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MEMBERS OF THE CALHOUN AND KALAMAZOO
COUNTY BARS BY A. D. P. VAN BUREN
WM. H. DEYOE
William H. DeYoe was one of the most successful of the younger class of lawyers here. He was an excellent business attorney and very popular. He was very prominent in political and social circles. He was postmaster in 1856 and served four years to the satisfaction of all. His law business was all the time growing and he devoted a great deal of time to it. His health failed and he died on the cars just east of Lockport on his way home, in November, 1SC3, aged 42 years and 6 months.
JOHN HASCALL
John Hascall studied law in Genesee county, N. Y., served in the war of J812, and came to this county in 1830. He was an anti Masonic leader before he came west and was a strong mind among the people in the early
days here. He died here in 1853. His son Volney, the well known editor of the Gazette for years, studied law with Mr. Belcher and was admitted but gave little attention to practice. He died February, 1870.
JEREMIAH HUMPHREY
Jeremiah Humphrey came here in 1832 from Connecticut and was really among the ablest of the early lawyers. He removed to Iowa and died in 1849.
WALTER CLARK
Walter Clark was a graduate of Union college, was admitted to the Kalamazoo bar in 1837, became a partner with X. A. Balch, was deputy county clerk, and remarkable for his fine literary attainments. He died here Jan., 1842.
MITCHELL H3NSDILL
Mitchell Hinsdill was a Vermonter, and admitted to this bar Nov. 19, 1834, served as prosecuting attorney in 1835, and as judge of probate from 1836 to 3844. He was, too, one of the leading farmers of Kalamazoo county. He died in 1854.
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