Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan . any and department store was organized. Thehouse carries a large line of goods and the busi-ness was incorporated in May, 1904, with H. as president; E. R. Dancer, vice presi-dent ; D. H. Wurster, secretary: and Ed A^ and manager. Employment is fur-nished to about twelve people and the business isone of the large, enterprising and profitable com-mercial interests of Chelsea. Mr. Holmes is a man of resourseful businessability and broad capacity for the successful es-tablishment and conduct of commercial the 1st
Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan . any and department store was organized. Thehouse carries a large line of goods and the busi-ness was incorporated in May, 1904, with H. as president; E. R. Dancer, vice presi-dent ; D. H. Wurster, secretary: and Ed A^ and manager. Employment is fur-nished to about twelve people and the business isone of the large, enterprising and profitable com-mercial interests of Chelsea. Mr. Holmes is a man of resourseful businessability and broad capacity for the successful es-tablishment and conduct of commercial the 1st of January, 1902. he organized thefirm of Holmes & Walker and in 1890 he wentinto business with E. G. Hoeg under the firmstyle of Hoeg & Holmes, dealers in hardware,farm implements and furniture. In this enter-prise Mr. Holmes continued until 1902. when thebusiness became the property of Holmes &Walker. On the 17th of July, 1898, Mr. Holmesbecame actively connected with the Kempf Com-mercial & Savings Bank, which had previously. \V. HOLMES. H. S. HOLMES. PAST AND PRESENT OF WASHTENAW COUNTY, 259 been the private bankintj house of R. Kempf &Brother. The officers during the tirst year of itsexistence imder the present organization were president, and H. S. Hohnes. vice presi-dent, but since the ist of January. 1899, ^ has been president, with C. H. president, John A. Pahner, cashier, andGeorge A. BeGole, assistant cashier. The bankhas a capital stock of forty thousand dollars, asurplus of twelve thousand, undivided profits offive thousand and deposits amounting to fourhundred and forty thousand. Mr. Holmes wasalso a stockholder and director previous to Jan-uary. 1898, in Chelsea .Savings Bank, having beenthus connected with the institution for twelveyears. He is with the ^^illiam Bacon-HolmesLumber & Produce Company, of which H. is president; William Bacon, manager;George A. BeGole, treasurer; John Palmer, firstvice president: and R. D. \\al
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