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- Notes:
- Man sitting at desk
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Republican. First Dutch-born mayor, a druggist and patent medicine manufacturer. His tonics and nostrums were popular around the Midwest. Tried to enforce Sunday "blue laws" that embroiled him in controversy.
- Date Created:
- 1881-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Democrat. Son of pioneer jeweler Aaron Dikeman, who arrived in 1837, Ed succeeded to his father's business. Noted as racehorse owner and enthusiast. Moved to Chicago in 1890s. Family home at SE corner of Fulton and Lafayette built in 1849 still stands.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
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- Portrait of Dean Smith, signed and dated October 28, 1944. Smith was a foreign manager of Standard Oil in Burma. During World War II he and his family were forced to leave and escaped into India with the British Army.
- Date Created:
- 1944-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Mrs. Don Levandoski, president 1966-1968.
- Date Created:
- 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Democrat. Partner in plaster mills, railroads, real estate, mostly with Amos Rathbone. They built several downtown buildings in the 1870s that are still standing. As he was dying, Rathbone heirs accused him of crooked dealings, but he died before anything was proved.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Mrs. Garland Hughes, president 1968-1970.
- Date Created:
- 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Man standing
- Date Created:
- 1939-12-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This image shows four of Joel Guild's six daughters. Ca. 1865
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Republican. After early years as country school teacher in Gaines Township, he became reporter on the Grand Rapids Eagle in 1871 and moved up to city editor, partner, and vice president of the paper. Helped organize Citizens Telephone Company in 1895 to compete with Bell, and was its president. His 1918 "History of Grand Rapids and Kent County" is still a valued resource.
- Date Created:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection