ALOYSIUS JEROME "WISH" EGAN
- Wish Egan, 68, Figure in Baseball World
Detroit, April 13 - Wish Egan of the Detroit Tigers, one of big league baseball's best known scouts, died in Henry Ford Hospital early today at the age of 68. He had been ill for many months.
Since 1946 Mr. Egan had been the Tigers' "scout emeritus," a lifetime job created for him by Walter O. Briggs Sr., ownder of the team, in deference to his long service. Aloysius Jerome Egan's career spanned baseballs earlier days with the modern. He started as a pitcher in the early Nineteen Hundreds and became a scout for Detroit in 1913. His No. 1 discovery over the years probably was Detroit's own sandlotter, Hal Newhouser, mainstay of the Tiger pitching staff for several seasons. Mr. Egan had a keen eye for baseball talent and a big heart for kids. He was an inspiration to youngsters and was credited with doing much for juveniles. Before becoming a Tiger scout, Mr. Egan played for the Tigers and Louisville, Kansas City, the St. Louis Cardinals and Newark.
Source: The New York TImes April 14, 1951
Biography
CAROL (SAUNDERS) ELKINS
- Died Monday, October 18, 2004. On July 8, 1989, she married Paul C. Elkins at the Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church in Lincoln Park, Michigan and he survives. Carol was an active member of the Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church and will always be remembered for the love she had for her family and the fun they had camping. Survivors besides her husband include 4 children: Chelsea, Ryan, Blake and Erin; her parents, Bill and Audrey Saunders; 2 sisters: Jan (Paul) DiMaria and Laurel (Bruce) McClean and l brother, Bill (Dorothy) Saunders.
S. DOW ELWOOD
- S. Dow Elwood, who for about fifteen years, from 1850 or '51 to 1866, was a member of the firm of Markham & Elwood, booksellers at Rochester, N. Y., died in Detroit, Mich., September 20. He was born In Otsego County,
N. Y., December 25, 1824. In early life he was a school teacher, clerk, and employee in the railway mail service. In 1849 he went to California. In the fall of 1850 he returned
East and settled in Rochester, N. Y., where be became a bookseller. In 1866 Elwood caught the oil fever, and removed to Petrolia, Ont., where he opened a private bank. In 1871 he
removed to Detroit, where he helped to establish the Wayne County Savings Bank, of which he was first secretary and treasurer, and since 1891 president.
Publishers Weekly Volume 54 No 1393 08 October 1898
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