Julia K. Tibbitts papers 1964-1979 1973-1979

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Julia K. Tibbitts papers 1964-1979 1973-1979

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The collection is composed primarily of research materials collected by Julia K. Tibbitts for use in her case against the expansion of the Upper Peninsula Generating Company's power plant in Marquette, Michigan. The materials include court documents highlighting the accomplishments of Superior Public Rights, Inc. and their fight to protect the environment, correspondence, newspaper articles, research documents, maps, blueprints, and legal reference documents. The court documents are nearly complete, as Ms. Tibbitts gathered most of the court proceedings for her own records. However, a weakness within the collection is that at times there appears to be no direct connection as to how Tibbitts used them in her research. The inclusive dates of this collection are 1964 - 1979 and the bulk dates are 1973 - 1977. To learn more about Julia Tibbitts and her case against the Upper Peninsula Generating Company, please see: Tibbitts, Julia K. Let's Go Around the Island. Marquette, MI: J.K. Tibbitts, 1992.

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Olson Library, Northern Michigan University, Lydia M. Olson Library

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Olson Library, Northern Michigan University, Lydia M. Olson Library

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Michigan. Dept. of Natural Resources.

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Superior Public Rights, Inc.

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Tibbitts, Julia K.

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Julia Koch Tibbitts was born on October 1, 1917 to Otto and Onota (Schaffer) Koch. She was a life-long resident of the Marquette, Michigan area, born and raised in Onota just 25 miles east of Marquette. She later traveled to and graduated from Principia Upper School in St. Louis, Missouri (1936), Ogontz School for Young Ladies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1938), and Northern Michigan University (1965). After her husband's death in 1973, Julia discovered the bulldozers, barges, and large pipes ...