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- Handwritten letter from Lewis Cass. The letter reads: For Major Cass As you agree with me, that it is, but an act of justice, on our part, to make a substantial acknowledgement, to William Foxen, for his faithful services, please to deed to him, lot no. 17, block 56. Lewis Cass Detroit July 3d, 1865
- Date Issued:
- 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Biography of Antoine De La Mothe Cadillac written by Sidney Trowbridge Miller, for a Banquet of the Society of Colonial Wars, held June 3rd, 1901.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Handwritten copy of a series of resolutions adopted by the Detroit Law Students' Association in honor of the late Senator Jacob Merritt Howard, and presented to his family, as well as the accompanying envelope. The document reads: In Memorandum. At a special meeting of the Detroit Law Students' Association, held at these rooms on Wednesday afternoon April 5, the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, It has pleased the Almighty and All wise Providence to remove from among us the Hon. Jacob M. Howard; therefore, Resolved, that we the members of the Detroit Law Students' Association, sympathize with his afflicted family, the sorrowing public and particularly with the members of the legal profession in the loss of one of its ablest members of the legal profession, who was ever the friend of the student and the young and inexperienced lawyer, and, whose private and public life is worthy to be followed by the scholar, the lawyer and the statesman; and, also Resolved, That the Secretary transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to the family of Mr. Howard. Henry Plass, Jr. President John Don[n]olly Secretary E. T. Niebling Cor. Ser'y"
- Date Issued:
- 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Envelope, preprinted with the return address, "Office of the Mayor, Detroit, Michigan, addressed to Hazen S. Pingree at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. The envelope is postmarked January 3, 1894. The envelope was opened on its right edge. One stamp has been torn off, the other, is a 2¢ stamp Columbian issue.
- Date Issued:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Postcard with red flowers and a sailboat and "Shopbell + Gamble & Co. Dry Goods, Williamsport, GA" on the front. Addressed to O. Mumford, 664 Canfield, Detroit, Mich. The written portion on the back is a list of children, their names and when they were born. Dated 02/14/1885.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Engraving of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Alexander Chapoton Sr. wearing a high-buttoned suit coat and bow tie. "Alexander Chapoton," and "Western Publishing and Engraving Co." are printed below.
- Date Issued:
- 1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Certificate appointing Charles Trowbridge to the position of Commissioner of Bail in and for the County of Wayne, signed by Lewis Cass, Governor, and William Woodbridge, Secretary, in 1821. The document is stamped with the great seal of the Michigan Territory. "Lewis Cass, Governor in and over the Territory of Michigan, To all to whome these Presents may come, Greeting: Know Ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity and ability of Charles C. Trowbridge Esquire I have appointed him a Commissioner of Bail in and for the County of Wayne and do hereby authorize and empower him to execute and fulfill the duties of that office according to the law: To have and to hold the said Office, with all the rights, privileges, and emoluments thereunto belonging, during the pleasure of the Governor of the said Territory, for the time being. In Testimony whereof, I have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of the said Territory to be hereunto affixed. Given under my Hand, at Detroit, this Sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Forty fifth. By the Governor: Lewis Cass William Woodbridge Secretary of Michigan Territory." The verso contains handwritten declarations from Charles Trowbridge and J.D. Dory, Justice of the Peace, reading as follows: "I Charles C. Trowbridge, having been appointed a Commissioner of Bail in and for the County of Wayne, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of said Office. So help me God. Charles C. Trowbridge County of Wayne Be it remembered, that on the seventeenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, personally came before me the above named Charles C. Trowbridge, and took and subscribed the foregoing oath in my presence. J.D. Dory, Justice of the Peace, Wayne County."
- Date Issued:
- 1821-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- February 1893 issue of Putnam's Monthly Historical Magazine (Vol. I, No. 10, Article IX) published February, 1893. Article about Allen Family on Page 286 entitled, 'Ancestral Allen Families in America.'
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Typewritten letter, with envelope, signed Woolley and Chittenden, managers of the Hotel Pontchartrain to William D. Purdy, asking him to report for work on October 1, 1907, dated September 26, 1907. The letter is on Hotel Pontchartrain stationery, and the envelope is printed with the hotel's crest. The letter reads: Mr. W.D. Purdy, 1159 Third Avenue, Detroit Dear Sir:- Please report for work on October 1st. Kindly acknowledge receipt of this. Yours very truly, The Pontchartrain Hotel Company Woolley & Chittenden Managers. GHW/GEC
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical
- Description:
- Handwritten letter with envelope from writer Julian Hawthorne in Philadelphia, to Eli Ransom Sutton of the University of Michigan, postmarked May 12, 1902, concerning the prospect of writing a biography of Hazen S. Pingree. The letter is on Colonial Press stationery, however the letterhead has been crossed out. The letter reads: 1208 Spruce St. Phila. April 23, 1902 My dear Sutton, I have [?] considered your letter, and this is what I think. You have been at a lot of pains about the thing, out of [?], and I want to do all possible in the [?]. If the book is to be such as I can be[?] in four months. I am willing to undertake it for $2500, and half of whatever royalties may come in after this sum has been [?] by then[?]. The $2500 to be paid to me upon the ratifying of this understanding. The materials on [?] to be sent to me here, and I will then engage to furnish[?] the complete copy for the book, 350pp on or before Oct. 1st 1902. If Mrs. Pingree consents[?] to this, I would like to have the above minimum[?] fulfilled in[?] once. Of course I regret, on other accounts besides my own. There the book is to be curtailed: it would have made a splendid 2-vol. work. But I will do my best with it out of regard for the subject, one of the best of Americans. As [?] work, I will only [?] to bear in mind that I am cordially mistaken in it, and should more than plan to [?] help then. [?] Julian Hawthorne
- Date Issued:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Biographical