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CHARLES HEBARD.
there during the years of 1872, '73 and '74, and organizing the firm of Iebard, Hawley & Co. The firm built and operated a large lumber manufacturing plant at Cleveland, Ohio, but had Detroit for their main office. In 1874 Mr. Hebard disposed of his interests in the concern and returned to Pennsylvania, The plant was destroyed by fire in 1877 and Mr. Hebard returned to Michigan and com- menced hunbering operations in Baraga county, and the following year he built his immense mill at Paquaming, which he has since operated. He was regent of the Univer- sity of Michigan from 1888 until 1894.
Mr. Hebard married Miss Mary C. Case, daughter of Samuel Case, at Tobyhamna, Pennsylvania, in 1858. They have four children, Julia E., Charles S., junior member of the firin of Charles Hebard & Sons, Mary E. and Daniel Larned Hebard, the latter of the firm of H. M. Tyler & Co., North Tona- wanda, New York.
Mr. Hebard still resides in Pequaming and his residence there is one of the prettiest in that city.
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FRED. HURLBURT BEGOLE.
BEGOLE, FRED. HURLBURT. Cop- per has made Michigan famous, and the de- velopment of the rich mining properties in this state is due to the energy and hard work of Michigan men who have devoted their time and capital to the locating and working of the rich bodies of ore that have enriched the Upper Peninsula.
Fred Hurlburt Begole is an owner and dealer in copper properties, and also in tim- ber and mining lands in this state. His in- terests are centered in some of the largest enterprises of this kind in Michigan, and at present he is a director in the Victoria Cop- per Mining Company, the Mass. Consolidated Copper Mining Company and the Ontonagon National Bank, at Rockland, Michigan. With ex-Lient .- Gov. Dunstan he promoted and put on the market the Victoria Mining Company at Ontonagon county, selling $700.000 worth of stock in fifteen days.
Fred. Hurlburt Begole was born in Flint, Michigan, October 22, 1866. His father, Philo M. Begole, was a descendant of Capt. Thomas Bowles, who served during the revolutionary war, and his mother a deseen-
dant of Dr. Ulysses Hurlburt, a surgeon during the war of 1812, and from the Starr family of Connecticut. Josiah W. Begole, his unele, is the ex-governor of Michigan.
Fred. Regole was educated in the district schools and at 14 years of age was in the Flint High School. His education was paid for by himself, as he taught school in order to earn the money for this purpose. He carned $24 a month teaching at Rogerville, Genesce county, and later worked three months in the drug store of Alvin Holt, at Detroit, Michigan.
He went to the Upper Peninsula in 1885 as principal of the schools at Baraga, Michigan, and taught there three years. During the last year he edited and published the Baraga County News. In 1888 he went to the lum- ber woods at a salary of $26 a month for Thomas Nestor, and later he became an oper- ator himself, putting five million feet of logs into the Ontonagon river. He was saving, and when 21 years of age he had $1,500 in the bank. He bought and sold logs and tim- ber and operated a small saw mill at Mar- nette, doing a successful business. In 1891 he entered into a partnership with Hon. Peter White and embarked in the insurance business under the firm name of White & Begole and continued with Mr. White until August, 1896. During all this time he did not neg- leet his lumbering interests, and he also be- came interested in the buying and selling of mineral properties, making a feature of open- ing and developing old mining properties in Ontonagon county.
In 1890 Mr. Begole married Miss Gertrude C., daughter of Milan S. Elmore, at Flint, Michigan. Four children have been the re- sult of the union. Donald M., Charles F., Fred. H., Jr., and Elizabeth G. The eldest, Donald M., is eight years of age.
Mr. Begole owns a fine home at Marquette, where he now resides and is highly respected as an energetic and successful and represen- tative business man.
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JOCHIM, JOHN WALFRID. Success has greeted the efforts of John Walfrid Jochim since he first came to America from his native country, Sweden, and from an humble miner he has advanced himself until at the present day his name appears at the head of one of the largest hardware firms on the Upper Peninsula, the John W. Jochim Hardware Company,
J. W. Jochim was born in Matala, Sweden, October 12, 1845. He comes of an excellent family there, his grandfather having for years been a member of the Swedish Congress. His parents were well to do, and the boy's educa- tion was commenced in the public schools of Matala, which after advancing through the various grades he left in order to attend the Linkoping College. He put in eight and a half years' work and study at college, studying zealously and taking courses in the various scientific branches preparatory to following a military carcer. In 1866 his father met with financial reverses and young Jochim was compelled to enter the business world.
He found work as clerk in a mercantile firm at Stockholm, and remained with the firm from 1866 until 1868. In 1869 he came to the United States. Upon his arrival he started westward, and arrived in Ishpeming, Michigan, August 16, 1869, with three 25- cent pieces in his pockets. He found work the very next day at the Washington mine, at $2.50 a day.
He worked in the mines all that winter, and in the spring of 1870 he gave up mining to take a clerkship in the hardware store of Colwell & Co., where he worked for one vear. In 1871 he engaged with J. B. Maas & Co., and assumed charge of their branch store at Negaunce, Michigan, where he con- tinued until 1872. He then returned to Ish- peming to enter the employ of the firm of Norberry & Warn, of that place, taking the entire management of their establishment and remaining with the house until 1873, when Neeley & Eddy bought out the firm in August.
JOHN WALFRID JOCHIM.
Ile had saved a little money, and had long entertained the idea of entering the hardware business for himself. In order to do this now he was compelled to borrow money enough to start him in his new enterprise, and the rates of interest at that time were very high. He borrowed $1,600 at 12 per cent. in order to complete his stock of hardware, business was brisk and his class of goods very much in demand, so he was successful from the outset, and the business has increased yearly, so that Mr. Jochim today is reckoned as one of the most successful business men in Ishpeming. Hle is the president of and a stockholder in the Marquette Hardware Company, Limited, of Marquette, Mich.
Mr. Jochim married in 1873 Miss Gustafva Wetterlund, at Ishpeming. He has one child, Howard W. Mr. Jochim is a Republican. In 1888 he was alderman of the city of Ish- peming, and a member of the School Board from 1878 until 1881. He was elected Sec- retary of State in 1891 with Governor Rich, and resigned in June, 1892. He owns a beautiful residence in Ishpeming, where he is a respected and valued citizen.
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GEORGE A. TRUEMAN, M. D.
TRUEMAN, M. D., GEORGE A. George A. Trucman is a young and successful physi- vian and surgeon, living and practicing his profession in Munising, Michigan. He was born November 28, 1870, near Orangeville, Ontario, where his father was a railroad con- tractor and hotel keeper. Young Trueman went to school when he was 9 years of age, but when he reached the age of 11 his father failed in business, and went on a farm, where the boy was taken and put to work. During the winter he worked in the woods in the Muskoka district, and when he was 17 the family moved to Michigan, locating on a farm which they purchased near Sand Beach.
Here young Trueman secured a job pack- ing bran, in the mill of Jenks Bros., of Sand Beach, earning $1.25 per day at this em- ployment. The next summer his mother died, and his father was taken ill and con- fined to his bed, so in company with his brother, young Trueman worked the little farm. The following summer he went to Newberry, Michigan, and piled cordwood for the Newberry Furnace Company, and in the
winter again went into the woods to work near Dollarville.
He commenced the study of medicine this same year, reading in the office of Dr. Nichol- son, of Newberry. Ile read until March, when he entered the employ of the Chocolay Furnace Co., at ('hocolay, Michigan. He managed to save $125 out of the little money he had earned, and with this he went to Chi- cago, Illinois, and entered the Rush Medical College of that city. The limited amount of capital with which the boy started upon this venture was the cause of much suffering and he endured considerable hardships in his student days at the college. He had, after paving his railroad fare to Chicago, and his tuition fees, just $12 left, and this was soon exhausted. On Thanksgiving day, 1891, he walked the street all day, with only five cents in his pocket, which hunger forced him to in- vest in a Thanksgiving dinner. It was a dis- mal day for him, away from home in a strange city, with tempting arrays of mince pies, gayly decorated turkeys, and other evidences of cheer glaring at him from the restaurant windows, and the odor of cooking assailing him at every corner, but it was a part of his education and he had to take it.
By dint of hard work of all kinds, together with a little assistance rendered him by a younger brother, he managed to earn enough to bny food, which he cooked himself. The next spring he became a book agent, and in the latter part of March landed in Howe, Nc- braska, with a prospectus and 23 cents. He traded books for his board and canvassed six months, carning $600, and going back to col- lege well fixed financially. Ile followed the same course next season and made $1,200, and graduating May 23, 1894, opened an office at Newberry, Mich. Two years later he removed to Munising, where he now lives.
Dr. Trueman married Miss Inez Lindsley Hunter, daughter of John L. Hunter, and Mrs. Susan L. Ilunter, at Greenville, Michigan, in 1895.
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BREITUNG, EDWARD NICHOLAS. Edward Nicholas Breitung has the larger por- tion of his business interests in the Upper Pen- insula, where he is fee owner of many large iron mining properties, and a dealer and owner of considerable of an area of mining and rich mineral lands in that section. He was born in Negaunce, November 1, 1871, and al- though now only 29 years of age he carries a weight of business cares upon his shoulders. He is is a director of the Negannce Iron Com- pany, of that place, also of the Artie Tron Company, the Wolverine Copper & Silver Company, the U. P. Brewing & Malting Com- pany of Marquette, the Marquette County Savings Bank, Duluth Brewing & Malting Company, Duluth, Minn., the Breitung Iron Company, the Breitung Mining Guarantee Company, Limited, Breitung Bond Company, Limited, Negotiation Company, Limited, and the Beaver Iron Company, all of Marquette, Michigan.
Mr. Breitung married in 1890 Miss Char- lotte Graveraette, daughter of Samuel Kauf- man, at Marquette, Michigan, and has one child, Juliet Marie Breitung, aged five.
The history of the elder Beitung is, how- ever, more interesting than that of the son, as Edward Breitung, Sr., was the man to whom all the credit is given for opening up the great iron industry that has made the Upper Peninsula of Michigan what it is today. This pioneer miner and promoter was born in the city of Schalkan, Germany, November 10, 1831, where he was edneated in a thor- ough manner and sent to the College of Mine; at Meiningen, from which he graduated. Ile came to America in 1849, and located at Richland, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, where, in order to learn the English language, he attended the distriet school. For two years he elerked in a grocery store at Kalamazoo, and the following four years worked in De- troit as a bookkeeper. He went to Marquette in 1855, and engaged in the mercantile busi- ness. In 1859 he sold out his mercantile busi- ness and removed to Negaunee, where he asso- ciated himself with Israel B. Case and for sev-
EDWARD NICHOLAS BREITUNG.
eral years operated the Pioneer Furnaces on contract. In 1864 he commenced to open and develop iron properties and purchase mineral lands. Ile opened the Washington property, and in 1871 began to open mines in the Negannee range. The mining men of that district thought it a foolish venture and refused to support Breitung in his operations. He re- mained firm in his belief in the mining valne of the territory and that fall he surprised them with the famous Republic mine, the largest and most profitable in the whole Upper Pen- insula. In 1873 he began explorations of the Menominee range where he located several fine properties. In 1882-83 he first beeame interested in the Vermillion range in Min- nesota.
Edward Breitung, Sr., was a member of the state legislature from 1873 to 1887. He was state senator 1877-78 and member of Congress 1883-85. From 1880-83 he was mayor of Negaunee, and his useful life came to an end March 3, 1887. Edward Nicholas Breitung is following in his father's footsteps, and has many years before him to devote to furthering the enterprises left in his charge.
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GEORGE WILLIAM FREEMAN.
FREEMAN, GEORGE WILLIAM. George William Freeman is the youngest man having charge of any penal institution in the United States. He is the warden of the State House of Correction and branch prison at Marquette, and has held that position since 1897, at which time he was only 30 years of age.
He was born in Marquette May 19, 1866, where his father was engaged in business, and attended the public schools of his native city until 1882, when he went to the high school but left before the time for graduating. He then went into the employ of his father, who was operating a livery and sales stable in Marquette, and remained with him until 1885.
He then entered Bryant's Business College at Chicago, Illinois, and took a business course and bookkeeping. He remained in Chicago for two years and then returned to Marquette in 1887 and entered the private banking estab- lishment of Knapp & Joslyn at Marquette. ITe was engaged as bookkeeper for the firm at a salary of $50 a month, and the second month
in their employ the firm raised his salary $25 more. Mr. Freeman remained with this firm until they failed in 18SS, and he was then ten- dered the position of deputy collector of cus- toms under C. H. Call, which he accepted, and in that capacity he worked for one year until he was offered a position keeping books for J. M. Wilkinson, the banker. Mr. Freeman held his new position until 1893, and then became clerk of the prison under Warden John R. Van Evera.
On February 19, 1897, the young man was called into the room where the board of con- trol of the prison was in session and tendered the position of warden, which John R. Van Evera had just resigned to take the manage- ment of the Lake Superior district trade for Picklands, Mather & Co., of Cleveland, Ohio. It was more than a surprise not only to Mr. Freeman but to every one else, for Mr. Van Evera's resignation had never been thought of.
Freeman could not realize that this import- ant position was being tendered to him, had thought himself too young to accept it, but after he realized that the board of control was in earnest, and really wanted him to accept, he did so, and he has since proven a most efficient official.
The Marquette prison is one of the best condueted in the United States, and since Mr. Freeman has taken charge of the institution he has made many improvements, favoring every new scheme that will tend toward mak- ing the prison equal to the needs of the present day.
Mr. Freeman is of Irish and English de- scent. In his social connections he is ex- tremely popular, and belongs to the National Prison Association of the United States, the Wardens' Association, the National Union, Knights of Pythias, and B. P. O. E., in Mar- quette. He married Miss Millie Grace, daugh- ter of Alfred Thurbley, in 1894, and has one child, Louis Thurbley Freeman.
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
LOUD, COL. GEORGE ALVIN. Col. George Alvin Loud was one of the few spec- tators who witnessed the battle of Manila Bay, when Admiral Dewey struck the first de- eisive blow in the war with Spain. He was a guest on board the United States dispatch boat McCulloch at the time, but serving as paymaster, and during the Manila expedition and battle had charge of the after magazine. He watched the battle from the time the first shot was fired until the last Spanish ship sank beneath the waters of the bay.
George Alvin Loud was born in Hunts- burg, Ohio, January 18, 1852. His father, Henry M. Loud, was for many years an ex- tensive operator in lumber.
George A. Loud attended school at Boston, Detroit and Ann Arbor. When he reached his seventeenth year his father had become involved in large lumbering operations in Os- coda, Michigan, and he sent to college for the boy and asked him to come to Oscoda for a short time until the lumbering affairs were less aetive; se, expecting to return to the Uni- versity and complete his education, he gave up college for the time and went to the assist- ance of his father. He started work tallying in the sawmill, and in a year's time was given charge of the sawmill. The following winter he had charge of all the winter work, and at the age of 26 had assumed charge of the out- side work of the lumbering interests of the H. M. Loud Lumber Company.
The elder Loud at one period of his eareer met with sudden business reverses which sent him temporarily to the wall. He promised that as soon as he could recover his losses every obligation should be paid dollar for dollar. Both father and sons worked with renewed energy, and before long the firm was on its feet again, when, true to his promise, the elder Loud paid every dollar of his in- debtedness, and business interests now con- ducted by him are in a most prosperous con- dition. George Alvin Lond is the general manager of the Munising branch of H. M. Loud's Sous Company of Oscoda, and also vice-president of the company. He is also
COL. GEORGE ALVIN LOUD.
superintendent and general manager of the A. S. & N. E. railroad, and is associated in busi- mess with his father and brothers, H. N., E. F. and W. F.
In 1898 he was appointed on the staff of Governor Hazen S. Pingree, with the rank of colonel, and during the recent war was sent by the governor as representative of the state to Montauk Point, to watch the interests of the Michigan troops. His work was so satis- factory that the governor insisted on Mr. Loud going south with the hospital train. Mr. Loud married Miss Elizabeth Glennie, daugh- ter of John W. Glennie, a well-known lum- berman, and at one time a partner of Gen. Russell A. Alger. Ile has four children: Emma, wife of JJames Flohr, of Canton, Ohio; Alice, wife of Rufus Hatch, of Detroit, and Dorothy and Esther, who live at home. Mr. Loud is a Mason, a member of Moslem Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Detroit, and also of the Felloweraft ('lub of Detroit, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He holds the Dewey medal for participation in the battle of Manila and another from the Sons of the Revolution for active service in the Spanish war.
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HON. JOHN MUNRO LONGYEAR.
LONGYEAR, HON. JOIIN MUNRO. Fifty years ago the great resources of Michi- gan were still in a poorly developed state, and the mining and timber lands were waiting for the young generation to grow up and awaken their dormant wealth. Just at this period, on April 15, 1850, John Munro Longyear came into the world at Lansing, Michigan. His father, John W. Longyear, was judge of the United States District Court at. Detroit, Michigan. His grandfather, Peter Longyear, came to this state from Ulster county, New York, and Jacob Longyear, the original of the family in America, eame to this country about 1700 and settled in Shandaken, Ulster county, New York. On his mother's side, John Munro Longyear traces his ancestry back to Josiah Munroe, who was a Connecti- cut soldier during the revolution and took part in the expedition to Canada in 1777, and after the Declaration of Independence moved to Pawlet, Vermont.
John M. Longyear, when he reached the proper age, was sent to the village schools at Lansing, and at the age of 13 he entered the preparatory department of Olivet College.
After a year in that eollege he was sent to Georgetown College, at Washington, where he remained until he was 15 years of age, and then returned to Lansing, where he beeame a clerk in the postoffice at $20 per month.
The following five years he was an invalid, and until 1872 he worked in a drug store. woodworking factory and sealed Inmber in the Saginaw valley. In company with the late James Turner, he went to Cheboygan county in the fall of 1872, and as Turner had a eon- tract to examine certain state lands Longyear did his first work as a "land looker." With one man as a companion, he traveled about and "looked" timber lands around Mullet lake. The outdoor work greatly benefited his health and he determined to make this line of labor his vocation. In 1873 he "looked" land in the Upper Peninsula, but the panic of that year cut off the work, and in 1875 he was without a cent, and "land poor." Although he did not have enough money at one time to buy himself a pair of boots, he held on to his property, which afterwards turned out to be rich in minerals. In January, 1878, Mr. Longyear was appointed agent of the Lake Superior Ship Canal Railroad & Iron Com- pany, which became later the Keweenaw As- sociation. Mr. Longyear owns some of the best iron properties in the Upper Peninsula.
Mr. Longyear married Miss Mary Beecher. daughter of Samuel P. Beecher, of Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1879. They have six children, namely, Abby, Howard, Helen, Judith, Jack M. and Robert.
Besides being the agent for the Keweenaw Association, Limited, Mr. Longyear is a direc- tor of the First National Bank, Marquette; part owner of the Norrie Mine at Ironwood, the Ashland Mine and Aurora.
In 1890-91 he was mayor of Marquette, and appointed a member of the board of control of the Michigan College of Mines, at Houghton, in 1893. Mr. Longyear published the first map of the Gogebic Iron Range in the winter of 1881.
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SUNDSTROM, CHARLES FERDI- NAND. A successful merchant and re-
spected citizen of Michiganme, Michigan, is a Scandinavian by birth. Ilis father was one of the first Scandinavians who settled in Houghton county in 1868, where the family remained for two years, then going to Mar-
quette county and settling at Humboldt,
Later the family removed to Michigamme, young Sundstrom's education commenced. where they remained for four years, where
where Mr. Sundstrom now resides and con- ducts a general mercantile business. His edu-
cation was continued in the common schools
at Michigamme, and at the age of 14 he went
to work for Dousman & Watkins, general
dromter at a salary of $5 per month, intend- macy, he took a position with Dr. J. Van- merchants, but being anxious to study phar-
ing to learn the profession of a pharmacist.
He studied pharmacy for cighteen months, and at the end of that time received $35 per month. The indoor work behind the prescrip-
was too ambitious to be so closely confined, tion counter did not agree with him, as he and upon the advice of his friends he gave up the study of pharmacy and entered the em- ploy of John Hickey, who operated an exten- sive mercantile establishment at Michi- gamme. At the age of 17 he became asso- ciated with the firm of Hinchman & John- ston, for whom he worked for seven years, and it was with this firm that he really fin- ished his business education. With less than $200 capital he started in business for him- self, and in less than six months his business grew so rapidly that he found it would take more capital to carry it on, and it was at this point that he found it absolutely necessary to look for assistance, which he soon found in the person of E. R. Hall, who is now vice- president of the Lincoln National Bank, of Chicago. The business prospered until the winter of 1891-92, when the failure of several large contractors, who were building the Iron Range & Huron Bay Railroad, caused a set- back not only to Mr. Sundstrom, but to the other business in the village. The work on
CHARLES FERDINAND SUNDSTORM.
the new road was abandoned and the contracts were broken, so that by the closing of the iron mines and the failure of the railroad, Sundstrom lost over $4,000, which was then much more than his assets. However, he pulled through and paid dollar for dollar. In March, 1894, he was appointed deputy collec- tor of internal revenue and given charge of the whole Upper Peninsula. He resigned this position July 1, 1899. His record as deputy stands the third best in the United States, having collected about $300,000 a year in taxes and fines for the government.
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