History of Saint Clair, (Saint Clair County) Michigan United States of America

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Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, economist, was born at St. Clair, Mich., Sept. 2, 1856; son of Benjamin Lane and Amanda (Messer) Jenks, and grandson of Jeremiah Whipple and Hester (Lane) Jenks and of James and Lucy (Eaton) Messer. His ancestor, Joseph Jenks, emigrated from England to America in 1642 and established the iron and steel works in Lynn, Mass. Jeremiah was educated at the public schools of St. Clair, and was graduated from the University of Michigan, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1879. He was professor of ancient languages at Mount Morris college, Ill., 1879-82; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1881. He was a student in Halle, Germany, 1883-85, where he received the degree Ph.D. in 1885; teacher of English at Peoria high school, Ill., 1885-86; professor of political science and English literature at Knox college, Galesburg, Ill., 1886-89; professor of political economy and social science at the Indiana State university, 1889-91; professor of political and social institutions at Cornell university, 1891-92; was made head of the department of political science, including economics, politics and social science in 1893, and spent the year 1892-93 in Europe in special study of European political methods. He was expert agent of the United States industrial commission, 1899-1900, and directed the investigation of trusts and industrial combinations, and in this work he compiled and edited the laws of the United States concerning monopolies and digested the decisions under them, and also edited the testimony before the U.S. industrial commission, 1898-1900. As an expert in economics and politics he was requested by state officials to take an active part in drafting bills on taxation; stock companies, and city government in both Indiana and New York. He is the author of: Henry C. Carey als Nationalokonom (1885); Road Legislation for the American State (1889); The Trust Problem (1900), and contributions to cyclop?dias, reviews and magazines in Germany, England and America, articles on trusts, monopolies, the money question and political methods. He was married, Aug. 28, 1884, to Georgia, daughter of George Washington and Susannah (Stoner) Bixler, of Bedford, Pa.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

William Seelye Linton, representative, was born at St. Clair, Mich., Feb. 4, 1856; son of Aaron and Sarah (McDonald) Linton; grandson of Joseph Winder and Rebecca (Seelye) Linton, and a descendant of John Linton, of Bucks county, Pa., who landed in Philadelphia about 1692. His parents removed to Saginaw, Mich., in 1860, where he received a public school education. He was employed as a clerk in a general store at Farwell, Mich., in 1871, and subsequently became manager of his father's saw-mill and lumber yard at Farwell. He engaged in the lumber business at Jonesville, Mich., and afterward as a bookkeeper to lumber dealers in Saginaw, and wee lumber inspector in the saw mills along the Saginaw river. In 1877 he became superintendent of a lumbering industry at Wells, Delta county, Mich. He was a member of the board of supervisors of Bay county for two terms; engaged in the salt and lumber business at Saginaw in 1879; was a member of the East Saginaw common council, 1883-87; a representative in the state legislature, 1887-88; candidate for lieutenant-governor on the Republican ticket in 1890; mayor of Saginaw, 1892-94, and a Republican representative from the eighth district of Michigan in the 53d and 54th congresses, 1893-97. In congress he successfully opposed the appropriations of public moneys for sectarian purposes. He was appointed postmaster of Saginaw in 1897; elected president of the Michigan Association of Postmasters the same year, and president of the Michigan State League of Building and Loan associations in 1891.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor