Legislator Details
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Marital Information:
Married June 25,1891 in West Bay City, MI, to Miss Alta M. Ludington (b. May, 1870) of West Bay City. Children: Hellen (b. July 1892); Mildred (b. Dec 1893); Wendall (b. November 1895); Marian (b. May 1899); Robert (b. 1907)
Number of Children: 5
Background
Education:
public schools of Bay City, followed by a year at Albion College
Biographical Sketch:
He was born in Oswego, NY, the son of David Lusk and Mary Agnes Moore. When he was five, the family moved to West Bay City, MI. He began active life when thirteen years of age, as a newsboy, two years later took up the study of pharmacy in a local drug store, and remained almost continuously in the drug business for twelve years, three years of this time as the proprietor of a pharmacy at Owosso. In 1893, having disposed of the drug business he had established in his home city, he entered the journalistic field, assuming the management of the West Bay City Tribune. He continued in the newspaper work until elected City Recorder in April, 1894, and was re-elected to the same office in 1896. In 1915 he was grand master of Michigan Masons. He was appointed Deputy Secretary of State by Coleman C. Vaughan; resigned December, 1918, to become secretary of the Public Domain Commission in place of A.C. Carton, resigned.
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