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June 30, 1891, and has two daughters and one son. He is a member of the Michigan Grange, and has been actively identified with organized labor movements, belonging to the Knights of Labor and the Western Federation of Miners. He has been a member of the Lake Linden fire department since 1891, and has taken an active part in politics in the interest of labor. Mr. Kappler served as alderman in the village of Lake Linden in the years 1900 and 1901. He is a Democrat, and was elected to the legislature Nov- ember 3, 1908, by a vote of 1,435 to 1,333 for Samuel Eddy, 57 for Jacob Grabenstein and 1 for E. T. Abrams.
C WESLEY KEMMERLING,
Representative from Monroe county, was born in Raisinville township, Monroe county, February 15, 1872, of German descent. His education was acquired in a district school and state normal. He was married December 24, 1895, to Ethel Faye Loudenslager and has three sons. With the exception of two years spent in the Ohio oil fields, Mr. Kemmerling has been engaged in farming. He is a Republican, has held the office of highway commissioner, and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 4,018 to 3,655 for Flagget H. Trabbic and 210 for George H. Candee.
ALBERT LAHUIS,
Representative from the second district of Ottawa county, was born and reared on a farm in Zeeland township, Ottawa county, Michigan, May 19, 1858, of Holland parent- age. Received his early education in the district schools, attended Hope College and the Michigan State Normal College, graduating from the latter in 1879. Mr. LaHuis was married to Miss Christine DenHerder in 1883. He served as superintendent of the Zeeland village schools five years. He then engaged in the mercantile business with his father-in-law under the firm name of Herder and LaHuis. In 1890 the large store building and contents, owned by the firm, was destroyed by fire, and immediately after, Mr. LaHuis, individually, reestablished and continued the business. He has been successful, is stockholder and director of the Zeeland State Bank and Holland Sugar Company, president and director of the Colonial Manufacturing Company and president and treasurer of the A. LaHuis Co. He is a Republican, was elected to the legislature of 1907-8 and reelected November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,685 to 1,153 for David R. Walters, 143 for Charles S. Rennells and 22 for Edwin F. Terry.
JOHN C. LODGE,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Detroit, Michigan, of American and English parentage. He was engaged for a time in newspaper work, but is now in the real estate and insurance business. Mr. Lodge is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a plurality of 20,176.
JOHN O. MAXEY.
Representative from the Iron district, comprising the counties of Baraga, Iron, Keweenaw and Ontonagon, was born in Stockbridge, Calumet county, Wisconsin, September 4, 1871, of Irish parentage. His father served in the Civil war, in the twenty- fourth Wisconsin regiment. Mr. Maxey attended the common school until fifteen years of age, when he went north to the lumber woods, working in the woods during the winter and in the mills during the summer. He became a millwright and followed this occupa- tion for some time. In 1890 he entered the railway train service and continued in this until 1899, when he resigned to study law in the University of Wisconsin, completing the course in 1902. He was appointed to a position in the bureau of labor and in- dustrial statistics, and later appointed state factory inspector, which position he resigned in 1904. He then removed to Marquette, Michigan, and engaged in the real estate business. Two years later he moved to L'Anse, Michigan, where he has extensive lumbering interests. Mr. Maxey has always been a Republican. At the election Novem-
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ber 3, 1908, he was elected to the legislature without opposition receiving 5,145 votes, 2 scattering.
CHARLES R. MCCABE,,
Representative from the first district of Marquette county, was born at Rockland, Ontonagon county, Michigan, April 3, 1867, of Irish descent. He acquired his educa- tion in the Marquette schools. He is married and has been a resident of Michigan all his life. Mr. McCabe is a bookkeeper. He is a Republican, has held the office of super- visor, and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,309 to 1,285 for Peter Kremer.
WILLIAM H. McFADZEN,
Representative from Manistee county, was born at Chatham, Canada, February 14, 1862, of Scotch parentage. When four years of age he came with his parents to Mich- igan and settled in Filer township, Manistee county, where he has since resided. He acquired his education in the public schools of Filer township, which he attended until the age of fifteen. He then began work in the shingle mills which work he followed as packer and jointer until 1889, when he engaged in the general merchandise business at Oak Hill, Filer township, which business he still successfully conducts. Mr. McFadzen has always been a Republican but has never taken any active part in politics until 1903, when he was elected supervisor of Filer township, and was elected chairman of the board in 1907 and again in 1908. He was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,648 to 1,915 for Edward Kenny, Jr., and 119 for Theodore Holt.
JOHN McKAY,
Representative from Macomb county, was born in Bruce township, Macomb county, August 16, 1843. His father Robert Mckay, was a native of Scotland, descendant of a long line of Scottish ancestry. Mr. McKay received his education in the common schools. On February 21, 1866, he was married to Miss Lucinda E. Day, and two children were born to them, Robert and Olive Jean. In the spring of 1866, Mr. McKay moved to a farm of his own in the township of Armadia, and the next year commenced the breeding of shorthorn cattle, of which he made a specialty for thirty years. In 1900 Mr. McKay located at Romeo, where he has since resided. Always interested in matters pertaining to agriculture he has been a member of the Armadia Agricultural Society for a number of years, and was its president for four years. He has also been a member of the executive committee of the State Agricultural Society for ten years and is at present treasurer of the society. Other offices of honor and trust held by him -president of the Macomb County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, ten years; first vice president of the Romeo Savings Bank, and member of the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission for nine years. Mr. McKay is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1909-10, by a vote of 4,079 to 3,561 for George W. John and 225 for M. Jay Crissman.
THOMAS H. McNAUGHTON,
Representative from the second district of Kent county, was born May 1, 1861, on his father's farm in Ada township, Kent county, Michigan. His education was acquired in the public schools of the township. He has been master of Kent Pomona for seven years, a member of the executive committee of the State Grange for four years, having been reelected at the recent meeting; has been a member of the legislative committee of the State Grange for three years. Mr. McNaughton is a Republican and has always been active in the political affairs of the state and county, but has never been a can- didate for any political office until the last election, when he entered the field for repre- sentative and was nominated and elected without opposition, receiving the total vote cast, 3,370.
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FRANK C. MILLER,
Representative from Ionia county, was born November 24, 1860, of American and German descent. He has resided in the county thirty-three years, and in the city of Ionia twenty-five years. His early years were spent on a farm, attending district school until the age of fourteen, when he began working by the month, receiving seven dollars per month for the first six months. He continued working upon the farm several years, in the winter attending the district school, later attending the Ionia high school. He taught school three years during which time he began the study of law, his Saturdays and vacation days being spent in the law office of Morse, Wilson & Trowbridge. He was admitted to practice in 1886. In February, 1887, he was married to Miss Sarah J. Reid. About three years ago he became interested in real estate and timber which business he has since carried on in connection with his law practice. He has held the offices of alderman, city treasurer and mayor of Ionia city. Mr. Miller is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 4,270 to 3,550 for Willis F. Bricker and 510 for Emory Townsend.
GUY ALONZO MILLER,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Aurora, Illinois, September 11, 1875, of American parentage, and came to Michigan in 1876. He at- tended the Detroit high school, graduating in 1894, and the University of Michigan, was graduated from the literary department in 1898 and from the law department in 1900. He was married in 1901 and has two children. Since graduation in 1900, Mr. Miller has been engaged in the active practice of his profession at Detroit. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1907-8 and reelected November 3, 1908, by a plurality of 20,091.
JAMES H. MILLIKIN,
Representative from Tuscola county, was born in the township ,of Bruce, Macomb county, Michigan, September 23, 1855, of Scotch parentage, and has always resided in Michigan. He received his education in the district schools and the Almont high school. In 1880 he was married to Hattie S. Morton and has four daughters and two sons. . Mr. Millikin has always been an active Republican. In 1888 he removed to a farm in Almer township, Tuscola county. In 1896 he was elected supervisor and held that office for nine successive years. He resigned in 1904 and was elected county treasurer which office he held four years. Mr. Millikin was elected to the legislature of 1909-10, by by a vote of 4,497 to 1,577 for Clare T. Purdy.
JAMES S. MONROE,
Representative from Gogebic county, was born at Paterson, New Jersey, December 29, 1855, of Scotch ancestry. His paternal ancestor emigrating from Scotland to this country in 1770. He received his education in the public schools of his native state and the state of New York, and was graduated from Cornell University in 1880. In October of that year he went to Ontonagon and was principal of the Ontonagon union schools for five years. Resigning his position, he came to Ironwood in 1886 and has since resided in that city. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar and has from that time fol- lowed his profession, paying particular attention to real estate matters. Mr. Monroe has held numerous municipal offices, both elective and appointive. He was elected to the legislatures of 1901-2, 1903-4, 1905-6, 1907-8 and again reelected November 3, 1908, by a vote of 1,593 to 1,423 for William A. O'Brien and 1 for William Metone. Mr. Monroe was elected speaker pro tem. of the house of 1909-10.
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DAVID T. MORGAN,
Representative from the second district of Marquette county, was born at Charleston, Tiogo county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1857, and has been a resident of Michigan since 1879. He received liis education at Mt. Union College, Ohio. He entered the employ of the Republic Iron Co., April 1, 1879. and resigned his position January 1, 1907. Mr. Morgan is a Republican, and held the office of supervisor of Republic township con- tinuously from 1893 to 1907. He represented the thirty-first district in the constitu- tional convention of 1907-8, and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,669 to 848 for Charles Sundstrom.
JAMES L. MORRICE,
Representative from Emmet county, was born on a farm in Ionia county, Michigan, March 21, 1847. He received his education in the district schools, the common high school, Olivet College, and the Agricultural College, and was graduated from the latter in 1873. He was married to M. Ella Lance, March 31, 1885, and has one child. He has held the offices of county examiner of teachers, county treasurer, register of deeds, and for four years represented his township on the board of supervisors. He has always been a Republican, and was elected to the legislatures of 1903-4, 1905-6, 1907-8 and again elected November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,233 to 1,100 for John J. Reycraft, 193 for Prentice E. Whitman and 186 for Joseph Warnock.
DWIGHT S. MORRISON,
Representative from Clinton county, was born in Orleans county, New York, December 4, 1856. He acquired his education in the common schools. He came to Michigan with his parents when he was nine years old, and settled in Gratiot county. In 1882 he was married to Miss Josephine Bryant and removed to Clinton county, where he has since resided. Mr. Morrison is a farmer and has been reasonably successful. He is a Republican and has held several minor township offices, having been elected super- visor seven times and county treasurer two terms. His immediate family consists of his wife and two sons, Robert D., who is a farmer and W. Jay, who is at present engaged in the mercantile business at Germfask, U. P. He was elected to the legislature Novem- ber 3, 1908, by a vote of 3,438 to 2,312 for George N. Ferrey.
HENRY WIRT NEWKIRK,
Representative from the first district of Washtenaw county, was born at Dexter, Wash- tenaw county, Michigan, August 1, 1854, of American parents. His mother was a niece of President Millard Fillmore. He received his education in the Dexter and Ann Arbor high schools, and the University of Michigan, graduating from the law depart- ment of the university in 1879. Located at Bay City and elected circuit court com- missioner in 1880. He was married the same year to Miss Eleanor J. Birkett of Dexter and has two children. He removed to Kentucky in 1883 and engaged in the newspaper business, returning to Luther, Lake county, in 1888 and edited the Luther Enterprise. Was prosecuting attorney of Lake county from 1889 to 1892 when he was elected to the legislature. In 1893 he located at Dexter as cashier of the Dexter Savings Bank and in 1896 was elected judge of probate of Washtenaw county, returning to Ann Arbor, served four years, since which time he has practiced law in that city. Mr. Newkirk is a member of the following fraternal orders, F. & A. M., B. P. O. E., I. O. O. F., M. W. A., Ann Arbor Commandery K. T., Moslem Shrine and K. O. T. M. He is a Repub- lican, was elected to the legislature of 1907-8 and reelected November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,866 to 2,473 for Walter S. Bilbie and 93 for Thomas French.
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WILLIAM RICHARD OATES,
Representative from the first district of Houghton county, was born at Cornwall, England, in 1878, of English descent. He was educated in the schools of England and Calumet, and is a graduate of the law department of the University of Michigan. He came to Houghton county with his parents when he was fourteen years of age. In 1899 he was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan, and since that date has been engaged in the practice of law at Calumet, Michigan. Mr. Oates has been actively interested in politics. He was appointed attorney for Laurium six terms and was twice elected circuit court commissioner of Houghton county on the Republican ticket. He is a director of the first National Bank of Laurium and a direc- tor of the Laurium Park Association. He was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,474 to 870 for James F. Wiggins, 1,195 for William C. Kinsman and 91 for Eugene G. Sullivan.
SAMUEL ODELL,
Representative from Oceana county, was born at Shelby, Michigan, August 30, 1881' of English descent. He acquired his education in the schools of Detroit, and the Univer- sity of Michigan. His father died in 1883. He has always been a resident of Michigan, and has engaged in farming and the real estate business at Shelby since 1902. Mr. Odell is unmarried. He is a Republican, was supervisor of Shelby township two terms, and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,440 to 918 for Albert C. Kocher.
ROBERT Y. OGG,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born in the town of Dundas, Ontario, July 22, 1860, of Scotch parentage. He received a common school education and began life as a newsboy. He learned the printer's trade and was subsequently newspaper writer, public official and business man. He is now engaged as manu- facturers' representative for paving materials. He is married and has lived in Detroit the best part of his life. Mr. Ogg was a member of the house of representatives in 1887-8. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a plurality of 18,723.
IRA G. ORMSBEE,
Representative from the second district of Genesee county, was born in Washington county, Vermont, May 23, 1844, of English and Scotch parentage. He came to Flint, Michigan, with his parents in April, 1852, and at the age of seventeen enlisted in the late T. B. Stockton's regiment, 16th infantry, and was twice wounded during his term of service. Mr. Ormsbee is married and has three children. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 3,665 to 2,408 for George E. McKinley, 268 for William W. Merrill and 203 for John A. C. Menton.
WILLIAM J. PEARSON,
Representative from Charlevoix county, was born at London, Ontario, May 10, 1860, of American and English parentage. His education was acquired in the public schools of Oakland county. He has lived in Charlevoix county twenty-five years, and has been chairman of the Republican county committee for ten years. He has lumbered quite extensively for the past twelve years and still has some lumbering interests. Mr. Pearson has held several offices, having served two terms as sheriff, two terms as register of deeds, supervisor of Chandler township a number of years, having been chairman of the board in 1898. He is at present president of the Boyne Falls board of trade. He was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,522 to 873 for Fred E. Boosinger and 161 for Isaac S. Webster.
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JOHN M. PERRY,
Representative from Osceola county, was born in Orleans county, New York, May 12 1864, of English descent. Came to Michigan with his parents in the spring of 1870, when his father located on a homestead in Burdell township, Osceola county. His education was received in the district schools and the Valparaiso Normal School, Val- paraiso, Indiana. Mr. Perry was married in 1889 to Miss Allie A. Bickhart and has two children. He has successfully been a clerk, school teacher, merchant and banker, and is now cashier of the bank at Tustin. At the present time he is serving his third term as president of Tustin village, has been its clerk and treasurer, clerk and treasurer of Burdell township, member of the board of trustees of Tustin school and its treasurer for twelve years. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., K. O. T. M., M. W. A., I. O. F., and the Modern Brotherhood. He is a Republican, was elected to the legislature of 1907-8 and reelected November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,702 to 839 for Wright E. Mills.
RUSH W. REYNOLDS,
Representative from Hillsdale county, was born August 22, 1858, on a farm near Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio. He came to Michigan with his parents in 1867, and received his education in the village schools of Waldron, and at Hillsdale College. In 1881, he was married to Miss Florence M. Fay, of Hillsdale, and has two sons. He resides on his fine, well improved farm just south of the village of Waldron. He has but one brother, Hon. E. D. Reynolds, now serving his second term in the Illinois legislature. Mr. Reynolds has always been a Republican, has held the office of deputy sheriff for twenty years and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 4,401 to 2,618 for William W. Mercer.
NELSON C. RICE,
Representative from the first district of Berrien county, was born at Phelps, New York, July 7, 1848. He received his education in the public schools at. Fond du Lac, Wis- consin. He is married and has resided in Michigan forty-three years. Mr. Rice is a successful business man and has been engaged in the grocery and crockery business for forty years. He has held the offices of alderman, city treasurer, member of the board of education, and mayor of St. Joseph city for four terms. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1907-8 and reelected November 3, 1908, by a vote. of 3,116 to 2,430 for Burwell Hinchman, 93 for Edward M. Plumb and 101 for Allison C. Roe.
JAMES L. SANBORN,
Representative from Alpena county, was born at Sanborn, Niagara county, New York, March 17, 1856, of English and Irish descent, his father being the Hon. Lee R. Sanborn. He received his education in the common schools of Niagara county and the high school of Lima, New York. He came to Ossineke, Alpena county, Michigan, in the spring of 1873 and engaged in the lumber business, which occupation he followed twenty years. For the past seventeen years his attention has been given to real estate and farming, materially aiding in the development of agricultural interests in Northern Michigan. Mr. Sanborn was married to Loretta R. Roberts in 1878 and has three daughters. He has been president of the county fair, four years, has held the offices of township clerk, treasurer, supervisor and chairman of the board of supervisors. He has always been a Republican, was elected to the legislature of 1907-8 and reelected November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,351 to 982 for William Barker.
GARRY E. SANDERS,
Representative from the second district of Ingham county, was born October 4, 1865, near St. Joe, DeKalb county, Indiana, of Swiss and English descent. His education was acquired in the district schools of Indiana and Michigan, and Mason high school,
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graduating in June, 1886. In April, 1877, he came with his parents to Michigan and they resided in Alaiedon township until after Mr. Sanders was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1891. For nearly two years he practiced law in Owosso and Eaton Rapids, after which he removed to Mason, November 29, 1892, where he practiced law until April 22, 1897. He then went to Nevada, where he practiced law until 1898. At the beginning of the Spanish-American war, Mr. Sanders organized a company of infantry and was commissioned its captain by the governor of Nevada. He was mustered out September 29, 1898, returned to Mason and resumed the practice of law until Feb- ruary 1, 1902, when he moved onto his farm in Vevay township. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,752 to 2,533 for Herbert E. Gunn and 319 for Elmer C. Potter. -
WILLIAM H. SCHANTZ,
Representative from Barry county, was born at Canal Fulton, Stark county, Ohio, October 7, 1850, of German parentage. He acquired his education in the schools of Canal Fulton, Ohio, and Woodland township, Barry county, Michigan, and taught school for four years. He came to Barry county with his father when fourteen years old, and remained on the farm for about six years when he started out for himself. Mr. Schantz has had considerable business experience; was employed one year in a railroad office, six and one-half years in the Lumberman's National Bank of Muskegon, and engaged in mercantile pursuits for eight years. After a few more years of office work and traveling salesman, he returned to the farm where he still resides and gives special attention to raising pure bred sheep and swine. He has been superintendent of the sheep department of the International Live Stock Show at Chicago for the past eight years. He is married, and is a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Schantz is a Mason, state recorder of the Court of Honor, and belongs to Star Grange No. 860 of Barry county and four years was secretary of the Barry County Agricultural Society. He is a Republican, was elected to the legislatures of 1905-6, 1907-8 and reelected November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,747 to 2,657 for Henry C. Glasner, and 210 for Judge R. Barnum.
CAMERON C. SPEER,
Representative from the second district of Saginaw county, was born in Union town- ship, Muskingum county, Ohio, July 5, 1849, of American parents. His father, Robert Speer, was the first white child born in Union township, Ohio, in 1807. He received his education in the district schools of Union township and Muskingum College, Ohio. He came to Michigan in 1874, labored in a lumber mill in Genesee county for ten years, then moved to Maple Grove, Saginaw county, in 1884, where he has engaged in farm- ing for the past twenty-four years. He was a member of the school board for fifteen consecutive years, supervisor of his township for five years, and a member of the Re- publican county committee for ten years. He has always been a Republican, was elected to the legislatures of 1905-6, 1907-8 and reelected November 3, 1908, by a vote of 2,849 to 2,041 for Thomas Kanary, 104 for Daniel D. Haller and 88 for Harry Bradley.
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