1852-Prosecuting attorney, Junius Tilden. Sheriff, Jas. McBride. Clerk, Jas. E. Skinner. Treasurer, Seba Murphy. Register of deeds, Constant Luce. Judge of probate, Laurent Durocher. Surveyor, Harmon Allen.

1854-Prosecuting attorney, Hiram P. Vrooman. Sheriff, Henry B. Marvin. Clerk, Jas. E. Skinner. Treasurer, Seba Murphy. Regis. ter of deeds, Constant Luce. Surveyor, Nathan Hubble.

1856-Sheriff, Silas W. Eaton. County clerk, Titus Babcock. Register of deeds, William Van Miller. County treasurer, John T. Gilbert. Judge of probate, Alexander D. Anderson. Prosecuting attorney, Franklin Johnson. Circuit court commissioner, Titus Babcock. County surveyor, Harmon Allen. Coroners, Arvin W. Potter, Eli Valiquett.

County

1858--Sheriff, Honry B. Marvin. clerk, Titus Babcock. Register of deeds, Constant Luce. Treasurer, John T. Gilbert. Judge of probate, Alexander D. Anderson. Prosecuting attorney, Franklin Johnson. Circuit court commissioner, Titus Babcock. Surveyor, Rob't Talford. Coroners, Arvin W. Potter, Benj. W. Latham.

1860-Judge of probate, Franklin Johnson. Sheriff, Henry B. Marvin. Treasurer, George Landon. Clerk, Frank B. Clark. Register of deeds, John M. Oliver. Circuit court commissioner, Alexander D. Anderson. Surveyor, Harmon Allen. Prosecuting attorney, Edwin Willetts.

1862-Sheriff, William Dunbar. Treasurer, Gouverneur Morris. Clerk, Stephen G. Clark. Register of deeds, Thomas Doyle. Circuit court commissioner, Alexander D. Anderson. Surveyor, Nathan Hubble. Prosecuting attorney, Frank Raleigh.

1864-Judge of probate, Talcott E. Wing. Shoriff, William Dunbar. Treasurer, Philip J. Loranger. Clerk, Stephen G. Clark. Register of deeds, Thomas Doyle. Circuit court commissioner, Charles Toll. Surveyor, Addison E. Dunbar. Prosecuting attorney, Frank Raleigh.

1868-Judge of probate; Gouverneur Morris. Sheriff, Philip Nadeau. Treasurer, Benjamin Curtis. Clerk, James J. Donohoe. Register of deeds, Constant Luce. Circuit court commissioners, Elam Willard and Gouverneur Morris. Surveyor, Addison E. Dunbar. Prosecuting attorney, Wm. A. Rafter.

Amos Hicock. Clerk, James J. Donohoe. Register of deeds, Constant Luce. Circuit court commissioners, Elam Willard and Gouv'r Morris. Surveyor, Addison E. Dunbar. Prosecuting attorney, Wm. A. Rafter.

1872-Judge of probato, Otis A. Critchett. Sheriff, Llewellin E. Wooden. Treasurer, John L. C. Godfroy. Clerk, James J. Donohoe. Register of deeds, Charles F. Gruner. Circuit court commissioners, Edwin Willetts and Burton Parker. Surveyor, Delos F. Wilcox. Prosecuting attorney, Joseph D. Ronan.

1874-Sheriff, Llewellin Wooden. Treasurer, Fred'k Niedemier. Clerk, Edw. R. Gilday. Register of doeds, Frank B. Clark. Circuit court commissioners, Elam Willard and H. Shaw Noble. Surveyor, Samuel M. Bartlett. Prosecuting attorney, Joseph D. Ronan.

1876-Judge of probate, Rufus E. Phinney. Sheriff, John J. Ellis. Treasurer, Frederick Niedemier. Clerk, Edw. R. Gilday. Register of deeds, Frank B. Clark. Circuit court commissioners, Chas. A. Golden and 'H. Shaw Noble. Surveyor, Fred G. Bulkley. Prosecuting attorney, Geo. M. Landon.

1878- Sheriff, John J. Ellis. Treasurer, Fred'k Niedemier, Clerk, Patrick Matthews. Register of deeds, Frank B. Clark. Circuit court commissioners, Ira A. Nadeau and O. E. Augstman. Surveyor, Fred G. Bulkley. Prosecuting attorney, Geo. M. Landon.

1880-Judge of probate, Rufus E. Phinney. Sheriff, Geo. H. Ellis. Treasurer, Alex. G. Navarre. Clerk, Patrick Matthews. Register of deeds, Edw. Raeder. Circuit court commissioners, Ira A. Nadeau and Ira G Humphrey. Surveyor, Samuel M. Bartlett. Prosecuting attorney, Edw. R. Gilday.

1882 Sheriff, Geo. H. Ellis. Treasurer, Alex. G. Navarre. Clerk, Patrick Matthews. Register of deeds, Thurlow Strong. Circuit court commissioners, Wm. T. Soleau and Ira G. Humphrey. Surveyor, Willis Baldwin. Prosecuting attorney, Edw. R. Gilday.

1884 Judge of probate, George M. Landon. Sheriff, Job C. Eaton. Treasurer, Augustus Niedemier. Clerk, Patrick Matthews. Register of deeds, Thurlow Strong. Circuit court comissioners, Wm. T. Soleau and Alonzo Bragdon. Surveyor, Willis Baldwin. Prosecuting attorney, Chas. A. Golden.

mier. Register of deeds, Thurlow Strong. Circuit court commissioners, Wm. T. Soleau and Alonzo Bragdon. Surveyor, Willis Baldwin. Prosecuting attorney, Chas. A. Golden. Coroners, Victor A. Dusseau, John Davis.

1888-Judge of circuit court, twenty-second district, Edwin D. Kinne. Judge of probate,

Addison E. Dunbar. Sheriff, Joseph S. Hilton. Clerk, Charles H. Caldwell. Treasurer, Walter Hackett. Register of deeds, George Crow. Prosecuting attorney, Sewell Baker. Surveyor, Willis Baldwin. Circuit court commissioners, John P. Jaminet and Alonzo B. Bragdon. Coroners, John B. Haynes, Benj. J. Adams.

JAMES MCMILLAN,

Detroit, was born in Hamilton, Ontario,

OF was born

May 18, 1838. He received a thorough English education in the Hamilton Grammar School. He passed four years in a retail hardware establishment in that city. From thence he came to Detroit, and spent two years in the wholesale hardware house of Buhl & Ducharme. Leaving that establishment he became successively purchasing agent of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway, a railroad contractor's agent, again purchasing agent of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway, and in 1864 commenced his phenomenally successful career as a manufacturer, by founding, with others, the Michigan Car Company, from which have sprung numerous other enterprises, until now he is the head and front of manufacturing establishments which employ over three thou sand men the year round, and do a business aggregating from five to seven millions of dollars annually. He is also heavily interested in Michigan railroads, being president of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad, and a director of other roads.

tral Committee. In January, 1889, he was nominated by acclamation for United States Senator by the joint Republican caucus, and the Legislature elected him on the first ballot to succeed Thomas W. Palmer for the full term of six years from March 4, 1889.

FRANCIS B. STOCKBRIDGE,

Of Kalamazoo, was born in the town of Bath, Maine, April 9, 1826. When sixteen years of age he left his native place and went to Boston, and was employed as a mercantile clerk. He is of English origin, his great-great-grandfather having been a member of the Plymouth colony, though not of the Mayflower party. When Mr. Stockbridge was only sixteen years old his school advantages ceased, and he began his struggle, penniless and alone, in the great Now England metropolis. He remained in Boston five years, when in 1847 he went to Chicago and commenced business in a small way as a dealer in lumber. Three years later he began manufacturing lumber in Allegan county, and continued in this business twentyfour years. In 1859 he formed a partnership with Otis R. Johnson. He is now part owner of the lumber mills on Green Bay, with headquarters at Menominee; president of the Mackinaw Lumber Company, having mills at St. Ignace, and president of the Black River Lumber Company, mills at Gilchrist, Michigan. His mining interests are with the Lumberman's Mining Company, at Iron Mountain, Michigan, and the Crescent silver mines at Park City, Utah. With Senator Palmer, Jay Hubbell, W. A. Moore, of Detroit, and seven others, he is owner of 100,000 acres of pine in Mississippi; and with ex-Governor Alger and O. R. Johnson owns the Fort Bragg Redwood Lumber Company, of Fort Bragg, California. Besides these great interests Mr. Stockbridge is also president of the Kalamazoo Spring and

Mr. McMillan was married in 1860 to Miss Mary L. Wetmore. He has four sons and one daughter living. His beautiful residence in Detroit is adorned with choice works of art, and hospitality dwells therein. He has traveled oxtensively, both in this country and in Europe.

Mr. McMillan has always been a staunch Republican, and has been actively engaged in politics for the last twelve years, serving two terms as chairman of the Republican State Cen

*For biographical sketches of Hon. Alpheus Felch and of Hon. Isaac P. Christiancy, United States Senators from Monroe county, see pages 248 and 246.

For biographical sketches of Hon. Robert McClelland and Hon: David A. Noble, members of the United States House of Represenatives from Congressional district embracing Monroe county, see pages 245 and 250.

Axle Company, and with Mr. S. A. Browne, of Kalamazoo, Mr. Stockbridge is engaged in breeding thoroughbred trotting and roadster horses at the Kalamazoo Stock Farm.

Senator Stockbridge has always been an ardent Republican of Whig extraction, and received the title of colonel from a position which he occupied on Governor Blair's staff. In 1868 he was elected Representative, and the next election advanced to the Senate. In 1876 he was proffered by President Grant the position of Minister to the Hague, but diplomatic life not being to his liking, this was declined. In 1863 Mr. Stockbridge married Miss Bessie Arnold, of Gun Plain, Allegan county, whose father came to Michigan from Vermont in 1836. Mrs. Stockbridge is a sister of Judge Dan J. Arnold, of the twentieth judicial circuit. Removing from Saugatuck to Kalamazoo in 1874, Mr. Stockbridge purchased a large mansion with ample grounds, and there has made a home and filled it with treasures of art and literature. Mr. Stockbridge was elected United States Senator, January 19, 1887, for a full term of six years from March 4, 1887.

HON. HENRY WALDRON.

Henry Waldron was born in Albany, New York, October 11, 1819. His father, Henry Waldron, was a merchant in that city.

He pursued his preparatory studies at the Albany Academy. He entered Rutger's College, New Jersey, in 1834, and was graduated in the class of 1836. Among his distinguished classmates were ex-Secretary of State Freling huysen, Chief Justice Bradley, Governor Newell and Hon. Cortland Parker.

In 1837 he came to Monroe, Michigan, as a civil engineer, and was engaged in the construction of the Michigan Southern Railroad from Monroe to Hillsdale. In 1839 he became a resident of Hillsdale, where he lived until his death, September 23, 1880.

In 1842 he was elected a member of the Michigan Legislature. He served six terms in Congress, 1854 to 1860 and 1870-76.

In the War of the Rebellion he took an earnest and active part, contributing liberally of his means and by his influence for the preservation of the Union.

He was instrumental in organizing the Eighteenth Regiment of Michigan Infantry,

which did such good service in the Union army. At the reunion of this regiment at Monroe, August 25th, 1873, he delivered the oration. In this oration he gave a brief sketch of the honorable record the regiment made, which we quote, as it may be of interest to the surviving veterans who are with us, and which will call up to them the memories of nearly a quarter of a century ago:

"We watched with anxious eyes the movements of the regiment, following it from post to post from Nashville to Decatur — from Decatur to Pond Springs, whore you surprised and captured a corps of rebel cavalry, routing another detachment a few days later at Cortland. Then leaving to re-enforce the garrison at Athens, arriving there just in time to prevent the rebel general Rodney from captur. ing and pillaging the town, afterwards pursuing Wheeler to Shoal Creek. Then the pursuit being abandoned you returned to Decatur, and the same month a detachment of your regiment numbering about 250 is sent to re enforce the garrison at Athens. It arrived within two miles of the fort, finds it in the hands of the enemy, is met by a rebel force of thousands under General Forrest, and after five hours of desperate fighting, during which its ammunition is all exhausted, the detachment with but few exceptions are all killed, wounded or captured.

"In October of the same year the regiment participated in the successful defense of Decatur against the rebel army under General Hood, and during that siege a detachment of fifty men dislodged the enemy's sharpshooters from a line of rifle pits, driving them from their cover, taking one hundred and fifteen prisoners, with the loss to the detachment of only two men wounded."

Among this group of biographies, we feel that not one will call back more kindly or affectionate memories than the one at the head of this sketch, Hon. Henry Waldron, always one of Hillsdale's most honored and respected citizens. He died September 13, 1880, and his remains are at rest in beautiful Oak Grove Cemetery, but he will ever live in the hearts of those who knew him well.

HON. FERNANDO C. BEAMAN

Was born at Chester, Vermont, June 28, 1814. His parents removed to Franklin county, New