jory (Campbell) Milne, both of whom were natives of Scotland. and came to the United States in 1885, where Alexander Milne followed his profession of florist. Completing a graded and high school education in 1905 in the public schools of Saginaw, Archibald C. Milne began his business career with the Second National Bank, of Saginaw, which he left after a few months to become associated with the Bank of Saginaw. Until July 1, 1917, he remained with that concern and then came to Detroit to open the American State Bank of Oakwood. When the village of Oakwood was annexed to Detroit, the bank became the property of the Peoples State Bank, of Detroit, Mr. Milne being retained by the new owners as manager. He continued in that capacity until August 1, 1923, when he was sent to Wyandotte as cashier of the Peoples State Bank at this place. The years that have followed that change have demonstrated beyond all doubt that Archibald C. Milne is a leader in banking circles in Wyandotte, where he is thoroughly familiar with the financial conditions of the city. That the affairs of the Peoples State Bank here have been in a more substantial condition than they ever enjoyed prior to the advent of Mr. Milne, speaks more convincingly for his efforts and his ability than any written word. On June 26, 1912, he married Janet McElgunn, daughter of Patrick and Janet McElgunn, of Saginaw, Michigan, and to Mr. and Mrs. Milne have been born four children, as follows: William, aged thirteen; John, ten years old; Patricia, six years old; and Marjory, aged four years. Mr. Milne is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Board of Commerce, Bankers' Club, of Detroit, the Island Country Club, and the Oakwood Lodge, I. O. O. F.

Victor L. Dorrance has been engaged in the drug business with William P. Garrison since 1892, and the fact that the firm of Dorrance & Garrison is today the leading concern of its kind in Wyandotte, is due primarily to the harmonious relations that have existed between these men, both of whom are regarded by Wyandotte citizens as thorough business men. A native of Vernon, Michigan, Victor L. Dorrance was born March 28, 1867, a son of Charles A. and Sofia (Burt) Dorrance, the former of whom came from New York in the early days and was first employed as a millwright and later in the furniture and undertaking business in several towns in Michigan. After attending the graded and high schools of Vernon, Michigan, Victor Dorrance entered the employ of the DeHart Brothers, Druggists, of that city, where he continued seven years, learning during this time all the fundamentals governing the successful operations of a drug business. After a year spent in the employ of H. E. Holmes, another druggist of Vernon, he went to Portland, Michigan, where he formed a partnership with William P. Garrison and went into the drug business. After a few months, the partners decided that they would move to a larger city, and in May, 1892, a few months after they opened their first store in Portland, Michigan, they came to Wyandotte, locating their first store at the corner of Elm Street and Biddle Avenue.

From its inception, their enterprise was an unqualified success, and in 1900 they sought larger quarters at No. 92 North Biddle Avenue, where their store is still located. Successful though the venture was, they saw the opportunity of expanding still further and accordingly opened a second store at No. 58 South Biddle Avenue. Both the stores of Dorrance & Garrison are in a flourishing condition, and Mr. Dorrance is accounted one of the influential business men of Wyandotte through his part in developing one of the strongest retail drug combinations in this part of the county. On June 24, 1890, Mr. Dorrance married Mae Sauders, daughter of Charles and Matilda Sauders, of Wyandotte, and to Mr. and Mrs. Dorrance have been born two children, Charles E., who is twentysix years old and is employed at the River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company, and Jeannette, aged twenty-one, who is attending the Maryland College for Women at Lutherville, Maryland. Mr. Dorrance is a member of the Masonic Lodge and Chapter at Wyandotte, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Rebekahs, Chamber of Commerce, Michigan Alkali club, and the National Union.

William P. Garrison has been engaged in the drug business in Wyandotte since 1892 as a member of the firm of Dorrance & Garrison and he and his partner, Victor L. Dorrance, of whom more may be found elsewhere in this volume, are recognized as the leading druggists of this community. To the success of the partnership, William Garrison has contributed equally in ability and work with his partner and is accorded a high place among the business men of this community. He was born at Vernon, Michigan, February 12, 1862, a son of W. D. and Jeannette (Payne) Garrison, both natives of New York who came to Michigan in the early days and where the former operated a general store. William P. Garrison attended the common schools in Flint, Michigan, and graduated from the School for the Blind at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1883. In 1891, he went into the drug business with Mr. Dorrance at Portland, Michigan, for a few months, and in May, 1892, they came to Wyandotte, where they opened their first store at the corner of Elm Street and Biddle Avenue. In 1900, the growth of the business demanded removal to larger quarters, which were found at the present location at No. 92 North Biddle Avenue. Subsequently, a second store was opened at No. 58 South Biddle Avenue, and today the firm of Dorrance & Garrison is the leading drug firm in Wyandotte. Mr. Garrison has played no small part in bringing about the present substantial condition of the enterprise with which he has been associated over thirty-five years. On September 7, 1884, Mr. Garrison married Lenora Sabin, daughter of D. M. and Martha Sabin, of Vernon, Michigan, and they have one son, Glenn, who is married and lives in the country near Wyandotte.

Milton B. Davis, a partner in the firm of Fred W. Ginzel Company, is rapidly coming to the fore as a leading business man of Wyandotte, for he is a member of a firm which has been engaged

in the stove and furniture business for nearly twelve years. A son of Fred and Martha (Griffith) Davis, he was born in Wales, November 4, 1878, and came to the United States when he was nine years old. His family settled in Connecticut and there he was educated in the graded and high schools. When he had attained his twentythird year, he came to Wyandotte, where he secured employment at the plant of the Michigan Alkali Company as foreman and employment manager. For some fifteen years, he was associated with that concern, but by that time he cast about for a business enterprise in which he might become interested, and the result was that he purchased an interest in the Fred W. Ginzel Company, handling stoves and furniture. This company has been conducted in its present location at No. 74 Elm Avenue for about twelve years. Though he has been connected with that concern but a comparatively few years, Mr. Davis is regarded as one of the aggressive and forceful business men of Wyandotte, and he has taken a prominent part in directing the affairs of the company with which he is associated. In addition to this business, he is director of the Peoples State Bank at Wyandotte, in the affairs of which he takes an active part. The connections maintained by Mr. Davis in the commercial and industrial life of the community, show him to be a man of the highest attainments, and that he is regarded as one of the able executives of the city where he is engaged in business, is indicative of the place he holds among his associates. On September 19, 1906, Mr. Davis married Bertha Eilbert, daughter of William and Mary Eilbert old inhabitants of Wyandotte. Mr. Davis is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, the Albiters, and Woodmen of the World.

Walter L. Eberts, secretary of Eberts Brothers Company, of Wyandotte, has held that office since the firm was incorporated in 1910, and the years that have elapsed since that time, have brought to Mr. Eberts successive encomiums upon his ability in an executive capacity, so that he is accounted one of the influential business men of this city. A son of John Eberts, who was born in Detroit on the site now occupied by the courthouse and is now living in Wyandotte at the advanced age of eighty-three years, Walter L. Eberts was born in Wyandotte, February 25, 1888, and attended the elementary and high schools of his native city, graduating from the latter school with the class of 1906. No sooner had he completed his education, than he joined his two brothers, Harry A. and Frank H. Eberts, in the coal and building supplies business in which the two latter were already engaged, and when articles of incorporation were secured in 1910, he became secretary of the new organization, a position that he has since retained. Like his brothers, Mr. Eberts is recognized as one of the substantial business men of Wyandotte, and that he holds such a reputation in commercial circles is due entirely to his merit and ability as an executive of one of the largest concerns of its kind in this section of the country. His business interests are not confined solely to Eberts Brothers Company, for he is secretary and treasurer of the National

Magnesite Stucco Company, a highly successful enterprise of which his brother, Harry A. Eberts, is president. Mr. Eberts, on July 7, 1920, was united in marriage to Maude Woodruff. daughter of Ari E. and Ida (Ocobock) Woodruff, an old family of Wyandotte which has been prominent in the affairs of that city. Mr. Eberts is a member of the Blue Lodge, F. & A. M., at Wyandotte and is a Thirty-second Degree Mason and a Shriner at Detroit, and he is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club, Michigan Alkali Club, and the Detroit Yacht Club.

Frank H. Eberts, vice-president and treasurer of Eberts Brothers Company, Incorporated, dealers in coal and building supplies, has been engaged in that business for a quarter of a century, and during that time, he has seen the concern of which he is part owner develop into one of the largest of its kind in this part of the country. In the development of the company, he has played no small part, and for this reason he is accounted one of the influential and able executives in Wyandotte. Born at Wyandotte, June 13, 1882, he is a son of John Eberts, who was born in Detroit in a house located where the present courthouse stands and who now with his wife is living in Wyandotte, John Eberts now being in his eighty-third year. The graded and high schools of Wyandotte afforded Frank H. Eberts his education, and when he had graduated from the latter institution, he went into business with his brother, dealing in coal and building supplies. Subsequently, Harry A. and Frank H. Eberts took their brother, Walter L., into partnership with them, and in 1910 the firm was incorporated under its present name. Three years subsequent to the incorporation of the enterprise, the firm purchased its present yards on Van Alstyne Avenue, and the material equipment of Eberts Brothers Company represents one of the largest coal and building supply yards in this section of the country. Since the incorporation of the company in 1910, Mr. Eberts has been vice-president and treasurer, and as such, he is accorded recognition for his sterling qualities of management and executive ability among Wyandotte business men. On February 7, 1912, he married L. Pearl Chamberlin daughter of Dr. Judson and Anna Chamberlin, of Wyandotte, and Mr. and Mrs. Eberts are the parents of two children, Helen Louise and Mary Jean, who are thirteen and six years old, respectively. Mr. Eberts is active in Masonry, being a member of Wyandotte Lodge No. 170, Wyandotte Chapter No. 135, Monroe Council No. 1, and the Consistory at Detroit, where he is also a member of Moslem Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also maintains membership in the E. B. Ward Lodge No. 172, I. O. O. F., the Down Rivers Shrine Club, Detroit Yacht Club, Michigan Alkali Club, Detroit Automobile Club, Kiwanis Club, and the Chamber of Commerce,

Fred E. Van Alstyne, president of the Wyandotte Savings Bank, is one of the leading men in financial circles in Wyandotte where he is president of the bank with which he has been connected for more than thirty-five years and of which his father was

one of the organizers and first president. He was born in Wyandotte, August 12, 1870, a son of John S. and Ellen (Folger) Van Alstyne, the former of whom was a native of Albany, New York, and the latter of whom was born on Nantucket Island and came to Wyandotte in the early days. John S. Van Alstyne came to Detroit at an early date and subsequently located at Wyandotte, where he first worked with the old Wyandotte Rolling Mills and then with the Eureka Iron and Steel Company, the latter of which at one time owned a large tract of land in the center of the present city of Wyandottte. John Van Alstyne was active in municipal politics, having been the first mayor of the city and a member of the board of public works for several years, and in Masonry, he had attained the Thirty-third Degree in the Scottish Rite. Fred E. Van Alstyne, after attending the public schools and graduating from the Wyandotte high school in 1889, entered the Wyandotte Savings Bank, of which his father had been one of the organizers and the first president, but during the first years of his association with the bank, he studied at the Detroit Business College and at the Detroit College of Law, from the latter of which he graduated in 1901. This preparation in business and legal lines equipped Mr. Van Alstyne for the work to which he had turned, and it was a matter of course that he should rise steadily in the organization as a result of his training and evident aptitude for banking work. Merit was its own reward, and in due time, Mr. Van Alstyne was made president of the bank, having worked up to that position from the very bottom of the ladder. It is no cause for wonder, then, that he holds a high place in banking circles not only of his city but of the state as well, for he is treasurer of the Michigan Bankers' Association, his election to that office testifying to his prominence in banking circles. Mr. Van Alstyne has taken a deep interest in civic affairs and is now serving his third term as a member of the Wyandotte Board of Education. On June 15, 1897, he married Blanche Lacy, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth Lacy, the former of whom was born in New York and the latter of whom was a native of Monroe County, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Van Alstyne have one child, Joyce, who is a graduate of the Wyandotte high school and the University of Michigan. Like his father before him, Mr. Van Alstyne is active in Masonry, holding membership in the Blue Lodge at Wyandotte and the Consistory and Mystic Shrine at Detroit. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows, Island Country Club, Island Golf & Country Club, Detroit Yacht Club, Bankers Club of Detroit, and the Wyandotte Chamber of Commerce, of which he was formerly treasurer and a director.

John J. Marx, president of the Ford State Bank, of Wyandotte, is one of the leaders in financial and industrial circles in Wyandotte, and this reputation he has won through the evident ability, resourcefulness, and initiative he displays in the conduct of his affairs. His parents were George and Maria (Caspar) Marx, both of whom were natives of Germany and came to Wyandotte in