. Biographical record; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Houghton, Baraga and Marquette Counties, Michigan .. . he was admitted to the bar. Thepresent partnership, a strong and able one, was formed in 1892. For fiveyears Mr. Rees has served as village attorney and from 1888 to 1892 hewas prosecuting attorney of Houghton County. Politically he is identifiedwith the Republican party and fraternally he is a Mason, belonging toHoughton Lodge and Hancock Commandery. The Rees family has longbeen affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church, the father of our sub-je
. Biographical record; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Houghton, Baraga and Marquette Counties, Michigan .. . he was admitted to the bar. Thepresent partnership, a strong and able one, was formed in 1892. For fiveyears Mr. Rees has served as village attorney and from 1888 to 1892 hewas prosecuting attorney of Houghton County. Politically he is identifiedwith the Republican party and fraternally he is a Mason, belonging toHoughton Lodge and Hancock Commandery. The Rees family has longbeen affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church, the father of our sub-ject serving as vestryman for a number of years. In 1884 Mr. Rees married Caroline E. Willard, of Boston, Massa-chusetts, and they have one child. CHARLES HOWARD KELSEY. Charles Howard Kelsey, managing editor of the Daily MiningGazette, of Houghton, Houghton County. Michigan, was horn at Wilson,Niagara County, New York, August 3, 1863, of parents descended from oldColonial and Revolutionary stock on both sides. Mr. Kelsey was prepared for college at Cayuga Lake Academy, atAurora, New York, and at the Marquette, Michigan, High School, under. CHARLES BRIGGS HOUGHTON, BARAGA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES m his father, Supt. Charles Kelsey, who is now Judge of Probate of Mar-quette County. He was graduated as salutatorian of the class of 1885, atHamilton College, Clinton, New York, which was the alma mater of hisfather and uncle. He was a member of the college society, Phi Beta September, 1885, he entered journalistic work on the staff of the Mar-quette Daily Mining Journal. In June, 1887, he was admitted to partner-ship in the paper, of which he remained city editor for some eight three years he represented the Mutual Life Insurance Company of NewYork, in the Northern Peninsula, but returned to newspaper work as thecopper country representative of the Marquette Daily Mining Journal, whenits long supremacy was threatened by the establishment of the Houghton DailyMining Ga
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