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Mr. Bawden is the president of the Houghton County Street Railway Company, now engaged in building an electric line around Honghton county. In 1892 he was nominated for the Legislature by the Demo- cratic party and was defeated by Carl Sheldon. Republican, by only 52 votes. He married Miss Clara Garvin, daughter of Jeremiah Garvin at Corfne, N. Y., in 1887, and has one child, Garvin Bawden, aged four years.
Mr. Bawden is a Mason, a member of Mont- rose Commandery, Knights Templar, of Cahn- met, and the Shrine of Ahmed Temple, Mar- quette. He is extremely popular with the people of Houghton county, and highly respected as an able and enterprising business man in his resident city of Houghton.
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ROUSSEAU O. CRUMP.
CRUMP, ROUSSEAU O. The parents of Mr. Crump were from England, settling in Pittsford, N. Y., in 1842, where the future Congressman was born May 20, 1843. His early edneation was confined to the public schools of Pittsford and Rochester, N. Y. After learning the trade of wagon and ear- riage bnilder, in the spring of 1865 he went west to grow up with the country, and going into the employ of Col. A. D. Straight, of Libby Prison fame, then operating a lumber vard at Indianapolis, Ind. Ile made his first start in the Imber business, and while there was sent to Canada a number of times to bny stock for the yards. In 1868 he, as a mill- wright, helped build the large planing mills of Laird & Nester at Winona, Minnesota, helping them in their Inmber operations, since which time the latter has been his chief busi- ness. Ile first came to Michigan in 1869. establishing himself at Plainwell, but in De- cember, 1872, by reason of sickness, he returned to his native place at Pittsford, where in 1876, forming a partnership with D. B. Eder, he built and operated a planing mill and humber vard, until 1879. In 1877 Mr. Crump formed one of a company that built
and operated a powder mill near Syracuse, N. Y., which blew up the same year, and most of his capital went up with it. His next busi- ness venture was in connection with an uncle at Simeoe, Ontario, where they operated a general lumber, sash and door factory and stave and shingle business, until the fall of 1881. That summer, while making a tour of the Great Lakes, Mr. Crump visited Bay City, and being impressed with the business push of the twin cities, and not liking Canada, he and his unele decided to remove there and in October, 1881, moved into their new mill at West Bay City, Michigan, operating it until November, 1884, when Mr. Crump purchased his partner's interest and in February, 1884, he organized the Crump Manufacturing Co. as a corporation, in which he was the principal stockholder. This eoucern has grown to be one of the largest box and package manufac- turing plants in the country, employing over 100 hands. Mr. Crump is also senior in the firm of R. O. Crump & Son, operating a saw- mill and Imbering plant at Roscommon, Michigan. In all of his business enterprises he has been noted for his energy and push, accompanied by fair and honest dealing, especially in his relations with his employes, with whom he has never had any disagreement.
In politics Mr. Crump his always been a Republican of the stalwart type, and an active worker for his party. He has served four years as alderman, and an equal term as mayor of West Bay City. In 1894 he was placed in nomination by the Republicans as their candi- date for Representative in Congress from the Tenth Congressional District, composed of fifteen counties, running from Bay county north to the Straits of Mackinac. From hav- ing been for years a Democratic stronghold, the tide was turned by Mr. Crump's popular- itv, aided by his energy and sagacity, he being elected by a majority of 3,843 votes, over his opponent, who was one of the most prominent and wealthy humbermen of the state, and was re-elected in 1895 and 1898. Mr. Crump has extended business interests other than those named. His society connections are Masonic. including the higher degrees, Royal Arcanum, Foresters, Pythians and United Workmen. Ile was married in 1868 to Miss Phoebe A. Tucker, of Craigsville, N. Y. They have five children. A son, Shelley C. Crump, is man- ager of the Crump Manufacturing Co., and a daughter, Mabel A., is clerk of a committee in the TT. S. House of Representatives.
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BEGOLE, CHARLES MYRON. Charles Myron Begole, of Flint, Michigan, president of the Flint City Water Works, was born in Genesee Township, Genesee county, Mich., August 10, 1848. He is the only surviving son of Hon. Josiah W. Begole, who is rement- bered as one of the pioneers of Genesee county and in his day, one of the influential men of this state, being its chief executive from 1883 to 1885.
Young Begole grew up as it were with the state. Ile was born in the old Begole home- stead and lived there until he was eight years of age, attending the district school near by when he was six years old, and when the fam- ily moved to Flint entering the public schools of that city. He completed the High School course when he was 17 and his father, desirous of having him continue his studies, had him enter the Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing, Mich. This was during the war, and the only way to get to Lansing was by stage from St. Johns, and as Mr. Begole remembers the journey today it was far from being a pleasant one. After one year at college young Begole persuaded his father to let him go to work, and as his tastes ran out out-door life he was given employment scaling logs in the woods, where he earned the first dollar he could really call his own. His father was ex- tensively engaged in lumbering at that time at Flint and Otter Lake and in the spring of 1867 young Begole joined the "drive" on Flint river and in the course of time became one of the crack raftsmen on that river. In company with his brother, Frank, he then engaged in the lumbering business for him- self, building a mill at Otter Lake. It was not a success and in two years they gave it up and went to farming. This was in 1874, and for 20 years Mr. Begole worked and grubbed on his property until it was out of debt. In 1895 he removed to the city of Flint, where his father had been so greatly honored, and en- gaged in the manufacturing business. He is
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now a director in the Flint Wagon Works and in the Flint Gas Works, and by way of recreation he looks after his fine farm about nine miles from the city, and located as near as he could get the property to the old Begole homestead.
Mr. Begole is a Democrat. A quiet, con- servative man not anxious to shine forth as a life in the contentment he finds in his various occupations. He has never sought public office.
Mr. Begole married Miss Emma R. Begole, the daughter of a farmer near Ypsilanti. The marriage occurred in Ypsilanti. They have one child, Louise Begole, who is attending school at Flint, Michigan.
He is an attendant of the Presbyterian church in Flint, and the only fraternal order with which he has associated himself is the Knights of the Maccabees.
The business and manufacturing concerns in which Mr. Begole has an interest are flour- ishing institutions, the Flint Wagon Works having a world-wide reputation for the num- ber and quality of vehicles turned out by them.
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ELMORE S. PETTYJOHN.
PETTYJOHN, ELMORE S. Although sprung from a long line of Methodist ancestors, and himself a licensed local preacher in that denomination, Dr. Pettyjohn's life work is that of a physician. The Pettyjohns were of Virginia stock, migrating to Ohio. The father of Ehnore S. was Collard Fitch Petty- john, a well known educator in Ohio. His mother was Elizabeth Wallace, whose grand- father was a prominent character in the Har- rison presidential campaign in 1840. Elmore S. was born at Ripley, Ohio, July 9th, 1855. When a small lad, his parents removed from Ohio to Illinois, where he had the advantages of the public school, but enjoyed excellent home training and at an early age became a teacher. In 1876 he entered the Indiana State Normal School. How well he improved his early years can be judged from the fact that when but sixteen years of age, he was granted a first grade teacher's certificate. The advanced schooling that followed by private tutors was earned by his own exertions, for he early learned the value of a dollar. From the Normal School he taught for nine years, latterly in city schools of Terre Haute. Hle entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, from which he graduated in 1882 with high honors. The same year he was appointed to the medical staff of the Eastern Illinois Hos- pital for the Insane, where he remained three
years, when he resigned to accept the respon- sible position of medical superintendent of the Bellevue Sanitarium at Batavia, Ill., an insti- tution for the treatment of nervous diseases. While there he came into marked prominence and declined several advantageous offers that promised advancement, but the work was not congenial to him so he returned to Chicago and engaged in general practice, with nervous diseases as a specialty. He here enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, but in 1893 he removed to Alma, Mich., to accept the postion of Superintendent and Medical Director of the Alma Sanitarium. Six years later, after a most successful medical career, he came into full control as lessee and proprietor. Under his administration the institution has acquired wide celebrity in the medical profession.
Dr. Pettyjohn has contributed many vah- able papers to the medical journals, being associate editor of two on professional topics, and is a recognized authority on many sub- jects. Owing, however, to the effect on the doctor's health, of exhausting, steady and con- tinuous practice for over 18 years and the difficult work at the Sanitarium for the past seven years, without vacation, he has decided to relinquish his lease of the institution and his medical practice, for a year's rest, travel and study abroad. He is commissioned by the Governor of Michigan to visit all institutions for nervous diseases in Austria, France and Germany. He will study in Berlin, Vienna, Prague and Paris. He will retain his interest in the Sanitarium and remain a member of the Board of Directors.
He is a member of and officer in many lead- ing medical societies in the state and nation. IIe enjoys high standing in the Methodist Episcopal church, both in Illinois and Michi- gan, and has represented with distinction the Michigan Conference in the Methodist Gen- eral Conference, session of 1900 of the church. In society connections, he is a Mason, a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the National Union Medical Examiners, being a Senator in the last named. fle is a Republican in politics, though he has not desired nor held any political office. He was joined in marriage in 1885 to Miss Ada E. Lozier, daughter of Rev. John Hogarth Lozier, D. D., of Indianapolis, Ind., now of Mt. Vernon, Ia. They have three children, Wallace Hogarth, Margaret and Elmore S., Jr.
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HENRY NELSON LOUD.
LOUD, HENRY NELSON. Henry Nel- son Loud was born at Huntsburg, Ohio, Ang. 22, 1850. When he was five years of age, his parents moved to Concord, New Hampshire, then to Lowell, Watertown, and Medford. Mass, where he seeured his early education. He then took a course at Mr. Noble's Prepara- tory School, intending to enter Harvard. His father, however, had become largely inter- ested in Michigan pine and moved to that state. For this reason it was thought best for him to enter the University of Michigan, which he accordingly did in the fall of 1869. In 1873 he married Miss Agnes E. Hathaway, of Medford, Mass., and they have six children.
Since leaving college, he has been engaged in the lumber business at Au Sable, Mich. He entered his father's office there and has successively filled all positions up to manager. Upon the retirement of his father, Mr. Loud and his brothers formed a co-partnership and have successfully eondneted the business under the firm name of H. M. Loud's Sons Company. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Au
Sable & Northwestern Railway Company and is a large owner of vessel property.
On the 13th of October, 1899, he was ap- pointed member of the State Board of Library Commissioners. He is a member of the Au Sable Lodge, No. 234, F. & A. M .; Iosco Chapter, No. 83; Alpena Commandery, No. 34; Michigan Sovereign Consistory, Detroit. and Moslem Temple, Nobles of the Mystie Shrine, Detroit. Ile is also Aide-de-Camp and Colonel on the staff of Major-General ('allahan, of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Lond has always been deeply interested in educational matters and the comparatively high standard of the local schools is very largely due to his efforts. He is also a very close student of modern political problems. The money question especially has been very exhaustively studied by Mr. Loud and his plan for an international eoinage has received favorable comments from a great many of the highest authorities on the subjeet, both in this country and in Europe.
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CHARLES AUSTIN.
AUSTIN, CHARLES. Mr. Austin's gnid- ing star seems to have led him upou somewhat varied and irregular, though comparatively smooth lines. Men are not responsible for their temperaments, but their temperaments are largely responsible for their acts and the history that they make. An even tempera- ment, coupled with clear perception and the energy that attends a healthful physique, have carried Mr. Austin successfully through vari- ons enterprises, to a position ensuring comfort and competence, during the remainder of a well-ordered life. Born in the City of Lon- don, April 19th, 1834, he received the cle- ments of an education popularly termed the three R's. ITis father, Charles Austin, was of the old order of mechanics, retailing his own make of footwear. Later he moved to New Zealand and became a Wesleyan minister. His mother was Marguette Moody. During the popular disturbanees and revolution of 1848 young Anstin imbibed the principles of Republicanism as opposed to monareby and with the consent of his parents emigrated to and subsequently became a citizen of the Great Republic, an important event in his life which he has never regretted.
Charles Austin earned his first dollar sell- ing newspapers and magazines on the streets of London. He learned the trade of a shoe- maker and in 1852, with three dollars and a steerage tieket to New York, he separated from his parents, who emigrated to New Zea- land, and whom he did not again see for nearly twenty years. He found work at his trade in Albany, N. Y., going from thenee to Little Falls, N. Y., and later opened a shop of his own at Utica, N. Y. In 1854 he sold his busi- ness and moved to Concord, Jackson County, Michigan, where he found work at his trade. Ile attended the first Republiean gathering "Under the Oaks" at Jackson, July 6, 1854, and affiliated with the new party, with which he has sinee uniformly acted. He moved to Homer, Calhoun County, in 1855, still fol- lowing his trade, and in 1837 removed to Bed- ford, where he opened a general store, and in 1872 moved to Battle Creek, and beeame a partner with Peter Hoffmaster in the dry goods trade, so eontinning for ten years. In 1882 he became senior partner in the whole- sale grocery and commissiou firm of Austin, Godsmark & Co., but withdrew from aetive connection with the business in 1894, to aeeept the position of viee-president of the National Bank of Battle Creek, with the duties of aetive president, which position he now holds.
Mr. Austin was elected Mayor of Battle Creek in 1876, was elected to the lower house of the Legislature in 1880 and to the State Senate in 1882 and again in 1884, and was among the most useful and influential mem- bers of both bodies, serving on important eom- mittees and showing himself at all times puno- tual in his attendance, elear-headed and in- corruptible. He was delegate to the National Republican Convention at Minneapolis in 1892 and was made a member of the Commit- tee on Resolutions.
Mr. Austin's New Year in 1855 was made memorable by his marriage with Miss Lucy D. Taylor of Coneord. They have three sons, Oliver T., traveling salesman for a Chieago house; Charles J., in the grocery trade at Bat- tle Creek, and Edward D., of DesMoines, Ta.
Mr. Austin is a Roval Arch Mason and a member of Battle Creek Commandery. Knights Templar. Ilis religions connections are Independent Congregational.
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FRANCIS HENRY DODDS.
DODDS, FRANCIS HENRY. Francis Henry Dodds, of Mt. Pleasant, Isabella county, Michigan, was born in St. Lawrence county, State of New York, on the 9th day of June, 1858. His early education was received in the district schools and in the village school of Shepherd, Michigan, to which place his parents removed, in the year 1866. At the age of sixteen years he began teaching school, in which profession he continued for the period of four years; first, in the distriet schools of Isabella county, next in the village schools of Mt. Pleasant, and finally, as principal of the village schools at Farwell, in Clare eounty.
In 1878 he commeneed reading law in the office of Edmund Hall, at Detroit, and in the fall of the same year entered the Law Depart- ment of the University of Michigan, and grad- nated therefrom in the spring of 1880, at which time he was elected president of the Law Alumni of that institution for the then ensuing year. Continuing his literary studies at Olivet College, Michigan, he graduated from that institution in 1882.
Entering into partnership with his brother -now Judge Peter F. Dodds-at Mt. Pleas- ant, he pursued the practice of law there until 1884, when he removed to Bay City, where he continued in practice imtil 1887, at which time he returned to Mt. Pleasant, and again formed a partnership with his brother, and this business relation was kept up until the election of his brother to the bench in 1893. Mr. Dodds has continued in the business of his profession, at Mt. Pleasant, since then, has built up a large practice, and is considered one of the leading lawyers in that part of the State.
In 1892 he was married to Miss Hattie A. Cole, daughter of Oscar M. Cole, at Alpena, Michigan.
Mr. Dodds is a Royal Arch Mason, an Odd- fellow and a member of the Knights of Pythias. ITe has always been strongly identi- fied with the Republican party, and is at pres- ent chairman of the Republican County Com- mittee of his county. He is prominently men- tioned as a candidate for congressional honors from the Eleventh Congressional District, the present year.
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GEORGE L. YAPLE.
YAPLE, GEORGE L. In the county of St. Joseph is a little village of 700 to 800 in- habitants, called Mendon. Possibly the village would never been much heard of, but for a circumstance or two. Firstly, there was born there, in 1851, a boy baby that has since borne the name of George L. Yaple. Secondly, he grew to manhood with a marked personality and an intellectual vigor that gave him prom- inence, and thirdly, he was a candidate for Congress in the year 1882 against Julius C. Burrows, and the latter, confident of his own election, and looking somewhat lightly npon Mr. Yaple's candidacy, derisively spoke of him as "the boy from Mendon." Mendon thus be- came famous and the boy from Mendon has since added to its fame as well as his own. And at the time referred to, the joke reacted upon Mr. Burrows, who was himself beaten by "the boy from Mendon."
Mr. Yaple's higher education was received at the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. He studied law and was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years of age. Instead of rushing to some large city as a candidate for
practice, he seems to have preferred his native village and friends and associations with which he had been familiar. He has been a student, not of law alone, but of social, economie and moral questions as well. A study of the lead- ing writers on political economy made him a free trader. Similar studies inelined him to the so-called Greenback theory of currency.
Mr. Yaple's aptness for the forum early developed itself. Ile was on the stump for the Democratic ticket in 1868, when only seventeen years old. Ile first became pront- inent in State polities in 1880, when he was a candidate for Congress on the Greenback ticket. Two years later, the joint support of the Democrats and Greenbacks landed him in Congress against Mr. Burrows, as before stated. Mr. Yaple, within a few months, while in Congress, became famous the country over as one of the most eloquent and brilliant speak- ers upon the subject of tariff reform (from the Democratie point of view), ever heard in Con- gress. He has since been two or three times a candidate for Congress, though unsuccess- ful, while running largely ahead of his ticket. In 1886 he was the Democratic-Greenback candidate for Governor, but the odds were hopelessly against him, although making a brilliant and tireless campaign. In 1883 he was elected judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit and re-elected in 1899. He still lives at Mendon, the head of a family of a wife and seven children, forming an ideal home center. Published sketches during his political cam- paigns imply that the wife and mother (for- merly Miss Mary E. Hawkinson, of Rockford, Ill., to whom Judge Yaple was married Janu- ary Ist, 1873) is not a little responsible for the elegance of the home life, if not to some extent for Judge Yaple's brilliant career. Judge Yaple's parents were Elisha L. and Delila ( Eddy) Yaple. Judge Yaple is a Mason (Knights Templar), and a member of the Sigma Chi, and has the usual Collegiate de- grees.
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REID, EDWY CAMPBELL. Mr. Reid is a vigorous representative of Michigan jour- nalism. Although born in Brantford, Ont., Feb. 12, 1852, he is practically a Michigan boy, his parents having removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., when he was but eighteen months old, subsequently removing to Otsego, Allegan county. The Reids had lived in New Jersey for several generations, where the elder Reid was born, but removing to Brantford. The mother of Edwy C. was Martha A. Long, a native of Norfolkshire, England. Edwy C. is a resident of Allegan, and editor and propri- etor of the Allegan Gazette, which he estab- lished in 1882. Having the usnal advantages of the local schools at Otsego until sixteen years of age, the young man began his active career in life as an apprentice in the office of the Otsego Herald. He served two years at $3 per week. Later, while at Otsego, in com- pany with H. E. J. Clute, he published the Otsego Record, a small local weekly, for eight months. In 1870 he went to work in a job printing office at Kalamazoo, piecing out his small income by setting type evenings, on the Kalamazoo Telegraph. In 1871 he was fore- man of the composing room of the Kalamazoo Gazette. Going to Allegan in 1871 he became foreman in the office of the Allegan Democrat, serving in that capacity for six months. Hle beeame foreman of the Allegan Journal, the Republican paper, April 1, 1872, and in August, 1874, on the strength of some bor- rowed money, he bought a one-third interest in the paper. The firm then became Hender- son & Reid and went on with comparative smoothness until April 1st, 1882, when he and Henderson differed as to the policy of the paper. That night Henderson converted the type in the office into what is technically known as "pi," and the next day, Reid, with but $4.50 in his pocket started the Allegan Gazette. The paper was at first printed in an outside office, but friends of Reid came to his aid and in a month he had a new office equipped, and today the Gazette has a circu- lation of 3,000 copies weekly.
Mr. Reid is the present postmaster at Alle-
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gan, to which position he was appointed in June, 1898. Ilis personal fitness, his integrity and party fealty (Republican) are sufficiently guaranteed by his appointment to this respon- sible trust. He was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the State Asylum for the insane at Ionia in 1893 and was re- appointed for the full six-year term in 1895, having during his first term acted as president of the board. Ilis re-appointment is a flatter- ing testimonial of his faithful administration of the office. Mr. Reid was for twelve years secretary of the State Horticultural Society, and for many years he has devoted from one to two pages of his paper each week to hortieul- tural interests, which has been largely influen- tial in developing the fruit growing industry in the widely known fruit belt on the western coast of Michigan. Mr. Reid has been a mem- ber of the Congregational Church for twenty vears past. His lodge connections are Odd- fellows, Foresters, Maccabees and United Workmen. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Republican Press Association. His family consists of his wife, formerly Miss M. Adah Borradaile, of Sodus, N. Y., to whom he was married in 1876, and two children, a son and a daughter.
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