Bio of CARMICHIEL, Daniel (b.1875), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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DANIEL CARMICHIEL - Vol II, pg 715-716
Daniel Carmichiel, who stands foremost among the representative members of the
Minneapolis bar, was born in Moravia, New York, on the 26th of April, 1875, a
son of John A. and Isabella (McCredie) Carmichiel, natives of Canada and of
Scotch descent. He is a business man of ability and is one of the prominent and
public-spirited citizens of the community in which he resides. Daniel
Carmichiel's parents moved from New York state to St. Paul in 1885 and there the
father was connected with the Northern Pacific Railroad until 1906. In that year
the father moved to Cle-burne, Texas, and there he and his wife reside at the
present time, where he is now the lumber department superintendent in Texas for
the Santa Fe Railroad.
In the acquirement of his education Daniel Carmichiel attended the public
schools of St. Paul until thirteen years of age but thereafter he secured his
further education at spare times while earning his living. In the year 1902 he
took up the study of law while acting as general claim agent for the Minneapolis
& St. Louis Railroad. He was admitted to the bar on the 8th of February, 1909,
and has since that time practiced law in Minneapolis. He has won a position of
prominence in professional circles and enjoys an extensive and important
clientele, handling much important litigation before the courts. Aside from his
professional duties Mr. Carmichiel is very active in business circles and is
president of the Carmichiel-Beard Company, a corporation engaged in the
production of the Carmichiel patent no key, no dial, combination locks; and is
president of the Flex Fastener Company, a corporation engaged in production of
the Carmichiel patent fastening devices. These locks and fasteners are Mr.
Carmichiel's own invention.
In Minneapolis, on the 20th of January, 1904, occurred the marriage of Mr.
Carmichiel and Miss Ada H. Clarke, a daughter cf Albert E. Clarke, prominent
attor­ney and then general attorney for the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad. To
Mr. and Mrs. Carmichiel the following children have been born: Donald, Stanley,
Albert, Evelyn and Carol. Mrs. Carmichiel is a woman of charming personality,
with artistic talent and ability of a high order, and she is actively interested
in the club and social affairs of her community.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Carmichiel has followed an independent course
in politics, giving his support to the man he thinks best fitted for the office
without regard for party principles. He maintains an active interest in civic
affairs and has taken a prominent part in the last four campaigns in Minneapolis
for a home rule charter. He was in complete control of the last citizens
campaign, which secured home rule for Minneapolis, as chairman of the General
Citizens Committee in charge. He organized and for three and one-half years was
chairman of the Central Franchise Committee, which had charge of the citizens
valuation of the street car system of Minneapolis, serving as chairman of that
body until he resigned therefrom. For six years he was a member of the State Bar
Association Ethics Committee and was chair­man for the last two years. During
that time he succeeded in bringing about an important new rule in the supreme
court concerning discipline of attorneys. He first proposed the Cleveland plan
of reformed court procedure for adoption at Minneapolis, and was chairman of one
committee after another having to do with such proposed change in the methods of
handling cases in court; and after nine years of continuous effort, he succeeded
in establishing at Minneapolis that Cleveland plan, under which, within the
first year after its adoption, there was a twenty-five per cent increase in
efficiency of the courts. He has been actively engaged in many other important
civic improvements and reforms and was an early and vigorous advocate of liquor
prohibi­tion and woman suffrage. Along strictly professional lines Mr.
Carmichiel is a member of the American, State and Hennepin County Bar
Associations, and fraternally he is identified with the Masons and has attained
the Mystic Shrine by the Scottish Rite route. He is an active member of the
local Young Men's Christian Association. During the World war Mr. Carmichiel was
chairman of the second district Legal Advisory Board of his community, and was
one of the executives and active speakers of the Four-Minute Men war
organization. He was also a member of the General Speakers Bureau and made many
speeches in the city and throughout the state in behalf of all Liberty Loan and
Red Cross drives. Mr. Carmichiel's hobby is mechanics and he spends a great deal
of time working on various inventions. He likewise finds recrea­tion in outdoor
sports and is fond of motoring, skating and swimming. He is a man of genial arid
pleasing personality and his friends are legion. He resides with his family at
Christmas Lake, a suburb of Minneapolis, in Hennepin county.