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WILLIAM RAYNOLDS FARRAND. No student of history can carry his investigations far into the rec- ords of Detroit without soon learning of the close and prominent connection the Farrand family has ever had with the development and upbuilding of the city. William Raynolds Farrand of this review is a repre- sentative of the family in the second generation closely associated with the interests of Detroit, in which city he was born September 9, 1853, his father, Jacob S. Farrand, having become a permanent resident of De- troit in 1830.
William R. Farrand obtained a public school edu- cation and started out in the business world in 1870 as an employe in the wholesale drug house of Farrand, Williams & Company, working his way upward in that connection until he was placed in charge of one of the departments, so continuing for a number of years. In 1884 he became the treasurer of the Whitney Organ Company and concentrated his efforts upon the latter line of business. With its reorganization in 1887 under the style of the Farrand & Votey Organ Company he continued as treasurer and when a further reorganization was effected under the name of the Farrand Organ Company he became the presi- dent, developing a large and important manufacturing industry of Detroit. With this business he was con- nected for a number of years. The property once used for the Farrand interests in the manufacture of musical instruments is now utilized by Mr. Farrand as space to be rented to manufacturers of various kinds.
On the 4th of October, 1876, Mr. Farrand was married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Miss Cora B. Wallace, a daughter of Dr. Perkins Wallace of Can- ton, Ohio, and they became the parents of two children: Wallace Raynolds, who passed away at the age of eight years; and Rebekah Olive, who became the wife of Lieutenant George C. Keleher, of the Twenty- sixth United States Infantry and the mother of two daughters, Catherine Wallace, and Virginia Raynolds. Mrs. Farrand passed away in Detroit on August 24, 1917.
Mr. Farrand is a member of the Detroit Club, the Old Club, the Country Club, the Wilderness Club and was the organizer of the Detroit Golf Club. In civic affairs he has taken an active part, has served as president of the board of estimates and was appointed by Mayor Pingree as member of the first publie light-
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ing commission. Mr. Farrand is a member of the First Presbyterian church, the church in which his parents held membership, and is now serving as one of its elders. He is also a most active and earnest worker in the Young Men's Christian Association, being chairman of the religious work committee of that organization. In 1895 he was a delegate to the Presbyterian general assembly at Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania, and again in May, 1909, at Denver, Colorado. He has served as president of the Wayne County Sun- day School Association and takes a most earnest and helpful interest in all branches of church work. Mr. Farraud is a trustee of Harper Hospital, succeeding his father in that capacity, after the death of the latter. Throughout almost a century the name of Farrand has been closely associated with Detroit's interests, her material upbuilding, her educational de- velopment and her progress along moral lines.
WILIAAM JOHN GRAY, JR., one of the well known of the younger lawyers of Detroit comes from an old and prominent family of the city. His paternal grand- father, William Gray, was among the foremost law- yers of his time at the Detroit bar, while his father, William John Gray, prepared for the legal profession and for a number of years was one of the prominent and successful attorneys of this city. He is now vice president of the First and Old Detroit National Bank, and is likewise well known in business circles as the vice president of the G. and R. McMillan Company. His activities have been an important factor in De- troit's growth and progress along commercial and financial lines. The mother of William J. Gray, Jr., was a daughter of L. S. Hammond, who came to Michi- gan from New York state.
William John Gray, Jr., was born in Detroit, Jan- uary 7, 1891, and in this city was reared and educated. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he entered the Detroit College of Law and completed his course by graduation with the class of 1914. In the same year he was admitted to the Michigan bar and at once entered upon active practice. He has since continued a representative of the legal profession in this city, with offices in the Ford building, and his clientage is extensive and of important character. He chose as a life work a profession in which ad- vancement depends entirely upon individual merit and ability, and the thoroughness with which he prepares his cases and the accuracy with which he applies the principles of jurisprudence to the points of litigation indicate him to be a strong and forceful representa- tive of the Detroit bar.
On October 30, 1915, Mr. Gray was married to Miss Winifred Dodge, daughter of the late John F. Dodge, whose pronounced ability brought him to a place of leadership among the automobile manufacturers of America. A record of Mr. Dodge is given at length upon another page of this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Gray have been horn two daughters: Winifred Dodge,
whose birth occurred June 12, 1917; and Suzanne, born May 25, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Gray are commu- nicants of the Episcopal church and his political be- lief is that of the republican party. Along strictly professional lines he has membership with the Michi- gan Bar Association and the Detroit Bar Association, while in club circles he is prominently known, belong- ing to the Old Club, the Detroit Club, the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Racquet and Curling Club, the Detroit Country Club, the Indian Village Tennis Club and many others which establish his social posi- tion and his popularity. Mr. Gray resides at 1723 Iroquois.
HENRY A. BEHRENDT, who in the practice of law has already gained a position that many a man of twice his years might well envy and who is now the local attorney for the Michigan Auto Insurance Exchange, was born at Lansing, November 27, 1892, his parents being Arthur and Yetta (Berger) Behrendt, who were also natives of this state. The paternal grandfather, David Behrendt, came to Michigan from Germany many years ago and has since been a resi- dent of Detroit. His son, Arthur Behrendt, was reared, educated and married in this city and later became the official representative of the Modern Wood- men of America, with headquarters in Detroit, holding the position of district deputy for many years. One of the local organizations of the Modern Woodmen of America has been named Behrendt Camp in his honor. He died in Detroit, February 8, 1911, and is survived by his wife, who still resides in this city. They had two sons, the younger being Milton, also living in Detroit.
The elder, Henry A. Behrendt, attended the Wash- ington Normal School and the Central high school of Detroit, being graduated from the latter with the class of 1909. His review of the broad field of busi- ness in all of its ramifying industrial, commercial, financial and professional branches led him to the determination to become a member of the bar and he entered the Detroit College of Law, from which he was graduated in June, 1918, with the LL. B. degree. He has since been active in his chosen profession and is a member of the Detroit and of the Michigan State Bar Associations.
On the 8th of June, 1916, in this city, Henry A. Behrendt was married to Miss Matilda Otis, a daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Otis of Saginaw, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Behrendt have one child, Marcia G., born in Detroit, December 16, 1918.
In his political views Mr. Behrendt is an carnest democrat and in 1916 was the candidate of his party for the office of estimator at large and in November, 1918, he was a candidate for the office of state senator in the third district. He belongs to the Masonic fra- ternity, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal Neighbors and to the Masonic Country Club. He makes all these interests subservient to his profession,
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however, and since becoming a member of the bar has made steady progress, earning a well merited repu- tation and specializing in his practice in corporation law.
CAREY JUDSON COLE. The tendency of the age is toward specialization. Comparatively few men who enter professional life or even industrial circles at- tempt to cover the entire scope of their chosen line but particularize in certain departments, thereby gain- ing a skill and efficiency in that field which they could not otherwise hope to attain. Well grounded in the basic principles of the law since entering upon practice, Carey Judson Cole has largely specialized in real estate law and has come to be recognized as an authority among the younger representatives of the profession in Detroit. He was born in Union City, Michigan, October 19, 1885, and is a son of Samuel A. and Mary Louise (Edwards) Cole, the father a minister of the Baptist church.
Carey Judson Cole attended the public schools of Mattawan, Michigan, where the family home was maintained, and where he also pursued his high school course. His preparation for his profession was made as a law student at the University of Michigan, following preliminary reading under private instruc- tion in Kalamazoo. He was graduated in 1908 and since October, 1915, has been a representative of the Detroit bar, largely confining his attention to real estate law, of which he has gained comprehensive knowledge through wide reading, study and experi- ence. His clientage of this character is now exten- sive and important.
On the 24th of July, 1913, Mr. Cole was married to Miss Evelyn Root of Detroit, and they now have two children: A son, Raymond William, born Feb- ruary 14, 1916, and a daughter, Margaret Virginia, born November 7, 1919. Mr. Cole is a lover of horses and greatly enjoys driving, while at the same time he is a devotee of motoring. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and has membership with the Lawyers Club. He never allows anything to interfere with the faith- ful performance of his professional duties and his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial.
NATHANIEL H. GOLDSTICK, one of the younger representatives of the Detroit bar, was born in London, Ontario, Canada, December 5, 1893, the son of Susal and Minnie Goldstiek. He came to Detroit with his parents at the age of seven years and attended the public schools of this city. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in the class of 1915, and since graduation has been actively engaged in the practice of law in Detroit.
Mr. Goldstick was married to Miss Ella Debora Goldstein on March 19, 1918; they have one daughter, Jeanne Celia. Mrs. Goldstick has gained a well earned reputation in this city as a portrait painter. She studied in the school of Fine Arts and her work in oils has been the subject of much favorable criticism.
During the World war Mr. Goldsuek enlisted as a private and later received his commission as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery and was stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. He returned to Detroit in January, 1919, and resumed his practice of law, associating with Maurice Moscowitz, with offices at 670-72 Penobscot building.
Mr. Goldstick is a member of Union Lodge, No. 3, F. & A. M., B'nai B'rith, Knights of Pythias, Redford Country Club, American Legion and Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.
SHERMAN H. MORGAN. A notably successful career is that of Sherman H. Morgan, an expert heat- ing and electrical engineer of Detroit, who estab- lished his present business in 1893 and whose trade has advanced steadily throughont the intervening period, having now reached extensive and profitable proportions. He is a most progressive and energetic business man who has also found time for participation in the work of moral uplift and development, being an active and earnest worker in the Baptist church, whose teachings guide him in his daily life. He was born on a farm in Kent county, Ontario, Canada, a son of John and Mary (Snyder) Morgan, who were also faithful adherents of the Baptist church. In the public schools of Canada he pursued his education, sub- sequently completing a course in bookkeeping in a business college at Chatham, Ontario. Coming to Detroit, he secured a position with Barnum Iron Wire Works, where he remained for one and a half years, after which he became identified with the Detroit Heating & Lighting Company, in whose employ he continued for a period of six years. Having care- fully saved his earnings, he was then able to enter upon an independent career and in 1893 established his present business, which he has since conducted. He is a heating engineer and contractor and also engages in plumbing and through close study and broad practical experience has developed expert abil- ity along these lines, specializing in the straightening out and perfecting of defective heating systems in plants and residences. He is thoroughly familiar with the scientific principles which underlie his work and his advice is frequently sought in this connection. He conducts his business along the most progressive lines and his reliable methods and efficient work have secured for him a liberal patronage.
Mr. Morgan was united in marriage to Miss Mary Adams, a native of Scotland, who came to this country when fourteen years of age, and they have become the parents of a son, Clarence Stanley, born September 25, 1888, in Detroit, who is conducting an independ- ent business enterprise. Fraternally Mr. Morgan is identified with the Masons, being a past master of Zion Lodge, No. 1, F. & A. M., which is the oldest Masonic lodge west of New York, and also belonging to Monroe Chapter, No. 1, R. A. M. He is a member of the Clinton Avenue Baptist church, in the work of
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which he is actively and helpfully interested, devoting a considerable portion of his time and means to the cause of moral uplift. He is serving as chairman of its board of trustees and is also trustee of the De- troit Baptist-Union, in which connection he looks after the building and property interests of the churches comprising the union, doing notably effective and ca- pable work. He is a member of the Fellowcraft Ath- letie Club and a life member of the Masonic Athletic Club. In the conduct of his business affairs he has displayed sound judgment, enterprise and determina- tion, and he is regarded as a "live wire" in his com- munity, doing with all his might whatever his hands find to do. His interest in the moral progress of his city, as well as in its material development, is deep and sincere, and his many sterling traits of character have won for him an enviable position in the regard of his fellow townsmen.
FRANK KUHN is the vice president of the Ameri- ean Electrical Heater Company. This is one of the large manufacturing interests of Detroit engaged in the manufacture of electric heating devices, which are sent out under the name and trade-mark of Ameri- can Beauty. The business was established in Detroit in 1894, and its development has been continuous, owing to the initiative and enterprise of its officers, who have recognized the growing tendency for the use of electric devices, as matters of household conven- ience. Their output has met the popular demand in this connection and the business is today one of the important interests of Detroit.
Mr. Kuhn was born in Detroit, May 14, 1879, a son of Franz and Carrie (Hattie) Kuhn, the latter also a native of Michigan. The father was born in Ger- many, but came to America when eighteen years of age and settled in Detroit. He was a merchant tailor and after working in the employ of others for a time he established business on his own account and became proprietor of one of the best known and most exclusive merchant tailoring establishments of the city. He has now retired from business and occupies a fine home at Grosse Pointe Farms. Both he and his wife are en- joying good health and the fruits of his former toil surround them with all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life. With them their son Frank resides.
Frank Kuhn attended the public schools of Detroit aud afterward was employed in various positions until he and his brother, Robert, established an elec- trical contracting business, which proved a successful venture from the beginning. From this they developed their interests into the manufacture of electric heat- ing devices, and the American Electrical Heater Com- pany was organized in 1894 and incorporated in the same year. They began the manufacture of heating devices of a varied character, including flatirons, toasters, toaster or glower stoves, grills, water heat- ers, baby-food warmers, percolators, chafing dishes, dise stoves, radiant heaters, warming pads, luminous
radiators, eigar and pipe lighters, curling-iron heat- ers, pressing irons, etc. These are just out and their class is known as Class A material, while they also produce various devices under the heading of Class B and Class C. Their output bears the trade-mark of American Beauty and their electric heating devices are manufactured in the largest and most completely equipped plant in the world devoted to manufacturing interests of this character. They strive for the very best in designs, material, workmanship and finish, and whatever they manufacture is sure to give the service promised. Their plant equipment includes the latest improved machinery necessary for turning out their product and they now employ over five hundred people, who are efficient and skilled in this particular line of work. The plant was built in 1908 and stands as a monument to the progressiveness, business spirit and powers of organization of the Kuhn Brothers.
Frank Kuhn is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Country Club, the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, the Cross Country Riding Club, the Detroit Curling Club, the Detroit Automobile Club and the Harmonie Society. In these associations are indicated the nature of his recreation and his interests outside of business, and his social qualities make for popularity in the organizations with which he is thus identified.
ARTHUR VON SCHLEGELL, vice president, secre- tary and treasurer of the Hupp Motor Car Company, who initiated his connection with the business interests of Michigan in 1907, when he came to Detroit to accept the position of general contract superintendent with the Michigan Telephone Company, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, December 15, 1872, his parents being Frederick and Marie (Muller) von Schlegell. The family was long well known in Germany, where the grandfather was for years commander of the military school at Potsdam, while Frederick von Schle- gell was an officer in the Grenadiers of Prussia. He came with his wife to the new world in 1870 and after a few years' residence in St. Louis removed to Minneapolis, where he gained distinction as a member of the bar and as judge of the probate court.
In the schools of Minneapolis, Arthur von Schlegell pursued his education until graduated from the high school of that city, after which he planned to enter the University of Minnesota, but before doing so changed his course by taking up the duties of deputy clerk of the probate court. He served in that capacity for two years and through the three succeeding years was a clerk in the National Bank of Commerce of Minneapolis. He next became connected with street railway interests, being a representative of the con- struction and maintenance department of the St. Louis Street Railway Company, while subsequently he was associated with the operating department of the Min- neapolis Street Railway Company for about a year. In the early '90s he entered the telephone field in
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Minnesota and in 1895 was made contract agent for the Northwestern Telephone Company at Minneapolis. His capability again won him steady advancement and from one position to another he passed on until in 1907 he came to Detroit to enter upon the duties of general contract superintendent of the Michigan Tele- phone Company, which in 1910 was taken over by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, shortly afterwards becoming one of the five companies oper- ated as the central group of the Bell Telephone Com- panies and one of the territorial units of the Bell Sys- tem. Mr. von Schlegell was then made general com- mercial superintendent of the Michigan State Tele- phone Company, the Wisconsin Telephone Company, the Cleveland Telephone Company and the Central Union Telephone Company. Upon the reorganization of the Michigan State Telephone Company in 1912, he was made general manager and retained that posi- tion until 1917. He was also president of the She- boygan Telephone Company and vice president of the Lenawee County Telephone Company. On severing his connection with the telephone interests in 1917 he joined the Hupp Motor Car Company, of which he was elected vice president, and since that time he has added the duties of secretary and treasurer to this position. He is bending his efforts to adminis- trative direction and executive control in connection with one of the rapidly developing productive indus- tries of the city. Nor has he confined his efforts solely to this line, for he is also the vice president of the Detroit Auto Specialty Corporation and the vice presi- dent of the American Gear & Manufacturing Com- pany of Jackson, Michigan.
On the 3d of April, 1892, Mr. von Schlegell was married to Miss Grace Laraway of Minneapolis, Min- nesota, and to them has been born a daughter, Abby Elise. Mr. von Schlegell is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Club, Bloomfield Hills Coun- try Club, Grosse Ile Country Club, Detroit Boat Club, the Wolverine Automobile Club and the Manufac- turers Association. He is also connected with the Detroit Board of Commerce and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. His many sub- stantial qualities have made for Mr. von Schlegell an enviable place in club connections as well as in business circles of the city. His entire course since starting out in business has been one of steady progress and from each new task he has learned valuable lessons which have contributed to his experience and efficiency until he is today recognized as one of the forceful and resourceful business men of Detroit, thor- oughly capable of directing one of the large industrial enterprises of the city.
SAMUEL J. WEBSTER. Among the well known real estate men of Detroit the name of Samuel J. Webster carries weight and influence. Through pro- gressive methods and straightforward dealing he has risen to the pinnacle of success in this particular field
of endeavor and is identified with various important companies now operating in the handling of large real estate interests in the city.
Samuel J. Webster was born in Jonesville, Michigan, May 30, 1875, and is a son of John and Ellen (Pound) Webster, both of whom passed away in Michigan. Their family numbered five children.
Samuel J. Webster attended the schools of Jones- ville, Michigan, and pursued a partial high school course there but put aside his textbooks in order to enter sales lines with the Stimsou Company of Detroit. He remained with that firm for a number of years, but, ambitious to engage in business on his own account, he organized in 1914 the Webster-Oliver- Streeter Company for the conduct of a general real estate business. How successful this firm has been in the accomplishment of its objeets is known through the large number of satisfied home owners and land- holders who have secured titles to their property through the agency of this concern. Mr. Webster is president of the Detroit-Hamilton Land Company of Hamilton, Ohio, vice president of the F. A. R. Chem- ical Company and a director of the Fourth Avenue Land Company. He is thoroughly informed concern- ing real estate values and the condition of the real estate market and his business career has ever been permeated by a spirit of enterprise that never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his pur- pose. The firm of which he is the head has placed important subdivisions upon the market, including the Sullivan-Campbell subdivision, the Royal Oak, the Hamilton, Ohio, subdivision, the Fordson Heights sub- division at Hamilton, Ohio, the North Gate subdivision at Flint, Michigan, and the North Gate Heights sub- division, also of Flint.
On the 2Ist of October, 1901, Mr. Webster was mar- ried at Hillsdale, Michigan, to Miss Mary Kane, a daughter of Michael Kane, well known in Hillsdale county. The religious faith of Mr. Webster is that of the Roman Catholic church and he has membership with the Knights of Columbus and also with the Wilderness Club. His residence is at No. 25 Colling- wood avenue.
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