History of Michigan, / by Charles Moore. [Vol. 3]

HISTORY OF MICHIGAN

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for public office, his civic loyalty prompted him to accept the position of
member of the Traverse City board of public works, an office to which
he was elected in April, I897, and concerning his connection with which
the following estimate has been given: "He served on this board for
seven years, as its chairman during his term of office, and within his
regime was completed the first street paving in the city, and it was
largely through his efforts that the splendid work thus done on Front
street was ordered by the city council. He retired from office with an
excellent record and much to the regret of many representative citizens,
who would have been glad to have him remain in the position indefinitely."
Mr. Calkins is a stockholder and director of the First National Bank
of Traverse City and a stockholder in the People's Savings Bank. He
is president of the Brown Lumber Company and also of the Potato Implement Company, which latter represents one of the important industrial enterprises of Traverse City. Of this corporation he was one of
the organizers, and he has been its president from the beginning, besides
which he is president of the Traverse City Brick Company, of which
likewise he was one of the organizers. He has a wide acquaintanceship
among the representative figures in manufacturing circles in his native
State and his broad and intimate knowledge of mechanics makes his
judgment virtually authoritative, the while he has ordered his course upon
a high plane of integrity and honor and fully merits the unqualified esteem in which he is uniformly held. A reader and student, Mr. Calkins
has become a man of wide mental ken, and well fortified views, and he
has taken special pleasure in the study of astronomy, besides delving into
other scientific subjects. He is a member of the National Geographic Society and a member of the Northwestern Bankers' Club.
In the city of Muskegon, on the 7th of November, 1882, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Calkins to Miss Annie C. Royce, who was born
at Pembroke, Renfrew county, Province of Ontario, Canada, and who is
a daughter of Isaac B. and Susan Royce, her father having been a pioneer
fur dealer and later becoming prominently identified with lumbering operations at Muskegon, this State. Mrs. Calkins is an influential and
popular factor in social, church and club affairs in her home city, where
she is a zealous member of the Central Methodist Episcopal church, and
prominent in its missionary work, as is she also in leading social and
literary clubs in Traverse City, where she is also secretary of the board
of trustees of the public library. Mr. and Mrs. Calkins have one daughter, Lulu, who was born at Muskegon, in 1883, and who is now the wife
of Frederick A. Noteware, a member of the editorial staff of the Chicago Inter Ocean, now under the same control as is the Chicago Herald.
Mr. and Mrs. Noteware have a daughter, Margaret, who was born in
I904.
WALTER H. WEBER. The National Brewery of Saginaw, is one of
the oldest established institutions of the city, and its management has
gone on successfully through three generations from the founding by
the grandfather to the present proprietorship by the grandson. Walter
H. Weber, now at the head of the brewery knows his business both as
a science, and as an industry, and has a prominent place among the
younger business leaders of his city.
Walter H. Weber was born in Saginaw in March, 1885, a son of W.
F. and Bertha (Rocky) Weber. Both parents were natives of New York
State, and were brought to Michigan at an early age. Grandfather
Weber established the National Brewery at Saginaw many years ago,
and on his death W. F. Weber succeeded to the proprietorship and man