tude for exercising his talents by the Ford company, and established a salvage department which reclaimed thousands of dollars worth of materials which would otherwise have been wasted. Becoming manager of this department, he carried on the salvage work of the Ford company until December, 1926, when he resigned to accept the important and responsible position of purchasing agent for the Hudson Motor Car Company. Taking up his duties on January 1, 1927, he was already demonstrating the wisdom of the Hudson executives in choosing him for the post when an untimely death cut short his brilliant career. Mr. Fetz was always a devotee of outdoors sports and socially was a charter member of the Petoskey Lodge of Elks. In 1912 he was united in marriage with Katherine Beach, the daughter of Richard W. and Maria (Bobay) Beach. Richard Beach was a son of Joseph P. Beach and a grandson of Ahira Beach, the Beach family being one of the oldest in the United States, three Beach brothers having come to America from Thetford, England, three years after the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth. Mrs. Fetz's mother, Maria (Bobay) Beach, was a daughter of Theodore Bobay, who was born in France. Mrs. Beach was prominently identified with educational problems in Charlevoix County, Michigan, where she served as county commissioner of schools. To Mr. and Mrs. Fetz one daughter, Frances, was born, who lives with her mother. She and her mother are proud of the untarnished name her father had made for himself in their adopted city of Detroit.

Benjamin F. Mulford was one of the foremost attorneys of Detroit, and at the time of his death, June 3, 1925, he was an official in ten business and manufacturing firms of this city. Born in New Jersey in 1879, he was the son of Samuel C. and Mary A. (Reilly) Mulford, the former a native of England and the latter of Detroit. He received his education in the public schools of his native State and of Detroit, his stepfather, Arthur W. Findley, having brought his family to the City of the Straits when young Mulford was but a boy. He began his career selling newspapers to help support his widowed mother, and while he was so employed, he attended the night classes of the Detroit College of Law, whence he graduated with the class of 1903. He was admitted to the bar the same year and immediately embarked upon the active practice of his profession. Five years later, he formed a partnership with George G. Prentis, an association that was maintained until 1921, when the firm of Prentis, Mulford, Pugh & Fitch was established. He attracted wide attention for his work before the bar of the city and state and was engaged in some of the important litigation in the courts of Detroit and Michigan. As an authority on corporation law, his services were widely sought by business enterprises of various kinds, with the result that he became actively identified with the operations of ten concerns as an officer in those companies. Not only was his legal reputation of the highest, but also was his eminence in the world of business unimpeachable. Active in Ma

sonry, he was past master of Oriental lodge, an honorary member of Perfection lodge, and a member of King Cyrus chapter and the Knights Templar at Detroit. He was also a member of the Detroit Athletic Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, Wilderness Club, the Michigan and Detroit Bar associations, and the Lawyers Club. He was senior warden of St. Alban's Protestant Episcopal Church and was one of the board of managers of the Detroit Y. M. C. A. Mr. Mulford married Mabel C. Warner, the daughter of Cecil and Susan E. (Griffith) Warner, natives of Michigan. Mr. Mulford was an ardent follower of outdoor sports and was particularly interested in golf, tennis, and swimming in which he found his recreation.

James Monroe Cooper, M. D., was one of the leading specialists in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat in Detroit, his practice covering a period of seventeen years in this city that placed him among the foremost medical men in his particular field of the science. He was born at Francisville, Michigan, May 13, 1877, and was the son of Edmond L. and Ada (Clark) Cooper, natives of Grass Lake and Leslie, Michigan, respectively. In 1896, he completed his public school studies in the Grass Lake high school and the ensuing three years were spent in Detroit as a stenographer. He then matriculated in the medical school of the University of Michigan, whence he graduated with his doctorate in medicine in the class of 1903. At that time he was appointed to membership on the Typhoid Commission under Doctor Vaughn and continued in this work until 1904, when he went to New York to take postgraduate work and to act as house surgeon in the eye and ear hospital of Doctor Knapp. In August, 1906, he returned to Michigan and embarked upon the active practice of his profession at Detroit, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. His skill and the success he won with the cases that were placed under his care attracted to him a large clientele that firmly established him among the most successful men in his field in Detroit. In the year in which he initiated his practice here, Doctor Cooper married Mattie Craft, the daughter of Sanford D. and Addie B. (Finch) Craft, natives of Indiana and New York, respectively, their home now being maintained at Grass Lake, where they have been established for many years. To Doctor and Mrs. Cooper were born three sons, Edmond L., Sanford L., and James Monroe, Jr. Doctor Cooper died December 30, 1923, at a time when his powers were at their best, and in his death the medical fraternity of Detroit sustained an irreparable loss. Doctor Cooper turned to radio as a hobby and long before that means of reception had caught the popular fancy, he had constructed a receiving set for himself to increase his knowledge of and pleasure in the science. He was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and in political matters, he supported the Republican party.

William Harper Speaker. Business men of Detroit will instantly associate this name with that of the Speaker-Hines Print

ing Company, which had its inception in 1884 in a small way under the experienced direction of the late William Harper Speaker. The family name was originally spelled Spyker, for it was from Holland that the first representative of the family came to America to settle in Pennsylvania, where was born Levi Speaker, the father of William H. Luther Speaker followed the westward trend of migration and settled on a farm near Lima, Ohio, where he married Mary Ellen Osman Speaker-Bresler, a native of the Buckeye State, who died at age of eighty-seven. She was born February 22, 1833, and died on her birthday, and where, on September 3, 1854, was born William Harper Speaker. The father, head of a family though he was, entered the Union Army for service in the Civil War and died a captive amid the horrors of the notorious Andersonville prison. The mother removed with her children to Lima, where, in 1863, William H. Speaker, a lad of nine, began his lifelong association with the printing business in the employ of the Lima Gazette. The ensuing ten years brought him a thorough and general knowledge of the printer's craft as only the printers of that day learned it and laid the substantial foundation for the success that was to follow. In 1873, he accepted a position with the Fort Wayne Gazette, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and after eleven months so spent, he went to the Times, of Manistee, Michigan, where he continued until 1876. In the latter year, he entered the employ of Marder-Luce & Company, of Chicago, the immediate predecessor of the American Type Foundry Company of today. His work in this capacity brought him no small distinction as an authority on type specimen books, and for a period of eight years he remained with that company. A land boom in North Dakota attracted him to that State in 1883, and at Jamestown he established and published the Jamestown Daily Capital. He sold the enterprise late in the autumn of the same year and came to Detroit, where in February, 1884, he purchased the Richard Doran Printing Company, the name of which he changed to that of the Speaker Printing Company. The business began in a small way, letter heads and cards forming the bulk of the business for a time. William H. Speaker, however, was a man who knew his trade as few did, and with the demonstrable excellence of his work coupled with his aggressiveness in acquiring accounts, the company entered upon a period of steady growth that has not ceased. During the early, hard months, Mr. Speaker found an eager and able assistant in his wife, and they two worked side by side to lay the firm footing for the great organization as it exists today. The first establishment was located at No. 120 Griswold Street. In 1886 removal was made to the Butterfield Building on Larned Street, in 1892 to Nos. 33-35 Larned Street, West, in 1902 to Nos. 71-73 Shelby Street, and in 1909 to the present location at Nos. 146-48 Larned Street, East. Each change to new and larger quarters had been necessitated by the growing demands upon the company for its services, and the organization stands today as a monument to the efforts of William H. Speaker, who lived to see

the work of the company sought throughout the Middle West. In 1907, Edward N. Hines was taken into partnership, and the firm name of Speaker-Hines Printing Company was adopted. Until the time of his death, Mr. Speaker occupied the position of president, and Mr. Hines, who learned the trade under the tutelage of Mr. Speaker, was secretary and treasurer, he having entered the employ of the company in 1889. In many ways, Mr. Speaker pioneered developments in printing methods in Detroit, notable among them being the production of artistic catalog covers and color printing. He was strong in his opposition to the dictates of the printers' unions on the matter of wages, for he believed that it lay solely within the jurisdiction of the employer to pay his employes according to their several capacities. That he was just in his viewpoint is indicated by the fact that he retained men in his plant for as long as forty years. With a long and fruitful career behind him, he retired from active business when, on May 1, 1925, he sold his interests to Mr. Hines, but it was not given him to enjoy for long the rest so richly deserved, for his death came soon after. His character as an employer and business man may best be shown in this extract of a tribute written of him at the time of his death by a former employe: "Bill Speaker was a humane employer; he knew and felt the feelings of those who labored and he never forgot that he, too, was once a laborer. He was an unconscious leader, a wise counselor, and a real friend. Always approachable, ever ready to listen, his judgment was ever tempered by mercy. His genial manner made him beloved by all who came in contact with him. Were all men's judgment and sense of fairness toward their fellow men as was his, the world would have had little need for labor unions, fraternal orders, and kindred organizations. In his quiet. way he scattered many flowers in the pathway of life of those less fortunate. This was his creed and the world little knows of his many personal acts of kindness." On July 8, 1884, Mr. Speaker married Katherine Edington, daughter of William and Jane (Robinson) Edington, of Manistee, Michigan, the father having been born in Oneida, Scotland, and the mother in Slindon, England. Mr. and Mrs. Speaker were members of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, while Mr. Speaker was a member of the National Typothetae Association and the Detroit Branch of that organization, the Ingleside Club, Detroit Curling Club, and the Ohio Society of Detroit. In the hey-day of the popularity of the bicycle, when the Detroit Wheelman Club occupied the place now held by the Detroit Automobile Club, Mr. Speaker became a charter member of the organization and served as president of the society. In this capacity, he was an active campaigner for good roads. He was intensely interested in all outdoor sports and found his greatest enjoyment in fishing. In Masonry, he was a member of Ashlar Lodge, Peninsular Chapter, and Monroe Council, and he also retained membership in the Knights of Pythias.

John Kelsey, whose death occurred January 19, 1927, held a place in the industrial life of Detroit that stamped him as one of the most successful manufacturers and one of the true upbuilders of the city where he spent his life, for he was the founder and the president of the Kelsey Wheel Company, one of the greatest organizations of its kind in the United States. He was born on Larned Street, Detroit, March 15, 1866, a son of John Thomas and Jessie (Brabyn) Van Stan, and took the name of Kelsey after his widowed mother married Frank Kelsey. His father, John T. Van Stan, served in the Civil War with a Minnesota regiment as lieutenant and quartermaster, fighting for the preservation of the Union despite his Virginian birth. John Kelsey attended and graduated at age of fourteen from the old Jefferson School and later studied in a business college, but his educational advantages were limited. His first job was with the paper firm of Cornwell, Price When & Company, where he received a dollar a week to start. he was eighteen years of age, he joined a boyhood friend, Albert V. McClure, and Warren G. Vinton in the organization of Kelsey, McClure & Company for the manufacture of hardwood products, a venture that proved successful from the time of its inception. In 1898, he allied himself with the H. J. Herbert Company under the firm style of the Kelsey-Herbert Company to engage in the manufacture of toilet articles in ebony and other hard woods and continued as secretary and treasurer of that concern until 1911. With the automobile coming into prominence, he became interested in a project to manufacture and market a spring wheel for automotive vehicles, but the enterprise proved to be the one unsuccessful business venture to which Mr. Kelsey set his hand. Upon the advice of Henry Ford, he abandoned the spring wheel company to undertake the manufacture of wood wheels for automobiles, for he possessed an With excellent knowledge of woods and their industrial uses. William A. Ducharme and six other Detroit men, he organized the Kelsey Wheel Company in 1907 with a capitalization of $300,000. For a long time, the company made all the artillery type wheels used by the Ford Motor Company. Subsequently, the company took up the manufacture of wheels for larger cars, the Cadillac Motor Car Company being the first automobile concern to adopt the Kelsey wheels as standard equipment, and that company still By 1915 the employs the Kelsey products in building its cars. business of the company had grown to such proportions that the Kelsey Wheel Company was reincorporated for $13,000,000 that year and for $16,000,000 the following year. Throughout his association with the concern, Mr. Kelsey was president and was largely responsible for the development of the enterprise into one of the largest industrial units in Detroit's history. The great fortune which he amassed was but a means by which he could aid less fortunate persons, so that he will be remembered as one of the unselfish philanthropists of Detroit. He was known to leave a meeting of bankers in order that he might visit an unfortunate family