Helen Frays collection, 1864-1935.

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Helen Frays collection, 1864-1935.

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Two briefs and one appeal record from the appeal to the State of Michigan Supreme Court from the Circuit Court of Kalamazoo County, in the matter of the estate of William Wallace, deceased, 1945. A letter to Airfield Com. of Plainwell and Otsego, January 17, 1946, concerning the opinion of the site considered for an airfield. A 9-page document contesting the will of William Wallace. A translated German letter by John Engel, Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 26, 1864, to his father in Germany, describing his experiences in the Army in Missouri, during the Civil War. Ida Montague papers, 1907-1935, including: a list of deceased (1911-1912) members of the Kalamazoo County Pioneers; United States government life insurance policy issued to Charles F. Montague, 1927; two political buttons for "Michigan Dry Vote Yes" and the Democratic State Convention, 1924; various receipts and invoices from businesses with dated and stamped envelopes; newspaper clippings and correspondence; speculation on oil property and gold and silver stocks and bonds; Michigan Democratic State Central Committee correspondence with Montague; political pamphlet about Alfred E. Smith; handwritten school papers about the Spanish American War and about the Russian Empire.

6 folders.

Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Western Michigan University, Dwight B. Waldo Library

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Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944

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Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928. Smith was the foremost urban leader of the Efficiency Movement in the United States and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. The son of an Irish-American mother and a Civil War veteran father, he was raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bri...

Montague, Charles F.

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Fray, Helen,

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Wallace, William A., 1935-

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Democratic Party (Mich.). State Central Committee

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Frays, Helen.

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Kalamazoo County Pioneers.

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Engel, John D.

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Montague, Ida.

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