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WILLIAM EARLY BURTLESS, M. D.
department of the University of Michigan, In 1875 he commenced his medical studies at that college, graduating in 1878.
In 1883 his health, which had been failing for some time, broke down altogether, and he was compelled to relinquish his growing practice and seek some health resort in order to recuperate. He went to St. Clair, Mich., to take the mineral baths for which that eity is noted, and finding the town and its people congenial to him he decided to locate and make it his future home. Dr. Burtless was made house physician of the Oakland Hotel, St. Clair, in which position he remained for five years. At the end of that time he left the hotel and started an independent practice. Today he is one of the representative physi- cians of St. Clair.
During the year 1892 he occupied the post of City Physician of that eity.
Dr. Burtless married Miss Emma C. Blod- gett, at Midland, Michigan, June 22, 1877. They have one child, Alice May Burtless, age three years. Dr. Burtless is a member of St. Clair Lodge, F. & A. M., and also of Port Huron Commandery, K. T.
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THOMAS HAWLEY CHRISTIAN.
CHRISTIAN, THOMAS HAWLEY. Thomas Hawley Christian was born in De- troit, Jime 3, 1856, and edueated in the Wyandotte High School. When he was a young man he expressed a desire to follow the calling of a druggist, but his father, Dr. Ed- mond P. Christian, endeavored to persuade him to follow in the same course he himself had taken, attend the University of Michigan and graduate as a physician. Young Chris- tian had selected the line of work which he thought most congenial to him and one day he informed his parents that he had accepted a position in the laboratory of the Wyandotte Silver Smelting Works. This position he secured through the interest he had awakened in Prof. W. M. Courtis, then in charge of that department, who, learning of the boy's desire to become a druggist, offered to further it. Here, working for six dollars a week, the young man, under the personal supervision of Prof. Courtis, learned the work of an assayer. He continued as an assistant for two years and then resigned the position, which was paying him a salary of ten dollars a week, to work
for three dollars in the pharmaceutical labor- atory of Farrand, Williams & Co., of Detroit.
For two years he worked and studied, until at the expiration of that period he found him- self in a position to follow the ealling he had determined upon in early life.
He left the firm to start in business on his own account, and opened a drug store in the then thriving little lumber town of Farwell, Mich. He carried on this business most suc- cessfully for four years, returning to Detroit in 1884 and entering the pharmaceutical lab- oratory of John J. Dodd & Co., with whom he continued for two years.
The next two years of his life were spent as a traveling salesman, selling oil for the firm of Perrin & Snow, of Detroit. He then engaged in the same line of business with the J. W. Fawsett Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, but quit on account of the long trips assigned to him. From 1886 to 1888 he held the posi- tion of assistant bookkeeper for the Eureka Iron & Steel Works of Wyandotte, after which he was made teller and bookkeeper of the Wyandotte Savings Bank, where he re- mained until a severe attack of typhoid fever forced him to give up the position.
Mr. Christian's illness lasted for several months. When he was at last able to go to work again he went with the firm of J. H. Bishop & Company. In 1893 he was appoint- ed Deputy Sheriff of Wayne County, and the following year Deputy County Clerk. He was one of the three County Auditors elected in Wayne County in 1897 and he fills that position most ably at the present day. He is a stockholder in the First Commercial and Savings Bank of Wyandotte, and also in the Wyandotte Savings Bank. Mr. Christian is a Mason, a member of Wyandotte Lodge, F. and A. M., Wyandotte Chapter, R. A. M., Monroe Council, R. and S. M., E. B. Ward Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Wyandotte Tent, K. O. T. M.
He married, June 10, 1879, Miss Anna M., daughter of Rev. G. W. Bloodgood, of Wyan- dotte. Their two children, M. Evelyn and George E., are attending school in Wyandotte.
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MACKENZIE, FREDERICK. Frederick Mackenzie, of Calumet, Michigan, proprietor and editor of the Copper Country Evening News, as well as the weekly edition of the same paper, was born in London, England, on the 27th of October, 1832, his father being the celebrated architectural draughtsman of the same name, who was associated with Pngin, the architect, in illustrating many of the lat- ter's works, whose father, again, was a whole- sale linen-draper and hosier of London.
The subject of this sketch was educated at the Metropolitan High School with the inten- tion of entering government employ. Whilst waiting for the promised appointment, he took a clerical position, continuing in this occupation for several years, as the govern- ment changing, the promised appointment did not materialize.
Promise of brighter prospects led him to America. Upon his arrival he went to Chi- cago and was there persuaded by a brother of the novelist, Charles Dickens, to purchase some land in Champaign county, Ill. which he did, with a gentleman he had met on the occan. Farming not being a very pleasant occupation for one brought up in a large city, he came to the Lakes, another objeet being to get rid of the agne, with which he had been seized while on the prairie. Ile landed at Eagle Harbor in the fall of 1865 "busted," without a friend and shaking with the agne. Nothing daunted, he applied to the late Sam- nel W. Hill, then agent for the Pennsylvania mine, and was given employment on the sur- face. He stnek to it until the break-up in the spring, when the mine closed down, and he made his way to Hancock, where, after some months, he obtained employment in the hard- ware store of Holland & Patterson and was eventually given charge of their wholesale department. Here he met Mr. Thomas W. Buzze, who was then supply agent for the Calumet Mining Company.
Having had a dispute with Mr. Holland, Mr. Mackenzie resigned his position and was immediately engaged by Mr. Buzze as supply clerk for the Calumet mine, remaining for some eighteen years.
FREDERICK MACKENZIE.
llaving loaned some money to a Mat Kelly, who had started The Calumet News he found himself obliged to take the plant to save his money. The News was greatly improved under the management of Mr. Mackenzie, who eventually started "The Copper Country Evening News," the first daily paper to be published in the Copper Country. Mr. Mae- kenzie has brought the paper through a sys- tem of evolution, until the office generally may be favorably compared with any office this side of Milwaukee.
Mr. Mackenzie in polities is a liberal Repub- lican : he has held for upwards of thirty years the office of township clerk of Calumet. He is a Mason, a member of the Order Sons of St. George, a member of the Reform Club of New York, of the Chicago Press Club, and a charter member of the U. P. Press Association.
In 1856 Mr. Mackenzie was married to Emma Mathilda Banks, of London, Eng .; the family consists of Edith, wife of Col. J. N. Cox, of the C. & H. Mine office; Nellic, wife of John B. Curtis, J. P., Calumet : Emma M., widow of the late S. B. Sahus of Chicago; Frederick Henry, in charge of his father's farm in the Red River Country, Minnesota: Clyde S., business manager of the paper, and Robert B., edneated for a dentist, but who, on account of illness, had to give up his profession and is now looking after the financial depart- ment of "The News."
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HENRY CHAMBERLAIN.
CHAMBERLAIN, HENRY. On his father's side Mr. Chamberlain traces his an- cestry back to his great great-grandfather, Jacob Chamberlain, who was a resident of Roxbury, Mass., born about 1690. From him sprang Samnel, of Chelsea, Mass., born 1724, thence Moses, of Hopkinton, Mass., born 1757, and from him the father of Henry, also named Moses, of London, N. H., born 1792. Mr. Chamberlain himself having been born at Pembroke, N. IL., March 17, 1824. On the maternal side his genealogy goes back to the time of Elizabeth, in the person of Reginald Foster, born in 1595, and who settled in Ips- wich, Mass., in 1636, his mother having been Mary Foster of Canterbury. N. H., born in 1797, a direct descendant of Reginald.
Mr. Chamberlain's education was advanced from the primary to the academie but at the age of twelve he is found as a clerk in his father's store at Concord, N. II. His father removed in 1843 to what is now the township of Three Oaks, in Berrien county, where he had located some government land in 1836, on which to make a farm. Giving his time and labor here until 1850, the son then commenced opening a farm at what is now Three Oaks
village, and in 1854 commenced mereantile business. This place has since been his home. His business status may therefore be described as farmer and merehant, while having given much attention to public affairs. Year after year he served as supervisor and justice of the peace of his township. In 1848 he was elected to the State Legislature. Being a Democrat in polities, his party fell into the minority in the political revolution of 1854, and his of- fieial service has since been limited. In 1864 he was a candidate for the State Senate and in 1867 for the Constitutional Convention of that year. He was his party's choice for Congress in 1868, 1870 and 1876 and in 1872 and 1896 for presidential eleetor. In 1874 he was their candidate for governor and was defeated by less than 6,000 votes, against 56,000 Repub- liean majority, two years previously. In 1885 Mr. Chamberlain was appointed by Gov. Alger a member of the commission in charge of the semi-centennial exercises, commemorative of the formation of the state government. It was a purely harmony appointment and Mr. Cham- berlain's counsel contributed very largely to the success of the occasion. The public posi- tions that Mr. Chamberlain has held and for which he has been named, have come to hint by reason of his fitness, his affability and an even temperament that attracts rather than repels, and not by his own seeking.
Mr. Chamberlain has been a prominent member of the Masonie fraternity since 1853 and was Grand Master in 1872. He is a mem- ber of the Congregational church, as were his ancestors members for some generations back. ITe is believed to be the sole survivor of those who organized the State Agricultural Society in 1849, having been secretary of the meeting held for that purpose. He has never held any official position in the society but has attended most of its fairs and has given much attention to its work. Ile served twelve years as a mem- ber of the State Board of Agriculture which controls the Agricultural College, 1883-89 and 1891-97. Mr. Chamberlain's first wife, Sarah Jane Nash, to whom he was married in 1851, was a native of Indiana, and daughter of Vincent Nash of Three Oaks. She died in 1852, leaving an infant son. Mrs Rebecca (Van De Vanter) Ames, a native of Ohio, be- came Mrs. Chamberlain in 1856. Two daugh- ters and a son are the fruit of this marriage.
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
DODGE, HON FRANK LUKE. The man who defended and secured the acquittal of Hon. Thomas B. Barry, of Saginaw, in the great conspiracy case of 1886, when Barry, as chairman of the great executive board of the Knights of Labor, during the strike in Saginaw, was arrested under the Baker law, for conspiracy, Mr. Dodge won for himself a national reputation. Mr. Dodge has had a good practice, and has proscented a large number of cases for damages, with excellent results. Hon. Frank Luke Dodge was born in Oberlin, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1853. He was sent to school until he was fifteen years of age, and then given employment at a news stand. Ile worked as a newsboy, and later on a train, running from Cleveland to Wellsville, Ohio, and Pittsburg, Pa. At seventeen he had the position of locomotive fireman and later was promoted to a similar position on a passenger engine, and for a time he ran a yard engine. During his work as fireman, he had been reading Kent's Commentaries, and preparing himself for a course of legal study. Quitting the railroad, he engaged in the hotel business, at Eaton Rapids, with his brother, Wm. H. Dodge; later traveled on the road for a firm in Cleveland, Ohio. In two years at this work his savings enabled him to take up the study of law, which he commeneed in the office of Hon. Isaac M. Crane, of Eaton Rapids, one of the foremost lawyers and public speakers of the state. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, before Justice F. A. Hooker, of the Supreme Court, then JJudge of the Circuit at Charlotte. Mr. Crane took him into partnership, and his career as an attorney had comeneed. While with Mr. Crane, he compiled and annotated the railroad laws of Michigan. The partner- ship continued until 1884, when the senior member retired from practice on account of ill-health.
In the celebrated Daken impeachment case before the Legislature in 1887, Mr. Dodge, together with Judge Van Zile and Judge Holden, appeared for the defendant, Repre- sentative Milo H. Daken, but, notwithstand- ing their splendid efforts for Daken, he was unseated. Mr. Dodge in 1897 was secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee, and has been for several years chairman of the Democratie county committee. He was a member of the Legislature from Lansing in 1882-5, and alderman of the city of Lansing since 1891, being now president of the Coun- cil. From 1887 to 1898 he was United States Commissioner, and is secretary of the Super-
HON. FRANK LUKE DODGE.
visors' Association of Michigan, and chairman of its Executive and Legislative Committees.
On the 22nd of November, 1888, he mar- ried Abby, daughter of Hon. James Turner, of Lansing. They have four children, Sophie, aged 11; Franklin L., aged 9; Wyllis Osborn, aged 7. and Josephine Elizabeth, aged one year. Mr. Dodge is a direct descendant of the original Massachusetts Dodge family, and Nathan Dane, the great jurist and lawyer of Massachusetts, was his great unele. His mother was Angeline Stevens Dodge, a native of New Hampshire.
Mr. Dodge is a Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, Uniform Rank: of the I. O. O. F. and K. O. T. M. Hle is attorney, secretary and a stockholder of the Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Railroad Company, having devoted much energy to this enterprise. Ile was formerly associated with Hon. James M. Turner, at the Springdale Farm, in raising blooded horses and cattle.
Mr. Dodge is greatly attached to Lansing, and has ever been loyal to its interests. He was regarded by all persons as accomplishing more for Lansing than any other person who has represented the district. While he took much interest in general legislation, as one of the leaders of the minority, he never lost sight of the interests of his district and the Capital City: and its people, it is said, are equally mindful of him.
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HON. PETER CHARLES KELIHER.
KELIHIER, HON. PETER CHARLES. It is not au abuse of the term, "a self-made man," to apply it to Peter Charles Keliher, for such he is. His early opportunities were exceedingly limited, and what has since coule to him in life he has worked hard and earn- estly to procure.
He is of Irish descent, and was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, Jannary 11, 1856. He attended the public school in Worcester, Massachusetts, and during his va- cations worked in a foundry, making cores. His father had married a second time and the step-mother did not agree with the boy, so he left home, working at various occupations, from making shoes to driving a sprinkling wagon. Ile kept up his schooling during the winter, and when 19 years of age enlisted in the regular army. June 18, 1876. Ile was as- signed to Company B, Tenth Infantry, U. S. A., and sent with other reernits to Fort Mc- Kavett, Texas, which was located 210 miles from the railroad and was reached on foot. The next year he was sent with a scouting party to Fort Clark, 190 miles across the country, and while there the troops were sent in pursuit of a gang of cattle thieves. In this
campaign the men suffered extremely, going at one time 24 hours withont water, and nar- rowly missing an engagement with the Mexi- can troops. He was mustered ont June 17, 1881. He had $156, with which he opened a grocery store at Sault Ste. Marie, which was closed up by his creditors, leaving him an indebtedness of $1,000 and cash on hand of $17.75. Ile worked with a pick and shovel at $40 a month for three months on the Soo lock, then went into the fish busi- ness, buying and selling fish all that smin- mer and later working on the docks load- ing freight and checking coal for L. P. Trempe at $45 per month. The next spring he again embarked in the grocery business, buying a store for $625, of which $100 was paid in cash. The store did not thrive and his backer, W. A. Demis, failing in the spring, Mr. Keliher was forced to mortgage his home in order to buy goods. At this time he bought on credit 30 barrels of flour and did some advertising as a cash-priced store, offering the flour at a low rate. The follow- ing day he did $130 worth of business. H. T. Tremaine, the general manager of the Hammond Standish Company, of Detroit, then guaranteed his account and sent him $4,000 worth of goods, other firms also showed confidence in him, and when naviga- tion opened in the spring he paid off the mortgage, all his debts, including his old creditors, with 8 per cent. interest. He built his new block in Sault Ste. Marie in 1891-92 and his warehouse for his wholesale business. ITe was appointed alderman to fill a vacancy in the Democratic city council, in 1895, and in 1898-1899 was mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, being elected on the Republican ticket.
February 4, 1880, he married Miss Mary A. Gardner, daughter of JJohn JJ. Gardner, at Sault Ste. Marie. They have nine children: Lavina, Austin B., Otto C., Hattie, Lester, Gertrude, Dorris, Thehna and Helen. Mr. Keliher is a Catholic, a member of the Catho- lic Mutual Benefit Association and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of Sault Ste. Marie.
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LEISEN, JACOB. Koplands, Germany, was the birthplace of Jacob Leisen, president of the Leisen & Henes Brewing Company of Menominee, Michigan. Ile was born there May 7, 1828, and came from sturdy German stock, his forefathers having been farmers and soldiers for generations and his grand- father a government forester. The govern- ment schools furnished the boy with his edu- cation and at the age of 15 he was appren- ticed with a cabinet-maker and carpenter to learn that trade. After two years of this work he left his employer and started out to work for himself as a journeyman, earning abont 25 cents a day. He then served about four years as a volunteer in a sharpshooters' regi- ment in the Prussian Army, and after work- ing a while at his trade in 1853 he left the old country and came to America.
The voyage was not as comfortable as steerage passengers enjoy in the big Atlantic liners now plying between the two hemi- spheres, for Mr. Leisen came over in the steerage of a sailing vessel, landing in New York after a long voyage November 23, 1853. He had 30 cents capital and was in debt 60 cents to a fellow passenger. On the voyage over he spent his time studying the English pronunciation from a book, and the day after his arrival he was able through this little knowledge to secure work. In 1854, during the fall of that year he came west, and went to Chicago, Illinois. Small-pox was raging in that city at the time of young Leisen's arrival, and the same day he got there one of the boarders in the house where he had found a room, died with the plague. The dead man had been a carpenter and Leisen applied for and secured his vacant position in the shop. The following year he moved to Centerville, Wisconsin, where he worked two years at his trade, and then started a general store and did a good business until the panie of 1873. Coming to Michigan in that year he bought out a small bottling works at Menominee, where soft drinks were manufactured, and in 1876, in partnership with John Henes,
JACOB LEISEN.
bought out two small breweries and sold the first beer in February. The sales for the first year were less than 800 barrels, but this has shown a yearly increase, and the output last vear (1898) was 22,000 barrels.
During the Civil War Mr. Leisen organ- ized Company B, 45th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and was nmistered into service as captain November 4. 1864. The company served around Nashville, Tennessee, until the close of the war.
Mr. Leisen was an alderman the first two years that the city of Menomineee was incor- porated; he was also postmaster at Centerville, Wisconsin, for six years, and a member of the Democratic State Central Committee of Mich- igan in 1892-'94. In his politics he is a "Gold" Democrat. Ile married at Center- ville, Wisconsin, in 1858, Miss Verena Fehr- enbach and has six children.
Mr. Leisen is a director of the Lumberman's National Bank and president of the Menom- inee Stained Glass Works of that city. He belongs to the Loval Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic and is an honorary member of the Sons of Herman.
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MEN OF PROGRESS.
FREDERICK BRAASTAD.
BRAASTAD, FREDERICK. Norway and Sweden has furnished Michigan with many valuable citizens, men who have helped in the development of the vast mineral and timber resources of the state, who have wielded the ax, the piek and the shovel, bear- ing with fortitude the cold winters of our northern woods, not unlike the winters in their own lands, and growing up with the country. These two hardy races are largely represented on the Upper Peninsula, and much of the prosperity and progress of that section of Michigan is due to their individual and col- lective efforts. Many of them, since they be- came citizens of the United States, have held high offices under their adopted government, and won places in the esteem of the people by their honest and manly methods.
Ringebo, Guldbrandsdalen, in Norway, is the birthplace of Frederick Braastad, form- erly state treasurer of Michigan, and now a resident of Ishpeming, where he is at present engaged in conducting a mercantile business. He is also largely interested in mining proper- ties here, up to the close of 1899 having held a half interest in the Winthrop mines.
He was born in the year 1847 and received a common school education at the little vil- lage school adjacent to his father's farm. When not attending school he helped with the farm work until he reached the age of 16, when he secured a position as clerk in a store at Lillehammer, where he remained for five years. Ile decided to try his fortune in the new world and came to the United States in 1868, and in October of the same year he went to Marquette, Michigan, where he found work as a common day laborer. In 1869 he clerked for J. P. Pendell, of Negaunee, work- ing for him four years, and leaving in 1879 to go into the mercantile business on his own account. Mr. Braastad had saved a small amount of money, and he now branched out for himself, opening his store in Ishpeming with a very modest stock of goods, but busi- ness flourished and since that time has de- veloped into one of the largest and finest in the whole Upper Peninsula. Mr. Braastad has since become identified with many other im- portant and prominent enterprises.
Mr. Braastad is a man of keen discernment and recognized business ability. He is a leader of the Scandinavian element in the Upper Peninsula, and has been elected to offices of trust by the people of this state.
He was made state treasurer in 1891-'92, by a vote of 179,744 to 178,857 for J. B. Moore, Republican; 25,218 for A. P. Cod- dington, Prohibitionist, and 14,226 for H. H. Blackman, Industrial.
Mr. Braastad is a leading member of all the Scandinavian societies of this state, and also of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He married in 1874 Miss Ingeborg Kunutson, and eight children have been the result of the union. Arvid C., the eldest boy, is now assisting in the management of his father's stores, the other children, Ida, Julius, Flor- ence, Ingeborg, Lillie, Borghill and Helen are living at home in Ishpeming and attending the schools of that city. Besides his present business, Mr. Braastad is a director in the Peninsular Bank of Ishpeming, and the Ne- gaunee & Ishpeming Street Railway & Elec- tric Company. In 1898 he was chosen a mem- ber of the Ishpeming board of education and in 1900 was elected mayor of the city.
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LAWTON, CHARLES DeWITT. The ancestors of the subject of this sketch, on both the paternal and maternal side, came from England and settled in this country early in the seventeenth century. Ilis mother's family, whose name was Wiggins, emi- grated to New York and remained there. The original (American) Lawtons came from Lawton, England, and they settled in Rhode Island with Roger Williams in 1636. The early records of the Rhode Island colony freely show the connection of this family with its formative history. The paternal great- grandfather of Charles D., and his maternal grandfather, were both soldiers on the patriot side in the war of the Revolution. In 1794 his paternal great-grandfather settled in Her- kimer county, N. Y., where his father, Nathan Lawton, was born in 1801, his life closing at Auburn, N. Y., in 1892. Charles D. Lawton was born at Rome, N. Y., where his father then resided, on November 4th, 1835, and was mainly educated at the Auburn Academy and at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., from which latter institution he graduated with honors in 1858. For three years, 1860- 1863, he was principal of the academy at Auburn, N. Y., and until 1865 was eity en- gineer also. The Michigan Central railroad having located a station on lands owned by his father, the father platted there the village of Lawton, to which the son removed in 1865, and engaged in part in the nursery business. He purchased at Geneva, N. Y., 5,000 grape cuttings, which were planted ont in vine- vards, thus starting the important grape in- dustry at Lawton. In 1866-7 he was the moving spirit in the establishment of a blast furnace at Lawton, for the manufacture of charcoal pig iron from Lake Superior ore. He also eondueted a foundry and machine shop at the same place. In 1870 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Uni- versity. In 1872 and '73 he assisted Maj. Brooks in the geological survey of the Mar- quette iron region and the Menomince runge. He continued in the work in the Upper Penin- sula, and in 1877-78 assisted Mr. C. E. Wright in the field work and in the preparation of his report as Commissioner of Mineral Statistics. Theneeforward he took upon himself the ac- tive duties of this offiee, writing the reports for 1880, '81 and '82, Mr. Wright remaining Commissioner, but Mr. Lawton doing all the
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