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On September 1, 1900, Mr. Gloor was united in marriage to Elizabeth O. Wilkinson, and they are the parents of one danghter, Martha Gloor. Mrs. Gloor is a member of the well known Wilkinson family of Sheffield, England, the famous manufacturers of sheep shears. She was born in Richmond, Indiana. Mr. Gloor is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. He is also a member of the Board of Commerce and the Detroit Automobile Club. In the affairs of all of these organizations he takes a practical interest.
From time to time Mr. Gloor has given evidence of the exercise of a practical philanthropy, which has brought satisfactory results to those concerned. He has been instrumental in bringing more than one hundred families to Detroit, and found good employ- ment for the men. He also influenced four brothers and a brother-in-law to come, but instead of taking them into his own factory he had them start out in business enterprises for themselves. One of the tenets of his creed is to help others to help themselves, and in giving effect to this principle he has been suc- cessful.
ARTHUR C. BORN is well known in manufacturing circles as the secretary and treasurer of the Oldberg Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of automobile exhaust mufflers. He was one of the founders of this business and has been active in developing it into one of the productive industries of this character in the country. A native of Detroit, he was born July 11, 1880, and is a son of Peter and Caroline (Steller) Born, who were also natives of Detroit, where the father engaged in merchandising until his death in 1883. The mother is living in this city.
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Arthur C. Born, their only child, acquired a public school education, and after attending the Central high school, entered the Detroit Business University, from which he was graduated in 1899. He was later em- ployed by various firms and along various lines, and then decided to establish business on his own account, which he did in 1903, opening a small manufacturing plant, which in 1909 was developed into the business of the Oldberg Manufacturing Company, manufactur- ing automobile exhaust mufflers. This has grown apace with the development of the automobile industry of Detroit, and the company now has a new plant at No. 2661 East Grand boulevard, which was built in 1918, expressly for its purpose. Here the firm employs about seventy-five people in the manufacture of exhaust muf- flers for motor cars. The plant is modern in every particular, the equipment being of the latest and best. Mr. Born has been secretary and treasurer of the company since its organization, and his executive ability, keen sagacity and carefully formulated com- mercial policy, have been the salient features in the development of the trade and the success of the house.
On the 19th of November, 1919, Mr. Born was united in marriage to Nina Wiswell of Detroit, a daughter of James Wiswell. Fraternally Mr. Born is a York Rite Mason, and in club circles is well known, having membership in the Detroit Yacht, Detroit Tennis and Detroit Automobile Clubs. He is likewise a member of the Board of Commerce, which indicates his inter- est in community progress and development. He is also a member of the Michigan Manufacturers Associa- tion and of the National Manufacturers Association. He started out in the business world by selling papers and has risen to a place of prominence in the indus- trial circles in his native city.
ROBERT RALPH STUART, engaged in the real estate business in Detroit, was born in Genesee county, Michigan, October 31, 1879, and comes of Scotch ancestry, his parents being Thomas and Margaret (McNamara) Stuart. The father was a woodsman, farmer and lumberman of Michigan.
Spending his youthful days on the home farm Robert R. Stuart had the opportunity of attending school for about four months in the year, through four years. His youthful experiences were those of the farm bred boy who has to begin work in the fields with the early spring planting and assist in the cul- tivation of the crops until the harvesting is done in the late autumn. He left the farm, however, at the age of sixteen years, thinking to find other pursuits more congenial, and began clerking in hotels, also in clothing stores and serving in similar capacities. He was thus employed until twenty-eight years of age, when he came to Detroit, arriving in this city in 1908. Here he turned his attention to the real estate busi- ness, in which he has since been engaged, covering a period of thirteen years. He has handled acreage property and Woodward homes and has developed a
business of substantial and gratifying proportions. Ile is now a member of the Real Estate Board and is interested in all of the organized efforts of that board to promote real estate activity and systematize and develop the business according to modern methods. Mr. Stuart is also a stockholder in several holding corporations and his affairs have been wisely man- aged and directed, so that he is now numbered among the successful men of the city.
In 1908 Mr. Stuart was married to Miss Mary C. Roark and they have one son, Robert K., born Sep- tember 18, 1911, in Detroit. The political belief of Mr. Stuart is that of the republican party. He is known in fraternal circles as an Elk and he has membership with the Detroit Automobile Club and with the Board of Commerce. While several business activities claimed his attention in early life, he at length found a congenial field and through the past thirteen years or more Detroit has offered him an excellent field of labor for his real estate activity and by liis close ap- plication, thoroughness, progressiveness and reliability he has gained a substantial competence. He resides at No. 1530 Longfellow avenue.
ELISHA J. TAMBLYN, M. D. Dr. Elisha J. Tam- blyn, a physician and surgeon of Detroit, was born in Hancock, Michigan, February 23, 1887, a son of Joseph James and Mary Ellen (Simmons) Tamblyn, both of whom were natives of England and in early life came to America. The father afterward engaged in mer- chandising at Hancock, Michigan, where he always resided after coming to the new world. He passed away there in 1907 and his widow still makes her home in Hancock.
Dr. Tamblyn was the fifth in order of birth in a family of ten children. In his early boyhood he at- tended the public schools and later the high school at Hancock, Michigan, while subsequently he became a student in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. It was there that he pursued his medical course and was graduated in 1910. After winning his degree he went to Tacoma, Washington, and acted as interne in the Northern Pacific Hospital there. Subsequently he came to Detroit and entered Grace Hospital as house physician, while later he was house physician at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota. After leaving that institution he became connected with Dr. Frank A. Kelly of Detroit and they practiced together for three years. In 1916 Dr. Tamblyn began practic- ing independently and has met with notable success through the intervening period. He specializes in sur- gery and has performed some very difficult major oper- ations, his skill in this direction being widely recog- nized by the public and by the profession. He is a member of the auxiliary staff of Grace Hospital of Detroit and belongs to the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Association and the American Medical Association.
On the 15th of February, 1916, Dr. Tamblyn was
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married to Miss Marie Dora Gere, the wedding being celebrated in Chicago, Illinois. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gere of Urbana, Illinois. Dr. and Mrs. Tamblyn have two children: E. J., Jr., born in De- troit, April 13, 1917; and James Gere, born August 2, 1921. Dr. Tamblyn is a member of the Fellowcraft Athletic Club. While he has been a resident of De- troit for a comparatively brief period, he has already made a most creditable place in professional circles and the sterling worth of his character has gained for him many friends.
GEORGE RAYMOND WOOLFENDEN. One of the coming real estate and insurance organizations of Detroit has recently been formed by two of the city's best known young business men and has made won- derful success as the result of the energy, business foresight aud sound judgment of its officers, which number includes George Raymond Woolfenden, who is the secretary and treasurer. Moreover, he is widely known as a representative of one of the old and promi- nent families of the city. He was born in Detroit, June 7, 1876, his parents being Frederick and Ella (Raymond) Woolfenden, the latter also a native of Detroit. The father was born in England but in young manhood came to this city and here entered business life. He has left the impress of his individuality and ability upon one of the strong financial institutions of the city-the Dime Savings Bank-of which he was one of the founders and later became the cashier, continuing to aet in that capacity until his death in 1891. He was also connected with other worthy en- terprises and various projects of great benefit to De- troit. He was active in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association and took a leading part in its development. In early life he had been ordained a minister of the Episcopal church and he assisted ma- terially in founding and promoting Trinity Episcopal church of Detroit. While he did not enter upon the active work of the ministry, he nevertheless was ready at all times to respond to any call to aid in the up- building of the church or sustain it financially. His time, however, was largely given to the development of the Dime Savings Bank and in this way he con- tributed to the city's advancement. His widow is living in Detroit. Their family numbered four chil- dren: George Raymond; Edward P., who is now in Los Angeles, California; Frederick and Francis Ray- mond, both of Detroit.
George R. Woolfenden, having attended the graded and high schools of Detroit, initiated his business ca- reer by entering the newspaper field and becoming an employe of the Detroit News. He was connected with the business office and remained for a year and a half. He then accepted a position on the Detroit Journal, serving in the same capacity for two years, at the end of which time he entered the Detroit office of the Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Company of New York, being connected therewith for seven years. When that
period had elapsed he resigned his position and en- tered the employ of the Michigan Fire & Marine In- surance Company, with which he remained for nine- teen years, rising from a clerical position to that of assistant manager of its local department, a place of considerable responsibility and importance. At length, however, he resigned to become associated with others in organizing the Lawrence-Woolfenden Company, which was formed on the 1st of March, 1920, and which has since been conducting a real estate and insurance business, with Mr. Woolfenden as the sec- retary and treasurer and in charge of the insurance department. His long experience with the home office of the Michigan Fire & Marine Insurance Company well qualified him to take up the work which now engages his attention. He has the work of the de- partment thoroughly organized and it is proving a most successful phase of the business.
Mr. Woolfenden is a member of Duffield Camp of the United States Spanish-American War Veterans. For fourteen years he was a member of the Michigan National Guard and was commissioned a first lieu- tenant of infantry after the Spanish-American war, having served throughout the Cuban campaign. He is also a member of the Detroit Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and during the World war served as lieutenant colonel of the Five Hundred and Fifty-first Infantry, Michigan State Troops. His polit- ical belief is that of the republican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He is a Presbyterian, holding membership in the Church of the Redeemer, and at all times is interested in those forces which make for the uplift of the individual and the welfare of the community, while in matters of citizenship he has ever recognized his duties and obligations, as well as his opportunities and priv- ileges.
J. F. G. MILLER, a Detroit manufacturer who is at the head of the American Blower Company, was born near Indianapolis, Indiana, his parents being John C. and Elizabeth (Garr) Miller, both of whom were of American birth. His early educational op- portunities were supplemented by study in Purdue University at La Fayette, Indiana, from which he was graduated with the class of 1903, winning the degree of Mechanical Engineer. He put his theoret- ical training to the practical test in the shops of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad at St. Louis, where he remained for three years. In 1906 he be- came connected with the American Blower Company as a salesman and within a period of twelve years rose through successive promotions to the vice presi- dency and general managership of the business, having been elected the second executive officer of the com- pany in 1918. It was in 1881 that the Huyett & Smith Manufacturing Company was established, con- stituting the nucleus of the American Blower Com- pany, the name having been changed in 1895. This
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company manufactures blowers, heaters and ventilat- ing equipment and the trade covers all the cities of the country, while agencies are maintained throughout the world. When America was engaged in war with Germany the American Blower Company was very active in the manufacture of munitions, making equip- ments for ships, tanks and army camps. Two hun- dred and fifty of the men from their shops entered the war, and not only the company, but its employes, made a most praiseworthy showing in all of the Lib- erty Loan drives and Red Cross drives. Patriotism dominated the entire plant from the president of the company down to the humblest employe.
Mr. Miller is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club and also belongs to the Oakland Hills Country Club and the Board of Commerce. His political en- dorsement is given to the republican party and he keeps well informed concerning the vital questions of the day but has never sought nor desired political preferment. llis attention on the contrary is given to his constantly growing business affairs and he is rec- ognized as a strong executive and thoroughgoing busi- ness man who differentiates quickly between the es- sential and the non-essential in all business affairs and seems to recognize the full utility and opportunity of every business situation that is presented.
HENRY J. STEPHENS, M. D. Although Dr. H. J. Stephens has practiced his profession in Detroit for but three years, he has already become recognized as a physician of superior ability and the list of his patients is an extensive one. He is a man of high professional attainments, of liberal education and broad experience and in the treatment of diseases affecting the chest, in which he specializes, he has been remark- ably successful. He is a native of Canada, his birth having occurred on a farm in Stephens township, Huron county, Ontario, August 27, 1882. In 1885 his parents crossed the border into the United States, taking up their residence in Cleveland, Ohio, and in the schools of that city he acquired his early educa- tion. When fourteen years of age he went to sea, sailing on the Great Lakes and the ocean in the sum- mer seasons, while during the winter months he pur- sued his studies. For sixteen years he followed the water, and for nine years of this time he was a captain. Among the vessels he commanded were. the "Saskatoon" which he brought from Glasgow, Scot- land, where she was built for the Great Lakes; "The Canadian"; "General O. M. Poe"; "The Mariposa"; and a number of others. Subsequently he entered the Western Medical College, from which he was grad- uated with the class of 1910, following which he devoted four years to postgraduate work, studying in London, England; Edinburg, Scotland; in Germany and in Vienna, Austria, having the benefit of in- struction in the leading medical centers of the world. Thus thoroughly equipped for practice, he took up the work of his profession and following the outbreak
of the World war he went overseas as physician and surgeon to an infantry regiment. He remained with his regiment for one and a half years and for four years continued in the service, attaining high position in English military hospitals, serving as officer com- manding at Pinewood Sanitarium and the Canadian Convalescent hospital, both located at Hastings, England, and also of the chest section of Canada Gen- eral hospital, No. 11.
Following the signing of the armistice Dr. Stephens came to Detroit, establishing an office in the Kresge building, and has already built up a large practice. He is specializing in the treatment of diseases affect- ing the chest, along which line he has been very suc- cessful. Close study has formed the basis of his ad- vancement, and combined with an appreciation of the scientific phases of his profession is a deep and abid- ing sympathy that prompts him to put forth earnest and unfaltering effort where the welfare of his fellow- men is involved. Thoroughly progressive in his pro- fession, he keeps in touch with the great truths which science is constantly revealing through his member- ship in the Wayne County and Michigan State Medi- eal Societies, the American and British Medical Asso- ciations and the General Medical Council of Great Britain and the colonies.
Dr. Stephens was married to Miss Isabel Dudley, of London, Ontario, Canada, and they have become the parents of a son, Dudley, born in July, 1913. Dr. Stephens is a prominent Mason, belonging to the blue lodge and chapter of London, Canada; to Michigan Sovereign Consistory and to Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club and the Essex Country Club. From youth Dr. Stephens has taken a keen interest in athletics. Dur- ing his college days he was captain of the varsity football team, usually playing in the line, while for three years he was captain aud manager of the basket- ball team. He was manager of the hockey team that won the N. H. L. championship of Canada in 1913, ยท and also met and defeated the Cleveland, Ohio, hockey team, who were likewise champions that year. He also held the college championship in wrestling. His ability is attested by his colleagues and contemporaries and by the general public as well and his splendid qualities of manhood and citizenship, combined with his high professional acquirements, rank him with the leading members of the medical profession in Detroit.
ARTHUR FESTUS MARSH, a Detroit manufacturer, who, in 1909 organized the Griswold Body Company of Detroit, was born in Chicago, Illinois, July 24, 1865, and is a son of H. F. and Marie (Regan) Marsh, who were natives of Belfast, Ireland, and were of Scotch- Irish descent. Arthur F. Marsh obtained his early education in the schools of Chicago, and afterward attended Oberlin University at Oberlin, Ohio, where he completed his course by graduation with the class of 1890. He was afterward in business with his
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father in Allegan, Michigan, as a real estate dealer and banker for a number of years and later he joined others in building the Avenue Theatre in Detroit and the Colonial Theatre in Cleveland, the two being con- dueted under the same management as a circuit affair. In 1909 Mr. Marsh and his father, H. F. Marsh, to- gether with Lewis S. Smith, organized the Griswold Body Company of Detroit, and began the manufacture of automobile bodies. The business was successfully conducted by the three partners until 1918, when H. F. Marsh passed away, and his son succeeded to the presidency of the company, with Mr. Smith as secre- tary and treasurer. Their attention is concentrated exclusively upon the manufacture of automobile bodies and their trade is mostly in Detroit, the center of the automobile business of the world. They find a ready sale for their output and the business is today one of very gratifying proportions.
Mr. Marsh served during the Spanish-American war as inspector general under Governor Pingree. He is a member of the Congregational church and his sup- port can be counted upon to further all plans and measures for the public good. He belongs to the Board of Commerce and cooperates in its activities for the benefit and upbuilding of the city. Politically he is a republican and takes a most keen and helpful in- terest in advancing the successes of the party, serving for one term as chairman of the State Central Repub- lican Committee. He is a member of. the Detroit Athletic and the Fellowcraft Clubs.
H. CHARLES EDWARDS. While still a young man and an adopted son of Detroit, the name of H. Charles Edwards is one of the best known among the younger business men of the city, due to the active interest he has displayed in various lines of manufacture and in building operations and loans. There are few, if any, who have assisted more families to acquire property and own their own homes, at least three hundred and fifty families having been benefited by his activity in this direction. He has assisted these in carrying forward their plans to become property owners, with the result that they have become con- tented and prosperous residents of Detroit and are classed with her substantial citizenship. Mr. Edwards conducts his business affairs under the name of H. C. Edwards & Company, home builders, real estate and loans, nor are his efforts confined only to the activities of this corporation, for he is also the president of the Detroit National Stamping Company, engaged in metal stamping at No. 204 Twelfth street in Detroit; is the president of the Edwards Motor Sales Company; and the secretary of the Central States Finance Corpo- ration. Industry thus benefits by his diligence, en- terprise and business sagacity, and he has made for himself a most creditable name and place in commer- cial and financial circles of his adopted city.
Mr. Edwards came to Detroit from Lancaster, Penn- sylvania, where he was born February 7, 1889, his
parents being Harry W. and Mary C. (Herr) Edwards, who were also natives of the Keystone state and always resided in Lancaster county. The father became very prominent in the manufacture of furniture, in which business he engaged on his own account up to the time of his death, which ocenrred in 1907, when he was fifty-eight years of age. His widow survives and makes her home in Lancaster county. In their family were eleven children, seven of whom are living, namely: Mrs. Catherine Collin, Frank E., John E., Mrs. Emma Edwards Reese, and Mrs. Minnie E. May, all of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; and Mrs. Ber- tha E. Hess and H. Charles, both of Detroit.
At the usual age H. Charles Edwards became a pupil in the schools of his native city and after mastering the studies that constitute the public school curriculum there he entered the Franklin-Marshall College, in which he pursued a course covering a year and a half. He then went to New York city and became an em- ploye of the Barrett Loan Brokers in the St. James building, but remained in that position for only six months. He next entered the Eccles College of Hy- giene, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and pursued a course in anatomy and hygiene, being graduated with the class of 1910. On the 11th of May, 1912, he came to Detroit and secured a responsible position with the Cadillac Company and later was with the Packard Motor Company, being associated with the efficiency department in each instance. He remained with the Packard Company for nine months and then accepted a position with the Parker, Schunk & Fry Real Estate Company. Four months' experience with that firm convinced him that he was operating in a profitable field and he decided to engage in the business on his own account, so that he might more directly benefit by his own labors. On the 2d of November, 1913, he accordingly organized the H. C. Edwards Building Company and the H. C. Edwards Real Estate & Loan Company. He is sole proprietor of these business en- terprises and his operations along the lines indicated have been extensive and important. He has erected and financed some three hundred buildings for resi- dential purposes in the better sections of the city, along Longfellow avenue, also Edison, Virginia Park, Glen Court and other subdivisions, and many in High- land Park. He is considered one of the best informed men concerning real estate possibilities for residential purposes, in the city. He has acquainted himself with every phase of the business, from the acquirement of the lot until the last nail is driven into a substantial dwelling. He is also the president of the Detroit National Stamping Company, the president of the Edwards Motor Sales Company and secretary of the Central States Financial Corporation. His business af- fairs are of an important character, contributing to public improvement as well as to individual success, and those who know him say that there is much more in his business activity than the desire to promote his own fortunes.
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