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Estep, Charles A.
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Eyster, Charles C. 251 1
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Fender, Adam 46
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Fortune, John W. 1
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Francis, Arthur L.
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Freeman, Perry C.
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Frost, Orson V. 210 1 1
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Galloway, John J. 133
Gates, Charles 266
Gates, Clinton 256
Gemnend, Harry H.
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Gesler, Albert E., M. D. 85
Gifford, F. J. 364
Goodwin, Marcellus H. 98
Graft, Reuben T. 101
Grant, William A., M. D. 343
Grant, William R., M. D). 336
Green, Elmar N. 340
Greenwood, Levi M. 129
Guilford, Dennis J. 68
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Hall, Arthur N. 179
Hall, Brinton F. 457 1
Hall, Frank W. 1 82
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Hall, Joshua S. 1 183
Hall, Luther E. 118
Hamilton, John H. 170
Hargrave, Frank A., M. D. 138
Hartman, Marcus R.
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Hathaway, Claude E., D. D. S. 229
Hawley, William C.
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Hay, John R., M. D. 75
Hayes, Nathan B. 400
Hearsey, Roscoe A.
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Hendershot, William 203 1 1
Hill, C. M. 102 1
Hixson, Warren 60
Hoag, Isaac P.
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Holden, Darius
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Hotchkiss, Charles E.
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Hotchkiss, Newell 350
Howard, Frederic W.
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Howe, Rev. Martin L.
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Hudson, Eugene E.
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Hudson, Frank H.
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Jenkins, Frank L.
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Johnson, E. S.
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Kennedy, Duncan G. 326
Kennedy, James 164 1
Kilborn, Edgar E. 131
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Klotz, Augustus F. 206
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Kohn, Anthony M. 272
Kohn, Anton
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LaSelle, Ernest A. 211
Lauster, Fred G.
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Leach, William E. 455
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Lee, Hiram N. 358 I 1
Leik, Paul 127 1
Lenhard, M. P.
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Locke, Alfred R.
282
Locke Family (sce Brooks)
198
Lowrey, Ebenezer N.
416
Lowrey, Ed. N. 64
Lowrey, Prof. Harvey H. 56
Lowrey, Richard R.
436
Luscher, William
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McCartney, William H. 484
McLaren, William A. 135
McQuaid, David A.
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Mack, A. A. 333
Marshall, Levi 144
Martin, Thomas F. 442
Mason, Frederick A. 503
Mattison, William H.
316
Maynard, Charles H.
409
Meade, Albert 404
Millard, Rev. David E. 328
Miller, Hon. Frank C. 40
Miller, Louis P.
199
Milliman, Mrs. Arminda
192
Minty, Alexander 490
Morse, Hon. Allen B. 448
Morse, Joseph
255
Moss, Adelphin
194
Moulton, George W.
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Newman, Asa
309
Nichols, Hon. George E.
237
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Olmsted, Louis N.
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Orr, Marjory M., M. D.
491
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Packard, Delmar A.
335
Page, Rufus L.
257
Parker, Edward N. 355
Peake, Clarence W. 104
Pilkinton, Silas H. 492
Pinkham, Joseph F., M. D.
398
Pline, Mathias
172
Post, Bert 419
l'ost, Lec 419
Potter, George W. 44
Powell, Rev. Henry W. 1
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Powell, Herbert E.
375
Probasco, Capt. Jacob O.
288
Pryer, Charles H.
55
Pryer, Frank W.
426
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Ralston, Charles M. 88
Ranger, lloward A. 372
Reed, Maurice A.
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Reed, William B.
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Richards, Frank E.
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Robertson, Alexander
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Robinson, Jefferson
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Roof, Adam L.
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Ross, John E.
470
Rudd, Clinton J.
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Scott, James D. 308
Scoville, Glenn H., D. V. S.
377
Scoville, Leroy A.
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Seeley, Lewis S.
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Selleck, W. F. 128 I 1 I
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Somers, William H. 365
Soule, William F. 499
Sparks, Thomas 137
Spencer, Fred L.
467
Spinney, Andrew B., M. D.
304
Spitzley, Joseph
205
Spitzley, William 213
Stebbins, Perry H.
78
Steele, William N.
479
Steere, William C.
434
Stevens, Benevolent H.
341
Stevenson, Major Thomas G.
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Stillwell, Coral A.
271
Stone, Orin 253
Stout, Clyde M.
174
Strong, Emory F. 305
Struble, Lambert B. 214
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Taft, Frank 152
Tasker, Robert N. 150 1 1
Taylor, James
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Tebbel, George W. 189 1 I 1
Tebbel, John 189 I 1
Thurlby, George C. 507 1 1
Tingley, Henry G. I I 1 1
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Tower, Osmond S. 1
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Townsend, Ed S.
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Townsend, Emery 384
Townsend, Lorin P. 368
Townsend, Sherman M. 110
Tucker, Mrs. Samuel E. 52
Turner, Harvey A. 407
Tyler, Otis D. 462
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Upton, Victor F.
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Vanderheyden, Fred H. 392
Van Vleck, Peter 353
Van Vleek, Rector H. 352
Vetter, Anselm
386
Vohlers, Eugene L. 62
Vosper, Benjamin 186
Vosper, James
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Washburn, Frederick A. 125
Watt, Hon. J. Clyde 451
Watt, S. A.
216
Webber, Herbert B. 42
Webber, John .
464
Webber, Lorenzo 464
Webster, Judge Montgomery 262
Webster, O. F. 438
Welch, Amos M. 274
Wellfare, Hugh J. 91
West, George L. 1 359
Weter, Guy D. 415
White, Reuben 11. 382 1
Wilder, William A. 412
Wilkins, Frank S. 339
Wilson, Charles L. I
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Wilson, David E. 432
Wilson, Ferman G. 247
Wilson, Gilbert W.
456
Wilson, Henry J. 456
Wilson, William H. 106
Winchell, Clarence G., D. D. S. 314
Winchell, George P., M. D. 269
Winchell, Walter L. 323
Winslow, Nathan 89
Wooldridge, Edward M. 95
Wooldridge, Ernest S. 87
Wooldridge, George W.
378
Wooldridge, Samuel
427
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Yeomans, Edwin S. 93
Yeomans, Erastus T. 285
Yeomans, llon. Walter 48
Yeomans, Willard S. 1
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Young, John 33
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JOHN YOUNG.
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JOHN YOUNG.
In making up the memorial annals of lonia county no record would be complete that did not carry fitting mention of the life and services to this community of the late John Young, who for more than forty years was one of Ionia's best-known and most enterprising merchants. John Young was born in Otsego county, New York, March 5. 1832, son of Jacob and Esther ( Ward) Young, the former a native of New York state and the latter of Massachusetts, who later moved to Elmira, New York, and thence to Painted Post, in Steuben county, same state. When a boy, John Young learned the tinner's trade. although his mother was very desirous that he become a Methodist minister. His advantages in the way of schooling were limited. but he was a diligent student and possessed a marvelously retentive memory, thus becoming a very well-informed man. He memorized the entire Bible, and in his early manhood associated much with ministers and was a frequent exhorter at meetings. He engaged in the tinning business, but presently became a lumberman, sending logs down the Susquehanna river, but finding that venture unprofitable gave it up and in September. 1857. he then being twenty-five years of age, came to Michigan and settled in Ionia.
Upon locating at lonia. John Young entered the employ of the Sloan tin-shop and was there engaged as a tinsmith for two years, at the end of which time he opened a shop of his own. The year after coming to Ionia. Mr. Young married and from the very beginning of his business venture his affairs prospered, the tin shop presently developing into a hardware store and in the latter business Mr. Young remained engaged the rest of his life. soon coming to be recognized as one of the most substantial and influential merchants in the town. Twice his store was destroyed by fire, once in 1860 and again in 1865. but. nothing daunted by these backsets, he rebuilt and went right ahead. Mr. Young was an ardent Democrat and took a warm interest in local political affairs, but never was an office seeker. lle con- tinued actively engaged in business to the time of his death. June 24, 1903. having thus been continuously engaged as a merchant in lonia for forty-
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three years, and the business which he left is now being successfully carried on by his two surviving sons, Frederick and John Young, among Ionia's best-known and most progressive merchants.
John Young was an earnest member of the Episcopal church, as is his widow, and their children were reared in that faith, the family ever being devoted to local good works. Mr. Young had been a witness to the develop- ment of lonia from a straggling backwoods village to a pretentious, modern city, and had done well his part in promoting that development along all proper lines. When he arrived there in 1857 the Grand Trunk had just finished their line to lonia, then the terminus of that road. There were only two brick residences in the place and two brick store buildings. A log cabin stood right across the street from the present Young store and where the library now is situated there was then an unsightly mud hole, which not long afterward was drained and converted into a potato patch. Deer frequently were seen in the neighborhood and one day, not long after Mr. Young's arrival, a bear came lumbering down into the village out of the woods on the highland now the north section of the city. For many years afterward Indians used to come into the village, riding "Indian file" on their ponies. Though such scenes long have passed, they are still vivid in the memory of Mrs. Young, whose mind is a veritable storehouse of knowledge regarding the growth and development of the city which has been her home ever since 1857.
On January 1, 1858. the year after his arrival in lonia, that John Young was united in marriage there to Mary Jane Sheets, who was born in Licking county, Ohio. July 2, 1838, daughter of Hezekiah and Elizabeth (Glosser) Sheets, both natives of Maryland, the former born in the city of Baltimore and the latter at Frederick. Hezekiah Sheets died when his daughter, Mary Jane, was three years old and his widow moved to Knox county, Ohio, where she spent the rest of her life. When she was ten years old. Mary Jane Sheets went to live with her mother's brother and the latter's wife, who had lost three children of their own, and she grew to womanhood under their care. In 1857 she came to fonia on a visit to a married sister who had located here, but after meeting John Young had no desire to return to Ohio and their marriage followed shortly after. To that union four children were born, namely: George Clancy Young, who married Ger- trude Avers and was associated in business with his father at lonia until his death at the age of thirty-nine years in 1898; Frederick Young, who married Theresa Jandernoa and is in the hardware business established by his father and with which he was connected for years before the latter's
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death; John, who married Verona Leweyllen, and is also in the hardware business established by his father; and Esther, who married Edward R. Bailey. one of the proprietors of the Bailey House in lonia at that time, who later operated the Pike summer tavern at Topenabee on Mullett lake, this state, and who died on December 3. 1914, survived by his widow and one son, John E., who are continuing the hotel business at Topenabee.
Edward R. Bailey was born in lonia on March 18, 1863, son of Leman and Rachel ( Klink ) Bailey, the former a native of Wayne county, New York, who for a time was engaged in the hotel business at Cleveland, Ohio, and who came to Michigan in 1852, opening a grocery store and restaurant at lonia, which he conducted until his establishment was destroyed by fire in 1861, after which he engaged in the hotel business until 1864. when he rebuilt his store room and again engaged in the grocery business, but after he was burned out there a second time in 1865 he bought the Runyan House and later bought the old Eagle hotel, changed the name of the same to the Bailey House and continued its proprietor for thirty-three years. He died in 1801 and his widow died in 1897. After the death of the ekler Bailey his sons. Edward R. and Herbert Bailey, continued the business until 1806. when Edward R. Bailey took hold of the Pike summer tavern and was thus engaged the rest of his life, becoming very successful in that business. The Baileys had their origin in England, a father and three sons having emigrated to this country in colonial days, settling at Rutland, Vermont, where all save Oliver Bailey met death during the Revolutionary War. Oliver Bailey, father of Leman Bailey, later moved to Wayne county, New York, where he spent the rest of his life. He had another son, Ephraim Bailey, who came to Michigan many years ago and was cared for by a son until his death. at the age of ninety years.
JUDGE FRANK D. M. DAVIS.
Judge Frank D. M. Davis, judge of the lonia circuit court, who has held that honorable position since 1892 and who enjoys the unusual dis- tinetion of having been twice re-elected without opposition, as the nomince of both dominant parties, is a native of Buffalo. New York, having been born on April 9, 1854, son and only child of Evan M. and Ellen A. ( Will- iams) Davis, both natives of Oneida county. New York, who died at lonia, this county, the latter in 1855 and the former in 1865.
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Evan M. Davis was the son of Matthew Davis and wife, natives of Wales, who had settled in Oneida county, New York, where the former was a miller. He learned the painter's trade and followed that all his life. He married Ellen A. Williams, daughter of Edward and Mary (Jones) Williams, also natives of Wales, who had settled in Oneida county, New York, farming people, both of whom lived to advanced ages. In 1854. Evan M. Davis and wife came West and located at lonia, where Mrs. Davis died the following year. Mr. Davis later went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. where he resided for a time, but in 1859 returned to lonia, where he died in 1865. He had been reared as a Congregationalist, but later became an earnest adherent of the church of the Seventh-Day Adventists.
Left an orphan at the age of twelve years, Frank D. M. Davis has made his own way in the world ever since. He worked at farm labor in Mont- calm and Ionia counties until he was sixteen years old, meanwhile applying himself to his studies during the winters in the schools of lonia and Green- ville, displaying such aptitude in that direction that at. sixteen he received a license to teach in the public schools of this county and was engaged in teaching for several years. In the meantime he had been applying his leisure to the study of the law and in 1875, he then being twenty-one years of age, was admitted to the bar. Upon being thus qualified to practice his chosen profession, Mr. Davis opened an office at Saranac, this county, and was there engaged in practice until the time of his election to the office of prosecuting attorney for this judicial district, in 1880, in which year he moved to lonia, where he ever since has resided. For eight years he served as prosecutor and then served one term as mayor of Ionia, and in 1892 was elected, as the nominee of the Republican party, judge of this judicial cir- cuit. So admirably has Judge Davis discharged the duties of his official position that he has been retained on the bench of this circuit ever since. Previous to his election to the office of prosecuting attorney, Judge Davis had served as a justice of the peace in Boston township and had also served as court commissioner.
On August 6, 1874, Frank D. M. Davis was united in marriage to Ellen A. Strong, who was born at Niles. this state, October 7, 1855, daugh- ter of Noble D. and Rozilla M. (Potter) Strong, natives of New York, the former of whom was born near Auburn and the latter near Herkimer, pio- neers of Ionia county, both now dead, and who were the parents of five children, Emory F., Etta A., Ellen A., Elva R. and Carrie A. Noble D. Strong was the second in order of birth of the six children born to his par-
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ents, Isaac Strong and wife, natives of New York state. who spent their lives in the Auburn neighborhood. the other children of that family having been Levi, Samuel, Norman, Isaac and Henry. His wife was the first-born of the five children of Francis and Heziah ( Frost) Potter, natives of New York state, who came from the Herkimer neighborhood to be pioneers in Ionia county, the other children of that family having been Bianca, Elmira, William and Elvira.
To Frank D. M. and Ellen A. (Strong) Davis two children have been born, Elbert M. and Elva R. Elbert M. Davis was graduated from the Ionia high school, after which he entered Olivet College and later the Detroit College of Law, from which he was graduated, after which he engaged in practice at Jonia and became very successful. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsel of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company and since then has made his home at Grand Rapids. He married Marian Morse, daughter of Judge Morse, of lonia, a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume. Miss Elva Davis is a graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing and is now operating a large green-house at Ionia. Judge and Mrs. Davis have a beautiful home at 146 Lafayette street, in Ionia, where they have lived for nearly a quarter of a century. Judge Davis is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of Saladin Temple, Ancient Arabie Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is also an Odd Fellow and a member of the Knights of Pythias, in the affairs of which organizations he takes a warm interest.
MAJOR THOMAS G. STEVENSON.
Major Thomas G. Stevenson, secretary-treasurer of the Peoples Mutual Fire Insurance Company of lonia, veteran of the Civil War, a former news- paper editor of Ionia and for years actively identified with the business and social interests of that city, is a native of lonia and has lived there almost all his life. He was born at Ionia on July 26, 1842, son of John and Jean ( Brown) Stevenson, the former a native of England and the latter of Scotland, early settlers in this county and for years influential residents of Ionia.
John Stevenson was reared in England and in 1831. crossed the Atlantic, settling in Montreal, where he married Jean Brown, who was born at Abbotsford, Scotland, within sight of the old home of Sir Walter Scott,
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and who had come to America with her brother, settling in Montreal. In 1836 John Stevenson and his wife came over into Michigan and settled in the then village of Lyons, being among the earliest settlers of the Grand River valley, soon after moving to Ionia. They were earnest members of the Methodist church and from the beginning of their residence in this county were accounted as among the leaders in all good works hereabout. Mrs. Stevenson died on February 17, 1883. Mr. Stevenson survived his wife about seven years, his death occurring in 1890. Their second son, Thomas G. Stevenson, grew to manhood in lonia, receiving his elementary education in the public schools of that city. He early took an interest in newspaper work and by the time he was eighteen years of age, by working during vacations and after school hours in the office of the Ionia Gazette, had earned enough money to pay his way through a course of two years of study in the Ypsilanti Seminary, in preparation for entrance to the State University, but his plans for a higher education were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War.
At the age of twenty years Thomas G. Stevenson enlisted in Company A, Twenty-first Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was imme- diately appointed sergeant-major of that regiment. In less than a year he had been successfully advanced in rank from second lieutenant to first lieutenant and then to captain of his company. He was with the regiment in the battles of Perryville, Stone's River. Chickamauga, Averasboro and Bentonville and in numerous minor engagements and skirmishes. When General Sherman's army cut loose from its base of supplies and started on its historic sweep through Georgia, Captain Stevenson was appointed adjutant-general of a newly organized brigade and served thus on the march to the sea and on up through the Carolinas to Washington, where he partici- påted in the Grand Review, and upon being mustered out at the close of the war was brevetted major for meritorious service.
Upon the completion of his military service Major Stevenson returned to his home at lonia and in May, 1866, in association with an old school- mate and army comrade, Capt. J. C. Taylor, began the publication of the Ionia Sentinel, a weekly journal, through the columns of which for twenty years he advocated the principles of the Republican party. during which time he became one of the best-known newspaper editors in Michigan. On July 4. 1892, Major Stevenson purchased the Marshall Statesman, one of the oldest Republican newspapers in Michigan, and for years published that paper, selling the same in 1896. The year previously, in 1895, at the annual
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meeting of the Michigan State Press Association, held at Benton Harbor, Major Stevenson was elected vice-president of the association and accom- . panied his editorial brethren on the association's memorable trip down the St. Lawrence river to Montreal, thence to the White Mountains; and in the following winter accompanied the editorial party which made the trip to New Orleans, where the editors were paid special attentions by the city offi- cials and the Mardi Gras directors, the editorial excursionists then proceed- ing on into Mexico, spending several days in the land of the Montezumas, receiving distinguished attentions from President Diaz and high officials of the republic of the south.
For ten years during his connection with the "fourth estate." Major Stevenson had been largely interested, in connection with others, in wool growing in Colorado and at one time he and his associates had ten thousand sheep on their ranges. Three years before buying the Marshall Statesman, Major Stevenson had been elected secretary-treasurer of the Peoples Mutual Fire Insurance Company of lonia and since selling his paper in 1896 has devoted his undivided time to the affairs of that progressive and prosperous organization. When Major Stevenson took charge of the insurance com- pany's office the company had a membership of 861 and was carrying an insured risk of $1. 154.205. The current annual report of the condition of the company shows a membership of 5.250, with insured risks of $7.750,000. Major Stevenson has been a Republican since the day he cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln on Lookout Mountain in Tennessee in 1864, and has since remained firm in the faith. In 1911 Major Stevenson was appointed by Governor Osborn a member of the board of managers of the Michigan state soldiers' home and still occupies that responsible position. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and for years has taken an interest in the affairs of that patriotic order. He also is a member of the fraternal association, the Royal Arcanum.
On June 24. 1874, Major Thomas G. Stevenson was united in mar- riage to Hannah C. Blanchard, who was born at Lyons, this county, daughter of John C. and Harriet A. (Brewster) Blanchard, for years numbered among the most prominent and influential residents of lonia, further refer- ence to whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Stevenson is a mem- ber of the Methodist church, of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the Home Missionary Society, in the affairs of all of which organ- izations she takes a warm interest, assisting the Major in such measures as they approve for the general advancement of local social and cultural condi-
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tions. Major and Mrs. Stevenson reside in the old Blanchard home, a sandstone residence erected by the late John C. Blanchard in 1880, one of the handsomest and most substantial houses in Ionia, occupying broad grounds extending from Main street to Adams street.
HON. FRANK C. MILLER.
Hon. Frank C. Miller, present city attorney of Ionia. is one of the best- known and most successful lawyers in Central Michigan, former member of the Legislature from this district, ex-mayor of lonia, former assistant attorney-general of the state, ex-city treasurer and alderman, and has also served as assistant prosecuting attorney of the county. Mr. Miller in addi- tion to looking after his extensive law practice has been largely interested in lumbering and farming, and for years has been active in the promotion of the varied interests in which he is financially interested and the public inter- ests as well. He is essentially a "self-made" man. Though he admits he is possessed of certain ideas somewhat peculiar to himself, he thoroughly accords to every other man the right to think as he may please. He has spent the greater part of his life in the city of Ionia and the record of his career is an open book.
Frank C. Miller was born at Burlington, Iowa, November 24. 1860. His father was a native of Germany and his mother a "down east Yankee" from Connecticut. Ilis father died while he was still a young man and his mother, whose maiden name was Rachael Steele, died on February 28, 1916. He grew up and spent his boyhood days in Kent. Clinton and lonia counties. where he attended the country schools until he was fourteen years of age. From early childhood he became inured to hard work upon the farm and later in the hunber woods, and he looks back with pride upon the fact that when he was fifteen years of age he worked seven months upon the farm in the township of Riley, Clinton county, Michigan, receiving six dollars per month for his labor and that from his wages of seven months' service he saved and took home to his mother the sum of thirty-five dollars. There- after. for some years, he worked upon the farm in summer and attended the country school during winter. Although he did not neglect his studies while working upon the farm, but spent every spare moment with his books -- they were his constant companions, and he cared little or nothing for the pleas- ures which other boys of his age usually engaged in. He recalls the fact
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