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Augustus Paddock was born in New York state, and later came to Michigan. He worked on a steamboat on the Grand River, and by 1865 was the manager of the Newaygo Company, a lumbering firm that established the village of Newaygo, Michigan. He became a partner in 1867. In 1872, Paddock purchased the land where Paddock Place now stands.
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He was elected Concord Township supervisor in 1849, and served in the State Senate in 1853. Paddock lived in this house until his death in 1870, after which the house passed to his son George. [2] George Paddock occupied the house until 1897. Truman and Cora Piper Hubbard began renting the house in 1897, and purchased it in 1902.
Olive Crane Kendall married Irving Andrew Dean in Grand Rapids on June 21, 1883. Irving worked as an accountant at Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad until he opened his own accounting firm in 1908. Olive came from a family of furniture makers and was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution .
Heritage Hill is adjacent to downtown Grand Rapids and is the city's oldest residential district. Its 1,300 homes date from 1843 and represent Michigan's largest and finest concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth-century houses. Nearly every style of American architecture, from Greek Revival to Prairie is represented.
The Grand Rapids Press is a daily newspaper published in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is the largest of the print publications of MLive Media Group. It is sold for $1.50 daily and $7.99 on Sunday. AccuWeather provides weather content to the Grand Rapids Press.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Edmund Burfoot — Member of Michigan House of Representatives; Charles C. Comstock — U.S. Congressman from Michigan; mayor of Grand Rapids [16] Robert Danhof — jurist; Vern Ehlers — U.S. Congressman from Michigan [17] William Montague Ferry Jr. — Michigan and Utah Politician; Betty Ford — 37th First Lady of the United States [18]