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

*PERSONAL SKETCHES

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He is non-partisan in his political proclivities, and is a charter member of the Berkley tent of the Knights of the Maccabees. June 15,
1916, Mr. Loftus wedded Miss Rose Lehman, daughter of Lawrence
Lehman, a retired farmer at West Branch, Ogemaw county, Michigan, and the two children of this union are daughters-Irene, born
February 9, 1919, and Shirley, born October 7, 1922.
James W. Losee, M.D., has been for more than thirty years engaged in the practice of his profession in his native county of Oakland, and has continuously made the city of Pontiac the central stage
of his professional activities, his office here being at 24'2 East Huron
street. The Doctor was born on the parental homestead farm in
Springfield township, Oakland county, November 19, 1865, there
gained his initial experience of practical order, and the district schools
afforded his preliminary educational training, which was supplemented by his attending the high schools at Fenton and Pontiac. In
line with his ambition and well formulated plans, he finally entered
the homeopathic medical department of the University of Michigan,
and in the same he was graduated as a member of the class of 1891,
on the 25th of June in which year he received his degree of Doctor
of Medicine. In the city of Pontiac he was for seventeen years associated in practice with the late Dr. Aaron B. Avery, and he has
since continued in independent general practice with a large and representative clientele that indicates alike his professional ability and
personal popularity. The Doctor is a member of the Oakland County
Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, the American
Institute of Homeopathy and the American Medical Association. He
is a Knight Templar Mason and is affiliated also with the Mystic
Shrine. He is a member of the Pontiac Board of Commerce, of the
progressive civic and industrial policies of which he is a loyal supporter, and he has membership in the Pine Lake Country Club.
October 22, 1896, Doctor Losee married Miss Margaret A. North, of
Pontiac, and in this city they maintain their home at 58 Norton
avenue.
Winfield Scott Lovejoy, successor of his father in the old established grocery business at Milford, was born in this village on the
27th of May, 1880. In the local schools he continued his studies until
his graduation in the high school, and thereafter he was associated
with his father in the grocery business until 1910, when his father
gave him the stock and business, the enterprise having since been
successfully continued by him and his well equipped establishment
being known for its high grade service in all departments. He is
affiliated with the same local Masonic organizations as is his father,
and emulates the paternal example also in his alignment in the ranks
of the Democratic party. October 14, 1914, Mr. Lovejoy wedded Miss
Mae Mosher, of Battle Creek, Michigan, and the children of this union
are four in number: Charles, William, Winfield Scott, Jr., Paul
Mosher, and Barbara Jean.
Charles E. Lovejoy, long numbered among the representative
business men and influential citizens of Milford, where he is now living