Rowe Family Papers [microform] 1840-1990 1840s-1940s

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Rowe Family Papers [microform] 1840-1990 1840s-1940s

Residents of Highland Township, Oakland County, Michigan. Civil War reminiscences and other papers of James D. Rowe, soldier in the 1st Michigan Cavalry; Civil War letters of Spencer D. Lee, related family member, also in the 1st Michigan Cavalry; business records of Grant and Carrie Jackson Rowe, publishers of the Milford Times; sermons of Samuel Simpson Marquis as transcribed by Mrs. G. S. Rowe; collected materials largely concerning Milford and Highland Township history; and miscellaneous photographs and Civil War print.

0.7 linear feet (on 2 rolls of microfilm) and 0.3 linear feet (in 1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6389324

Bentley Historical Library

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United States. Michigan. Cavalry Regiment (1861-1866)

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Marquis, Samuel Simpson 1866-

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Lee, Spencer D.

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Rowe, Carrie Jackson.

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Kalamazoo College

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Lee, Sarah

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Rowe, James Delos, 1838-1925.

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Rowe, Grant.

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WJR (Radio station : Detroit, Mich.)

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Brodhead, Thornton Fleming, 1820-1862

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Thornton Fleming Brodhead was born in south Newmarket, New Hampshire, on September 22, 1822. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in law. He then moved to Pontiac, Michigan. He soon was appointed prosecuting attorney and then deputy Secretary of State. At age 27, he became a state senator for Michigan. Brodhead enlisted in April 1847 as 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant in the 15th U.S. Infantry during the Mexican War, and he was brevetted to the rank of captain on August 20, 1847. He was made a...

Rowe Family

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The first Rowe to settle in Highland Township, Michigan, was Squire Washington Rowe. Rowe was born June 1, 1815 in Camillus, Onondaga County, New York, later moving with his family to Parma, Monroe County, New York. Rowe and Dolly Castle were married on March 26, 1835, and the young couple soon emigrated with other family members to Michigan, arriving in May, 1835, where they built up a large farm in Highland Township and raised their family. In 1855 Squire Rowe built an...