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HISTORY OF SAGINAW COUNTY.

Mr. Hogeboom, the junior member of the firm, was born at
Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1855. Ile is a son of Barent Hogeboom,
who died at Kalamazoo in 1867, and Marcia (Goodridge) Hogeboom,
who also died there in 1863. Both members of this firm are young,
energetic and enterprising, and are doing a prosperous business.
W2n. K. Kerby, a grandson of a Mrs. Smith who was a fullblooded Mohawk Indian, was born in Canada. In 1861 he came
to Saginaw and in 1862 made a permanent settlement. In 1866 he
returned to Canada and subsequently to Saginaw and built the
Kerby House, of which lie is still proprietor. Mr. Kerby is a strictly
honest business man and is doing a good business. His hotel is a
first-class house, and it can be safely said that no other house in
Saginaw Valley of its size does as much business as the Kerby
House.
Kinney & CGamp, jewelers, Saginaw City. Mr. Kinney, the senior member of the firm, was born in Otsego Co.,N. Y., March 20,
1831; is a son of Samuel and Olive (Bagg) Kinney; father died in
Chenango Co., N. Y., in 1856, and mother at Walworth, Wis., in
1877; subject of sketch received his education in New York; at the
age of 17 years, he learned tie carriage trade; when he was 20 years
old, he learned the jeweler's trade, and finished it with J. & ii. C.
Walter, of Richfield Springs, Otsego Co., N. Y.; in 1862, enlisted
in Co. G, 114th Reg., N. T. Vol. Inf., and served till the close of
the war; was wounded at battle of Opequon, Va.; after close of
war, lie went into business in Madison Co., N. Y.; came to Saginaw City in 1874, and since that time has been in business; was
married in August, 1865, to Ann E. St. Jolhn, of Madison Co., N.
Y., and a native of that State. This firm always have on hand a
fine assortment of goods, and are having a good class of trade.
Jacob Knapp, Representative from the first district of Saginaw
county, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, Oct. 14, 1846. He
received a common-school education in the schools of ]is native
village, and came to this country in May, 1866, and settled first in
Detroit, but in January, 1868, lie removed to Saginaw City, where
lie lhas since been engaged in the manufacture of cigars. He was
first elected Alderman in April, 1877, and re-elected in 1879. IHe
served on all the important committees in the "council, and was
chairman of the committee on finance during the last year of his
second term. I-le was elected to the House of Representatives over
his opponents by the following vote: Jacob lKnapp (Dem.), 1,696;
Robert J. Birney (Rep.), 1,511; Eli C. Andre (Nat.), 195.
In January, 1868, Mr. Knapp commenced the business of manufacturing cigars in this city, employing at first from four to five
men and boys, which number has increased to an average of 12
steady hands, and the business now aggregates $25,000 a year, sales
being made chiefly within a range of a hundred miles of Saginaw,
and the trade, at first mainly retail, is now mainly of a jobbing
character. The current brands at this date are " Glorious Republic"
and " U. C. M." They are all " upon honor," and because buyers
know this they like to handle them, and hence the comparative