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R. J. Lounsbury, a well known attorney of Pontiac, Michigan, and a representative of large real estate interests here and elsewhere, was born in Putnam County, New York, where a brother still resides and where his father, a prominent farmer, died in 1881.

Mr. Lounsbury prepared for college at Andover, Massachusetts, and was a student at Dartmouth, in 1875 graduating at the Columbia Law School of New York City. He immediately came to Pontiac to represent Eastern capitalists who were operating in Michigan, Illinois and other States, and has retained full charge of their affairs ever since. During the first few years he devoted considerable time to general practice but since then has found himself sufficiently occupied in acting as trustee and assignee, in looking after the interests of the Eastern clients and in attending to his own extensive holdings.

In 1880 Mr. Lounsbury was married to a daughter of Col. S. E. Beach, of whom extensive mention will be found elsewhere in this work. Two children have been born to this marriage, a son and a daughter, the latter still surviving. Mr. and Mrs. Lounsbury have an elegant home on Orchard Lake avenue, Pontiac. In politics Mr. Lounsbury is identified with the Republican party. He is one of the substantial and representative citizens of Pontiac.