Francis Willett Shearman papers, 1839-1878.

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Francis Willett Shearman papers, 1839-1878.

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Correspondence; business papers; manuscript on the Cawood patent swage block (for repairing railroad rails); and letters from Robert M.T. Hunter, William Woodbridge (relating to the history of the University of Michigan), and Thomas C. Fitzgibbon of the Fourteenth Michigan Infantry; speeches and addresses on patriotic and political subjects, the Civil War, Indians and Isaac Crary; and miscellaneous papers.

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Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887

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Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and plantation owner. He was a U.S. Representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. Senator (1847–1861). During the American Civil War, Hunter became the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate Senator (1862–1865) and critic of President Jefferson Davis. After the war, Hunter failed to win re-election to the U.S. Senate, but did ser...

Crary, Isaac Edwin, 1804-1854

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Delegate from the Michigan Territory to Congress. From the description of Isaac Edwin Crary papers, 1836-1837 and 1915. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418367 ...

FitzGibbon, Thomas P. D.

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Woodbridge, William, 1780-1861

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Woodbridge was born in Conn. on Aug. 20, 1780. He served in several high Ohio political positions before moving to Michigan. Woodbridge served as Secretary and Acting Governor of the Territory of Michigan, 1812-1828; Collector of Customs at Detroit, 1814- ; Michigan Territory's first delegate in Congress, 1819-1820; Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court, 1828-1832; Delegate from the 1st District (Detroit) to the Constitutional Convention of 1835; Senator from the 1st District, 1838-1839; Gove...

Shearman, Francis Willett, 1817-1874.

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Editor of the Marshall, Michigan, D̲e̲m̲o̲c̲r̲a̲t̲i̲c̲ E̲x̲p̲o̲u̲n̲d̲e̲r̲, Calhoun County, Michigan judge and State Superintendent of Public Instruction. From the description of Francis Willett Shearman papers, 1839-1878. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 83661800 From the description of Francis Willett Shearman papers, 1839-1878. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418439 ...

United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 14th (1862-1865)

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...