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- The City of Detroit, Michigan (1701-1922)
By William Stocking
Max Hulett
Among the native sons of Detroit who have won recognition as able representatives of the legal fraternity is numbered Max Hulett, who since 1911 has been identified with the bar of this city. He is also an officer in several important business enterprises of the city and has been equally successful in the industrial field. He was born July 9, 1885, a son of Orren S. and Antoinette (Bassett) Hulett, natives of Oakland county, Michigan. The father was born in Milford in 1850, and the mother's birth occurred at Novi. In 1880 they came to Detroit, and the father became a traveling salesman for the D.M. Ferry Seed Company, which he continued to repesent upon the road for more than thirty-five years. He is now living retired at Novi, and the mother is also living. They became the parents of four children, namely: John B., who makes his home in New York city; Max, of this review; Mrs. Helen Searle, a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio; and Gerald, general manage of the Lewis E. Sands Company of Detroit.
Mr. Hulett attended the grammar schools and the Central high school of Detroit, from which he was graduated in 1905. He next spent a year as a student at Oberlin College, Ohio, and afterward entered the University of Michigan, where he pursued a literary course, being graduated with the class of 1909. He had a year's work in the Ann Arbor Law School and afterward attended the Detroit College of Law for a similar length of time. He then entered the office of Chamberlain, May, Denby & Webster, leaading attorneys of Detrot, with whom he read law for a year, and in 1911 he successfully passed the state bar examination. He at once began the active work of his profession and in 1912 opened offices with Charles K. Latham, with whom he was associated until the latter's retirement in February, 1919. Mr. Hulett has since continued alone and has been accorded a large clientage, connecting him with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of the state. In a profession where advancement depends upon individual merit and ability he has gradually worked his way upward, his success coming to him because of his close reasoning, his logical argument, his correct application of legal principles and his ability to present his contention in the strongest possible light. He is also prominently connectd with business interests, acting as secretary of the Commonwealth Heat Treating Company and McCauley & Madison, of Detroit, and a secretary and director of the Highland Park Paint and Glass Company, and secretary and treasurer of the Holton Hood Clip Company and Detroit Radio Manufacturing Company.
At. St. Louis, Missouri, on the 18th of January, 1911, Mr. Hulett was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Ittner, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Ittner, prominent residents of that city. Two children have been born of that union: Richard Bassett, whose birth occurred on the 28th of October, 1915; and John Bassett, born April 29, 1921.
In religious faith Mr. Hulett is a Universalist, and his political allegiance is given to the Republican party. His public spirit finds expressoin in his membership in the Detroit Board of Commerce, and he is also connected with the Meadowbrook Golf Club and the Wilderness Club, while his professional connections are with the Michigan State and American Bar Associations and the Lawyers Club of Detroit. His ability has developed with the passing years, and his talents, natural and acquired, have brought him to a creditable position as a representative of the Detroit bar. He has also gained prominence as a capable business man, and all who know him esteem him for his energy, his aggressiveness and his sterling integrity.
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