S.L. Roods Store
It Was The Headquarters For The Jolly Set Of Detroit Business
Chapin & Owens had the next store with the same class of goods, and Snow & Fisk with hooks and stationery had the next. Josiah Snow, of Snow & Fisk. I presume many
will call to mind—a fussy, plump, nervous little man, always on the go, always a cigar in his mouth and scarcely ever was
lighted. He was engaged in all sorts of enterprises after he left the hook business. The last I heard of him was directly after the
war. He was then engaged in building telegraph lines. His right-hand man here was Scott W. Updike, who some will, perhaps, remember, for everyone knew him at the time. He was an
enthusiastic fireman, as well as one of the trimmest members of the Brady Guards. He was a master in the art of dancing, and
no firemen's or Brady Guards' ball was complete unless Scott Updike was on hand to call the sets. Standing on the lower step
of the platform on which the music was stationed, his trim figure on these occasions always arrayed in the uniform of the Brady
Guard, his loud and commanding voice would sway and direct the gay crowd before him through all the 111a7.es of the giddy dance,
as none other in all my experience has ever done. The last I ever saw of him was at a military encampment in Cleveland many
years ago. He was then captain of a military company from Rochester, and myself and the late Dr. Lucretius Cobb were his
guests for two or three days. He gave us a good time.
The upstairs portion was used for offices and sleeping rooms.
William Patterson (late of the old book store on Michigan's Avenue) had a job printing office here. Robert Abbott, auditor-
general of the State of Michigan, had his office here, as did Thomas Palmer and A. E. Hathon, H. R. Schoolcraft. Indian
agent, and Dr. Marshall Chapin, Mr. Owen's partner. The firm of Chapin & Owen was dissolved through the death
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