Word: saginaw
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ELIZABETH L. ROCKWELL Saginaw, Mich...
Jones was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in April of 1892. "I recognized my error and at the age of two persuaded my parents to move to Wisconsin . . . which in the days of the elder LaFollette was not the way it is now." He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, got his Master's degree at the University of Chicago and took his first teaching post in the University of Texas as "The Adjunct Professor of English and Literature." From this post, Jones moved around, teaching at the Universities of Texas, Montana, and North Carolina, and finally winding up back...
Pony Boy. If George Humphrey were just a traditionalist he probably would now be the best known and most prosperous lawyer in mid-Michigan. George was born in 1890 in Cheboygan and raised in Saginaw, where his father, Watts Humphrey, was a hearty, roaring trial lawyer with an excellent practice. His mother, a former schoolteacher, was a wise and gentle parent and a political diehard (all through the New Deal she spelled Roosevelt with a small...
...youngster, George was popular, bright and unspoiled-even though he got his first pony when he was only eight. At Saginaw High School he got top grades and was twice president of his class. He played some tennis, and was a steady ground-gaining halfback on the 1908 Saginaw championship football team. At the University of Michigan he took three semesters of engineering, then switched to law and graduated (1912) into a job in his father's firm...
From the start, he was a successful lawyer, with every incentive to settle down to a respected life in Saginaw. Six months after graduation he married his childhood sweetheart, Pamela Stark, daughter of another wealthy Saginaw attorney, who provided them with a new house. But a disturbing influence came to Saginaw in the guise of one Dick Grant, a friend of the family and general counsel of the M. A. Hanna Co. in Cleveland. Grant offered George a job as M. A. Hanna's assistant counsel. George accepted, for reasons that he could not quite explain to himself...