History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . rom the twenty-seventh district and as[ a legislator in the state councils proved ecpialto the responsibilities intrusted to him. Dur-ing his incumbency he was active and effi-cient in the discharge of his everv duty,served on a number of important committees,took a leading part in the general delil^era-tions and earned the reputation of a wise andjudicious law-maker, meeting the liio-h ex-pectations of bis friends throughout the dis-trict by the interest he


History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . rom the twenty-seventh district and as[ a legislator in the state councils proved ecpialto the responsibilities intrusted to him. Dur-ing his incumbency he was active and effi-cient in the discharge of his everv duty,served on a number of important committees,took a leading part in the general delil^era-tions and earned the reputation of a wise andjudicious law-maker, meeting the liio-h ex-pectations of bis friends throughout the dis-trict by the interest he manifested in Ix-halflit his constituents and the state. Mr. Chittenden, in the year 1900. waselected judge of the twenty-eighth judicialcircuit, in which honorable position he hasalready ac<|uired a high reputation forsoundness in the knowledge of the law andfor careful application of its principles in theinvestigation and determination of cases sub-mitted for his consideration and by his convictions of right, hisrulings arc fair and impartial, his decisionsclear, terse, and embodying a careful review •^ %. ~-^- .-ola) 328 WEXFORD COUNTY, MICHIGAN. printed on tlie pages of liistory presents totlie yontli of tlie rising generation an exam-ple worthy of study antl emulation. Sucha life has been that of the eminent Ijusinessman and distinguished citizen to a brief re-\ie\v of whose long and \aried career this;uticlc is devoted. Jacob Cummer, for man_\ years one ofthe leading business men of Micliigan, isknown from nne extremity of the state to tlieotlicr, and liis name is also familiar in busi-ness circles throughout the entire country, ashis operations have by no means been circum-scribed by the bounds of the commonwealthin. which he has conducted his extensive inter-ests and in which his signal financial success-es have been achieved. Mr. Cummer is anati\e of Canada, in which country his fam-ily settled in an early day and with the localhistory of certa


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