History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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entire life in this county and since the beginning of his law practice has
made his home in Pontiac, where he has with the passing years built up.
a lucrative and extensive clientele. He is a particularly able trial lawyer and his oratorical ability has won him many laurels.
Born in West Bloomfield, on October 28, I870, Mr. Moore is the
son of Hiram E. Moore, a prominent farmer and stockman of that
township. In I895 Mr. Moore was admitted to the bar and early formed
a partnership with Judge Augustus C. Baldwin and James A. Jacokes,
which association endured until the death of Judge Baldwin.
Mr. Moore was chosen to represent Oakland and Macomb counties
in the convention which revised the state constitution and which, among
other things, provided for home rule. Because of the active part he
bore in that convention, he was chosen a member of the convention
which wrote Pontiac's commission charter and was unanimously elected
chairman of that body. It was largely through his influence that the
initiative, referendum and recall provisions and the "corrupt practice"
sections were given places in that document.
Mr. Moore is an influential member of the First Methodist church
of Pontiac and is a teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class of that
Sunday-school.
PETER B. BROMLEY
Peter B. Bromley is a member of the firm of Davis & Bromley of
Pontiac, organized in I893. He was born in Oakland township, Oakland county, in 1863, and is the son of Andrew J. and Sarah P. (Brewster) Bromley.
Andrew J. Bromley was also a native of Oakland township, born
there in I840 and passing away at the early age of twenty-five years.
He was a son of Rosewell Bromley, a Vermonter, born in Rutland county,
in I803, who died in Oakland county in I89o, after having passed his
life here from the age of twenty-two years. He married Sybil Pinckney, and they were the parents of a goodly family. He was one of the
prominent men of this section, serving the county in many public offices during his lifetime.
Peter B. Bromley is one of the two children born to his parents,
Andrew J. and Sarah Bromley; his one brother is a farmer in St. Clair
county, Michigan. After the death of his father his mother married
Tunis Rolison and the family moved from the old home to Pontiac
when Mr. Bromley was a lad of ten years. He attended the Pontiac high
school and after graduating in the teacher's course began teaching, and
with his work carried on a course of law reading in I88I. In August,
1884, he was admitted to the bar, and in the years that have elapsed he
has won a high degree of prominence in his profession. He served six
years as court commissioner of Oakland county-two terms as city clerk
of Pontiac and was elected to the office of city attorney by the city
council for a term of three years and is now filling that office. Until
1893 he continued in independent practice, but since that time he has
been associated with D. L. Dlavis, the well known attorney of Oakland
county.
Mr. Bromley married Miss Sarah Ditmas, of Brooklyn, New York.