This collection focuses on the lives and families of three Michigan women, Marietta "Etta" Hollister Rorabacher Twichell, Jennie May Twichell Lohmiller, and Jean Lohmiller Rich. The Hollister family in Michigan was begun by Rev. and Mrs. Algernon Hollister, who emigrated to Michigan from New York in 1837, settling eventually in Hamburg, Michigan, part of Livingston County. Their granddaughter, Etta Hollister, was born in 1852. In 1881, she wed her second husband, Hobart A. Twichell. Hobart was born in Connecticut in 1800, and moved to Livingston County, Michigan at the age of twenty-five, where he farmed for most of his life. Born in 1881, their daughter Jennie May Twichell married William Lohmiller in 1919. The Lohmiller family emigrated from Germany and settled in and around Sparta and LaCrosse, Wisconsin. William Lohmiller moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he and his wife owned and operated a boarding house during the 1920s and 1930s (as had other members of the Twichell family). Mrs. Lohmiller also taught in the Menominee and Hamburg school systems. Their only daughter, Jean Lohmiller Rich, taught in Lincoln Park, Michigan, while her husband Ed Rich worked for Allied Chemical Company in Detroit. Members of the Hollister, Twichell and Lohmiller families married into the Hickox, Culver, DePue, McClure, Rorabacher, Scott, and Wilner families, among many others.
From the guide to the Twichell Family papers, 1831-1975, 1844-1975, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)
