. History of the University of Michigan . JOSEPH HORACE DRAKE He was married (une 20, 1894, to Maud ElizabethAlerritt (IkL. r893), of Battle Creek, and they havefour children ; Joseph Horace, Jr., Charles Merritt,Robert Lincoln, and Elizabeth Maud. JOHN ROMAIN ROOD was born at Lapeer, Michigan, July 9, 1868, son of Alpheus A. andMartha E. (Gass) Rood. He is descenderl fromNew England families on both sides, his maternalancestors haxing been originally Scotch. His grand-father, Aaron Rood, came from Barre, Vermont,with his family and settled at Lapeer in 1S34. Thegrandson was graduated from the
. History of the University of Michigan . JOSEPH HORACE DRAKE He was married (une 20, 1894, to Maud ElizabethAlerritt (IkL. r893), of Battle Creek, and they havefour children ; Joseph Horace, Jr., Charles Merritt,Robert Lincoln, and Elizabeth Maud. JOHN ROMAIN ROOD was born at Lapeer, Michigan, July 9, 1868, son of Alpheus A. andMartha E. (Gass) Rood. He is descenderl fromNew England families on both sides, his maternalancestors haxing been originally Scotch. His grand-father, Aaron Rood, came from Barre, Vermont,with his family and settled at Lapeer in 1S34. Thegrandson was graduated from the Lapeer HighSchool in rSSg, read law, entered the Law Depart-ment (jf the University of Michigan the followingyear, and was graduated Bachelor of Laws in began the practice of his profession at Mar- 33° UN I VERS ITT OF MICHIGAN quette, Michigan, and remained there till 189S,when he was called to the University as Instructorin Law. In 1904 he was advanced to AssistantProfessor of Law, and in igo6 he was made Pro-. JOHN ROMAIN ROOD fessor of Law. Besides numerous articles onlegal topics, he has published the following: ATreatise on the Law of Garnishment (1S96) ; ATreatise on the Common Remedial Processes, orthe Means by which Judgments are Enforced (1900); Important English Statutes such as areRe-enacted in Form or in Substance in Most of theStates of the United States (1900) ; A Treatiseon the Law of Attachments, Garnishments, Judg-ments, and Executions, together with a collectionof Cases on the Same Topics (1902 ) ; A Treat-ise on the Law of Wills and Gifts Causa Mortis, andan Outline of the Law of Descent and Administra-tion (1904). On November 14, 1893, he was mother was of early New England Colonial andRevolutionary stock. After completing the coursein the Ann Arbor High School he entered the Uni-versity of Michigan in 1892, and was graduatedBachelor of Arts in 1897. Meanwhile he spent ayear in Europe and did some work at the Universityof Berlin. In the following
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