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On the 25th of June, 1919, Dr. Straith was united in marriage to Miss Virginia M. Mott and they have become the parents of a daughter and a son: Virginia Adelle, who was born April 11, 1920; and Richard Edgar, born November 28, 1921.
Like his father, Dr. Straith is a republican in his political views, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonging to Ashlar Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He is also a member of the Delta Sigma Delta, a dental fraternity, and of the Nu Sigma Nu, a medi- cal fraternity, while along more strictly social lines he is connected with the Ingleside Club, the Fellow- craft Club and the Masonie Country Club. In his profession he has already won an enviable position for one of his years, and judging from his past ac- complishments, his future career will be well worth watching. In every relation of life he measures up to the highest standards of manhood and citizenship and his sterling worth has gained for him the respect and goodwill of a large circle of friends.
FRED M. RANDALL, president and treasurer of The Fred M. Randall Company, advertising agency of Detroit and Chicago, is one of the best known men in his line of business in the country, and that he has other qualities as pronounced and as admirable as those which he displays in business is indicated by his popularity in the club circles in which he is a well known figure. Mr. Randall is a native of the Empire state, born in Ripley, Chautauqua county, New York, June 26, 1877, his parents being Fred- erick Nelson and Harriet E. (Mason) Randall, the former a native of Vermont and the latter born in New York. The son attended school in Ripley and in Westfield, New York, and, after completing his preliminary education, entered Cornell University, which he attended from 1896 until 1900, there win- ning the B. S. degree upon graduation with the class of 1900, as well as completing a full course in the Cornell Law School. After leaving college he became affiliated with the firm of Randall, Hurley & Porter, corporation attorneys, Buffalo, where he remained for a year and then became associated with the depart- ment of admissions of the Pan-American Exposition. At the expiration of that period he became the secre- tary of the Randall Grape Juice Company of Ripley, New York, and continued in that business for five years. He still holds his official position, although he is not directly active in the conduct of the business at the present time.
Mr. Randall next entered the advertising field in Chicago, being associated with a number of promi-
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nent concerns there, including the Chicago Tribune and Lord & Thomas, advertising agency, with whom he was connected for two years. He afterward came to Detroit as Detroit manager for the advertising agency of the Charles H. Fuller Company, and occu- pied that position for two and a half years. He next became vice president of the H. K. McCann Company of New York, in charge of their Detroit office, and for two years he was associated with the Taylor & Critchfield Company. In 1915 he organized his own advertising agency corporation, of which he is the president and treasurer. This is a general ad- vertising agency, national in its scope. Through his Detroit and Chicago offices Mr. Randall handles the advertising for a number of the country's most rep- resentative business enterprises, and has created for his clients many well known advertising trade marks, symbols, characters and slogans, the value of which is today estimated in the millions. His own trade mark in the publishing and advertising field is a blue right angle triangle, which expresses the thought "The right angle in advertising" and is the mark of recognition known to the advertising and pub- lishing fraternity where his literature goes. Mr. Ran- dall has associated with him a large staff of adver- tising experts and account executives-in fact, it is an agency of principles. He holds to the highest possible standards and by reason of the excellence of his work and the progressiveness of his business methods he has become one of the mot prominent advertising men of the country. He is a charter member of the American Association of Advertising Agencies and is recognized as an authority along these lines.
On the 22d of July, 1904, Mr. Randall was married to Miss Maybelle Lenore Long of Lima, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Betty Jane, who was born May 17, 1916. Mr. Randall is a Mason, belonging to Palestine Lodge and Chapter, and he has also at- tained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the Michigan Sovereign Consistory, belongs to Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine and Detroit Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar. He is a prominent figure in club circles, belonging to the Detroit Athletic Club, the Wilderness Club, the Detroit Golf Club, the Red Run Golf Club and Detroit Auto- mobile Club. He also has membership in the Seminole Country Club of Georgia, and the Country Club, Boat Club and City Club of Bay City, Michigan. He has his summer home at Ripley, New York, while his winter residence is maintained at St. Petersburg, Florida. He is likewise connected with the Detroit Aderaft Club, Board of Commerce, and was the or- ganizer and first chief of the American Protective League of Michigan, which was a volunteer secret service organization of over four thousand members, existing under the direction of the United States De- partment of Justice, created by war needs, and con- tinuing during the period of the World war. His
political endorsement is given to the republican party, and he is keenly interested in all that pertains to public progress and improvement, while at all times he stands for those things which make for higher ideals in American manhood and citizenship.
MARTIN L. PULCHER, vice president and general manager of the Federal Motor Truck Company, is not only a scion of one of the oldest families in De- troit, but is also one of the representative manufac- turers of the city. He was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, March 21, 1877, and received his early ed- ucation in the schools of Detroit. After leaving the high school he went to work in Pontiac, with the Pon- tiac Buggy Company, and was engaged in the man- ufacture of vehicles for eight years. He then be- came secretary and treasurer of the Oakland Motor Car Company, also of Pontiac, and was actively con- nected with that corporation for five years. In 1910 he became interested in the organization of the Fed- eral Motor Truck Company, and when the company was incorporated in that year he became vice presi- dent and general manager, and has filled both positions during the life of the corporation, with the most gratifying results. In the first year of its existence the company did a business of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars; in 1920, the turnover reached the magnificent total of fifteen million dollars. They make motor trucks complete and sell them all over the civilized world.
Mr. Pulcher is a member of the Engineers Club of New York city and the Detroit Board of Commerce. He is also affiliated with the Detroit Athletic Club, the Automobile Country Club, the B. P. O. E., and the Knights of Columbus. In polities he is a re- publican.
His parents were Martin and Catherine (Murphy) Pulcher. The Pulcher family is of French origin, but the father of Martin L. Pulcher was born in the state of New York. The Pulcher family is numbered among the old settlers of Detroit, the original forebear having settled on Gratiot road in 1837.
FRANK WILLIAM SCHALDENBRAND, one of Detroit's best known photographers, is a native of this city and was born January 29, 1873. While yet a student in the parochial school he took up photog- raphy in a Detroit studio and for seven years re- mained in that connection, acquiring an excellent knowledge of the business. He accepted a position in Chicago, where for a number of years he managed the studio in connection with Siegel, Cooper & Com- pany. When he decided to embark in the business for himself, he located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1902, opened a studio and rapidly built up a fine business. In 1913 he disposed of his interests in the latter city and came to Detroit. In this city Mr. Schaldenbrand has won a position of the highest stand- ing in his art. Specializing in home portraiture, in
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which he was a pioneer in Detroit, he has acquired a clientele that includes the city's foremost fam- ilies and most discriminating patrons. The artistic character and mechanical excellence of his work is widely known in various sections of the country. The Schaldenbrand Studio is at 402 David Whitney building.
Mr. Schaldenbrand has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Mary Andre, who died leaving three children: Gertrude, Corrine and Clara. He later married Miss Anna Andre, sister of his first wife, and they have one daughter, Virginia. Mr. Schalden- brand is a member of the Board of Commerce and of the Detroit Yacht Club. He is the owner of a fine yacht and yachting may be said to be his chief recreation. Mr. Schaldenbrand resides at No. 257 East Grand boulevard.
FRANK WILLIAM BAUMGARTNER. There are in every city certain men who are the outstanding figures in their particular line of business, whose activities and interests constitute the model along which similar establishments are conducted. Such is the Baumgartner Fashion Shop of Detroit, the leading men's clothing establishment of the city. There is no feature of the trade with which F. W. Baumgartner is not thoroughly familiar as affecting both purchases and sales and one has but to buy from the Fashion Shop to know that what he secures is right in style and material.
Mr. Baumgartner was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1865, his parents being Caspar and Barbara (Tremmel) Baumgartner. The father was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, and at the age of twelve years crossed the Atlantic to the new world. After reach- ing manhood he turned his attention to building in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he resided for sixty years, both he and his wife passing away in that city. Their family numbered four children, three sons and one daughter: C. B .; John, a resident of Chicago; Frank William; and Mrs. Mary Baumgartner Kimmel, wife of Joseph Kimmel of Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Frank William Baumgartner attended the public schools of Altoona, Pennsylvania, also St. Vincent's College at Latrobe, Pennsylvania. When he had there completed his course he went to St. Paul, Min- nesota, where he was connected with the J. L. Hudson Company, then conducting the leading clothing estab- lishment in that city. He remained with the house until 1892, when he came to Detroit for the same com- pany, which had opened a new store in Detroit and which now has the leading dry goods house in the Michigan metropolis. Mr. Baumgartner remained with the Hudson Company until 1895, when he decided to engage in business on his own account and leased space in the Chamber of Commerce building. His aim from the beginning was to make the clothing establish- ment which he opened the foremost in its line and how well he has succeeded is attested by the character
of his patronage, the quality of wearing material which he handles and the fact that the public accepts any- thing from the Fashion Shop as standard. Anything sold in the Baumgartner store is a guarantee that it is the latest in style and the best in quality for the money expended. Steadily the business has developed until this is the leading clothing establishment for men in the state. Against the advice of many substantial business men Mr. Baumgartner established a branch on Washington boulevard and Griswold street in De- troit and in so doing has proven the soundness of his judgment, for he has there developed a most successful business enterprise and not long ago secured a lease of the entire Stevens building, in which their store is located, and the first four floors have since been remodeled and are so equipped that this is one of the best men's clothing stores and fashion shops in America. At the present time sixty-five competent sales people are employed by Mr. Baumgartner, who in February, 1907, incorporated the business, of which he has since been president and manager.
On the 11th of June, 1890, Mr. Baumgartner was married to Miss Anna Belle Connolly of St. Paul, Minnesota, and they have three children: Frank Roy- den, born in St. Paul, April 19, 1891, is a graduate of the Detroit high school and is now vice president of the Baumgartner Fashion Shop. He married Irene Sullivan of Detroit, and they have one son, John Francis; Marjorie K., born in Detroit in 1894, is a graduate of St. Marys of the Woods, near Terre Haute, Indiana, and she pursued a law course in the Univer- sity of Michigan, was graduated with the class of 1920, and has been admitted to the bar; Shirley Marie, born in Detroit in 1896, was also graduated from St. Marys, and having taken orders of the church, is now known as Sister Clement.
Mr. Baumgartner and his family are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and he belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He is also connected with the Detroit Golf Club and Oakland Hills Golf Club, the Automobile Country Club at Pine Lake, and the Fel- lowcraft Club. He likewise has membership with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is not only most attractively located in his home surround- ings in Detroit but also has a fine summer home at Pine Lake, Michigan, He has earned for himself an enviable reputation as a careful man of business and in his dealings he is known for his honorable methods, which have won for him the deserved and unbounded confidence of his fellowmen.
GUSTAVUS DEBRILL POPE. Many corporate in- terests have felt the stimulus of the cooperation and business ability of Gustavus Debrill Pope, now vice president of the Digestive Ferments Company of Chi- cago and Detroit and identified with many other im- portant business interests of this city. He was born June 4, 1873, at an army post near Humboldt, Ten-
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nessee, being a son of Benjamin F. and Sarah Lee (Poston) Pope. The father was a colonel in the Medi- cal Corps of the United States army and at his death in 1902 assistant surgeon-general. He was the young- est son of Dr. Gustavus William Pope of Rome, New York, who was born August 4, 1789, at Clarendon, Vermont, and died in Rome, New York, December 10, 1869. His father, Stephen Pope, was a farmer and a son of William Pope (III), a soldier of the Revolu- tionary war, who served as a member of Arnold's expedition to Quebec. He in turn was a son of William Pope (II), a farmer; and a founder of the family in the new world was William Pope (I), who came as a boy from England, settling in Massachusetts in the early part of the seventeenth century. Colonel Benjamin F. Pope, father of G. D. Pope of this review, was born in Rome, Oneida county, New York, was a graduate of Hamilton College of New York and also of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, and joined the Army of the Potomac in 1863 as an assistant surgeon. He married June 12, 1872, Sarah Lee Poston, a native of Eliza- bethtown, Kentucy, and a daughter of the Hon. Charles D. and Margaret (Haycraft) Poston of that place.
Gustavus D. Pope pursued his education in the public schools of Washington, D. C., and Detroit, Michigan, and the schools at the various army posts where his father was stationed. He attended the old Central high school at Detroit and entered upon his business career in connection with the wholesale hardware trade in Chicago, while later he was with the Pintsch Compressing Company at Kansas City and at Atlanta, Georgia.
He was also employed at one time in the operating department of the Macon, Dublin & Savannah Rail- way at Macon, Georgia, and engaged in engineering and railroad construction work in the south and west. He likewise had a short experience with the Cana- dian Bridge Company at Walkerville, Ontario, and next became interested in the Ray Chemical Company of Detroit, of which he became the secretary. Later the Kay Chemical Company was merged with the Digestive Ferments Company of Chicago and Detroit and Mr. Pope became president of this corporation, continuing as its head up to the time of the entry of the United States into the World war, when he re- signed that office in order to devote his whole time to the work of the American Red Cross and the Detroit Patriotic Fund. He is financially and actively in- terested in many other business concerns, being a stockholder and director in the First State Bank of Detroit; the Society for Savings, of which he is president; the Detroit Motorbus Company; the Motors Metal Manufacturing Company of Detroit; and the Safety Car Heating & Lighting Company of New York. He was also one of the organizers of the Eastern Liggett School Corporation.
On the 12th of October, 1904, at Old Forge, New York, Mr. Pope was married to Miss Mary Theresa
Soper, a daughter of Arthur W. and Hetty (Wardwell) Soper of New York city. Her father, a native of Rome, New York, was a railroad mau and organizer of the Safety Car Heating & Lighting Company, of which he remained the president until his death in November, 1901. His wife was the daughter of Samuel Wardwell, a banker of Rome, New York, and a granddaughter of Judge Daniel Wardwell. Mr. and Mrs. Pope have become parents of three children: John Alexander, born August 4, 1906; Elizabeth Lee, born March 15, 1909; and Gustavus Anthony Debrill, born July 28, 1911.
Mr. Pope is a member of the Detroit Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Grosse Pointe Country Club Witenage- mote Club, Detroit Automobile Club, Bloomfield Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Open Hunt Club, Turtle Lake Club, Adirondacks League Club, the Camp Fire Club of America, the New York Zoological Society, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Society of the Colonial Wars. He served as a director of the Detroit Athletic Club from 1914 until 1920. He is now a director of the Society of Arts & Crafts and was its president from 1914 until 1919. He was likewise a director of the Detroit Museum of Art and vice president thereof from 1915 until 1917. In politics he is a progressive republican and was state treasurer and afterward national committeeman of the national progressive party from 1912 until 1914. He was vice president and acting president of the Detroit Board of Commerce in 1910; was a member of the board of supervisors of Wayne county in 1920 and 1921; presi- dent of the Michigan Sportsmen's Association 1920- 1921, and a director of the National Conservation Association. He has served three years as a com- missioner of the Detroit Department of Health and was largely instrumental in the selection and purchase for the city of the fine site for the Sanatorium at North- ville, some six hundred acres, and the erection there of Detroit's Tuberculosis Sanatorium, the finest of its kind owned by any American municipality, and in 1921 served as president of the board. He has been chairman of the Detroit Chapter of the American Red Cross since 1914 and is a member of the executive committee of the Detroit community fund and presi- dent thereof in 1920 and 1921. He is president of the National Information Bureau of New York city, in- vestigating and accrediting war relief and National Social Service Organization agencies. Along many lines his life has been one of intense activity, pro- ductive of far-reaching and beneficial results. He has constantly sought to promote those interests which ameliorate hard conditions of life for the unfortunate and to advance those organizations which are looking to the cultural social education of his fellowmen, and at the same time he has been a contributing factor to the material development and progress of his adopted city. Detroit recognizes the effectiveness of his work, the sound judgment that lies back of all that he undertakes and the high principles which
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actuate him in everything that he does. His position as one of the representative men of Detroit is un- challenged.
GODFREY FREIWALD is one of the pioneers in the insurance and real estate business in Detroit, having successfully operated along those lines in this city for over three decades, and during this period has won a well merited reputation for reliability, en- terprise and business integrity. Practically his entire life has been spent in the "City of the Straits," for he was but a few months old when brought to Detroit by his parents, and has therefore been a witness of its remarkable growth and development, to which he has largely contributed through his business activi- ties. He was born near Berlin, Germany, February 8, 1873, a son of William and Louise (Stramm) Frei- wald, who emigrated to the United States when he was but an infant, taking up their residence in the city of Detroit at an early period in its development. They established their home in Springwells township, where they continued to reside until the mother was called by death. The father is still living. The sur- viving children of the family are: Godfrey of this review; Eleanore, the wife of F. W. Wendt; Minnie, and Emma, who married Louis Bauman.
In the public and parochial schools of Detroit, Godfrey Freiwald acquired his education and on lay- ing aside his textbooks he secured a clerical position in the office of the county clerk. While thus em- ployed he started in the insurance and real estate busi- ness, conducting his interests from his home at No. 1405 West Grand boulevard for a period of twenty years. In 1904 he opened an office in the Moffat build- ing, where for a number of years he transacted all of his business, and he is now located at 2119 Dime Savings Bank building. In his real estate operations he has been most successful, handling listed properties, and he is thoroughly familiar with the worth of all realty in the city, being regarded as an expert valua- tor. He has negotiated many important property transfers and has built up a business of substantial proportions. He has been equally successful in the conduct of his insurance interests, acting as agent for the Equitable Life Insurance Company, the Massa- chusetts Bonding and Liability Insurance Company and other reliable firms, and also deals in fire and automobile insurance. He is thoroughly familiar with all branches of the business and has built up a large clientele, writing a considerable amount of insurance annually. In the conduct of his interests he displays sound judgment, energy and enterprise and his business activities have ever balanced with the principles of truth and honor.
On the 5th of May, 1898, Mr. Freiwald was united in marriage to Miss Minnie A. Lau of Detroit, and of the children born to this union five are living, namely: Edna, Gertrude, Marion, Eleanore and Lois, all of whom are residing at home. In his political views Mr.
Freiwald is a stanch republican, active in support of the principles and candidates of the party, and for five terms he represented the fourteenth ward of De- troit as alderman, supporting many measures which have since proven of great benefit to the city. He is an earnest and helpful member of the Detroit Board of Commerce, cooperating heartily in all of its plans for the development and upbuilding of the city, and fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonging to Schiller Lodge, No. 263, F. & A. M., and represent- ing said lodge on the board of trustees of the Masonic Temple Association; to the Consistory, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree; and to the Shrine. He is also connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Riverside Lodge, No. 303, and Michigan Encampment, No. 1; and with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, being a member of Detroit Lodge, No. 34, of the latter organization. He is likewise a member of the Masonic Country Club, of which he is a trustee, the Cosmopolitan Club, and the Harmonie Society and has many attractive personal qualities which make for social popularity. His has been an active life, filled with honorable purposes and accomplishment. For forty-eight years he has resided in Detroit and he has well used these years, not only to promote his own prosperity, but also to further the development and progress of his city, which has greatly profited by his activities. He was elected treasurer of Wayne county, November 20, 1920.
WARREN D. CLIZBE, who after a brief experience iu the educational field turned his attention to the in- surance business, in which he has now been engaged for thirty years, is at the present time general agent for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. He entered upon this position of responsibility in 1907, and that he has given entire satisfaction to the cor- poration which he represents is manifest in the fact that he has held the general agency at Detroit for fourteen years.
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