The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Vol. IV, Part 44

Author: Burton, Clarence Monroe, 1853-1932, ed; Stocking, William, 1840- joint ed; Miller, Gordon K., joint ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Detroit-Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1024

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Peter J. Ternes, brother of Rev. Anthony P. Ternes, is pastor of Holy Cross church at Marine City, Mich- igan. William P. Schulte, a nephew of Rev. Anthony P. Ternes, is pastor of Holy Name church in Detroit. The present church edifice was dedicated February 14, 1892, and four years later Father Ternes was called to the pastorate. Here he has remained in charge and his work has been attended with notable and beneficial results, for every branch of the church work has been developed, its societies thoroughly organized, its property greatly extended and improved. Father Ternes has been untiring in his efforts and has the confidence and love of his people in an unusual degree.

In 1910 he took a trip around the world and has made other excursions to European countries, finding great pleasure in his extended travels and at the same time gaining much valuable information that he has used for the benefit of the church and the community at large. He is keenly interested in current events, is a brilliant speaker and is frequently heard in the discussion of the vital questions and problems that affect Detroit and the country at large.

LUCIAN S. MOORE, JR., established for years in Detroit in the real estate business and otherwise iden- tified with the general affairs of Detroit, is a native of this city, born March 18, 1885, a son of Lucian S. and Rebecca (Pierson) Moore, also well known citizens of Detroit.

Lucian S. Moore, Jr., began his educational course in the public schools, after which he entered the De- troit University School and the University of Mich- igan, from which latter institution he was graduated with the class of 1907, as a mechanical engineer. He then took a course in Harvard Law School, where he remained for one year.

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Although qualified in engineering and in law, Mr. Moore has not followed either as a profession. At the present time he is engaged in handling real estate, with which he has been identified in Detroit since 1909, and during the intervening period he had met with marked success, the sphere of his operations broadening as time passed by. On January 1, 1919, Mr. Moore entered into a partnership and the firm of Wormer & Moore was organized, and since that date they have been dealing in real estate on a large scale, the reputation of the firm along that line having wide scope.

On October 8, 1910, Mr. Moore was united in mar- riage to Miss Frederica Sibley, and they have be- come the parents of three children: Lucian S., III, born in Detroit in November, 1911; Jean, and Frederick Sibley, born in January, 1919. Mrs. Moore's mother's father was A. M. Campau, a son of Joseph Campan. Mr. Moore is a member of the Country Club, the De- troit Club, the University Club, the Grosse Pointe Hunt Club; the Bloomfield Open Hunt Club, and the Detroit Cnrling and Racquet Club, in the affairs of which he takes a practical and warm interest, as he also does in civic matters pertaining to the welfare of the community, with the social and cultural move- ments of which he and his wife are prominently iden- tified.

JAMES H. McDONALD, well know both as lawyer and business man of Detroit, was born in Macomb connty, Michigan, February 14, 1853, his parents be- ing Theodore F. and Elizabeth A. (Jones) McDonald, both of whom have passed away. The district schools near his father's home afforded him his early educa- tional privileges, his time being divided between his studies, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields as he assisted in carrying on the labors of the farm. He also attended the high school at Mount Clemens, Michigan, the Ann Arbor high school and the University of Michigan. In the latter insti- tution he was graduated from the literary department in 1876 and won his LL. B. degree upon graduation from the law department in 1878. The same year he was admitted to practice before the bar of the state and has since been a representative of the legal profession in Detroit, where he has successfully con- dneted many important litigated interests, enjoying a large and distinctively representative clientage. He is a member of the Detroit and Michigan State Bar Associations and enjoys the confidence and high re- gard of his professional colleagues and contemporaries.

Mr. McDonald has also given considerable time to other business interests. He finds recreation and pleas- ure as well as profit in horticultural and agricultural pursuits and in 1913 he erected the MeDonald build- ing at No. 1323 Woodward avenue, in Detroit, which is used for office purposes. In 1917 he completed a business block at the corner of Woodward avenue and Beresford avenue, in Highland Park.

Mr. McDonald has been thrice married. He first wedded Martha Ireton and to them was born a daugh- ter, Martha I., who is now the wife of H. L. Lanca- shire of Toledo, Ohio. For his second wife, Mr. Mc- Donald chose Martha Mclellan, daughter of Andrew Mclellan, by whom he had three daughters: Mary McLellan, now the wife of Professor Wilmer C. Harris of Butler College, Indianapolis, Indiana; Elizabeth Anne, a graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1920; and Margaret A. On the 18th of May, 1904, Mr. McDonald married Christine Jewell.

Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. McDonald has been a supporter of democratic principles. His religions faith is that of the Episcopal church and he is connected with various societies and organizations, some purely social while others have more serions purposes. He belongs to the Detroit Municipal League, the Detroit Civic League and the Detroit Board of Commerce, also to the University of Michigan Society, the Church Club, the Lawyers Club and the Ingleside Country Club. His interests are of broad scope and his activities bave ofttimes been resultant factors in promoting public progress or up- holding civic standards.

FREDERICK R. STILL, who has attained a posi- tion of prominence in connection with mechanical engi- neering and manufacturing lines in Detroit, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and pursued a public school education in that city. Interested in architecture from early life, he took up the study under the direction of W. W. Johnson and after a year and a half in his employ entered the office of W. G. Malcomson, one of the noted architects of Detroit. Later he was with E. R. Prall and assisted him in the building of the waterworks at Pontiac, Michigan. Subsequently he returned to the employ of Mr. Malcomson and when he again severed this connection he went to Buffalo, New York, with W. W. Johnson, his first employer. In 1887 he joined the Hnyett Smith Manufacturing Company as a draftsman and was soon afterward, in recognition of his ability, promoted to chief engineer. In 1895, when the company was reorganized under the name of the American Blower Company he was elected to the vice presidency. He has been with this impor- tant industrial concern from the time when the bnsi- ness was of bnt slight proportions, the company then employing only abont twenty-five men. Throughont the intervening period he has not only witnessed but has contributed to its growth and progress until it is one of the mammoth commercial and industrial con- cerns of the city, having an average of one thousand employes. He has been not only a prime factor in the growth and development of the American Blower Com- pany but is also a pioneer in connection with the blower industry in America.

On the 19th of October, 1897, Mr. Still was mar- ried to Miss Harriet Humphrey of Greenwich, Con- nectient, and they have one son, Roscoe W. Still, born

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July 14, 1904, in Detroit. His membership connection is a very broad ene. He belengs to the Detroit Ath- letic Club, Detreit Yacht and Detroit Automobile Clubs, the Board of Commerce, the Autemobile Coun- try Club and the Masenie Country Club. He is widely known in Masonie circles, being a member of Detroit Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M .; King Cyrus Chapter, No. 133, R. A. M .; Damascus Cemmandery, No. 42, K. T .; and Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine, while he also has membership connections with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is likewise actively identified with important business and technical er- ganizations, belonging to the Detroit Engineering So- ciety, the American Society ef Mechanical Engineers, the American Society ef Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers and the Milwaukee Junction Manufac- turers Asseciation, of which he is the president, while of the Society for Savings of Detroit he was elected president in January, 1921, and is also a director. In 1917 he was made president of the American So- ciety of Heating & Ventilating Engineers and chair- man of the research bureau of that organization. He stands as a splendid type ef American manhood and chivalry, whose high character marks him as ene ef sterling werth and his business career is snch as should awaken in him a feeling of justifiable pride. Starting eut for himself empty-handed with no training be- yond that which the public schools offered, he has steadily progressed and in the years which have gone by has not only outstripped many who have started out on the journey of life ahead of him or under more fortunate circumstances, but has beceme recegnized as a dynamic ferce in industrial circles, his interests be- ing of a character that has ever contributed to publie progress and prosperity as well as to individual success.

RALPH HARMAN BOOTH. Newspaper publishers originally were net business men; they were jour- nalists and they had the stamp of the genius upon them, with its onesidedness and usual lack of busi- ness capacity. Editors still have something of the old temperament, but progress and changing condi- tiens have developed things until today we speak ef "newspaper writers," "newspaper men" and the "newspaper business." To the newspapers ef teday system and efficiency methods are being applied as successfully as in other lines. Although the amalgama- tion of journalistie genius and business acumen has not yet been completely accomplished, we are getting nearer te it. The modern independent newspaper pub- lisher believes that the people should be allowed to decide important questions for themselves, and the organ of the propagandists and politicians is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. With this recognition of broader policies the newspaper has at once assumed the character of a social institution and a public utility, with what is sometimes called a "tacit fran- chise from the people." The editor-publisher ef te- day is finding the solution in the truly fair and judi-

cially edited newspaper. He has conceived that the greater and more unselfish his service to the people the greater the financial benefits which accrue as the result. It is becoming recognized alse that ene news- paper serving the people in a given community is a real advantage.

Twenty-five years ago there was published in the fourteen leading cities of the lower peninsula ef Mich- igan forty-one daily newspapers; teday there are but twenty-one, although populatiens have more than doubled within that period. In ten of these cities there is but one daily newspaper. This has enabled the smaller cities to have metropolitan newspapers in every respect. Under the old conditions this would have been impossible because the support ef news- papers is in ratio of their number to the population. The mest distinctive newspaper successes of the pres- ent day are being achieved by these men who have recegnized the great opportunity and are aligning themselves with these bread, up-to-date policies and ideals. A leader in the movement to advance the standard of Michigan newspapers is Ralph H. Booth, president of the Booth Publishing Company, which controls and prints a chain of dailies famous through- out the country for their almost unparalleled effec- tiveness and prosperity.

Mr. Beeth was born in Toronto, Canada, Septem- ber 29, 1873, a son ef Henry Wood Beeth and Clara L. (Gagnier) Boeth. When he was eight years old his parents moved to Detroit, where the rest of his scheeling was obtained. Circumstances did net en- courage a college education, so in 1888 Mr. Beoth began his business career with The Detroit National Bank. Three years later he embarked in the business which has since engrossed his entire attentien. Frem the cashier's desk of The Detroit Tribune he ad- vanced te the office of business manager. On June 25, 1895, he became secretary and business manager of the Chicago Journal, the oldest daily paper in Illinois, of which later he was editor and publisher at the age ef twenty-eight years. He sold the Journal in 1904 and returned te Detroit, resuming connectien with The Detreit Tribune as editor and publisher, in which capacity he continued until that paper was merged with The Detroit News.

Mr. Booth saw beyond the possibilities of the big cities and discerning great pessibilities in the state, he began buying, consolidating and develeping prep- erties to the number of more than a dozen. Today he is president of the Booth Publishing Company, and as such is the active head of seven streng papers: The Grand Rapids Press, The Flint Journal, The Sag- inaw News-Ceurier, The Jackson Citizen Patriet, The Bay City Times-Tribune, The Ann Arbor Times News and The Muskegon Chronicle. Two ef these are first in their fields in everything that constitutes the lead- ing paper and each of the others is the only daily paper new published in its city.

Mr. Booth resides at 870 Jefferson avenue, Detroit.

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On May 23, 1906, he was married to Mary M. Bat- terman, daughter of John H. Batterman of Chicago. They have two children: John Lord and Virginia King- wood. Mr. Booth is a Reformed Episcopalian, but he is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal cathedral congre- gation. For the past two years he has been first vice president of The Associated Press and is now chair- man of the central advisory board of that organization. Mr. Booth may be said to be the leader in the art. affairs of Detroit. For several years he has been trustee and president of the Detroit Mnsenm of Art and in 1919 was appointed by Mayor Couzens to the arts commission of the city and elected its first president.

Among the social organizations of which Mr. Booth is a member may be mentioned the Detroit Club, the Country Club of Grosse Pointe, the Bloomfield Hills Country Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Old Club of St. Clair Flats, the Detroit Athletic Club, The Players Club, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Detroit Board of Commerce. He is a trustee of Grace hospital, member of the board of directors of the Detroit Symphony Society and vice chairman of the Detroit Chapter of the National Red Cross.

FREDERIC H. ZEIGEN, president and manager of the Bankers' Land and Investment Corporation but perhaps even better known through his author- ship, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, April 18, 1874, his parents being Cass and Mary (Weber) Zeigen. The father was born in Basel, Switzerland, and was the youngest son of the mayor of that city. The mother was born in Stuttgart, Germany. The mother is descended from the famous musical family of which Frederick Wilhelm Weber, the composer, was the head. They came to America in 1848 and settled in Detroit. The Weber family took up their abode on Adams avenue in Detroit, where they owned prop- erty which they later traded for a farm that is now in the heart of the business district of Saginaw, Michigan. The father, Cass J. Zeigen, subsequently entered into the manufacturing business in Saginaw and was one of the successful men of that place, passing away there in 1909. The mother is still living, spending most of her time with her son at Twin Towers, but still occasionally returning to her old home in Saginaw, which she refuses to sell and which is the oldest landmark on the East Side. In their family were seven children: Edward, who is residing in Phoenix, Arizona; Mrs. Clara Richer of Chicago; Frederic H., of this review; George, living in Monroe, Louisiana; Cass, who is the treasurer of the Bankers' Land and Investment Corporation; Mrs. Rose Hadley of Detroit, whose husband is the auditor of the Lib- erty Motor Company of this city; and Arthur, who is head of the lumber trust, with headquarters at Portland, Oregon.

Frederic H. Zeigen attended the public schools of Saginaw, completing a high school course there in

1890. Afterward he studied law in the office of Hon. John E. Bird in Adrian, Mr. Bird afterward becom- ing chief justice of the state of Michigan. Later he attended the Ypsilanti high school, from which he was graduated in 1899. He then became a student in the State Normal College at Ypsilanti and was graduated with honor in 1900, being class poet and president of his class. Subsequently he turned his attention to the profession of teaching in normal schools and later was appointed superintendent of schools in Michigan, filling that position for three years. While thus engaged he took up short story writing and also penned many poems which were widely read. His novel, Therold Archer Knowlton, received much favorable comment. He likewise wrote several other novels and twenty or more popular songs, not only composing the music but also writing the words. These won great popularity and were in wide demand. Later Mr. Zeigen became the asso- ciate editor of the Gateway Magazine under Hon. Joseph E. Greusel, the editor, so continuing until the latter's death, when he became special writer to Mr. Burroughs of the Detroit News, his work being largely in connection with the Sunday edition. He was after- ward closely associated with James Oliver Curwood, one of Michigan's most popular writers, who is the author of twenty novels, among which are The Hunted Woman, The Valley of Silent Men, River's End, etc.

While engaged in editorial work Mr. Zeigen became interested in real estate and by reason of his prop- erty holdings entered the real estate business, which he took up in connection with Mr. Hannan, with whom he was associated for a year and three months. In the meantime he became Mr. Hannan's subdivision manager but at length decided to engage in business independently, and in 1906 the Zeigen Real Estate Ex- change, which was the forerunner of the Bankers' Land and Investment Corporation, was founded, first as a private concern, while later it was incorporated. The business of which he is the president has grown to large proportions, being one of the important real estate and realty banking concerns of the city. Later Mr. Zeigen founded an auxiliary organization known as the Zeigen Construction Company, of which he is also the general manager. He likewise organized the Warwick Park Land Company, the Kenilworth Park Land Company, the Ecorse Land Company and the Wayne Park Land Company, but all of these have since been absorbed by the Bankers Land and In- vestment Corporation, which was incorporated in 1919 and which is nationally known as The Million Dollar Housing Corporation. Since Mr. Zeigen has been en- gaged in the land investment and construction busi- ness he has built and helped to finance more than five thousand houses and has assisted other home- seekers by supplying capital for a like number of homes in loans. He has at different periods been identified with various other corporations, but many

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of his interests have been consolidated under one organization.

On the 20th of November, 1899, at Ypsilanti, Mich- igan, Mr. Zeigen was married to Miss Myrtle Comer, a daughter of former Senator and Mrs. George Comer. Mr. and Mrs. Zeigen have two children: Eola Val- encia, who was born at Reed City, Michigan, in Feb- ruary, 1902, and is now attending National Park Seminary at Washington, D. C .; and Phyllis Myrtle, who was born in Detroit in 1910 and is a pupil in the graded schools of Ypsilanti.

Mr. Zeigen gives his political allegiance to the republican party but has never been an office seeker. He is well known in Masonic circles, belonging to Michigan Sovereign Consistory, thirty-second degree, S. P. R. S., and to Moslem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., while in the York Rite he has taken the Knights Templar degree in Michigan Commandery He also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the Scarab Club, of the Authors League of America and together with Edgar Guest, Will Levington Comfort, Frederic Isham and James Oliver Curwood was one of the organizers of the Michigan Authors Association, many of the members becoming famous as authors. He belongs to the International Historical and the National Geographic Societies, has been a member of the Michigan State Teachers' As- sociation and the National Education Association and was a charter member of the Detroit Real Estate Board and the new Detroit Board of Commerce. His military history covers connection as captain of the Light Infantry of Saginaw. He was also a first lieutenant of the Adrian Volunteers in the Spanish- American war, but was not mustered into service. In the World war he endeavored to get into service but was refused on account of age and was appointed by Governor Sleeper on the state war board, on which he served until the close of the war. It is seldom that a man with the artistic and creative temperament which results in authorship of high merit and composition of songs of great popularity has, too, the qualities which make the successful business man; but Mr. Zeigen possesses all these powers and his name is most widely known throughout the state by reason of his prominence in business circles and by his contribution to the music and literature of the state.

Mr. Zeigen has resided in Detroit for nearly fifteen years, but he and his family spend most of their time at Twin Towers, their country home near Ypsi- lanti, Michigan, where Mr. Zeigen in spare time in- dulges his hobby of attending to his large gladiolus gardens, several new varieties being credited to his work.

AUGUSTUS I. GALORNEAU, who has lived all his life in Detroit, where for years he has been identified with different branches of the iron and metals trades, at present occupying the position of secretary, treas-

urer and manager of the American Screw Products Company, is a native of Detroit, born November 5, 1869, a son of Isaac and Adaline (Prue) Galorneau. The Galorneaus are of French origin. Mr. Galorneau's father was a native of Montreal, Canada, and he came to Detroit in the '50s, when the city was in its for- mative stage. The mother was a native of Quebec and is yet a resident of Detroit, while the father passed away many years ago.

Augustus I. Galorneau was educated in the public schools, but in consequence of the death of his father when Augustus was ten years old, the latter began to work to help the family when he was but eleven, being Company. He then entered the employ of the De- troit Screw Works, where he remained for twenty- three years. Later he became a manufacturer's agent for a time and then became connected with the Penin- sular Milled Screw Company, with which concern he remained for thirteen years, during which time he acquired a thorough knowledge of the iron and steel trades.

With the experience secured in the various fields where he had hitherto been employed, Mr. Galorneau decided to branch out into business for himself and on October 1, 1915, he organized the American Screw Products Company, of which he is secretary, treasurer and manager. The output of the company covers every kind of special work, everything that may be produced in the form of bar steel, iron, brass, or bronze, being in their line. From the commencement the un- dertaking has been an unqualified success, due to the managerial and executive capacity displayed by Mr. Galorneau.

In 1895 Mr. Galorneau was married to Emma Gerou, and they have become the parents of four children: Beatrice, Ethel, Ada and Russell. Mr. Galorneau is a member of the Detroit Antomobile Club, of the Mich- igan Manufacturers Association, and of the Board of Commerce, in the affairs of which he takes a warm interest. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. All the success that has come to Mr. Galorneau is attributable to his stability of character and energy; commeneing in a very small way, he now occupies a prominent position in the business life of Detroit.

J. MARTIN BROWN, president of Brown, Preston & Derrick, Incorporated, leading architects and engi- neers of Detroit, specializing in the designing of high class commercial and industrial edifices, is well qual- ified for the work in which he is engaged, owing to thorough scientific training and broad practical expe- rience, and has attained high standing in professional and business circles of the city. He was born in New York, November 29, 1882, a son of Walter N. and Sophia (Von Armbruster) Brown and one of a family of four children, the others being: Nelson; Frances,

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The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Vol. IV, Part 44

Author: Burton, Clarence Monroe, 1853-1932, ed; Stocking, William, 1840- joint ed; Miller, Gordon K., joint ed Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Detroit-Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 1024

Author: Burton, Clarence Monroe, 1853-1932, ed; Stocking, William, 1840- joint ed; Miller, Gordon K., joint ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Detroit-Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1024