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Dr. Southworth was born in the city of Monroe, on the 12th of Decem- ber, 1866, and he duly availed himself of the advantages of the public schools, including the high school, in which he was graduated in 1883. He then began the study of medicine under the able preceptorship of his distinguished father and finally entered the Detroit College of Medicine, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1886 and from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He forthwith en- tered the College of Physicians & Surgeons, in New York city, in which he completed an effective post-graduate course and from which he re- ceived the supplemental degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1887. On June 6th of that year he opened an office in Monroe, where he has since been engaged in active general practice, and where he has long controlled a large and representative business as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of his native county. For a quarter of a century he maintained his office in the old building adjoining that of the First National Bank, and in 1911 he exchanged buildings with the bank. He remodeled the bank building, of which he thus became the owner, and here he now has one of the largest and best equipped private offices of professional order to be found in Monroe county, the library, furnishings and appointments of the same being most attractive and the facilities of the best modern type. The Doctor has continued to be a close and appreciative student and avails himself of the best in the standard and periodical literature of his profession. He is actively identified with the American Medical Association, the Michigan State Medical Society, the Tri-State Medical Society, and the Monroe County Medical Society.
Broad-minded and public-spirited in his civic attitude, Doctor South- worth has shown a lively interest in all that has tended to advance the wellbeing of his home city and county. He is a staunch Democrat in his political allegiance, and in 1892-93 he served as mayor of Monroe. He gave a most progressive and popular administration, during which many noteworthy public improvements were made, including the con- struction of street pavements of brick, the city having bonded itself for
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this and other needed improvements. The mayor and council succeeded in ushering in an era of municipal progress and the policies brought forward by young and loyal citizens in the city council and by the equally progressive young mayor have been followed out to the great benefit of the city and its people. Doctor Southworth was the first president of the first board of public works in Monroe. He served two years as secretary and treasurer of the board of education and has otherwise manifested vital and helpful interest in the welfare of his home community. The Doctor and Mrs. Southworth are zealous com- municants of Trinity church, Protestant Episcopal, and he is junior warden of the parish, one of the most liberal, loyal and valued members of its vestry. He and his family are influential and popular factors in the leading social life of Monroe, and the family home is known for its gracious and generous hospitality.
On the 30th of January, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Southworth to Miss Ellen F. Cochran, who was born in Iowa and reared in Flint county and who is a lady of culture and gracious personality. She is a step-daughter of Thomas R. Waters, and a well- known citizen of his county. Doctor and Mrs. Southworth have two sons, Tracy Waters, who was born April 9, 1895, and who is a mem- ber of the class of 1914 in the Allen school, at West Newton, Massa- chusetts; and Varnum Cochran, who is a member of the class of 1916 in the Monroe high school, his intention being to prepare himself for the medical profession, of which he will thus become a representa- tive of the fourth generation of the family in this county.
A. B. LENNINGTON, M. D. A capable, diligent and attentive physi- cian is necessarily one of the most serviceable citizens of any rural com- munity, and for that reason, if for no other, is one of the most highly and universally esteemed of its residents. The people around him are likely to need him at any hour of the day or night, and when they do need him his services are inestimable. His patients lean on him as their main support in times of illness, and esteem him as their friendly and inter- ested adviser at all times. Their very dependence upon him leads them to estimate his value highly, and they are justified in doing so. If to his professional ability and skill in the use of it, he adds high character and upright living, his hold upon their regard is all the stronger and the more justifiable.
Dr. A. B. Lennington of Maybee, one of the leading physicians of Monroe county, Michigan, is a gentleman of this description, and is justly deserving of the high opinion and cordial regard in which the people in all parts of the county hold him. He has lived at Maybee and been engaged in the active practice of medicine here since 1901, and is well known both as a physician and as a man. His success has been good from the start, and as the years of his service have passed, it has grown in volume and value until now he has a very large and active practice throughout many miles of the country surrounding Maybee on every side.
Dr. Lennington was born at York, Haldimand county, Ontario, on June 7, 1867. He is the son of W. C. and Elizabeth (Bell) Lennington,
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the former a native of the state of New York, and the latter of Ontario. The father was descended of old Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, the family being noted for generations for strict integrity, frugal living and patient and persistent industry. He grew to manhood in his native state and there married Miss Elizabeth Bell, who came of an old English family that had located in Ontario in the early days of our country. She died when the doctor was still very young, and he has no recollec- tions of her.
W. C. Lennington, the father of the doctor, was a vigorous and successful carpenter and contractor in his days of activity. He is still living, and is now eighty-one years of age, but still stalwart and straight, six feet tall and muscular. His physique has always been striking, and is now more so than ever, with the great burden of years it is bearing unbowed. He has his home at North Yakima, Washington, where he has been living for a number of years. He and his wife were the parents of three children : William, who is a resident of North Yakima, Wash- ington; Robert, who was a soldier and served in the' Spanish-American war, and who is now deceased ; and Andrew B., of this review.
Dr. Lennington was reared in Canada and obtained the beginning of his academic education in the provincial schools. He afterward attended Caledonia high school, Ontario, where he made an excellent record as a student, as he did also in the lower schools, and in 1896 matriculated at the Detroit Medical College, from which he was grad- uated in 1900, with the degree of M. D. and a fine record for studious habits, correct deportment and accurate scholarship in that institution, all of which gave him high standing in his classes.
On April 7, 1903, he was married in Monroe to Miss Julia Hasley, a young woman of excellent family and fine social attainments and position. She is a daughter of the late Daniel Hasley of Maybee, one of the pioneer settlers and business men of that village, and the builder and owner of the Maybee mills, which he operated for many years with profit to himself and great benefit to the community, constituting, as they did in the earlier days of their activity, one of the leading industries in this part of the state.
Dr. and Mrs. Lennington have four children : Horatio Andrew, who is now (1912) nine years old; Johann, who is between seven and eight; Phyllis Susie, aged six, and Patricia Helen, who was born on February 9, 1912.
The doctor's office is one of the finest in town. It is built of brick, with a private drug room and study and an attractive and comfortable waiting room. He also owns a choice brick residence built in 1912, con- taining nine rooms, including a well equipped bath room, concrete base- ment, with steam heat and all modern appliances and appointments.
Dr. Lennington is a close student of his profession, leaving no means untried to keep in touch with the most advanced thought and discoveries in theory and practice. The best literature on the medical science is one fount of progressive knowledge from which he imbibes freely, and another is free intercourse and exchange of reading, reflection and practical experience with his professional confreres. These he secures by active membership in the County, State and American Medical socie-
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ties, and other organizations of a similar nature to which he has belonged for years. Successful in his professional work; active and serviceable in his citizenship, and of a pleasing personality which makes him a very agreeable companion, he is easily one of the best and most representa- tive men in his community.
DR. J. H. McCALL. There is no class of men who work for the good of mankind that is more useful or self-sacrificing, that subordinates its own comfort and convenience more completely to the general welfare, as well as to the needs of individual members of a community, or that is generally held in higher esteem than physicians. The people everywhere seem to think the doctor in their neighborhood belongs to them at any hour of the day or night, and must be subject to their beck and call at any time and under any circumstances. The doctors appear to take the same view of their duty to their community, and are almost always responsive to its commands.
One of the successful and zealous physicians and surgeons of Monroe county, Michigan, who is making a fine record for fidelity to duty and skill and ability in performing it, is Dr. J. H. McCall of Carleton. Although he was graduated from the medical college but two years ago, and has been located and in practice at Carleton but a little over one year, Dr. McCall has already established himself firmly in the confidence and high regard of the people around him, and is building up a large and remunerative business in his profession.
Dr. McCall is a scion of one of the best known families of St. Clair county, Michigan, where he was born on July 23, 1884. He is a son of Thomas and Lettie (Potter) McCall. The father is a prominent banker in St. Clair county, and one of the leading citizens of that part of this state. He has been in business there a long time and by his enterprise and progressiveness in conducting his own affairs and his cordial and helpful interest in the substantial progress and improvement of his locality, he has won a high place in the esteem of the people, locally and in many other parts of the state, for he is widely and favorably known.
His son, the doctor, obtained his academic education in the public schools, and this included a complete high school course of instruction. He was graduated from the high school with credit to himself and the school, and in 1906 he became a student in the Detroit College of Medi- cine, from which he was graduated in the class of 1910 with the degree of M. D. and the honors of his class. In July, 1911, he located at Carle- ton, and here he has ever since given his whole time and attention to his growing practice, so far as that was required, neglecting no call and slighting no opportunity to render good service to anyone in need of his professional ministrations.
Knowing well the progressive character of his profession, and that hosts of bright and brainy men are continually searching through all its phases in theory and practice with a view to its improvement and more extensive usefulness, Dr. McCall is a close student of its develop- ments, reading its best literature reflectively and making use of all the means it offers for larger and more accurate knowledge. He is an active
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member of the Monroe County Medical Society and the American Medi- cal Association, and takes a deep and practical interest in all the work these organizations do. He is also a thoughtful observer of manifesta- tions and developments in his own practice, and lays to heart all the results of his observations. There is no avenue to professional improve- ment which he does not use in his progress.
As an adjunct to his professional work and a means of making it more successful, the doctor has a drug store in Carleton, which is one of the leading and most popular emporiums of the kind in southeastern Michigan. In this he always has in stock a full supply of fresh and high-class drugs and chemicals, and the other commodities which are allied with them in trade, including toilet articles, books, jewelry and other sundries. The utmost care is used in compounding prescriptions, and good taste and judgment govern in the selection of the stock of all kinds, while strict integrity is the rule in all transactions in the trade.
On November 25, 1907, Dr. McCall was united in marriage with Miss Bessie Guyer, a young lady of good family and broad general intelli- gence and fine social culture. They have one child, their daughter Vir- ginia Marjorie. The parents are prominent in the social life of the com- munity, and esteemed as valuable aids to all good agencies working among the people for their betterment in every way, morally, intellect- ually, socially and materially, and are universally accorded a high rank as representatives of all that is best in the citizenship of the city and county in which they live.
In fraternal relations the doctor is a Free mason of the Knights Temp- lar degree, holding his membership in the organizations of the fraternity established in Monroe. He is also a member of the Detroit Lodge of Elks. He takes an earnest interest and an active part in the work of these fraternities, and makes his membership in them valuable and serviceable in every way open to him for the purpose. Although a young man yet in years and in professional work, he is a rising star, and eminence as a physician and a citizen is freely predicted for him.
LEWIS RICHARDS. Among the names of those intimately associated with the pioneer history of Monroe county, Michigan, is that belonging to the Richards family, members of which located here at a day when the most primitive conditions prevailed and through their work developed excellent farming property out of raw prairie and timber land. A repre- sentative of this old and honored family is found in the person of Lewis Richards, one of the prominent agriculturists of this locality, who owns and operates 280 acres of excellent land in section 5, Exeter township, and who has the added distinction of being a veteran of the great Civil war. Mr. Richards was born in the city of Detroit, Michigan, in Novem- ber, 1844, and is a son of Marshall and Mary (Reshire) Richards.
Marshall Richards was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, a member of an old French family of that country, and his wife was also connected with a family which had its origin in France. Not long after their marriage they removed to Detroit, Michigan, from which city they came to Monroe county, settling near the village of Raisinville, where they spent the remainder of their lives, dying at an advanced age, in Vol. II-20
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the neighborhood of seventy years. They had a family of five children, as follows : Julia, Lewis, Adeline, Joel and Amelia. Mr. and Mrs. Rich- ards were members of the Roman Catholic church, and their children were all reared in that faith.
Lewis Richards was educated in the public schools of Exeter town- ship, his mental training being looked after during the winter terms, while his physical advancement progressed as he gave of his best labor in the cultivation of the home farm during the summer months. Reared to agricultural pursuits, he remained at home and assisted his father until his patriotism prompted him to take up arms in defense of his country, and when still less than twenty years of age he left home and went to Buffalo, New York. In that city he enlisted as a member of Company I, Eighth Regiment, New York Cavalry, in June, 1864, the regiment being immediately ordered south to Chapel Point, Virginia, in which state and West Virginia the greater part of their service was spent in guard duty. At the close of the war, the regiment was ordered to New York City, and there Mr. Richards received his honorable discharge. On his return to Michigan, Mr. Richards resumed farming in addition to which he operated a sawmill and engaged in lumbering to a considerable extent, but eventually agricultural pursuits demanded all
of his attention, and each year has found him adding to the value and acreage of his land. The 280-acre farm is all in a high state of cultiva- tion, its fields and pastures are neatly and substantially fenced, and its general appearance throughout testifies to the skill and good manage- ment of its owner. A large, well-built farm house, surrounded by shade trees, graces the north end of the property, in addition to which there is a barn, 50x100 feet, for the stock, and smaller buildings for the grain and implements. A public-spirited citizen, he has assisted in promoting movements of a progressive nature, and at all times has been a stanch supporter of education, morality and good citizenship.
At the age of twenty-three years Mr. Richards was united in mar- riage with Mrs. Adeline Delye (nee Stock), a widow, who had five chil- dren by her first marriage, namely : Joseph, Zachariah, Harry, Henry and William. Mr. and Mrs. Richards have three daughters: Susan, Helen and Lizzie.
LEWIS W. BOND, a retired farmer and a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Raisinville township, Monroe county, Michigan, on May 5, 1837, the son of Louis W. and Julia (Giyard) Bond, of English and French descent, respectively. The mother was born in French township, Mon- roe county, in 1800, and died in 1874. Both were residents of Monroe county until their death. They were the parents of three daughters and two sons, of which number Lewis W., the subject, and Julia Hubbel are now living.
Lewis W. Bond was reared to manhood in Raisinville township and attended the district schools when he might. In 1862 he enlisted in Company K of the Eighteenth Infantry and was consigned to the Four- teenth Army Corps under General Grant. He served through to the close of the war and though he participated in many a raging conflict, he was never wounded, one of the engagements he was in being a battle
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of four days' and four nights' duration at Decatur, Alabama. On June 26, 1865, he was mustered out and returned home to the farm, where he took up the old routine life once more. He has since continued in that industry, and has won a place of high regard in the hearts of his fellow townspeople with the passing years.
He married Victoria Navarre, a granddaughter of Col. Francis Navarre, and three children were born to them : Frank, who enlisted as a soldier in the Spanish-American war, died in Detroit in 1898; Jefferson, and Robert, who is unmarried and lives at home. In 1879 the wife and mother died, and in later years Mr. Bond married Lizzie C. Caldwell, the marriage taking place on September 8, 1880. She was born on July 3, 1847, in the city of Monroe, Michigan, and was educated in St. Mary's Academy. She is an accomplished musician and has taught with excel- lent success.
The family are members of St. Joseph's Catholic church. Mr. Bond is a Republican, and is active in the interests of the party. He was jus- tice of the peace of his township for twenty-four years and has held various school offices. He is a member of Joseph R. Smith Post No. 76, G. A. R., of Monroe, Michigan. His farm of eighty acres was originally a grant from the government, and the deed which his father secured to it was signed by Andrew Jackson.
OTTO C. KNAB, an energetic and prosperous young farmer of La Salle township, Monroe county, Michigan, was born November 26, 1879, on the farm on which he now lives, son of Charles F. and Elizabeth (Reinhardt) Knab, both of German parentage.
Charles F. Knab, also a native of La Salle township, was born March 11, 1847, son of Charles and Margaret (Lehrer) Knab, natives of Ger- many, who emigrated to America in early life, previous to their mar- riage, and in La Salle township, Monroe county, Michigan, they spent the greater part of their lives and died.
Elizabeth (Reinhardt) Knab was a daughter of Jacob and Louise (Klauplin) Reinhardt, both natives of Germany and pioneers of Michi- gan. Jacob Reinhardt was born April 8, 1826, and died June 6, 1902; his wife died in July, 1908. They were the parents of seven children, all still living, namely: Catharine, Elizabeth, George (who married Helen Ballinger), Mary (wife of George L. Knab), Augusta (wife of John Heck), Philip (who married Lizzie Knab), and Charles (who mar- ried Emma Mullock). Elizabeth was born in La Salle township, Febru- ary 6, 1853, and is still living.' Her husband, Charles F. Knab, died May 8, 1891. It was May 29, 1873, that they were married, and the chil- dren born to them, five in number, are as follows: Louise, wife of Christ Goetz; Fred G., who married May Shew; Otto C., whose name introduces this sketch; Elnora, wife of Charles Kinney, and Matilda, wife of Otto Albright of Detroit, where they live.
Otto C. in his youth attended district school, also a German school, and since reaching adult age has been engaged in operating the farm on which he was born and reared, now being the owner of 138 acres (in private claim No. 431).
February 27, 1906, Otto C. Knab and Anna K. Knapp were united
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in marriage, and to them have been given two children: Beatrice M., born March 17, 1908, and Herbert O., April 13, 1909. Mrs. Knab is a native of Monroe county, born July 25, 1884.
The religious faith of the Knab family is that of the German Luth- eran church, of which Mr. Knab has been treasurer for six years, and in this church, according to the usual custom, he was confirmed when a youth. He is a member of La Salle Grange, and for six years past has filled the office of overseer.
CLARENCE LEE MILLER, one of the representative citizens of La Salle, Michigan, and a prominent merchant and farmer of the town, was born here on October 24, 1856, the son of Lucien B. and Lorain B. (Johnson) Miller. The father was born at Senate, Seneca county, New York, on March 6, 1831, and the mother in Rushford, Allegany county, New York, on February 27, 1832.
Lucien B. Miller was the son of John Miller, born at Saratoga Springs, New York, on December 17, 1807, and the grandson of Josiah Miller, who came to New York from Holland at some time prior to 1807, and located in Auburn. In May, 1831, when Lucien B. Miller was but two months old, his parents brought him to Michigan, where they located in Monroe county, and there he was reared and passed his life. He was one of the well known and highly estimable citizens of the town for years and was prominent in the public life of the county. He held the office of justice of the peace for years and was a member of the Michigan legis- lature for two terms. In 1877 he was the author of the so-called Muskrat bill for the protection of the muskrat, and he was supervisor of his township for a number of terms. He was always a Democrat, as have been members of the family since it was founded in America, or since the birth of the party. He was a farmer in addition to his other inter- ests, and took an active interest in the development of Monroe county as a farming section and performed his full duty in the development work of his time. He died on December 12, 1894, and his widow still survives him. They became the parents of these children : Horace, the eldest, was burned to death when two years old; the others are Clarence, the subject of this review; Geneva, Genoa, Adelaide, who died at the age of twenty as the result of an illness from typhoid fever, and Lucien. The mother, who is now in her eightieth year and enjoying good health, although her eyesight is somewhat impaired, came to Michigan on April 15, 1845, with her parents. She is the daughter of John and Maryann (Bradford) Johnson. The father was born in Vermont, February 4, 1808, and died on October 3, 1874. He was a Republican and a man deeply interested in church and school activi- ties. The mother lived until October 13, 1901. They lived on a farm in La Salle, Monroe county, for more than fifty years. Timothy Brad- ford, the father of Maryann (Bradford) Johnson, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war under General Washington. When the war was over Bradford went home with General Washington, remaining with him until the following spring, and when he took his departure, the general presented him with a pony and saddle.
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