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WOODBRIDGE N. FERRIS,
Governor.
LUREN D. DICKINSON, Lieutenant Governor.
COLEMAN C. VAUGHAN, Secretary of State.
JOHN W. HAARER,
State Treasurer.
ORAMEL B. FULLER, Auditor General.
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FRED L. KEELER, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
GRANT FELLOWS, Attorney General.
FRANK F. ROGERS, State Highway Commissioner.
CHARLES W. SMITH, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHIEF JUST. BROOKE
JUSTICE Mº ALVAY
JUSTICE STEERE
JUSTICE KUHN
JUSTICE MOORE
JUSTICE BIRD
JUSTICE JOHN W. STONE
JUSTICE OSTRANDER
JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.
L.L.HUBBARD
JUNIUS E. BEAL
HARRY C. BULKLEY
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VICTOR M. GORE -
DR WALTER HULME SAWYER
F.B. LELAND
BENJAMIN 5. HANCHETT
WM L. CLEMENTS
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
FRANK CODY
FRED A. JEFFERS
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THOMAS W. NADAL
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
JASON WOODMAN
W.H.WALLACE
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ROBERT D. GRAHAM
A.J. DOHERTY
1. R. WATERBURY
J. W. BEAUMONT
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
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WALTER R. TAYLOR,
Of Kalamazoo, senator from the sixth district, comprising the counties of Kalamazoo and St. Joseph, was born in Kent county, Michigan. In 1890 he was admitted to the bar, and has since been engaged in the legal profession. He has held the office of mayor of Kalamazoo; was a member of the constitutional convention in 1908. He is a Re- publican and was elected to the senate, November 3, 1914, by a vote of 6,967 to 5,519 for Milton McIntosh, 920 for Homer L. Allard and 310 for Ervin D. Brooks, and at the opening of the session was elected president pro tem.
BURRELL TRIPP,
Of Allegan, senator from the eighth district, comprising the counties of Allegan and Van Buren, was born at Bangor, Michigan, May 19, 1862, of Scotch and French Huguenot ancestry. He was educated in the Bangor high school from which he graduated in 1879. On June 9, 1883, he was married to Anna W. Jennings, of Lawrence, Michigan, and has three children,-Alice C., Grover Hilton, Harold Douglas, one dying in infancy. Mr. Tripp has always resided in Michigan where he has been engaged in the mercantile business. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate November 3, 1914, by a vote of 6,425 to 3,389 for William W. Warner, 823 for James G. Prestage and 227 for G. H. Tyrrell.
LEONARD D. VERDIER,
Of Grand Rapids, senator from the sixteenth district, comprising the county of Kent, was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 19, 1877, of Holland descent. He received his education in the Grand Rapids high school, from which he was graduated in 1895. He also graduated from the literary department of the University of Michigan in 1899, and from the law department in 1901. Mr. Verdier has always resided in Michigan, is married, and has four children. Since 1901 he has practiced law at Grand Rapids. He is a Republican and was a member of the legislature during the sessions of 1909-10 and 1911-12. He was elected to the senate of 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 6,938 to 3,550 for Frank W. Ball, 652 for Arthur J. Williams and 122 for George Roelofs.
ROBERT E. WALTER,
Of Traverse City, senator from the twenty-seventh senatorial district, comprising the counties of Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Missaukee and Wex- ford, was born at Litchfield, Hillsdale county, Michigan, September 16, 1877, of English parentage. He was educated in the Fife Lake schools and the Traverse City high school. He is married and has always resided in Michigan. Mr. Walter participated in the Spanish-American war, serving with company M, 34th Michigan volunteer infantry. At the age of twenty-one he was elected township clerk and at the age of twenty-two was elected county clerk which office he held five terms. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate of 1911-12 and 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 6,824 to 3,043 for Emanuel Wilhelm, 1,792 for Geo. W. Wood, 229 for Edward C. Coates and 9 for H. L. Keeler.
GEORGE WILLIAMS,
Of Calumet, senator from the thirty-second district, comprising the counties of Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw and Ontonagon, was born at Oswestry, Wales, September 24, 1869. In 1883 he located at Marquette, Michigan, his education being acquired in the public schools of that city. At an early age he began working on the railroad and he is now general agent of the Copper Range railroad. Mr. Williams is married. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate November 3, 1914, by a vote of 8,556 to 3,200 for Carl J. Hatfield, 438 for Andrew O. Sarell and 270 for Thomas R. Davis.
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JAMES C. WOOD,
Of Manistique, senator from the thirtieth senatorial district, comprising the counties of Chippewa, Delta, Luce, Mackinac, Menominee and Schoolcraft, was born at Hastings, Michigan, March 31, 1872, and received his education in the Jackson public schools and at Lake Forest University. After his school life at Jackson he spent four years as a clerk in the store of J. B. Branch & Company, at Coldwater, Michigan, and in 1893 entered the law department of Lake Forest University, from which he graduated in 1895. He entered the practice of law in connection with law clerkship at Chicago, Illinois, later associating with George W. Hayden at Ishpeming, Michigan, in practice of law, where he remained until Mr. Hayden's death in 1902. In November, 1902, he located at Manistique, where he has since practiced. He served as city attorney of Manistique for three terms and was also prosecuting attorney of Schoolcraft county. Mr. Wood is married. He is a Republican and was elected to the senate of 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 8,998 to 1,145 for Nathaniel L. Field, 876 for G. T. Werline and 142 for Charles T. Tuxford.
FRED LANGDON WOODWORTH,
Of Caseville, senator from the twentieth district, comprising the counties of Huron and Sanilac, was born at Caseville, Michigan, January 8, 1877, of Irish-English descent. He was married in March, 1902, to Miss Gertrude Lowe and has four children. His father, Thomas B. Woodworth, a Huron county lawyer, represented Huron county in the legislature of 1877. Mr. Woodworth graduated from the agricultural course at the State Agricultural College with the class of 1898. He has since been a farmer and stock raiser in Chandler township, Huron county. He is.a Republican and served in the legislature during the sessions of 1909-10 and 1911-12. He was elected to the senate of 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 6,603 to 2,183 for William F. Ehlers, 1,218 for Jacob Rosenstiel and 86 for Hugh Caldwell.
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE.
AARON AMON,
Of Remus, representative from Mecosta county, was born on a farm near Berlin, Canada, November 5, 1859, of German parents. At the age of five years he removed with his parents to Caledonia, Kent county, Michigan, where he received his education. In 1882 he located in the village of Remus and platted a portion of the village, where he now resides. Mr. Amon was married in 1884 and has three children. He has held the office of supervisor of Wheatland township for twenty years, and was chairman of the board four years. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 1,717 to 173 for A. Miles and 79 for Jesse Lott.
ANDREW F. ANDERSON,
Of Omena, representative from the Leelanau district, comprising the counties of Benzie and Leelanau, was born at Blekinge, Sweden, October 3, 1857. He came to America in 1869, and after a short stay at Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, he removed to Gales- burg, Ill. Clerked in a store and worked on farm and was railway newsboy out of Gales- burg. In the fall of 1880 he went to Michigan. Clerked in store at Suttons Bay until 1883, when he embarked in the mercantile and lumbering business at Omena. Mr. Anderson was married in 1883 to Marit Bohley, of Suttons Bay, and has five sons,- Louis E., George C., Frank J., Oscar M. and Carl F. Fraternally he is a member of the F. & A. M., R. A. M., and I. O. O. F. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 1,393 to 162 for H. L. Keeler, 88 for James Daly and 73 for Orpheus Jaquith.
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NOBLE ASHLEY,
Of Detroit, representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Lincoln- shire, England, September 30, 1863, and located in the city of Detroit in 1880; married in 1888 and has three sons. Mr. Ashley is a printer by trade and is at present clerk of municipal concessions of the city of Detroit. He was alderman from the tenth ward of Detroit in 1896-1897; supervisor Wayne county, 1896-1897, and state senator from the third district in 1905-6. He is a Republican and was a member of the house of representatives in 1903-4, 1911-12 and 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a plurality of 12,796.
PAUL J. AVERILL,
Of Grand Rapids, representative from the first district of Kent county, was born at Berlin, Ottawa county, Michigan, March 20, 1857, of English parentage. He was educated in the Coopersville high school. He has always resided in Michigan, having been a resident of Grand Rapids since 1882. His early life was spent on a farm; later he became a traveling salesman, and for the past twenty-four years has been engaged in the real estate business. Mr. Averill is married. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a plurality of 3,153.
JOHN M. BIGGERSTAFF,
Of Kalamazoo, representative from the first district of Kalamazoo county, was born at St. Cloud, Minnesota, November 18, 1858, of Scotch parentage. He received his educa- tion in the public schools of St. Cloud, at which place he served an apprenticeship as a builder. In 1892 he removed to Kalamazoo and was engaged in the building con- tracting business until 1913. Since then he has been in the general insurance business. He was married in 1884 to Lolita Lamb, of Kalamazoo, who died in 1897. In 1899 he was married to Effie J. Grant, of Marcellus. He was elected a member of the city council of Kalamazoo in 1904 and served one term. .. The following year he was elected president of the council and appointed chairman of finance. Mr. Biggerstaff is a Re- publican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 2,503 to 2,269 for John F. Muffley, 606 for Lincoln H. Titus, 471 for Guy H. Lockwood, 168 for Layton E. Croe and 12 for H. Ackerman.
ALBERT H. BOSCH,
Of Hudsonville, representative from the second district of Ottawa county, was born at Holland, Michigan, April 5, 1869, of Holland parentage. After the Holland fire in 1871, he removed with his parents to Vriesland, and in 1880 to Jamestown township, Ottawa county, where he now resides on the old homestead. He received his early education in the public schools and afterwards took a business course. He taught school for fifteen years, afterwards engaging in farming. Since 1911 he has exclusively devoted his time to notary work and auctioneering, besides acting as secretary of the Jamestown Cooperative Creamery Company. Mr. Bosch has served the public as deputy sheriff, justice of the peace, school inspector, township treasurer, township clerk, school director and member of the board of county canvassers. In 1891 he was united in marriage to Anna Van Koevering and has three sons and two daughters. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 1,503 to 714 for James Chittick and 323 for Isaac Van Dyke.
THEODORE N. CHAPIN,
Of Bellaire, representative from Antrim county, was born at Grattan, Kent county, Michigan, December 10, 1862, of Welsh parentage. He was educated in the public schools of Green Bay, Wisconsin. At the age of fourteen he began working in the lumber woods and in 1881 he removed to Bellaire, where he has since resided. He was married in 1883 to Vesta J. Hutchinson, of Bellaire, and has two sons and one daughter.
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Mr. Chapin has served as school director, school treasurer, justice of the peace and four years as sheriff of Antrim county. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 1,028 to 495 for Nelson C. Weter and 428 for F. Raymond Wallbrecht.
CHARLES W. CLARK,
Of Dansville, representative from the second district of Ingham county, was born in Ingham county, Michigan, in 1862, of American parents. He was educated in the rural schools and the Dansville high school. He has always lived on a farm until five years ago, when he removed to Dansville. In 1904 he was appointed county drain commissioner by the board of supervisors and held the office for three years. He was elected supervisor in 1908 and has been reelected each succeeding year. He has been a director of the Farmers Bank of Mason for several years and also does quite an extensive business as auctioneer. Mr. Clark is married. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 2,040 to 1,967 for Ashmon H. Catlin and 483 for Burt L. Green.
ALEXANDER COWAN,
Of North Street, representative from the first district of St. Clair county, was born at North Street, St. Clair county, Michigan, May 29, 1874, of Scotch parents. He was educated in the North Street schools and the State Normal College at Ypsilanti, after which he returned to Clyde township and engaged in general farming and stock feeding. Mr. Cowan is the youngest son of John and Isabella Cowan, pioneers of St. Clair county. He was married December 12, 1900, to Flora Beard and has two sons,-John J. and Frederick A. He served ten years as chairman of the school board and two years as treasurer of Clyde township. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 2,817 to 980 for Thomas S. Emery.
HENRY CROLL, JR.,
Of Beaverton, representative from the Clare district, comprising the counties of Clare, Gladwin and Roscommon, was born at Saginaw, Michigan, April 22, 1875, of German parentage. His education was acquired in the graded schools of Saginaw. He left school at the age of thirteen, beginning his active career in the office of W. L. Webber. He next obtained a position in the American Commercial and Savings Bank of Saginaw, where he remained eight years until the bank ceased business. He located at Beaverton sixteen years ago where he held the offices of alderman, supervisor and school director. Mr. Croll was married in 1896 to Bessie L. Thomson, at Suffolk, Virginia, and they have one son, fourteen years of age. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 1,957 to 748 for Thomas C. Holbrook and 70 for Thomas G. Campbell.
CHARLES HERBERT CULVER,
Of Detroit, representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born at Detroit, Michigan, February 5, 1870, of Scotch parentage. He was educated in the Detroit public schools and the Detroit College of Law. At the age of fourteen he entered the Detroit police department where he did office work for nine years, during which time, he studied law and was admitted to the bar December 26, 1893. He practiced law until 1900, when ill-health compelled him to seek more active outside work. He spent five years in various commercial pursuits and in 1905 he again took up his residence in Detroit, where he devoted part of his time to the practice of law and founded the Little Stick, a weekly satirical newspaper devoted to practical reform through educa- tion. Mr. Culver is married and has one son. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a plurality of 12,685.
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SAMUEL E. DAIGNEAU,
Of Benton Harbor, representative from the second district of Berrien county, was born at Brandon, Vermont, May 17, 1852, of French parentage. His parents removed to Battle Creek in the fall of 1854 where he received his education in the public schools. He was married December 31, 1874, to Carrie Stone, at Hillsdale, and resided in that city for about six years when he removed to Battle Creek, residing at the latter place until 1891. Since 1891 he has resided at Benton Harbor where he has been engaged in the laundry business. He has served as alderman of Benton Harbor, member of board of public works and represented the second ward on the board of supervisors for seven years. Mr. Daigneau is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 2,765 to 2,681 for James J. Jakway, 262 for William T. Parks, 66 for Charles R. Enos and 5 blank.
JOHN DAPRATO,
Of Iron Mountain, representative from Dickinson county, was born at Barga, Italy, in May, 1852, and was educated in a private school. He came to America in 1868, going directly to Chicago, where he worked for and eventually became manager of J. Daprato Statuary Company, now Daprato Statuary Company. In 1876 he entered the employ of J. B. Fish & Company, of Chicago, as hat pattern maker, working for them until 1890. On account of ill-health, he was forced to change his residence and removed to Iron Mountain, Michigan, where he has since been a member of the firm of Daprato & Rigassi. Mr. Daprato has served on the council, part of the time as chair- man, and is also chairman of the cemetery board of trustees. Fraternally, he is a member of the F. and A. M., R. A. M., K. T., and S. P. R. S. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote . of 2,085 to 856 for Frank Parent.
WILLIAM DEBOER,
Of Grand Rapids, representative from the first district of Kent county, was born in Michigan on October 5, 1871. He was educated in the public schools of Grand Rapids after which he was employed for three years in a grocery store and later served an apprenticeship as a machinist for nearly twenty years. He was superintendent of the Michigan free employment bureau at Grand Rapids for a little more than two years and operated a licensed employment bureau until May, 1914, when he entered the real estate business. He was elected alderman of the fourth ward of Grand Rapids in 1906 and reelected each succeeding year up to the present time. Mr. DeBoer is married. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature by a plurality of 3,015.
ADELBERT D. EDWARDS,
Of Atlantic Mine, representative from the third district of Houghton county, was born at Lincklaen, Chenango county, New York, June 15, 1856, of American parentage. He received his early education in the district schools and at the age of sixteen taught district school and worked on a farm during vacations. He also attended the Cincinnatus Academy, Cortland Normal School, N. Y., and the Michigan State Normal College and graduated from the latter in 1882. After graduation he went to the copper country to teach but soon gave up teaching for bookkeeping and was chief clerk with the Atlantic Mining Co. for twenty-two years. Mr. Edwards has been identified with the public schools for many years and has held the offices of township clerk, treasurer, justice of the peace, supervisor for twenty years, eleven years as chairman of the board, and county commissioner of schools. He is a Mason, having taken all of the degrees excepting the thirty-third. He is a Republican and was a member of the legislatures of 1907-8, 1909-10, 1911-12 and 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 2,585 to 204 for Toivo Hiltunen.
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G. RAYMOND EMPSON,
Of Gladstone, representative from Delta county, was born at Manchester, England, in 1872. He was educated in the Sault Ste. Marie high school and the Detroit College of Law. Mr. Empson is married and resides at Gladstone where he is engaged in the practice of law. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature November 3, 1914, by a vote of 2,047 to 1,110 for Cheever Buckbee.
M. L. EVENS,
Of Coldwater, representative from Branch county, was born in Butler township, Branch county, Michigan, February 24, 1865, of American parentage. He was educated in the district schools and Hillsdale College. During the past fifteen years he has been a commerical salesman for the Lamb Wire Fence Company and the Michigan Wire Fence Company, of Adrian. He was married December 31, 1890, to Kittie D. Willard and has one son, Ralph LaRue. Fraternally he is a member of Tyre Lodge No. 18, F. & A. M., Temple Chapter 21, R. A. M., Mt. Moriah Council No. 6, R. & S. M., Jacobs Commandery No. 10, Coldwater Lodge 1023, B. P. O. E. and Butler Grange No. 18. Mr. Evens is a Republican and was elected to the legislature by a vote of 2,141 to 2,137 for John E. Hoopingarner, 457 for Eben A. Dunton and 59 for Thomas J. Holmes.
WILLIAM S. EWING,
Of Marquette, representative from the first district of Marquette county, was born at Marquette, Michigan, July 13, 1869, of Irish and Scotch parentage. He was educated in the public schools. He has served as township clerk, justice of the peace, secretary of the school board twenty years and supervisor nineteen years. Mr. Ewing is married and has been engaged in farming and the implement business. He is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, Masonic blue lodge, chapter, commandery, consistory and shrine and No. 405 B. P. O. E., of Marquette. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1911-12 and again elected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 1,688 to 994 for Timothy T. Hurley, 632 for William J. Smail and 119 for Frank Aaltonen.
CHARLES FLOWERS,
Of Detroit, representative from the first district of Wayne county, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1845, of English and Dutch ancestors. His parents were Quakers. Mr. Flowers remained at home until about eighteen years of age, when he went to New York and secured a position as stenographer in the office of the Grand Trunk Railway, remaining there about one year. He then continued his education by attending the Collegiate Institute of Fort Edward, New York, where he remained two years. He was then employed by the government in North Carolina, in reporting military commissions during the reconstruction period. He went from there to New York and commenced the study of law; remained there but one year; came to Detroit in 1868, and established the practice of reporting in the courts. Mr. Flowers was appointed by Governor Baldwin as the first stenographer of the Wayne circuit court, which position he held for thirteen years. In 1869 he was employed to report the constitutional convention of Illinois; in 1872 to report the constitutional convention of Pennsylvania; and in 1873 to report the constitutional convention of Ohio, con- tinuing the study of law, while acting as stenographer. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and in 1880 was elected circuit court commissioner, and reelected in 1882. In 1896 he was appointed corporation counsel of Detroit by Mayor Pingree, and held the office for four years; was also a member of the fire commission for four years, from 1895 to 1899. Mr. Flowers is a Republican and was elected to the legislatures of 1909-10 and 1911-12 and again elected November 3, 1914, by a plurality of 13,017.
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ELWIN B. FOLLETT,
Of Hale, representative from the Iosco district, comprising the counties of Alcona, Arenac, Iosco and Ogemaw, was born on a farm in Fremont, Steuben county, Indiana, November 14, 1877, receiving his education in the Fremont high school. The early years of his life were spent on his father's farm. November 5, 1908, he removed from Fremont, Indiana, to Albion, Michigan, and on November 4, 1909, he located at Hale, Iosco county, Michigan, where he has purchased a large tract of land which he is now engaged in clearing and farming. He was married to Miss Edna Stroh, of Fremont, Indiana, on April 7, 1901, and they have five children,-Margaret H., John E., Paul H., Luella C. and Gilbert H. Mr. Follett has served as alderman of Fremont and supervisor of Plainfield township, Iosco county, Michigan. Fraternally, he is a member of the Grange, Gleaners and F. & A. M. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1913-14 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 2,786 to 1,262 for Lansing E. Lincoln, 1,145 for Peter J. Hottois and 73 for Jarvis M. Green.
CHARLES R. FOOTE,
Of Alto, representative from the second district of Kent county, was born at Ionia, Michigan, December 13, 1871, and was educated in the Belding high school. In the spring of 1872, he removed with his parents from Ionia to a farm near Belding. He taught school two years after graduating from the Belding high school in 1887, after- wards studying law with Lyon and Dooling, of St. Johns, and was admitted to practice December 22, 1892. Mr. Foote was married November 23, 1897, to Josephine M. Rounds at Fremont, Michigan. He practiced law in Belding until 1902, when he formed a partnership with W. A. Rounds and purchased a hotel at Hart, Michigan. He sold out in 1907 and went to Alto, where he engaged in the hardware business. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and a past chancellor of the order. He is a Republican and was elected to the legislature of 1913-1914 and reelected November 3, 1914, by a vote of 2,176 to 1,200 for William McCrodan and 209 for Clyde M. Himbaugh.
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