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that had been brought to his attention, and his associations of this kind were broad and enduring, for he was a friend to all and was deeply interested in the welfare of those friends. Baseball held for him a consuming interest throughout his life and nothing affected him more deeply than did the recent scandals in professional baseball leagues. When he was a lad of fourteen years, he displayed a pitching ability that brought him membership in the old Amateur Athletic Association, and as success came to him in the business world, he became one of the strongest supporters of the association, which was subsequently reorganized as the Detroit Athletic Club. He was known to pay "dues" to the amount of $7,000 a year to the old organization, an amount nearly equal to the total dues paid by the other members of the club. He played baseball every year up to the last summer preceding his death, and his interest was extended to the professional league baseball in 1919 when he purchased the stock of the Detroit Tigers in partnership with Frank J. Navin and Walter O. Briggs. He was the second president of the Detroit Athletic Club and was chairman of the committee in charge of erecting the present clubhouse. He financed the Grosse Ile Golf Club, one of the finest in the Detroit region, and was a member of the Country Club of Detroit, Bloomfield Hills Country Club, Detroit Club, Old Club, Detroit Automobile Club, the Audubon Society, and the Board of Commerce. He was also a member of the old Detroit Light Guard, one of the famous old militia organizations of this city. In fraternal circles, he was a member of the Palestine Lodge of Masons, and in politics he was an unswerving Republican. In 1893, he married Margaret Dallas, the daughter of John and Catherine A. (Kerr) Dallas, the former of whom was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the latter of Nova Scotia. To Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey were born two children, Dallas Sherrill and Virginia Elizabeth, the former of whom has entered the business started by his father and is now learning it from the ground up.

Ernest R. Warner was one of the prominent restaurant and merchandise brokerage men in Detroit, where he made his home since 1882. He was born at Canton, New York, May 21, 1860, and was the son of Tichner and Sophia (Ames) Warner. His educational advantages were secured in the common and high schools of his native city, and his career was begun as a news agent on a railroad. In 1882, he came to Detroit, and having determined to enter the restaurant business, he secured a job at the Swan restaurant in order that he might learn every detail of the field in which he expected to engage. After a few years, he opened his first establishment at the corner of Third and Jefferson avenues opposite the Michigan Central Railroad station. This enterprise he conducted successfully until the present Union depot was erected, at which time he bought the restaurant rights for that station. Subsequent to that, he opened another restaurant in the Masonic Temple and conducted the venture successfully for some time. He

gave up that work, however, to accept a position as deputy collector of internal revenue and continued in that office for a period of eighteen years. Again he determined to go into business for himself, selecting the field of merchandise brokerage for his operations. His extensive knowledge of standard market prices gained in the restaurant business rendered inevitable his success in the new work, and he continued in that line of endeavor with constantly mounting success until his career was cut short by death, November 6, 1927. Mr. Warner was known as one of the aggressive and able men among the merchandise brokers of Detroit and was highly regarded for the business acumen that brought him to a leading place in Detroit commercial circles. Though he never sought office, he took an active part in the local affairs of the Republican party and was chairman of the Republican committee for a number of years. During the World War, he played a conspicuous part in promoting the success of the various drives for Government loans and the Red Cross and other social service funds. He attended the Protestant Episcopal Church and had attained the Thirty-second degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, he having been a member of Zion Lodge, Damascus Commandery, and the Shrine. For a time he held membership in the Exchange Club. In 1891, Mr. Warner married Harriett Doolittle, the daughter of John N. and Eliza (Smith) Doolittle, both of New York State, and they became the parents of two daughters, Kathryn, who married Norman Saunders, and Eloise, who married George A. Gregg and died in 1919, leaving one daughter, Virginia Eloise. Mrs. Warner survives her husband and maintains her home at No. 323 King Avenue, Detroit.

Archie A. McPherson had attained the position of cashier and vice-president of the Bank of Detroit several years prior to the time of his death, which occurred October 14, 1927, and was accounted one of the able bank cashiers in this part of the country. A native of Detroit, he was born May 26, 1889, the son of George and Addie (Bare) McPherson, the former of whom was an early shoe merchant of Detroit and died here in January, 1917, and the latter of whom was of French descent. Archie A. McPherson obtained his early education in the public schools of Detroit, and when he had completed the eleventh grade at the Central high school, he gave up his schooling to accept a position as clerk in the employ of the First National Bank of Detroit, work in which he continued three years. When the Dodge Company was organized, he became office manager for that automobile manufactory and retained that position until 1917. In that year, he resigned his position in the hope that he might enter the army for service in the World War, but faulty eyesight and heart trouble caused his rejection. Disappointed in this attempt, he became traveling auditor for the Acme White Lead & Color Company, employment that took him to all of the company's branches in the West during the the year he spent in this work. He was next associated with the

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