Harry L. Creswell was born of American parents in the village of Calcutta, Columbiana county, Ohio, on the 14^th of March, A.D. 1864. is early years were passed for the most part his early years were passed for the most part (pg. 120) in his native village, and neighboring cities and villages of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia "Pan Handle," with brief family flight to Michigan and Tennessee. The youngest of a family of thirteen, he remained with his parents until the death of his mother broke the family circle.. In 1878 and 1879 he attended the public schools in Wellsville, Ohio, and in the spring of 1880, having reached the age of fifteen years and considering himself fully able to care for himself, he became a resident of Grand Rapids, Mich., and learned the printer’s trade in the composing room of the Saturday Evening Post, of which his brother, John A. Creswell, was then editor. After working at this trade for several years the young man decided to supplement his common school with a high school education, and by dint of type-setting and journalistic and other work, succeeded, graduating with honor in the class of 1887. From that date, until 1896, he was engaged in newspaper work in editorial and reportorial capacities on all of the Grand Rapids newspapers, with brief periods of journalistic work in Buffalo, N. Y., and Minneapolis, Minn. In the spring of 1896, he was nominated for clerk of the superior court on the republican ticket and elected by a large majority. In 1898 he was re-nominated and again elected to the same office under adverse circumstance, the entire republican ticket, with one other exception, being beaten at that election. Upon entering the clerk’s office in the superior court, Mr. Creswell began the study of law under the tutelage of the Hon. Edwin A. Burlingame, then judge of that court, passing the examination before the state commission of Lansing with credit, and actively taking up the practice of this profession upon his retirement from the office of clerk in 1900. Mr. Creswell’s domestic relations have been equally happy with his business and political affairs. In 1890 he was united in marriage to Miss Cordelia M. Wilde, a classmate in the high school and daughter of Thomas Wilde, a pioneer farmer Wright township, Ottawa county, Mich. They have two children, and many friends who wish them all the success in life which energy and integrity so richly merit.