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Chris Van Allsburg, author of The Polar Express, twice winner of Caldecott Medal (born in East Grand Rapids) Marguerite de Angeli, writer and illustrator, won 1950 Newbery Award, one of first inductees of Michigan Women's Hall in of Fame (born in Lapeer) K. A. Applegate, children's and young adult author (born in Ann Arbor)
In late 1885, local Grand Rapids businessmen Gaius Perkins, William T. Hess and Seymour W. Peregrine founded the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company to manufacture school and office furniture. They began manufacture in a small factory in 1886. Business boomed, and in 1887 they began constructing a new factory.
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
A man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed a woman to death in downtown Grand Rapids last week. ... Online Michigan Department of Corrections records show Rose was on parole at ...
The Grand Rapids Police Department identified the man as Malik Moore, 29. Police said his death has been ruled a homicide. Police: Man shot, killed in northwest Grand Rapids
William Montague Ferry Jr. — Michigan and Utah Politician; Betty Ford — 37th First Lady of the United States [18] Gerald R. Ford — 38th President of the United States [18] Wilder D. Foster — U.S. Congressman from Michigan; mayor of Grand Rapids [16] George Heartwell — Mayor of Grand Rapids [16] [19] Paul B. Henry — U.S. Congressman [20]
As a 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) [1] all-state senior, he led his team to state class B Michigan semi-finals while averaging 30 points per game in the state tourney. In the state tournament game against East Grand Rapids Lancaster scored 45 points including the game-winning shot at the buzzer. [2]
The mother of three missing Michigan boys asked a judge Monday to declare them dead nearly 15 years later, saying they deserve the respect that they didn't get at the end of their young lives.