Saginaw-Mackinaw City Military Road Survey Collection, 1834, 1965.

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Saginaw-Mackinaw City Military Road Survey Collection, 1834, 1965.

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Typed transcript of the report of Benjamin Poole, 1834, recommending that the road from Saginaw to Mackinaw City (188 miles) be built, to Lt. Col. Henry Whiting, Assist. Quartermaster, U.S. Army, Detroit; notes by Charles M. Cook, undated, as to why the road was not built; copies of correspondence, 1961-1965, to Prof. Rolland Maybee at Central Michigan University (CMU); miscellaneous undated notes about Poole and his survey.

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Whiting, Henry, 1788-1851

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Henry Whiting was born in Lancaster, Mass. in 1788. Whiting entered the U.S. Army in 1808, becoming a Second Lieutenant a year later, and a First Lieutenant in 1811. He worked as an aide to General J.P. Boyd and General Alexander Macomb, and in 1817 was promoted to Captain. Whiting was made brigadier-general of the U.S. Army on Feb. 23, 1847. He was a regent of the University of Michigan, and Secretary of the Michigan Historical Society, 1828-1833, and wrote on scientific and other subjects. Hen...

Cook, Charles M., 1944-

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United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers

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Poole, Benjamin, 1810-1839.

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Maybee, Rolland Harper, 1901-1976

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Rolland Harper Maybee was born on January 6, 1901 in Ypsilanti, Michigan to Harper C. Maybee (1876-1954) and Blanche Maybee (1879-1970). Maybee had three brothers: Allen, Harper Jr., and Eugene Maybee. Rolland attended high school in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He began his college education at Western Michigan University before attending Columbia University, New York for his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in history. Maybee taught high school history for two years in Holland, Michigan, then came to Cen...