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William Tienken, senior member of the firm of Tienken & Case, of Rochester, is a prominent citizen of Avon township, and is well known throughout Oakland County. He was born in Avon township, July 15, 1869, and is a son of Henry Tienken, Sr., who reared a family of two daughters and three sons.

Our subject was reared on his father’s farm in Avon township and obtained his education in the public schools of his district and in the Rochester High School. He was 17 years old when he began his business career as a clerk in a grocery store in New York City, where he remained for two and a half years, gaining much valuable experience in business methods. Upon his return to the West, he was employed at the Russell House in Detroit for two and a half years. His next business association was with the wholesale grocery of Hull Brothers, with whom he remained five years, giving up his position there to embark in the restaurant business. After six years in that line, in 1899, he located in Rochester, where he formed his present partnership and has been prospering ever since.

Mr. Tienken belongs to Lodge No. 5, F. & A. M., of Rochester; also to the chapter, and is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Elks at Pontiac. Both as a fraternity man and as an honest and upright business citizen, he enjoys a wide acquaintance and is held in much esteem in the community.