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On December 24, 1872, William .A. Paterson was united in marriage to Mary Dryden, who was born near Guelph, Ontario, daughter of Thomas and Mary Dryden, both natives of Scotland, who were prominent citizens in the Guelph neighborhood and the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Pater- son was the ellest, the others being Margaret, who married J. B. Armstrong : Mrs. Rev. Torrence, of Guelph ; Mrs. Wood, of the same place, and Thomas, who also still lives at Guelph. To Mr. and Mrs. Paterson five children were born, two of whom died in infancy, the others being as follow: Maude E .. who married W. R. Hubbard, who is treasurer of the W. . \. Paterson Com- pany of Flint, and died leaving one daughter. Mary Paterson Hubbard:
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William S., who is associated with his father in business, married Myrtle Leonard, of Beaver, Pennsylvania, and has a son, William Leonard ; Madelon, who married Arthur C. Pound, of Grand Rapids, has four daughters, Mary Dryden, Maude Elizabeth, Madelon Paterson and Margaret Ingles. Mrs. Paterson died in 1900, at the age of fifty-three years. She was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church and for years was one of the leaders in all good works hereabout.
Mr. Paterson has been an elder in the Presbyterian church for more than a quarter of a century and has ever been interested in church work. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason, affiliated with the Detroit consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and a noble of Moslem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in that city. His local con- nection with the order is through Flint Lodge No. 23, Free and Accepted Masons; Flint Chapter No. 15, Royal Arch Masons, and Genesee Valley Commandery No. 15. Knights Templar. Mr. Paterson was one of the charter members of the old original Knights of Pythias lodge at Flint and is a member of Flint Lodge No. 222, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
WILLIAM T. HYNES.
William T. Hynes, a well-known dealer in real estate, loans and insur- ance and proprietor of the National Collection Agency, with offices in the Fenton building at Flint, is a native of Canada, having been born in the city of Guelph, Ontario, June 3, 1862. He is a son of John Hynes, a native of Ireland, whose last days were spent at Gaines, this county.
John Hynes was but a lad when his parents, Michael Hynes and wife, emigrated from Ireland to Canada in 1847 and settled at Guelph. Michael Hynes was a newspaper man and remained at Guelph until 1872, in which year he came to Michigan and located on a farm near Gaines, in this county, where he spent the remainder of his life, being ninety-six years of age at the time of his death. He was twice married, his first wife dying when comparatively young, leaving two children, John and Mary. He married, secondly, a Miss Clark, to which union five children were born, Terrence. Margaret, George, James and William. John Haynes grew to manhood in Canada and became a farmer in the vicinity of Guelph, the owner of a farm of about one hundred acres, where he lived until 1871, in which year he came to this state and located at Gaines. There he bought an eighty-acre
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farm, which he proceeded to improve, and as he prospered added thereto until he was the owner of two hundred and twenty acres. He spent the rest of his life there and his widow survived him some years, her death occurring in 1910, she then being seventy-three years of age. She was a daughter of Daniel Hayes. who emigrated from Ireland with two daughters, Bridget and Mary, and settled in the neighborhood of Guelph, Canada, where he spent the rest of his life, living to old age. John Hynes and his wife were members of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith. There were ten of these children, namely: John P., of Duffield, this state; James, of Flint; Margaret, wife of P. H. Cooney, of Durand, this state; William T., the subject of this biographical sketch; Daniel, of Sault Ste. Marie; Edward, of Gaines: Catherine, Joseph and Mary, also of Gaines, and one who died in youth.
William T. Hynes was but a boy when his parents moved to this county and he grew up on the farm. Upon completing the course in the public schools, he went West and at Butte, Montana, took a course in a business college. Conditions there at that time appealed to him and he remained at Butte for twenty years, gradually becoming the possessor of considerable real estate and mining interests. In 1906 he disposed of his interests at Butte and returned to Genesee county, locating at Flint, where he opened a real-estate office and has ever since been quite successfully engaged there in the realty business, in addition to which he also handles loans and insurance. He also is proprietor of the widely known National Collection Agency and takes an active interest in the general business affairs of his home town. He is a Republican "to the backbone" and takes a warm interest in local political affairs, but is not included in the office-seeking class.
PATRICK EDWARD VERNON.
Patrick Edward Vernon, a well-known dealer in real estate and loans. with offices in the Fenton block, Flint, is a native of New York state, but has been a resident of this county practically all the time since he was six or seven years old, and has thus been a witness to and a participant in the wonderful development that has marked this region in the past generation. He was born near the city of Rochester, son of Patrick and Mary (O'Hare) Vernon, natives of County Down, Ireland, who later came to this county. where their last days were spent. ..
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Patrick Vernon was the eldest of the four children born to his parents. farmers in County Down, whose last days were spent in Belfast, the others having been Bernard, John and Mary. When eighteen years of age he came to the United States and settled eighteen miles east of the city of Rochester, New York, where he eventually engaged in the contracting and building line, and was thus engaged until he came to Michigan in 1870 and located in this county. He bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Mt. Morris township, on the Saginaw road, which he partly cleared and then, about 1879, sold that place and bought another farm, a tract of forty acres, on which he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1891. His widow survived him one year. She was a daughter of Michael and Catherine (O'Rourke ) O'Hare, natives of Ireland, who came to America in their youth with their respective parents, both the O'Hares and the O'Rourkes settling in the vicinity of the city of Baltimore. Michael O'Hare became a farmer in the neighborhood of Baltimore and spent his life there. He and his wife were the parents of two children, Mrs. Vernon having had a brother, Peter. Mrs. O'Hare had two brothers, Daniel and James O'Rourke, slave-owners, both soldiers in the War of 1812, the latter of whom was an officer in the army. He conducted a hotel in Baltimore and operated a large tannery in that city. Patrick Vernon and his wife were earnest and devout members of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, namely : Peter, an honored veteran of the Civil War, who died in 1891, was one of the first to enlist at the raising of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteers, for service in the Civil War, with which regiment he served for three years and was badly wounded at the battle of Fredericks- burg; Catherine Etta; Alice; Elizabeth, deceased; Michael, a former real- estate dealer at Battle Creek, now deceased: Patrick E., the subject of this sketch, and Anna Gertrude.
Patrick E. Vernon was but a lad of six or seven years when his par- ents came to this county and he grew to manhood on the paternal farm in Mt. Morris township, receiving his schooling in the district school in that neighborhood. He early learned the trade of a mason. He was engaged as a building contractor until about 1900, when he engaged in the general real-estate business. For three years he was located at Battle Creek, after which he opened an office at Flint, where he has ever since been engaged in the same business, and where he has done very well, being one of the best-known realty men in that city. Mr. Vernon and his sisters, Catherine and Anna, live together at No. 716 North Saginaw street, where they have
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a very pleasant home and where they are very comfortably situated. They also are owners of several adjacent bits of property. They are members of the Catholic church and take an earnest interest in parish affairs, as well as in local good works generally.
WILLIAM H. McKEIGHAN.
William H. MeKeighan, former mayor of Flint and a prominent mer- chant of that city, former alderman and for years actively identified with the promotion of his home town's later phenomenal growth, is a native of Ohio, but has been a resident of Michigan since boyhood. He was born in the city of Cleveland, July 1. 1886, son of David and Mary (Corcoran) McKeighan, the former a native of Illinois and the latter of Pennsylvania. who were the parents of nine children, namely: Francis, deceased; Thomas, of Fresno, California; David, of St. Charles, this state; Jennie, wife of Paul J. Mulhauser, of Cleveland, Ohio; Esther, deceased, who was the wife of Harry Dolson: John J., a druggist, of Flint: George, a druggist, of Flint ; William H., the subject of this biographical sketch, and one who died in infancy.
The senior David McKeighan was the son of David McKeighan, a native of Scotland, who married a Walker and came to America, settling at Farmington, Illinois, where he spent the remainder of his life, living to a ripe old age. His widow survived him many years, her death occurring in lowa at the great age of ninety-six years. They were the parents of five children, John. Samuel, Peter, David and Vashti. David McKeighan, second, was reared at Farmington and at the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted as a private in the Fifty-fifth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Upon the completion of his original term of service he re-enlisted in the same company and became second lieutenant of the same, serving until the close of the war. He was twice wounded; was with Sherman on the march to the sea, participated in some of the bloodiest battles of the war and took part in the Grand Review at Washington. All his brothers also were veterans of the Civil War.
Upon the completion of his military service, David McKeighan for a time followed the life of a sailor on the Great Lakes and then became a rail- road man, for years in the service of the Big Four Railroad Company, with headquarters at Cleveland, where he died at the age of fifty-five years. His
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widow, who still survives, is the daughter of Thomas and Mary Corcoran, natives of Ireland, who came to America and settled in Pennsylvania, later coming to Michigan and settling on a farm in Gaines township, this county, whence, late in life they moved to Ohio, where their last days were spent, both living to ripe old ages. Thomas Corcoran and wife were the parents of five children, Michael, Thomas, Sarah, Margaret and Mary.
William H. McKeighan spent his boyhood in Cleveland, receiving his early schooling in the schools of that city, and his studies later were con- tinued in the schools of Saginaw and of St. Charles, this state, graduating from the high school in the latter city in 1906. In the meantime he had been clerking in drug stores from boyhood and upon leaving the public school took a regulation course in pharmacy and was registered as a certified pharmacist, under the state laws, in 1907. For some time thereafter he traveled through the West and in 1909 located permanently in Flint, where he established himself in the drug business and where he is now the owner of three drug stores in partnership with his brothers, John J. and George W. McKeighan. Mr. McKeighan is a Republican and from the very begin- ning of his residence in Flint has taken an active interest in local politics. In 1913 he was elected alderman from the first ward and on April 5, 1915, was elected mayor of the city. In that election his home ward gave him a majority of one thousand and eighty-six votes. In 1914 he was his party's nominee for state senator from this district, but was defeated by a small majority. . Mr. McKeighan's business interests are not confined wholly to his drug stores, as he also is the owner of a hardware store in Flint and is the proprietor of a moving-picture theater.
Mr. McKeighan has taken a prominent part in local lodge circles and is captain general of Subordinate Division No. 125, Loyal Guard, a new division of that order, made up of representative young men of Flint. He is a Scottish-Rite Mason, affiliated with the consistory at Bay City, and is a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Elf Khurafeh Temple at Saginaw. His local affiliation with the Masonic order is through Genesee Lodge No. 174, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 15, Royal Arch Masons, and Genesee Valley Commandery No. 15, Knights Templar .. He also is a member of Genesee Lodge No. 74, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Flint Lodge No. 222, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Flint Lodge No. 159, Loyal Order of the Moose; Aerie No. 629, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. McKeighan is married and has a very pleasant (Ioa)
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home in Flint. On March 11, 1913, he married Clara Loll, who was born at Big Rapids, this state, and both he and his wife take a proper interest in the various social and cultural activities of their home town.
CHARLES W. DUMANOIS.
Charles W. Dumanois, well-known funeral director at Flint, of the firm of Dodds & Dumanois, is a native of the Empire state, but has lived in this county since he was eleven years old. He was born at Buffalo, New York, May 3, 1872, son of William and Julia ( Brennon) Dumanois, both natives of New York state, the former born at Buffalo and the latter at Utica, who are now living on their fine farm in Davison township, this county, where they have made their home since 1883.
The parents of William Dumanois, Claude and Mary Ann (Clair) Dumanois, were born in Alsace-Lorraine and came to America, with their respective parents, on the same ship, the former being fourteen years of age at that time and the latter twelve. Their parents settled at Buffalo, New York, and there they grew up and were married, five children being born to them, of whom William was the eldest, the others being Lucien, also a resident of Davison township, this county; Theodore, of Fenton township, this county; Elizabeth, wife of Frank Steimetz, of Richfield township, and Rosa, wife of George Neubecker. In the early eighties the Dumanois family came to this state and settled in Davison township, this county, where Claude Dumanois and his wife spent the rest of their lives, both dying in 1903, he then being eighty-six years of age and she, eighty-four. William Duma- nois was past thirty-five years of age when he came to Genesee county in 1883. He had grown up in Buffalo, had married there and for some years previous to coming to Michigan had been engaged in the hotel business. Upon his arrival here he purchased the Hill farm of eighty acres in Davison township, at that time regarded as a prize farm, and proceeded to further improve and develop the same. As he prospered he bought other farms, but later sold all but his original home farm, where he and his wife are still living, he at the age of seventy-one and she at the age of sixty-eight. The parents of Mrs. Dumanois, Amy Brennon and wife, the latter of whom was a Marrigould, also were Alsatians and came over to America on the same vessel that brought the Dumanois family, but they settled at Utica, New York, intsead of at Buffalo, and there Amy Brennon became a successful
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dairyman. His wife died at the age of forty-eight years, but he lived just twice as long, he having been ninety-six years of age at the time of his death. They were the parents of eleven children, Julia, Amy, Virginia, Rainy, Eleanor, Lucien, Charles, Eugene, Adell, Margaret and Fred, the latter of whom died when twelve years old. William Dumanois and his wife are earnest members of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith. There are two of these children, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Eugene N. Dumanois, a prosperous farmer of Davison township, this county.
Charles W. Dumanois was eleven years old when he came to this county with his parents in 1883 and his schooling was completed in the district school in the neighborhood of his home and at the high school at Davison. From boyhood he took an active part in public affairs in his home community and was treasurer of Davison village for four years and alderman of the same village for two years. He remained on the home farm until he was twenty-two years old, after which he moved to Flint, where he engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. He thus con- tinued for eleven years, at the end of which time he formed a partnership with Albert W. Dodds in the undertaking business, under the firm style of the Dodds-Dumanois Company, incorporated, with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars, which mutually agreeable partnership still continues, the firm doing a large business, carrying one of the finest gen- eral undertaking equipments in the state. This firm also provides an ambu- lance service for the city of Flint and is thoroughly modern and up-to-date in the methods employed in conducting its business. Mr. Dumanois is a Democrat and gives thoughtful attention to local political affairs.
On November 24, 1904, Charles W. Dumanois was united in marriage to Blanche M. Rumer, who was born in Richfield township, this county, May 14, 1883, daughter of Dr. James F. and Clara Allen (Golden) Rumer, prominent residents of Genesee county, who have been living at Davison for nearly thirty years. Doctor Rumer was born in Ohio and his wife is a native of this county, born in Mt. Morris township, daughter of Enos and Sarah (Allen) Golden, hoth also natives of Genesee county, representa- tives of two of the earliest pioneer families in this part of the state. . Enos Golden and wife were the parents of four daughters, of whom Mrs. Rumer is the youngest, the others being Mrs. Georgia Berne, of Jackson township. this county; Mrs. Elizabeth Hazelwood, of Detroit, and Frances, wife of Archie Allen, of Pasadena, California. To Doctor and Mrs. Rumer six children were born, of whom Mrs. Dumanois is the third in order of birth,
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the others being Dr. Edward C. Rumer, of Flint; James F., Jr., of Oak- wood, California; Margaret, who died in childhood; Jesse, of Flint, and Allan, of Davison. To Mr. and Mrs. Dumanois two children have been born, Julian and Harold C. Mr. and Mrs. Dumanois are members of St. Michael's Catholic church and take an active interest in parish affairs. Mr. Dumanois is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and in the affairs of both of these organiza- tions takes a warm interest. The Dumanois home is at No. 1215 Detroit street, where the family is very pleasantly situated.
ARTHUR JUSTUS REYNOLDS, M. D.
Dr. Arthur Justus Reynolds, former health officer for Flint and one of the best-known and most successful physicians in that city, is a native son of Michigan, and has lived in this state all his life. He was born at Grand Haven on June 19. 1880, son of Dr. John N. and Florence (Keeler) Reynolds, who were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being Anna Louise, wife of William J. Younghusband, living near Shelby, this state; Jessie M., who is a teacher in the Muskegon high school, and two who died in infancy.
Dr. John N. Reynolds was born in Indiana, but was but an infant when his parents, Justus Reynolds and wife, moved back from that state to their native Canada, where they spent the rest of their lives, Grandfather Reynolds having been eighty years of age at the time of his death and his wife seventy-seven when she died. The elder Doctor Reynolds received excellent educational advantages in his youth and upon completing the course in the public schools entered the old Cleveland Homeopathic College at Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated in the sixties. He began his professional career at St. Clair and there married Florence Keeler, the elder of the two daughters born to her parents. Grandfather Keeler was a captain on the Great Lakes. Upon the death of his wife he moved to Valparaiso, Chile. After some years of practice at St. Clair, Dr. John N. Reynolds moved to Grand Haven, this state, where he has been continu- ously engaged in the practice of his profession for forty years. His first wife died in 1885 and he married, secondly, Frances P. Parks.
Dr. Arthur J. Reynolds is a graduate of the medical department
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(homeopathic) of the University of Michigan, which he entered following his graduation from the Grand Haven high school in 1899. He was gradu- ated from the university in 1903 and for a year thereafter served as interne in the hospital at Ann Arbor, where he gained much valuable practical experience in his profession. In 1904 Doctor Reynolds opened an office for the practice of his profession at Flint and has ever since been located in that city, with offices in the Paterson building. Doctor Reynolds has taken high rank in his profession and is a member of the Genesee County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. During 1905-06 he was the local health officer for the city of Flint and is now examining physician for the Michigan State Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
On November 14, 1906, Dr. Arthur J. Reynolds was united in mar- riage to Edna Kitchen, who was born at Marinette, Wisconsin, May 5. 1884, daughter and only child of Frank Kitchen and wife, both now deceased, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Susan Frances. Doctor and Mrs. Reynolds are members of the Episcopal church and take a warm interest in the general social and cultural activities of their home town and of the county at large. They have a very pleasant home at No. 910 East Kearsley street, a residence which Doctor Reynolds erected in 1915.
HORACE B. FREEMAN.
Horace B. Freeman, one of the best-known and most enterprising merchants of the town of Swartz Creek, this county, is a native of the state of Iowa, but has lived in Genesee county since he was a child,: He was born on a farm in Holt township, Taylor county, Iowa, June 18, 1.874, son of Charles and Anna (Bailey) Freeman, the former a native of Ver- mont and the latter of Pennsylvania, who are now living at Flushing, this county.
Charles Freeman came to Michigan with his parents from Vermont when a child and when seventeen years of age enlisted for service during the Civil War as a private in Company C, Twenty-third Regiment, Michi- gan Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until the close of the war. He later went to Iowa and there married Anna Bailey, a couple of years later returning to Michigan and settling in this county. About four years later he returned to Iowa with his family, but about three years
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later came back to Michigan and settled on a farm in Flushing township, this county, where he lived until his retirement from the active labors of the farm and removed to Flushing, where he and his wife are now living, very pleasantly situated. They are the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest, the others being Frank J., a farmer of Flushing township, this county; Edith M., widow of Mr. Fogle, of Pontiac, this state, and Beulalı, unmarried, who is at home with her par- ents. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman are members of the Baptist church and for many years have taken a warm interest in the affairs of the same.
Horace B. Freeman was about six months old when his parents came to Michigan from Iowa; was about five when they returned to the latter state and about eight when they came back to this county and established their permanent residence in Flushing township, where he grew to man- hood. Upon completing the course in the Flushing schools, he entered the office of the Flushing Observer, with a view to becoming a printer, but after two years of that form of experience gave up the printing trade and entered the general store of Herriman & Fox, where he remained for seven years. At the end of that time he took service with Smith, Bridgman & Company, two years later going to the store of E. B. Breman & Company, and was thus connected until August, 1907, when he bought the store of A. T. Miller & Company at Swartz Creek, and has ever since been engaged in business at the latter place, long having been recognized as one of the leading merchants of that place. Mr. Freeman is a Republican and during his residence at Flushing for three years served as clerk of that township.
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