The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-10-14

Frank F. Bumps Has It--Progress and Push
His Personal---very. Turning Point in
His Career Has Left Him in a Broader
Field of Usefulness than Before.
Among that most influential class who
have first overcome every obstacle and
laid the foundation for great future use
fulness by securing broad, university
education, no matter what the cost, and,
who then have made brilliant success
in the conduct of the public schools of
the nation, only to feel that the work
and opportunities must there be limited,
and that only in the profession of the
law could they realize their highest
ambitions, should be placed the name
of our fellow townsman, Frank F.
Bumps.
Not only this but his name should be
written among that part of the above
class who have ably demonstrated that
they did not overrate their own abili-
ties, but who by using the same push
and energy which brought them into
that position have advanced to the
front ranks in their chosen work. To
see such a man nominated for an i'm
portant Office within the gift of the peo-
pie is a pleasure to every man who has
the welfare of the community at heart,
and sketch however brief of such a
mans career is of interest to all.
Though he has been resident of
Michigan for twenty-five years Frank
F. Bumps is one of those who became a
Michigan man rather by choice than by
the accident of birth He was born on
farm near Bangor, Maine, in 1861,
and twelve years later came to Michi-
gan with his parents.
Here his preparations for future pub
lie influence were carried on in the
Muskegon high school where he grad
uated with honors, and then in the Uni
sity at Ann Arbor. His work at the lat
ter place was marked by his ability to
grapple successfully with the difficult
questions of the class rooms and the de-
gree which he received on graduation,
Bachelor of Philosophy, is one which is
recognized as requiring long and close
application to secure.
After finishing his University course
he began his work in Shiawassee county
as principal of the Bancroft schools,
where he made asplendid record which,
however, was even surpassed by his rec
ord as superintendent of the COrunna
schools, position he filed with great
ability for two years when he resigned
the work to enter the law Office of S. s.
Miner, then prosecuting attorney for
Shiawassee county.
In the Office of the prosecuting attor-
ney he familiarized himself with the
details of the work at the very time
when he was getting the princi-
Piles of the law firmly established in his
mind, thus combining theory and prac-
tiee to such degree that at the end of
two more years he passed splendid
examination and was admitted to the
bar by Judge Newton, in 1892. He
then formed a partnership with Mr..
Miner, but at the end of one year, feel
ing that he would be better off alone,
he withdrew and opened an Office of his
own. The results have amply justified
his course. In every change he has
seen fit to make in his work he has in
variably stepped into broader and
higher field with ever increasing oppor-
tunities for usefulness. His Office is
one of the best arranged and one of the
most pleasantly located in this part of
the state.
Mr.. f. F. Bumps, who is now in the
very prime of life, is a vigorous, force
full speaker, whose earnest eloquence is
a power feared and respected alike by
his opponents, and yet while in no sense
is he "policy man" his strong CON-
mon sense and good judgment do not
allow his oratory to run away with his
reason. He is in every way deserving
of the Office of prosecuting attorney to
which he has been nominated and which
he will conduct, If elected, as he doubt
less will be, with care and energy.
Mr.. Bumps promises if elected to con-
duct the affairs of the Office economically
carefully investigating every complaint
before any costs are incurred, thus saw
ing the taxpayers hundreds of dollars
annually.
He has been life long republican and
should receive the vote of every repub-
lican in the county who is able to get to
the polls on the eighth of November, as
well as of every other voter who is in
terested in the proper conduct of this
most important county office.