LOOMIS, ARTHUR PERKINS. Arthur Perkins Loomis was born in Berlin township, Michigan, September 12, 1859. He attended the district schools of the township until he was 15 years old, then he became a scholar at the Ionia public schools, living at home on his father's farm and walking back and forth several miles to school. He is still, and has always been, identified with the farming interest of this state, owning a farm near Ionia at the present day.

In politics he is a Republican, adopting that party when he became of age, and remaining faithful to its interests ever since. For many years he was a member of the county committee. He has served as director, treasurer and secretary of the Ionia Fair Association, and as president of the Ionia County Farmer's Institute Society. During the years of 1893-94-95-96, Mr. Loomis was private secretary to Gov. John T. Rich, in which capacity he gained an extended acquaintance throughout the state, making many friends. After the retirement of John T. Rich, Mr. Loomis returned to his farm, and on May 1, 1897, he was tendered the position of deputy state land commissioner under

William A. French, which he accepted and holds at the present time.

A peculiar coincidence in the appointment of Mr. Loomis to be private secretary to the governor of Michigan was brought out in the fact that the same day of his appointment, a younger brother, T. M. Loomis, who had located in the Northwest, was appointed Private Secretary to Governor Charles H. Sheldon, of South Dakota.

Socially, as well as in political circles, even among the parties of the opposing political creed, Arthur P. Loomis is well liked and possesses a large following and many friends. He has that happy faculty of making friends and keeping them, which marks the successful man. He is a member of the Grange of Michigan, Modern Woodmen and Knights. of the Maccabees.

Mr. Loomis married Miss Carrie M. Sessions, the daughter of ex-Lieutenant-Governor Alonzo Sessions. The marriage took place at Ionia, Michigan, Nov. 16, 1894. They have one child, a daughter, Mary Frances Loomis, aged four years. Mr. Loomis has a comfortable and handsome residence in Berlin township, Ionia county, Michigan.

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CAMPBELL, HON. ANDREW. drew Campbell, as his name implies, is a Scotchman by birth, although now an American citizen, and is largely identified with the progress of Michigan. He owns and operates a large farm near Ypsilanti, Michigan, and as a farmer he is following in the steps of his father and his father's people before him. He was born in Laurenston, parish of Dalrymple, Ayrshire, Scotland, May 29, 1832, and is 68 years of age at the present writing. His father, Robert Campbell, when Andrew was about 11 years of age, was forced by the high rents existing in the old country, to try his fortunes in the new, and March 1, 1843, he located in Augusta township, Washtenaw county, Michigan.

The work incidental to opening up the farm kept Andrew away away from school, except about four months, when he managed to attend the district school and get a glimpse of education. He helped his father and his brother in clearing up the farms, and attended the Normal School at Ypsilanti, graduating in the fall of 1859. The two winters intervening he taught a district school at Livonia, Wayne county. Judge Durfee, of Detroit, was one of his scholars. In 1861 he purchased a farm in Pittsfield township, near the University of Michigan, and for a number of winters attended courses on history, political economy, international law, history of philosophy and ethics. To do this he went into debt $8,200, and started operations with only a few tools and a little stock. It required nearly 20 years to pay for his farm, and in that time he paid out nearly $8,000 as in

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district, and he was elected to the Senate of 1897-98 against his own cousin, J. E. McDougal, who was the opposing candidate. Mr. Campbell was a delegate to the National Farmer's Congress at Chicago, Parkersburg, West Virginia, Nashville, Atlanta and Boston. He is one of the first advocates for the good roads system, and a delegate from this state to all national conventions. He is also one of the original founders of the Grange in this state, and has been a member

since 1873.

Mr. Campbell married Miss Catherine Fisher, daughter of Daniel Fisher, and named after General Lawton's mother, at Superior, Michigan, October 26, 1859. He has five children. Robert Campbell, his eldest son, is a lawyer, practicing at Jackson, Michigan,

junior member of the firm of Parkinson & Campbell: Anna married Rev. A. J. Covell, of Lynn, Massachusetts; Daniel F. is an attorney at Fort Worth, Kansas; Catherine, a teacher in the public schools at South Bend, Indiana, and James A., a student at the U. of M.

HON. FRANK SHEPHERD.

SHEPHERD, HON. FRANK. Frank Shepherd is another in the long list of men who have paid their own way through school and fought through difficulties to a place in the front ranks of the leading professional men of this State. He was born in Dover township, Lenawee county, Michigan, January 28, 1853. His father, James H. Shepherd, was a farmer living near Adrian, and his grandfather was the Rev. Paul Shepherd, a pioneer of this state and afterwards of Kansas. His mother was a member of the McMath family of New York and Michigan. The young man attended the district schools of Dover township and later the school of a neighboring village, working as a farm hand during the summer months to pay for his winter's tuition and board. There were four boys in the Shepherd family, and one day Frank informed his family that there were enough to work the 60-acre farm without him, and that he did not intend to spend his days there, so he secured a teacher's certificate and turned teacher. He taught school all during the following fall and winter, and spent his vacation on the farm. He then became a student at the State Normal in Ypsilanti, taught again

during vacation and carrying out the same plan, attended Adrian and Oberlin Colleges. His parents were not in a position to assist him, so he taught school to pay his way through college. After five years of this life he found employment as a clerk at Adrian, and .then entered the law office of the firm of Stay & Underwood, of that city, as a student, and remained with them until he was admitted to the bar in 1878. The following year he removed to Cheboygan, Michigan, where he spent his first year and his savings in an effort to build up a law practice. For some years prior to Jan. 1, 1900, he was the senior member of the firm of Shepherd & Rielly, of Cheboygan, and is now circuit judge of the twenty-ninth judicial circuit.

In politics, Mr. Shepherd is a Republican. He was prosecuting attorney of Cheboygan county 1880-1884, appointed judge of Probate Court in 1886 and elected to same office in 1888, and was a member of the Board of Control of Upper Peninsula Prison in 1890-91, and elected to the Legislature as representative from the Cheboygan district in 1897-98 by a vote of 4,021 to 3,409 for James F. Maloney, Democratic-People's Union Silver candidate. During this term of office he acted as chairman on the committee on roads and bridges and served on the judiciary committee. Mr. Shepherd was re-elected to the house in 1898 and was chairman of the judiciary committee. In the spring of 1899, while still in attendance at the session of the Legislature, he was nominated by the Republican convention and elected circuit judge of the thirty-third judicial circuit by over 650 majority. He took his seat January 1, 1900.

In February, 1879, Judge Shepherd married Miss Susan, daughter of James A. McMillan, at Deerfield, Michigan. They have three children: James F., Mary Ethel, and George Ralph, and have lost one-Katharine-by death.

Judge Shepherd is a Chapter Mason, belongs to the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen and Knights of the Maccabees.

OREN, HON. HORACE MANN. Attorney-General Horace Mann Oren, of the state of Michigan, was born on a farm in Clinton county, near Oakland, Ohio, February 3, 1859. His father, Charles Oren, was

a school teacher at the opening of the civil war. In 1863 he enlisted a company of colored troops in southern Ohio, and he was mustered in as their captain in the Fifth U. S. Colored Troops. Capt. Oren was killed in the siege of Petersburg in July, 1864.

His death threw the entire support of the little family that was left upon his mother. She taught school in southern Ohio and in 1868 moved to Indianapolis, Ind., where she took a position in the Indianapolis High School. In 1873 she was elected state librarian of Indiana, being the first woman to occupy that position. Young Oren attended the public schools, and assisted his mother in various ways.

He carried papers, was assistant in the State Library and the Indianapolis public library. He graduated from the Indianapolis High School in 1877 and in the same year entered the Literary Department of the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1881. Upon his graduation from the Literary he entered the Law Department, where he studied until he graduated in 1883.

Before he finished his law course, however, he had been offered a position on the "Soo News," at Sault Ste. Marie, which he accepted, returning to the University to graduate and going back again to the newspaper business.

For a term of years he divided his attention between his journalistic work and his profession as an attorney, giving up the former in 1885 to attend to his growing law practice.

In November, 1898, he was elected to his present office, attorney-general of Michigan, and he assumed his place January 1, 1899.

Mr. Oren has always been prominently identified with the Republican party, and has held several other offices prior to taking the place he now holds. He has been village

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clerk, justice of the peace, circuit court commissioner, city and prosecuting attorney.

Mr. Oren was married in Grindstone City, Huron county, Michigan, January 1, 1890, to Miss Margaret J. Wallace. They have two children, Robert Oren, aged nine, and Chase Osborn, aged three years.

Mr. Oren's ancestry has an interesting history. His great-great-grandfather, Joseph Oren, was a Quaker and lived in York county, Pennsylvania. During the Revolutionary war it is reported that his house was burned by the Tories and his family of ten children were turned out in the snow and had to live through the winter in the barn. His greatgrandfather, John Oren, emigrated to eastern Tennessee in the latter part of the last century and his grandfather, Elihu Oren, was born there in 1809. In 1810 the family moved to Clinton county, Ohio.

On his mother's side, his grandfather was Abraham Allen, a Scotch-Irish Quaker. He was a noted Abolitionist in his day and one of the most persistent men of his time in operating the "Underground Railroad" system through that part of Ohio.