Chas. D. Lawton

If present political conditions are any criterion to go by, Hon. (has D Lawton will probably be elected member of the board of regenta at the coming election. The following sketch of him therefore prove of interest. He is a thorough believer in college education. He graduated at Union college at Schenectady, N. Y., in 1858, with thé degree of B. A„ and the next year as civil engieeer. Subsequently he received the degree of M. A. from this institution. His oldest son is a gradúate of the Michigan Agricultural college, and is now a mine superintendent at Gripple Creek, Col. Another gniduated at the University of Michigan last June and athird will gradúate the comino June, while still another son and a daughter are preparing to enter the university. A fifth son graduated at the Michigan Mining school and is now chemist and engineer of a mine at Bessemer, Mich. I f I fi llTr " l I I ■ I i-m t Z m- _J A "■■ jjcm luii was principal oí Auuurn academy, at Auburn.N. Y., his father"s home, f rom 1860 to J804, and in 18t5 he moved to Lawton. V;m Buren county. He was appointed assistant professor of engineering at the ü. of 11. in I8B9 and served two years, wben he left to assist Prof. T. B. Brooks in making the geological survey of the Michigan iron región. Appointed commissioner of mineral statistics in 1885 by (ov. Aler held the office for the next six years.' For more than twenty years hè has been engaged more or less in mining engineering, and mining expert and geological work, but fruit raising and general farming has been his principal business since be settled at Lawton which village was settled by his father.