my first attempt to find out something about this family was to enter "Harriet Lawrence Ypsilanti" into Google. My first hit was this wiki page about James E. Lawrence, a University of Michigan football star. This bio included family information and listed two sisters ... Harriet and Grace! I didn't find a lot more information about James Lawrence ... but I did find that Miss Harriet married Arthur Roy Wren in 1906. That clears up who was the author of all those letters written in 1903-04.
A bit of further research into Arthur Roy Wren revealed that he too had graduated from the University of Michigan in 1898 and also played football while in school. It also turns out the Miss Harriet graduated from the Michigan State Normal School (later Michigan State). At the time (and previously) ARW was employed by various mining companies in Mexico.
That was all I could find out about the family ... I did do some research into both the National Metals and Consolidated Metals Companies. As expected there was so much buying out of each other and overlap in those days that it was nearly impossible to sort out.
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