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AMES PENDERGAST. For forty years this gentleman has been located in White Lake Township,carrying on general farming, and of late he has devoted considerable attention to breeding horses. His home is on sec- tion 25. and his farm consists of one hundred and six acres. He hewed down the trees that once covered his track, removed the stumps and broke the soil, and year by year increased the acreage under cultivation. He also put up good buildings, increasing the number from time to time, as need arose. Mr. Pendergast is a stonemason by trade, but it has been many years since he paid much attention to this handicraft.
Our subject is a grandson of one Thomas Pen- dergast, whose entire life was spent in the Emerald Isle and who reared a family of seven children. The eldest son was Patrick, who, after growing to manhood, married Ellen Keating. The family born to this good couple consisted of Thomas, Joanna, Jane, Mary and Patrick. The father was
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a farmer. Ife died in the Emerald Isle early in the '50s. Ilis son James was born November 23, 1820, and remained in his native land until 1849. He then came to this country and for a year labored in New York. Thenee he came West and selecting White Lake Township, this county, as a favorable locality in which to locate, he took pos- session of a farm of sixty-six acres. To this he afterward added forty acres and here he has car- ried on the work before noted. He votes the Democratic ticket and has done so since he became an American citizen.
In April 1855, the marriage of James Pender- gast and Catherine Crotty was solemnized in White Lake Township. The bride was born in Ireland, May 27, 1827. Mrs. Pendergast is a capable, in- telligent woman, who shows great interest in the welfare of her family and the progress of her chil- dren, intellectually and morally. She has borne her husband seven sons and daughters named respect- ively : Patrick, Mary, Catherine, Ellen, James, and Julia (twins) and Margaret. The last named is deceased. Mary and Julia are now in Pontiac and Catherine is at the convent of the Good Shepherd in St. Louis, Mo. Patrick, Ellen and James brighten the parental hearthstone by their presence.
AVID M. DOTY, a marble and granite dealer in Southfield, was born in Toledo, Ohio, May 14, 1840. His father, Phi- lander N., was a native of New York, where he carried on a business in woolen manufac- tory. He also pursued the same business in Toledo, Ohio, where he died in 1844. His wife was before her marriage Margaret M. Laha, a native of France where she was born December 1, 1804. She was but fourteen years old when she came to this coun- try, and was united in marriage with Mr. Doty in New York.
Our subject was one of six children of the paren- tal family. Frank E. was a private in the first Ohio Battery and served through the Civil War; Charles
H., enlisted in Company C., Thirty-first Ghio In- fantry ; Nelson P., the oldest brother was not in the war; the daughter and one son died young. After the death of Mr. Doty, the mother of our subject married Avery Brown. From this nnion there was one son born, Avery. He was a drummer boy in the army of the Cumberland, and was the youngest enlisted soldier in the rebellion. He was mustered into service at the age of eight years, eleven months and thirteen days at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, August 18,-1861, in Company C, Thirty-first Ohio Infantry, and served nearly two years.
The first schooling of David Doty was in an old Catholic Church in Toledo. When about nine years old he went to Dayton, Ohio, with his mother and step-father, and attended school there; at the age of twelve he went to Delphos, Ohio, where he remained until 1857. He then went to Cincinnati where he learned marble cutting and carving. Later he engaged in business in this line at St. Mary's, Ohio, with a brother until July, 1862, when he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Eigh- teenth Ohio Infantry. After eight months he was promoted from the ranks of a private to the com- mission of a Second Lieutenant, and afterward to that of First Lieutenant and finally received a Captaincy. He was mustered out of service July 10, 1865, having taken part in the following en- eonnters: Mossy Creek, Siege of Knoxville, with Sherman to Atlanta, the pursuit of Ilood's Army at Nashville, Tenn., and then to Washington across North Carolina and meeting with Sherman at Goldsboro. A month after his discharge from the army he had resumed his business of marble cut- ting at Elkhart, Ind., and there remained until he sold out and came to Michigan.
Capt. Doty was married in Elkhart, Ind., in De- cember, 1870, to Emma Smith, a native of New York State, who was born March 8, 1848. Two daughters were sent to bless their home. The old- est, Leona, died at the age of three years. The sec- ond Olean M., is now attending school at Birming- ham. Mrs. Doty died February 26, 1888. Mr. Doty is a Republican and in 1884 filled the office of Township Clerk. He belongs to the Masonic order and is a member of Redi. rd Lodge No.
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152; Birmingham Chapter No. 93; Pontiac Com- mandery No. 2. K. T., and Marshall M. Beach Post G. A. R., No. 267. lle is a thorough man in his business. well liked and respected, and is doing a good business. having the confidence of the people.
A lithographie portrait of Mr. Doty appears in connection with this brief personal review.
b ULSEY J. RUNDEL, a successful, promi- nent and well-known business man of Pon- tiac, was born in Crawford County, Pa .. June 13, 1836. His father, Warren Rundel. of Pennsylvania, came to Oakland County. Mich .. in 1837 and located on the township line between Farmington and West Bloomfield. A few years later he purchased a farm near by, on which had been erected an old log hotel, in which he lived until his death in 1870 at the age of sixty. three years. Ile was drummer in a company of militia in his early days and was the son of Ferris Rundel, of New York who settled in Pennsylvania but came to Michigan in 1855 and made this his home until his death, at a ripe old age.
The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Emily Button. She was born in Connecticut and died at the age of eighty-two years in 1888. Of her seven children three sons are still living. Her son Hulsey, was only a babe when his parents removed to the Wolverine State. He received his preliminary education in the log schoolhouse where he sat upon slab seats. These were benches about twelve feet long, which the boys used to take out during winter "noonings" and turning them upside down, used them to slide down hill upon.
At the age of sixteen the youth went to try his fortune in Chicago, and for two years was a fire- man on the Chicago. Burlington & Quiney Rail - road. running from Chicago to Aurora, one of the oldest branches of the railroad in this part of the country. He became tired of firing the engine and returning home, rented land for about three years and then bought his first farm on section 5, Pontiac Township, where he lived for several years. In
1884 he sold this property and purchased a fine farm on section 20. where he has since lived, and which adjoins the corporation of Pontiac. The marriage of our subjeet in 1860, with Harriet Stanley, who was born in this county in 1839, brought him two children, Lizzie and Nellie. To both of them he gave a good education and Lizzie became a teacher.
Our subject has ever been a thorough and con- scientious Republican in his political convictions and vote. He now owns one hundred and ninety acres. nine of which lie within the corporation of Pontiae. For ten years he kept and raised thor- ough bred Durham cattle, and also Shropshire sheep. Ile is a member of the American Shrop- shire Registry Association and takes great pride in his stock, having been a successful drover for nearly thirty years. He buys and ships stock to Eastern markets and has some fine standard-bred horses. He spent four years in business in Pontiac, carrying on a meat market. His success is a matter of interest to everybody who desires to study the possibilities of life in the Western world, as he began without capital and has risen to his present financial success by force of his own energy and perseverance.
G HOWARD BARNES, a patriotic son of his country, who under trying circum- stances showed the true metal of which he was made. was born April 24, 1843. He now re- sides in Royal Oak Township, where he has a fine farm and is also proprietor of a summer resort on Fighting Island, a little below Detroit, as well as being interested in the Sportsman Publishing Com- pany. His father, Thomas C. Barnes, a banker and merchant at Mt. Sterling. Ky., and a native of Virginia, was born before the beginning of this eentury. He went to Kentucky when a boy and began life as a clerk in a grocery store.
In 1832 the father of our subject married Emily A. Howard, who was born at Mt. Sterling, Ky., in 1814. She was the daughter of George and Ame-
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lia C. Howard, both of whom were natives of Maryland, but came to Kentucky at a very early day. Amelia was the third daughter and fifth child in a family of ten, and her parents died at Mt. Sterling at an advanced age. This family of Howards is in direct descent from the well-known English family of that name. Thomas C. Barnes shortly left the grocery business and engaged as cashier in a bank where he soon obtained an inter- est, and also carried on a business in the dry-goods trade. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was a Whig and afterwards a Republican in politics. Ile passed away in 1856 and his wife followed him nine years later.
The subject of this sketeh attended school at Mt. Sterling, Ky., and afterwards at the Pennsyl- vania Military Academy, until the war broke out, when he joined the Home Guards in which he saw several engagements with volunteers who were on their way to the mountains of West Virginia to join the Confederate army. In 1862 he entered Company K, Twenty fourth Cavalry Regiment of Kentucky, under Captain Craig, and was in his company during two fights with John Morgan's men .. He became Captain on Gen. Walker's Staff and Post Quartermaster.
After the war this young man engaged in busi- ness in Cincinnati, Ohio, until 1873, and then spent one year in Kansas City, Mo., whence he went to Galveston, Tex., spent nine years in Indianapolis and then came to Michigan and set- tled in Detroit. In 1890 he bought the farm of ninety acres where he now spends a part of his time in Royal Oak Township. He is the fifth son and seventh child in a family of eight sons and two daughters.
Matilda Gilchrist was the maiden name of the lady who presides over the home of our subject. She was born in February, 1857, and became the wife of Mr. Barnes in September, 1880. Iler par. ents, David and Matilda (Potter) Gilehrist, are of English birth and still make their home in their native island. Mrs. Barnes is the second in order of birth in their family of nine children. Mr. Barnes' success in his business enterprises has been great and he understands financial management, as has been proven by his accumulation of property.
His first Presidential vote was for Abraham Lin- eoln and his last for Benjamin Harrison and be- tween these dates he has been a consistent mem- ber of the Republican party for which he has not hesitated to use his voice and influence.
Mr. Barnes is a member of the Detroit Lodge of the Elks and has served as Exalted Ruler therein, as well as being a member of the Grand Lodge of the order. He is also a Knight of Pythias of the Myrtle Lodge of Detroit, and a member of the Ancient Order of Druids of that city. He is Treasurer of the Turkey Lake Shooting and Fish- ing Club which owns about five thousand acres in Alpena County, Mich. He comes of an excellent family and has proven again the old adage that "blood will tell." His consistent adherence to Union principles and the old flag while living in a Confederate town has richly earned him the appre- ciation of every lover of our country.
D L. IIOWES, M. D. A conspicuous figure on the streets of the village of South Lyon is that of Dr. Howes, whose portrait is shown on the opposite page and who has been located here since early in the '70s. Ile has become widely and favorably known for his prac- tical skill as physician and surgeon, and in many a family he is held in honor as the sympathizing friend and alleviator of distress. Ile secured a fine education and having much of the practical in his mind, he was ready immediately after his gradua- tion to apply his learning to good purposes. Ile has retained the habit of study and observation, has given close attention to every subject which bears upon his profession, and particularly regard . ing the human form divine. Not only has he be- come well known in the town in which his office is located, but his fame has extended even beyond the limits of the county, and he is numbered among the most worthy of the members of the profession in Southeastern Michigan.
Jonathan Ilowes, father of our subject, was a miller, millwright and farmer. Ile was born in
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Norfolkshire, England, and after coming to Amer- iea spent ten years in Virginia, Georgia and Mary - land, building gristmills which were operated by windmill power. Ile then went back to his na- tive land and was married to Hannah Watts, who bore him six daughters and five sons. Of this fam- ily Dr. Howes is the youngest, and there are three daughters and four sons still living. Some time after his marriage Mr. Howes emigrated to Nova Scotia, later removed to New Brunswick and finally to Ontario, Canada. In County Halton he bought three hundred and forty aeres of wild land on which he built the first mill in that country. Ile carried the castings on horseback from Ancaster, about fifty miles away. He operated the mill and cleared and improved his land. He lived to the advanced age of ninety-six years, dying early in the '50s; his wife passed away in 1863 when seventy- five years old. Mr. Howes had been a sailor for ten years before his marriage and was proficient in navigation and surveying and had a liberal edu- cation. He belonged to the Conservative party.
Dr. Ilowes was born in Canada in 1835. his birthplace being the town of Trafalgar. County Halton. Ile attended school in the country and then went to the High School at Oakville and when his literary course was completed entered the To- ronto School of Medicine. He pursued his pro- fessional course there one term, then changed to Philadelphia, Pa., and spent two years in close attention to therapeutical science in JJefferson Col- lege. He was graduated from that institution in 1864 but the next year returned in order to review his studies, take post-graduate lectures and clinical work. After this preparation for practice he es- tablished himself in Oakville for a year, and in 1866 came to this State and county. He opened an office in New Hudson. Lyon Township, which was the center of his practice for six years, after which he became a resident of South Lyon in the same township.
Dr. Howes was married in 1875 to Miss Alice P. Batty, who was born in Dunville, Canada, in 1849. Her father is James Batty and she is the younger daughter in a family consisting of two daughters and one son. Doctor and Mrs. Howes have had but one child, a son who died in infancy.
Mrs. lowes is a practicing physician with an office in the city of Detroit. She was graduated in the ('lass of '82 in the Medical Department of the University at Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Doctor takes no particular interest in poli- ties, but finds sufficient to occupy his time in pro- fessional study and practice, and in the social pleasures to which he is drawn. A man of more than ordinary intelligence, with a pleasant, manly bearing, he is looked upon with respect and has a prominent place among the citizens with whom his lot is cast.
ON. JOSEPH H. HOLMAN. born in Greencastle, Franklin County, Pa., July 28, 1813, is a son of Joseph and Mary A. ( Loy) Holman, natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland, of English extraction. Joseph Holman was a farmer and contractor who came to Michigan in 1856. and died in Rochester in 1874. His wife died in August, 1886. To them seven children have been born, four of whom are living, namely : Jacob L., William R., our subject and Margaret, now Mrs. Hetsler of Rochester.
After being brought up upon a farm our subject worked a while at carpentering and then enlisted July 6, 1862 in Company K, One hundred and Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry, serving until June 29, 1863. During the second Bull Run fight he was at Fairfax Courthouse, guarding the stores. He was in the engagement at Anteitam and also at Snickers Gap, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and another engagement which took place after the expiration of his term of service.
After this soldier was mustered out he engaged in the grocery trade in Ohio, but left the business in the hands of a brother and re-enlisted in the Mississippi Squadron in February 1864, serving on the Mississippi and Red Rivers. Ile served until August 29, 1865 and had the honor of taking pos- session of the rebel stores at Shreveport, La., upon the surrender of Gen. Kirby Smith. In 1865 he returned to his trade as a carpenter and millwright
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at Ft. Wayne, Ind., thence to Springfield, Ill., and in 1866 came to Michigan upon the same day that his father and family arrived from Pennsylvania. In 1869 he went to Missouri and there engaged in insurance and lead business. He returned to Michi- gan in 1871 and continued reading law, which he had begun in Missouri, at the same time continuing his trade but finally making a specialty of bridge building.
In 1878 Mr. Holman was admitted to the bar but in 1884 his practice was interrupted by his election to the State Legislature on the Fusion ticket, and two years later he was a candidate for Congress on the same ticket. As a Legislator he was the recipi- ent of high praise from many newspapers in the State, many of them naming him as "the orator of the House." Since his term in the Legislature he has devoted himself entirely to his professional work. Ile has been identified with the Republican party since 1888 but is considered a free lance politically. His marriage in January, 1874, with Mary E. Ashby has given him four children, Gertrude, Elva, Joseph and Hattie.
b ON. FRANKLIN B. GALBRAITHI, M. D., whose portrait appears on the opposite page, was born in Sanilac County, Mich., near Port Huron, December 26, 1840. His en- tire life presents a striking example of persever- ance, diligence and untiring devotion to knowledge; he has always been an indefatigable worker, labor- ing not merely at work belonging to his own profes- sion, but also with the utmost eagerness seeking and storing knowledge purely for the love of it. The result of his unwearied labors has been the attain- ment of a prominent position among members of his profession, and financial prosperity. His experience in life proves that most obstacles thrown in the way of advancement may be overcome by zeal, activity, and a determined resolution to surmount every difficulty and achieve the honors of success.
Dr. Galbraith comes of substantial ancestry. His grandfather, John Galbraith, was born near Glas-
gow, Scotland. His father, Dr. John Galbraith, was a native of Canada, who for many years lived in Sanilac County, and there died in 1880. The mother of our subject, who bore the maiden name of Nancy Humphry, was of Canadian birth and Irish descent. She passed away in 1878, two years prior to the demise of her husband. The parental family comprised seven children, only three of whom are now living. One son, A. G., was a sol- dier in the War of the Rebellion, and was Captain in the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry. He un- derwent all the horrors of war, was wounded in the battle of Chattanooga, and lay for seventeen months in Andersonville and Libby Prisons. Finally he came home on parole, but died soon afterward from the effects of his terrible experience.
In his early youth our subject attended the schools of the vicinity, and at the age of thirteen years clerked in a store. When seventeen years old he en- tered the medical department of the State University at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated at the age of twenty-one years. In 1860 he went to New York and attended the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, graduating in 1861. Immediately after graduating he commenced the practice of his pro- fession at Lexington, this State, and continued there until October, when he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Tenth Michigan Infantry. In April, 1862, he was sent into Tennessee.
On account of failing health, Dr. Galbraith re- signed and returned to Port Huron, and there took charge of the practice of Dr. C. M. Stockwell, who went into the army. In 1863 Dr. Galbraith was appointed Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment with headquarters at Pontiac. He was afterward commissioned as Surgeon of the Thirty-first Regi- ment, which, however, did not go out as an organi- zation, but was broken into fragments which went to replenish other organizations already in the field. The Doctor was transferred to the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and with them went to the front and par- tieipated in active warfare. When the war was nearly over, he resigned his appointment, and com- ing liome, located in Pontiac. Since settling here he has devoted bis undivided attention to his pro- fession, and has built up an extensive and lucrative practice.
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The marriage of Dr. Galbraith and Miss Marie Smith, of Pontiac, was solemnized in 1865. Mrs. Galbraith was born in the State of New York, but has passed almost her entire life in Oakland County. The union of the Doctor and his estimable wife has been blest by the birth of two children. Grace G. is a beautiful and accomplished young lady; and Stewart S., who was graduated in June, 1891, from the military school at Orchard Lake. Mich., is now a student in the literary department of the Univer- sity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor.
The Doctor is an honored member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Society. and is a corresponding member of the Academy of Medicine at Detroit. He was elected Mayor of Pontiac three times on the Republican tieket, and his intelligent and faithful discharge of the duties of that office reflected great eredit upon himself as well as his constituents. His election was consid- ered by his friends as a great triumph, for the city was at that time very strongly Democratie. So- cially Dr. Galbraith belongs to Pontiac Lodge No. 21, F. &. A. M., and the Loyal Legion. In 1889 he was chosen State Senator from the Fourteenth Senatorial District on the Republican ticket, and is ever found faithful to the interests of the people whom he represents. His pleasant residence situ- ated on Perry Street is a large and substantial brick building, and is surrounded by extensive grounds handsomely laid out.
h ARVEY J. CAMPBELL. Among the younger farmers of Oakland County may be mentioned Mr. Campbell, whose home is on section 23, Royal Oak Township, and who belongs to a family well known in the county. His property consists of ninety-five acres on sec- tions 23 and 26, forty of which was given him by his father. Mr. Campbell is a son of Welcome and Mary J. (Cheney ) Campbell, of whom an ac. count is given in the biography of John L. Camp- bell, of Birmingham. They were natives of New
York and the father was born July 20, 1810. They have five sons and five daughters, and Harvey J. is the second child and eldest son. lle was born in Oxford Township, this county, April 19, 1843, and in his boyhood studied in the common schools. He devoted some time to work in his father's store prior to his nineteenth year, and then spent three years on a farm.
Mr. Campbell next went to Albion and took a course of study under Prof. Ira Mayhew, the well- known commercial teacher and author of the pop- ular text-book on book-keeping. After finishing huis course of study Mr. Campbell returned home and then went to Genesce County, where he spent the summer in work, after which he returned again to his father's farm. He was married May 8, 1866, and was soon established where he is still living. His wife bore the maiden name of Altana J. Wells and was born in Royal Oak. April 12, 1817. She is the fourth in a family comprising five daughters and two sons, and her parents are Joseph R. and Sophronia ( Stephens) Wells.
The father of Mrs. Campbell was born in New York and his parents were Willard and Mary (Spencer) Wells, the former of whom died in his native State when the son was seven years old. The latter came to this State some years later, ob- tained a home and brought his widowed mother here. His wife was a daughter of Henry and Al- tana (Fellows) Stephens, natives of New York, and her mother in turn was the daughter of David and Esther (Tucker ) Fellows. Mrs. Campbell was well reared and has proved herself capable of judi- eiously managing household affairs and looking well to the interests of her family.
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