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CHARLES L. BRUNDAGE,
Senator from the twenty-third district, composed of the counties of Muskegon and Ottawa, was born in Steuben county, N. Y., August 17, 1830. He is a graduate of Alfred University, N. Y., and State Normal School of Albany, N. Y. Was super- intendent of schools of Allegany county, N. Y., for three years. In 1854 he was married to Frances A. Platt and in 1874 came to Michigan, locating at Muskegon, where he has since made his home. He was engaged in the war for the Union and served in 130th N. Y. and 1st N. Y. Dragoons, was commissioned 1st lieutenant, and November 9, 1862, promoted to captain. For the past eighteen years he has been engaged as druggist at Muskegon. He was elected Senator on the Republican ticket for the term of 1893-4 by a vote of 7,412 to 6,282 for Peter J. Danhoff, Demo- crat, 627 for George Ballard, Populist, and 492 for Chester Danforth, Prohibitionist.
WELLINGTON R. BURT,
of East Saginaw, Senator from the twenty-second district, was born in New York in 1831. Eight years later he came with his parents to Michigan locating in Jackson county. ; He attended school at Albion and the Michigan Central (now Adrian) College. He spent three years in a trip through Central and South America and Australia and after returning located at Saginaw where he still resides. He has formerly been very extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber and salt, but of late he is engaged in manufacturing and banking. In politics he is a Democrat ; has held the office of mayor of East Saginaw, was the Democratic candidate for Governor of the State of Michigan in 1888. He was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 7,548 to 6,755 for Wm. E. Crane, Republican, 592 for Joseph Doan Populist, and 265 for Wm. M. Smith, Prohibitionist.
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SCHUYLER CHAMPION,
Senator from the fourteenth district, composed of the counties of Ingham and Shiawassee, was born in Homer, Calhoun county, Michigan, February 14, 1847. When one year of age he moved with his parents to Sturgis, Michigan. He attended public school, and at twelve years of age began the trade of carriage painter. In 1878 he began the practice of dentistry. He was married to Miss Agnes Clark, of Lansing, in 1871. In 1886 he moved to Lansing, where he has since continued in the practice of dentistry. He was elected to the Senate of 1893-94 on the Democrat and People's party tickets by a vote of 8,204 to 7,990 for M. E. Rumsey, Republican; Rollo K. Bryan, Prohibitionist, received 1,179 votes.
FRANK W. CLAPP,
Senator from the ninth district comprising the counties of Calhoun and Kalamazoo,, was born in Bedford, Ohio, November 25, 1844. He came to Battle Creek, Mich., with his parents in June the following year. He is a graduate of Olivet College and the law department of Michigan University. He is by occupation a lawyer and engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Battle Creek. . He was city attorney in the years 1873, '82, '91, '92, and at present holds that position. He has served two terms as prosecuting attorney of the county of Calhoun and was Representative in the Legislature of 1891-2. In June 1875 he was married to Josephine A. Woolnough of Battle Creek. In politics he is a Republican and was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 10,112 to 9,088 for A. M. Kane, the Democrat and Populist candidate; J. H. Callender, the Prohibition candidate, received 1,143 votes.
MYRON W. CLARK,
Senator from the tenth district, comprising the counties of Jackson and Washte- naw, was born in Jackson county, on a farm in Henrietta township, September 15, 1840. He attended district school and the Albion college. In 1860 he quit school, went to Van Buren county and began farming: three years later he moved to Jack- son city, and engaged as mechanic. He continued in this occupation for three years and has since been engaged in the mercantile and milling business in Jackson city. In 1892 he moved on a farm near his old home in Jackson county, where he now lives. He was Republican in politics until 1872, when he joined issues with the Democrat party, with which he has since been identified. He was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 on the Democrat ticket by a vote of 10,353 to 9,616 for Alexander Hamilton, Republican; Owen R. L. Crozier, Prohibitionist, received 1,005 votes and Edward A. Wordman, Populist, received 724 votes.
JESSE D. CRANE,
Senator from the thirteenth district, composed of the counties of Genesee and Liv- ingston, was born in New York in 1841. When five years of age he came with his parents to Michigan, locating on a farm in Fenton township, Genesee county,
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near which place he has since lived, being now located in Fenton village. His life occupation has been farming. His early education was acquired at the public schools. He is a Republican in politics, has never been a candidate for any office heretofore and was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 7,327 to 6,932 for J. R. Benson, the Democrat and People's party candidate.
PETER DORAN,
Senator from the sixteenth district (Kent county), was born in London, Canada, April 16, 1848. He is of Irish descent, his parents coming from Belfast, Ireland. He acquired a common school education and began life as wheelsman and clerk on vessels on the great lakes. He afterwards taught school, managed a general store, studied medicine for a time, and finally began privately the study of law. He was admitted to the bar; began practice in Detroit in 1872. Four years later he moved to Grand Rapids, where he has since continued in the practice of his profession. In politics he is a Democrat; has been a member of the Democratic county, con- gressional and State committees, and for a number of years chairman of the city committee. He was a member of the Senate of 1891-2 and re-elected to that of 1893-4 over George G. Steketee, Republican and ex-mayor of the city of Grand Rapids, by a vote of 6,767 to 6,655; George H. Newell, Prohibitionist, received 588 votes, and James R. Denison, Populist, received 538 votes.
J. MILTON EARLE,
Senator from the eighteenth district, composed of the counties of Ionia and Mont- calm, was born in Oneonta, New York, September 1, 1851. He has been a resident of Michigan since 1867. He was educated at Fairfield Academy, New York, Newton high school, Mass., and Michigan State Normal. He taught school in New York and Michigan about seven years. On coming to Michigan he located at Smyrna, Ionia county, where he remained until 1875 when he removed to Belding, where he has since been engaged in the mercantile business. He has also of late years been engaged in real estate and insurance. In 1878 he was married to Mary C. Whitman of Newton, Massachusetts. He is president of the Belding building and loan association and director in the Belding Savings Bank. In politics he is a Republican and has held the office of township clerk and treasurer; he was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 8,524 to 6,466 for John C. Blanchard, Democrat; J. Close, Pro- hibitionist, received 615 votes, and Michael L. Steele, Populist, received 948 votes.
JOSEPH FLESHIEM,
Senator from the thirtieth district, composed of the counties of Mackinac, Chip- pewa, Luce, Schoolcraft, Delta and Menominee, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 28, 1848. He came to Michigan in 1871, locating at Menominee, where he has since been engaged in the fire insurance business. In politics he is a Republican; has served as county clerk, treasurer, and register of deeds of his county. He was a member of the Senate of 1891-2 and re-elected to that of 1893-4 by a vote of 6,251 to. 6,079 for Byron Taylor, Democrat.
HON. JOSEPH F. HAMBITZER, STATE TREASURER.
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EDWIN G. FOX,
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Senator from the twenty-first district, composed of the counties of Lapeer and Tuscola, was born of American parents in Ontario forty-four years ago. He came to Michigan in 1855. Early the next spring his parents located on the farm where they still reside, in Tuscola county, near where the village of Mayville now stands. At the age of eighteen he was employed in a general store, utilizing his spare time in study. The next year he took charge of a general store for W. H. Fife at May- ville and after one year's service was transferred to Cherokee, Iowa, where he man- aged the business for another year and on account of ill health returned to May- ville. He engaged as bookkeeper and general manager for a general store owned by A. Bryant. In 1876 he engaged in the merchantile business for himself, which in connection with dealing in real estate, is his present occupation. He is a Repub- lican in politics; has held the office of register of deeds; was a member of the Senate of 1887-8, '89-90, and elected to that of 1893-4 by a vote of 6,321 to 5,872 for Martin Smith, Democrat, and 705 for William H. Fulton.
ROBERT E. FRENCH,
Senator from the eleventh district (St. Clair county), was born in England Janu- ary 20, 1835. He came to Canada at the age of seven years, where, after a limited school education he engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes. In 1861 he came to Fort Gratiot, Michigan, where he for a time continued his trade and engaged in a general mercantile business, which he still pursues. In politics he is a Republican and has held the office of supervisor, township treasurer and mayor of the city of Fort Gratiot. He was the first postmaster at Fort Gratiot, which position he he'd for fifteen years. In 1855 he was married to Henrietta Nottingham, of Canada, and has two grown sons. He was elected to his present position by a vote of 5,411 to 5,297 for John Murray, Democrat.
JAN W. GARVELINK,
Senator from the eighth district, was born in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Dec. 6, 1833. Atthe age of fourteen years he came to America with his parents, locating on a farm in Ottawa county; two years later he moved on the farm in Fillmore township, Allegan county, where he has ever since made his home. His only school education was acquired in the common schools of Netherland before coming to America. In politics he is a Republican, and has been identified with local government for a number of years. He was a member of the House, in the State Legislature, of 1873-74 and '83-4, and of the Senate of 1891-2. He was elected to the Senate of 1893-4, over O. S. McGowan, the Democrat and Populist candidate, by a vote of 4,243 to 3,543; Wm. F. Howden, the Prohibition candidate, received 545 votes.
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CHAS. F. GIBSON,
Of Detroit, Senator from the third district, was born in Grand Blanc, Mich., July 22, 1836. He graduated from the law department of the Michigan University in 1866 and went to Bay City where he was engaged in the mercantile business until moving to Detroit, where he is now engaged in manufactory pursuits. He was a member of the Senate of 1881-2 and elected to that of 1893-4 on the Republican ticket by a vote of 6,741 to 6,035 ;for Peter E. Park, Democrat; 216 for S. J. Lawrence, People's party, and 209 for Richard Bird, Prohibitionist.
PETER GILBERT,
Senator from the twenty-fourth district, was born at Simcoe, Ontario, April 1, 1844. Came to Michigan in 1883 and purchased his present farm, "Inglewood," three hundred sixty acres, in Arenac county, and is engaged in farming and fruit grow- ing. He graduated from London (Ontario) commercial college in 1868; was mar- ried the same year to Henrietta Freeman, granddaughter of Rev. D. Freeman, who preached the first Methodist sermon where Detroit now stands, in 1804. Mr. Gilbert has held the office of justice of peace, and was elected on the Democrat ticket to the Senate for the term of 1891-2; was chairman of committee on finance and appropriations; re-elected to the Senate for the term of 1893-4 by a vote of 5,648 to 4,636 for Thomas S. Joslyn, Republican, 176 for Paul Marrin, Populist, and 2 for Brent Harding, Prohibitionist.
SAMUEL W. HOPKINS,
Senator from the twenty-fifth district, composed of the counties of Newaygo, Mecosta, Isabella, and Oceana, was born in Kent county, Rhode Island, April 1, 1845. When eleven years of age he moved with his parents to Connecticut, here he attended school and at the age of seventeen began teaching winters, working on the farm in the summers. He attended the Manchester and Ellington academies, . and the union business college at Cleveland, Ohio, graduating from the latter in 1866. He then entered the law department of the Michigan University, from which he was graduated in 1872. He began practice at Mt. Pleasant where he is still engaged. He has held numerous local offices of public trusts and has given con- siderable attention to the advancement of the public schools. In 1874 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Isabella county. In politics he is a Republican; was a member of the House of 1877-8 and 1879-80, and was elected to the Senate of 1893-1 by a vote of 7,459 to 6,663 for Henry Lever, Democrat and Populist; Wm. H. Hawkins, Prohibitionist, received 955 votes.
LEWIS CASS HOUGH,
Senator from the first district, was born in Canton, Michigan, July 9, 1846. He attended the high school at Plymouth, from which he graduated at the age of seventeen. He taught school in 1864; the next year attended business college of Detroit, and again taught in 1867-63. In 1866 he was married to Mariette Baker, of Plymouth, and began farming, which occupation he continued until 1875, when he moved to Plymouth and began dealing in grain and produce, his present occupation.
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In politics he is a Democrat and has held the office of superintendent of schools, supervisor, president of the village of Plymouth, and was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 7,176 to 5,834 for John G. Hurst, Republican; 186 for the Prohi- bitionist, and 158 for the People's party candidates.
AUGUSTUS JEWELL,
Senator from the seventh district, composed of the counties of Cass and Berrien, was born on a farm in Lagrange township, Cass county, Mich., Dec, 3, 1845, and was married to his present wife March, 1872. He acquired his early education at the public schools of Dowagiac city, and for a time attended the Baptist College at Kalamazoo. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but never practiced. While he has steadily held his residence at Dowagiac or in the county near that place all his life, except two years in Kansas, his time for many years has been engaged in looking after western investments, and also a piece of land near Wolcott, Indiana, where he, accompanied by his wife, has made yearly and often semi-yearly visits, preparing it for cultivation. Politically he is a Republican; has never been a candidate to any office before, and was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 7,717 to 7,675 for Wm. T. Dougan, Democrat and Populist, and 603 for B. T. Morley, Prohibitionist.
CHARLES H. McGINLEY,
Senator from the twentieth district, comprising the counties of Sanilac and Huron, was born in Kingston, N. Y., May 22, 1856. His early days were spent on a farm in the Adirondack mountains, also working in the woods, log cutting and bark hauling; in the winters he attended school. He was married before his majority to Miss Effie E. Harrison, of Kingston, and soon afterwards came to Michigan, locating at Forestville, where he began work as photographer ; he soon added to his business the retail of drugs, which he continued for three years, in the meantime, privately engaged in the study of law. In 1878 he was admitted to the bar and afterwards to the United States circuit. In 1888 he moved to Minden City, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He has one child, a daughter, who with himself and wife constitute his family. He has held the office of circuit court commissioner of Sanilac county, and was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 on the Republican ticket by a vote of 4,101 to 3,996 for Wm. R. Stafford, Democrat, 1,470 for Peter Trudeau, Populist, and 455 for Wright Bartlett, Prohibitionist.
JOSEPH R. MCLAUGHLIN,
Senator from the fourth district, was born in Detroit forty-one years ago. When but an infant his parents moved to Oakland county, where he was deprived of the advantages of an early education. He was eighteen years of age when his father died, leaving the family in humble circumstances. By building fires and sweeping floors in the winter months in the high school at Birmingham, he managed to work his way through that institution, working in the hay and wheatfield during the summer months, to provide for his mother's family. He also worked his way through the University, graduating with his class in the literary department in 1877 and in the law department in 1879. He went to Detroit and began the practice
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of law, which he continued until 1882, when he organized the Edison electric light Co. of Detroit and was for two years secretary and manager. At present he is extensively engaged in real estate in Detroit. In politics he is a Republican and was elected to the Senate of 1893-94 by a vote of 6,923 to 5,778 for John T. Mckeown, Democrat, 144 for Wm. B. Thompson, Prohibitionist, and 96 for Wm. N. Dixon, People's party.
WILLIAM J. MEARS,
Senator from the twenty-seventh district, was born in Norwich, Canada, in 1844. He came to Michigan at the age of twelve and located in Kalamazoo county, where he attended the public schools and the Kalamazoo union school. During the war he enlisted in the 25th Michigan Infantry and remained in the service until the close of the war, when he returned to Kalamazoo county and engaged in lum- bering. December 6, following, he was married to his present wife, Celestia I. Tyler, of Wakeshma, Kalamazoo county. Three years later he moved to Newaygo, and in 1870 to Sherman, Wexford county, continuing in the lumber business. He remained at Sherman until 1881 when he moved to his present home, Boyne Falls, Charlevoix county, where in connection with lumbering he is engaged in the mer- cantile business. In politics he is a Republican. Has held the office of supervisor, justice of the peace, judge of probate, and elected to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 7,621 to 4,971 for A. D. Cruickshank, Democrat; 869 for George Nickinson, Probi- bitionist, and 803 for Wm. Dunn, Populist.
HARVEY MELLEN,
Senator from the twelfth district, comprising the counties of Oakland and Macomb, was born in Middlebury, Genesee county, New York, April 3, 1822; came to Michigan in 1837. In 1840 he entered the employment of the government as surveyor in the upper peninsula, working with and under the late Judge Wm. A. Burt, for seven years, and until the township lines were there established. In 1848 he was appointed United States deputy surveyor, and after completing the surveys in the upper peninsula, worked three years on resurveys of the lower peninsula and afterwards in Minnesota and Wisconsin. In 1848 he settled in Macomb county, where he has since made his home, being principally engaged in lumbering. Mr. Mellen, as a Democrat, has held the office of supervisor four years. Was a member of the House from 1889 to 1892, inclusively, and elected to the Senate for the term of 1893-4, by a vote of 8,483 to 7,579 for D. N. Tovell, Republican, and S. T. Warner, Prohibition, 1,013.
JAMES H. MORROW,
Senator from the fifth district (Lenawee and Monroe counties), was born in St. Johns, New Brunswick, April 10, 1815. In 1849 he moved with his parents to Bos- ton, Mass. In 1852 the family located at Pembroke, where he at the age of nine
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sears began work for the Penbroke iron works. In 1857 he began work at the shoe- maker's trade, attending school three months of the year. September 10, 1862, he enlisted in a company of volunteers, was with Gen. Banks at Port Hudson; served till August 31, 1863, when his regiment was mustered out. In 1864 he engaged as clerk in a boot and shoe store in Boston, and two years later began the business for himself which has since been his occupation. In 1876 he came to Michigan locat- ing at Detroit, where he remained until 1882 when he moved to his present home, Adrian, Lenawee county. He was a member of the Senate of 1891-2, and elected to that of 1893-94, by a vote of 9,292 to 8,815 for George B. Horton, Republican, 1,114 for V. R. Vanderventer, Prohibition, and 209 for Emanuel B. Cantelberry, Populist.
ENOCH T. MUGFORD,
Senator from the twenty-sixth district, comprising the counties of Manistee, Mason, Lake and Oceana, was born in Portland, Maine, January, 1829. In 1852 he moved to Chicago in the interest of Cragan & Co., meat packers. Two years later he came to Oceana county and was for a long time in the employ of Noah Ferry & Co. In the spring of 1856 he was in the employ of L. G. Mason in building his first sawmill at Muskegon. He returned to Hart township, Oceana county, and in 1858 pre-empted a piece of land on Sec. 30. In 1850 he married Martha J. Nutter of New Hampshire. Ten children were born to them, four of whom are now living. He has held the office of highway commissioner eight terms, assessor of the village of Hart and supervisor for sixteen consecutive terms, which position he still occu- pies. He is a Democrat; was elected to the Senate for the term of 1891-92 and re- elected for the term of 1893-94 with a vote of 5,686 to 5,286 for A. O. Wheeler, Republican, and 849 for M. L. Marven, Prohibition.
PETER PASCOE,
Senator from the thirty-first district, composed of the counties of Marquette, Dickinson, Iron and Alger, is of English descent, being born in England, 1831. He came to the United States in 1854 and located in West Virginia, from thence to Pennsylvania and in 1861 came to northern Michigan, where he has since made his home. He has been engaged as mining superintendent, while in Michigan, and aside from township office has not been engaged in politics. He has held the office of justice of the peace two terms and of supervisor 18 years, was elected as a Republican to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 6,579 to 4,757 for Chas. F. Sund- strom, Democrat, 766 for Henry Davis, Prohibition, and 93 for Michael J. Mitchell, Populist. (Reiner Hock received 87 votes in Alger county).
CHARLES SUMNER PIERCE,
Senator from the twenty-eighth district, was born in Redford township, Wayne county. Michigan, June 12, 1858. He attended district school and worked on his father's farm until 20 years of age, when he entered the State Normal School, grad-
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uating from the Latin and German course in 1882. He was principal of the Au Sable schools the following two years, during which time he purchased the Au Sable and Oscoda News, changing its name to The Saturday Night, and later to The Press, which paper he still owns. Two years later he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. O. E. M. Cutcheon and in 1885 entered the law department of the Michi- gan University, from which he graduated in 1887. He immediately began practice at Oscoda, where he still resides. In politics he is a Republican, and has held the office of attorney of Oscoda village for three years, commissioner of schools of Iosco county for two years. He was elected to the Senate of 1893-4 by a vote of 5,371 to 4,778 for Arthur M. Johnson, Democrat.
MARDEN SABIN,
Senator from the sixth district, comprising the counties of St. Joseph, Branch and Hillsdale, was born at Orland, Indiana, January 2, 1840. His boyhood days were spent on the farm, attending the Orland seminary winters until the fall of 1859, when he entered the literary department of the University of Michigan, where a three years' course admitted him to the senior class. While at home during vaca- tion the call came for 300,000 more troops for the Union army. He enlisted as a private in Co. B, 100th Ind. Infantry Volunteers, August 15, 1862. His regiment served under Grant at the siege of Vicksburg, at Mission Ridge, Knoxville, Tenn., and under Sherman in the Atlanta campaign, in his march through Georgia and the Carolinas, remaining with him till the close of the war; taking part in the grand review at Washington. During his service he was promoted to 5th sergeant of his company, sergeant-major of his regiment, 1st lieutenant, and captain of his company. He served as adjutant of his regiment on staff duty, as member and judge advocate on courts martial, and commanded his company at Atlanta and on the " march to the sea " until the muster out in June, 1865. Captain Sabin again entered college, taking the medical course at Ann Arbor and Cleveland, graduating from the latter February 27, 1867. He located in the practice of medicine at Centerville, in July, 1867, where he has remained ever since. He has been chair- man of the school board over twenty years, and president of the village several successive terms. In the campaign of 1890 he was elected Senator of what was then the eighth district, composed of the counties of Kalamazoo and St. Joseph, over N. H. Barnard, Democrat, by 809 plurality. His present election was over A. E. Beebe, fusion candidate, by 971 majority.
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