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by amy • November 1, 2010 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
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Posts Tagged ‘michigan governors’
Scenes from Stevens T. Mason’s reburial
by amy • October 28, 2010 • Events, History • 0 Comments
A small crowd gathered in Capitol Park yesterday to honor Stevens T. Mason, Michigan's first and America's youngest governor, on his 199th birthday.
Read more →Stevens T. Mason to be reburied on Wednesday
by amy • October 24, 2010 • dreams, History • 4 Comments
How many opportunities do you have in a lifetime to attend the solemn rite of governor’s burial? How many of those opportunities involve a governor who died 167 years ago? A governor that fought to found your state? The youngest governor ever? A governor whose nickname was Young Hotspur? You see where we’re going with...
Read more →The ghost of Daniel Scotten
by amy • October 20, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 1 Comment
Daniel Scotten would not rest, even in death, when his factory wasn't churning out Hiawatha cigars.
Read more →Michigan Governors: Hazen S. Pingree
by amy • October 6, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 5 Comments
Hazen S. Pingree was madly loved as Mayor of Detroit, but when he was Governor, no one would even have him over for dinner.
Read more →Michigan Governors: Fred M. Warner
by amy • September 29, 2010 • Farmington Hills, History • 1 Comment
A bicycle champion, dairy magnate, pillar of the community and Pingree-loving progressive.
Read more →Michigan Governors, Michigan Also-Rans, and the Constitution: Cass and Chandler
by amy • September 17, 2010 • History • 0 Comments
General Lewis Cass and Zachariah Chandler both dedicated their political careers to defending the Constitution, in totally different ways.
Read more →Michigan Governors: Epaphroditus Ransom
by amy • September 8, 2010 • History • 1 Comment
The only Governor from Kalamazoo, and the first to be inaugurated in Lansing. And he had a really great name.
Read more →Michigan Governors: Kinsley S. Bingham
by amy • August 11, 2010 • History • 1 Comment
The Republican Party: Brought to you by Michigan.
Read more →Walking with Stevens T. Mason to Capitol Park
by amy • June 30, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 3 Comments
Yesterday, of course, the world was rocked by the announcement that Boy Governor Stevens T. Mason‘s remains, originally presumed to be — well, you know, in his grave — were MIA. The situation grew stranger by the hour as reports surfaced that no one even knew if they were looking for a coffin or an urn...
Read more →One constant succession of amusements
by amy • May 17, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 2 Comments
Detroit Rock City, 1815.
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