History of Kent County, Michigan: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Michigan ...C. C. Chapman & Company, 1881 - 1426 Seiten |
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... engaged the enemy at Lumpkins ' Mills , disabling two of the rebel guns , and , with the cavalry brigade , forced the enemy into their earthworks at the Tallahatchie river . Dec. 11 , the battery was encamped at Oxford , Miss .; thence ...
... engaged the enemy at Lumpkins ' Mills , disabling two of the rebel guns , and , with the cavalry brigade , forced the enemy into their earthworks at the Tallahatchie river . Dec. 11 , the battery was encamped at Oxford , Miss .; thence ...
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... engaged for a time on the Grand Haven Herald . About 1866 he went to Washington and engaged in Government service . Studied law and graduated with honor at the Columbia Law School . Has since been in the General Land Office , having ...
... engaged for a time on the Grand Haven Herald . About 1866 he went to Washington and engaged in Government service . Studied law and graduated with honor at the Columbia Law School . Has since been in the General Land Office , having ...
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... engaged in the grocery trade , where he is doing a good business on a capital of $ 2,000 . His annual sales amount to $ 8,000 , and are gradually in- creasing . He was married Dec. 25 , 1854 , to Miss Lucy , daughter of Hon . Philo ...
... engaged in the grocery trade , where he is doing a good business on a capital of $ 2,000 . His annual sales amount to $ 8,000 , and are gradually in- creasing . He was married Dec. 25 , 1854 , to Miss Lucy , daughter of Hon . Philo ...
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... engaged in the lumber business on the Muskegon river , where he remained two years ; he then came to Algoma tp . , and settled on sec . 13 , where he ran a saw and grist mill until 1873. He then sold his mills , came to Rockford and engaged ...
... engaged in the lumber business on the Muskegon river , where he remained two years ; he then came to Algoma tp . , and settled on sec . 13 , where he ran a saw and grist mill until 1873. He then sold his mills , came to Rockford and engaged ...
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... engaged in farming until 1879 , when he removed to Rockford and engaged in the milling business with Hon . E. C. Watkins . He was married in 1849 to Miss Margaret Cowan , daughter of Peter Cowan , who came to Kent county in 1848. They ...
... engaged in farming until 1879 , when he removed to Rockford and engaged in the milling business with Hon . E. C. Watkins . He was married in 1849 to Miss Margaret Cowan , daughter of Peter Cowan , who came to Kent county in 1848. They ...
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Seite 281 - America, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Seite 77 - Miami, aforesaid, and on the north by an east and west line, drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, or the territorial line, and thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line...
Seite 105 - This act shall not take effect in favor of any bank not subject to the act, entitled "an act to create a fund for the benefit of the creditors of certain moneyed corporations, and for other purposes...
Seite 76 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan...
Seite 69 - ... would not be more than one acre out of a hundred, if there would be one out of a thousand, that would in any case admit of cultivation.
Seite 68 - ... and other places covered with a coarse, high grass, and uniformly covered from six inches to three feet (and more at times) with water. The margins of these lakes are not the only places where swamps are found, for they are interspersed throughout the whole country, and filled with water, as above stated, and varying in extent. The intermediate space between these swamps and lakes, which is probably near one-half of the country, is with a very few exceptions, a poor, barren, sandy land, on which...
Seite 90 - The Legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an Agricultural School.
Seite 36 - In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee of which John Randolph was chairman. He reported that this ordinance was a compact, and opposed repeal. Thus it stood a rock, in the way of the on-rushing sea of slavery.
Seite 317 - Association is established to maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to increase its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice, and to cultivate social intercourse among its members.
Seite 35 - Jefferson's policy wanted to provide for the public credit, and this was a good opportunity to do something. Massachusetts then owned the territory of Maine, which she was crowding on the market. She was opposed to opening the northwestern region. This fired the zeal of Virginia. The South caught the inspiration, and all exalted Dr. Cutler.