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	Michigan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century.
		Michigan's state universities are immune from control by the legislature, the governor and most aspects of the executive branch, and the cities in or near which they are located; but they are not immune from the authority of the courts.
		Michigan was the first state in the Union to abolish the death penalty, in 1846.
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	The Birds of Michigan - Literature Cited
		1908 Breeding of the Tufted Titmouse in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
		1934 Pinicola enucleator eschatosus in Michigan and Ohio.
		1933 The Sandhill Crane in a Michigan Marsh.
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		Michigan borders Indiana and Ohio to the south, and Wisconsin to the southwest of the Upper Peninsula.
		Michigan is primarily known as the birthplace of the automobile industry.
		The Lower Peninsula of Michigan is nicknamed "The Mitten" because it resembles the palm of a right-hand mitten.
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	LYMAN HUNT of Douglass Township, Montcalm County, MI
		Lyman Hunt was a well known and prosperous farmer of Douglass Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, who for years was regarded as one of the most experienced and expert lumbermen in that section of the state.
		Aaron homesteaded a quarter of a section of land in Douglass Township besides 40 acres of state swamp land he purchased for one dollar an acre, of which he proceeded to develop.
		Hunt confined his attention largely to the developement of his fine farm of eighty acres in Douglass Township, and had one of the best-appointed and most thoroughly cultivated farms in that part of the county, long having been recognized as one of the best farmers thereabout.
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		Michigan has a humid continental climate throughout the state, although the southern portion of the state is characteried by warm summers, while the area north of about Grand Rapids has relatively cool summers, especially at night.
		The center of population of Michigan is located in Shiawassee County, in the village of Morrice [4].
		Michigan has a thriving tourist industry, with destinations such as Traverse City, Mackinac Island, Ludington, Muskegon, Saugatuck, the Upper Peninsula, Frankenmuth, Grand Haven, and Detroit, drawing vacationers, hunters, and nature enthusiasts from across the United States and Canada.
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	Information And Resources About Michigan
		Michigan holds the distinction of being the first state in the Union to abolish the death penalty, in 1846.
		Michigan's 83 countiesAs with nearly all U.S. states (Alaska and Hawaii the notable exceptions), state government is decentralized among three tiers - statewide, county and township.
		Michigan map, including territorial watersMichigan is constituted of two peninsulas that lie between 82°30' to about 90º30' west longitude, and are separated by the Straits of Mackinac.
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	William A. Burt and the Upper Peninsula
		In this matter-of-fact fashion he noted an event that changed the history of Michigan and its Upper Peninsula and proved to be of monumental importance to the United States.
		For more than twenty years he was one of a small group of men who ran the lines that divided the two peninsulas of Michigan into a checkerboard of townships and sections as prescribed by the Ordinance of 1785.
		By this time the township lines in the western end of the peninsula were almost to the Wisconsin boundary, and Burt, tired and worn from what he described as his hardest surveys, was ready to leave field work to younger men.
	www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /extra/surveying/burt.html (2019 words)

	History of Big Prairie
		At the annual township meeting held on April 2, 1934, it was decided that in as much as money was to be spent on the building here-to-for called the Union Church the church would hereafter be referred to as the Funeral Chapel.
		He served in many public offices in the township and county and was a member of the Michigan state legislature in 1865 and 1866.
		In that year, James Barton was nomin ated as delegate to the Michigan state legislature from the Newaygo district and was elected according to general understanding.
	ncha.ncats.net /data/Big_Prairie (7727 words)

	Cliffs Shaft Mine
		Although first settled by the French in the seventeenth century the western two-thirds of the peninsula had not even been part of the Michigan territory until it was added to Michigan as compensation for the loss of the "Toledo Strip" when the final boundary between Michigan and Ohio was drawn.
		This survey, initially led by Douglass Houghton who lobbied it through the initial session of the state legislature, began late in 1837 and continued despite struggling with limited funding until Houghton's death in 1845.
		Houghton had already spent several season in the field in the region and suspected there were iron deposits as well as the copper reserves he had described in his reports for 1841 and 1842 and directed the survey parties to do magnetic readings at the compass stations as the proceeded across the peninsular.
	campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/Bill.Mulligan/cliff-golden.htm (3299 words)

	MHAL - Early Michigan Diaries and Autobiographies
		Doty, William A. Excerpts from the diaries of William A. Doty of Raisin Township, Lenawee County, Michigan.
		The diary of Captain Ralph Ely of the Eighth Michigan Infantry: with the wandering regiment.
		The diary of Ira Gillaspie of the Eleventh Michigan Infantry.
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	PHMC: Governors of Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Sproul was born near Octoraro and Andrew's Bridge (Kirkwood), Colerain Township, Lancaster County, on September 16, 1870.
		Known on the National Historic Register as the John Douglass House, the privately owned structure where Sproul was born still stands.
		Several years of his childhood were spent at Negaunee, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he began his schooling.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/governors/sproul.asp?secid=31 (776 words)

	Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society
		Emerson R. Boyles was born in Chester Township, Michigan, on June 29, 1881.
		He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1903, and was admitted to the Bar at the age of 21.
		Boyles was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court to succeed Justice William W. Potter in 1940 and continued his service until 1956.
	www.micourthistory.org /resources/erboyles.php (337 words)

	William Douglass biography - PA Civil War soldier - Free Pennsylvania Genealogy
		William Douglass, son of David and Ann (Brannon) Douglass, natives of Chanceford and Fawn Townships, respectively, was born in Hopewell Township in 1832, and was reared and educated at the public schools in the same township.
		Douglass is an active business man. His hotel, which is conveniently located, offers all the comforis a traveling man wants, and shows plainly that Mr.
		Douglass in thousands of birth, marriage & death, church, immigration & naturalization, court & probate, and military databases.
	www.pacivilwar.com /bios/douglass_william.php (518 words)

	Student Book Competition - David J. Piotrowski
		David Bates Douglass was on the faculty at West Point Military Academy but was released to serve as an engineer on the expedition.
		Larry Lankton a historian at Michigan Technological University, recognized the isolation within the beautiful backdrop of the Keweenaw Peninsula and is the first person to collect and publish the pioneers feelings about travel, work, woods, and especially winter.
		This volume provides nice early descriptions of the sights and sound of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan including: descriptions of the shore lines, lives of the voyagers, the pleasures of food in the wilderness and sleeping under a blanket of stars, collecting agates, Native American fishing at Sault Ste Marie, and northern lights.
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	The Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Michigan House of Representatives candidates, county and township officials, judges and ballot proposals all are being decided by area voters in the primary election.
		Douglass Township clerk: Sharlene G. Hopp, Cathy Benson.
		Sidney Township trustee: Larry A. Ek, Veldra Raines, Ivan Christensen.
	www.thedailynews.cc /articles/2004/08/03/opinions/editorials/edit.txt (551 words)

	William Austin Burt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		While the township lines were to run by the true meridian, the magnetic compass pointed to magnetic north, which could be about 1200 km away from the North Pole.
		For more than 20 years he was one of a small group of men who ran the lines that divided the two peninsulas of Michigan into a checkerboard of townships and sections as prescribed by the Ordinance of 1785.
		Despite Michigan governor Cass’s strenuous efforts to have more lands surveyed and put on sale, the federal government believed its efforts would be better justified in Indiana and Illinois where settlers continued to occupy lands the surveys had not yet reached.
	www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/burt.htmL (1880 words)

	Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society
		Grant Fellows was born in Hudson Township, Michigan, on April 13,1865.
		At the Republican State Convention held at Saginaw on September 28, 1916, Fellows was nominated for Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, was elected in 1916, and began service in 1917.
		Before writing an opinion, he consulted every authority cited by counsel both in the briefs and in the arguments, and if it was a doubtful case he even took the initiative to go outside of these authorities and examine the question himself.
	www.micourthistory.org /resources/gfellows.php (289 words)

	Rizpah (AUTEN) HUNT in Douglass Township, Montcalm County, MI
		In August 1870, my father came to Douglass Township and bought 40 acres of land situated just across the road from the Entrican Schoolhouse, on what is now the John Clement farm.
		He went back to Kalamazoo, (Michigan) where we then lived and told my mother he had bought a farm and we would move the next day.
		Aaron Hunt set out the first orchard in Douglass Township and Mary Hunt and Jacob Miller were the first people to be married in Douglass Township.
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	Charter Township of China - Township History
		According to the book “Michigan Place Names,” China was first settled when Samuel Ward and William Gallagher built a dam in a grist mill here in 1825.
		A commonly held belief is that it was related to the Orient, or perhaps the old vessels known as “China Clippers”, which early on sailed America’s coast.
		Latham, F.S. Douglass, and Clark Worden, in the vicinity of the Belle River.
	home.comcast.net /~chinatownship/twphistory.htm (1470 words)

	Salary Database
		The data is used to provide townships with a comparable measure on which to base compensation and benefit packages.
		Compensation data can be compared to 10 other townships based on population, SEV and on a county-wide basis.
		It is hopeful that in the future MTA will be able to provide this information here on the website allowing township elected officials the opportunity to do their own inquires.
	www.michigantownships.org /salarydb.asp (350 words)

	ALHN--Rock Co., WI--History of Plymouth Township
		These gentlement came from Michigan with their families, and located in this township on the 31st day of May, in the year above mentioned.
		Plymouth is situated in the southwest quarter of the county.
		David and Stephen DOUGLASS and Samuel COLBY arrived with their families from Michigan on the 31st of May, and pitched their tent near the center of section 2, on the bank of a branch of Bass Creek.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/wi/county/rock/Twp/HistPL.html (730 words)

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	Summer 1999 Michigan Today--The Diary of George Pray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		She had taken herself off to the far reaches of Michigan, but returned to teach at the very log schoolhouse George had himself attended in Superior Township.
		They had been estranged for almost a year and a half when in the summer of 1848 they began to talk, breaking the ice.
		When he returned to Michigan from Western Reserve in 1849, he was determined to marry "My Deidy." By summer he felt confident enough to do so.
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	Your Brother Kings » Working with title documents.
		Frank L. Douglass and Lena Douglass of North Adams, Mich, husband and wife, as tenants by the entireties.
		In Michigan, the “$1.00″ sale is a flag for a sale to a relative: for such sales, no transfer taxes attach, but you technically need some consideration, so $1.00 is sum written down.
		If I were after more information, I would probably start with the premise that Lena Douglass is the daughter of Harry and Grace Lyons, and that the second deed was a gift of land to their child.
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	Douglass, Michigan MI, township profile (Montcalm County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Michigan > All counties > Montcalm County > Douglass
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Douglass was $17,892, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Douglass, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $390.
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