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PATRICK HENRY KELLEY,
[Term expires January 1, 1909.]
appointed April 10, 1901, as a member of the state board of education by Governor Bliss to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Elias F. Johnson, was born in Cass county, in 1867, and obtained his education in the district and public schools, supplemented by a course in the Val- paraiso, Indiana, normal school, graduating therefrom in 1887, and after completing a two years course at the Michigan state normal was issued a life certificate by the state board of education. Mr. Kelley has held the positions of principal of schools at Galien and Hartford, and very efficiently served as superintendent of schools in Mt. Pleasant from 1894 to 1899, when he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, graduating therefrom in June, 1900, and is at present practicing law in the city of Detroit. Mr. Kelley is a strong republican, and a pleasing and forcible public speaker. IIe was elected a member of the state board of education, November 4, 1902, by a vote of 227,559 to 153,189 for Charles F. Field, 10,349 for George Laubach and 4,437 for Samuel R. Hoobler.
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JAMES HERBERT THOMPSON, [Term, January 1, 1901, to December 31, 1906.]
Of Evart, Osceola county, was born in Flushing, Genesee county, April 6, 1866. He received his education in the primary and high schools at Reed City, supplemented by a course at the Ypsilanti State Normal, from which he graduated in 1890. He began teaching at the age of sixteen, following that occupation for five years. He was superintendent of Evart schools for five years, from which he resigned to enter mercantile busi- ness, but never lost his identity with educational work. Mr. Thompson was elected a member of the state board of education by a vote of 314,668 to 209,809 for James McEntee, democratic candidate ; 11,810 for Samuel W. Bird, prohibition candidate ; 2,810 for Joseph Carr, social democrat ; 939 for Mrs. Elizabertus Smith, social labor; 859 for Daniel C. Wachs, people's party. Imperfect and scattering, 3,796.
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SENATORS.
JOHN BAIRD,
Senator from the twenty-second district, comprising Saginaw county, was born in Quebec, Canada, February 11, 1860, and received his education in the common schools at Seaforth, Canada. He came to Michigan when fourteen years of age and has been employed by the Saginaw Lumber & Salt Company for the past 20 years. He has always been a strong republican. Mr. Baird has been a member of the board of supervisors for the last five years and has served as chairman of the republican county committee for four years, was elected to the senate of 1901-2 and re-elected November 4, 1902, by a vote of 6,699 to 6,380 for John Leidlein, 204 for Thomas Merrill and 823 for Edward H. Hartwick.
ARTHUR D. BANGHAM,
Senator from the ninth district, comprising the counties of Calhoun and Kalamazoo, was born in the township of Marengo, Calhoun county, Michigan, November 8, 1859. When twelve years of age he began work on the farm summers, and attended schools winters until 1876, when he entered Albion College, after leaving which he taught school in Spring- port, Jackson county. He graduated from the regular medical depart- ment of the University of Michigan in 1882. In 1883 he settled in Homer, where he has since practiced his profession, and is also proprietor of the Central Drug Store. He is married and a strong republican, having held numerous village offices. He is a member of a number of fraternal organizations: The Masonic Order, K. of P., K. O. T. M., Modern Wood- men, O. E. S., and I. O. O. F. He was elected to the senate of 1901-2 and re-elected November 4, 1902, by a vote of 8,922 to 7,484 for John M. Willi- son, 231 for Charles C. Landon and 879 for John A. Moll.
GEORGE BARNES,
Senator from the thirteenth district, comprising the counties of Living- ston and Genesee, was born in England in 1846, of English parents, who came to the United States and settled in Jackson county, Michigan, in 1851, and three years later moved to Gratiot county. He attended the
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district schools until he was seventeen years of age, at which time his father was drafted and Mr. Barnes volunteered to take his place, was accepted, and served his country in the 23d regiment, Michigan volunteers, company H. After returning from the war, Mr. Barnes worked on a farm summers and taught school winters until the fall of 1870 when he entered the State Normal College and graduated from the classical course in 1873. He graduated from the classical course of the University of Michigan in 1877, receiving the degree of M. A. He has been superintendent of schools at Alma, Stanton, Howell and the school for the blind at Lansing. He was married in 1877 to Miss Augustie D. Johnson, a teacher in the public schools of Jackson, Michigan, and has two children, a son and a daughter. In 1889 Mr. Barnes purchased the Livingston Republican, at Howell, which he still manages. He is also interested in agriculture, having pur- chased a farm of 240 acres three years ago. Mr. Barnes is a republican and was elected to the state senate for the term of 1903-4 by a vote of 7,217 to 5,480 for Clark B. Dibble, and 139 for Frank Meyer.
WILLIAM E. BROWN,
Senator from the twenty-first district, comprising the counties of Lapeer and Tuscola, was born on his father's farm in the township of Hadley, Lapeer county, Michigan, in December, 1863, and has always been a resi- dent of Lapeer county. He was educated in the public schools and after- wards taught school in district and village schools for five years. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1887, and was admitted to practice the same year by the supreme court. He commenced the practice of law at Imlay City and continued to live there until elected prosecuting attorney in 1892 when he moved to Lapeer, where he has since resided. He was married in 1890 to Grace E. Palmer, of Imlay City. He served two terms as prosecuting attorney and has since been engaged in active practice of law. He is an active member of several secret societies and is now grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star and high chief ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters. He was elected to the state senate of 1903-4 by a vote of 5,893 to 3,128 for E. L. Conner.
DAVID E. BURNS,
Senator from the sixteenth district, comprising the city of Grand Rapids, except the sixth, seventh and eighth wards, was born in Coldwater, Michigan. He was educated at Albion College, and later graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1892, and in the fall of that year located in Grand Rapids, where he has since practiced law. He was appointed' assistant prosecuting attorney of Kent county in January, 1893, for two years, was subsequently a member of the advisory board in the matter of pardons from June, 1899, to August, 1900, when he resigned. He has always been a staunch republican. Mr. Burns was married October 22, 1902, to Miss Elsie Mckinley of Ashland, Newaygo
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county, Michigan. He was a member of the house of representatives of 1901-2, and was elected to the state senate November 4, 1902, by a vote of 4,746 to 3,970 for Wesley W. Hyde, 148 for Jared E. Bodwell, and 135 for Emil A. Dapper. Mr. Burns was father of the first primary law ever enacted in Michigan for the nomination of candidates by a direct vote of the people. He was nominated for the state senate under this bill, against Alderman Joseph Renihan and Ex-Mayor George E. Steketee, receiving nearly as many votes at the primary election as both of the other candidates.
ELLERY CHANNING CANNON,
Senator from the twenty-fifth district, comprising the counties of Isa- bella, Mecosta, Newaygo and Osceola, was born in Macomb county, Michi- igan, December 28, 1842. He is a son of Rev. John Cannon, a pioneer minister of the Christian church in this state. He obtained his educa- tion in the district schools and is pre-eminently a self-made man. He served his country three years during the civil war, being a member of company B, 22d Michigan infantry. Mr. Cannon is married and has held various township offices, also representing his district in the legislature of 1885-6 and in 1887-8. He is a strong republican and was elected to the senate of 1901-2, and re-elected for the term of 1903-4 by a vote of 7,286 to 3,537 for Volney H. Hanchett.
ALBERT BALDWIN COOK,
Senator from the fourteen district, comprising the counties of Ingham and Shiawassee, was born at the Michigan Agricultural College, August 11, 1873, and is of New England descent. He was educated at the Agri. cultural College, graduating in 1893, and is a farmer by occupation. Mr. Cook is married and lives on his farm near Owosso. He is a republican and was elected to the state senate for the term of 1903-4 by a vote of 9,058 to 7,107 for James Lynch.
WILLIAM L. CURTIS,
Senator from the twenty-ninth district, comprising the counties of Alpena, Cheboygan, Emmet, Mackinac, Montmorency, Otsego and Presque Isle, was born in the township of Richland, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, January 29, 1842, and obtained his education in the district schools and Prairie Seminary at that place. He taught school three years and at the age of twenty, in partnership with his brother, assumed the entire con- trol of his father's large farm, and for nineteen years was known as one of the most successful farmers in that section of the country. In 1882, he removed to Petoskey and purchased the interest of Thomas Quinlan in the banking firm of Wachtel & Quinlan, later purchasing the balance of
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interest, and in partnership with his son formed the First National Bank of Petoskey. Mr. Curtis is a strong republican and has held the office of mayor of the city of Petoskey, being endorsed by both parties and having but one vote against him. He was elected to the house of 1901-2 and to the senate November 4, 1902, by a vote of 8,103 to 5,208 for J. A. Todd.
ALFRED J. DOHERTY,
Senator from the twenty-eighth district, comprising the counties of Alcona, Arenac, Clare, Crawford, Gladwin, Iosco, Missaukee, Ogemaw, Oscoda and Roscommon, was born in the state of New York, May 1, 1856. His educa- tion was obtained at Genesee Seminary, Belfast, New York. He came to Michigan in 1878 and engaged in the mercantile business, which he con- ducted successfully for twenty years. Mr. Doherty is married and is a strong republican. He was elected to the senate of 1901-2 and re-elected November 4, 1902, by a vote of 6,771 to 3,571 for Robert R. Pointer.
AUGUSTINE W. FARR,
Senator from the twenty-sixth district, comprising the counties of Benzie, Lake, Manistee, Mason and Oceana, was born in North Hudson, Essex county, New York, July 29, 1847. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1854 and spent five years in the public schools of Grand Rapids. In 1866 he went to New York City to accept a position as confidential clerk and cashier in the banking house of Isett, Kerr & Co., and remained with the firm' until they dissolved partnership in 1868, when he returned to Michigan. In 1870 he became manager of the lumber and mercantile busi- ness of Porter & Co., at Onekama, and later succeeded them. In 1882 he organized the Onekama Lumber Co., with which he has since been identified. He also owns and operates a large stock and fruit farm. Mr. Farr has held the offices of justice of the peace, supervisor, president of the village of Onekama and represented his district in the state legis- lature of 1877. He is a republican in politics and was elected to the senate of 1901-2 and re-elected November 4, 1902, by a vote of 6,485 to 3,582 for Ira C. Ford and 383 for Charles Houk.
ORAMEL B. FULLER,
Senator from the thirtieth district, comprising the counties of Chippewa, Delta, Luce, Menominee and Schoolcraft, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, January 22, 1858, coming to Michigan in 1869. His education was acquired in the public schools of Lansing and Muskegon to which latter city he removed in 1874. He entered into the lumber business, which he has followed until the present time, as lumber inspector and commission dealer. He removed to Ford River, Delta county, his present home in
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1884. Mr. Fuller is at present the supervisor of his township. He is a strong republican and was a member of the house of representatives in 1893, 1895 and 1897. During his last term in the house he was chosen speaker pro tem. He was elected to the senate of 1901-2 and re-elected to the senate of 1903-4 by a vote of 6,989 to 2,722 for Frank Erdlitz, He is president pro tem. of the present senate.
CASSIUS L. GLASGOW,
Senator from the fifteenth district, comprising the counties of Barry and Eaton, was born of Scotch parentage in Allen township, Hillsdale county, Michigan, February 16, 1859. He received his education in the district and union schools, and Hillsdale College. He remained on his father's farm until ready to start life for himself, which he did by clerking in a hard- ware store in Jonesville, Michigan. After a few years he went west, obtaining employment in the office of a wholesale hardware house in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved to Nashville, Barry county, in 1881 and engaged in the hardware and implement business, adding a large furniture store in 1896. He is a member of the orders of F. & A. M. and K. of P. In politics he has always been a republican, and has held the offices of president and treasurer of his village and county treasurer. He was elected to the senate of 1903-4 by a vote of 6,372 to 4,757 for Charles T. Hartson.
FRANK P. GLAZIER,
Senator from the tenth district, comprising the counties of Jackson and Washtenaw, was born at Jackson, Michigan, March 8, 1862. At the age of five he moved with his parents to Chelsea, Washtenaw county, where he received his early education in the village school, afterward attending the University of Michigan where he graduated from the pharmacy depart- ment in 1880. He then took a practical business course at Eastman's National Business College of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and after graduating from that institution went to Germany for a special course of study in chemistry at the University of Heidelberg. From 1882 to 1890 he was engaged in general merchandising and banking at Chelsea and Stockbridge. In 1890 he organized the Glazier Stove Company and began the manu- facture of the B. & B. line of oil heaters and cook stoves, a business which has grown to be one of the largest and most prosperous of its kind in the country. His business operations have been extensive. He recently completed, as a memorial to his father, the late George P. Glazier, one of the finest bank buildings in the state, which is used by the Chelsea Savings Bank of which Mr. Glazier is president. He is also the president of the Glazier Stove Company, and is a stockholder and director in many concerns throughout the state and elsewhere. In politics he is a staunch republican. He has served three terms as president of Chelsea village and nine years as a member of the board of education. He was elected to the state senate for the term of 1903-4 by a vote of 9,480 to 9,235 for Henry M. Teff, and 464 for James P. Wood.
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SOLON GOODELL,
Senator from the fourth district, comprising the twelfth, fourteenth and sixteenth wards of the city of Detroit, the city of Wyandotte and the townships of Brownstown, Canton, Dearborn, Ecorse, Huron, Monguagon, Nankin, Romulus, Springwells, Sumpter, Taylor and Van Buren, was born in Superior, Washtenaw county, Michigan, November 30, 1840. He attended the district school until he was sixteen years of age, and worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-one. In 1860 he settled on a farm in the township of Canton, where he still resides. His occupation has been that of a farmer and stock breeder. In politics he is a republican, and has represented his district in the legislature four terms, two in the house and two in the senate. He was elected to the senate of 1903-4 by a vote of 7,073 to 6,226 for George P. Coan, and 215 for George A. Waters.
GEORGE N. JONES,
Senator from the eleventh district, comprising the county of St. Clair, was born at Bellevue, Michigan, in 1859, of English ancestors. He was educated in the normal school of Canada. He is married and has two daughters. He has been engaged in the grocery business twenty-four years. Mr. Jones is a republican and was elected to the state senate for the term of 1903-4 by a vote of 5,861 to 4,683 for James R. Hamilton, and 90 for William Langell.
WILLIAM D. KELLY,
Senator from the twenty-third district, comprising the counties of Muske- gon and Ottawa, was born of Irish parents, November 26, 1865, in Ferrys- burg, Ottawa county, Michigan. His education was acquired in the public schools of Grand Haven and Muskegon, moving to the latter place in 1879. From 1881 to 1885 he was engaged as book-keeper for a large mercantile establishment in the city of Muskegon; purchasing an interest at the latter date in the planing mill and box factory of that place, in which business he continued until 1889, when he sold out and engaged in the wholesale lumber business. He remained in this occupation a short time, purchased timber lands, and has since given his attention to real estate and insurance business. He was married to Zepha E. Wheeler, daughter of Joseph E. Wheeler, a veteran of the late war. In politics he is a republican and has the distinction of being one of the oldest members in point of service in the present legislature, having served continuously since 1895, three terms in the house and two in the senate. He was elected to the state senate for the term of 1903-4 by a vote of 7,602 to 3,351 for Henry O'Conner, and 309 for Thomas H. Goodman.
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CHARLES H. LAFLAMBOY,
Senator from the eighteenth district, comprising the counties of Montcalm and Ionia, 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 the district school until he was eleven years old, when he began life for himself. He went to McBride in 1878 and secured employ- ment 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 his 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 a member of the house of representatives of 1899-1900 and 1901-2, and elected to the state senate for the term of 1903-4 by a vote of 6,394 to 4,307 for Israel L. Hubbell, and 838 for James R. Bowen.
WILLIAM H. LOCKERBY,
Senator from the sixth district, comprising the counties of Branch, Hills- dale and St. Joseph, was born in West Vienna, Oneida county, New York, February 24, 1859. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1869, locating on a farm in Branch county. He attended district schools winters and worked on the farm summers until twenty-three years of age, when he entered the law office of Hon. Milo D. Campbell, at Quincy, where he studied law until 1884, when he was admitted to the bar and has since practiced law in Quincy. Mr. Lockerby is married and has held various township offices. In 1895 he was appointed by Gov. Rich a member of the railroad and street crossing board, and held the office of secretary four years ; was circuit court commissioner and member of the board of school examiners for Branch county. He is an active member in the Masonic and Grange societies and has always been a republican, and was elected to the senate of 1901-2 and re-elected November 4, 1902, by a vote of 9,324 to 6,442 for Thomas D. Cutler.
ORLANDO C. MOFFATT,
Senator from the twenty-seventh district, comprising the counties of Antrim, Charlevoix, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau and Wexford, was born in Lyons, Michigan, August 6, 1865. He removed with his parents to Northport, Michigan, in 1868, and to Traverse City in 1874. He received his education in the public schools of Traverse City. He left school at the age of eighteen to go into the banking house' of Hannah, Lay and Co., and left there to accept a position in the old National Bank of Grand Rapids. He returned to Traverse City in 1888, where he purchased the abstract books of Grand Traverse county, in which business he is still
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engaged. Mr. Moffatt is married and has held the offices of township and vlllage treasurer, member of board of education and register of deeds. He is a republican and was elected to the senate of 1903-4 by a vote of 6,188 to 2,192 for Hiram B. Hudson.
MICHAEL, H. MORIARTY.
Senator from the thirty-first district, comprising the counties of Alger, Baraga, Dickinson, Iron and Marquette, was born in Hudson, Michigan, September 28, 1859, of Irish parentage. He was educated in the Hudson high school. He studied law in the office of Thomas J. Hiller, of Hudson, and was admitted to practice in 1887. He had a clerkship in the legis- lature of 1889 and, at the close of the session, opened a law office in Crystal Falls, Michigan. Mr. Moriarty has held the offices of county com- missioner of schools, prosecuting attorney, county treasurer of Iron county, and member of the board of control of the State House of Correc- tion and branch prison at Marquette. He is a republican in politics, and was elected to the state senate for the term of 1903-4 by a vote of 7,056 to 1,815 for William Andrews.
JAMES EDMUND SCRIPPS,
Senator from the third district was born in London, England, March 19, 1835. Came to this country in 1844, was brought up on a farm in Illinois and received a common school education. He became a reporter for the Chicago Tribune in 1857, settled in Detroit in 1859 and managed the Detroit Tribune until 1873 when he founded the Evening News. Mr. Scripps was married in 1862 to Harriet J. Messinger, and has four children, all heads of families. He was active in the establishment of the Detroit Museum of Art in 1844, and has served as park commissioner and member of Detroit Public Library Commission. He received the republican nomination for the senate in October, 1902, and was endorsed by the democrats of the districts. He was elected by a vote of 5,384 to 3,524 for George Suttie.
WILLIAM P. SCULLEN,
Senator from the first district of Wayne county, was born in Detroit, Michigan, December 12, 1873 of Irish ancestors. He was educated in Detroit College and Detroit College of Law. He is a lawyer and practices his profession in Detroit. Mr. Scullen is a democrat, and was elected to the legislature of 1903-4 by a vote of 7,486 to 7,034 for Frederick C. Martin- dale, 151 for Cauley H. Perrin, and 92 for Fritz Herman.
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CHARLES C. SIMONS,
Senator from the second district of Wayne county, was born in Detroit, May 21, 1876. He was educated in Detroit city schools, and the University of Michigan, graduating from the literary department of the latter in 1898, and from the law department in 1900. He was instructor in oratory at the University of Michigan in 1899-1900. Mr. Simons has been engaged in the practice of law in Detroit for nearly three years. He is a republican and was elected to the legislature of 1903-4 by a vote of 6,702 to 5,727 for William Van Dyke, and 106 for Holland Powell.
ALBERT E. SLEEPER,
Senator from the twentieth district, comprising the counties of Huron and Sanilac, was born in Bradford, Vermont, December 31, 1862, and acquired his education in the Bradfield Academy. He came to Michigan in 1884, locating at Lexington where he has since been engaged in mercan- tile pursuits. He is largely interested in real estate and is partner in a prosperous bank at Marlette and also one at Ubly, Huron county, in both of which he is general manager. Mr. Sleeper is unmarried and in politics a republican. He was elected to the senate of 1901-2 and re-elected Novem- ber 4, 1902, by a vote of 5,180 to 2,373 for John F. Murphy.
CHARLES SMITH,
Senator from the thirty-second district, composed of the counties of Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon, was born in the township of Livonia, Wayne county, Michigan, December 24, 1839, and remained on the farm until 1857; attended the union school at Ypsilanti until 1862, with the exception of three months' service as a private in company H, 1st regiment, infantry. In 1863 he located in Houghton county, where he has since made his home. For the past thirty years he has been in the employ of copper smelting companies, and at present is clerk of the smelting department of the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company. He is vice-president of the First National Bank of Lake Linden and a director of the Northern. Michigan Building & Loan Associa- tion of Hancock. In politics he is a republican and has served as super- visor of his township for fifteen consecutive terms. Mr. Smith repre- sented his district in the lower house of the legislature during the terms of 1895-6 and 1897-8 and was elected to the senate of 1899-1900 and 1901-2 and re-elected November 4, 1902, by a vote of 6,602 to 2,382 for John F. Finnigan.
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