Howard Hoffman collection, ca. 1975-1979.

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Howard Hoffman collection, ca. 1975-1979.

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Research notes by Howard Hoffman about historic sites in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Research includes information about Jews in Kalamazoo and in Michigan; Bazel Harrison; inter-urban trains; Benjamin Cummings; Gilbert Read; Enoch Harris, first Black settler in Kalamazoo County; Nottawa-Seepe Indians; William R. Shafter; engineering and industrial sites in Michigan's Lower Peninsula; Shirland, named for John Shirley, an early settler in Prairie Ronde Township, Kalamazoo County; Shafter Pioneer Cemetery; Black Hawk War; South West [known as West Street] Cemetery of Kalamazoo; Indians and Indian Mounds: Abiel Fellows; Samuel H. Simmons; Price and Buell families and farm, Oshtemo; Oakland Drive Association, Kalamazoo; Oscar B. Frost; Judson A. Frost; Thomas McLin, Texas Township, Kalamazoo County; Alamo Museum, Kalamazoo County; German Lutheran Cemetery, Brady Township, Kalamazoo County; Moore-Hascall Harvester; Alphadelphia Association, Comstock; Benjamin Drake; Indian Fields and Dry Prairie Cemeteries, Kalamazoo County; Geloster, Richland; Simpson Howland and Howlandsburg.

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Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Hoffman, Howard J.

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Alamo Township Museum (Mich.).

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Harrison, Bazel, 1771-1874

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Frost, Judson A.

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Cummings, Benjamin Tucker, 1834-1917

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Simmons, Samuel H.

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Buell family.

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Harris, Enoch, 1784-1870

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Read, Gilbert.

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Price family.

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Drake, Benjamin

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Shirley, John.

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McLin, Thomas, 1774-1848.

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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 ...

Fellows, Abiel.

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Alphadelphia Association (Organization)

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Communitarian society located near Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the description of Alphadelphia Association records [microform], 1843-1848. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419892 From the description of Alphadelphia Association records, 1843-1848. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418453 From the description of Alphadelphia Association records, 1843-1848. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778148 ...

Nottawa-Seepe Indians.

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Oakland Drive Association (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

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Frost, Oscar B.

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