William Cotter Maybury papers, 1868-1904

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William Cotter Maybury papers, 1868-1904

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Papers contain correspondence and other papers pertaining chiefly to the accident insurance business and Maybury's other business interests, such as financing the Detroit Light Guard Armory, early activities of Henry Ford and other automotive pioneers, and Masonic activities. Most of the papers are dated after 1893. Also included are proceedings on the "Get Coal" Convention in Washington DC, 1903.

2 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 wallet, 3 volumes)

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7548259

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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Maybury, William Cotter, 1848-1909

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Born in Detroit on November 20, 1848, William C. Maybury graduated from the academic department of the University of Michigan in 1870 and from the law department in 1871. That year he was admitted to the Michigan bar and began to practice law in Detroit. He worked as a city attorney from 1876-1880, lectured on medical jurisprudence at Michigan College of Medicine, Detroit, 1881-1882; and was a member of the U.S. Congress 1883-1887. Maybury was elected mayor of Detroit in 1897, serving until 1905...

Light Guard Armory (Detroit, Mich.)

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Maybury, Irene

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Fowle, George Washington, 1821-1918

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Dudley, Irene Townsend

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Irene Townsend Dudley worked at the Burton Historical Collection. Her mother was Irene Maybury Dudley. Additional material to the collection includes correspondence and autograph books, plus scrapbooks and photographs of the Maybury family. An autograph of Detroit Mayor William C. Maybury, 1896, may be found in Box 1:6. From the description of Irene T. Dudley papers, 1881-1977 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 462813744 ...

Detroit (Mich.) Metropolitan Police Commission

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Freemasons

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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...

Get Coal Convention (1903: Washington (D.C.) )

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Davis, T.

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