Honored By The President

HONORED BY THE PRESIDENT

Byron S. Waite Offered Treasury Appraisership

Well Known Here

A Graduate of University and married one of Ann Arbor's fair daughters

   The president has tendered the Hon. Byron S. Waite, the well known lawyer of Detroit, the appointment of general appraiser of the treasury department, with headquarters in New York city.

   The salary attached to the position is $7000 a year, and while Mr. Waite's law practice no doubt exceeds that sum yearly, there is every likelihood that he will accept the office.

   The honor conferred Upon Mr. Waite by the president has been received with much satisfaction here, where Mr. Waite is well known and where he has many friends.  It was one of Ann Arbor's fair daughters that Mr. Waite made his wife.  She was Miss Ismena Cramer, daughter of Mr. Densmore Cramer.  She graduated from the literary class in 1880 as did also Mr. Waite.  They were married a year later.

   After his graduation, Mr. Waite went to Lansing, where he held a position in the office or the state superintendent of public instruction.  At the same time he studied law. He returned to Ann Arbor, where a partnership was formed between himself and Mr. Cramer, his father-in-law.  Later he went to Menominee, where he practiced his profession for some time.  He was twice elected to the legislature, being the leader of his party during both terms.

   It was the late Governor Pingree who induced Mr. Waite to go to Detroit, where he became assistant prosecuting attorney and was afterward appointed to the circuit bench.   After his retirement from the bench he became associated with the well known admiralty law firm of Shaw, Cady and Oates.

   The brilliancy of intellect which distinguished Mr. Waite during his college days here has remained with him and today he is considered one of the leading members of the Wayne county bar.  While at the University he was president of the freshman and senior classes.  He was familiarly known as 'Prexy" by his fellow students of those days, who had come to look upon him as one of the intellectual luminaries of the University.

   His son, Don C. Waite, is now in the freshman year here.