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- Single man
- Date Created:
- 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man seated at desk
- Date Created:
- 1949-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Parents born in Netherlands. He was born in Grand Rapids. Member of Christian Reformed Church. School teacher. Businessman, active in many civic organizations. President of Chamber of Commerce when appointed mayor, by City Commission when Davis resigned. Presided over building of new City Hall and major expansion of city services. Defeated by Robert Boelens in 1970.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Portrait of Henry M. Hedges, signed [and dated on back, January 17, 1945]. He was an engineer from Chicago who travelled throughout the South Pacific and made several films of his travels and of Polynesian life, which he showed during his presentations.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Mrs. Donald Le Clair, president 1979-1981.
- Date Created:
- 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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- Mrs. J.L. Wenham, president 1890-1891.
- Date Created:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Mrs. Estelle Waterman, president 1959-1960.
- Date Created:
- 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The "Horseradish Twins" were Floyd LePard, on fiddle, and Roscoe LaPard, on mandolin, who played old-timey music for square dances for over 40 years. The bachelor farmers operated a small truck farm in Grand Rapids Township. They also made their own horseradish, which they sold to local grocers. Because the brothers looked so much alike, the grocers called them the "Horseradish Twins."
- Date Created:
- 1947-02-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Democrat. Came to Grand Rapids in 1845, nephew of Mrs. Canton Smith of the National Hotel, and did odd jobs at the hotel while studying at Prof. Franklin Everett's Grand Rapids Academy. After working for a stagecoach line, in 1858 he became first express messenger on the now D & M Railroad. From 1859 onward was the local American Express agent.
- Date Created:
- 1883-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Portrait of Waldo Frank, signed [and dated on back January 13, 1945]. Frank was an essayist, author and historian whose specialty was Latin America.
- Date Created:
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)