Papers, 1830-1846.

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Papers, 1830-1846.

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Papers, 1830-1846 and undated, include business correspondence, legal and financial papers of Houghton's while a partner in Houghton and Hubbard, regarding the real estate business in the southern Lower Peninsula, 1830-1841, and correspondence regarding the incorporation of St. Paul's Church, Detroit, Mich., 1842. There are seven volumes of field survey notes, 1837-1840 and undated, and six folders of survey maps, 1830s and undated, for a number of islands, counties, rivers, and shorelines of the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. Also, there are three miscellaneous volumes, one with field survey notes, May 1845.

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St. Paul's Church (Detroit, Mich.)

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Houghton and Hubbard.

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Houghton, Douglass, 1809-1845

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The Michigan Geological Survey was created by Public Act 20 of 1837. Its purpose was to conduct a geological and mineralogical survey of the state. The state legislature appointed Douglass Houghton the first state geologist (1837). In 1921, the state legislature established the Department of Conservation, and the Michigan Geological Survey became part of that department (Public Act 17 of 1921). The Department of Conservation established the Geological Survey Division circa 1947. In 1968, the dep...

Hubbard, Henry David, 1870-1943

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