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

HISTORY OF MICHIGAN

1549

Within a few weeks the firm of Thomas Fairburn & Son had taken him
into their employ as an apprentice at the brickmason's trade. After completing his apprenticeship Mr. Clark remained with the firm for a period
of five years. As a journeyman mason he found regular employment
under different contractors for eight or nine years, and with the accumulations of his industry and with abundance of skillful performance as a
basis to his credit, he engaged in independent business as a partner of
John S. Putman under the firm named of Clark & Putman. This partnership continued successfully for three years, afterwards Mr. Clark
established the firm of Clark & Company and his son, John H. Clark, is
now associated with him in the business. During his long career as a
mason contractor and builder Mr. Clark has erected many buildings in
Detroit and vicinity, including churches, factories, apartment houses and
flats and residences, a mere list of which would be too long for inclusion
in this brief sketch.
Mr. Clark is a member of the Detroit Builders & Traders Exchange
and of the Master Masons Association. His church is the Presbyterian.
Mrs. Clark is likewise a native of Scotland, her maiden name being
Jane Patullo, and she was born in the town of Forfar, Scotland, and came
to America in 1872. The children of their marriage are as follows: Ami;
Irene, who married Captain William H. McLean, a captain on the Great
Lakes; and John A., who is his father's business associate.
MAX BROOCK. This Detroit real estate man, besides his many associations in local business circles, has been a factor in the public spirited
citizenship of Detroit for some years, and his name is found on the rolls
of a number of Detroit's most representative social and civic organizations.
Max Broock was born at Toronto, Canada, October 20, I870, a son
of Julius and Marie (Schober) Broock. His father came from Nice,
Germany, to America in 1849, and his mother was born in Elberfeld, Germany, and came to America in I853. The family moved to Detroit in
1871, and Max Broock was educated in the public schools, leaving at the
age of ten years to find active work and support himself. Since 1892 he
has been identified with the real estate business, and his long and successive experience has been such as to constitute him an authority in that
field in Detroit. Mr. Broock specializes in high-class residence property,
and also deals in general insurance and mortgage loans. His offices are
in the Union Trust building.
As a Republican he was appointed a member of the City Plan and
Improvement Commission five years ago by ex-Mayor Philip Breitmeyer. During the spring of I914 the present mayor, Hon. Oscar B.
Marx, reappointed him to the commission for another term of five years.
Mr. Broock is a member of the Michigan Association for the protection
of fish and game; of the Detroit Athletic Club; of the Detroit Yacht
Club,, Detroit Curling Club, Board of Commerce, Detroit Real Estate
Board, Harmonie Society, Detroit Zoological Society, National Geographic Society and the Wolverine Automobile Club.
In 1897 at Detroit, Mr. Broock married Elizabeth Forkel. Her father,
Julius Forkel, was a soldier during the American Civil war. Their children are: Ferdinand Broock, born in Detroit in 1898; Harold Broock,
born in Detroit in I899; Eleanor Broock, born in Detroit in I901; and
Elizabeth Maxine Broock, born in Detroit in I909.
VICTOR C. VAUGHAN, M. S., M. D., Ph. D. While among that large
and ever growing body of University of Michigan men and women, extending back for a period of nearly forty years, the name of Dr. Vaughan
has countless associations and special distinctions, it is also identified with
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