An Account of Oakland County / edited by Lillian Drake Avery.

PERSONAL SKETCHES

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schools of Rochester and is now a resident of Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chervenka have three children, Elizabeth, Orimal and Hudson, and in them their maternal grandfather, the
subject of this sketch, takes great pride. In 1915 Mr. Hudson married Mabel E. Johnson, a native of this township.
Joel A. Hugus.-Mr. Hugus is the manager of the Elaborated Roofing Company, Room 1, New Turk building, Pontiac. He was born in
Clinton county, Michigan, December 23, 1875, attended public school
in that county and early entered the automobile business, which engrossed him until 1916, when he became a roofing contractor. In
1918, Mr. Hugus located in Pontiac. He is not only the manager but
the owner of the concern registered under the name of the Elaborated
Roofing Company, a widely known business and one covering a field of
importance. Mr. Hugus is a member of the Masonic order. On his
twenty-seventh birthday, December 23, 1902, Mr. Hugus was married,
choosing as his bride Miss Vina Cook, of Flint, Michigan. The busi'ness over which Mr. Hugus presides has grown substantially.
Steven E. Hurd is senior member of the firm of Stieler, Hurd &
DeNeen, engaged in the plumbing and heating business in the village
of Berkley, and of the junior member of this progressive firm, Frederick W. Stieler, individual mention is made on another page of this
publication. Mr. Hurd was born on a farm near Gagetown, Tuscola
county, Michigan, July 4, 1893, and is a son of Levi and May (Harger)
Hurd, born, respectively, in 1854 and 1869. Levi Hurd was a boy at
the time his parents settled on a pioneer farm in Tuscola county, and
there he has resided during the long intervening years. He was
actively engaged in farm enterprise for many years and is now
living retired at Gagetown, as one of the substantial and honored
citizens of the county that has so long been his home. He has
served as justice of the peace and was for several years a member
of the Gagetown board of education. His wife passed to the life
eternal in the year 1916, and in addition to Stephen E., of this sketch,
two other children survive the devoted mother-Earl J., who now has
charge of the old homestead farm near Gagetown and Miss Violet,
who is, in 1925, a successful and popular teacher in the public schools
at Springwells, Wayne county. The public-school studies of Stephen
E. Hurd included those of the high school at Gagetown, and thereafter
he continued to be associated with the work and management of the
home farm until he went to the city of Detroit, where he remained
six years and where he found employment in connection with the
automobile industry, he having been for three years a foreman in
the shops of the Ford Motor Company and having been the incumbent
of this position at the time when he established his home at Berkley,
in 1918. In the following year he here engaged in working at the
plumbing and heating trade, and in May, 1924, he and his present
partners established themselves independently in that line of business
enterprise, the firm of Stieler, Hurd & DeNeen now having a prosperous and well ordered business in the Berkley district of Oakland
county. Mr. Hurd is one of the loyal and progressive citizens of Berk