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		Epaphroditus Ransom (March 24, 1798–November 9, 1859) was Governor and Michigan Supreme Court justice from the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Ransom was the first governor to be inaugurated in Lansing, Michigan, after the state capitol moved there from Detroit.
		He served as regent for the University of Michigan, 1850 to 1852 and was a co-founder of the village of Augusta, Michigan.
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	Kalamazoo Public Library - Local History
		Whether for good or ill, the fortunes of Epaphroditus Ransom were well known to characters of all sorts, for he mingled freely with old stock New Englanders and pioneer Michiganders, with local farmers, national politicians, and common criminals.
		Epaphroditus Ransom was born in Massachusetts in 1796.
		Epaphroditus Ransom served one two-year term as the governor of Michigan.
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	Epaphroditus Ransom - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Epaphroditus Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Epaphroditus Ransom (March 24, 1798–November 9, 1859) was Governor and Michigan Supreme Court justice from the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Because of Ransom's strong anti-slavery position, the state Democratic Party did not re-nominate him for Governor in 1850.
		His private business ventures were ruined by the Panic of 1855, and in 1857, Ransom gratefully accepted appointment from U.S. President James Buchanan as receiver of the public monies for the Osage Land Office in Fort Scott, Kansas.
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	Epaphroditus Champion Definition / Epaphroditus Champion Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Epaphroditus Champion (April 6, 1756 - December 22, 1834) was a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut.
		Chamion and his son Epaphroditus gathered a herd of 300 at Hartford and drove them west to King's Ferry, across the Hudson, New Jersey, across the Delaware to Washington's famished troops west of the Schuykill.
		They were devoured in 5 days prompting Epaphroditus to remark that they were so thoroughly eaten that "you might have made a knife out of every bone".
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	Epaphroditus Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Epaphroditus Ransom (March 24, 1798 – November 9, 1859) was was Governor and State Supreme Court justice from the U.S. state of Michigan.
		During his term as governor, the first telegraph line from New York to Detroit was completed and the first message sent on March 1.
		He served as regent for the University of Michigan, 1850 to 1852 and was a co-founder of the village of Augusta, Michigan.
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	Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society
		Epaphroditus Ransom was born on March 24, 1798, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, the first of 12 children.
		Ransom was elected to the Vermont Legislature but decided instead that he wanted to move his wife, Almira, and their children to the Territory of Michigan.
		Ransom was the first governor to be inaugurated in the new state capitol of Lansing.
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	National Governors Association
		EPAPHRODITUS RANSOM, the seventh governor of Michigan, was born in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts in 1787.
		Ransom first entered politics as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, a position he held several terms.
		Ransom was elected governor of Michigan on November 2, 1847, and was sworn into office on January 3, 1848.
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		Written on the occasion of Epaphroditus (a Christian) who, for a time, was very sick, had come to Paul and brought material gifts (money, food, supplies).
		Epaphroditus is ready to return to Philippi; St. Paul writes the letter.
		Epaphroditus is ready to return to Philippi; St. Paul writes the letter. Purposes: to tell about the success of the Gospel (even among members of Caesar's house); persecution and risk to his life.
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		In addition, the ransom of the Portuguese captives made him wealthy.
		Aids varied with time and place, although in English-speaking countries aids were traditionally due on the knighting of the lord's eldest son, on the marriage of the lord's eldest daughter, and for ransom of the lord from captivity.
		When ransom efforts failed, her father, the priest Chryses, appealed to Apollo, who promptly sent a plague to terrorize the Greek army; when Agamemnon released Chryseis, he took Briseis from Achilles and instigated the quarrel between them.
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		Epaphroditus Ransom was the first governor sworn in at the new capital in Lansing, Michigan.
		Ransom, who came to Michigan from Vermont in 1834, settled in Kalamazoo County.
		A Democrat, Ransom believed that state government, long controlled by his political party, placed too much emphasis on the eastern portion of the state.
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	KCKCC.EDU - Quindaro Chindowan - No. 14, SATURDAY, AUGUST, 15, 1857 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ransom was among the first to come to his support, and to insist that it was both the right and the duty of Congress to exclude slavery from all free territories of the Union.
		Ransom was known as one of the leaders of the Free Soil Democratic party, and a warm and bitter contest sprung up between the wing of the party and the Cass.
		Ransom was an aspirant for a seat in the Senate of the United States, and with a fair show of election.
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	Epaphroditus Ransom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Epaphroditus Ransom (March 24, 1798 – November 9, 1859)was was Governor and State Supreme Courtjustice from the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Because of Ransom's strong anti-slavery position, the state Democratic Party did not re-nominate him for Governor in 1850.He was elected again to the state legislature in 1853 and 1854.
		He served asregent for the University of Michigan, 1850 to 1852 and was a co-founder of the village of Augusta, Michigan.
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/epaphroditus-ransom-307171.html (487 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of March 22
		He managed to ransom so many families that there were not enough rooms in Carthage to house them.
		Epaphroditus is mentioned with affection and esteem by Saint Paul (Phil.
		For he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was ill. He was indeed ill, close to death; but God had mercy on him, not just on him but also on me, so that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.
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	Epaphroditus Ransom -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ransom was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts) Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.
		There is disagreement about the year of his birth, sometimes given as 1787, 1796, or 1798.
		Because of Ransom's strong anti-slavery position, the state (The older of two major political parties in the United States) Democratic Party did not re-nominate him for Governor in 1850.
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	Michigan Historical Marker: Epaphroditus Ransom
		In 1848 Ransom was the first governor to be inaugurated in Lansing, which had just become the state Capital.
		During Epaphroditus Ransom's gubernatorial term (1848-1850), the Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital was established.
		Following his term as governor, Ransom became the first president of the Michigan Agricultural Society, which was instrumental in the creation of both the Michigan State Fair and Michigan State University.
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	Walker's Administration - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Epaphroditus Ransom, an ex-governor of Michigan, was nominated.
		A resolution was introduced pledging Ransom to support the constitution in Congress, whether it had been submitted to a vote of the people or not.
		At the election on Oct. 5 Marcus J. Parrott, who was nominated by the Grasshopper Falls convention for delegate to Congress, defeated Ransom, the pro-slavery candidate, by a vote of 7,888 to 3,799, and the total vote for members of the legislature was about 1,500 greater for the free-state candidates than for their opponents.
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	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Epaphroditus Ransom''' (March 24, 1798–November 9, 1859) was List of Governors of Michigan Governor and Michigan Supreme Court justice from the U.S. state of Michigan.
		Because of Ransom's strong anti-slavery position, the state U.S. Democratic Party Democratic Party did not re-nominate him for Governor in 1850.
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	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Roxann Marie Ransom
		Hazael Ransom, born January 03, 1756 in Colchester, CT; died May 20, 1820 in Chazy, Clinton, NY.
		Epaphroditus Ransom, born October 09, 1784 in Colchester CT; died January 26, 1869; married Sally Ransom December 12, 1810; died February 25, 1870.
		George Wells Ransom, born September 13, 1798 in Shelburne Falls MA; died November 02, 1865; married (1) Lydia Hollister May May 05, 1825; died March 11, 1826; married (2) Caroline P Kinsley July 13, 1826; died Unknown.
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	GOVERNOR EPAPHRODITUS RANSOM
		BY A. Epaphroditus Ransom was born in 1799, * in Hampshire county, Mass., but removed when young, with his father's family, to Windham county, Vt. He was educated at Chester Academy, and read law with Peter B. Taft.
		He graduated from the law school at Northampton, Mass., in 1825, and went into practice in Windham county, Vt. He was twice elected to the Vermont legislature.
		Judge Ransom was a man of great probity.
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	History of Bourbon County Fort Scott Kansas Chapter 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The ground selected was in the bottom, just west of the point of the bluff back of town, near the big spring.
		Governor Ransom was President of the Day; Hon.
		Epaphroditus Ransom died at his residence in Fort Scott, Nov. 11th.
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	Michigan Genealogy Trails
		Van Raalte offered immediate reassurance on this point: Ransom, as a man interested in holding public office (he had been in office practically his entire mature lifetime) would, he was sure, not jeopardize his reputation by any irregular dealings.
		This time it was to comply with a request from Governor Ransom that he induce Den Bleyker either to enter a brokerage business with Ransom and his son, or to permit the firm to invest his money for him.
		Van Raalte responded to Ransom’s request by simply forwarding to Den Bleyker - a translation of the portion of Ransom’s letter in which the proposition was stated.
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		Emma Ransom 276 276 John W Flora Netter 273 214 Jones Chazy, N. Amelia M. Havens 222 46 Joel Colchester, Conn. Charlotte Benham 110 24 Jonathan1 Canterbury, Conn. Leah Spaulding 91 67 Jonathan Canterbury, Conn. Betsey Barber 124 2 Joshua1 Plymouth, Mass.
		Colchester, Conn. Sally Maria Ransom 186 442 Elizabeth Brockway Colchester, Conn. 1.
		Ransom Valparaiso, Ind. Harriet E Malone 306 462 Ella Valparaiso, Ind. Joseph Robertson 335 377 Henry W. Valparaiso, Ind. 1.
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	A Southerner's Viewpoint of the Kansas Situation, 1856-1857: The Letters of Lieut. Col. A. J. Hoole, C. S. A. -- ...
		I must confess I have not much faith in him, tho he professes to hate the Abolitionists bitterly, and I have heard him say that Negroes were a great deal better off with Masters.
		I will however say that the candidate we have nominated for Congress (ex-Gov. Ransom of Michigan) in one of his messages to the legislature of that state, was strong on the Free State side, which has been found out since his nomination, and he has been requested to withdraw.
		Epaphroditus Ransom (Democrat), state governor of Michigan, 1848-1850.-Cf.
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		From this source the early settlers secured a large part of their winter provisions, and without it, in some instances, severest want and suffering must have ensued.
		Although Epaphroditus Ransom entered the south half of the northeast quarter of section 1 and the south half of the northwest of the same section on the 26th of June, 1835, the larger part of the township remained undisturbed until the year 1849.
		From this time, and during the years 1850-52, the most of the land was taken, although there were no permanent settler until 1850.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Ransom
		Ransom, Epaphroditus (1787-1859) — Born in Shelburne Falls, Shelburne,
		Ransom, Harry — of Tucson, Pima County, Ariz. Democrat.
		Belknap County, N.H. Delegate to New Hampshire state constitutional convention from Meredith, 1948.
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		However, by 1840 the population of Charlotte had grown sufficiently to warrant the move to this community.
		Circuit Court proceedings were held in the Eagle Hotel with Circuit rider Epaphroditus Ransom (later Governor of Michigan) as presiding judge.
		Six years later, the first Eaton County Courthouse was completed at a cost totalling five hundred dollars on land donated for this purpose by Edmund Bostwick.
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