Connecticut, September 2, 1881, a son of Robert and Margaret (Keating) Davis, and when he was two years old he was brought to Detroit by his parents, the father here becoming identified with the Farrand-Votey Organ Company. The boy obtained his early education in the schools of this city but gave up his schooling to become a page at the state capitol during the administration of Governor Pingree. It was this work which gave him the opportunity to equip himself for secretarial positions and such a one he secured with the State Tax Commission. Later he became associated with the Bitulithic Paving Company, at the same time. holding the position as manager of the Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company, where his success was so outstanding that he was given the managership of the Detroit Reduction Company. With this organization he continued for more than twenty years, and the growth and development of this enterprise was largely due to the manner in which he discharged his duties, his ability stamping him as one of the leading industrial executives and plant managers in a city which is noted for its high degree of plant efficiency. He was still engaged in that work when his career was interrupted by death, March 28, 1927. His acknowledged ability as an organizer won him appointment, during the World War, as special agent of the adjutant-general's office in charge of the draft in the Detroit district. He was instrumental in expediting the transportation of thousands of drafted men to military camps, and he worked out a more satisfactory method for the handling of deferred classification, and under his direction scores of raids were engineered for roundups of slackers. He also organized the Citizens' Police Reserve, over two thousand citizen volunteers were enrolled in the organization. In 1901, Mr. Davis married Edna MacFall, the daughter of John and Jennie (Arndt) MacFall, both natives of Detroit, where the former was a well known business man. To Mr. and Mrs. Davis was born one duaghter, Margaret, who married Kenneth Moe. Robert K. Davis was a member of the Detroit Yacht Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Lansing Country and City Clubs, the Beech Grove Golf Clubs, the Red Run Golf Glub, the Players' Club and Detroit Engineering Society. He attended Grace Episcopal Church and supported the Republican party in politics. In the growing of flowers, Mr. Davis found his hobby, and his home was noted for the beautiful plants and shrubbery with which he planted his grounds.

Frank P. Darin, Detroit attorney, represents Wayne County in the State Legislature for the second time and is chairman of the Wayne County delegation to the State Legislature. He was born September 22, 1899, at Venice, Italy, while his parents, Victor E. and Rose M. (Pagnetto) Darin, were abroad. They were both American citizens, natives of Italy, and residents of Yuma, Arizona, and returned to this city after the birth of their son. The father first located in Arizona to work in the mines, continuing there until 1902, when he went to work in the iron mines at Hurley, Wisconsin. Subsequently, he was employed in the coal

mines at Piney Fork, Ohio, until 1904, in which year he came to Delray, Wayne County, to work with the Solvay Process Company. Frank P. Darin attended the McMullen grammar school and the Northwestern high school of Detroit, and on August 26, 1917, he enlisted in the navy, being stationed first at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and then at Newport, Rhode Island, where he saw service with the destroyer squadron as gunner's mate. He is now a member of the Naval Reserves with the commission of ensign. Following the conclusion of his military service, he resumed his interrupted studies at the University of Detroit, whence he graduated in 1921 with the degree of bachelor of laws. In 1919, he had been chief clerk of the naval and marine division in General John Bersey's office, and he worked his way through college by working as a criminal investigator with the sheriff's office. Following his graduation, Mr. Darin entered upon the practice of his profession at River Rouge, where he was elected judge of the municipal court to fill a vacancy in the spring of 1923. Thereafter, he practiced law until 1924, when he was elected to represent his district of Wayne County in the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1926, being the youngest member of that body during both terms. In that position he has made a conspicuous record as chairman of the powerful judiciary committee of the House of Representatives. He is a strong proponent of all conservation methods and introduced the Inter Super Highway Act, the Port District Act, and the act affecting the courts on the change of procedure. On January 1, 1925, Mr. Darin was appointed legal adviser to Sheriff George Walters, a position from which he recently resigned. April 1, 1927, he was appointed corporation counsel for the city of River Rouge, resigning April 3, 1928. Mr. Darin was married September 21, 1925, to Marie Di Iseppo, of Loggio, Italy, at Buffalo, New York, and they maintain their home in River Rouge. Mr. Darin is a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity. In Masonry, he has attained the Thirty-second Degree in the Scottish Rite, is a member of the Michigan Sovereign Consistory, and belongs to the Shrine. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, and the Island Country Club. He is affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and as a lover of all sports, he finds his recreation in participating therein.

Paul H. King, one of the two referees in bankruptcy for the Eastern District of Michigan, has filled this responsible position for over eight years and is regarded as one of the most able men who has ever held that office. A native of Arapahoe, Nebraska, he was born August 22, 1879, the son of Dr. John S. and Agnes A. King. The father was born in Rochester, New York, and practiced medicine and surgery in Chicago for many years, subsequently practicing in Nebraska and Iowa and finally Minnesota, where he died in 1891. The mother had been a school teacher, and her death occurred at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1911. Paul H. King attended the

public schools of South Omaha, Nebraska; Wadena, Minnesota; and Dowagiac, Michigan, but because of the death of his father when he was twelve years of age, he became the main support of his mother and sister, so that it was with considerable difficulty that he managed to complete his education at the Dowagiac high school, from which he graduated in 1898. During the legislative sessions of 1893 and 1895, he had been a page in the Minnesota House of Representatives, and in 1897, he was appointed a page in the Michigan Senate. He attracted favorable attention while he was so employed, being appointed assistant secretary of the senate in 1901, and during the sessions of 1903, 1905, and 1907 was journal clerk of the House of Representatives at Lansing and chief clerk in 1909-11. From 1901 to 1905, he spent the time intervening between the legislative session as private secretary to the Secretary of State. During these years, Mr. King had applied himself diligently to the study of law, and on April 15, 1904, he was admitted to the bar by the State Board of Law Examiners with the highest standing in a class of twenty-three candidates. Since his admission to the bar, Mr. King has been engaged in the active practice of his profession at Lansing and Detroit. In 1906, he was named as one of the compilers of the Index to the Compiled Laws of 1897, and in 1907-08, was secretary of the Michigan Constitutional convention. He served as secretary of the Townsend senatorial campaign committee in 1910 and secretary of the Republican State Central committee in the same year and in 1911. In the latter year, Mr. King took up the duties of secretary to Benjamin S. Hanchett, president and general manager of the Grand Rapids Railway Company, a position which he retained until 1914. He became assistant secretary-treasurer of the Grand Rapids, Holland & Chicago Railroad in 1914, and in the same year, was appointed operating receiver of the Pere Marquette Railroad. His association with this work in the succeeding period of three years was of such a brilliant nature that he brought the railway out of seemingly hopeless bankruptcy to a substantial position where reorganization became possible, and today, because of the work of Mr. King during that crisis, the Pere Marquette stands as one of the substantial railway enterprises of this section of the United States. In June, 1917, with the country preparing to send an army to France, Mr. King became director of the first Red Cross war fund campaign conducted in Michigan, the quota of $3,000,000 being oversubscribed by a million dollars. From October of the same year until March, 1918, Mr. King was director of publicity for the Michigan Red Cross, was a member of the state publicity committee for the second Liberty Loan campaign, and had charge of a division in the first patriotic fund drive in the city of Detroit. From November 20, 1917, to March 25, 1918, he served as a member of the charter commission for Detroit, being chairman of the committee on arrangement and phraseology and making the original draft of the charter that is in force today. He was also a member of the public utilities committee of the commission. From March 4, 1918, to August 27, that year, he was chairman of the

executive committee of the Newberry senatorial committee and from September 25 to November 5, 1918, was director of campaign for the Republican State Central Committee. On April 10, 1919, Mr. King was appointed referee in bankruptcy for the Eastern District of Michigan, and during the eight years that have elapsed since he took office, he has taken a leading part in the improvement of bankruptcy practice and administration in this district and in the country. In 1926, he organized and was the first president of the National Association of Referees in Bankruptcy, and is now chairman of the Committee on Uniformity of Practice of that organization. On August 27, 1919, he became state chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, conducting a campaign that raised more than one hundred thousand dollars in small contributions, an amount that placed Michigan second only to New York in the drive. Mr. King is a director of the Metropolitan Trust Company, and the Commonwealth Commercial State Savings Bank. On January 29, 1910, Mr. King married Sarah A. Bidwell, of Lapeer, Michigan, and they have four children: Martha, who was born at Lansing, in 1911; Sarah, born in Detroit, in 1913; Elizabeth, born in Detroit, in 1917; and Pauline, born in Detroit, in 1921. In Masonry, Mr. King is a member of Lansing Lodge No. 33, F. & A. M.; Lansing Chapter No. 9, R. A. M.; Monroe Council No. 1, R. S. M.; Detroit Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar;; DeWitt Clinton Consistory, Grand Rapids; and Moslem Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. King is a member of the Lawyers' Club, the Detroit Bar Association, the Michigan Bar Association, the American Bar Association, is member of the board of trustee and chairmain of the finance committee of the North Woodward Avenue Congregational Church, a director of the Y. M. C. A. Chairman of the Wayne County chapter of the Michigan Society of Crippled Children, secretary and treasurer of the Michigan Society for Crippled Children, and a director of the International Society for Crippled Children. In 1923, Mr. King served as president of the Detroit Rotary Club; he has served as district governor of the Rotary International, and as a director of Rotary International. In 1924, he was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the presidency of the Rotary International, and is now a member of the extension committee, his area being that of the United States. He is also a director and vice-president of the Union League Club, of Michigan.

Cleveland Thurber, who is associated with the well-known legal firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, is regarded as one fo the most prominent of the younger attorneys of Detroit, where he has been engaged in the practice of his profession since 1922. Henry T. Thurber, his father, was born in Monroe, Michigan, April 28, 1853, the son of Judge Jefferson G. and Mary Bartlett (Gerrish) Thurber, both natives of New Hampshire, the former of whom served as speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives and was also state senator. Henry T. Thurber graduated from the Monroe high school as valedictorian of the class of 1870 and from the University of Michigan in 1874 with the degree of

bachelor of arts. He then came to Detroit to begin his law studies in the offices of Moore & Griffin, completing them with Griffin & Dickinson, of which firm he became a member after his admission to the bar. He continued with Griffin, Dickinson, Thurber & Hosmer until 1885, when the retirement of Griffin in that year and the election of Mr. Hosmer to the bench of the Wayne County Circuit Court in 1887 reduced the firm to three members, Dickinson, Thurber & Stevenson. In 1896, following the retirement of Mr. Stevenson from the partnership, the firm became that of Dickinson & Thurber, with the Hon. Don M. Dickinson as senior partner. Mr. Thurber was unquestionably one of the most prominent lawyers of Michigan and this section of the country during his long and active career before the bar which was so abruptly terminated by death in 1907. He was deeply interested in the civic affairs of his city, and as a strong supporter of the Democratic party, he was appointed private secretary to President Grover Cleveland, March 4, 1893 and retained that position during his administration. In 1880, he married Elizabeth B. Croul, the daughter of William H. Croul, of this city, and to this union were born five children: Donald Dickinson, Marian B., Henry T., Jr., Elizabeth, and Cleveland, whose name heads this review. Cleveland Thurber was born in Washington, D. C., April 12, 1896, and obtained his preparatory education in the Detroit University school. He matriculated at Williams College, where he won the degree of bachelor of arts, and when the United States entered the World War in 1917, he enlisted as a private, entered an officers' training camp and was commissioned first lieutenant of infantry. He served in France in this branch of the service, and following his discharge in 1919, he entered the Harvard Law school, from which he graduated in 1922 with the degree of bachelor of laws. He then became associated with the legal firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, with which he has since been identified, and in the five years that succeeded his entrance into active practice, he has won an enviable reputation among the members of the Wayne County Bar. On September 20, 1924, he married Marie Louise Palms, daughter of Francis F. Palms, and to them on September 2, 1925, was born a son, Cleveland, Jr. Mr. Thurber is a member of the Detroit Country Club, Grosse Pointe Club, the University Club, and the Kappa Alpha, college social fraternity. In religious matters, he is affiliated with the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Richard Stephen Gehlert has been a leader in the wholesale coffee business in Detroit, where he has been engaged in that work in this city since 1901. He was born at East Saginaw, Michigan, January 13, 1867, the son of John G. and Louise (Karrer) Gehlert, both of whom were born in Prussia and came to the United States in 1849 during the revolution that swept their country in that year. After spending a short time in Detroit, John G. Gehlert removed with his family to East Saginaw, where he became a pioneer in the hardware business. Richard S. Gehlert acquired his education in the schools of Saginaw, Detroit, and Germany, whither his parents