Benjamin F. H. Witherell papers, 1791-1924.

Michigan Historical Society.

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Michigan Territorial Militia.

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Witherell, Benjamin Franklin Hawkins, 1797-1867

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B.F.H. Witherell was born in Fair Haven, Vt. on Aug. 4, 1797. Educated in a private school in Troy, N.Y., he studied law and was admitted to the Michigan Bar in Detroit in 1819. Witherell became a prosecuting attorney and probate judge of Wayne County; in 1843 he was judge of the district judge of the criminal court of Wayne, Washtenaw and Jackson counties. He was also historiographer of Detroit in 1855. From 1857 until his death ten years later, Witherell was Circuit Court judge of...

Witherell, James, 1759-1838

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Father of B.F.H.W.... Born in Mansfield, Mass., June 16, 1759; served in war, 1775-1783; studied medicine; license, 1788; moved to Vermont; adopted profession of law; served in legislator, 1798-1803; judge of Rutland Co. 1803-07; member of Congress, Oct. 1807 to May 1808; U.S. judge of Michigan Territory, 1808-23; secretary of the same,1828 to this death, Detroit, Jan. 9, 1838. (from Appleton's Cyclop.of American Biography) From the description of James Witherell papers, 1812-1817. (...

Michigan. Circuit Court (Wayne County)

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Michigan. Legislature

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Beginning around 1870, the Michigan Legislature produced group and composite portraits of its members. From the guide to the Michigan Legislature photograph collection, 1875-1990, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan) ...

Michigan. Constitutional Convention (1850)

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