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

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HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

took the state bar examination and passed. On April 28, 1899, he
was admitted to practice. In 1899-1900 Mr. Hymers served as city
clerk. From March 15, 1914, to October 15, 1922, he was postmaster
of Pontiac. Twice was Mr. Hymers the city attorney, in 1912-13
and before that, 1908-09. He was a member of the city charter commission, 1910-11. Naturally, Mr. Hymers is civically minded and takes
strong interest in all movements affecting the well being of Pontiac
and the strenghtening of its public service. He is a member of various
Masonic bodies, including Pontiac Lodge No. 21, F. and A. M., Oakland Chapter No. 5, R. A. M., and the Pontiac Commandery No. 2.
He belongs to the Scottish Rite, Michigan Sovereign Consistory at
Detroit. On June 15, 1899, Mr. Hymers was united in marriage to
Miss Maude E. Smith, of Pontiac.
Charles S. Inch has been long and prominently identified with the
manufacturing and installing of high grade monuments and other
types of cemetery memorial in Oakland county and is at the present
time one of the leading exponents of this line of business in the
city of Pontiac, where he has headquarters at 30 East Lawrence street.
Mr. Inch was born at Guelph, province of Ontario, Canada, June 26,
1864, and is a son of Charles and Susan (Parker) Inch, with whom
he came to Oxford, Oakland county, Michigan, in 1885, when he
was twenty-one years of age, his youthful education having been obtained principally in the public schools of Seaforth, Ontario, and having included the curriculum of the high school. At Oxford his
father engaged in the cooperage business, and at that place the parents
passed the remainder of their lives, the father having been seventyeight years of age at the time of his death, April 28, 1903, and the
widowed mother having passed away April 29, 1908, at the age of
seventy years, the remains of both being laid to rest in the beautiful
cemetery at Oxford, where a fine monument, erected by their son,
Charles S., of this review, is standing as an enduring tribute to their
memory. At the age of twenty-four years Charles S. Inch came to
Pontiac and found employment at the monument works of David,Scott, he having previously learned thoroughly the technical and
executive details of the business. He finally engaged in the same
business in an independent way, with L. O. Trowbridge as a partner,
and this alliance continued several years-until Mr. Trowbridge removed to one of the western states. W. H. Rambau was then admitted to partnership in the business, and the enterprise was continued under the title of Inch & Rambau until the death of Mr. Rambau, in 1919, since which year Mr. Inch has had as his valued associates in the conducting of the business his two sons-in-laws, William S. Root and Lloyd W. Burns. Mr. Inch has erected many of
the finest monuments in the various cemeteries of Oakland county,
and Detroit. In the spring of 1925 Mr. Inch established a branch
business at the corner of Woodward avenue and Twelve Mile road
opposite Roseland Park cemetery. He is now one of the veteran
and representative business men of Pontiac and is an honored citizen
of distinctive loyalty and public spirit. He is a member and staunch