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The energy, industry, probity and business acumen with which Mr. Cartier started out in life as his only capital, are now represented by holdings of which he is equally unwilling to boast or to complain. He is president of the Cartier Lumber Co. of Ludington, a director in the Manistee Lumber Co. of Man- istee, of which he was vice-president for a number of years, vice-president of the North- ern Michigan Transportation Co., a steam- boat line operating between Chicago, Ill., and Cheboygan, Mich., and president of the Car- tier Enameling Co. of Ludington, making turned and enameled wooden appliances. Mr. C'artier is a Democrat, politically, and served as alderman and mayor of Ludington, two years in each office, and while at Manistee served also two years as alderman. His reli- gions connections are Roman Catholic, and he is a member of the order of Elks. Miss Liza Ayers, of Vermont state, became Mrs. Car- tier in 1859. They have eight children : Rose, wife of C. W. Spear, Westfield, Mass. ; Louis A., in the towing business at Ashland, Wis .; Warren A., secretary-treasurer Cartier Lumber Co., Ludington; Ida S., wife of W. S. Taylor, Brunswick, Ga .; George R., vice- president Cartier Lumber Co., Ludington ; Dezera E., grocer, Ashland, Wis .; Wm. E., mining expert, Chicago, Ill .; Chas. E., man- ager Cartier Enamcling Co., Ludington.
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BAART, REV. PETER A. Rev. Peter A. Baart, S. T. L., LL. D., at present is rector of St. Mary's Catholic church, in Mar- shall. He is probably the best known Ro- man Catholic priest in Michigan. He was born at Coldwater July 28, 1858. After at- tending public and private schools, he was sent to St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, Pa., at an early age and afterward to Mt. St. Mary's, at Cincinnati, in both of which col- leges he took the class prizes year after year, finishing his philosophical course with highest honors. After nearly completing his theo- logical course in Cincinnati, he went to St. Mary's University in Baltimore, where, after two years, in 1880, he obtained the degree of licentiate of sacred theology. While still a deacon (too young for the priesthood), he acted as secretary, temporarily, to Bishop Borgess, of Detroit. He was ordained to the priesthood June 29, 1881, and made assistant of Holy Trinity Church in Detroit. Eight months later he went to Marshall, at the urgent request of Bishop Borgess and took charge of a parish then badly disorganized. His untiring zeal and hard labor, coupled with an unswerving will and a tact that har- monizes discordant elements in a quiet way, built up St. Mary's parish spiritually and materially, so that now it boasts of one of the handsomest churches and parish properties in the state.
Dr. Baart is an authority on church law, several important matters having been re- ferred to him from Rome for report or settle- ment, and he is likewise consulted by bishops and priests from all parts of the United States. He has written a number of works besides contributing to encyclopedias, magazines and newspapers, including a synopsis of Catholic belief for general circulation. In 1886 he prepared a history of all the Catholic orphan asylums and charitable institutions in the United States. His works, "The Roman Court," a treatise on the Cardinals and Sacred Congregations, and his "Legal Formulary," embracing forms and a synopsis of law for diocesan and parish work, received special commendation from the Pope of Rome. In 1899 he prepared a paper on "Church and
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State in the United States" for the Australa- sian Catholic Congress held in Sydney, and in 1900 a paper on the "Tenure of Catholic Property in the United States" for the Inter- national Congress of Scientists held in Mu- nich, Bavaria. Dr. Baart was a member and secretary of the diocesan school board and the first fiscal procurator, or legal officer, of De- troit diocese. In 1890 Bishop Foley declared him one of the four irremovable rectors of the diocese and he was also chosen one of the examiners of the clergy. In 1900 the board of trustees and the faculty of Notre Dame Uni- versity unanimously conferred upon Rev. Dr. Baart the degree of Doctor of Laws. Rev. Dr. Baart, while liberal-minded, is still quite con- servative. He is not an extremist, but politic and a good business man. As a public speaker he is clear, logical and concise. Socially, he is very entertaining and there is a merry twinkle in his eyes, which tells of his good nature, while his face suggests the student and the leader. He is recognized as one of the most liberal and public-spirited citizens of Marshall, being always ready to assist in move- ments for the public good. On his return home from Europe some years ago he was given the most imposing public reception ever tendered a resident of Marshall, all classes of citizens, non-Catholic as well as Catholic, turning out to welcome him.
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CHARLES T. HILLS.
HILLS, CHARLES T. Mr. Hills is a retired business man of Muskegon. He was born at Bennington, Vermont, Nov. 14, 1821, the son of Turner and Adelia (Hnbbel) Hills. In 1834 the family removed to Pittstown, N. Y., and in 1838 to Grand Rapids, Mich. Charles T. attended the district schools at Bennington until 13 years of age, when he secured a clerkship in a store at Troy, N. Y., and on the removal of the family to Michigan, accompanied them there. In December, 1838, the family removed to Konkle's Mill, in Alpine township, in Kent county, and in the spring of 1839 bought forty acres of govern- ment land on which they erected a two-room shanty, of which they took possession in No- vember, 1840, their nearest neighbor being three miles distant. The father died in 1842 and the care of the family devolved largely upon the son, who built a house about 1846 into which the family removed. The first in- troduction of Charles T. to the lumber indus- try was in riving shingles, which were then all made by hand, the fruit of his labor con- tributing towards the support of the family. In May, 1852, Charles, with a younger brother, went to Muskegon and building a shanty on
Black creek, engaged in shingle weaving. In September, 1853, Charles engaged as clerk with the sawmill firm of Ryerson & Morris, and continued with them until 1859, when he took charge of the books of the firm. In 1865 he became a partner in the newly-formed firm of Ryerson, Hills & Co., and in connection with Mr. Getty, another partner, had the management of the then large and increas- ing business, and in 1887 the active manage- ment fell entirely into his hands, the other partners having removed to Chicago. Mr. Ilills was for more than forty years the ruling spirit in an immense business, the varions changes in which and improvements in plant it would be impracticable to trace in this con- neetion.
In his earlier life Mr. Hills held the office of supervisor of Alpine township and in 1876 was elected treasurer of Muskegon county, which are the only public offices he ever held. From 1876 to 1887 he was president of the Muskegon National Bank. He was one of the incorporators of the Oceana County Savings Bank at Hart, and was largely interested in the Muskegon Booming Co., of which he was for many years president, serving also in other official capacities. It goes without saying that he has at all times borne an important part in all enterprises tending to the material, social and moral advancement of Muskegon. This is exemplified in his having built and donated to the Masonie fraternity of Muskegon a tem- ple eosting $50,000, which was dedicated Sept. 12, 1900, being the second largest in Michigan. He is an enthusiastic Mason and has published a leaflet giving in brief his Ma- sonic record. He has the higher degrees in the various orders of Masonry and has filled the chairs in most of the local bodies, and was for fourteen consecutive years eminent com- mander of the Muskegon Commandery, 1868- 81, and was elected to a fifteenth term in 1886. Mr. Hills has been twice married. By his first wife, Miss Jane M. Wheeler, of Wanke- gan, Ill., to whom he was married in 1854, he had six children, two of whom only are living, C. Hubbell, private secretary to his father, and Julia L., wife of T. D. Whitney, of Chi- cago. Mrs. Hills died in 1876, and in 1878 Mr. Hills married Miss Margaret McIntyre, of Kewaunee, Ill.
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McDONELL, ARCHIBALD. The grand- father of Mr. McDonell came from Inverness, Seotland, in 1810, and settled in Nova Scotia, and during the ocean voyage, a son, father of the present, was born. A branch of the fam- ily were, however, earlier settlers in Canada. Archibald McDonell was born at St. Andrews, Nova Scotia, January 1, 1833. After pass- ing the grammar school at his home, he fol- lowed teaching for several years, but decided to locate in the United States, and choose the law as his profession. He came to Michigan and took the then two-year law eourse at the University, graduating in 1861. He located at what is now Bay City, then a village of about 700 people, and called Lower Saginaw. He was for three months a partner with A. C. Maxwell (still a resident there and late cir- euit judge) and was subsequently for cleven years a partner with the late Judge Theo. C. Grier, and later with George P. Cobb. For eight years immediately prior to September, 1899, he was a partner of De Vere Hall, the firm name being McDonell & Hall. His present partner is James E. Duffy, a graduate of Michigan University, the firm being Mc- Donell & Duffy. During his thirty-nine years' residence in Bay City, he has seen the population of about 700 grow to over 35,000 with a town of 15,000 across the Saginaw river, and a corresponding increase in the other towns of the valley, so that his eity may be said to have grown up under his personal observation, which is largely true also of the neighborhood towns. In his early life he was engaged in business enterprises and his re- sources have never failed to reward his capa- city for business. He has for many years had liberal investments in banking, real estate and in a mercantile house in Bay City, the Mc- Donell Hardware Co., of which his sons by a first marriage are managers. Mr. McDonell is a Democrat in politics and while not having sought publie office, he has served at different times as Circuit Court commissioner and was for two terms mayor of the city, his service in this office covering the centennial year 1876.
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HIc was one of the first trustees of the Bay City public library and is still a trustce, a continuous service of twenty-six years. He is president of the McDonell Hardware Co., chairman of the Crapo Building Co., director and attorney of the Bay City bank and vicc- president of the Michigan Mining & Coal Co., operating in the valley. He was a member of the Democratic state central committee 1874- 76, a delegate to the Chicago convention in 1896 and candidate for eleetor-at-large that ycar. He has operated a farm of about 176 acres near Bay City for thirty-five years, his having been among the first cleared farms in Bay county. He is a member of the Elks. Mr. McDonell was married in Bay City in 1863 to Miss Mary J. Day, daughter of Joel L. Day, of St. Lawrence county, N. Y. She died in February, 1896. In July, 1898, Mrs. Henry P. Parsons, of Ann Arbor, became Mrs. McDonell. He has five daughters, Mary, Lonise, Jessic and Genevieve, who were educated in the Sacred Heart Convent, and Winnifred, who is attending the Bay City publie school. They are all at home, save when absent at school.
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HENRY DAVID CAMPBELL.
CAMPBELL, HENRY DAVID. It goes without saying that a Campbell springs from a Scotch ancestry. David Campbell came from Scotland in 1628 and settled in New Hampshire, and from him Henry David is descended. The parents of Henry D., Robert A. and Harriet E. (Hitchcock) Campbell were farmers near Hogansburgh, Franklin county, N. Y., where Henry D. was born March 11, 1831. He attended the local schools, but when large enough to work, only during the winter months. During the last two winters at school he acted as assistant teacher, the school being a large one (nearly 100 pupils), and Campbell being one of the older boys, taught several classes. He remained with his father until he was of age, without fixed com- pensation. The last year the father gave the use of the far to him and his brother, giving them all they could make from it for the year, and they cach cleared $600. Henry D. then became clerk in a store for two or three years and in 1852 came west in quest of a position and whatever the fates might have in store for him. At Chicago he met a friend who was going to Traverse City to work for the
well-known firm of Hannah, Lay & Co., and together they embarked on the first propeller that stopped at Traverse City, then but a small lumber hamlet. Finding that Mr. Campbell had business experience, the firm gave him a position and after the first season he was put in charge of their inside work as cashier. He continued in their employ for eight years, when he left to devote his whole time to a stage line in which he was interested, center- ing at Traverse City and running to Big Rap- ids and Cheboygan, and was thus employed until 1874. In 1873 he built the Campbell House at Traverse City (now the Park Place Hotel), which he managed until 1878, when he sold out on account of the ill-health of his wife. In 1881, under a franchise from the then village of Traverse City, he built and in- stalled a water works plant, one of the most modern in Michigan, having twelve miles of mains, which he sold to the city in May, 1900. In 1889 he built the electric lighting plant, which he sold in May, 1900, to the Boardman River Electrie Light & Power Co. Freed from other activity, Mr. Campbell is eontent to call himself a farmer, in the declining years of a useful and well-spent life.
Mr. Campbell has served as Judge of Pro- bate of Grand Traverse county for twelve years. He was County Treasurer 1857-9, when the county embraced the whole north- western part of the lower peninsula. He re- quired three weeks to make the journey to Lansing to settle his accounts, and being the first County Treasurer he had to make several trips in the interests of the new county, and its largely extended territory. Mr. Campbell is a Republican in politics and a member of the Masonic fraternity, including the Knights Templar. Miss Catherine A. Carmichael, who from her name may also be supposed to be of Scotch descent, became Mrs. Campbell at Traverse City in 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Camp- bell have four sons and a daughter, Donald F., an electrician, Flora A., wife of W. J. Hobbs, Willard HT., electrical engineer, David R., far- mer (Grawn), and Wallie G., with the city electrie light department, all of Traverse City.
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WADE, CHARLES FREDERICK. Mr. Wade is one of the comparatively few in our American life who find a field worthy of their activities at home. Born at Jonesville, Mich., May 9, 1860, he has been prospered and hon- ored in the place of his birth, and has contrib- uted in a corresponding degree to its growth and prosperity. The father of Mr. Wade is the well-known secretary of the State Uni- versity at Ann Arbor, James H. Wade. His mother was Elizabeth A. Sibbald, of Jones- ville. Mr. Wade graduated from the Jones- ville schools in 1880 and at onee entered upon active life as bookkeeper in the general store of John A. Sibbald & Co., of Jonesville. Two years later he was made eashier of Grosvenor & Co.'s Exchange Bank of the same place. holding this position for eighteen years. Early in the fall of 1898 the pushing element of Jonesville began agitating the establish- ment of a Portland cement works in the town. The project took definite proportions early in 1899, and the company was formally organ- ized as the Omega Portland Cement Co. in February of that year. Mr. Wade took an active interest in the project from the first, sev- ering his connection with the bank in order to give it his undivided attention. He was one of a committee of six that placed the stock of $300,000, all of which was subscribed. The company, as organized, was officered as fol- lows : President, Frank M. Stewart, Hills- dale; vice-president, Israel Wickes, Jones- ville; secretary and treasurer, Charles F. Wade, Jonesville; chemical superintendent, Prof. E. D. Campbell, of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; mechanical superin- tendent, Geo. H. Sharpe, of Jonesville. The company began building operations in July, 1899, putting up what is known as a five-rotary plant, with a capacity of 625 barrels in 24 hours, containing machinery strictly up to date in every particular, as attested by the best judges. The buildings are of brick, with steel roofs. The site comprises two hundred aeres of marl land with 40 aeres additional, on which the company is creeting cottages and a large boarding house for employes. The plant
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is reached by the company's own siding, which taps the main line of the Lake Shore & Michi- gan Southern Railway, and the Fort Wayne, Jackson & Lansing branch, three and one-half miles from Jonesville. The company has ex- tensive storage rooms, the controlling thought being to store their product until it is in the best condition for market. The company will employ about one hundred men.
Mr. Wade has served the municipality of Jonesville as a member of the village eouneil for several terms, and as president of the vil- lage one term. In the last-named capacity he bent every energy toward the building of the water works and electric light plant and the construction of the cement walks and improve- ments generally. He is a stockholder in the Grosvenor Savings Bank and is connected in the real estate business with HIon. E. O. Gros- venor, who has for half a century been one of the foremost men of southern Michigan, and has held many responsible publie trusts, in- eluding those of state treasurer and lieutenant- governor. Mr. Wade is a member of the order of the Knights of Pythias and the United Workmen. Miss Minnie A. Curtiss, daughter of William S. Curtiss, of Jonesville, became Mrs. Wade October 20, 1882. They have no children.
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THOMAS HUME.
HUME, THOMAS. Mr. Hume was born in County Down, Ireland, June 15, 1848. His parents, William and Mary Ann (Bailie) Hume, were farmers, and reared a family of eight children, of whom four were sons, Thomas being the oldest son and second child. He attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution at Belfast, and when fourteen years of age was apprenticed to a wholesale and retail hardware and grocery merchant named John Stevenson, at Dungannon, for six years, with no salary other than his sub- sistence. At the end of two years he was put into the office as cashier, and later was made buyer and stock keeper. After serving his six years he served the same house two years more at salaries of $250 and $350 per year respectively. Finding no business opening as home, in May, 1870, he took passage for America, and landed at Quebec on the seven- teenth of the same month. Having some rela- tives at Marshall, Michigan, he headed for that point, and under their advice that men were in demand at Muskegon, he went there, where he has since resided. He found em- ployment there as tallyman for George R. Selkirk, and in the fall went into the woods
and engaged in scaling logs for O. P. Pills- bury & Co. The following summer he en- gaged with Montague & Hamilton, lumber inspectors of Muskegon, as an inspector, and remained with them until the fall of 1872. He then entered the employ of Hackley & McGordon as bookkeeper, in which service he remained nearly nine years, or until June, 1881. He then purchased the interest of Mr. McGordon in the firms of Hackley & McGor- don and C. H. Hackley & Co. The firm of Hackley & Hume succeeded the first named firm, and on the death of Porter Hackley, of C. H. Hackley & Co., the business of both firms was consolidated under the name of Hackley & Hume and has so continued up to the present time. Their interests embrace 300,000 acres of southern timber lands in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, in addition to their home plant. They are large stockholders in the Itasca Lumber Company and the H. C. Ake- ley Lumber Company, both of Minneapolis. Mr. Hnme has held various offices in both companies, and is at present vice-president of the Itasca Lumber Company and treasurer of the H. C. Akeley Lumber Company He is secretary and treasurer of the Amazon Knit- ting Company, treasurer of the Chase-Hack- ley Piano Company, the Standard Malleable Iron Company and of the Alaska Refrigera- tor Company, president of the Sergeant Man- ufacturing Company, vice-president of the Shaw Electric Crane Company, of the Na- tional Lumberman's Bank, and of the Hack- ley National Bank, all of Muskegon.
Miss Margaret A. Banks, daughter of Maj. Banks, of Marshall, became Mrs. Hume Jan- uary 22nd, 1873. To them have been born seven children-Margaret B., born December 11, 1873: Helen M., August 29, 1875; Annie E., March 29, 1877 ; George Alexander, July 20, 1881; Florence V., November 11, 1884; Constance, November 25, 1886, and Thomas Hackley Hume, July 2, 1888. As may be judged from Mr. Hume's extensive business connections, he has acquired a worldly for- tune that may be described as fairly inde- pendent, the fruit of his native energy, his early business training, clear perceptions in business ventures, and above all, fidelity to his earlier trusts and upright and honorable dealing in his later enterprises.
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HACKLEY, CHARLES H. The name of Charles H. Haekley is impressed in so many forms upon the city of Muskegon that the name of the man and the place are insepara- ble. Mr. Hackley was born at Michigan City, Ind., Jan. 3, 1837. At the age of fifteen he left school to assist his father, who was a con- tractor, engaged in railroad and plank road building, and at the age of seventeen was given a foreman's position in charge of a gang of men. The executive ability thus carly mani- fested was but prophetic of what was to come after in a multiplied ratio. In April, 1856, Mr. Hackley came to Muskegon and entered the employ of Durkee, Truesdell & Co., lum- ber manufacturers, as a common laborer, but was soon promoted to the position of scaler and further advanced to that of foreman of all lumber hamlet. Finding that Mr. Campbell 1858 he became the firm's bookkeeper. In the spring of 1859 he laid the foundation for one of those magnificent fortunes that have in so many cases rewarded the enterprise of those engaged in the lumber industry in Michigan. As a member of the firm of J. H. Hackley & Co., including his father, J. H. Hackley, and Gideon Truesdell, he was the active spirit in its work. They purchased the lumber plant of Pomeroy & Holmes, of Muskegon, and in 1860 the Wing Mill property. On the death of Mr. Hackley's father, in 1874, and the subsequent death of two brothers, who had been associated in the business, the firm was reorganized as C. H. Hackley & Co., with James McGordon as partner, which continued until the death of the latter fourteen years later (1880), when his interests were acquired by Thomas Hume, since which time the firm has been Hackley & Hume. The firm has ex- tensive timber land and lumbering interests in Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, and Mr. Hackley holds the posi- tion of president or direetor in a dozen or more manufacturing and banking institutions.
Mr. Hackley's enduring monument, how- ever, will consist not in what he holds, but in what he has given away for publie and bene- volent uses, of which the city of Muskegon will bear testimony as follows: Hackley
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Public Library, $125,000, endowed the same for $75,000; IIackley Square, $45,000; Sol- diers' and Sailors' Monument, $27,000, en- dowed the same for $10,000; Hackley Man- ual Training School, $105,000 for building and equipment, also annual contribution for its support, $12,000, and $100,000 for en- dowments; statues of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and Farragut, $28,000; a total of $527,000, not to mention many minor benevolences.
Mr. Hackley is a Republican and was a delegate to the Minneapolis convention in 1892 and the St. Louis convention in 1896. He has served as county treasurer of Muskegon county, as a member of the common council and board of public works of Muskegon city, and for a number of years as a member of the school board, and was its president in 1892. At the spring election in 1895 he was elected a regent of the University, but did not serve, having simply qualified and resigned on the second day of the term, Jan. 2, 1896.
In 1864 Mr. Hackley was united in mar- riage to Miss Julia E. Moore, of Centreville, N. Y., who now shares not only the good for- tune of her husband, but also enjoys with him its beneficent disposal. Mr. and Mrs. Hackley have no children. Mr. Hackley is in direct descent from Peter Hackley, who lived at New London, Conn., in 1693.
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