Lapeer-Wayne-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Kudner, Henry C. 1858 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

HENRY C. KUDNER, editor of the famous Lapeer County Democrat, is one of the most
prominent young men of the Wolverine State. The city of New York claims the
honor of his birth, which important event occurred in 1858. Mr. Kudner, Sr.,
with his family came to Michigan in 1861 and settled in Detroit. Two years later
they moved to Pontiac where our subject spent his boyhood. There being four boys
and one girl in the family, as soon as Henry was large enough he was set to work
to earn his own living.

  In the office of the Pontiac Gazette, Mr. Kudner learned the trade of a
printer and after graduating from that seminary he worked as a compositor on the
Detroit Free Press, but was soon taken from the case and served some time in
reporting. Soon, however, he began to think of launching out on his own account.
In 1882 he bought the Lapeer County Democrat, a weekly paper with a subscription
list of about five hundred names, most of them people who did not pay promptly.
Lapeer had been a strong Republican county ever since the formation of the
Republican party, and the Democratic paper for twenty years or more hardly dared
assert its own existence.

  But Mr. Kudner was not the kind of man to hide his light under a bushel. The
Lapeer County Democrat speedily came to the front and became the most
extensively circulated and the best-known paper, not only in the county but in
the whole congressional district. The remarkable success of the Lapeer County
Democrat has brought corresponding financial results to the enterprising
proprietor. In addition to the printing and publishing business Mr. Kudner is
now extensively engaged in lumbering operations in Michigan and other States.
Though frequently importuned by his fellow-citizens he has firmly declined to
accept any public office, yet he takes an active part in directing the political
machinery of his party. He is Chairman of the Democratic County Committee.
Having always been, in Western parlance, a great "hustler," he has been
remarkably successful.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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