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factory. For twelve years Mr. Carroll was a director in the Jackson Land
and Improvement Company, and in that capacity was instrumental in
having located here several of the city's most important factories, among
which are the Lewis Spring and Axle Company, the Aspinwall Manufacturing Company, and others. At the present time, in I914, Mr. Carroll
is the principal owner, president and general manager of the Consumers
Ice and Fuel Company, which is capitalized at $40,o00, and is one of
Jackson's important industries.
For twenty-six years Mr. Carroll represented the fifth ward on the
Jackson Board of Aldermen, serving continuously from 1884 until 1910,
when, having grown weary of the service, he resigned the office, which
otherwise he would doubtless have held as long as he lived. For three
years he was president of the Council, and during the entire period of his
service was one of the foremost members of the board, and the author
of a large part of the city's legislation, while as president of the board he
was frequently called upon to serve as acting mayor of the city.
Mr. Carroll has been twice married. He married first, July 4, 1872,
Miss Lena Vogt, who passed to the life beyond in I906, leaving two
daughters, namely: Ella May, wife of Joseph F. Tobin, of Jackson; and
Lena, wife of Burt Perine, of Idaho. On June 9, I907, Mr. Carroll married for his second wife Miss Margaret DeLancey, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Fraternally Mr. Carroll is a charter member of Jackson Lodge No. II13,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and religiously he belongs to
Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church. Politically he is stanch Democrat.
For many years Mr. Carroll was a power in civic affairs in Jackson and
his name and deeds are indelibly written in the municipal history of the
city.
HERMAN FRANK YATZEK. When his business associates chose Mr.
Yatzek in I914 as president of the Master Carpenters Association of
Detroit, a well deserved honor was conferred upon one of the leading
general carpenter contractors of Detroit, and one that indicates his
standing in the general building trades of that city.
Though a resident of Detroit nearly all his life, Herman Frank
Yatzek is a native of Germany, born in Deutsch Eilau in West Prussia
on February 24, I873. His parents, Herman Charles and Johanna (Konapatzke) Yatzek, brought their little family to the United States in I887,
establishing a home in Detroit. In Germany the father had learned and
followed the carriage building trade, but after coming to the United
States was employed in the more general lines of carpentry. He is
still living, but the mother died on March 6, I9IO.
As he was fourteen years old when the family came to the United
States, Herman F. Yatzek had practically completed his school training
in the old country. His early experiences in Detroit were those of a
young foreigner who had to spend considerable time in mastering a new
language, and who worked at different lines to earn a living. When
twenty years of age he took up work as a carpenter, and followed the
trade as a journeyman until I903. Since that year his name has been
among the independent contractors, and he was head of the firm of
Yatzek & Grunwald until it was dissolved in 1912. Since that year Mr.
Yatzek has been engaged in contracting under the firm name of Yatzek
& Company. To mention only a few of the many contracts which he
has successfully handled, his work is exemplified in Dr. McDonald's
eight-apartment house; Mr. Beecher's forty-apartment house; Mr. Kaufman's six-apartment terrace; Mrs. Frazer's eight-apartment flats; Mr.
Cawey's six-apartment house; and many other apartments, flats, residences, store buildings, etc.