History of Saginaw county, Michigan; together with ... portraits ... and biographies ... History of Michigan ...

652

HISTORY OF SAGINAW COUNTY.

backer. While he was a member of the 46th Congress, he served
on the Committee' on Manufacturers, also on that on Claims. In
the fall of 1880, he was re-nominated for the same position, and
again triumphantly re-elected the following November. Mr. Horr's
election was contested by very active and bitter opposition each
time. It is generally conceded that he secured both elections by
his personal effort and power as an organizer and public speaker.
During his services in Congress, he has made several speeches,
some of which attracted wide attention, and were circulated very
extensively as campaign documents. Since 1878 he has been actively engaged in "stump speaking" in several States of the Union,
but principally in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Ohio. During the exciting contest in the fall of 1880,
he opened the Michigan campaign at Detroit, to one of the largest
political audiences ever convened in that city. Roswell G. Horr
is an able advocate of the principles of the Republican party; as
a public speaker, he ranks second to none in Michigan; as a supporter of the best interests of his constituents and the country at
large, his fame has been sounded throughout the Union. He is
thorough and methodical in his business; kind and generous to the
rich and poor alike, and a man well respected by the whole community and the citizens of this State. IHe was married April 14,
1858, to Carrie M. Pinney, a native of Ohio. Four children have
been given to bless this happy union, all of whom reside at homeFrank IH., Flora M., Carrie B. and Rollin A.
John Howard, of the firm of J. W. Cook & Co., was born in
Jefferson county, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1845, and is a son of Alfonzo
Howard, a native of Massachusetts. At the tender age of nineyears
Mr. Howard became a boatman on the Erie canal. Ile ran on the
Erie and Welland canals for about four years, when he ventured
out on the Atlantic ocean, and remained a sailor on the ocean and
lakes until 1862, when le came to East Saginaw. A part of the
first two summers he also spent on the lakes. He remained in the
employ of the Tittabawassee Boom Company for 13 years, and then
spent two more seasons upon the lakes. Ike was married in 1866
to Miss Lydia M. Sawtell, by whom lie has three children —Minnie, Alice and Lizzie. Mr. H-oward is now serving his second
term as Alderman of the 7th ward, East Saginaw.
Dr. Theron T. HIibbard, of South Saginaw, was born in Oneida
Co., N. Y., Mar. 12, 1834. He graduated from the Mexico College of New York in 1851, and from the Medical College at Syracuse in 1855. He came to South Saginaw in 1862, and engaged in
the practice of medicine. From 1863 to 1865 he was Surgeon of
the 23d Michigan Infantry U. S. A. In 1878 he went to the Black
Hills, where he operated in mining and practiced medicine until
1881, when he returned toSouth Saginaw and established a drug
store with his old partner, Mr. Nicholas A. Randall.
Seth G. Huckins, attorney-at-law, was born at Calais, Me., July
24, 1841, and is a son of Daniel N. and Esther S. (Low) IIuckins.
Seth was reared at Calais, and received his education in the Wash