History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, / by Paul Leake ... [Vol. 3]

HISTORY OF DETROIT

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been of unequivocal order, well justifying his choice of vocation. In
June, 1903, he was appointed assistant laryngologist in St. Mary's
hospital and this position he has since retained. He is a member of the
American Medical Association, the Michigan State Medical Society, and
the Wayne County Medical Society, and he has the high regard of his
professional confreres in his native city. He is a member of the alumni
association of Detroit University and also of that of the Detroit College of Medicine, and takes a lively anl loyal interest in all that touches
the welfare of his home city, which is endeared to him by many gracious
memories and associations. He and his family are communicants of
Trinity church, under whose benignant influence he was reared.
On the 14th of June, 1905, was solemnized the marriage of Dr.
Casey to Miss May E. Leahey, who was born and reared in Detroit and
who is a daughter of the late Thomas Leahey, long a citizen of the
Michigan metropolis. Dr and Mrs. Casey have three children,-Elizabeth Aileen, Cathleen Eveline, and Janice.
FRED SANDERS. The successful career of Fred Sanders is a noble
illustration of what independence, self-faith and persistency can accomplish in America. He is a self-made man in the most significant
sense of the word, for no one helped him in a financial way and he is
self-educated. As a young man he was strong, vigorous and self-reliant.
He trusted in his own ability and did things single-handed and alone.
Today he stands supreme as a successful business man and a loyal and
public-spirited citizen. His present beautiful place, known as the
Palace of Sweets, is considered one of the finest concerns of its kind.
He is interested in a number of other important enterprises and is a
director in the Detroit Creamery Company, in which he is one of the
heaviest stock-holders.
A native of Buhl, in Baden, Germany, Fred Sanders was born on
the 1st of July, 1848, and he is a son of Alvin and Caroline (Conrad
Sanders, both of whom are now deceased. In 1850 the Sanders family
immigrated to America, settling at Peru, Illinois, where Alvin Sanders
was long identified with the baking business. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders
became the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this review
was the second in order of birth. A child of but two years of age at
the time of his parents' removal to America, Fred Sanders was reared
to maturity at Peru, Illinois, to whose public schools he is indebted for
his preliminary educational training. As a youth he learned the candymaking trade, working along that line first at Peru and later at
Chicago. In 1865 he went to Germany, where he perfected himself in
the work of his trade and where he continued to reside until 1871.
Returning in the latter year to the United States, he eventually located at
Chicago, where he was engaged in the confectionery business from
1872 until 1875. In 1875 he located permanently at Detroit, where
he has since maintained his home and business headquarters and where
his admirable success in life has been on a par with his well directed
endeavors. Mr. Sanders has the distinction of being the originator of
the ice-cream soda and the first to put it on the market. His present
place of business, widely renowned as the "Palace of Sweets" is one of
the most attractive stores of its kind in the world. It is located at Nos.
141-145 Woodward avenue, Detroit. He is a shrewd business man and
a citizen whose public spirit and loyality have ever been of the most
insistent order.
At Karlsruhe, Germany, in the year 1869, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sanders to Miss Rose Conrad, who was born and reared
in Germany and who is a daughter of Theodore Conrad. Mr. and Mrs.