GEORGE MELVIN CONDON HON. George Melvin Condon , serving for the second term as a member of the state senate of Michigan and since June, 1902, actively engaged in the practice of law in Detroit, was born at Fort Covington. Franklin county, New York, December 27, 3859. He was the eldest in n family of seven children whose parents were John and Marguerite (Kavnnaugln Condon, his ancestors having long been residents of America. His youthful days were spent on the home farm. The summer months were devoted to the work of the fields and he attended the district schools in the winter seasons, also becoming a pupil in the Fort Covington high school and academy from which in due course of time he was graduated. At the age of eighteen he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for about five years and then turned his attention to merchandising In association with Hon. T. A. Scars of Horn bay, New York, with whom he conducted a dry goods establishment for two years. He then entered the clothing business of L. G. Whitney, Atlanta, Georgia, and subsequently was bookkeeper for Mornn, Fitzsimons £ Company at Detroit, Michigan. He also acted as confidential secretary for the Standard Oil Company for fifteen years at Detroit and at south Bend, Indiana. Prepared for the bar as a student in the Detroit College of Law from 1899 until 1902 and in the latter year won his LL B degree. Since the month of June of that year he has engaged in active practice and in 1910 became senior partner of the law firm of Condon, Nellie Condon. He has built his professional success upon broad business experience, upon thorough understanding of the law and ability to apply accurately its principles. He manifests marked devotion to the interests of his clients and has gained notable success in practice, yet he is not learned in the law alone. He has been a close and discriminating student of many of the vital questions that are before the country today, including the more important political, sociological and economic problems. Mr. Condon is especially interested in the welfare of youth and was the organizer of the famous Condon Literary Club, Incorporated, in which over four hundred boys and young men have received and are receiving training as debaters and public speakers. From the inception he has been one of the directors of this organization. For eight years he served as a member of the school board of Detroit from the fourteenth ward, and the George M. Condon intermediate school at West boulevard and Buchanan street was named in his honor. He resigned his position on the school board in order to go to the senate, to which he was elected in 1917. He has since been reelected, as that be is now serving fur the second term, and is chairman of the judiciary committee and a member of other important committees of tho upper house of the Michigan general assembly, he was a candidate for congress in the 13th Michigan district in 1920. At Fort Covington, New York, Mr. Condon was married on the 3d of September, 1884, to Miss Nellie L. W. Mears and they have one son, Dallas Mears, who has become the associate of his father in law practice. Mrs. Condon died November 18, 1919, at Detroit. The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Condon is an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity. He belongs to the Lawyers Club and to the Detroit Bar Association. His high standards of citizenship have ever been manifest in a patriotic devotion to those interests which produce tangible results in Americnnization and his labors have indeed been far-reaching and beneficial. The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922; By Clarence Monroe Burton, William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller