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Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Traverse Region, historical and descriptive, with illustrations of scenery and portraits and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. pub. H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1884 [p. 152] A. L. DEUEL, attorney, Harbor Springs, is a native of Oakland County, Michigan. After leaving school he followed teaching about six years. In the spring of 1880 he graduated from the law department of the Michigan University at Ann Arbor, and shortly after removed to Harbor Springs and engaged in the practice of law. He has held the office of prosecuting attorney of the county, and is also a member of the village school board and the board of county examiners. MR. DEUEL is a prominent Republican. His family consists of himself and wife. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Northern Michigan and its People. Vol. II Perry Francis Powers, Lewis Publishing Co., - 1902 [568-571] ANDREW L. DEUEL. - The present incumbent of the office of probate judge of Emmet county is a scion of a family whose name has been identified with the annals of Michigan during the entire period of its history as one of the sovereign states of the Union, and has not only been for thirty years a representative member of the bar of Emmet county but he has also served in various local offices of public trust aside from that of which he is now in tenure. He was for a number of years postmaster of Harbor Springs, in which beautiful little city, the judicial center of the community, he has long maintained his home, and no citizen of the county has a more impreg- nable place in popular confidence and esteem. JUDGE DEUEL has been at all times progressive and loyal as a citizen and he has contributed his quota to the civic and material advancement and upbuilding of his home county. JUDGE ANDREW L. DEUEL was born on a farm in Walled Lake township, Oakland county, Michigan, on the 23d of August, 1850, and is a son of THORN and MARY (LORD) DEUEL, both natives of the state of New York, where the former was born in 1817 and the latter in 1818. THORN DEUEL came to Michi- gan in 1837, the year that marked the admission of the state to the Union, and he became one of the pioneers of Oakland county, where, as a young man of vigor, ambition and indefatigable industry, he reclaimed a farm in the midst of the virgin forest, the while both he and his young wife lived up to the full tension of the strenuous pioneer epoch in the history of this commonwealth. He later engaged in the general merchandise business at Ortonville, Oakland county, and, as a man of ability and sterling character, he was called upon to serve in various offices of public trust, including that of justice of the peace. When the nation was rent by civil war he took an active part in raising troops for the defense of the Union. His son ARTHUR enlisted in the Sixth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and died at Baton Rouge in 1863. His son HERBERT rendered valiant service and participated in many of the important engagements marking the progress of the great conflict between the north and the south, including the ever memorable battle of Gettysburg, being also in the Seventeenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, which gained wide reputation as the "Stonewall Regi- ment." This son is now a resident of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, where he is engaged in mercantile business. THORN DEUEL finally removed to Washtenaw county, where he continued to be actively engaged in agricultural pursuits for a number of years, but after his retirement he went to Olivet, in which village his death occurred in the year 1877. His cherished and devoted wife survived him by many years and was summoned to the life eternal in 1900, at the venerable age of eighty-two years. Both were zealous members of the Baptist church and their lives counted for good in all relations, the while their names merit a place on the roll of the sterling pioneers of the Wolverine state, with whose development and pro- gress they were closely identified. In politics THORN DEUEL was originally a Whig and later a Republican and he ever took a lively and intelligent interest in the questions and issues of the hour. Of the children four sons and two daughters attained to years of maturity and of the number three sons are now living. Like many another son of Michigan, JUDGE ANDREW L. DEUEL found his early experiences compassed by the sturdy discipline of the farm, and under these conditions he waxed strong in mind and body, the while he duly availed himself of the advantages afforded in the public schools. His ambition for higher education was quickened to decisive action, as is evident from the fact that he completed a course of study in the Michigan State Normal School at Ypsilanti, the first normal school in the state and long one of the most celebrated in the entire Union. He put his scholastic acquiremnents to good use by turning his attention to practical pedagogy, in which connection he was, as a young man, a success- ful and popular teacher in the public schools for a period of five years. His last work in this line was in the schools of Mount Pleasant, the judicial center of Isabella county. Having in the meanwhile matured definite plans for his future career, JUDGE DEUEL was matriculated in the law department of the University of Michigan, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1880, and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith admitted to the bar of his native state and he selected Harbor Springs, the judicial center of Emmet county, as the field of his professional endeavors. Here he established his home on the 1st of May, 1880, and here he has continued to reside during the long intervening years, which have been marked by definite and worthy accomplishment on his part - both as a lawyer and as a citizen of utmost loyalty and progressiveness. He soon proved himself admirably equipped for the work of his chosen profession and thus became identified with important litigated interests in this section of the state, the while he built up a substantial and representative practice, which eventually extended into the higher courts of the state, as well as the federal tribunals. In the autumn of 1880, less than a year after engaging in practice at Harbor Springs, JUDGE DEUEL was elected prosecuting attorney of the county, an office of which he continued incumbent for one term and one in which he made an excellent record as a public prosecutor. He has ever continued to take a lively interest in educational affairs and his services along this line have been given to Emmet county with efficiency and zeal. He served for several years as a member of the county board of school examiners and later he was county school commissioner for nearly a decade, during which period he did splendid work in bringing the public schools of the county up to a high standard of efficiency, by unifying and systematizing their work and securing the retention of capable teachers. He is at the present time president of the board of education of Harbor Springs. Under the admini- stration of PRESIDENT HARRISON, JUDGE DEUEL was appointed postmaster of Harbor Springs, and he assumed the duties of this position in 1888. He held the office four years under the HARRISON administration and for a similar period under that of PRESIDENT McKINLEY. He was reappointed by PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and continued in service, with distinctive discrimination and acceptability, until February, 1909, when he resigned, to assume the duties of the office of probate judge of Emmet county, to which position he had been elected in November of the preceding year. His broad and exact know- ledge of the law, his familiarity with real-estate values in the county and his mature judgment and excellent executive powers have made him an ideal administrator of the important affairs of the probate court. He knows every man, woman and child in the county, and is universally loved and respected. JUDGE DEUEL has given his co-operation in the furtherance of those measures and enterprises that have tended to advance the general welfare of the community and he has shown abiding interest in the civic and material up- building of the county in which he has so long maintained his home. In addition to his own attractive residence property in Harbor Springs he is also the owner of a well equipped summer-resort hotel and four fine cottages at Forest Beach, one mile from Harbor Springs, on the most beautiful part of Little Traverse Bay, whose attractions as a place of summer sojourn are known throughout the entire country. He is the owner of about four hundred acres of land in the vicinity of his home city, including some of the most valuable land along the shore of the bay, and none has been more active and progressive in the development of realty in this section. As may naturally be inferred, the judge is unwavering in his allegiance to the cause of the Republican party, of whose interests he has been a zealous promoter in this section of the state, as an active and effective worker in its ranks. He and his wife and daughter are communi- cants of the Harbor Springs Presbyterian church. In the Masonic fraternity he has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and his local affiliation in the York Rite bodies is the Harbor Springs Lodge, No. 378, Free and Accepted Masons and Royal Arch Masons. In the city of Grand Rapids, where he maintains his Scottish Rite affiliations, he is identified with DeWitt Clinton Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. He also holds membership in Petoskey Lodge, No. 629, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He and his family are valued and popular factors in the best social activities of their home city and their beautiful residence is a center of gracious hospitality. On the 27th of December, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of JUDGE DEUEL to MISS EMMA LANCE, of Mount Pleasant, Isabella county. She was born in Ionia county, this state, and is a daughter of GEORGE and MARY (PARMALEE) LANCE who are survived by four children, of whom MRS. DEUEL was the second in order of birth. The father was a contractor and builder by vocation, was a Republican in politics and both he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. They passed the closing years of their lives in this state. The father passed away at Mt. Pleasant and the mother at Harbor Springs. JUDGE and MRS. DEUEL have one daughter, HELEN, who is now a student in Ackley Hall, in the city of Grand Rapids, an excellent school conducted under the auspices of the Episcopalian diocese of western Michigan. ================================================================================ If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ ================================================================================