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JOEL H. GILLETTE,
Representative from the second district of Berrien county, was born in Bertrand township, Berrien county, Michigan, March 22, 1851. His education was begun at a district school in his native township and completed at the Niles high school, after which he engaged in teaching, and taught several years with marked suc- cess. His services as teacher were repeatedly sought after, but he declined all offers, preferring to devote his time and energies to his occupation of farmer. Farming was his only occupation until 1888, since which time the real estate and loan business, and management and settlement of estates have been prominent features of his business career. He has always been an earnest and active repub- lican; has been twice elected school inspector; has filled the office of superin- tendent of schools under the old law; was elected town clerk, and supervisor of Bertrand township three terms; in 1892 was elected register of deeds of Berrien county, and again in 1894. In 1880 he served as census enumerator. In 1890 he
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wwas president of the Berrien county farmers' institute association. Was elected to the house of 1899-1900, and was re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,654 to 2,513 for William E. Warnsbrough, democratic candidate.
LESTER ADORAN GOODRICH,
Representative from Hillsdale county, was born in New Haven, Oswego county, New York, March 2, 1854. He moved to Cambria, Hillsdale county, Michigan, in 1863, lived on a farm until eighteen years of age, and attended the graded school during the winter months. Entered Hillsdale college in the fall of 1875, taught school during the winter months, and graduated in the scientific course in 1879, receiving the honorary degree of master of science two years later. Entered the University of Michigan in 1880 and graduated in 1882, receiving the degree of pharmaceutical chemist, and entered the drug business at Hillsdale, Michigan, in 1883. Politically he has been a life-long republican; was elected an alderman in 1890 and re-elected in 1891. Also elected mayor of Hillsdale in 1892, and held the office for three consecutive terms. Was elected to the house of 1899-1900, and re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 4,797 to 3,361 for James W. Pease, democratic candidate. His majority of 1,436 being the largest given any candi- date elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 from a district comprising a single county.
JOHN R. GORDON,
Representative from the first district of Marquette, was born at Silver Hill, On- tario, February 15, 1851, and educated in the country schools until fourteen years of age, when he began life for himself. At the age of twenty-one he came to Michigan and engaged in lumbering, an occupation which he followed for twenty years. He was for seven years proprietor of a hotel at Hancock, Michigan, and was supervisor of Ishpeming township three years. Was elected to the legisla- ture of 1899-1900, and re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,288 to 1.145 for Peter Kremer, democratic candidate, and 104 for Charles H. Jennings, prohi- bition candidate.
CORNELIUS A. HALLENBECK,
Representative from the first district of Eaton county, was born in Ghent, New York, February 1, 1839, and removed to Vermontville, Michigan, where he entered the academy and received his education. He engaged in farming until the be- ginning of the civil war, when he enlisted in Co. H, 6th Michigan infantry and heavy artillery, on August 6, 1861. He was severely wounded at the battle of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Angust 5, 1862, and discharged from service September 5, 1865. Mr. Hallenbeck is married, and has been a successful farmer since the close of the war. He is justice of the peace, to which office he was elected in 1882, and was commander of Edward Dwight Post No. 163, at Vermontville, for seven years. In politics a strong republican, he was elected to the legislature of 1901- 1902 by a vote of 2,298 to 2,028 for Frank P. Town, democratic candidate, and 89 for Adelbert G. Walker, prohibition candidate.
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SHERMAN T. HANDY,
Representative from the Dickinson district, comprising the counties of Dickin- son, Iron and Baraga, was born at Morpetli, Ontario, April 3, 1867. He attended the public schools there, graduated from the Ridgetown collegiate institute in 1885, took a course in Stratford college, graduating in 1889, entered the law de- partment of the University of Michigan, and was graduated from that school in 1891. In 1892 he entered upon the practice of law at Crystal Falls, Michigan, with W. F. Cairns, under the firm name of Cairns & Handy, which continued until Mr. Cairns removed in 1892. Mr. Handy continued the business until June, 1895, when he formed a partnership with Fred H. Abbott, of Detroit, under the firm name of Handy & Abbott. This partnership was dissolved in October, 1897, by mutual consent, since which time Mr. Handy has been practicing alone. He was elected circuit court commissioner on the republican ticket in 1895; prosecuting attorney of Iron county in 1896; was renominated in 1898, but declined the nomination to run for representative from the Dickinson district. Was elected to the house of 1899-1900, and re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 4,946 to 1,135 for Thomas Touhey, democratic candidate. On the convening of the legislature of 1901-1902 Mr. Handy was chosen speaker pro tem.
ANSON R. HARDY,
Representative from the first district of Ingham county, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, February 3, 1855. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1860, and settled on a farm near the Agricultural College, which he still owns. By hard study at home he fitted himself to teach school winters, and by working on the farm summers was enabled to take short courses in business colleges and normal schools. He was a successful teacher fourteen years, and a member of the board of school examiners for six years, the last two years having the im- mediate superintendency of the schools. Mr. Hardy is a democrat, and in 1888 was elected register of deeds, which office he held four years. He located in Lansing in 1893, where he has since been engaged in the real estate business, and has been a member of the city school board four years. Mr. Hardy is married, and was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,895 to 2,474 for George R. Heck, republican candidate, and 97 for Edward Kilian, prohibition candidate.
CHARLES I. HARLEY,
Representative from Mason county, was born in the state of Ohio, August 6, 1864, and obtained his education in the public schools. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1882, and has since been engaged in farming, milling and lumbering. Mr. Harley is married, and has held the offices of township treasurer and super- visor. He is a republican, and was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,194 to 1,266 for L. G. Southworth, democratic candidate, and 90 for Charles Houk, prohibition.
ERNEST W. HASTINGS,
Representative from the Grand Traverse district, comprising the counties of Grand Traverse, Benzie and Leelanau, was born in Lansing, Michigan, April 16, 1855, and attended the public schools until nine years old, when, his father ha.v-
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ing died in the army, he went with his mother to Traverse City, where he finished his education in the public school, and afterward following the trade of machin- ist, he had charge of a mill for a number of years. He entered the real estate and insurance business in 1890 in which he is at present engaged. Has served as alderman of the second ward of Traverse City. Mr. Hastings is married, and has always been a strong republican. He was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 5,993 to 2,614 for David Scott, democratic candidate, and 285 for Josiah Pennington, prohibition candidate.
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Representative from the second district of Ingham county, was born in Colla- mer, Onondaga county, New York, November 4, 1864. In 1868 he came with his parents to Michigan, locating on a farm near Mason, removing later to a large farm in the township of Onondaga. His education was obtained in the district schools and Eaton Rapids high school, from which he graduated in 1884. He taught school and worked on the farm until he obtained means to enter the law department of the University of Michigan in 1889, having previously read law in the office of Huntington and Henderson of Mason, which business he afterward purchased and has successfully continued. Mr. Hemans is married and has held various offices in his county, being elected mayor in 1892 and again in 1899. He is a democrat and was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,641 to 2,309 for Frank N. Turner, republican candidate.
JOHN HENRY.
Representative from the first district of Saginaw county, was born in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1856, and received his early education in the public schools of that city. He located in Saginaw when eleven years of age and at the age of fourteen began work as fireman on a steamboat. He afterward became a marine engineer, which business he followed four years, when he became engineer of the Power Block, which position he has held twenty years. Mr. Henry is married and has always been a strong republican, having been alderman of his ward in 1898-1900, and was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 on the general legislative ticket of Saginaw county, by a vote of 4,344 to 3,935 for Orville E. Elsemore, highest democratic candidate.
JOHN W. HOLMES,
Representative from Gratiot county, was born in Livingston county, New York, in 1840 and came to Michigan in 1858, locating on a farm near Hillsdale, and com- pleting his education in the public schools of that county. June 9, 1861, he enlisted in the Seventlı Michigan Volunteer Infantry and served with his regi- ment until honorably discharged on account of physical disability. He taught school in Jackson and Hillsdale counties "for ten years, afterward engaging in mercantile business in Mosherville, where he remained six years. In 1884 le moved to Gratiot county where he engaged in the produce business at Alma. He has been a successful farmer and business man and twice elected president of the village and has been a member of the Board of Education. Mr. Holmes has always been a loyal republican and was elected to the legislature of 1901-
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1902 by a vote of 4,221 to 3,255 for Dewit Vouglit, democratic candidate, and 171 for John E. Young, prohibition.
FRED A. HUNT,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Goshen, Massachusetts, May 1, 1855. His early education was received in the high schools of his native state, supplemented by a course at the Michigan State Normal and the law department of the University of Michigan, having resided in the state since 1869. Mr. Hunt was a student in the law office of Cutcheon and Allen at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and a law partner of Ex-Congressman E. P. Allen for two years. Held contract with the city of Detroit for lighting gasoline street lamps
from 1880-1882. Was engaged as traveling salesman and collector from 1884-1893. Has held the office of circuit court commissioner for Washtenaw county and was also a member of the board of estimates from the tenth ward of the city of Detroit. He was married in 1882 and has always been a republican, being elected to the legislature of 1901-1902, on the general legislative ticket, by a vote of 29,057 to 25,901 for Charles Dupont, highest democratic candidate.
WILLIAM A. HURST,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born in Courtright, Ontario, April 8, 1862. He came to Michigan when eight years of age and received his education in the common school at St. Clair, supplemented by a course at the Detroit College of Law. He was circuit court commissioner in 1896 and elected again in 1898; president of the Alger Republican Club in 1896; secretary of the republican county committee in 1893 and president of the State League of Republican Clubs in 1899. Mr. Hurst is married and a strong republican, being elected to the legislature of 1901-1902, on the general legislative ticket, by a vote of 28,843 to 25,901 for Charles Dupont, highest democratic candidate.
LUTHER C. KANOUSE,
Representative from Livingston county, was born in the township of Burns, Shiawasse county, Michigan, June 29, 1842. His education was obtained in the common schools, supplemented by one year at the State Normal School. He was in the civil war, enlisting in Company D, Sixth Michigan Cavalry, and was wounded three times. He was promoted to a first sergeantcy in September, 1863, and was made first lieutenant in 1864. He belonged to General George A. Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade and was present at the surrender of General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Va., and was also on the grand review in Washington, D. C., in May, 1865. In June, 1865, he was sent to Wyoming to fight the Indians, being mustered out of service in the following November at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He returned to Michigan and has since been engaged in farming. Mr. Kanouse is married and is a democrat. He has held the office of supervisor, township treasurer and highway commissioner and was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,888 to 2,747 for James B. Taziman, republican candidate, and 143 for Henry L. Doane, prohibition candidate.
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ANGUS W. KERR,
Representative from the first district of Houghton county, was born in Ontario May 24, 1873, and came to Michigan while yet a mere boy, settling at Lake Linden. His education was largely received in the schools of that place and he gradu- ated from the high school of the village. He attended the law department of the University of Michigan during the school year of 1891-1892 and at its close entered the office of A. T. Streeter of Calumet, Michigan, and has remained with him since, having been admitted to the bar July 12, 1895. Mr. Kerr has held the office of city attorney of Calumet and circuit court commissioner of Houghton county. In the Spanish-American war he served with Company D, Thirty-fourth Regiment of Michigan Volunteers from the time of its muster into the service of the United States until it was mustered out, being assigned to recruiting duty. He has always been a republican and has lived in his present district since a young boy. Was elected to the legislature of 1899-1900 by the full vote of his district, having no opponent, and was re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 3,855 to 1,231 for Alfred A. Guck, democratic candidate, and 351 for Allen H. Paton, prohibition.
CHARLES B. KIDDER,
Representative from Lapeer county, was born in Almont, Michigan, March 4, 1848. His education was obtained in the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, after which he was a successful teacher for ten years, when he bought a farm which he managed seventeen years, finally removing to the village of Almont where for twelve years he has held the office of supervisor of his township. He is also sec- retary of the Lapeer County Farmers' Mutual Insurance Association. Mr. Kidder is an ardent republican and his logical and forceful political addresses during the recent campaign were a credit to him and the party he so ably represents. He was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 3,635 to 2,342 for Wm. Howland, democratic candidate.
WILLIAM KIRK,
Representative from the first district of Tuscola county, was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1844, where his education was obtained in the national schools. He came to Michigan from Canada in 1861 and in 1867 went to Pike's Peak and cele· brated the laying of the last rail of the Union Pacific R. R. He returned to Michigan in 1871 and located on a farm. Mr. Kirk is married and has held various offices in his township. Has been supervisor for the past seven years and is also president of the Tuscola County Agricultural Society and has been one of its directors for thirty years. He is a strong republican and was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,377 to 1,377 for Lyman B. Lamphere, democratic candidate, and 130 for S. A. Lane, prohibition candidate.
CHARLES H. LAFLAMBOY,
Representative from the first district of Montcalm, was born in LeRoy, Lake county, Ohio, May 12, 1856. When nine years of age he came with his parents to Oakland county, Michigan, where he attended district school until he was eleven years old, when he began life for himself. He went to McBride in 1878 and secured
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employment with Wood & Thayer, with whom he remained seven years, when he formed a partnership with a Mr. Lewis and started a small general store. At the close of the first year he bought out lis partner and has since conducted the business, enlarging it and building a feed mill. He has also acquired control of the only hotel in McBride and refitted it. He was elected to the house of 1899- 1900 and re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,443 to 1,406 for J. Claud Youdan, democratic candidate.
WARREN BRAINERD LAFLER,
Representative from the second district of Monroe county, was born in Wil- loughby. Lake county, Ohio, February 12, 1845. When about seven years of age he removed with his parents to Michigan where he obtained his education in tlie district school at Dundee. In 1861 he enlisted in the Seventh Michigan Infantry,. taking part in all the principal battles in the Army of the Potomac and was pres- ent at the surrender of General Robert E. Lee. He was wounded twice at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House. Mr. Lafler is married and is a democrat. He has held various offices in his township and was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 1,942 to 1,842 for James H. Laboe, republican candidate, and 71 for Delmer Pelton, prohibition candidate.
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JOHN LANE,
Representative from the first district of Berrien county, was born in Livingston county, Kentucky, April 12, 1843. His education was obtained by home study. He came to Michigan in 1856 and on May 16, 1861, enlisted in Company G, Sixth Wisconsin Infantry, and was severely wounded at the battle of Antietam, on account of which he was discharged from service January 27, 1863. He re- enlisted in Company B, Sixth Michigan Heavy Artillery, in January, 1864, and served as color bearer until the close of the war, when he went to Benton Har- bor where he remained fourteen years and then purchased the farm in St. Joseph township, where he now resides. Mr. Lane is married and has always been a republican. He was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902 by a vote of 3,971 to. 2,475 for L. B. Marquisee, democratic candidate.
BERRY J. LOWREY,
Representative from the second district of Montcalm county, was born in: Auburn, Indiana, February 26, 1859, and received his education in the common schools of that city, after which he was apprenticed to learn the printer's trade in the office of the De Kalb County Republican. He was compositor, foreman, assistant editor, business manager and finally editor of that paper until 1881, after which he did more or less work on the Toledo, Ohio, dailies. In 1884 he came to Michigan and became foreman of the Charlotte Republican, finally pur- chasing the Howard City Record which he successfully manages. He is married and is a staunch republican; was postmaster under the Harrison administration and deputy collector of internal revenue for the western district of Michigan from 1898 to 1900. Mr. Lowrey received the unanimous nomination as candidate for representative to the legislature of 1901-1902 and was elected by a vote of 2,303 to 1,372 for Salem F. Kennedy, democratic candidate.
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LUKE LUGERS,
Representative from the first district of Ottawa county, was born at Laketown, Allegan county, Michigan, February 2, 1853. His early education was acquired at the public schools, which he attended winters and worked on a farm summers. He subsequently attended the Otsego and Wayland Normals and taught school seventeen years. Mr. Lugers has been supervisor of Laketown five years and of Holland township three years. He also held the offices of township clerk, school inspector and justice of the peace. Was book-keeper for five years and after- wards bought an interest in the lumber business now known as the Scott-Lugers Lumber Company, of which he was manager until his election to the legislature, and still retains the secretaryship. Is a school director and an elder in the reform church. Has always been a republican and was elected to the legislature of 1899-1900 and re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,710 to 1,644 for David R. Waters, democratic candidate.
LYMAN H. MCCALL,
Representative from the second district of Eaton county, was born in Delaware county, New York, August 31, 1860, and received his early education in the schools of that county. He removed to Michigan in 1877 and located in Eaton county, graduating from Olivet College. He subsequently entered the law office of Judge Edward A. Foote of Charlotte and was admitted to practice by the circuit court at Charlotte, in 1883, since which time he has been in the active practice of law, residing in that city. He was elected and served as prosecuting attorney of Eaton county for the years 1893-94. Mr. McCall is a republican and was elected to the house of 1899-1900 and re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,409 to 2,052 for Edward W. Gallery, democratic candidate.
GEORGE PERCY MCCALLUM,
Represenative from the Delta district, comprising the counties of Alger, School- craft and Delta, was born at Lapeer, Michigan, March 27, 1871. His childhood and youth were spent at his birthplace and in Ogemaw and Delta counties, graduating at the West Branch high school in June, 1890, and entering Albion College in tlie fall of the same year to prepare for the university. In the fall of 1895 he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, graduating in June, 1898, with the degree of L. B. In the intervals of his studies he was engaged in various capacities by the Delta Lumber Co., of which his father, John H. McCallum, was superintendent, and to help out his cash account he worked in the pineries as a scaler. While at Ann Arbor Mr. McCallum was president of the U. of M. repub- lican club. He is at present chairman of the executive committee of the national league of college republican clubs and a member of the advisory council of the republican state league of Michigan. Mr. McCallum has been a member of the county board of school examiners of his county. He is greatly interested in fra- ternal societies, being a Freemason, a Pythian, and a Maccabee. Was elected to the house of 1899-1900, and re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 4,857 to 2,517 for Frank Foster, democratic candidate.
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DUNCAN MCFARLANE,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born in Harrisville, Alcona county, Michigan, March 16, 1869. His education was obtained in the pub- lic school at Au Sable, supplemented by one year at the State Normal. After leaving school he entered a grocery store, where he remained ten years, and has since been in the employ of the Street Railway Company. Mr. McFarlane is un- married, and is a strong republican, having been elected to the legislature of 1901-1902, on the general legislative ticket, by a vote of 28,644 to 25,901 for Charles Dupont, highest democratic candidate.
WILLIAM MCKAY,
Representative from the second district of Tuscola county, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, September 9, 1840, his education being acquired in the schools at Kil- marnock, Scotland. In April, 1854, he immigrated to the United States, coming direct to Almont, Lapeer county, where he engaged in labor on a farm. January 1, 1863, on the day the emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln took effect, he was married to Mary A. Mackie, at Romeo, Mich. In 1876 he removed to the township of Dayton, Tuscola county, where he also followed the business of farming. He was elected supervisor in 1877 and held that office for six con- secutive terms. Was elected sheriff in 1882 and held that office two terms. He is a republican, and was elected to the house for the terms of 1889-90 and 1899- 1900, and re-elected to the house of 1901-1902 by a vote of 2,113 to 1,533 for Charles O. Thomas, democratic candidate, and 150 for Asa A. P. McDowell, prohibition candidate.
HERMAN MARKS,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born in Detroit, Michigan, June 3, 1873, and acquired his education in the public schools of his native city. At the age of eight years he began his career as a newsboy, and con- tinued in the business until fifteen years of age, during which time he assisted in organizing the famous Detroit Newsboys' Association, and was appointed from their ranks as page in the state senate of 1893, after which he served as furrier's apprentice, and later salesman for Walter Buhl and Co., of Detroit, until 1898, since which time he has been identified with Wm. Jackman's Sons, Furriers, of New York city, and Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Marks is unmarried, and was one of the organizers of the first voter's republican league in 1896, and was elected their president, upon the resignation of Mr. Louis C. Wurzer. He is also a member of the United Commercial Travelers' Association. In politics, a strong republican, he was elected to the legislature of 1901-1902, on the general legislative ticket, by a vote of 28,826 to 25,901 for Charles Dupont, highest democratic candidate.
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