Download or read book History of Bay County Michigan with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers written by H.R. Page & Co and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Lake Huron Shore With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Justus S Stearns written by Michael W. Nagle and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky. Near the turn of the twentieth century, "Pine King" Justus S. Stearns was Michigan's largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining operation headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, a town he founded. Over the course of his career, Stearns would own at least thirty manufacturing businesses—making everything from finished lumber to kitchen utensils, game boards, and motors—as well as hotels, a railroad, and a power company. He was also an active member of the Republican Party who served one term as Michigan's secretary of state and a philanthropist who gave a great deal of his wealth to causes in both Michigan and Kentucky. In Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845–1933, author Michael W. Nagle details Stearns's astounding range of accomplishments and explores the influence of both paternalism and Social Darwinism in his business practices. Nagle begins by addressing key events in the first few decades of Stearns's life and his initial foray into the lumber industry. Subsequent chapters explore Stearns's political career, his timber operations in Wisconsin, and his coal, lumber, and railroad operations in Kentucky and Tennessee. Nagle also details the ancillary businesses that Stearns founded or purchased in the early twentieth century, even as his Stearns Salt & Lumber Company served as the anchor of his Michigan holdings, while Stearns Coal & Lumber did the same for his operations in Kentucky. The final chapter offers an overview and analysis of Stearns's lifetime of accomplishments, including his impact on the town of Ludington, Michigan, where he maintained a residence for over fifty years. Nagle makes extensive use of primary source material from several historical archives as well as contemporary newspaper accounts, court documents, company records, and other primary sources. American history scholars, as well as general readers interested in Michigan's lumbering era and Kentucky's mining history, will enjoy this biography of an exceptionally influential businessman.
Download or read book Manoomin written by Barbara J Barton and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind to bring forward the rich tradition of wild rice in Michigan and its importance to the Anishinaabek people who live there. Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan focuses on the history, culture, biology, economics, and spirituality surrounding this sacred plant. The story travels through time from the days before European colonization and winds its way forward in and out of the logging and industrialization eras. It weaves between the worlds of the Anishinaabek and the colonizers, contrasting their different perspectives and divergent relationships with Manoomin. Barton discusses historic wild rice beds that once existed in Michigan, why many disappeared, and the efforts of tribal and nontribal people with a common goal of restoring and protecting Manoomin across the landscape.
Download or read book History of the Lake Huron Shore written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West Especially the State of Michigan written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1975 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, based on a reading of seventy-three Michigan county histories, consists of an alphabetical list of more than 5,000 persons who moved west from Massachusetts to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and other states of the middle west. The purpose throughout is to supply name, date and town of birth, date of removal, and state in which the pioneer settled. Additional information given includes name of spouse, date of marriage, and the complete identification of all sources.
Download or read book Little Michigan written by Kathryn Houghton and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan’s small towns have great stories. Little Michigan presents 100 towns with populations under 600. From the state’s long mining history to its Civil War heritage, each community is charming and unique. With full-color photographs, fun facts, and fascinating details about every locale, it’s almost as if you’re walking down Main Street, waving hello to folks who know all of their neighbors. Plus, these small towns have their share of surprises. Do you know which crime scene inspired the famous film Anatomy of a Murder or where you will find the infamous “Naughty Cow” statue—and how it got its nickname? The locations featured in this book range from quaint to historic, and they wonderfully represent the Great Lakes State. Little Michigan, written by lifelong resident Kathryn Houghton, is for anyone who grew up in a small town and for everyone who takes pride in being called a Michigander. They may be small towns, but they have huge character!
Download or read book The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony written by Ann D. Gordon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “hush” of the title comes suddenly, when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. It is sudden because Stanton, despite near blindness and immobility, wrote so intently right to the end that editors had supplies of her articles on hand to publish several months after her death. It is sudden because Anthony, at the age of eighty-five, set off for one more transcontinental trip, telling a friend on the Pacific Coast, “it will be just as well if I come to the end on the cars, or anywhere, as to be at home.” Volume VI of this extraordinary series of selected papers is inescapably about endings, death, and silence. But death happens here to women still in the fight. An Awful Hush is about reformers trained “in the school of anti-slavery” trying to practice their craft in the age of Jim Crow and a new American Empire. It recounts new challenges to “an aristocracy of sex,” whether among the bishops of the Episcopal church, the voters of California, or the trustees of the University of Rochester. And it sends last messages about woman suffrage. As Stanton wrote to Theodore Roosevelt on the day before she died, “Surely there is no greater monopoly than that of all men, in denying to all women a voice in the laws they are compelled to obey.” With the publication of Volume VI, this series is now complete.
Download or read book History of San Luis Obispo County California written by Myron Angel and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Jefferson County Pennsylvania with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers written by Kate M. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Michigan Genealogical Historical Collections at the Library of Michigan and the State Archives of Michigan written by Michigan Genealogical Council and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Mason County Michigan written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Grand Rapids Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Amador County California with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers written by Jesse D. Mason and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book The Massachusetts Magazine written by Thomas Franklin Waters and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Massachusetts Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
