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

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HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

A., is successfully established in the real estate business in the city of
Kalamazoo, and the one other brother, Forrest, died at the age of one
year. In the public schools of Grand Rapids Fred A. McCaul continued his application until his graduation in the high school, as a
member of the class of 1903, and thereafter he completed an effective
course in the Grand Rapids Business College. His active career has
been one of close association with the lumber business, of which he
has become a prominent and successful exponent in Oakland county.
After leaving the business college he was for one year bookkeeper in
the offices of the Grand Rapids Lumber Company, and thereafter he
was for nine years associated with the Marquette Lumber Company,
at Grand Rapids, with which he was sales manager two years. March
1, 1921, he came to Oakland county and effected the organization of
the McCaul Lumber & Coal Company, of which he has since continued
the secretary and treasurer, his executive policies having had much
to do with the upbuilding of the substantial business of the company,
which maintains offices and yards not only at Ferndale but also at
Royal Oak, besides having offices in the city of Detroit. Mr. McCaul
is likewise secretary and treasurer of the Royal Oak Wholesale
Company. He is one of the most loyal and progressive members
of the Ferndale Board of Commerce, is, in 1925, the vice-president
of the Rotary Club at Ferndale, his political allegiance is given to
the Republican party, and he and his wife are zealous members of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Ferndale, of which he is a trustee. In
the Masonic fraternity the Scottish Rite affiliations of Mr. McCaul
are with the consistory in his native city of Grand Rapids, where also
he is a noble of the local temple of the Mystic Shrine. At Ferndale
he is a member of the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and the camp of the Knights of the Maccabees, besides which he has
membership in the great lumber fraternity, the Concatenated Order of
Hoo Hoos. June 14, 1910, was marked by the marriage of Mr.
McCaul to Miss Alfreda C. Armstrong, daughter of Martin B. Armstrong, of Grand Rapids, and the one child of this union is a winsome
daughter, Jane, born December 2, 1916.
Thomas H. McCormick.-Mr. McCormick is a member of the
well known real estate firm of Taylor & McCormick, 112 North Sagihaw street, Pontiac, the operations of which are extensive throughout
Pontiac and Oakland county. Mr. McCormick is a son of Detroit,
in which city he was born November 27, 1888. He attended the public
schools of that city and in 1908 came to Oakland county to engage in
farming. This vocation he followed until 1923 when he came to
Po'ntiac and formed a partnership with John E. Taylor in the real
estate business, the association proving mutually helpful and profitable. Mr. McCormick owned eighty acres of land at Orion, Oakland
county, of which forty acres were sold. The other forty acres is being
platted into town lots. Mr. Taylor resides at Orion on his farm.
He is unmarried. Membership is held in the Presbyterian church, in
the Blue Lodge of Masonry at Orion and in the Chapter of the Royal.
Arch at Oxford.
Dan A. McGaffey has served since 1918 as register of the probate