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| | Governors of Michigan Papers |
 | | Collection includes family correspondence, including 104 letters written or received by James Gordon and wife while they lived in Plainfield, Connecticut, and other eastern towns, and letter from James Wright Gordon, their son; letter, 1837, concerning Michigan politics; also a record, 1799, of military supplies and military regulations of the Thirteenth Regiment, New York Militia. |
 | | SUMMARY: Felch was a resident of Houlton, Maine, later Monroe and Ann Arbor, Michigan; Michigan state supreme court justice, 1842-1845, Democratic governor, 1846-1847, and United States senator, 1847-1853. |
 | | Collection includes correspondence and other papers concerning his political and business activities; his work as president of the commission to adjust Spanish and Mexican land claims in California, 1853-1856; and his law activities and work as University of Michigan law professor; also photographs. |
| www.umich.edu /~bhl/bhl/mhchome/govpap.htm (1660 words) |
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