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

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1906, was elected circuit court commissioner, and re-elected to that office
in I908. In I9IO Mr. Hayden was nominated on the Republican ticket
for prosecuting attorney, was elected, and by re-election in I912 still discharges the duty of that office with eminent zeal.
Mr. Hayden is a member of the Ingham County Bar Association, and
of the Michigan Bar Association. He has been president of the Young
Men's Republican Club of Lansing and of the Zach Chandler Club. At
this writing he is president of the Ingham County University of Michigan
Alumni Association. His fraternal associations are with the Masons, the
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and the Elks.
On June 25, 1907, Mr. Hayden married Florence M. Bailey. Her
parents were Doctor George and Mary (Morley) Bailey. Her father, a
native of Vermont, and a graduate of Albion College of Michigan, has
long been a practicing physician, while Mrs. Hayden's mother was a native
of Pennsylvania. To their union has been born, on August 3I, I908, one
daughter, Mary Virginia Hayden.
JOHN T. WINSHIP. One of the appointments which did much to
fortify the confidence of the citizens of Michigan in their new governor,
Woodbridge N. Ferris, was the selection of John T. Winship of Saginaw
for the position of commissioner of insurance. Mr. Winship, who took
up the duties of his office on July I, 1913, is an old newspaper man, having begun as a reporter about thirty years ago, was for a long time one
of the proprietors and publishers of the Saginaw Evening News, has
been prominent in civic and business affairs at Saginaw, and during the
past ten years has been one of the leading Michigan Democrats.
John T. Winship was born at Independence, Missouri, in i86o, but
his family soon afterwards came east to Circleville. Ohio, where he spent
most of his boyhood, excepting about three years at Washington, D. C.,
where he attended the Boys' English and,Classical High School. In the
class of 1883, Mr. Winship graduated from the University of Michigan,
and during the following four or five years was connected with the Columbus Times and Ohio State Journal. In I888 Mr. Winship first entered
the Michigan newspaper field, as proprietor of the Kalamazoo Herald.
During his residence at Kalamazoo he also was managing editor of the
Kalamazoo Telegraph for a time. In I892 Mr. Winship and Mr. Eugene
McSweeney bought the Saginaw Evening News and, due to their combined
efforts, it in a few years became one of the finest newspaper properties in
the state. When they took charge a little more than twenty years ago,
The News had a daily circulation of about thirty-five hundred, and in
time they had introduced their paper as a daily visitor into thirty thousand homes, had given its editorial columns a distinctive dignity and influence, and had made it the best advertising medium in northeast Michigan. Both Mr. Winship and Mr. McSweeney withdrew from active
ownership of The News several years ago.
Mr. Winship has for years been one of the enthusiastic boosters of
Saginaw, served as director of the Board of Trade, has been president
of the East Saginaw Club, and anything to advance the industrial welfare
and improve the civic and cultural interests of his home city, gets the
complete support of Mr. Winship. He is an active member of the Michigan Press Association. In I886 occurred the marriage of John T. Winship and Miss Frances Skinner, of Battle Creek. They are the parents
of one daughter.
Concerning the political activities of Mr. Winship, they are perhaps
best described in the following quotation from an editorial, published
about the time Mr. Winship took up his duties as commissioner of insurance: "As a tribute to his worth as a man, and to his abilities. as