WILLIAM
F. STINE
WILLIAM
F. STINE, of Charlotte, one of the able members of the bar of this section of
the state and president of an important corporation known as the Eaton County
Loan & Real Estate Company, was born in
Fremont, Sandusky
county,
Ohio, March 17, 1868, and is a son of William W. and Sarah J. Stine, the former of
whom figures as the subject of an individual sketch in this history, so that a
recapitulation of the family record is not demanded at this juncture. When the
subject of the present review was a lad of eleven years his parents removed from
Ohio to Charlotte Michigan, where he was reared to maturity and has continuously
made his home, identifying himself intimately and prominently with the best
interests of the community and having advanced to no slight precedence in the
work of the exacting profession of law. He was graduated in the
Charlotte
high school, after which he was for a time a student in Olivet
College, at Olivet, this county. For two years he was variously employed, taking
advantage of such opportunities as afforded him a means of gaining the funds to
enable him to complete his educational training. He took up the study of law in
the office of Huggett & Smith, of
Charlotte, and later continued his technical reading under the preceptorship of Judge Van
Zile, of
Detroit. He was admitted to the bar of the Eaton county circuit in the year 1893, and
he then became associated with James M. Powers and entered the active practice
of his profession in Charlotte, this alliance continuing for some time. He served two terms as city attorney
and in 1900 was elected judge of probate of the county, retaining this office
until 1902, when he resigned the same, to devote the major portion of his time
and attention to the interests of the Eaton County Loan & Real Estate
Company, of which he was one of the principal promoters and one of the
organizers. The company was duly incorporated under the laws of the state, in
1902, and Mr. Stine has been president from the inception. The other members of
the executive corps are as follows: Chas. W. Morrell, vice-president; Vaughan G.
Griffith, secretary and treasurer. The company exercises most beneficent
functions and has built up a large and substantial business, while its
operations can not but conserve the progress and material prosperity of the city
and county in which the enterprise has headquarters. Mr. Stine is at this
writing president of the Business Men's Association, and is also a zealous and
enthusiastic worker in the cohorts of the grand old Republican party, and he is
chairman of the county committee of the same at the time of this writing. In a
fraternal way he is identified with the Masonic order. In 1892 Mr. Stine was
united in marriage to Miss L. Louise Pratt, of Charlotte, and their only child,
Dorothy, was born June 7, 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Stine are prominent and popular in
the best social life of their home city, and as a citizen he is distinctively
progressive and public-spirited.