History of Saginaw County, Michigan; historical, commercial, biographical, profusely illustrated with portraits of early pioneers, rare pictures and scenes of olden times, and portraits of representative citizens of today, [Vol. 2]

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HISTORY OF SAGINAW COUNTY

On January 13, 1892, Mr. McCorkle was married at Chicago to Miss
Anna E. Denyes, who was born November 1, 1871, at Belleville, Ontario,
Canada. Four children have been born to them: Hazel Irene, now Mrs.
Hazel Randall; Gerald Denyes, in July, 1918, serving as quartermaster in
the United States Navy, and stationed on a submarine chaser; William
Percy and Emily Elizabeth. The family home is a comfortable and attractive
residence at 322 Cherry Street, at the corner of Park Avenue, one of the
desirable residential sections of the city.
ARTHUR CLEMENTS
Arthur Clements, the well known and popular justice of the Saginaw
police court, is a public official whom the people have repeatedly elected
to office as an acknowledgment of faithful service and duty well performed.
Of English descent he was born on the
British Isle August 6, 1874, his parents bei: ' ng Joseph and Ellen Clements. They
emigrated to America in 1886 and settled
at Sherodsville, Ohio, where Arthur spent
a part of his boyhood and youth. He was
one of a family of six children, of which
the boys upon arriving at manhood adopted
Various occupations, manifesting an independent and ambitious spirit. The father,
Joseph Clements, died in 1914; and the
mother is still living.
At the age of twenty-two years Arthur
Clements came to Saginaw County, and
started in the retail grocery business at St.
Charles. Two years later, in 1898, he came
to Saginaw and for a time worked as check
weighman in the mines at Jamestown. He
had acquired a common school education in
Ohio, and had worked in the mines in that
ARTHUR CLEMENTS State from about the age of fifteen, so that
he had a thorough knowledge of mining operations as an aid in performing
his duties here. He continued in this occupation until 1905, when, in
January, he was appointed city messenger, and so satisfactory was the performance of his new duties that he was reappointed in January, 1907, and
again in 1909. In the following year he was elected justice of the peace
in this city, a position he still holds by the choice of the people.
Mr. Clements is of that type of public official, honest, fearless, with
a keen sense of responsibility to the people, and in whom they place the
highest confidence. He possesses in a marked degree a fine discrimination
of right and wrong, of justice and equity, and is able to quickly arrive at
a proper decision on the side of right to all parties in dispute. He is a
terror to offenders who repeatedly violate the law after due warning, and
shows little mercy with the vicious and unrepenting criminal. On the other
hand he is inclined to leniency with the average person who unknowingly
or unthinkingly is guilty of petty violations of ordinance, from carelessness
rather than intent. He holds justice with a fine balance, and with all classes
is respected for his courage and unfailing helpfulness to those in distress.
Besides the duties of justice of the peace he has for the past two years
performed the arduous duties of city recorder. This office was made vacant
-by the departure of Captain Martin of Company F. of the State Militia, to