HORACE MANN OREN is a leading member of the bar of Chippewa county, and is now serving as Prosecuting Attorney for the county.

His birth occurred in Clinton county, near Wilmington, Ohio, on the 3d of February, 1S59. His father. Captain Charles Oren, was also born in that county, in 1831, and acquired his education in Antioch College, of that State, which was founded by the great educator, Horace Mann. On leaving school he embarked in the profession of teaching, and was employed as principal of the high school at Martinsville, Ohio. During the late war he responded to the country's calls for troops to aid in crushing the Rebellion and was afterward commissioned Captain of a company of colored infantry. He was killed in the siege of Petersburg, thus giving his life in defense of the Union. Like all of bis people, he was a stalwart Republican, joining the party on its formation, for it was organized to prevent the further extension of slavery, of which he was a bitter opponent. The grandfather of this gentleman was a native of York county, Pennsylvania, but the father of the Captain was born in Tennessee, where the former had removed during the latter part of the eighteenth century. In the '20s the grandfather of our subject removed to Ohio, taking up his residence in Clinton county.

Captain Oren was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A. Allen, a daughter of Abram Allen, who married into the well known and prominent Howland family of New York Quakers. She also was educated in Antioch College and is a lady of exceptional attainments and culture. She possesses a bright intellect and rare qualities as an educator. In 1869 she was a teacher in the high school of Indianapolis and retired from that position to accept that of State Librarian, to which she was elected by the Legislature, being the first lady to hold that position in Indiana. She was afterward tendered a professorship in Purdue University, which she accepted on retiring from the library. She is now the wife of Wesley Hayne of Kokomo, Indiana. By her first marriage she had two children. Horace M. and Cata, who is now the wife of William Chandler of Sault de Ste. Marie.

The gentleman whose name heads this record spent his youth in Indianapolis, completed the regular course in the public schools of that city and then became his mother's assistant in the State Library. This, too, served as a school to him, and the companionship of his educated mother was in itself an education. In the winter of 1877 he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Ar- bor and was graduated at that institution with the degree of B. A. in the class of 18S1. He completed the law course in the same school in 1883 and the degree of B. L. was conferred upon him. In the meantime he had come to Sault Ste. Marie, where he engaged in business as editor of the Soo News in the year 1882. After his admission to the bar before Judge Joslyn at Ann Arbor he returned to this city, opened an office and began practice. His first case was tried before Judge Colwell, then Justice of the Peace, and from that beginning his business has steadily increased until it has now become quite extensive. He was alone in practice until 1S92, when he became a member of the firm of McMahon, Oren & Snell, which connection was dissolved by the death of the senior member of the firm. He has since been in business by himself and has secured a liberal and well-merited clientage. On many important cases has he been retained as counsel, including the Peter Pocalona murder case, on which he secured a verdict of acquittal for his client.

Mr. Oren was united in marriage, in 1890, with Miss Maggie Wallace, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Deggan) Wallace. The latter is a native of Canada, and the former, of Irish birth, is now engaged in the manufacture of grindstones in Grindstone City, Michigan. To Mr. and Mrs. Oren have been born one child, Robert, now a little lad of five summers.

In 1885 Mr. Oren was elected City Attorney of Sault de Ste. Marie for a term of four years, to succeed W. B. Cady. He is retained as local attorney by both railroads running into this place and is a lawyer of ability. Endowed by nature with a fine mind, which has been quickened and cultivated in one of the best schools in this country, he has worked his way upward to a position of eminence in the legal profession in this region and takes high rank among his brethren at the bar. He is a publicspirited and progressive citizen, doing all in his power for the advancement and upbuilding of the community, and took an active part in forming the Water Power & Electric Light Company of this city. He is also president of the School Board and has done much to upbuild the cause of education.- Socially he is connected with the Knights'of Pythias fraternity.

Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula 1895