Stace, Arthur W. (Arthur William), 1875-1950

Stace was born on April 26, 1875, the son of Francis A. and Margaret Mary (McMahon). He married Lillian M. O'Connor on June 1, 1899, with whom he had three children. Stace attended the University of Notre Dame, earning a B.L. He worked as the managing editor of the Grand Rapids Press and the Director of the Utilites Information Bureau of Mich. These articles are some of those he wrote on Mich.'s resources, idle lands, etc., that helped lead to the development of Mich.'s tourism business and the planned development of state forests, parks, game refuges, etc. His articles also helped popularize reforestation and land utilization. Stace's articles on tuberculosis led to the establishment of the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Howell and another, local, sanitarium in Grand Rapids. His articles on playgrounds led to the creation of one in Grand Rapids. In the 1930s, he worked as the editor of the Ann Arbor Daily News, Director of the Ann Arbor Bureau of Booth Newspapers, Inc., and as a special writer for Booth Newspapers, Inc. Stace lived in Ann Arbor (Mich.) in 1936. He was a member of a number of professional and academic organizations. (Information from Who's who in Mich., 1936.) A copy of a book Stace wrote about Mich.'s forests in 1941, is housed in the Clarke Historical Library.

Arthur W. Stace was born at Marshall, Mich., on April 26, 1875, a son of Francis A. and Mary McMahon Stace. He received a bachelor's degree in literature from Notre Dame University at South Bend, Ind., in 1896, and took graduate work there the following year. He began his newspaper career in 1897 on the Grand Rapids Press and remained associated with that paper for 26 years. As a staff member of the Press, Stace served variously as telegraph editor, city editor, editorial writer, and special writer until 1913, when he became managing editor, a post he held for 10 years, until 1923. From 1923 until 1927, Stace was assigned as a special writer and researcher for the associated Booth Newspapers. In 1927, Stace left the newspaper field temporarily to take a position as director of the Michigan Utilities Information Bureau. At this time he also moved to Ann Arbor from Grand Rapids. In 1935 Stace returned to newspapers, this time as editor of the Ann Arbor News and director of the Ann Arbor Bureau of Booth Newspapers. He held those positions until his death January 10, 1950. Throughout his career, Stace wrote articles which were partially instrumental in the development of Michigan's tourist and outdoor recreation facilities, its tuberculosis and mental hospitals, rural electrification, the modern state highway system, and the development and conservation of Michigan's gas and other natural resources.

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