Number of Michigan Men Killed in Wars

WARS – Michigan Men Killed In:
Revolutionary
War of 1812
Mexican American War – 141
Civil War – 2,820 – Robinson, page 590
Spaish American war – 209
World War I – 4,552
World War II – 13,057
Korea War – 1,447
Vietnam – 2,567

Warbach Drawings

WARBACH DRAWINGS – RG 89-78 & 94-185

Native American Voting Rights

INDIAN – RIGHT TO VOTE
B73
GII
F20
 
Complaints – Houghton County.  ALsS regarding refusal to Indians at L’Anse of right to elect civil officials.  Involves Peter Crebassa family. 

Vehicle Registrations

Vehicle Registrations
RG 61-26  
1913, 1920, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1936, 1938, 1943.

U.S.S. Michigan

U.S.S. Michigan – First Iron Clad Warship in the Navy 
And Her Successors
Construction of parts of the iron ship began in 1842 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Sections of the ship were transported to Erie by Ox team and riverboat.  Ship involved in Strang affair when it carried Jesse S. to Detroit for trial in 1851, foiled Confederate [...]

U. S. Bureau of Roads

U. S. Bureau of Roads

Begins numbering of federal highways in 1926.

Unofficially Amended House and Senate Bills

Bills – Unofficial amended, House and Senate
RG 85-39, 1947-1962
RG 87-92, 1963-1964
RG 89-445, 1965-1968

Underground Railroad

“Fugitives generally entered the state by one of three routes:  through western Ohio to Adrian and Detroit; through eastern Indiana, to Coldwater, Marshall, and Battle Creek; or through central Indiana to Niles and Cassiopolis.  Most of those who came through Indiana then followed the Territorial Road east to Detroit.  A smaller number were sent northeast [...]

Michigan House of Representatives District Map

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Michigan House of Representatives District Map

Turkeys in Michigan

TURKEY (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) 
Barrows (Michigan Bird Life, 1912) states that the once abundant wild turkey was fairly common over a large part of its Michigan range until 1875, after which it went down hill rapidly.  One shot in January, 1897, Arlington Township, Van Buren County, evidently constitutes the last definite report of record.  The assumption [...]