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Julius Houseman was born in Zeckendorf, Bavaria, Germany, Dec. 8, 1832. He received a common school education and commer- cial training in his native town. Mr. Houseman emigrated to the United States in 1851, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1876, twenty-four years in the city of Grand Rapids, and after that time was principally occupied in the manufacture of lumber. He served eight years as alderman, and two terms as mayor of Grand Rapids. He was a Representative in the Legislature in 1871-2. He was the candidate for Lieutenant-Governor on the Democratic ticket in 1876. He was elected to the United States Congress in 1882, on the Union ticket, receiving 16,725 votes to 16,609 for his Republican competitor, William O. Webster, and 336 for William H. Taylor, Greenback.
Charles C. Comstock was born at Sullivan, N. H., March 5, 1818, and was brought up on a farm, receiving a common school education. In 1842 he engaged in the lumber business and soon owned several saw-mills. In 1853 he removed to Grand Rapids and engaged in the same business. In 1857 he bought a furniture factory and failed, but in the next four years paid his debts and, in 1862, inaugurated the first successful wholesale furniture business in Grand Rapids He sold out to his sons in 1865, but continued the lumber business and the manufacture of pails, sashes, blinds and doors. He also owned several farms, and was always a leading business man of Grand Rap- ids. In 1863-4 he was mayor of Grand Rapids, in 1870 Democratic candidate for Governor, and in 1872 and 1878 Democratic candidate for Congress. He served as member of Congress from the Fifth district in 1885-6, but declined a renomination in 1886.
Melbourne H. Ford was born in Saline, Mich., June 30, 1849. He was educated at the Michigan Agricultural College and at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He served in the navy during the latter part of the War of the Rebellion, then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1878, but never engaged in the prac- tice. He was official stenographer in several Michigan courts, be- ginning in 1874; was a member of the Michigan Legislature in 1885- 86, and was elected to the Fiftieth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- ing 18,567 votes against 18,120 votes for George W. McBride, Re- publican ; 3,086 votes for Edward L. Briggs, Prohibitionist, and 3 votes scattering Defeated for re-election in 1888, he was again nominated in 1890, and was elected by a large majority, but died suddenly on April 20, 1891, before the assembling of the new Con- gress.
State Senators-Sessions of 1840 and 1841, Henry P. Bridge; 1842-43, Digby V. Bell; 1844-45, William A. Richmond; 1846-47-48- 49, Rix Robinson; 1853, Truman H. Lyon; 1855, Wilder D. Foster; 1857-58, Smith Lapham; 1859, Lewis Porter ; 1861-62, Solomon L. Withey ; 1863-64-65, Milton C. Watkins; 1867, Henry Seymour ; 1869-70, Peter R. L. Peirce; 1871-72, Byron D. Ball; 1873-74, Moreau
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S. Crosby ; 1875, Lyman Murray; 1877, Wesley P. Andrus; 1879, Milton B. Hine; 1881-82, Henry C. Russell; 1883, James W. Hine; 1885, John L. Curtis ; 1887, George P. Stark; 1889, Sybrant Wesseli- us ; 1891-92-93, Peter Doran; 1893-95-97-98, Edmund M. Barnard; 1895, Julius M. Jamison ; 1897-98-99-00-01, Robert B. Loomis ; 1899- 00, Robert D. Graham ; 1901-03, Augustus W. Weeks; 1903, David E. Burns ; 1905-07, Andrew Fyfe and Huntley Russell; 1909-11, Horace T. Barnaby, Jr., and Carl E. Mapes ; 1913, Thomas H. McNaughton ; 1913-15, Leonard D. Verdier ; 1915, John Paul; 1917, Anson R. Har- rington and Harry C. White.
Henry P. Bridge was born at Littleton, Mass., in 1808. He came to Michigan in 1836 and settled at Grand Rapids, then called Kent. He was elected State Senator and served in that capacity in 1840-1. Meeting with pecuniary reverses, he went to Detroit in 1845, and formed the commission house of Bridge & Lewis, with Alexander Lewis for partner. This house became the leading one in that line of business in the State. He was the first president of the Detroit Board of Trade, in 1856, and held that position three years, and on his retirement was elected a life member of the board. He was for several years collector at Detroit and was so universally esteemed by all that he received the nomination to the office of mayor, both from the Democratic and the Republican parties. He was in politics a Democrat. He died Jan. 20, 1884.
William A. Richmond was born at Aurora, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1808. He was brought up on a farm, educated at Cayuga Academy, was for two years a clerk in Geneseo, and in 1828 visited Michigan. He was two years clerk in a New York silk house, and two years in business for himself. In 1836 he settled at Grand Rapids, and with Charles H. Carroll, Lucius Lyon and John Almy purchased the "Kent plat." In 1836 he was a member of the first convention of assent, in 1838 was appointed receiver of the Ionia land district, in 1844 and 1845 was Senator, in 1845 became Superintendent of Indian Affairs under President Polk, and in 1851 was the Democratic candidate for Lieu- tenant-Governor. He was twice brigadier-general of the State mili- tia, and for several years was director of the Michigan Southern Railroad. In politics he was a Democrat and in religion an Episco- palian. He was a man of clear intellect and sound judgment. He died at Grand Rapids in 1870.
Rix Robinson, Senator from Kent and attached counties in 1846- 7-8-9, was born in Cayuga County, New York, in 1792, and died in 1875. He became an Indian trader in the Grand River Valley in 1821, and was the first white settler in Kent County. He established sev- eral trading posts, the central one at Ada, where he died. When lands were opened for settlement he became a farmer. In 1887 a monu- ment was erected to his memory in Ada. He was supervisor, associ- ate judge, delegate in the constitutional convention of 1850, and com- missioner of internal improvements in 1846. In politics he was a Democrat.
Truman H. Lyon was born at Shelburne, Vt., Feb. 24, 1801. He had the advantages of common schools, learned the business of a cloth dresser, and carried on that business at Hopkinton, N. Y. He was early a justice of the peace. In 1836 he came to Lyons, Mich.,
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where he kept hotel, was justice, side judge, and held other local of- fices. He was also in United States employ and was superintendent of lighthouses on Lake Michigan, and let the contracts for their con- struction. He moved to Grand Rapids in 1840, and there kept hotel and was a merchant, and for many years postmaster. He was Sena- tor in 1853. He was a leading business man and prominent Mason. He died Sept. 14, 1872.
Lewis Porter, Representative in 1857-8, and Senator from Kent County in 1859, was born in the State of New York, Nov. 4, 1823. He came to Michigan in 1838. He was engaged in the clothing trade at Grand Rapids, and was an active Republican in politics. Among oth- er positions he was assistant postmaster at Washington, D. C., and was the first clerk of the United States District Court for Western Michigan. He died Jan. 10, 1882.
Solomon L. Withey was born at St. Albans, Vt., April 21, 1820. His father, Solomon Withey, known to early residents of Michigan as General Withey, emigrated to Grand Rapids in 1836 with his fam- ily. Mr. Withey received a common school and academical educa- tion, and in 1839 entered the law office of Rathbone & Martin. He was admitted to the bar in 1843, and engaged in active practice for nineteen years. His career at the bar was one that gave him the un- limited confidence of his clients, and he acquired a competence. His cool judgment, perfect integrity and high character as a man, and thorough knowledge of the law, made him prominent. From 1848 to 1852 he was judge of probate of Kent County, Senator from 1861 to 1863, and member of the State constitutional convention of 1867. Both in the Senate and in that convention he was chairman of the committee on the judiciary. In 1863 he was appointed by President Lincoln, United States District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, a position he filled with signal ability until his death, which occurred at San Diego, Cal., April 25, 1886. He married Marion L. Hinsdill, in 1846, and left five children-four sons and one daughter. In 1869 he was tendered the position of United States Circuit Judge for the States of Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee and Kentucky, which he declined. He was director and president of the First National Bank of Grand Rapids for many years. He was a Republican in politics, and a consistent member of the Congregational Church. His courts were models of propriety and decorum.
Milton C. Watkins, Representative in 1859, and Senator in 1863- 4-5, from Kent County, was born in Rutland, Vt., in 1806. He re- ceived a common school and academical education. After the age of eighteen he was engaged several years in teaching. In 1830 he married Susan Joy, and settled on a farm in Covington, N. Y., where he taught winters, and worked as a carpenter summers, and was also justice and school inspector. In 1844 he settled on a farm in Grat- tan township, where he resided until his death, May 16, 1886. He was the first supervisor of Grattan, and held that and the office of justice nearly twenty-five years. He was United States assistant as- sessor until the office was abolished. In politics he was a Whig until 1854 and then a Republican.
Henry Seymour was born at Camillus, N. Y., Dec. 16, 1821. He came to Grand Rapids in 1842 and there resided until his death, June 7, 1877. He was engaged in wool buying. In politics he was a Re-
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publican. He was a prominent officer in the Congregational Church and Sabbath School at Grand Rapids. He was a Representative in 1865, and Senator in 1867.
Peter R. L. Peirce, Senator from Kent County in 1869-70, was born in Geneseo, N. Y., May 25, 1823. . As a boy he attended common schools, but in 1836 came to Detroit, there attending night schools and reading law. In 1840 he removed to Grand Rapids and kept a book store, reading law with Judge Martin. From 1843 to 1850 he was in the mercantile business at Cincinnati, Ohio, and wrote a his- tory of the Sons of Temperance, which had a circulation of 100,000 copies, and he also wrote for several papers. From 1850 to 1857 he was a merchant at Grand Rapids. In 1854 he was city clerk, mayor in 1873-5-6, several terms clerk of Kent County, and postmaster at Grand Rapids from 1877 until his death, about 1880. In politics he was a Republican. He was a man of wit and humor, kind and genial, and few men had warmer friends or better deserved them.
Byron D. Ball was born in Rochester, N. Y., July 19, 1834. His father, David Ball, came to Michigan in 1835 and founded the city of Owosso. In 1840 he removed with his family to Grand Rapids. In 1851 the son was apprenticed to learn the machinist trade with Ball & McCray of Grand Rapids. He served two years at the trade. He married in 1854, and in 1855 bought a half interest in the shop in which he had been employed, and carried on the business two years. In 1857 he commenced the study of law and in 1859 entered the law department of the State University, and graduated in the class of 1861. He commenced practice in Grand Rapids, and was prosecuting attorney of Kent County nearly four years. In 1871-2 he was State Senator and was chairman of the committee on railroads. He was elected Attorney-General of Michigan in 1872 and served in 1873 and up to April 1, 1874, when he resigned on account of ill health. He built a block of stores at Grand Rapids and was interested with his father in other enterprises. He was a man of large stature, compact- ly built, of immense strength, and one of the best amateur boxers ever seen on the university grounds. He was genial, jovial, kind hearted and popular, and had many warm friends. In politics he was a Republican. He died in February, 1876.
Lyman Murray, Senator from Kent County in 1875, was born in 1820, in New York. He received a common school education, re- moved to Michigan in 1845, and settled in Kent County. He was su- pervisor, and a Representative in the Legislatures of 1867-69, also a member of the constitutional convention of 1867. His occupation was farming and his politics was Republican.
Wesley P. Andrus, Senator from Kent County in 1877, was born Feb. 19, 1834, in the town of Potter, Yates County, New York. He followed farming until attaining his majority. He was educated at Franklin Academy and Geneseo College, N. Y. He removed to Michi- gan in 1856, and here, up to the time of the breaking out of the Civil War, was principally engaged in teaching school. In 1861 he entered the Forty-second Illinois infantry, was commissioned first lieutenant about two months after his enlistment, and was promoted to captain for meritorious service at Stone's River. At the battle of Missionary Ridge he was severely wounded, and was discharged on account of
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disability in May, 1864. At the close of the war he engaged in mer- cantile business in Michigan, and for a number of years was a hard- ware merchant at Cedar Springs. He was for four years a member of its common council and also served as president of that village. In politics he was a Republican.
Milton B. Hine, Senator from Kent County in 1879, was born at Meredith, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1828, and there resided until 1847, when he removed to Cannon township, and there spent the remainder of his life. He received a common school and academic education. He was always a farmer and held the position of president and treasurer of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Kent County for many years. In politics he was a Greenbacker.
Henry C. Russell, Senator from Kent County in 1881-2, was born in Plainfield, Mich., in 1842. He received a common school educa- tion, resided in Grand Rapids several years, became a merchant in . 1864 at Cedar Springs, and afterward was a druggist. He was also extensively engaged in lumbering in Lake County, and in banking and farming. He served as supervisor, town treasurer and as presi- dent of the village.
James W. Hine, Senator from Kent County in 1883, was born in West Meredith, N. Y., in 1846. He received an academical education, served in the army, and settled at Lowell in 1867. He was three years in the drug trade and then purchased an interest in the Lowell Journal, becoming editor, and in 1873 sole proprietor. He removed to Detroit after his Senatorial term and became one of the editors of the Detroit Tribune.
John L. Curtiss, Senator from Kent County in 1885, was born at Brooklyn, Conn., in 1835. He received a liberal education at Lima Seminary, and at the age of nineteen taught school. The money he thus realized he expended in a thorough course of instruction at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College in Buffalo. He came west to Milwaukee, Wis., where he was married in 1865. Leaving there soon afterward he took a position as traveling salesman for a Chi- cago wholesale house and remained so employed five years. In 1871 he started a paper and oil house in Grand Rapids, and became the head of the extensive wholesale house of Curtiss, Dunton & Co. Mr. Curtiss was elected to the office of alderman for the First ward in 1878, and served two years. He was elected Senator on the Fusion ticket by a vote of 10,007 to 8,854 for Horace T. Barnaby, Republican, and 1,097 for J. H. Maynard, Prohibitionist.
George P. Stark, Senator from Kent County in 1887, was born at Stow, Ohio, Aug. 19, 1832, and received a common school educa- tion, with a term or two at Hiram College. He learned the trade of a cooper and followed it until 1853, when he became a farmer. He was for one year, 1866, in the drug trade at Palestine, Ill., and then was a farmer until 1871, when he removed from Hudson, Ohio, to Cascade township, where he became a merchant and farmer. He was a Rep- resentative in 1885. In politics he was a Fusionist.
Peter Doran was born in London, Canada, April 16, 1848. He was of Irish descent, his parents coming from Belfast, Ireland. He acquired a common school education and began life as wheelsman and clerk on vessels on the Great Lakes. He afterward taught school,
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managed a general store, studied medicine for a time, and finally be- gan privately the study of law. He was admitted to the bar and be- gan practice in Detroit, in 1872. Four years later he moved to Grand Rapids, where he continued in the practice of his profession. In poli- tics he was a Democrat, and he served as a member of the Demo- cratic county, Congressional and State committees, and for a num- ber of years was chairman of the city committee. He was a member of the Senate of 1891-2 and 1893-4.
Edmund M. Barnard was born in Hudson, N. Y., May 28, 1860, and came to Michigan with his parents at the close of the Civil War, locating on a farm near Grand Rapids on the banks of Reed's Lake. His education was obtained in the public schools at Olivet College. In connection with farming he engaged in the real estate and insurance business, becoming a member of the insurance firm of I .. K. Bishop & Co. In politics he was a Republican; was elected to the House of Representatives in 1890; was a member of the Senate of 1893-4, and was elected to that of 1895-6 by a majority of nearly 3,500. He took an important part in matters of legislation; was the author of the joint resolution committing this State to the election of United States Senators by popular vote; was instrumental in restoring to the sol- diers of the Michigan Soldiers' Home the right of franchise through a constitutional amendment, after it had been denied them by the courts ; was instrumental in the measure requiring the vestibuling of street cars, and several other measures affecting the purification of conventions and elections ; was chairman of the committee on banks and corporations during the session of 1895. He was re-elected to the Senate of 1897-8.
Julius M. Jamison was born on a farm in Wayne County, Ohio, April 30, 1854. He was educated at the Indiana Normal School, Commercial College and University of Michigan, graduating in the law department of the latter in 1880. He made three trips to Europe, writing as foreign correspondent, and in 1882 settled at Grand Rap- ids, where he engaged in the practice of law. In politics he was a Republican and he was a member of the Senate of 1895-6.
Robert B. Loomis was born at Newcastle, Lincoln County, Me., Sept. 25, 1832. His parents moved to Boston in 1838 and the future Senator grew up in the public schools of that city. Mr. Loomis sub- sequently removed to Washington, D. C., and was engaged in mer- cantile business in that city from 1862 to 1866, when he removed to Grand Rapids and engaged in the boot and shoe business. In 1881 he established the firm of R. B. Loomis & Co., fire insurance, which business has been continued up to the present time. Mr. Loomis served the city and county in several important positions. He was elected supervisor in 1877, and served in that office until 1896. He was chairman of the county board two terms; was several times a member of the state board of equalization, and was chairman of the building committee having the erection of the county court house in charge. In 1896 Mr. Loomis was elected to the State Senate and served on the committees on cities and villages, normal schools, in- sane asylums at Kalamazoo and Traverse City, public buildings, and religious and benevolent societies. Politically he was a Republican, and he was re-elected to the Senate of 1899-1900, and again to the.
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Senate of 1901-1902. Upon the convening of the last named body Mr. Loomis was chosen president pro tem., a position which he had also held during the session of 1899-1900.
David E. Burns was born in Coldwater, Mich. He was educated at Albion College and later graduated in the law department of the University of Michigan, in 1892, and in the fall of that year located in Grand Rapids, where he engaged in the practice of his profession. He was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Kent County in January, 1893, for two years, and was subsequently a member of the advisory board in the matter of pardons from June, 1899, to August, 1900, when he resigned. He was a staunch Republican and was a member of the House of Representatives of 1901-2, and was elected to the State Senate Nov. 4, 1902. Mr. Burns was the father of the first primary law ever enacted in Michigan for the nomination of candidates by a direct vote of the people, and he was nominated for the State Senate under the provisions of this statute.
Thomas H. McNaughton was born May 1, 1861, on his father's farm in Ada township. His education was acquired in the public schools. He served as master of Pomona Grange eight years and as a member of the executive committee of the State Grange for ten years. He also served as president of the Kent County farmers' in- stitute. He served as a member of the legislative committee of the State Grange for three years, and for nine years was a member of the Ada high school board. Mr. McNaughton was a Republican and was always active in the political affairs of the State and county. He was elected to the Legislature of 1909-10 and was re-elected Nov. 8, 1910, serving two terms. He was elected to the Senate Nov. 5, 1912. John Paul was born at Whithorn, Wigtonshire, Scotland, April 1, 1849. He was educated in the district schools. While he was quite young, his parents located on a farm near Reed's Lake, where he later assisted his father in the rough work of clearing the land, attending school during the winter. During his entire active career he was en- gaged in farming and in the real estate and insurance business. He served as school trustee, village president, trustee, justice of the peace, supervisor and county treasurer. He was a Republican and was elected to the Senate Nov. 3, 1914. He died before the expira- tion of his term, July 23, 1915.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
REPRESENTATIVES AND COUNTY OFFICIALS
LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - COUNTY CLERKS-COUNTY TREASURERS-REGISTERS OF DEEDS-SURVEYORS -LIST OF CORONERS.
Representatives-Sessions of 1835 and 1836, Roswell Britton ; 1837, John Almy ; 1838, John Ball; 1839, Noble H. Finney ; 1840, Dig- by V. Bell; 1841, Charles I. Walker ; 1843, Simeon M. Johnson; 1847- 48, Charles H. Taylor; 1849, Henry C. Smith; 1850, Philo Beers; 1851, Thomas B. Church; 1853, Henry C. Smith; 1855, Thomas B.
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Church and Smith Lapham; 1857-58, Volney W. Caukin, Francis W. Kellogg and Lewis Porter; 1859, George W. Allen and Milton C. Watkins; 1859-61-62, Silas S. Fallass; 1861-62, Thomas D. Gilbert and William H. Taylor; 1863-64, James Dockeray, John Porter and George H. White; 1863-64-65, Augustus D. Griswold; 1865, George W. Allen and Henry Seymour ; 1865-67, Edward Jewell; 1867, Solo- mon O. Kingsbury ; 1867-69-70, Lyman Murray and Thomas J. Slay- ton ; 1869-70, George G. Briggs and William R. Davis; 1871-72, Asa P. Ferry, Nicholas R. Hill and Julius Houseman ; 1871-72-73-74-75, Samuel M. Garfield; 1873-74, Ebenezer S. Eggleston; 1873-74-75, Edward L. Briggs and Erwin C. Watkins; 1875, James W. Ransom ; 1877, Simeon L. Baldwin, Welcome W. Johnson and Clarence W. Prindle ; 1877-79, Amherst B. Cheney ; 1879, Henry F. McCormick, Luther V. Moulton and William H. Powers; 1881-82, Nathaniel A. Earle, Charles W. Garfield, Heman Palmerlee and Clarence W. Prin- dle; 1883, Niram A. Fletcher, George W. Thompson and Jarvis C. Train; 1883-85, L. Mcknight Sellers; 1885, Melbourne H. Ford, George P. Stark and Madison J. Ulrich; 1887, Joseph Dillon and Leonard H. Hunt ; 1887-89, John Killean and Neal McMillan; 1889, Frank H. Gill and George E. Judd; 1891-92, Edmund M. Barnard and John W. Hayward; 1891-92-93, Norton Fitch and Arthur S. White; 1893, Jeremiah H. Anderson and William A. Tateum; 1893- 95, Augustus W. Weeks; 1895, Arthur H. Chilver, Charles Holden and Joseph B. Ware ; 1895-97-98, Robert D. Graham ; 1897-98, Charles W. McGill ; 1897-98-99-1900, Edgar J. Adams and Jeremiah H. Ander- son; 1899-1900, Edmund Burfoot; 1899-1900-01, Edward P. Nash ; 1901, David E. Burns; 1901-03, Horace T. Barnaby, Jr., Henry B. Vandercook and Jacob J. Van Zoeren; 1903, Jeremiah E. Anderson ; 1903-05, Frank Ladner ; 1905, George E. Ellis, Henry T. Heald and Carl E. Mapes ; 1905-07, Cassius B. Towner; 1907, Jeremiah H. An- derson and Dennis Murray ; 1907-09, Colin P. Campbell and Harry Vander Veen; 1909-11, Earl R. Stewart and Leonard D. Verdier ; 1911, Paul J. Averill; 1911-13, Thaddeus B. Taylor; 1913, George R. Holloway, Benn H. Lee and Will J. Sproat; 1913-15-17, Charles R. Foote; 1915, Paul J. Averill, William DeBoer, Herbert A. Van Ant- werp and Ray M. Watkins; 1917, George Welsh, Henry L. Schmidt, Joseph J. Frost and Frank W. Peterson.
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