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The University of Michigan: A Pictorial History. A Sesquicentennial Publication. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press & Ambassador Books Limited. hdl: 2027/mdp.39015006358462. LCCN 66-17029 – via HathiTrust. Farrand, Elizabeth (1885). History of The University of Michigan. Ann Arbor: Register Publishing House. hdl:2027/mdp.39015056839288.
The University of Michigan traces its origins to August 26, 1817, [1] when it was established in the Territory of Michigan as the Catholepistemiad or University of Michigania through a legislative act signed by acting governor and secretary William Woodbridge, chief justice Augustus B. Woodward, and judge John Griffin.
The University of Michigan, founded in 1817–twenty years before Michigan's statehood–is the state's oldest university [1] [2] and remained the only university in the state until the 20th century, when Detroit College became the University of Detroit in 1911 and Wayne State University achieved "university" status in 1933 following the ...
Michigan's oldest university, the University of Michigan was founded in Detroit in 1817 and was later moved to its present location in Ann Arbor. The state's oldest cultural institution, the Historical Society of Michigan, was established by territorial governor Lewis Cass and explorer Henry Schoolcraft in 1828.
Henry Philip Tappan (April 18, 1805 – November 15, 1881) was an American philosopher, educator and academic administrator.In August 1852, he assumed the newly created presidency of the restructured University of Michigan, an office established by the Constitution of the State of Michigan in 1850.
He worked extensively on mapping the Washington Zones and made other contributions. However, Watson left the University of Michigan in 1879 to oversee construction of the Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin, having failed to convince the Regents of the University of Michigan to fund a larger telescope for the Detroit Observatory ...
The president of the University of Michigan is a constitutional officer who serves as the principal executive officer of the University of Michigan. The president is chosen by the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, as provided for in the Constitution of the State of Michigan. Fifteen people—fourteen men and one woman—have held ...
The University of Michigan began teaching pharmacy in 1868 within the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. Eight years later, on December 29, 1876, Albert B. Prescott established the university's School of Pharmacy, the nation's first school of pharmacy at a state university. As the first dean, Dr. Prescott introduced the concept of ...