from which he graduated as a member of the class of 1903. The ensuing three years he spent in the shops of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company at Danville, Illinois. In 1906, he became a salesman for the American Blower Company, and during the subsequent period of twelve years he was successively promoted through the various departments until he was elected vicepresident and general manager in 1918. What is now the American Blower Company was established in 1881 as the Huyett & Smith Manufacturing Company, a name that was retained until 1895, when the present firm style was adopted. Blowers, Heaters, and ventilating equipment of all kinds are manufactured by the concern, and under the efficient direction of Mr. Miller the trade has been extended to include not only the entire United States but many countries of the world as well. Like many great manufacturing enterprises, the American Blower Company was called upon to make munitions during the World War period, equipment for ships, tanks, and army cantonments. More than two hundred and fifty employees of the company entered the armed forces of the United States during this great struggle and the record of the entire personnel in the various Liberty Loan drives and war work of all kinds was a source of deep pride to all concerned. Mr. Miller is known as one of the capable and efficient manufacturing executives in Detroit, and his efforts have been largely responsible for the record of the company since he has been actively associated with its management. He is a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, and the Board of Commerce.

Omar F. Rains, manager of the nationally known bond house of Halsey, Stuart & Company, of Detroit, was born at Seymour, Indiana, June 7, 1887, and is the son of Dr. G. W. and L. J. (Gossett) Rains, both of whom were born at Bardstown, Kentucky, and now reside at Indianapolis, Indiana. He acquired his education and in the public schools of his native place and began his career in the employ of the Indiana National Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana. After two years in that bank, he accepted a position with the Chicago Title & Trust Company, with which he remained ten years. He then became associated with the First Joint stock Land Bank, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, but after two years spent with that organization, he joined the sales force of Halsey, Stuart & Company in 1920. Such was his success with that organization that he was made manager of the Detroit Branch the following year and has since continued in that position. He is recognized among financial men as one of the well informed and aggressive bond men in Detroit, for he has been responsible for a material increase in the annual volume of business of the Detroit branch of the company with which he is connected. On September 26, 1907, he was united in marriage to S. Rena Brunswick, at Columbus, Indiana, and they have one son, Robert B., who is attending high school in Detroit. Mr. Rains is a member of the Lochmoor Country Club, Detroit, Michigan.

Eli Levin, M.D., has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Detroit for the past eight years and is known as one of the successful men in his field. A son of Moses and Leah (Broudo) Levin, he was born at Toronto, Canada, November 18, 1886, and obtained his early education in the common and high schools of that place, graduating from high school when he was fifteen years of age. At that time he went to work, holding always in mind that if he were to acquire the medical education and training he desired, he must raise the money through his own efforts. În 1914, he graduated from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery and entered upon the active practice of his profession at South Wilmington, Illinois, subsequently removing to Gardner, Illinois, where he practiced until the outbreak of the World War in 1917. At that time, he entered the Medical Corps, receiving the commission of first lieutenant, and served fourteen months in France with Base Hospital No. 115, Fifth Division. Upon his discharge in August, 1919, Doctor Levin came to Detroit, where he has since engaged in a general medical and surgical practice. He has been unusually successful and is recognized as one of the leading young doctors of this city. In September, 1919, he married Belle Bernstein, who was born in Canada and came to Detroit with her parents when she was six years of age. To Doctor and Mrs. Levin have been born two children, Mortimer and Leah. Doctor Levin is a member of Gardner Lodge No. 573, F. & A. M., the Bloomington Consistory, and Ansar Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Army and Navy Club, Washington Club, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Military Order of the World War. He retains membership in B'nai B'rith.

Sherman Littlefield is best known to people of Detroit for his activities in their behalf, for he has served fifteen years as a member of the city council and has held other public offices in which he has rendered signal service to the city. He is a scion of a well known New England family, for the first of his name to locate in this country did so in 1636. He was born at North Windham, Maine, November 8, 1864, the son of James Sturges and Sophronia (Morrell) Littlefield, and received his early education in the public schools of Detroit. At an early age, he engaged in the cooperage and leather goods business with his father and subsequently entered the real estate and insurance fields, in which he has since successfully continued. For two years, he served as clerk of the Justice court and was constable fifteen years. Perhaps his greatest service, and one for which he is widely known in Detroit, is his work as a member of the city council, where he has served fifteen years. During that entire period, he has missed but two Tuesday night meetings. of the council and on those occasions he was absent on business for the city. As councilman during a time when Detroit has undergone a period of unprecedented expansion, Mr. Littlefield has shown a farsightedness and clarity of vision that has made him a valued member of the council in the deliberations of that body, and that

he has made such a record, is the reason for his many successive re-elections to his office. He has been president of the council and has long been a member of important committees, displaying a championship of the right and a quality of judgment that has made his record an outstanding one in the annals of the city goverment. On June 4, 1884, he married Lillie James, a native of Detroit, and to them has been born one son, Sherman Leroy, who is inspector with the Department of Buildings and Safety Engineering for the city of Detroit. Mr. Littlefield is a Thirty-second Degree, Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner and is also a member of the Elks, Yachtsmen's Association of America, and the North Channel Improvement Association, of which he is president.

Waldo C. Granse has been engaged in the practice of law in Detroit since 1919, and as a member of the firm of Schmalzriedt, Frye & Granse, he is recognized as one of the able and successful attorneys of this city. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, November 3, 1896, he is the son of Carl P. and Maria (Reer) Granse, both of whom were born in Germany and came to the United States in 1878. Waldo C. Granse acquired his early education in the elementary and high school of Saginaw, Michigan, and then matriculated at the Detroit College of Law, from which he graduated in 1919 with the degree of bachelor of laws. He was admitted to practice at the bar in the same year and began his active practice as a member of the firm of Frye & Granse. Subsequently, the firm became as it is now, Schmalzriedt, Frye & Granse, with offices at No. 1442 Majestic Building. The firm is known as one of the able and aggressive legal combinations in Detroit, and as a member of the organization, Mr. Granse has become a familiar figure before the Wayne County bar. He is equally noted as a brilliant advocate and able counsel, and his frequent successes before the courts have attracted wide attention. On July 14, 1926, Mr. Granse married Marjorie R. Grantham, the daughter of John S. and Blanche Grantham, of Detroit. Mr. Granse is a member of Saginaw Lodge No. 77, F. & A. M., the Detroit Masonic Club, the Harmonie Society, the American Bar Association, Michigan Bar Association, and the Detroit Bar Association, and while he was a student at the Detroit College of Law, he became a member of Sigma Nu Phi, college legal fraternity.

Robert A. MacArthur, M.D., has engaged in the practice of medicine in Detroit since 1922, and is recognized as one of the leading specialists in urology in this city. He was born at Saginaw, Michigan, October 17, 1892, the son of Peter and Emily (Carter) MacArthur, both deceased, the former of whom was engaged in the lumber business in Michigan and the West until the time of his death. Robert A. MacArthur received his early education in the elementary and Central high schools of Detroit, whither his parents had come when he was less than a year old, and having elected to follow the profession of medicine, he matriculated at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1910, studying there until 1918. He

received the degrees of bachelor of arts, doctor of medicine, and master of surgery. From 1920 to 1922, he pursued further studies at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree of master of medical science in the latter year. He had also spent a year in the Pittsburgh Hospital, and had taken post-graduate work in the University of Vienna, Austria, and at clinics in London and Paris. During the World War, Doctor MacArthur served as captain in the Medical Corps of the Canadian and British armies, seeing active duty in France and Mesopotamia over a period of three and a half years. In 1922, after he had completed his work at the University of Pennsylvania, Doctor MacArthur located in Detroit, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, specializing in urology. He is recognized as one of the able men in his particular branch of the medical science and has attracted a wide clientele. He is a member of the staffs of the Harper and Receiving Hospitals, is a member of the American Medical Association and the Wayne County Medical Society, the Urological Association, and the McGill Graduate Society.

James Gibbons, prominent realty man and lawyer of Detroit, was born at New Baltimore, Michigan, August 10, 1869. He is the descendant of a pioneer settler of Macomb County, for his grandfather, Owen Gibbons, was born in Ireland, came to the United States in 1830, and took up land in Macomb County, a part of that original homestead still being in the possession of the family. Richard Gibbons, father of James, was the first white child born in Lenox Township, that county, and was a prominent farmer of that section for many years. James Gibbons obtained his early education in the public schools at New Baltimore, but when he was twenty-one years of age, he came to Detroit and went to work in the office of an abstractor, thus enabling himself to study at the Detroit College of Law, from which he graduated in 1896 with the degree of bachelor of laws, being admitted to practiec at the bar in the same year. For a period of twenty-one years, Mr. Gibbons was associated with the abstract department of the Union Trust Company, for he was recognized as an authority on abstract of title work. He was placed in charge of the Tract Index Department of Wayne County, where his long experience in this field enabled him to place in effect an efficient system that brought the department up to a new degree of excellence. For ten years, he served the county in this capacity, but resigned to enter the active practice of law and engage in the real estate business. Since 1924, he has been associated with the Bruce H. Wark Realty organization in the exploitation of various subdivisions in Detroit. Mr. Gibbons is thus recognized as one of the successful attorneys of this city, for he is familiar with the law governing titles to land and possesses an extensive knowledge of the realty transactions in the county, and in this field he has built up an extensive and lucrative practice. In 1898, Mr. Gibbons married Ida E. Boland, the daughter of Peter Boland, of Detroit, and to this union have been born five children,

as follows: James E.; Eleanor, who married Edwin F. Labadie, an electrical engineer in the employ of the Fisher Body Corporation; Eugene J., who is studying architectural engineering at the University of Detroit; Leon C., who is a student at the University of Detroit; and Geraldine, who is attending Sacred Heart Academy. Mr. Gibbons is a member of the Detroit Real Estate Board and takes an active interest in the affairs of the Knights of Columbus.

James S. Holden, of the real estate concern of the James S. Holden Company, was born in Detroit, June 12, 1875, the son of Edward G. and Jean (Stansbury) Holden. In January, 1890, he graduated from the Cass school and completed his high school studies in June, 1894. Matriculating at the Detroit College of Law, he received the degree of bachelor of laws in 1897 from that institution. He had become associated with the real estate business in 1893, however, and after his graduation from college, he gave his entire time to that field of endeavor. On July 1, 1907, he formed a partnership with Daniel E. Murray as senior member of the firm of Holden & Murray, and after the admission of Alfred V. Breault to partnership in January, 1912, the firm became the James S. Holden Company. The concern is recognized as one of the influential and successful real estate companies in Detroit, and in the development of the enterprise, Mr. Holden has played a large part. He is also a director of the Wayne County Home Savings Bank and of the Security Trust Company, secretary of the Stanton Farm Company, and secretary and treasurer of the dry goods concern of Demery & Company, of which he was one of the founders. He is actively interested in the Republican politics of Detroit and served on the Detroit Board of Estimates from 1905 to 1908, being president of that body in 1907-08. In 1916, he was elected alderman but resigned on January 1, 1918, to go to Washington, D. C., where he served on the general staff in the real estate section during the World War until February, 1919. Upon his return to Detroit at that time, he was appointed to membership on the City Planning Commission, where his knowledge of property values and conditions has made him a valued member of that body. He is a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce, Detroit Club, Prismatic Club, Bankers' Club, Old Country Club, University Club, and the Detroit Boat Club.

Edward Gillet Martin, M.D., has been engaged in the active practice of surgery and medicine in Detroit for twenty years and is regarded by his colleagues and by the people of the city as one of the most successful and skillful surgeons of Detroit. He was born at Reed City, Michigan, December 27, 1880, the son of George B. and Frances (Gillet) Martin, both of whom are still living. George B. Martin was born near Birmingham, Oakland County, Michigan, on a farm developed by his father and which is now the well known farm of George G. Booth, president of the Evening News Association. After obtaining a common and high school education in the public schools of Lansing, Edward G. Martin