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Dunbar, Willis F. and George S. May. Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State, 3rd ed. (1995) the standard comprehensive textbook 1980 edition online; Farmer, Silas (1889). The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annals of Wayne County. Farmer, Silas (1890).
1854 The first official meeting of the group that called itself the "Republican Party" was held in Jackson. 1855 Michigan State University was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, becoming the first land grant university in the United States.
Michigan State Constitution of 1850 [1] 17th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 5, 1853 February 14, 1853 November 2, 1852 18th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 3, 1855 February 13, 1855 November 1854 19th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 7, 1857 February 4, 1858 November 1856 20th Michigan Legislature [Wikidata] January 5, 1859
When the French came to present-day Michigan, they had slaves and encouraged native people to trade enslaved people. [2] Most of slaves in present-day Michigan resided in Detroit or at the trading post at the Straits of Mackinac, later on Mackinac Island. [6] Slavery was practiced in Detroit since its founding in 1701. [4]
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...
May was born in Sandisfield, Massachusetts, and at the age of four moved to Richland, Michigan. He worked there on a farm until the age of fifteen and became a student of the State University (now Western Michigan University) at Kalamazoo. He studied law in Bennington, Vermont and Battle Creek, Michigan and was admitted to the bar in 1854.
George R. Griswold (December 31, 1794 – April 5, 1857) was an American politician and the tenth lieutenant governor of Michigan. Griswold was born in the U.S. state of New York and later moved to Detroit, Michigan and practiced law. Griswold died on board USS Dolphin off the African coast just over two years after leaving office.
Michigan's first prison, Michigan State Prison (or Jackson State Prison), opened in Jackson in 1838 and remains in operation. For the longest time, the city was known as the "birthplace of the Republican Party " when politicians met in Jackson in 1854 to argue against the expansion of slavery, although the political party now formally ...