History of Michigan, / by Charles Moore. [Vol. 3]

HISTORY OF MICHIGAN

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Battle Creek, Michigan; Irene, who resides with her parents; James
Stanley, a graduate of the Charlevoix High school, living at home; and
Richard and Eleanor, living at home and students in the public schools.
Thomas G. Finucan attended the graded schools of Charlevoix, and
after his graduation from the high school entered the pharmaceutical
department of the University of Michigan, there remaining one vear.
His studies in his chosen vocation were continued in the Ferris Institute, where he took a short course, and then returned to Charlevoix and
secured his first position as a drug clerk with B. A. Herman. After
two years in this pqsition he received the appointment from President
Wilson as postmaster of Charlevoix and has continued to devote himself to the duties of his office to the present time. Mr. Finucan has
proved himself an able executive and has introduced a number of greatly
needed reforms into the service here. He is popular with the people,
who have recognized the fact that he is conscientiously trying to efficiently look after their interests. A Democrat in politics, he has for
some time taken an active interest in the success of his party, and is
already accounted one of the influential factors in its activities. His
religious connection is with the Roman Catholic church, and fraternally
he belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Finucan was married October I4, 1913, at Charlevoix, to Miss
Winnifred Weaver, a native of this city, and a daughter of Capt. George
and Florence (Hyland) Weaver, her father having been a lake captain
for many years.
MARK S. KNAPP, M. D. One of Flint's long established physicians
who has achieved an enviable reputation in his profession and who is held
in high personal regard by all who know him, is Dr. Mark S. Knapp.
He is a native of Michigan, having been born in the town of Linden,
October 30, 1872, the son of Dr. Leonard E. and Melissa C. (Stevens)
Knapp, natives of this state. Myron E. Knapp, the grandfather of Doctor
Knapp, came to Michigan in 1840, as a pioneer farmer, and settled in
Washtenaw county, where he continued to carry on agricultural pursuits
up to the time of his death in I895, at the age of seventy-seven years. He
was one of Michigan's remarkable old men, a type of the sturdy, reliable
men who through their continued and helpful activities made possible
the development of this section of the state. He married a Miss Hoisington, who like himself, was a native of New York, and they traveled
together overland to this state. Mrs. Knapp experienced all the hardships
and privations of pioneer life with fortitude, assisting her husband materially in the achieving of his success and was much beloved by all who
knew her for her many sterling characteristics and admirable qualities
of mind and heart. She died at the age of fifty-four years, and both she
and her husband were laid to rest in the county of their adoption.
Dr. Leonard E. Knapp, father of Dr. Mark S. Knapp, was a self-made
man. He was born in 1842 in Washtenaw county, Michigan, received his
early education in the district schools, learned the trade of cooper, and
early left home for Poughkeepsie, New York, where he worked his way
through Eastman's Business College. He then returned to Michigan
and received a normal training at Ypsilanti, where he met the lady who
later became his wife. He became a student in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and later entered the Homeopathic Medical College,
of Cleveland, Ohio, from which he was graduated in I869. In that same
year he was married and moved to Linden, Michigan, where he embarked
in practice as a physician and surgeon and continued until I876. He
theri moved to Fenton, where he continued to successfully prosecute his
professional activities until his death, in July, I9II, when sixty-nine