For this year’s A to Z Challenge, I will be posting an event for that date involving someone in my family tree. Of course it will also involve the letter of the day. It may be a birth, a death, a christening, a journal entry, a letter or a newspaper article. If the entry is a news item, it will be transcribed immediately below. Click on photographs to enlarge in another window.
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On April 2, 1951, my uncle Dr. Louis J. Cleage ran for the University of Michigan Board of Regents. I had no idea until I found a newspaper item in The Battle Creek Enquirer. He did not win but received 3,547 votes.
I am just going to transcribe the paragraph with the Board of Regents votes, bottom first column, top of second, above:
“Regents of the University, (two Regents elected): Roscoe O. Bonisteel, Republican, 409.966; Leland I. Doan, Republican, 410,302; Murray D. Van Wagoner, Democrat, 315,955; Wheaton L. Strom, Democrat, 258,214; Arthur L. Leach, Prohibition, 7,173; Roville L. Heltzel, Prohibition, 5,899: Louis J. Cleage, Progressive, 3,547; Richard Fox, Progressive, 3,818; James Sim, Socialist Labor. 1,591; Theo A. Grove, Socialist Labor, 1,641; Howard Lerner, Socialist Workers, 1,181; and William H. Yancey, Socialist Workers, 1,182.”
I was surprised to find that a Romanian Newspaper seemingly has him on their slate of candidates. I can’t be sure as I do not speak Romanian, but it looks that way to me.
C.D. Gallant-King to the rescue with a translation! “The faces of some of the candidates that the newspaper recommends you support, through your vote, in the April 2 elections in the state of Michigan.”
In 1951 Dr. Louis Cleage was 36 years old. He and his father, Dr. Albert B. Cleage SR shared a practice at Cleage Clinic. He lived at 2270 Atkinson, Detroit, Michigan with his parents and five of his siblings – Henry, an attorney in private practice; Hugh, a postal worker; Barbara secretary/receptionist at Cleage Clinic and Anna who was a pharmacist at Cleage Clinic. Two siblings had married and lived out of state. They were my father, Albert jr and Gladys.
Other posts about Louis Cleage
L – Louis Cleage
Uncle Louis Plays the Organ – 1956
Louis Cleage – W8AFM
Building Louis’ Cottages – Idlewild 1943 to 1945
Y Is For Louis Cleage’s Yacht – late 1940s
X is for X-Ray – Story of Louis Cleage’s Puffy Finger – early 1940s
Dr. Louis Cleage Proves Billy Eckstine’s Voice Influences Blood Pressure
That is a nice house! 🙂
It must be so interesting to find out stuff like this about one’s relatives. And it’s fun that you have enough to do it by date!
The Multicolored Diary
It was a nice house. Louis and his brother Hugh lived there until the 1990s when they moved to Idlewild, Michigan and then South Carolina to live with their nephew. It’s still a nice house but the neighborhood has fallen on hard times.
Interesting story, would google translate help with the Romanian Newspaper? Maybe he was respected by the Romanian community rather being Romanian and was sympathetic to their community.
My husband suggested the same thing, about google translate, but I knew one of my readers would be able to translate it for me and low and behold, C.D. Gallant-King did!
Maybe he did have some Romanian patients but I never heard about it. Or maybe they favored the Progressive party. We’ll never know. Sigh.
“The faces of some of the candidates that the newspaper recommends you support, through your vote, in the April 2 elections in the state of Michigan.”
The Michigan Romanians had good taste!
Thank you! I knew someone would know! Do you speak Romanian?
I’m going to add your translation up there.
That’s so interesting about the Romanian paper. Really enjoyed getting to see the house & clinic ~ I’m gonna go look for more posts about the Cleage Clinic now!
I guess they were both out of our hands by the time you came along. I’m glad you’re visiting!
That’s so cool to learn a story from old newspapers that you weren’t aware of.
I’ve found so much new and useful information in newspapers!
Lovely house. Great job with these snippets about your background.
It was a lovely house. I enjoyed finding these snippets. It was like doing a puzzle to match things up.
I love the house. Google translate would probably help with the translation. I love diving into the newspapers, as you just never know what you might find. How wonderful that you came across a photo.
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One of my readers did translate it for me. C.D. Gallant-King to the rescue with a translation! “The faces of some of the candidates that the newspaper recommends you support, through your vote, in the April 2 elections in the state of Michigan.”
Wow–your uncle must have been an upstanding citizen, to run for UM’s Board of Regents as a young man with a medical practice as well. I’m amazed that the two Progressive candidates did so well in 1951, in the McCarthy era. It must have been wonderful to come across this newspaper clipping. What were you looking for when you found it? How much we don’t know about our elders, simply because they never told us or we never asked! Thank goodness you taken the trouble to find out.
I was looking for information on newspapers.com about my uncle Louis Cleage. He didn’t really get a lot of votes compared to the top winners who had over 400,000 votes. It was state wide.
The house at 2270 Atkinson has a very lovely garden
In the backyard there was a grape vine, and small old fashioned roses along one fence. There were some rododrendons too. I remember the ants on the flowers and I remember one year there were so many caterpillars on the grape vine, you could hear them chewing.
It’s amazing that you have stuff like this for every weekday of this whole month! Can’t imagine the years of research that you’ve put in to get here. Well, I can actually, since I’ve been reading this blog for sometime now. Hats off!
I was surprised myself to find so many April events. And you are right, years of research behind this.