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Dr. Waddington, the eldest of their three children, attended the Stanford Academy at Manchester, Eng- land, and afterwards became a student in the Owens Medical College of the Victoria University at Man- chester, having in the meantime pursued a course in the British Pharmaceutical Society. He was graduated in Medicine from the Indiana College of Medicine and Midwifery in 1886, and during that year returned to England but in 1887 went to Australia, where for two years he was surgeon with the Cross surveying party, laying out government land in New South Wales and Victoria. Again he returned to England, and thence went to Winnipeg, Canada, while later he crossed the border into the United States, making Cincinnati, Ohio, his destination at that time. For a decade he continued in active practice in that city, and in 1899 came to Detroit, traveling the first year as detail man through Michigan, and also to Chicago and Pittsburgh, as representative of the wholesale drug house of Lambert & Lowman. He resumed the active practice of his profession in 1900, and through
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the intervening period of twenty-one years has ad- ministered professionally to hundreds of Detroit citi- zens. His ability is widely recognized, for he has been a close student of his profession, and has taken much postgraduate work, thus keeping in touch with the latest scientific research and discoveries. He did postgraduate work in the New York Post Graduate School, also under Dr. Albright of Philadelphia and in the Illinois School of Electro Therapeutics, in the Chi- cago Post Graduate School, and in other centers of learning. For the past five years he has been special- izing in psycho-therapy, and only recently took a course with Dr. Charles Ireland, the head of that department in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. He is a member of the Michigan Eclectic Society, the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, and has been president of the Michigan State Eclectic Society. There has also been conferred upon him honorary membership in the Illinois State Eclectic Medical Society, the Ohio, the Vermont, the Maine and the Chicago Eclectic Medical Societies. In 1908 the Chicago National University conferred upon him the LL. D. degree, while in the same year he received from the National Medical University of Chicago the Ph. B. degree. In 1909 Potomac University conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree, and from the Bennett Medical College, medical department of Loyola University of Chicago, he received the degrees of M. D. and C. M.
In February, 1915, Dr. Waddington was married to Miss Antoinette Margraf of Detroit, who was one of the stellar attractions of the vaudeville stage, known from coast to coast. She is a violinist of exceptional ability, her highly developed skill in this connection ranking her with the leading artists. Mrs. Wadding- ton is now a member of the Highland Park Woman's Club, also a member of the Parliamentary Law Club, and has been a matron of the Eastern Star. Dr. Wad- dington is well known in Masonic circles. He is a member of the lodge, chapter, council, Knights Templar Detroit Commandery, No. 1, the Shrine and the Grotto. He has served as past patron of the Order of the Eastern Star, is a past chancellor of the Court of Honor, and is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is highly esteemed in the social and fraternal relations with which he is connected, and his high professional standing and expert ability are indicated in the many times to which he has been elected to honorary membership in various medical associations. His residence is at 63 Florence avenue, Highland Park.
ROBERT D. BAKER. It is becoming more and more largely an accepted fact that the growth and development of any city depends in great measure upon the nature and condition of its highways and thoroughfares. Well kept roads leading into any city will encourage travel and thus directly result in the development of trade and therefore the highway
builder becomes an important factor in city progress. In this connection mention should be made of Robert D. Baker, one of the pioneers in concrete road con- struction in the United States. In fact, he was the builder of the first concrete highway in this country and since that time he has built hundreds of miles of the finest and best roads of America, He is re- garded as the promoter of the concrete roadway and his opinions are recognized as an authority on road building.
Mr. Baker is one of Michigan's native sons, his birth having occurred at Port Huron on the 20th of November, 1871, his parents being James H. and Helen (McLaren) Baker, the former a native of Eng- land, while the latter was born in Scotland. They crossed the Atlantic during childhood and became residents of Michigan. In this state the father took up the work of contracting and became one of the successful business men of Port Huron, where both he and his wife passed away. Their family numbered six children: James M., Archie G., Robert D., William J., Charles and Mrs. Joseph Wellman.
During the period of his youth Robert D. Baker was a pupil in the public schools of Port Huron and afterward attended the Port Huron Business College. He started out in the business world on the lakes as an employe of Captain Rollo, on the steamship Mc- Vittie, of the Ogdensburg Transportation Company, and was thus active for four summers. Later he took up railroad contracting, which he followed for four years, and during two years of that time worked as a contractor on the Tampico Railway in Mexico and also in contract work in the City of Mexico. Sub- sequently he was employed in connection with the con- struction of the drainage canal from Chicago to the Mississippi river. In 1899 he returned home and took up general contracting, also bridge, sewer and road building. He removed to Detroit in 1904 and has since built the road between Detroit and Pontiac and a portion of the Detroit and Ypsilanti line. He has done much other important work of this character in Michigan and in other states and enjoys a very wide reputation as one of the most prominent road builders of the country. In the year 1919 he completed twenty- four miles of country roads. His operations are conducted under the name of the R. D. Baker Com- pany and he has figured most prominently in con- nection with the improvement of the public high- ways of Detroit and the surrounding district. He built the first concrete road on Woodward avenue and had the contract for all the concrete roads in Camp Custer.
In May, 1911, Mr. Baker was married to Miss Harriet Vaughn of Detroit, a daughter of George and Hannah Vaughn and a representative of one of the old-time families of the city. In his political views Mr. Baker is a republican but has neither time nor inclination to seek public office. Fraternally he is connected with Palestine Lodge, A. F. & A. M., the Benevolent
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Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. His has been an extremely busy and useful life and the force of unremitting industry as a factor in the attainment of success is well demonstrated in his career. In 1920 he built his home on Southfield road, Birmingham, where he has since resided.
HENRY D. MORAN, a progressive and prosperous business man, founder of the Moran Tire Company, retailer and jobber of all the standard makes of tires, is a native of Detroit, born March 11, 1879, a son of William B. and Frances (Desnoyers) Moran, the for- mer of whom died in 1896. They were both well known citizens of Detroit.
Mr. Moran was educated at Georgetown Academy and at the University of Detroit. His first business engagement was as retail salesman for Ford cars, re- maining in this line for three years. He then took on the selling of automobiles for the Chalmers Com- pany, continuing in that capacity for a further period of three years. With the experience thus obtained Mr. Moran felt a desire to enter the business field on his own account and in 1912 he started out in the tire trade for himself and established the Moran Tire Company. The company now commands an extensive trade throughout the state of Michigan, each year showing an increase in sales and a broadening repu- tation for the company's future. The company has been a success from the beginning, due in great meas- ure no less to the character of the goods handled than to the sagacity and sound business judgment of Mr. Moran.
In 1905 Mr. Moran was united in marriage to Miss Cora Vaughn, and they have become the parents of three daughters: Frances, Virginia and Alice. Mr. Moran is a member of the Kiwanis Club and served on the club committee during all the patriotic war drives, promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds.
It is worthy of note that Mr. Moran's ancestors on the male and female sides of the house had settled in America before Revolutionary days.
ALBERT H. SCHMIDT, for years connected with the commercial life of Detroit, where he has been engaged in the manufacture of leather, at present occupying the position of treasurer and general man- ager of Traugott Schmidt & Sons, the well known tanners, is a native son of Detroit, born February 24, 1873, a son of Traugott Schmidt, who for forty-four years was one of the leading tanners in this part of the United States.
Mr. Schmidt was educated in the public schools and in the high school in Detroit. He commenced his busi- ness career in his father's tannery, which the latter established in 1853 and which he had incorporated in 1889 under the firm name of Traugott Schmidt & Sons. The founder of this business died in 1897 and since that year the tannery has been conducted by Edward
H. Schmidt, president, and Albert H. Schmidt, treas- urer aud general manager.
In 1919 Albert H. Schmidt, the subject of this sketch, patented a device for increasing the meas- urement of hides, thereby increasing the measurement from six per cent to eight per cent, which has proven of great value to the tanuing industry. His idea is being put into operation by a Boston company.
The house of Traugott Schmidt & Sons has grown from a small beginning to be one of the largest in this line of industry under one roof in this country. While the Detroit house is the headquarters of the business, there are also branches in brisk operation at Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New York city. The products of the Schmidt tannery are sent all over the world, the foreign trade steadily growing in recent years.
Mr. Schmidt is a member of the Detroit Club, the Grosse Pointe Country Club, and the Detroit Athletic Club, in the affairs of all of which he takes a warm interest, as he does in all movements pertaining to the civic welfare of his fellow citizens.
LOUIS JOSEPH FASQUELLE, who for nine years has been a most active figure in real estate circles of Detroit, keeping at all times abreast with the rapidly changing conditions in this city of marvelous growth the past decade, has by reason of his business enter- prise contributed in no small measure to the improve- ment of Detroit. There have been no spectacular phases in his career but his course has been marked by a steady progress that indicates constantly developing powers-powers that have grown through the exercise of effort and have been accompanied by a sound judg- ment that recognizes and utilizes opportunity.
Mr. Fasquelle was born in St. Johns, Michigan, August 7, 1863, a son of Louis Whidden and Ann (Bachelor) Fasquelle. He enjoyed the educational op- portunities offered by the high school of Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated in 1880. He next en- tered the University of Michigan and gained his Ph. C. degree in 1882. For a number of years his activities were directed along the line of his university training. In 1883 and 1884 he was identified with the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture at Wash- ington, D. C. In the latter year he became associated with a wholesale drug company, with which he re- mained until 1890. He then established a retail drug store on his own account, conducting the business until 1892, when he became a salesman for the Sherwin- Williams Company, manufacturers and wholesalers of paint and varnish. He continued in that connection for about eleven years, when he was advanced to the position of district manager and so served for a term of five years. In 1907 he went to the Acme White Lead & Color Works as director of agencies and thus represented that corporation for four years. In 1911-12 he was general sales manager for the General Motors .
Truck Company and on resigning that position became
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active in the real estate field, in which he has since conducted business. He has thoroughly acquainted himself with property conditions and valuations in Detroit and has done much to further activity in this field, having a large clientage that has enabled him to conduct many important business transactions in the exchange and sale of real estate. He is well known as an authority on real estate values and his services are frequently called for in this connection, partic- ularly in cases of law involving real estate litigation.
Mr. Fasquelle was united in marriage to Miss Martha Sheehan of Detroit, and they are well known in the city. Mr. Fasquelle belongs to the Detroit Board of Commerce and is keenly interested in all that has to do with public welfare and municipal progress. Mr. Fasquelle is a Knights Templar Mason, a member of St. John's Commandery at St. Johns, Michigan, and a Noble of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Detroit Real Estate Board and has served as its secretary. In politics he is a republican. He belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit Riding and Hunt Club, and to the University of Michigan Alumni Association-con- nections which indicate much concerning the nature of his interests. He finds his chief source of recreation, however, in literature and reads broadly and thinks deeply.
FRANK E. WEBB, president of the Webb-Lee Com- pany, a well known brokerage firm of Detroit and Jackson, Michigan, was born in New York city, April 17, 1890, his parents being Harry Washington and Amelia (McDermott) Webb, who were also natives of New York, where the father still resides. For many years he was a prominent figure in the financial world and was connected with the Twelfth Ward Bank of New York. He was successful in his business and banking ventures through many years and now lives retired. His wife passed away in New York city in 1902. They were parents of five chil- dren, four of whom have passed away.
The only surviving child of the family is Frank E. Webb, who was a pupil in the public schools of New York and was graduated from an evening school there. He started out in the business world November 30, 1902, when a lad of but twelve years, in the employ of Wilcox & Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange, and in that connection received the training that well qualified him for the more serious work and responsibility of his later years. He im- proved his time through study of the stock market and questions relating thereto and became a recognized authority on stocks. He continued in the employ of Wilcox & Company for three years and afterward was with the firm of Bunnell & Company of New York city for a year. He next entered the employ of Kissel, Kinnicutt & Company, New York bankers, with whom . he continued for two years and on the expiration of that period became a curb broker on Wall street, con-
tinuing successfully in the business for seven years. In 1916 he removed to Detroit and entered the busi- ness circles of this city as manager for William A. Neer & Company, brokers, with whom he remained until April, 1917, when he resigned and organized the brokerage firm of Webb, Lee & Company, Incor- porated. This is a close corporation and he is the principal owner. The firm has rapidly come to the front through its honorable dealing and progressive methods and ranks with the leading representatives of the stock and bond brokerage business in Detroit.
On the 10th of June, 1912, Mr. Webb was married to Miss Leonilda A. Gaeta of Greenwich, Connecticut, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gaeta. They have one son, Frank E., Jr., born in New York city, June 21, 1914. Mr. Webb is a member of the Detroit Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. He also is a member of the Meadow Heights Country Club and of the Jackson City Club. During the greater part of the year Mr. Webb resides at Leonilda Farms in Springfield, Oakland county, Michigan, where he has an attractive country home and a well developed farm property. He is truly a self-made man in that he started to provide for his own support when a lad of but twelve years and has worked his way upward entirely through his own efforts. One of the salient features in his success is the wise use that he makes of his spare time. He attacks everything with a contagious enthusiasm and his determination and energy have carried him into important business re- lations.
G. EDWARD HUFF, president of the Tanner-Gates Realty Company and also of various other companies operating in the real estate circles of Detroit, was born in Canada, August 16, 1871, a son of R. M. and Nancy (Wells) Huff, who were likewise of Canadian birth but of Pennsylvania Dutch parentage. The grandfather, Eli Huff, gave to the Methodist Episcopal church the land on which the house of worship was erected at Adolphustown, Canada. Both Eli Huff and his wife, Jane, passed away in Canada, where he had conducted an extensive cooperage and carpenter con- tracting business. His son, R. M. Huff, has been a bailiff of Canada for twenty-eight years and is still living in that country at the age of seventy-seven, but his wife passed away in 1911. They had four children: Mrs. Thomas Jones, residing in Alameda, California; Mrs. A. A. Bartlett of Rochester, New York; G. Edward, of this review; and Edith, who passed away in early life.
G. Edward Huff attended the public and high schools of Rochester, New York, and at the age of seventeen put aside his textbooks to become a clerk in a gro- cery store, remaining active in that business for seven years. He then resigned his position and spent several years in travel in the west. In 1914 he came to De- troit and has since been identified with real estate circles of the city. He entered the sales department
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of the real estate firm of Tanner & Gates and rose rapidly to an official position. He in time became president of the company, having so served since its incorporation. The company largely handles subdivi- sion property. Mr. Huff is also the president of the Huff Realty Company of Dearborn, Michigan, the presi- dent of the Detroit-Grand Rapids Realty Company, president of the Melrose Park Realty Company, presi- dent of the Whitmore Park Realty Company, president of the Warren Heights Realty Company and of many others which are operating extensively in real estate circles in Michigan, including the Childs-Woodward Realty Company, the Woodward Boulevard Land Com- pany, the Monarch Realty Company and the Camp Wayne Realty Company. Mr. Huff has wide knowl- edge of property values in the state, has thoroughly informed himself concerning every phase of the busi- ness and has negotiated many of the most important property transfers of the state.
On the 30th of June, 1900, Mr. Huff was married to Miss Minnie Grieve of Belleville, Canada, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Grieve. They have five ehil- dren: Harold, born in Campbellford, Canada, in 1901; Reginald, who was born in Campbellford in 1903 and is attending the Royal Dental College of Toronto; Marian, born in Campbellford, Canada, in 1905 and now a high school pupil; Helena, born in Campbellford in 1908 and now attending school; and Teddy, who was born in Campbellford in 1915. The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian church. Fra- ternally Mr. Huff is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is also a Royal Arch Mason. He certainly deserves much credit for what he has accomplished, having worked his way upward entirely through individual effort and ability. Self-made, he is nevertheless one of the most prominent of the real estate dealers of Detroit and is also widely known in this connection throughout the state.
ELMER ELLSWORTH GALLOGLY is a manufac- turer, born near Zanesville, Ohio, August 15, 1862; a son of James (M. D.) and Elizabeth (West) Gallogly. He was educated in the public schools of Zanesville; married at Omaha, Nebraska, May 7, 1896, Elizabeth Heslet, who died in Detroit, March 27, 1904. They were the parents of two children: West Heslet and Elizabeth Andrews. He was married again at Ashe- ville, North Carolina, January 11, 1906, to Mrs. May Lorimer. Studied pharmacy and chemistry at Zanes- ville; employed as drug and prescription clerk, Austin, Texas, 1883, and at Miles City and Helena, Montana, 1886-90; entered retail drug business at Butte, Montana, as E. E. Gallogly & Company, in Feb- ruary, 1891, selling out in August, 1900. He was presi- dent of the Montana State Pharmaceutical Association, 1899-1900. He moved to Detroit in April, 1902. He is vice president of The Herpicide Company and is a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce.
Mr. Gallogly is deeply interested in the Boy Scout
movement and served as president of the Detroit Council, Boy Scouts of America, for three terms, 1918- 1921. He originated the Scout Reserve idea, the first American unit of which was established in Detroit under the sanction of the chief scout executive Feb- ruary 10, 1921. The Reserve idea was primarily in- tended to hold a greater number of boys in scouting until they had reached the first-class rank, but in practice it also provided a much needed opportunity for the older boys to become inactive with honor; in fact, it attacks the older boy problem by giving special honors to the graduate scout and by recog. nizing him as an "older brother" to the Scout Move- ment. Each Scout Reservist receives a certified record of his achievement, which is recorded at national headquarters.
During the war Mr. Gallogly's son, West, then sev- enteen, and his stepson, Robert E. Lorimer, then twenty-two, both enlisted. The former was commis- sioned second lieutenant, Camp Scott Barracks, Ameri- can Red Cross; and the latter enlisting at Newport, Rhode Island, May 3, 1917, was commissioned ensign U. S. N. A. September 13, 1918, and assigned to the Eighteenth Aero Squadron, Miami, Florida, as instruc- tor in H. S. 2 L flying boats.
Mr. Gallogly is an Episcopalian, and a Mason. He belongs to the Automobile Country, Detroit Athletic and Detroit Boat Clubs. His office is at 63-71 Mil- waukee avenue, West. His city residence is at 141 West Boston boulevard, Detroit, and his country resi- dence is at Lake Angelus, Oakland county, Michigan.
SAMUEL FERGUSON of Detroit, lived for four- teen years beyond the Psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten. It was on the eighty-fourth anniversary of his natal day that he passed away in Detroit. He was born in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, on the 13th of May, 1836, a son of Samuel and Euphemia Johnston (Kilpatrick) Ferguson. His youthful days to the age of fifteen years were spent under the parental roof and he then started out to provide for his own support. After working in his native land for two years he came to America in 1853, when a youth of seventeen, attracted by the opportunities which he believed he might secure on this side of the Atlantic, for many favorable reports had reached him concerning the business advantages to be ob- tained in the United States. Landing at New York he there remained for three years and during that period learned the plumbers' trade.
When a young man of twenty Samuel Ferguson came to Detroit, where his remaining days were passed, and soon after his arrival he established business on his own account on Congress street near Woodward avenue, occupying this place for about nine years. In 1865 he removed to 91 Jefferson avenne and enjoyed a large plumbing business until 1875, when he retired from that field in order to establish the business now conducted under the name of the Detroit Lead Pipe
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Works. Some years prior to his death he retired from business with a substantial fortune, sufficient to sup- ply him with all of the comforts and many of the luxuries of life and it enabled him to leave his widow in comfortable financial circumstances. The day he arrived in Detroit he began work at a dollar per day and the fact that he was not afraid of honest toil nor afraid of giving his employer too great return for value received, enabled him to climb steadily up- ward until he was at the head of one of the leading industries of the city, owning and conducting a lead pipe factory. His career justifies his faith in America, which caused him to emigrate to the new world. The Detroit Masonic News wrote of him following his demise: "He worked hard and won success not for selfish purposes, but that he might share it with others, which he did in splendid fashion and the great- est joy of his later years was the fact that his gifts would be serving his fellowmen after he was gone."
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