy which excluded the latter, or with the evolution which more largely admitted the distant distributor or large jobber within the paint circle, as they considered that the dealer was a sufficient medium and that it was un- reasonable that the painter or the consumer should pay the jobber's profit. John and Will- iam Boydell were constantly in touch with the dealer, and that there was a mutual good will and esteem is evidenced by the books of the firm, which in hundreds of accounts show a continuous and uninterrupted record of over ' esteem. His funeral was conducted under
a quarter of a century, and this, it must be re- membered, in the face of ever increasing com- petition.
There was a John Boydell, lord mayor of London in 1752, and our John Boydell was a descendant in the direct line. This Lord Mayor Boydell was a man who reflected cred- it on the name. He was a capable man, a man who did things and made posterity his debtor. He invented the steel engraving and gave us a series of some five hundred, illustrating the immortal plays of Shakespeare. Copies of these same engravings are now in possession of another descendant, J. Frank Boydell, who succeeded his father as president of the Boy- dell Brothers' White Lead & Color Company. Both the late John and William Boydell were plain men, plain, every-day American citizens, and were profoundly conscious of their privi- leges as such; but they were also proud that in the past their name had been linked to the mother country with credit and honor, that their ancestors were men of national repute, whose lives had been useful and whose work survives. And they, in turn, had the supreme consciousness of work well done, a memorial that would live long after they had passed to that "undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns."
In January, 1908, after the death of John Boydell, the Boydell Brothers' White Lead & Color Company was reorganized under the same title, and J. Frank Boydell, the only son of the founder of the business, succeeded his father in the presidency of the company. The other officers are as here noted: Albert Taepke, first vice-president; John G. Wood, second vice-president and treasurer; Henry J. Woodlock, secretary; and Gordon Montagu, assistant general manager.
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the auspices of Detroit Commandery, and his body lay in state at the Masonic Temple on Saturday, October 19, 1907, after which in- terment was made in Woodmere cemetery.
June 4, 1872, John Boydell was united in marriage to Miss Cassie Witherspoon, who survives him, as do also two children,-J. Frank, who is proving an able business suc- cessor of his honored father, as president of the Boydell Company; and Bessie N., who is the wife of John G. Wood, second vice-presi- dent and treasurer of the same company.
WILLIAM H. McGREGOR.
In the department of this publication de- voted specifically to the representative indus- trial and commercial concerns of Detroit is given a description of the National Twist Drill & Tool Company, of which Mr. Mc- Gregor is the president. To the article men- tioned reference should be made, since the same is largely supplemental to this brief resumé of the career of the chief executive of the company.
Mr. McGregor was born in Detroit on the 16th of August, 1861, and comes of staunch and illustrious Scotch ancestry. He is a son of Alexander and Margaret (Clarke) McGreg- or, both of whom were born in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. In 1855 Alexander McGregor came to America and took up his residence in Detroit.
William H. McGregor secured his early ed- ucational training in the public schools of De- troit, and in 1892 he was matriculated in the Detroit College of Law, in which he completed the prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1895, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws and being duly admitted to the bar of his native state. In 1898 he was elected clerk of Wayne county, assuming the duties of the office on the Ist of the following January and continuing in service, through successive re-elections, until January 1, 1905. His long tenure of the of-
fice offers the best evidence of his able and satisfactory administration of the same. He was a member of the board of education from 1895 until 1899, and served as its president in 1896.
Mr. McGregor is essentially progressive and public-spirited as a citizen and business man, and his allegiance is given to the Republican party, though he is liberal in political affairs of a local order. He is a member of the Detroit Bar Association, the Harmonie Society, and the Detroit Yacht Club, and has attained to the thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry. He is affiliated with Ashlar Lodge, No. 91, Free & Accepted Masons; Peninsular Chapter, No. 16, Royal Arch Masons; De- troit Commandery, No. I, Knights Templars, besides the various bodies of the Scottish Rite and also Moslem Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise affiliated with the lo- cal bodies of the Benevolent & Protective Or- der of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He was one of the organizers of the National Twist Drill & Tool Company, and has been its president from the start, as is shown in the article descriptive of the company. Mr. Mc- Gregor is a bachelor and enjoys unalloyed pop- ularity in the business and professional circles of his native city.
PETER J. HOENSCHEID.
One of the important industrial concerns of Detroit is the National Twist Drill & Tool Company, of which the subject of this sketch is general manager and of which detailed men- tion is made on other pages of this publication. As one of the representative business men of Detroit Mr. Hoenscheid is well entitled to con- sideration in this work.
Peter J. Hoenscheid was born in the beauti- ful old city of Cologne, Germany, on the 29th of June, 1853, and is a son of Joseph and Catharina (Honsbach) Hoenscheid, both of whom passed their entire lives in Germany, where the father followed the vocation of ma-
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chinist during the major portion of his active known as one of the able mechanicians of De- career. The subject of this sketch was af- troit and is the inventor of a number of im- proved mechanical devices,-principally in the line of milling and grinding machinery used for the making of twist drills and reamers. His inventions are covered by several patents granted by the United States patent office, and much of the improved machinery utilized in the plant of the National Twist Drill & Tool Company was invented by him. For his in- ventions he was granted a diploma of honor- able mention at the World's Columbian Expo- sition, in Chicago, in 1893. He is identified with various fraternal and social organiza- tions in his home city. forded the advantages of the excellent schools of his native city, attending the same until he was sixteen years of age. He then assumed a position in the establishment of his father, who was at that time a successful manufac- turer of machinery in Cologne. He continued to be identified with the business, of whose practical details he gained an intimate knowl- edge, until 1871, when he severed the ties which bound him to home and fatherland and immigrated to America, having been a youth of eighteen years at the time. He located in New York city, where he became an appren- tice in a machine shop, and in 1874 he secured In 1873 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hoenscheid to Miss Barbara Meslein, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and they have four children, namely: George P., who is superin- tendent of the factory of the National Twist Drill & Tool Company; Peter J., who is a ma- chinist in the employ of the same company ; Mary, who is the wife of Charles Fleming, foreman of the milling department of the same concern; and John A., who is a machinist in the employ of this company. a position in the employ of A. M. Beyers & Company, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, manu- facturers of gas, oil and water tubes. He was employed as a toolmaker in this establishment until 1879, when he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a machine builder and toolmaker in the plant of the National Ma- chinery Company. In the following year he accepted a similar position with the Cummer Engine Company, in the same city, and there, in 1881, he entered the employ of the Stand- ard Tool Company, manfacturers of tools for the makers of twist drills, reamers and milling HARRY C. WALKER. cutters. In 1882 he was given the superin- Numbered among the popular and progres- sive young business men of his native city, the subject of this sketch is secretary and treas- urer of Walker & Company, a description of whose flourishing business is incorporated in this work, and he is a son of Henry W. and Eva (Bassett) Walker, the former of whom is president of the same company, whose enter- prise includes the manufacturing of electric and other advertising signs, bill-posting and general publicity work in the distributing of advertising matter. tendency of the milling department, and he re- tained this incumbency until 1890, when he went to Akron, Ohio, where he entered the employ of the Whitman & Barnes Manufac- turing Company, makers of twist drills. He was made superintendent of the drill depart- ment of the plant and also had charge of its special machine department during the period of his connection with the concern. In 1897 Mr. Hoencheid resigned his position and came to Detroit, where he became superintendent of the plant of the Detroit Twist Drill Company, Harry C. Walker was born in Detroit, on the Ist of September, 1878, and to the public schools of his native city he is indebted for his early educational discipline. He completed a course in the Central high school, and this training was effectively supplemented by a retaining this office until 1903, when he ef- fected the organization of the National Twist Drill & Tool Company, in which he became one of the principal stockholders and of which he has since been general manager. He is
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