Michael E. Crofoot was a prominent businessman , attorney , Judge of Oakland County Probate Court from 1849 to 1856 , and a man involved in Oakland County , Michigan and national affairs . He was a delegate to the 1856 Democratic National Convention . After the Civil War , he was selected in 1865 to represent Oakland County in raising subscriptions for the Michigan Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Monument in downtown Detroit . He lived three blocks up the hill on Williams Street , where his home was one of nine Pontiac landmarks featured on an 1867 “ Birds Eye View of Pontiac ” by Albert Ruger . He was on the State Building Commission for the State Asylum in 1874 , which was completed in Pontiac in 1878 . He represented a defendant in 1882 before the United States Supreme Court . He rebuilt the 1830 era building at Pontiac ’s first corner in 1882 and named it the “ Crofoot Block ” . He practiced law on the 3rd floor , overlooking from his 10-foot by north-facing window the rapid growth of Pontiac ’s Downtown Commercial District . Pontiac ’s Crofoot School was named after this prominent family , and is still in use
1856 Democratic National Convention
1856 Democratic National Convention
The Crofoot