Lancaster Columbia

Source:

 

 

 

1. Michigan Historical Collection, Vol. 14, P550-553 (Sec. Ed.)

2. Michigan Biographies, Vol. II, L-Z, P9-10.

 

3. Biographies, Vol. 2 P110. Scrapbook of alss in Jenison Collection in the MSL vault. Signature …letter of no import.

 

 

SA

 

Exec Acts

 

October 29, 1839

 

 

S.T. Mason’s order to Secretary of State for commission to C. Lancaster as Prosecuting Attorney for the County of St. Joseph.

 

 

For: Ross Wurm, 601 LaLoma, Modesto, California. January 1957. Chester Kaiser, Wilamette University, Salem, Oregon. February 1958.

Lake Superior Engraving

LAKE SUPERIOR ENGRAVING

 

Source:

 

1.         The Old Print Shop Portfolio, Vol. XIV, No. 9.  May, 1955.  P209. 

 

         Item 20.

Lake Superior -engraving 19”x30-1/2, plus good margins.  Hand colored:  published 1873 by M. Knoedler and Company.  Engraved by Mottram after painting by E. Hopkins ($95.00)

 

Labor Issues

EVENTS RELATING TO LABOR

 

Source:  UAW – Detroit                                    Solidarity House

                                                               8000 East Jefferson Ave.

                                                               Detroit, Michigan 48214

                                                               Carroll M. Hutton

                                                               Director of Education

 

1.         Dearborn         – Battle of the Overpass, 1937

2.         Flint – Sit-down Strike, Battle of Bulls Run

3.         Detroit – First sit-down strike in Michigan (Midland Steel Co.)

4.         Detroit – Cadillac Square – site of historic labor rallies

5.         Detroit – Organization of Detroit Mechanics Society, 1818

6.         Saginaw Region – Site of famous lumber strike in 1885 (“Ten hours of no sawdust” strike)

7.         Calumet-Copper Country – Famous copper strike in 1913.  Italian Hall disaster in which 73 women and children were trampled to death. 

8.         Lansing – Passage of Worker’s Compensation Act in 1912, which placed Michigan among leaders in adopting this reform.

9.         Lansing – Adoption of Australian Ballot in Michigan, 1889-1891

10.         Lansing – Adoption of 10-hour day in Michigan, 1880

11.         Saginaw – Cigar Makers Union introduced in Michigan, 1864

12.         Saginaw – Machinist & Blacksmiths organize Michigan branches, 1849

13.         Dearborn – Ford Motor Company recognizes UAW – Milestone in modern labor history, 1941

14.         Dearborn – Printers’ Union established in Michigan, 1848 and “served as a model for other groups in the state.”

15.         Detroit – Detroit printers’ strike, 1839 and their publication, The Rat Gazette.

16.         Detroit – Home of Richard Trevellick, famous labor leader who founded the Detroit Trade Assembly, the first central labor body in Michigan, and leader of 8-hour-a-day movement in Michigan.

17.         Detroit – Union workers held first parade in Detroit, July 4, 1865.

18.         Marshall – Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers organized, 1863.  William D. Robinson elected first “Grand Chief.”

19.         Ironwood – Iron miners’ strike.

Labadie House

LABADIE HOUSE Source: 1. Detroit Free Press. April 14, 1901. Oldest house in Detroit, Corner River and 24th Streets. Interior described. Located on property of Mrs. Ira D. Brush.

DE LA RONDE, LOUIS DENIS

DE LA RONDE, LOUIS DENIS 

La Ronde is the name of the island in Lake Superior opposite Shagouamigon point, on the map of Bellin the celebrated geographer, which; in 1744, appeared in the History of New France by Charlevoix.

LaRonde was pioneer in copper mining in Lake Superior area and first navigator of Lake Superior in a sailing vessel.  See Macalester College Contributions.  No. 7 “Sieur De La Ronde, the First Navigator of Lake Superior in a sailing Vessel, and the Pioneer in Copper Mining: with documents now first printed “by Edward D. Neill, D.D.

 

No Nothing Party

KNOW-NOTHING PARTY (NATIVE AMERICANISM)

 

Source:

 

1.   Lardner, John.  “That was New York, the Martyrdom of Bill the Butcher.”  Story of Bill Poole and others such as James W. Barker, who ran for Mayor of New York in 1854, and Millard Fillmore, who ran for President in 1856.  Was a major political factor in political history of our country for only two years, 1854 and 1855.  Was anti-Foreigner movement which soon branched out to include anti-Roman-Catholicism, which was the belief of most of the immigrants.

 

In the New Yorker, March 20, 1954, pages 41-47 and March 27, 1957, pages 38-59.

 

2.   Mentioned in speech of Duncan Stewart included with speech of Ex-Governor Austin Blair at the Greeley-Brown ratification meeting in Detroit, 1872.  (MSL:  M304, S67)  Speeches of Michigan men in the Senate bound in one. 

 

3.   Newspapers of period.  See Lansing Republican, June 26, 1855; November 33, 1855 (re:  Convention at Cincinnati); December 4, 1855 (re:  anti-slavery branch). 

 

4.   Stephenson, George M.  A HISTORY OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION, 1820-1924.  Boston, Ginn and Company, 1926.  Vi, 316p.  Part 2.  One of his best chapters reviews Know-Nothing activity.

 

5.   Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, compilers.  NATIONAL PARTY PLATFORMS, 1840-1956.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press 1956.  Campaign of 1856.  pp.22-23.  Party frequently called Native American Party, but they call themselves simply the American Party in their own platform.  The Whigs nominated the same candidate for president as the American party, but repudiated the American Platform and adopted one of their own.

 

Knights of Pythias

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS

 

See Marquette Daily Mining Journal, December 4, 1902, p. 3

         Article on founding of Knights of Pythias, Eagle Harbor

 

Marquette Daily Mining Journal, October 27, 1903, p. 3

         2-column article on Pythianism

 

KNIGHTS OF KU KLUX KLAN

 

Source:

 

1.   Corporation and securities.  Incorporated under general corporation law of 1925.  Last annual report filed in 1949.  This report includes history of articles of incorporation, purpose, officers, business and the like.  Articles of incorporation are in the Corporation and Securities office; the reports are in storage in the Record Center.  Charter revoked August 30, 1951, by failure to file.

 

2.   Detroit FREE PRESS, July 16, 1927, P.1.  Col. 5 and July 17, 1927, P.1, Col. 3 reports clash between klansmen and city police at a tri-state meeting held at the State Fair Grounds, July 16, 1927.  See 1927, for official report of investigation of this affair.  See also 1924, and special finding aid.

 

RG 49

B-33

 

B-58

RG 48

 

67-120

71-20

 

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Kitch-Iti-Kipi or Big Spring

RESEARCH – KITCH-ITI-KIPPI OR BIG SPRINGS – ORIGIN OF NAME

 

Sources:

 

1.    Michigan, A Guide to the Wolverine State, p. 541 (Ind., cold big water)

2.    Michigan History, Vol. 10, p. 357 (Great Cool Water)

3.    The Lure of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  U.P.D.B.  (Mirror of the Heaven)

Kinnickinnick Kinnick knick wild tobacco-type plant

KINNI KNICK

 

Source:

 

1.  Schoolcraft.  – Narrative Journal of Travel..to Miss.  R., 18201 P161