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GEORGE R. HOLLWAY,
Representative from the first district of Kent county, was born in Middlesex county, England, November 14, 1870, and came to Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his parents when he was five years of age. He received a common school education. At an early age he began to learn the trade of furniture maker in the furniture factories of Grand Rapids, studying law at night until admitted to the bar. Later he became a member of the law firm of Carroll, Kerwin and Hollway and has ever since been connected with them. Mr. Hollway is a widower and has one child. He is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 374.
R. HENRY HOPKINS,
Representative from the second district of Kalamazoo county, was born at Charleston, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, January 25, 1859, his education being acquired in school district number one, Charleston, and in the Augusta schools. The Hopkins family were residents of the New England colonies some generations before the Revolutionary war, in which Robert Hopkins and his son, David, served in a New York regiment from Charlotte, afterwards called Washington, county, and David, who was born in 1748, was in 1778 elected, while a soldier, to represent his county in the New York assembly. His seventh son, Henry, was born in 1794, and served in the war of 1812. He came with his family to Michigan in 1835. His son, Robert, who was born in Mentz, New York, in 1830, was in his fifth year when the family came to Michigan territory early in 1852. In 1853 he planted a nursery in California, using seed sent him by his father, and taken from the fruit of Michigan orchards. He returned to Michigan and was married to a daughter of Joel Chandler. From this ancestry R. Henry Hopkins was born. Mr. Hopkins is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,709 to 1,549 for Milo A. Snow, 146 for S. H. Stoddard and 25 for Burton Bates.
CHARLES A. HULSE,
Representative from Clinton county, was born on a farm in Greenbush township, Clinton county, October 10, 1852, of English and Scotch parentage. He was educated in the Greenbush district schools. At the age of nineteen he entered the employ of O. W. Barker, blacksmith, where he worked two years. In 1873 he enlisted in company A, eighth regular cavalry, for five years. December 1, 1878, he was united in marriage to Charlotte Hatley, of St. Johns, Michigan. Mr. Hulse followed the occupation of farming for two years, after which he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he has continued to the present time. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,260 to 1,764 for Spencer M. Stilson and 1,239 for Andrew W. Durkee.
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JAMES J. JAKWAY,
Representative from the second district of Berrien county, was born at Benton Harbor, May 20, 1863, of Scotch and French parentage. He was educated in high school and at the Michigan Agricultural College. Mr. Jakway is married. He taught school eight years and has been engaged in fruit-growing twenty years. He was supervisor ten years and has also presided as chairman of the board. He is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,555 to 1,711 for Samuel E. Daigneau, 86 for George H. Hanley and 2,060 for Louis Van Riper.
PETER JENSEN,
Representative from Delta county, was born in North Germany, November 14, 1863, of Danish descent. He was educated in the common schools in Northern Germany, and came to America in the summer of 1881, locating at Escanaba, June 21, of that year. He found employment with the farmers of Bay de Noc township, Delta county, and resided there until March 1, 1893, when he removed to Escanaba and became a mem- ber of the firm of Hansen & Jensen, engaging in a general fish business, which firm is in business at the present time. He is married and has six children living. He is a mem- ber of Delta Lodge No. 195, F. & A. M., and of the M. W. of A. Mr. Jensen has served four years on the city council and on various committees and has held the office of town- ship highway commissioner. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislatures of 1909-10 and 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,938 to 1,466 for James S. Doherty.
JAMES D. JEROME,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born in the city of Detroit, Wayne county, Michigan, October 29, 1875, and has resided in Detroit continuously since his birth. Both of his parents were also born in the city of Detroit. He received his early education in the Detroit grammar schools and later entered the Detroit high school, being graduated in 1894. He entered the literary department of the University of Michigan and subsequently studied in the law department, being graduated in 1898. After graduation he at once took up the practice of law in the city of Detroit and has continued in practice to the present time. Mr. Jerome is an active Republican, and was elected to the legislatures of 1905-6, 1907-8 and 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 3,102.
FREDERICK KAPPLER, JR.,
Representative from the second district of Houghton county, was born at Negaunee, Michigan, November 16, 1866, of German descent. He acquired his education in the public schools of Negaunee and Lake Linden. He was married to Miss Magdalena Steffes, 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 legislatures of 1909-10 and 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,133 to 1,050 for Joseph A. Shields, 88 for William J. Faull and 62 for Jacob Grabenstein.
HERMAN L. KOEHLER,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born in the principality of Waldeek, Germany, March 20, 1849, and received his education in private and high schools. In 1874 he came from Germany and located at Detroit, Michigan. He read proof on the old Detroit Daily Tribune in 1866, when the paper was directed by James E. Scripps, when, for several years, he and Dennis Ryan, later of the Ryan Knitting
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Works, compiled the annual Detroit city directory. In 1870 he went with the late August Marxhausen, Sr., to be city editor of the Abend-Post. In the early nineties, he removed to Cheboygan county and became a factor in Republican politics there, being supervisor, postmaster and justice of the peace. Koehler township, Cheboygan county, was named for him. He and Herbert F. Baker, former speaker of the house, started, over ten years ago, the first movement in the county for primary nomination On his return to Detroit, he resumed writing for the Abend-Post. He is one of the oldest members and a trustee of the Arbeiter society, originated the first German day celebration in Detroit twenty years ago and about the same time brought about the organization of the German-American bund, being a federation of Detroit German societies. Mr. Koehler was married July 23, 1879, to Emma D. Hoenighausen. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 2,660.
BENN H. LEE,
Representative from the first district of Kent county, was born in Thornapple town- ship, Barry county, Michigan, November 25, 1867. He was educated in the Hastings high school, and graduated from the dental department of the University of Michigan. Mr. Lee is married and has two children-a boy ten years of age and a girl eight years of age. For the past twenty-two years he has been engaged in the dentistry business and is also interested in farming and fruit growing. He is a member of Grand River Lodge No. 34, F. & A. M., Grand Rapids Chapter No. 7, DeMolai Commandery K. T. No. 5, and Saladin Temple Mystic Shrine. He has always been a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 365.
ORVICE R. LEONARD,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Keene, New Hamp- shire, September 24, 1865, and was educated in the public schools of New Hampshire and Vermont. In 1898 he served on the U. S. S. Yosemite; was afterwards employed four years in the register of deeds office, Detroit, and later became general agent of the National Surety Company, of New York. At present he is general agent of this com- pany for the southern peninsula of Michigan. In 1906 he was appointed by President Roosevelt the first marshal of the United States court for China and was located at Shanghai for several months. In 1910 he was appointed by President Taft supervisor of census for the first district of Michigan. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 2,894.
JOSEPH P. MAAS,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Detroit, Michigan, February 8, 1856, of German parents. His education was acquired in St. Anthony's Catholic school of Detroit. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of B. Young- blood and Brother and after seven years in their employ engaged in the retail grocery business on his own account. Thirty-one years ago he was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Kettel and they have six boys. Mr. Maas is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 2,772.
WILLIAM H. MARTZ,
Representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Detroit, Michigan, April 21, 1877, of German parents. The public and German schools of Detroit were his alma mater. He was elected justice of the peace of Macomb county upon attaining his majority, and later served six years as deputy sheriff of Wayne county through changing administrations. July 23, 1896, he was married to Miss Lotta Blackwell and they have three sons-Clifford, Lyall and Floyd, the two former serving as pages in the present session. Mr. Martz is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 3,115.
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CHARLES HAMILTON McBRIDE,
Representative from the first district of Ottawa county, was born at Lansing, Michigan, August 30, 1874, of American parentage. He was educated in the Holland high school, Hope and Olivet colleges, graduating from the latter in 1894. In 1896, he graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan. He was married August 16, 1899, to Emily L. Lowing and has four daughters. Mr. McBride has practiced law since July 5, 1896. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,610 to 1,354 for Herman Van Tongeren, 266 for Arie V. Doesburg and 1,507 for Simon Kleyn.
JAMES N. McBRIDE,
Representative from Shiawassee county, was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, in 1864, of Scotch-Irish parentage. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, class of 1888. While an under-graduate he was awarded a prize for economic work and was appointed to do work for the census bureau by Robert P. Porter, commissioner of census. Mr. McBride is a student of agricultural chemistry and economics, and a speaker at farmers' institutes. He has appeared before the state tax inquiry com- mission and the state tax conference in behalf of equitable farm taxation. He was married in 1893 to Lois E. Dunbar, and is actively engaged in farming in Middlebury and Owosso townships, Shiawassee county. Politically he is a National Progressive and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,672 to 2,572 for John J. Whelan and 1,982 for John W. Thorn.
DONALD P. MCLACHLAN,
Representative from the second district of Washtenaw county, was born at New Bruns- wick, Canada, September 15, 1848, of Scotch parentage. He was educated in the common schools and provincial training school of New Brunswick. Mr. Mclachlan is married and has resided in Michigan since 1873, having practiced medicine since 1876. He is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,976 to 1,648 for Joseph E. Warner, 83 for R. W. Shaw and 1,243 for Henry C. Rankin.
HERMAN I. McMILLAN,
Representative from Charlevoix county, was born at Oak Grove, Livingston county, Michigan, January 19, 1868, and is of Scotch and English descent. He was educated in the district schools. Mr. McMillan is married and has always resided in Michigan, having been engaged in the flour milling business. He has served on the councils at Charlevoix and at East Jordan and mayor of the last named city. Fraternally, he is a member of the F. & A. M., being a past master of his lodge. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,672 to 718 for William J. Lewis and 405 for William W. Washburn.
HENRY CLAY McNITT,
Representative from the Wexford district, comprising the counties of Lake and Wex- ford, was born in Sparta township, Kent county, Michigan, March 19, 1849, and was educated in the union schools of Grand Rapids. At the age of twenty-four he em -. barked in the mercantile business at various places, mostly at and near Cadillac. He continued this business until the age of forty-four, since which time he has been engaged in cattle-raising and dairy farming. He has served several terms as supervisor in Wexford county. Mr. McNitt is married. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,733 to 1,370 for Thomas Kelly, 307 for George W. Eldridge and 125 for Nathaniel W. Bacon.
FRANK McPHILLIPS,
Representative from the first district of Saginaw county, was born at Chili, Monroe county, New York, May 8, 1848, of Irish parentage, and was educated in the district
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ยท schools. At the age of fifteen years he enlisted in the Union army and served two years, or until the close of the war, celebrating his sixteenth year in the battle of the Wilderness. He was also in the battles at Spottsylvania court house, Cold Harbor and the siege of Petersburg. Mr. McPhillips is the only veteran of the civil war in the present legislature. He is married and has one son. For thirty-five years he worked in the lumber woods, farmed for six years, and was in the cigar and tobacco business for six years. Politically, he is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a plurality of 117.
EMERY T. MIDDLETON,
Representative from the second district of Genesee county, was born in Leeds county, Ontario, February 20, 1870, of American parents, and was educated in the Owosso public schools and at Albion college. He was for ten years foreman in furniture and carriage factories, traveling salesman for three years and is at present owner and occupant of an eighty-acre farm three miles from Flint. Mr. Middleton is married and has two sons. He has served as a member of the school board three terms, has held most of the offices in subordinate grange, served two years as treasurer of Genesee county Pomona Grange, comprising the eighteen granges of the county, and two years as master of the same organization. He is also a sixth degree member of the Michigan state grange and deputy state organizer for the same. When the National Progressive party was organized he joined that party, at its first county meeting held in the city of Flint, at which time he was made a member of the committee on resolutions and elected a delegate to the first state convention held at Jackson. He was the unanimous choice of the party for representative from the second district of Genesee county. He is a very active public spirited citizen and is president of the Genesee county crop im- provement association. He was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 3,396 to 2,559 for Franklin E. Holliday, 1,991 for George E. Mckinley and 605 for John A. C. Menton.
DAVID T. MONTEITH,
Representative from the first district of St. Clair county, was born at Port Huron, May 21, 1882, of Scotch-Irish parents. He was educated in the Martin and Port Huron high schools and Alma College. At the age of five years he went with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Thomas W. Monteith, to Vassar, Michigan, where the family resided for a short time. Leaving Vassar, the family moved to Crown Point, Indiana, and later to Janesville, Wisconsin. In 1890, they removed to Martin, Michigan. In 1899, the family returned to Port Huron, where Rev. Monteith assumed the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church. Representative Monteith has been a life-long Republican and has been identified with the associations that have worked to build up Port Huron. After his election to the legislature, he resigned his position as managing editor of the Port Huron Times Herald to accept the office of general agent for the Detroit Life Insurance Company. He was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,219 to 1,462 for William Campbell, 178 for John Danielson and 2,014 for Anton H. Nern.
WILLIAM H. MOORE,
Representative from the first district of Lenawee county, was born in Cambridge town- ship, Lenawee county, January 23, 1849, and is of English and German descent. He resided with his parents until 1864, when they removed to the township of Palmyra, where he has since made his home. He was educated in the district schools and at Adrian College, graduating from the latter in 1876. His father having died in May of the same year, Mr. Moore returned to the farm where he has since remained. He was three times elected superivsor, once as a Prohibitionist and twice as a Democrat. Mr. Moore is married. He is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,063 to 1,614 for William L. Baldwin, 1,377 for Joseph R. Keeney and 35 no choice.
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J. LEE MORFORD,
Representative from the Presque Isle district, comprising the counties of Crawford, Montmorency, Oscoda, Otsego and Presque Isle, was born at Unionville, Tuscola county, Michigan, June 14, 1873, of Scotch parentage. His early life was spent on a farm, and at the age of fifteen he assumed the sole management of the farm work. His education was acquired in the district schools and the Caro high school, the family having moved to Caro in his eighteenth year. In 1900 he went to Gaylord, purchasing an interest in a furniture and undertaking business with R. H. Russell, and ten months later bought Mr. Russell's interest in the business which had been well established. On June 27, 1904, he was placed in charge of the Otsego County Bank, a position which came unsolicited. He was elected village president in 1906 and held this office four terms. Upon the reorganization of the Gaylord Motor Car Company Mr. Morford was elected a director and he is now its treasurer. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,499 to 926 for Walmer Jorgenson.
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 his 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, was elected to the legislatures of 1909-10 and 1911-12 and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,416 to 1,058 for William Andrews and 269 for A. F. Engstrom.
HARRY L. MURPHY,
Representative from the first district of Berrien county, was born at St. Joseph, Michigan, May 13, 1881, of Irish parents. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the high school in 1900. In 1901 he entered the employ of the Threshermen's Review and Gas Power Publishing Company and resigned in 1905 to become city clerk which office he held for four consecutive terms. In 1909 he became city assessor and his term expired March 1, 1911. He-is at present engaged in the real estate and in- surance business at St. Joseph. Mr. Murphy is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12, and reelected November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,499 to 1,419 for Loomis K. Preston, 80 for Henry W. Feather and 1,187 for Charles H. French.
WILLIAM F. NANK,
Representative from Macomb county, was born in Schoenhousen, Germany, July 21, 1867. He came to America with his parents in 1873 and located in Sterling township, Macomb county, Michigan, attending the public and Lutheran schools of the township until he was thirteen years of age. He worked for a time on a farm and in the brick yards until the spring of 1890, when he purchased his father's farm in Sterling town- ship. He was married December 3, 1891, to Anna Oehmke, of Warren township, and has three children. He was elected clerk of Sterling township in 1893, then considered a strong Democratic township, and was reelected in 1894. He was elected sheriff of Macomb county in 1894 and reelected in 1896, the first Republican sheriff since 1880 in that county. After serving his second term as sheriff he engaged in the livery business at Mt. Clemens. In May, 1908, he was appointed customs agent and resigned August 1, 1912. Mr. Nank is an active Republican, a director of the Citizen's Savings Bank, ex-member of the board of public works, and was a member of the legislature of 1905-6. He was elected to the legislature of 1913-14 November 5, 1912, by a vote of 3,232 to 2,788 for Henry Pratt, 1,047 for William Kurzhals and 97 for Fred S. Hurlburt.
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WILLARD J. NASH,
Representative from the second district of Saginaw county, was born in Genesee town- ship, Genesee county, Michigan, May 28, 1879. His boyhood was spent on farms in Oakland and Lapeer counties. In 1888, his father bought a farm near Cass City. Mr. Nash was educated in the district school and in the Cass City high school, graduating from the latter in 1894. In 1900 he entered the Ferris institute and besides taking the college preparatory course, took courses in stenography and typewriting and a business course. In 1902 he went to Chicago and secured employment as a stenographer. He worked in a law office during the day and attended the John Marshall law school at night, thus completing the first year of his law course. In the spring of 1903, he was engaged as secretary to Richard D. Harlan, president of Lake Forest college, to which position he returned during vacations, until completing the law course at the University of Michigan, engaging in the practice of law at Saginaw in November, 1905. In June, 1906, he removed to St. Charles and has since practiced law at that place. He was married June 24, 1908, to Donna B. MacLachlan, and they have two boys,- Donald, age three and one-half years, and Vincent, age two and one-half years. Mr. Nash is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,860 to 1,792 for George Ward and 1,500 for Arthur J. Morris.
LOUIS NELLER,
Representative from the first district of Ingham county, was born at St. Johns, Clinton county, Michigan, September 10, 1873, and is of German descent. His education was acquired in the district schools. He remained on the farm with his father until seventeen years of age after which he worked as carpenter three years and later engaged in the contracting and realty business. Mr. Neller is married and has a daughter and two sons. He has been a resident of Lansing eight years. He is a National Progressive and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,698 to 2,660 for Allyn B. Robertson, 2,107 for Richard Raudabaugh, 102 for Chace Newman and 470 for Otto Silkey.
JOHN NOLL,
Representative from Cheboygan county, was born at New York City, New York, October 12, 1866, of German parentage. His education was acquired in the Jackson, Michigan, public schools. At the age of five years he removed with his parents to Ann Arbor, and later to Jackson. At the age of seventeen he entered into the employ of the E. M. Estey furniture company, at Owosso, Michigan. When twenty-one years of age he removed to Cheboygan where he has since been engaged in the manufacturing business. He has served as alderman, mayor, city treasurer and member of school board. Mr. Noll is married. He is a Democrat and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 1,347 to 1,102 for Matthew W. King and 1 for G. D. Richards.
MARSHALL A. OAKLEY,
Representative from the first district of Bay county, was born in Ulster county, New York, July 10, 1878. He was married in 1901 to Miss Anna Mae MacNeil, of Bay City, and they have three children. Mr. Oakley has been engaged in newspaper work for a number of years and during this time he was actively identified with the labor move- ment in Michigan, having held the highest offices in Bay City central labor organizations. At the time of his election to the legislature he was president of the Bay City central labor union. He is a National Progressive and was elected to the legislature November 5, 1912, by a vote of 2,796 to 1,911 for Otto J. Manary, 2,216 for Alex. J Shanley and 434 for Myron S. Vannocher.
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