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3. Major Hartwick possessed in an unusual degree the qualities needed by the officers and soldiers of the United States army. He was patriotic and loyal to the extreme, steadfast in his devotion to duty, capable and energetic at all times, and his personal example was always an encouragement to his men.
4. In these times when hearts are tried, strength is tested, and lives are lost, it is expected that many of us will follow him in death; and we must all try to serve our country as well and faithfully as he had done.
5. Commanding officers of all companies and de- tachments of the Twentieth Engineers will assemble their troops at four P. M., Saturday, April 6th, and personally read this order to them.
W. A. Mitchell, Colonel, 20th Engineers, N. A., Commanding.
Copies to all detachments
and companies, 20th Engineers.
Another letter of utmost interest follows:
Dear Mrs. Hartwick:
Out of love and respect for Major Edward E. Hart- wick, deceased, I desire to extend to you and your family my most sincere and heartfelt sympathy in this hour of great sorrow.
I am only a private, but having been in the office with and around the Major since the organization of his battalion in Washington, I naturally came to know him and I consider it not only an honor but a relevation to have been associated with and com- manded by a man of his character and ability. He was never tiring in his labors, never weakening in his undertakings and always looking out for the com- fort and welfare of his men. He was faithful to his country, he was faithful to his family, and thus he came to the end of a perfect day on this earth. And
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now I would write across his records "here was a man and a soldier to the end."
His battalion of seven hundred and fifty men will miss his guiding hand, and they mourn his loss with his family.
Very respectfully, (Signed) M. F. Malone.
That Major Hartwick's men recognized his sterling manhood and his deep Christianity is indicated by the little poem written by Corporal J. C. De Camp:
"Sunset and evening star And one clear call"- He followed the Christ to a land afar- He gave his all.
He followed the Christ where the angels are- It is not the end: He is gone ahead in the holy war- He is still our friend.
"Twilight and evening bell"- Our hearts are sad; Yet we know he has answered the Master's call, And his way is glad.
He is gone with the Master he loved so well- He has won to the Light; He has burst the bounds of the outgrown shell, He has fought the fight.
HARRY C. MILLIGAN, a well known legal prac- titioner, formerly a partner in the law firm of Milligan & Milligan of Detroit, was born across the border in Canada, but as he has been living in Detroit since he was two years old, he regards himself as a Detroiter.
Harry C. Milligan was born in the town of Windsor, Canada, July 28, 1883, a son of Dr. Edward T. and Elizabeth (Conlin) Milligan, who came to Detroit in 1885, accompanied by their son, Harry C., then a child of two years. Mr. Milligan was educated in the De- troit parochial school and later entered the University of Detroit, from which he was graduated in 1903. He was admitted to the bar of Michigan in 1909, a grad- uate of the Detroit College of Law. In the latter year the law firm of Milligan & Milligan was formed by Harry C. Milligan and his brother, also a member of the legal profession. This partnership continued until 1912, when Harry C. Milligan opened up a law office on his own account and has since been practicing alone. He has succeeded in creating an excellent reputation in legal circles and is now conducting a growing and influential practice, being generally rec- ognized as one of the prominent lawyers of the younger school in Detroit. Mr. Milligan is not very active in politics, though at his party's request he stood as candidate for recorder in 1916, but failed of election.
Mr. Milligan was married in 1911 to Miss Eloise
Fowler, a daughter of Alex E. Fowler, one of the leading lawyers of the state of Michigan. His home was once where the Detroit Athletic clubhouse now stands. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan are the parents of four children: Lucy, John, Mary and Therese. Mr. Milli- gan is a member of the Automobile Club and is an active advocate of good roads, having for years given time and attention to the promotion of that desirable project. From 1906 to 1908 he was known as a long- distance swimmer, and in other forms of recreation he has been a central figure. He lives at 1458 Seyburn avenue.
WILLIAM GORDON BRYANT, of the law firm of Clark, Emmons, Bryant, Klein and Brown, of Detroit, was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 29, 1875, and is a son of the Rev. William Bryant, D. D., a min- ister of the Presbyterian church, and Caroline (Jeff- ries) Bryant, who are natives of England, the former born at Brighton and the latter at Bath. In early life they came to America. The father was a graduate of Oxford University and he received the honorary de- gree of Doctor of Divinity from Princeton University. For many years he was a prominent representative of the Presbyterian ministry of Brooklyn, New York, then in Iowa, and later came to Michigan. Prior to going into the ministry he acted as confidential man for H. B. Claflin & Company of New York city and he now resides at Ferndale, Detroit, Michigan, and is president of the school board and state clerk of the Presbyterian Synod of Michigan. His activities have ever been a potent force in the intellectual and moral progress of the race and his influence is far-reaching. To Dr. and Mrs. Bryant have been born the following named: Rev. George W. Bryant, D. D., who is regis- trar and assistant to the president of Coe College at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mrs. P. W. Martin of Bay City, Michigan; John A., who is president of the Bryant & Detwiler Company, engineers and contractors of De- troit; and William Gordon, who is the second in order of birth.
In early life William Gordon Bryant attended the public schools of Marshalltown, Iowa, becoming a high school pupil there, and later he pursued his literary and law courses in the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the class of 1896. He became clerk of the court at Mount Clemens, Michi- gan, where he remained until 1899 and then removed to Detroit. Here he entered the office of Clark, Durfee, Allen & Marston and in 1901 was admitted to a part- nership. Changes in the personnel of the firm since that time have led to the adoption of the present style of Clark, Emmons, Bryant, Klein and Brown, and public opinion accords this firm a position of leadership in the legal circles of the state. Their clientele is large and the legal business entrusted to their care has been of a most important character. Mr. Bryant is also a director of the Bryant & Detwiler Company, engineers and contractors.
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On the 15th of March, 1900, was celebrated the mar- riage of Mr. Bryant and Miss Gertrude M. Haynes, a daughter of Dr. J. B. Haynes of Dundee, Michigan. Their children are: Virginia Bryant, who was born in Detroit in 1901 and who graduated from the Liggett School of Detroit and in June, 1921, graduated from Knox School at Cooperstown, New York; and Betty, born in 1907 and now a pupil in the Liggett School.
Mr. Bryant votes with the republican party, which he has supported since attaining his majority. He be- longs to the Detroit Athletic Club, to the Red Run Golf Club, the Detroit Automobile Club, of which he is first vice president, the Ingleside Club of North Woodward avenue, and the Point Judith County Club of Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. Along profes- sional lines his connection is with the Detroit and with the Michigan Bar Associations. The interests of his life are well balanced. He recognizes the fact that one should not only work well but also play well. He therefore finds time for needed recreation and yet his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial, while the thoroughness with which he prepares bis cases is one of the strong points in his success and his legal counsel is regarded as most valuable.
FRANK W. HUBBARD. For many years Frank W. Hubbard has occupied a most conspicuous and honorable position in banking circles in Michigan, controlling important interests of that character and at the same time contributing to the development and upbuilding of the state through his cooperation with other business interests. He has never been afraid to veuture where favoring opportunity has led the way and each step in his business career has been a forward one, bringing him a broader outlook and greater chances. He was born on the 16th of April, 1863, at Port Huron, Michigan, a son of Langdon and Amanda (Lester) Hubbard. The father was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, September 22, 1816, and in 1846 became a resident of Lexington, Michigan, where he conducted business as a prominent lumber- man for a number of years. He afterward removed to Huron city, Michigan, where he carried on his busi- ness interests until 1881 and then became a resident of Huron city, where he passed away in 1892. His wife, who was born in Penn Yan, New York, came to Michigan in her girlhood days and in 1862 was married in Huron city. She died at a comparatively early age, leaving three children: Annabel, now the wife of Professor William Lyon Phelps of New Haven, Connecticut; Richard L., who passed away in 1906 at Buffalo, New York; and Frank W.
The last named was a pupil in the public and high schools of Hartford, Connecticut, and afterward at- tended Bissel's Preparatory school in that city and also the Hartford Business College. After thus ac- quiring his education he returned to Michigan and be- came connected with his father's business at Huron city, where he remained from 1882 until 1886. In
that year he entered the field of banking and steadily since that date has he progressed as a factor in finan- cial and business circles in the state. Opportunity has even been to him a call to action and throughout his career he has recognized and utilized many oppor- tunities which others have passed heedlessly by. His first step in financial circles was made as promoter of a bank at Bad Axe, Michigan, which he conducted under his own name. He afterward established the State Bank of Frank W. Hubbard & Company at San- dusky, Michigan, in 1887; the Sebewaing State Bank in 1888; the Bank of R. L. Hubbard & Company at Caseville, Michigan, in 1889; the Pigeon State Bank at Pigeon, Michigan, in 1891; the Kinde State Bank in 1892; the Bank of Frank W. Hubbard & Com- pany at Elkton, Michigan, in 1900; the Bank of Frank W. Hubbard & Company at Palms, Michigan, in 1905; the Bank of Frank W. Hubbard & Company at Kil- managh, Michigan, in 1910, and he also became a direc- tor and vice president of the Peninsular State Bank of Detroit; a director and vice president of the Peninsular State Bank of Highland Park, Michigan; a director and vice president of the Bankers Trust Company of Detroit; and president and a director of the Grosse Pointe Savings Bank at Grosse Pointe, Michigan, which he established. Thus he has figured most actively and prominently as a financier in this state, promoting many institutions which have con- tributed in marked measure to the business develop- ment and consequent upbuilding of Michigan. He has also extended his efforts into other fields, becoming president of the Michigan Pressed Brick Company, president of the Detroit Stone & Gravel Company and president of the Village Homes & Land Company, which has handled subdivision properties.
On the 7th of June, 1893, was celebrated the mar- riage of Frank W. Hubbard and Miss Elizabeth Lockwood of Norwalk, Connecticut, daughter of Colo- nel F. St. John Lockwood, of a prominent family of Connecticut. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard: Carolyn, who is a graduate of Miss Master's school at Dobbs Ferry, New York, and is now the wife of Charles A. Parcells of Charles A. Parcells & Company, investment bankers at De- troit. Mr. and Mrs. Parcells have two children, Eliza- beth Hubbard, and Charles A., Jr .; Annabel Ruth, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, was born at Port Austin, Michigan, and is a graduate of the Westover School for Girls at Westover, Connecticut. She is now the wife of Bartow Heminway of Water- town, Connecticut; and Langdon, who was born at Port Austin and attended the Culver Military Academy at Culver, Indiana, and at present is studying in And- over, Massachusetts.
Mr. Hubbard belongs to various social organizations, including the Detroit, Detroit Country, Detroit Ath- letie, Riding and Hunt, Grosse Pointe and Oakland Hills Country Clubs. He is also well known in Masonic circles, having attained the Knights Templar degree
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in the commandery, and in church relations he is a member of the Union Protestant church at Grosse Pointe. In 1906 Mr. Hubbard erected a hospital at Bad Axe, Michigan, as a memorial to his father, the hospital known as Hubbard Memorial Hospital. This institution has been nearly self-sustaining since its inception, the credit for its success being due to Dr. Willard J. Harrington, who has been house directing surgeon since its dedication. Mr. Hubbard has been a trustee of Kalamazoo College for the past ten years and a member of its finance committee for the past four years. He was state director for the National War Savings from November, 1917, to the close of the war, raising upwards of thirty million dollars in the sale of War Savings Stamps. He is a man of strong purpose who formulates his plans carefully and is determined in their execution. His careful study of every situation prevents any false move or unwarranted risk and in the conduct of his banking business he has tempered progressiveness with a wise conservatism that has insured absolute safety for the depositors of the various banks with which he has been connected.
HENRY MAZER, a cigar manufacturer of Detroit, whose name has become widely known as a synonym for quality in his chosen line, was born in the Ukrain- ian province of Russia, May 5, 1870, his parents being Aaron and Susan Mazer, whose family numbered seven children, the others being: Jacob, Simon, Marcus, Joseph, Mrs. Garvet and Mrs. Wagman.
In his native country Henry Mazer attended school and also pursued his studies for a time after crossing the Atlantic. In 1882 there was a large emigration of Russians to this country and Henry Mazer came with his parents to the new world. Two of the elder sons of the family had already become residents of the United States and were located in Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania. After Henry Mazer had completed his course in the public schools he engaged in the cigar manufacturing business in connection with his father under the name of the Aaron Mazer Company and this association was maintained for several years. In 1889 he opened a store on his own account on Webster avenue in Pittsburgh and there continued in the man- ufacture of high grade cigars. His business outgrew the available space, however, and he removed his store to Allegheny, where he continued until 1898, when he came to Detroit and established business at No. 352 Sixth street. Mr. Mazer has always manufactured the brands of cigars which he handles. After one year at his original location he found that his quarters were inadequate to his steadily growing business and he removed to a larger building on Antoine street, where he continued for another year. His next removal took him to the old Church building on Willis avenue, where he continued in the manufacture of his now popular brands of cigars until 1912. In that year he built a large two-story factory at the corner of Theodore and
Grandy streets. The production of this factory for the first year was about seven hundred and fifty thousand cigars. Today, after eight years, the output will well exceed one hundred million, he having attained a position as the largest cigar manufacturer of Detroit. His name is known to every user of cigars in the city and is at all times regarded as a synonym for quality. He manufactures the Dime Bank, Miss Detroit, Villa Vista and Humo cigars and through their excellence contributes to the pleasure that every man obtains from a good smoke. It has never been his policy to sacrifice quality to quantity, nor has he permitted the high cost of raw tobacco to cheapen the grade of his product.
On the 17th of July, 1899, Mr. Mazer was united in marriage to Miss Cora Bayne of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, and to them has been born a daughter, Elba, whose birth occurred in 1901 and who is now attending university.
Mr. Mazer is a member of the Board of Commerce and is much interested in all the projects of that organization for the upbuilding and benefit of the city. He likewise belongs to the Vortex Business Men's Club and he is the president of Eastern Star Temple. In Masonry his connection is with Ashlar Lodge, with the Consistory, the Shrine and the Grotto. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias and is an active worker in the Young Men's Christian Association, while at all times he has been a liberal contributor to charities. In politics he has ever voted for men and measures rather than party and has made it his purpose to fulfill every duty of citizenship, co- operating in every project that looks to the welfare and benefit of Detroit.
VOLNEY P. BAYLEY, whose name for many years was synonymous with the music trade of Detroit, was born in Troy, Oakland county, New York, on the 28th of April, 1843, and passed away on the 7th of De- cember, 1920. His parents were James and Dorcas (Pearsall) Bayley. The father located in Oakland county in 1823, removing to this state from Auburn, New York. He was born in the Empire state in 1802 and for many years remained a valued resident of Michigan, passing away in 1887. His family num- bered three children.
Volney P. Bayley acquired a public school education and afterward attended the Agricultural College of Michigan, while later he completed his studies in the Normal school of Ypsilanti. He came to Detroit in 1866 and through the intervening period to the time of his death retained his residence here. He had been in Detroit for only a brief period when he became identified with the music trade of the city, in the employ of C. J. Whitney, at 40 Fort street, West. Later Mr. Bayley established his own business, which he conducted until he retired a few years previous to his death. He was familiar with the best musical instruments on the market and his reliability and dis-
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criminating taste in music was of much value to his patrons in their selections of the merchandise which he handled. Men knew that what Volney P. Bayley said could at all times be depended upon, for his word was as good as any hond solemnized by signature or seal.
On the 27th of November, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mr. Bayley was married to Miss Martha Mack, a daughter of Joel H. Mack of that city. They became the parents of one son: Frank J., a prominent business man of Detroit, owner of the Bayley Music House.
Mr. Bayley was a stanch republican in his political views and gave unfaltering allegiance to all those measures which he deemed of value as factors in pro- moting the welfare of community, commonwealth or country. He was a member of the Woodward Avenue Baptist church and his life was ever guided by the highest principles. Mrs. Bayley survives her husband and resides in the family home at 35 Longfellow avenue.
CLARK CAMPBELL HYATT is the head of the real estate firm of C. C. Hyatt & Company and is known in Detroit as "the leasehold man of the down- town district," enjoying a most enviable reputation for his excellent judgment in executing big deals and securing important leases. He was born in Flint, Michigan, March 12, 1874, a son of Ferris Forman and Phehe (Campbell) Hyatt, the former a native of New York city and the latter of Pittsfield, Pike county, Illinois. Ferris Forman Hyatt was graduated from Harvard University with the class of 1845, and following the Civil war, in which he took active part as an officer in the quartermaster's department, he re- moved to Flint, Michigan, where he hecame well known as a financier and banker. He was one of the organ- izers of the First National Bank of Flint and served as its president for many years. His life ended there in 1883, but he was long survived by his wife, who died in Flint in 1909. They had a family of five children, four of whom are living, Marion Tower having passed away in 1907. He was the eldest of the children and Clark C. was the second in order of birth. The others are: Mrs. Anna Begole, Jane Camp- bell and Ferris Forman.
In early boyhood Clark Campbell Hyatt attended a private school and later was a student at Cornwall- on-the-Hudson, New York, while subsequently he en- tered Phillips Exeter Academy, in which he completed his studies in 1891. He later became a student at the University of Michigan, and after two years spent there he returned to Flint, when he entered the coal business on his own account, conducting a very successful enterprise of this character from 1896 until 1900. He then sold out in order to go to Mexico, where he promoted and developed mining and plantation properties, remaining in that country and looking after various interests there until 1907. He
was next located in Boston, Massachusetts, where he conducted a general brokerage business and promoted California mining and oil properties in that state. He resided in Boston until 1911, when he came to Detroit and entered the real estate field, developing property and securing long term leaseholds in downtown loca- tions. In recent years he has closed many big leases for business buildings, including the Vinton building, Friedberg building, Metropole Hotel property, the lease of the Detroit Leasing Company, of which he is president, on the sontheast corner of Michigan avenue and Shelby street, which is undoubtedly the biggest realty contract ever consummated in the city of De- troit. Among many other important deals he also carried through the Sallan lease on the northeast cor- ner of Woodward and Gratiot avenues, of special in- terest to all Detroiters, for the rental is believed to be the highest per square foot ever paid for any property in the world. He handles only big real estate deals and has become one of the foremost factors in this field in the City of the Straits.
On the 28th of December, 1915, Mr. Hyatt was mar- ried to Miss Linnie Bell Tucker, who was born in Louisville, Kentucky, their marriage, however, being celebrated in New York city. Her parents are Henry St. George and Martha (Black) Tucker, representa- tives of prominent families of Kentucky. By a former marriage Mr. Hyatt has a daughter, Phehe, Camp- bell, now residing in Brookline, Massachusetts. She is a highly accomplished young woman, who was edu- cated at Dana Hall and Smith College.
Mr. Hyatt belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Zeta Psi, a college fraternity, to "The Lambs" of New York city, and also to the Sons of the American Revo- lution; in the world of business he is a member of the Detroit Real Estate Board, and the Board of Com- merce. In politics he inclines to the democratic party, though not strongly partisan. His way has been worked upward entirely unaided, advancing steps through an orderly progression having brought him into most prominent business relations. He has now associated with him a partner, Dwight J. Turner, also a man of wide experience in the big things in real estate and formerly a prominent lumberman of On- tario. The firm is rapidly developing its business and now has an extensive clientage, conducting in- terests of great magnitude in the real estate field.
J. L. KRIMMEL, well known in insurance circles in Detroit, at present occupying the position of president of the Gillespie & Krimmel Company, insurance agency, and former member of the common council of the city, is a native of Detroit, born December 28, 1882, a son of Albert and Lena Krimmel, the latter also a native of Detroit.
J. L. Krimmel was educated in the public schools of Detroit and has been a resident of the city through- out his life. His first step toward working for him- self was as a clerk in the wholesale grocery of Ward
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L. Andrus Company, where he begau at the age of seventeen and remained in that employ for four years, or until Mr. Andrus went out of business. He then went to Lee & Cady, and at the end of a year he accepted the position of deputy clerk under Louis W. Himes. He continued during the two terms filled by Mr. Himes and also held the same position under Thomas F. Farrell's incumbency of the office.
Following the close of his work as deputy clerk Mr. Krimmel entered the insurance field and in 1915 the Gillespie & Krimmel agency was formed. This business was incorporated in 1917, with Mr. Krimmel as president, and under his able guidance the affairs of the agency have gradually expanded and are now in a flourishing condition. It is generally conceded that in Mr. Krimmel the agency has an energetic, able and responsible executive. In addition to the insur- ance branch, the agency also handles real estate trans- actions.
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