This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nank, Oehmke, Priehs, Hurlburt Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IGB.2ACI/155 Message Board Post: >From 1905 Michigan Manual, Page 764-765 WILLIAM F. NANK, Representative from Macomb county, was born in Schoenhousen, Germany, July 21, 1867. He came to America with his parents in 1873 and settled in the township of Sterling, Macomb county, Michigan, attending the public and Lutheran schools of the township until he was thirteen years of age. He worked for a time on a farm and in the brick yards until the spring of 1890, when he purchased his father's farm in Sterling township. He was married December 3, 1891, to Anna Oehmke of Warren township, and has three children. He was elected clerk of Sterling township in 1893, then considered a strong Democratic township, and was reelected in 1894. He was elected sheriff of Macomb county in 1894 and reelected in 1896, the first Republican sheriff since 1880 in that county. After serving his second term as sheriff he engaged in the livery business at Mt. Clemens. Mr. Nank is an active Republican, a director of the Citizen's Savings Bank, ex-member of the board of public works, and was elec! ted to the legislature of 1905-6 by a vote of 4,327 to 3,508 for John Priehs and 154 for Fred S. Hurlburt.