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In Detroit, on the 10th of April, 1915, Hugo
Kuschewski was united in marriage to Miss Martha Nachtegal, who passed away on the 9th of April, 1916, leaving an infant daughter, Martha.
In politics Mr. Kuschewski maintains an independent course. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and he belongs also to the Detroit Board of Com- merce and to the Detroit Coal Exchange. He de- serves much credit for what he has accomplished. He started out in life when a lad of fourteen years and has since been dependent upon his own resources. It is true he entered upon a business that had already been established by his father, but in controlling and enlarging this he has displayed marked enter prise and keen business discernment and the prosper ity which has come to him is well merited.
REV. FREDERICK L. HEIDENREICH, pastor of the Church of the Nativity, was born in Detroit, August 16, 1867, a son of Frederick and Margaret (Trumpf) Heidenreich, the former a native of Ger- many, while the latter was born in Alsace-Lorraine.
Father Heidenreich was educated in the St. Mary's parochial school at Detroit and made his preparation for high school in the public schools. He took up his studies for the priesthood in St. Francis College at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he spent five years. He then matriculated at St. Mary's Seminary at Bal- timore, Maryland; holy orders were conferred upon him on the 21st of April, 1895, the ordination cere- mony being conducted by Bishop Foley in St. Mary's church at Detroit.
He was then assigned to the Catholic parish at Manchester, Michigan, where he labored for five years, after which he was transferred to Carleton, Michigan, where he continued his work for twelve years. In September, 1911, he was appointed by Bishop Foley to organize the new parish of the Nativity in Detroit and has since remained in charge. During the inter- val he has labored here the church and school building were erected in 1912-13 and the Sisters' Home was built in 1915. At present (1920) plans are under way for the construction of a new church edifice. The work of the church has been promoted continuously under the labors of Father Heidenreich, whose pastor- ate here now covers nine years time. Father Heiden- reich is also chaplain of the First Michigan Regiment, Knights of St. John.
HARRY F. BROOKES, proprietor of the A. W. Brookes Printing Company, was born in Detroit, October 28, 1887, his parents being A. W. and Louise (Fisher) Brookes, who were natives of Canada and Detroit, respectively, their marriage being celebrated in this city. The father was a printer by trade and established the A. W. Brookes Printing Company in 1881. He began business on a small scale, but the excellence of his work and the reliability of his methods led to the gradual development of his patron- age until his business had become one of large pro-
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portions. A small plant was established first at No. 59 Monroe street, but in later years Mr. Brookes was obliged to seek larger quarters and removed to the Marquette building, where the company now has con- siderable space and is conducting an extensive and growing business. The father died in Detroit in 1909 and the mother is still living in this city. The family numbers but two children, the daughter being Marie Brookes, who is with her mother.
Harry Brookes of this review was a pupil in the grammar school and in the Eastern high school of Detroit, and then began learning the printer's trade in his father's plant. He had acquired a comprehen- sive and thorough knowledge of the business at the time of his father's death, when he assumed the management. Under his wise direction the business has steadily grown and prospered and excellent work is turned out from a plant of modern equipment, which furnishes employment to twelve people.
On the 30th of April, 1912, Mr. Brookes was married to Miss Margaret Sullivan of Detroit, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Sullivan, and they have become parents of one child, June, born September 1, 1913. Mr. Brookes is a worthy follower of Masonic teachings. He has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Masonry and is also a member of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Masonic Temple Club and to the Fel- loweraft Athletic Club. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church. He is true and loyal to every cause which he espouses and in business adheres to a high standard of commerical ethics.
CLARENCE JOHN CHANDLER, one of Detroit's successful business men, whose constantly broadening activities have brought him to a foremost position in the lines where his activities have led, was born March 19, 1871, at Canton, St. Lawrence county, New York, being one of a family of six children, whose parents were Harvey G. and Maria (Stacy) Chandler. The family removed from Canton to Ogdensburg, New York, and there Clarence J. Chandler attended the public schools until he had passed through con- secutive grades to the high school. When his student days were over he engaged in the egg business with his father, who at that time was conducting exten- sive interests of that character in the east. At the age of seventeen Clarence J. Chandler was admitted to a partnership, under the firm style of H. G. Chand- ler & Son. Later he established a branch office for the firm in New Hampshire, when but nineteen years of age, also a branch in Boston. From the beginning he displayed marked executive ability and unfaltering diligence, allowing no obstacles nor difficulties to bar his path toward his designated goal.
In March, 1892, Mr. Chandler came to Michigan, settling at Chelsea, where he engaged in the conduct of a wholesale business in eggs, under his own name. He has since been a resident of Detroit and has gained
a position in the foremost ranks of its business men. In the fall of 1897 he came to Detroit and continuing in the same line, first established offices in the old Chamber of Commerce building. For a time he was located in the eastern market. He became one of the pioneers in the chain store business, handling tea, coffee, butter, eggs and similar commodities. When one venture was placed upon a substantial basis he would institute another, until he personally owned and controlled nine stores that were bringing substan- tial financial returns. However, wishing to confine his interests to the wholesale egg business he sold his stores to his employes, thus enabling those who had assisted him in winning his prosperity to gain a start in the business world for themselves. Mr. Chandler handles eggs only in carload lots through his local office and has developed a business that is scarcely exceeded in volume by that of any other dealer along similar lines in the United States, dis- posing of over a thousand carloads in the year 1920. Through his packing houses he specializes also in the packing and shipment of eggs. He has builded a remarkable business and is today a prominent figure in commercial circles. His position is that of director and treasurer of the Hicksville Produce Company of Hicksville, Ohio, owner of a large packing house at West Unity, Ohio; president of the Eaton Packing Company of Eaton Rapids, Michigan; and vice pres- ident of the Elmore Packing Company of Elmore, Ohio. Among his other interests he is president of the Detroit Baking Company, an enterprise that has felt the force of his business acumen and has become one of the highly prosperous industries in its line in Detroit. He is likewise a director of the Kempf Com- mercial & Savings Bank of Chelsea, Michigan. He occupies a suite of offices in the Penobscot building and there directs the control of his varied interests.
On the 1st of January, 1896, in Chelsea, Michigan, Mr. Chandler was married to Miss Myrta Kempf of that city, a daughter of Charles H. and Mary (Freer) Kempf. Mrs. Chandler comes from one of the fore- most families in that section of the state. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, is vice president of the Michigan chapter of the Daughters of 1812 and is a member of the Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania, also of the Founders and Patriots. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have a son and a daughter: Harold Kempf, born August 8, 1902, mem- ber of the class of '24 in Amherst College; and Dorothy Elizabeth, who is a student in the Lasell Seminary at Auburndale, Massachusetts.
Since becoming residents of Detroit the Chandlers have gained a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintances. Mr. Chandler is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, the Detroit Boat Club and the Lochmoor Golf Club of Grosse Pointe. He is likewise identified with many societies and organizations, which are looking to the better-
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ment of trade conditions and the progress and up- building of the community along civic lines. He has membership in the Board of Commerce, is a member of the national advisory board of the Old Colony Club, belongs to the Detroit Mercantile Exchange and to the National Butter, Egg and Poultry Association. He is also an honorary member of the Detroit Real Estate Board and holds extensive real estate interests, having made large investments in property since com- ing to Detroit. He is one of the founders of the Commonwealth Club of New York city and has been a member ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler hold mem- bership in the Brewster Congregational church, of which he was deacon for more than twenty years, and he takes keen interest in church work and kindred lines of activity. He is a member of the American board of commissioners of foreign missions, is a mem- ber of the national council of the Congregational church and has held various other offices, which look to the moral and spiritual progress of the community and of the race. He is a trustee of Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler's residence at Grosse Pointe Shores is one of the most pleasantly located properties in that aristocratic locality.
JOHN A. RUSSELL, editor, railway official and in turn a director of the Detroit Mortgage Corporation and of the American Public Utilities Company, has by reason of his forcefulness and resourcefulness reached a position of leadership in connection with interests of vital importance concerned with the development and upbuilding of Detroit. He was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, November 4, 1865, and is a son of John and Alice (Brennan) Russell, who were natives of Killowen, in County Down, Ireland, the family being distantly related to that of Charles Russell, late attorney general of England and after- ward Baron Russell, of Killowen. Coming to the new world, John Russell was one of the early captains on the Great Lakes. He passed away in 1869 and the same year John A. Russell was left an orphan by the death of his mother.
The early educational opportunities enjoyed by John A. Russell were those afforded by the Holy Trinity School of Detroit and in 1883 he completed a course in Detroit College, winning the degree of Bach- elor of Arts, while in 1885 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. From the University of Detroit he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1916 and he is now dean of the School of Commerce and Finance of that institu- tion, to which he has lately added a foreign trade division.
Mr. Russell has since 1871 been a resident of Detroit and entered the field of journalism in connection with the Detroit News in 1883. For some time he occupied a reportorial position and from 1885 until 1887 was assistant managing editor. In the latter year he was promoted to associate editorial writer
and so continued until 1896. In the meantime he had been an earnest student of business conditions and principles, of civic problems and possibilities, and his recognized devotion to the welfare of the city and his capacity for accomplishing results for the benefit and advancement of Detroit led to his appointment as secretary of the Detroit Board of Commerce for the years 1896-7. Upon his retirement from that position he was made secretary-treasurer of the De- troit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor Railroad and so continned for two years. In 1898 he was elected to the presi- deney of the Detroit, Plymouth & Northville Rail- road and occupied that office until 1902. He then became treasurer of the Detroit, Flint & Saginaw Rail- road, so continuing for four years. His labors have largely been of a constructive character, meeting the needs and exigency of the city and its development, and since 1917 he has been a director of the American Public Utilities Company. He is also a director of the Detroit Mortgage Corporation and his active sup- port of plans and projects for Detroit's welfare and upbuilding is evidenced in his service as president of the Detroit Board of Commerce, to which position he was recently elected, taking office April 1, 1921. He had previously served as vice president. He has been the president of the Ecorse Land Company and of the Manufacturers Publishing Company.
In religious faith Mr. Russell is a Roman Catholic and in political belief a democrat. He belongs to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which largely indicates the trend of his interest and activity. During the period of the war he served as chairman of local board, No. 7, of Detroit, of the selective service draft, from 1917 until 1919 and in 1918 and 1919 was federal director of the United States employment service and of the United States public service reserve. In 1920 he was elected by the board of education of Detroit as a member of the Detroit Public Library Commission to serve until 1926. The commission has elected Mr. Russell its secretary. The high ideals which he has cherished for public good have found embodiment in practical efforts for their adoption. He has mastered the lessons of life day by day and his postgraduate work in the school of experience has placed him with the men of eminent learning and ability in his adopted city.
DWIGHT J. TURNER. Although he has been a resident of Detroit for comparatively a short period, the name of Dwight J. Turner is by no means an unknown factor in the real estate circles of the city, where he is operating as a partner of Clark Campbell Hyatt, under the firm style of C. C. Hyatt & Com- pany, in the handling of real estate and large lease- holds. He was born in Bay City, Michigan, March 14, 1876, and is a son of Joseph and Eliza (McFarlin) Turner, likewise natives of this state. Here they were reared, educated and married and spent their lives. The father was connected with the lumber
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interests of Bay county and Canada, operating ex- tensively as a lumberman in those two sections. He passed away at Bay City and his wife also departed this life there. They had a family of four sons: Arthur B., now deceased; Dwight J .; Clarence A., residing in Detroit; and Stanley F., who is living in Los Angeles, California.
In early youth Dwight J. Turner was a pupil in the public and high schools of Bay City, Michigan, and following his graduation he continued his studies in Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He next entered the University of Michigan, where he re- ceived his LL. B. degree in 1898. Following his grad- uation in law he became associated with the late Don M. Dickinson, with whom he continued for two years and then gave up law practice to engage in the lumber business, of which he had gained wide, comprehensive and accurate knowledge during his boyhood days through association with his father. From 1900 until March, 1919, he was active as a representative of the lumber trade in various parts of Ontario. In 1919 he came te Detroit and became associated with Clark Campbell Hyatt, who is known as the "down-town leaseheld man." They formed the firm of C. C. Hyatt & Company and are rapidly making an enviable record for big real estate transactions in the business district of the city.
On the 23d of January, 1907, Mr. Turner was married te Miss Florence Phillips of Toronto, Canada, a daughter of the late Francis J. and Anna (Bacon) Phillips of Queens Park, Ontario. They were of a prominent and wealthy family of Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have three sons: Phillip Dwight, who was born in Toronto in 1908 and is attending the Upper Canada College; Joseph, who was born in 1910 and is alse a student in the Upper Canada College; and Stephen Francis, who was born in 1912 and is now attending the Detroit University School.
Mr. Turner is a member of the Zeta Psi, a college fraternity, and also of A. U. V. at Andover.
DONALD E. SAVAGE, a well known citizen of Detroit, where for years he has been identified with one form or another of insurance business, and whe at present is the vice president and treasurer of the Parrish & Savage Agency, Incorporated, is a native of Detroit, bern in the city on July 31, 1882, a son of Sidney Russell and Katherine Priscilla (Wilkins) Savage, who occupied a prominent place in the social life of Detroit in their day.
Mr. Savage was educated in the public schools of Detroit-in that part which was then Springwell town- ship. His first business venture was that ef clerk in the local railroad freight office, where he remained for three years, after which he went into the whole- sale ceal business, continuing in this line for five years. At the end of the latter period he became connected with the color chemical business, employed by Theodore H. Eaten & Son, where he remained for
a further term of six years, at the end of this time taking up insurance work, to which he has since given his attention.
On starting out in the insurance business Mr. Savage joined the American Automobile Insurance Company, with which he has been connected up to this time. On May 1, 1919, he organized the insurance agency (incorporated) of Parrish & Savage, of which he is vice president and treasurer, and under his guidance the business has been making steady progress, being recognized as one of the best of its class in this part of Michigan. The Parrish & Savage Agency, Incorpo- rated, is credited with writing an annual turnover of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of insurance, which for a young company is an excellent showing, and is a tribute to Mr. Savage's enlightened business ability and organizing capacity.
On June 6, 1915, Mr. Savage, was united in marriage to Miss Irene Josephine Coleman, and they are the parents of two sons: John Wilkins and Donald Ernest. Mr. Savage is a member of the Zion Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons and of the Detroit Athletic Club, in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest. He is an up-to-date, well-read man, wrapped up in his family, his business and the progress of the city, where he and his wife have a large circle of friends, by whom they are held in the highest esteem.
JAMES TORRENCE LYNN, president of the White Star line of steamships and for many years extensively connected with public utility interests in Michigan and adjoining states, was born in Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania, February 18, 1856, a son of James and Jane (Ferguson) Lynn. After attending the public schools of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, he entered upon an apprenticeship in the machine sheps of the North- ern Pacific Railroad at Duluth and at Brainerd, Minne- sota and after thorough preliminary training became locomotive engineer on the same road, while subse- quently he engaged in railroad esrvice on the Pitts- burgh & Lake Erie Railroad, making his home in his native city in 1876 and 1877. He was afterward em- ployed at the gas plant in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and his developing pewer in that connection won him promotion to the position of foreman of various plants and he was eventually made an executive officer. He was subsequently connected with the gas industry in different cities of the country. In 1893 he came to Detroit, where he continued his efforts along the same line of business, and in 1898 he effected the con- slidation of a number of gas and lighting plants under the style of the National Gas, Electric Light and Power Company, which included fourteen public utility companies of this character. Mr. Lynn was the president of the corporation and continuously served as its directing head until 1917, when he dis- posed of his utility interests, continuing, however, as a director of the American Railways Company.
Mr. Lynn has been for many years a familiar figure
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in the business and industrial circles of Detroit and is numbered among the city's strong and able busi- ness men whose varied and extensive interests have been no inconsiderable factor in Detroit's growth. Among his other interests he has been for a number of years a director of the White Star Line and in 1921 became its executive head. His powers of organ- ization, his executive ability and his initiative have often been reflected in the success of projects with which he has been identified. These characteristics have been manifest not only in his business career but in his attitude toward all civic and publie ques- tions and were particularly evident during the World war, when as a "dollar-a-year man" he went to Wash- ington as a director of the Bureau of Gas and con- tinued to serve in the capital city throughout the period of active hostility with Germany.
Mr. Lynn's life history covers a military chapter of service as captain of Battery B of the Light Artillery of the Pennsylvania National Guard, His religious faith is that of the Christian church and fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and at one time was identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and from 1883 until 1889 he served as a member of the city council in Chattanooga, Ten- nessee. He belongs to the Detroit Board of Com- merce and is a widely known club man, having mem- bership in the Detroit Athletic, Detroit, Audubon, Detroit Country, Bloomfield Hills Country and Detroit Automobile Clubs, also in the Lotus Club and the Engineers' Club of New York city, the St. Clair Hunting and Fishing Club, the Rainbow Club, a hunting and fishing organization of which he is presi- dent, the Bimini Rod and Gun Club of the Bermudas and the Bras Coupe Hunting and Fishing Club of the province of Quebec. He also holds membership in the American Gas Association, the Illuminating Gas Engineers Society and the Natural Gas Association of America.
Mr. Lynn was married in St. Thomas, Ontario, Can- ada, to Miss Frances Louise Kerr Pelton.
EDWARD A. RICH is one of the younger mem- bers of the Detroit bar and is steadily forging to the front in his profession as a result of his energy, ability and close application. He was born in Cleve- land, Ohio, March 9, 1890, a son of James and Rose (Lefton) Rich, and in the public schools of his native city he acquired his early education, after which he entered the Detroit College of Law, which conferred upon him the degree of LL. B. On the 18th of June, 1915, he was admitted to the Michigan bar and he has since practiced his profession in Detroit, main- taining a suite of offices in the Penobscot building To his chosen life work he gives his undivided attention and has won a liberal clientage for one of his years. With a nature that cannot be content with Vol. III-22
mediocrity, he has closely applied himself to the mastery of legal principles and his clear and cogent reasoning and careful presentation of his cases indi- cate his careful and thorough preparation.
At Frankfort, Michigan, on the 10th of July, 1914, Mr. Rich was united in marriage to Miss Helen Lee, a daughter of Joseph and Alice Lee, prominent resi- dents of that place. To this union has been born a daughter, Alice Rosalie, whose birth occurred on the 14th of January, 1917. Mr. Rich is deeply interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of his city and is a valued member of the Detroit Board of Commerce, while his professional connections are with the Commercial Law League of America and the Lawyers Club. His time and attention are concen- trated upon his law practice and in a profession demanding keen intellectuality and individual merit he is making continuous progress.
MATTHEW H. TINKHAM needs no introduction to the readers of this volume, for he is most widely known as a member of the law firm of Crandell, Tinkham & Baxter. He was born in Romulus town- ship, Wayne county, Michigan, December 30, 1888, and is a son of Wellington H. and Addie M. (Hosmer) Tinkham, also natives of Wayne county, the latter being a daughter of Andrew Jackson and Martha (Eldred) Hosmer, who were natives of Flat Rock, Michigan, and of Ohio, respectively. In the paternal line, too, history records long connection of the Tink- ham family with Michigan's development. The grand- father, John Hillary Tinkham, removed from Vermont during the pioneer epoch in the settlement of Michigan and bore his part in the work of reclaiming wild land for the purposes of civilization.
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