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Michigan numbers Mr. Clizbe among her native sons. He was born at Quincy, January 18, 1858, his parents being James and Abigail P. (Rounds) Clizbe. He completed his education by graduation from the Normal College at Ypsilanti, Michigan, with the class of 1880, and in the same year he accepted the super- intendency of the schools of Birmingham, Michigan, where he remained for two years. In 1882 he be- came superintendent of schools at Lapeer, Michigan, occupying that position until 1887, when he became the head of the public school system of Ionia, there remaining until 1891. This terminated eleven years' connection with educational work, and he turned his attention to the insurance field, becoming connected with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1891. He acted as solicitor until 1907 and then en- tered the employ of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California, of which he has been general agent since 1907, with offices in Detroit.
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On the 2d of August, 1882, Mr. Clizbe was married to Miss Nellie Richardson of Birmingham, Michigan, and they are the parents of a daughter, Marion R., who is the wife of Harry Allen, an attorney of De- troit, and they have two children, Eleanor L., and James Clizbe Allen. Mr. Clizbe is a member of Birmingham Lodge, Knights of Pythias and has at- tained high rank. He is a past grand chancellor and was supreme representative to the supreme lodge for eight years. He is also a member of Birmingham Lodge, F. & A. M. He is now serving his third term as president of the government of Birmingham. He also belongs to the Life Underwriters Association and his religious faith is manifest in his membership in the First Presbyterian church, of which he has long been a member of the choir, and he has served in various church choirs for the past fifty years. He finds diversion and interest in the cultivation of shrubs and flowers and has developed the grounds around his home, at Birmingham, which present great beauty. He also finds keen joy in trips into the forest and to him nature speaks a varied language, revealing to him many of her secrets and her beauties that are unknown to the casual observer.
CHARLES WELLMAN HITCHCOCK, M. D., special- izing on the treatment of nervous and mental diseases in Detroit, where his practice is extensive and of an important character, was born in Kalamazoo, Michi- gan, July 26, 1858, a son of Dr. Homer Owen and Fidelia (Wellman) Hitchcock. He is a lineal descend- ant from both Governor William Bradford and Elder William Brewster of the Plymouth colony. Dr. Hitch- cock's father was born in Westminster, Vermont, and the mother's birth occurred in Cornish, New Hamp- shire, and following their marriage in 1856 they came to Michigan, establishing the family home in Kalama- zoo, where the father continued in the active practice of medicine to the time of his death on the 7th of December, 1888. For more than a decade he had sur- vived his wife, who died in Kalamazoo, December 8, 1874. They were the parents of three children, the eldest of whom is Dr. Charles W. Hitchcock of this review. The second son was the Rev. Albert W. Hitchcock, who was pastor of the Central Congrega- tional church of Worcester, Massachusetts, and died in 1907. The daughter, Mrs. S. O. Hartwell, is the wife of the former superintendent of public schools in Kalamazoo, who is now superintendent of the schools of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dr. Hitchcock was graduated from the Kalamazoo high school with the class of 1876 and then entered Olivet College, after which he continued his studies in the University of Michigan, pursuing a literary course that brought him to graduation on the 1st of July, 1880, at which time the Master of Arts de- gree was conferred upon him. After his graduation he taught school for three months in a district school near Kalamazoo and then completed the school year
at Flint, Michigan, as principal of the high school there. Later he was for one year superintendent of schools at Paw Paw, Michigan. He was also super- intendent of schools at MeGregor, lowa, and subse- quently entered the Detroit Medical College. While engaged in the study of medicine he taught at the Liggett school of Detroit. He won his professional degree on the 4th of March, 1885, and afterward be- came assistant physician in the Eastern Michigan Asylum at Pontiac, there remaining for a year and a half. In September, 1886, he went to New York city, where he pursued postgraduate work and then, returning to Detroit, acted as assistant to Dr. H. W. Longyear for six months. He engaged in general practice for a few months in Kalamazoo and returned to Detroit in February, 1889, after which he engaged in general practice for a time. Later, however, he concentrated his efforts and attention upon mental and nervous diseases. He was chief surgeon for the Standard Accident Insurance Company of Detroit for thirty-one years. He has been on the staff of neurol- ogy in connection with Harper Hospital for the past twenty years and has been adjunct professor of nervous and mental diseases of the Detroit College of Medi- cine. He belongs to the American Medical Associa- tion, the American Psychiatric Association, the Mich- igan State Medical Society, the Wayne County Med- ical Society, the Detroit Academy of Medicine and the Detroit Society of Neurology and Psychiatry.
On the 24th of December, 1891, Dr. Hitchcock was married to Miss Eunice Ingersoll, daughter of Nathan- iel B. and Deborah Ingersoll of Salem, Massachusetts. They have become parents of three children: David I., born in Detroit in 1893, was graduated from the Central high school and from Dartmouth College with the class of 1915. He has lately won his Ph. D. degree from Columbia University and has been ap- pointed a fellow in general physiology at the Rocke- feller Institute for Medical Research. During the war he enlisted as a member of the One Hundred and First Michigan Machine Gun Battalion of the Twenty-sixth Division and was later transferred to the chemical warfare division. He saw service with the latter organization overseas, being stationed at Hanlon Field, France, which was near general head- quarters. He returned to America in December, 1918, going to Camp Dix, and was discharged at Camp Custer with the rank of corporal in January, 1919; Charles Carleton, born in Detroit in 1894, was grad- uated from the Central high school and completed a literary course at Dartmouth College in 1916. In April, 1917, he joined the United States navy as an able seaman, was promoted to be ensign and received a commission, being placed in command of Submarine Chaser No. 89, engaged in coast patrol duty. He received his discharge in 1919 and was again employed for a time by Parke Davis & Company, but was obliged to leave that work for physical reasons, and is now on the executive staff of the J. L. Hudson Company.
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He married Miss Madeline Hoar of New York city and they have a son, Charles C., born March 12, 1920; Hugh Wellman, the third son of the family, was born in June, 1899, and was attending the West Point Military Academy but on account of an injury to his leg resigned and is now nearly through the Univer- sity of Michigan and is acting as editor of the Mich- igan Daily, the university paper.
Dr. Hitchcock is a member of the Psi Upsilon. He is well known in club circles as a member of the University and the Detroit Golf Clubs and his re- ligious faith is manifest in his connection with the First Congregational church. The major part of his time and attention, however, is concentrated upon his professional interests and duties. He was form- erly a trustee of the Pontiac State Hospital, appointed to fill a vacancy and is now consulting neurologist to the Children's Free Hospital and to the Eloise Hospital and also to Harper Hospital. His pronounced professional ability has brought him to the front and something of his high standing is indicated in the fact that he has been the secretary of the section on nervous and mental diseases of the Scientific As- sembly of the American Medical Association, having served for three years, which is the limit of service in that body.
LLOYD PENISTON JONES, whose name is enrolled on the list of well known manufacturers in Detroit, being connected with one of the important industrial interests now operating under the name of the Federal Bearing & Bushing Corporation, was born September 12, 1884, in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Norman Marriott and Mary Bancroft (Lloyd) Jones. In the paternal line the ancestry came from Wales nine generations ago, settling in Bermuda, where stands Innwood, the old Jones mansion in Paget Parish, that was built of native stone nearly three centuries ago. Francis Jones, the ancestor of Lloyd P. Jones in the seventh generation removed, was governor of Bermuda for four terms, from 1742 to 1760. Francis Jones' eldest son, Thomas Jones, was also gover- nor for one term.
Lloyd P. Jones pursued his education in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated as a mechanical engineer with the class of 1907. He then took up the insurance business, in which he continued for two years, and later he was with the American Bronze Company at Berwyn, Pennsylvania. In 1913 he came to Detroit as representative of that company, but ambitious to engage in business on his own account, he saw opportunity for a step in that direction in 1915. The Federal Brass Works had es- tablished a business in a small way and Mr. Jones secured an option upon this and in association with others, became the purchaser. He then reorganized the business and through the intervening period has made it a distinct success. The name of the company was changed to the Federal Bearing & Bushing Cor-
poration in 1918, with Mr. Jones as president, S. C. Reynolds as vice president and treasurer and F. C. Heath as secretary. They manufacture Babbitt lined bronze back bearings, bronze bushings and bronze cast- ings, and something of the volume of their business is indicated in the fact that their employes number three hundred. They have a splendidly equipped factory and the highest standards of workmanship are main- tained.
In 1915 Mr. Jones was married to Miss Dorothy Ballantyne and they are the parents of three chil- dren: Dorothy Peniston; Francis and Hester Lloyd. Mr. Jones belongs to the Country Club, the University Club, the St. Anthony Club of Philadelphia, and also to the Delta Psi, a college fraternity. While at the university Mr. Jones was the intercollegiate cross country champion of America, and record holder in 1906. He was the intercollegiate half mile champion of America in 1908, and also a member of the Ameri- can Olympic team which competed in and won the Olypmic games of 1908, held at London, England. He is a most enterprising and public-spirited young man, who has keen interest in the welfare and progress of the city as well as in the conduct of his individual business affairs. He bears the reputation of being a superior executive, and laudable ambition and unfal- tering enterprise have carried him to a point of prominence in the business circles of Detroit. His residence is at Grosse Pointe.
ABRAM W. SEMPLINER. Immediately following his graduation from the University of Michigan, in which he received his LL. B. degree, Abram W. Semp- liner entered upon the practice of law in Detroit, where he has reached a creditable position in the ranks of Detroit's attorneys. He is a native son of Michigan, his birth having occurred in Bay City, October 15, 1881. His father, William Sempliner, was a resident of Bay City, Michigan, where for thirty- five years he conducted a general merchandise store.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Abram W. Sempliner attended the graded and high schools of Bay City and then entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in which he pursued his law course, receiving the LL. B. degree upon grad- uation with the class of 1902. The same year he entered the law office of Alexander J. Groesbeck in Detroit. He is engaged in the general practice of law and has enjoyed a large and growing clientage that has connected him with many important litigated interests. Nor has his attention been confined solely to his professional activities, for he has become a fac- tor in the management of a number of important business concerns, being the secretary and treasurer of the Stuart Foundry Company, secretary and treas- urer of the Montgomery Chemical Company, and sec- retary of the Detroit Accessories Corporation. His sound judgment, keen business discernment and fac- ulty for separating the important features of a busi-
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ness from its unessential elements, have been strong factors in promoting the growth of these concerns.
On the 26th of June, 1907, in Detroit, Mr. Semp- liner was married to Miss Ida May Tipling, a daughter of Thomas and Ann Tipling of Detroit, and they have become the parents of two sons: William Myron, born June 23, 1908; and Abram W., Jr., born May 7, 1913.
In his political views Mr. Sempliner is a republican, giving stalwart support to the party and keeping well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He belongs to the Detroit Bar Association and was an associate director of the legal advisory board during the World war. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to Union Lodge, No. 3, F. & A. M. He resides at No. 1625 Chicago boulevard.
OTHMAR E. SCHULTE, a practical optician, for years engaged in carrying on an optical business of his own, which he had incorporated in 1914, is a native of Detroit, born on November 16, 1880, a son of Peter and Josephine (Kuhn) Schulte, also natives of De- troit.
Othmar E. Schulte, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the parochial schools of Detroit, and at the age of thirteen he started out to work on his own account. Some two years later he became connected with the optical business, the various details of which he thoroughly mastered. He finally acquired a busi- ness of his own in 1902, and from the very commence- ment met with a good measure of success, his personal supervision being largely responsible for the satisfac- tory results which accrued. In 1914, owing to the healthy development of his trade, Mr. Schulte had the business incorporated under the title of the Schulte Optical Company with E. J. Schulte as president; M. R. Schulte as vice president, and Othmar E. Schulte as secretary and treasurer. The company has a steadily growing reputation for the excellence of the optical goods which it handles and for sight-testing, etc., and it is generally regarded as one of the fore- most houses in the optical line in Detroit.
On October 21, 1903, Mr. Schulte was united in marriage to Miss Margaret R. Merron, and they have become the parents of eight children: Marion, Evelyn, Donald, Grace, Richard, Edmund, Russell and Margaret. Mr. Schulte is an active member of the Board of Com- merce, in the affairs of which he takes a warm in- terest. He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, and in other directions gives of his time and ability to the furtherance of movements designed to advance the social and cultural progress of his native city.
CHESTER MACFARLANE MARTIN, an active, up- to-date business man, for years identified with the brokerage market and with the commercial life of Detroit, where he occupies a responsible position with the Burdick-Thomas Company, a firm of well known brokers, was born across the border in London, Ontario,
March 26, 1979, but for considerably more than twenty years has been a resident of the United States.
Chester Macfarlane Martin was educated in the high school and at the Toronto University. He came to Detroit with the Canadian Pacific Railroad Com- pany and opened up their export and import business in this part of Michigan, remaining in the employ of the company for nine years, after which he was as- sociated with the grain business for three years.
In January, 1914, he joined H. C. Carson & Com- pany, grain merchants, holding for a considerable time the office of secretary, and then vice president and secretary, which offices he still holds. Mr. Martin has an extensive acquaintance among the commercial classes of Detroit, where he is well and favorably known, no less for his commercial status than for his worth as a citizen. He is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and of the Detroit Board of Trade, in the affairs of which he takes a keen interest.
In September, 1910, Mr. Martin was nnited in mar- riage to Mary MacAlpine, and they are the parents of two sons and one daughter living: Archibald Mac- Alpine Martin, Jamie Macfarlane Martin, and Mary Katherine Martin. Mr. Martin is a thirty-second de- gree Mason, a member of the Palestine blue lodge, of the Palestine chapter, and of Detroit Commandery, No. 1.
Mr. Martin gives a good eitizen's attention to public affairs, but has never been a seeker after po- litical office, and he and his wife are active in all social and cultural movements designed to advance the welfare of the community.
LON WEST HAYNES, M. D., who has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Detroit for the past fourteen years, has won a prominent position in professional ranks of the state as a specialist in diseases of women and children. He was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, on the 10th August, 1883, his parents being Charles and Mary (West) Haynes, who were also natives of the Buckeye state. The father, who won prosperity both as a farmer and merchant, passed away at Hillsboro in 1917, when he had attained the age of sixty years. The mother, however, still survives and yet makes her home at Hillsboro. They were the parents of two sons: Roy A., federal prohibition commissioner of Washington, D. C .; and Lon West, of this review.
The latter obtained his early education in the graded and high schools of his native town and then spent two years as a student in Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, while subsequently he entered the University of Michigan, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1906. On the completion of his more specifically literary course he entered the medical department of the university, which conferred upon him the degree of M. D. in 1908. Throughout the intervening period of twelve . years he has remained in Detroit, where he has built
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up an extensive and important practice and has won statewide renown as a specialist in the treatment of diseases of women and children. He is serving on the staff of Harper Hospital and the fact that at all times he keeps thoroughly conversant with the most advanced work of the profession is indicated in his membership in the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.
On the 28th of October, 1908, in Detroit, Dr. Haynes was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Daines, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hawley E. Daines of this city. They have become parents of two children: Virginia, who was born in Detroit in 1910 and is now attending school in this city; and Charles Hawley, whose birth occurred in Detroit in 1915.
Dr. Haynes maintains an independent political at- titude, casting his ballot as his judgment dictates without regard to party ties. He is a Master Mason and a worthy exemplar of the teachings of the order. He belongs also to the Fellowcraft Athletic Club and the Ingleside Club. His interests are varied, but nothing is allowed to interfere with the efficient performance of professional duties, in which he man- ifests both zeal and skill. His prominence is indeed well merited, for it has come through the development of native powers and ability and the acquirement of skill that is obtained only from genuine, self-denying effort. His sterling manhood as well as his profes- sional attainments command for him the respect and honor of those with whom he has been associated. He resides at 919 Lawrence avenue.
JAMES EMERSON MORRISON, president of the James E. Morrison Company, general industrial engi- neers, is one of the progressive business men of De- troit and through his efforts many substantial business concerns of the city as well as other sections of the country, have been placed upon an improved operating basis. The company supervises both the production and the handling of products, insuring a greater output and sale of whatever is handled by its clients. It takes charge of all departments, studies every phase of the business and institutes plans and management that re- sult in a higher degree of efficiency. Such is the work of James E. Morrison, a Canadian by birth, who has found in the business conditions of the United States the opportunities which he has sought for development and advancement.
Mr. Morrison was born at Sarnia, in the province of Ontario, Canada, January 4, 1879, his parents being Robert and Isora (Britney) Morrison, who were also natives of Ontario and were greatly esteemed and re- spected by a host of warm friends there. They were also the parents of three daughters: Stella, who is the wife of Joseph Shaw, a resident of Canada; Jennet, the wife of Johnston Taylor, also of Canada; and Ethel, the wife of John Jolly, who is living in Sas- katchewan.
James E. Morrison, the only son, was a pupil in the public and high schools of Sarnia and completed a course in a business college, thus qualifying for his later activity in the business world. He made his initial step by securing employment in the Capac Savings Bank of Capac, Michigan, and during the four years of his connection with that institution rose from a humble clerkship to the position of assistant cashier. He next entered the employ of the Southern Coal & Transportation Company of Berryburg, West Virginia, with which company he remained for two years in a clerical capacity. He was also with the American Bridge Company for a period of six months, occupying an office position. In 1906 Mr. Morrison went to Lansing, Michigan, where he entered the em- ploy of the Michigan United Railways Company and became head bookkeeper, later becoming purchasing agent and auditor of the Northern Construction Com- pany, which was controlled by the Michigan United Railways Company. In 1909 he went to New York in the employ of the Emerson Company, efficiency engineers, there serving for two years. It was while in that employ that he gained his early experience in his present line of business and he opened an office on his own account in New York, but operated there for only a short time. In 1911, believing that there were excellent business opportunities in Detroit, he came to this city and established an office at No. 810 Union Trust building. He has since opened his present office in 1160-1162 Penobscot building and has made the firm of which he is now the head one of the well known concerns in the city. The success of the business has been due largely to his personal efforts, his enterprise and his untiring activity. He gives su- pervision to all matters intrusted to the company for development and his judgment is sound and reliable, his sagacity keen and his insight clear. He readily recognizes the possibilities of a situation, does away with the unessential elements and fosters those ele- ments which are necessary to the growth and expan- sion of the trade, with results that have been most gratifying to those who have had the benefit of his services.
Mr. Morrison was married in 1906 to Miss Vida Ice of Philippi, West Virginia, and their marriage has been blessed with four children: Kathleen, born in Lansing, Michigan, April 15, 1907; James E., Jr., born in Lansing, Michigan, the 5th of February, 1909; Robert Brooks, born March 23, 1910, in New York city; and William T. I., born April 27, 1912, in Detroit.
Mr. Morrison is a stalwart republican, giving unfal- tering allegiance to the party and its principles. He is a Mason and is also a member of the Society of Industrial Engineers and he belongs to the Old Colony Club, the Masonic Country Club and to the Board of Commerce of Detroit. The constant development of his powers, his forcefulness and resourcefulness have brought him prominently to the front and he is today occupying a unique and most enviable position in the
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business circles of his adopted city, having made direct and valuable contribution to its development along many lines. Mr. Morrison resides on Washington road in the Grosse Pointe section of Detroit.
H. S. MATZINGER, manager of the brokerage house of Merrill, Lynch & Company of Detroit, is a native of the great Empire state, born in New York city, August 30, 1888. He was educated at Mount Vernon high school and in a commercial college of his native city. At the early age of seventeen he took up banking and remained nine years in a bank- ing house where he became thoroughly conversant with the business in all of its features. Mr. Mat- zinger then entered the banking house of Merrill, Lynch & Company, nationally known bankers of New York, and soon mastered all the intricacies of the business, becoming a valuable assistant. In 1915 he was made manager of the firm's Detroit office and was admitted to partnership in the firm in 1917.
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