John Patton papers, 1888-1905.

Blair, Austin, 1818-1894

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Republican governor of Michigan, 1861-1864. From the description of Austin Blair papers, 1861-1863 and 1882. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422843 Governor of Michigan, 1861-64, state legislator and U.S. congressman, 1866-1870. From the description of Austin Blair papers, 1838-1921. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 55628517 Blair was a Governor of Michigan, 1861-1864, a Michigan representative in Congress, 1867-1872, and a r...

Rich, John T. (John Treadway), 1841-1926

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Born in Conneautville, Pennsylvania, April 23, 1841.Came to Michigan in 1848 and was a farmer. From 1872-1880 a representative in the State Legislature; 1880, in Senate; 1881, U.S. House of Representatives; commissioner of Railroads, 1887-1891; Governor of Michigan., 1892-1896; collector of customs, Detroit, 1898-1906; State treasurer, 1908-1913; collector of customs, Port Huron, Michigan 1908-1913; died in St. Petersburg, Florida, 1925. (from Cong. Dir.) (blue index cards) From the ...

McMillan, James, 1838-1902

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Detroit industrialist and U.S. Senator (1889-1902). Purchasing agent for the Detroit & Milwaukee railroad; organizer of the Michigan Car Co., 1863; president of the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railroad; member of Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad and Detroit City Railroad; president of the Detroit Board of Park Commissioners and the Detroit Board of Estimates; member of the Republican State Central Committee, 1876. Was also a member of the following firms: Detroit Car Wheel Co...

Platt, Orville Hitchcock, 1827-1905

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Republican lawyer who served as secretary of state of Connecticut, 1857-58, as member of Connecticut state senate and house of representatives, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1879-1905. Died in office 1905. From the description of Letter, June 28, 1882. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882387 U.S. senator, public official, and lawyer of Connecticut. From the description of Signature of Orville Hitchcock Platt, 1865. (Unknown). Wor...

Carey, Joseph M. (Joseph Maull), 1845-1924

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Resident of Cheyenne from May, 1869; U.S. Attorney and Wyoming Supreme Court Justice; cattle-raiser and past president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association; thrice mayor of Cheyenne; delegate to Congress. From the description of Politics and people of Wyoming : Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1884-1885. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 215005703 ...

Stockbridge, Mr. (Francis Brown), 1826-1894.

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Patton, John, 1850-1907

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Born at Corwensville, Clearfield Co., Va. Oct 30, 1850, grad. from Philip's Academy, from Yale in 1875, Columbia Law School in 1877. Moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1878. Practiced law, appointed by Gov. to fill term of Senator Stockbridge, 1894-1895. (from Mich. Biog. V. 1 p. 179) (blue index cards). From the description of John Patton papers, 1892 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 600096141 Lawyer at Grand Rapids, Michigan and Republican U.S. Senator, 1894-189...

Brown, Henry Billings, 1836-1913

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American judge, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1890-1906 and an authority on admiralty law. From the description of Henry Billings Brown items, [ca. 1875]-1903. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936800 Henry Billings Brown attended both Harvard and Yale Law Schools, and served on the U.S. Supreme Court (1891-1906.) From the description of Letter and autograph, 2 June 1892. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 23433...

Republican Party (Mich.)

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Beal, Junius E. (Junius Emery), 1860-1942

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Ann Arbor, Michigan, businessman, publisher of Ann Arbor Courier, Republican politician, and regent of University of Michigan. From the description of Junius Emery Beal papers, 1869-1946. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 82628269 From the description of Junius Emery Beal papers, 1882-1946. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421837 Junius E. Beal was born February 23, 1860 in Port Huron, Michigan. He graduated from the Universit...

Shafter, William Rufus, 1835-1906

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Army officer. Born in 1835 in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Served in the Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. Commissioned lieutenant colonel in the regular army 1866, brevetted brigadier general in 1897. Awarded medal of honor for gallantry at Fair Oaks. Received surrender of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Served in Texas 1863-1897. Died in 1906. From the description of Papers, 1863-1897, 1876-1877. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 24097707 ...

Davis, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-1900

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Cushman Kellogg Davis, a Senator from Minnesota, was born in Henderson, Jefferson County, N.Y., on June 16, 1838. He moved with his parents to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he attended the public schools, Carroll College in Waukesha, and graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Waukesha. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1865 and became a member of the State house of representatives ine 1867, then s...