Michigan historical collections . ^etroit, October 17, 1865, andgraduated from the Detroit high school in 1S83 and from the Michigan univer-sity in 1887, where he remained a year in the law school. He was a law studentin the offices of E. C. Walker, Judge C. I. Walker and C. A. Kent, of Detroit,and was admitted to the bar May 4, 1889. and formed a partnership with ex-Senator Joseph M. Weiss, which was maintained from 1891 to 1893. at whichdate he was appointed chief-assistant city attorney of Detroit, which positionhe held for three years, with entire control of the court work of the office. H
Michigan historical collections . ^etroit, October 17, 1865, andgraduated from the Detroit high school in 1S83 and from the Michigan univer-sity in 1887, where he remained a year in the law school. He was a law studentin the offices of E. C. Walker, Judge C. I. Walker and C. A. Kent, of Detroit,and was admitted to the bar May 4, 1889. and formed a partnership with ex-Senator Joseph M. Weiss, which was maintained from 1891 to 1893. at whichdate he was appointed chief-assistant city attorney of Detroit, which positionhe held for three years, with entire control of the court work of the office. Hecompiled and revised the present ordinances of the city of Detroit, a volumeof over 700 pages. Upon retiring from the city attorneyship he opened a lawoffice at 28 Moffat building. He has traveled extensively in this country and inEurope and in Africa and is widely acquainted among all classes of his towns-men, and a member of many social, political and fraternal societies. He waselected to the Michigan legislature of GOV. STEVENS T. oil painting in University of Michigan. PORTRAITS OF GOVERNOR MASON. 239 to read a paper which was intended as a wholly inconspicuous contri-bution to our publications. A few years ago it was my lot to serve in the Michigan house of rep-resentatives, and to occupy a seat beneath Mr. Bradishs portrait ofDouglass Houghton. The picture is familiar to you; it became exceed-ingly familiar to me, and there has been no time since then when itrequired any efifort to recall the figure of the geologist and his dog,standing, like a modern Robinson Crusoe, on the perilous shore of LakeSuperior, marooned at the same time by the conception and by thebrush of the artist. A visit to the other side of the chamber wherehung the portrait of Governor Mason was always a refreshing splendid work, a portrait of exceeding artistic merit, an adequaterepresentation of an ideal subject for a portrait painter, never tiredthe eyes. Learning qui
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