Adam Crosswhite

Source:

1. Standard County Histories of Cass, Calhoun:

2. Gardner, Washington, History of Calhoun County, Michigan. Lewis, 1915. P. 52, 62, 249, 279.

3. Glover, L. H. Twentieth Century History of Cass Co., Michigan, Lewis, 1906. P 287, “The Calvin Negro Colony.”

4. Rogers, Howard S. History of Cass County, Casspolis: 1875. P31, “The Kentucky Raid.”

5. Case Records, Giltner vs. Gorham, et. al. June 20, 1848. U.S. District Court. Case No. 5, 453. Federal Cases. Circuit & District Courts, 1789-1880. Vol. 10, p425-433.    LIB OF MICH LAW FICHE  KF115 .U5     http://magic.msu.edu/record=b4410149a

Induction of inevitable conflict culminating in the election of Lincoln, Civil War, and freedom of the Slaves. Has proximate cause of the obnoxious Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Influence seen in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Michigan was first state to organization effective platform to limit and destroy slavery and the 2nd state of the Union to ratify 13th amendment.

Adam born in Bourbon, Ky., October 17, 1799. Given to white half-sister as servant.

Abducted from Marshall, Mich., June 27, 1847.

Thomas Jefferson Cram

Cram, Thomas Jefferson

Source:

1.     MHC.  Vol. 27:387; Surveys of Michigan.  27:386-8; Cannon, George H.  “Our Western Boundary,”  30:248-261; Martin, E. C. “Leaves from an old Journal,” 30:408-9.
2.     Sen.  Doc.  No. 151, 26th Cong. 2nd Sess., Vol. 4, p 10-16.  Includes 5 maps.
3.     Sen.  Doc.  No. 170, 27th Congress, 2nd Sess., Vol. 3….
4.     Extract of report, etc. in W Kinietz, W. Vernon.  Chippewa Village, The Story of Katikitegon.

See corres. Rohlf, William A. Feb..1957

Capt. Cram was assigned to survey the boundary between Michigan and Wisconsin from the head of the Brule River to the head of the Montreal.  (War. Dept., Top. Engr.s) Lst. Report in 1841 is important as the first authentic information of the country through which the boundary lay Cram did not est. the line.

County Supervisors Minutes and Proceedings

COUNTY SUPERVISORS MINUTES/PROCEEDINGS

Bay, 1897-1970 Incomplete RG 71-16
Charlevoix, 1881-1986 RG 72-85
Eaton, 1848-1969 RG 80-120
Genesee, 1835-1972 RG 81-50
Gratiot, 1856-1858 RG 67-83
Huron, 1904-1958 Incomplete RG 67-55
Ingham, 1838-1931 RG 80-118
Ingham, 1875-1921 RG 87-133
Ingham, 1932-1970 RG 90-273
Jackson, 1935-1967 Incomplete RG 69-30
Kent, 1913-1916 RG 71-49
Mackinac, 1898-1944 RG 72-137
Manitou, 1859-1895 RG 75-70
Midland County, 1855-1958 RG 77-91, Series 3
Muskegon, 1859-1936 RG 84-32
Oscoda, 1902-1945 RG 67-40
Ottawa, 1935-1964 RG 71-40
Saginaw, 1906-1965 Incomplete RG 67-21
Saginaw, 1906-1960 Incomplete RG 71-131
Saginaw, 1841-1871 Incomplete RG 71-131
Saginaw, 1900-1960 Incomplete RG 71-155
Tuscola, 1850-1951, RG 90-69
Washtenaw, 1865-1946, RG 68-50
Wayne, 1864-1947 RG 85-38

County Codes

COUNTY CODES

01    Alcona
02    Alger
03    Allegan
04    Alpena
05    Antrim
06    Arenac
07    Haraga
08    Barry
09    Bay
10    Benzie
11    Berrien
12    Branch
13    Calhoun
14    Cass
is    Charlevoix
16    Cheboygan
17    Chippewa
18    Clare
19    Clinton
20    Crawford
21    Delta
22    Dickinson
23    Eaton
24    Emmet
25    Genesee
26    Gladwin
27    Gogebic
28    Grand Traverse
29    Gratiot
30    Hillsdale
31    Boughton
32    Huron
33    Ingham
34    Ionia
35    losco
36    Iron
37    Isabella
38    Jackson
39    Kalamazoo
40    Kalkaska
41    Kent
42    Keweenaw
43    Lake
44    Lapeer
45    Leelanau
46    Lenawee
47    Livingston
48    Luce
49    Mackinac
50    Macomb
51    Manistee
52    Marquette
53    Mason
54    MeCOBta
55    Menominee
56    Midland
57    Missaukee
58    Monroe
59    Montcalm,
60    Montmorency
61    Muskegon
62    Newaygo
63    Oakland
64    Oceana
65    Ogemaw
66    Ontonagon
67    Osceola
68    Oscoda
69    Otsego
70    Ottawa
71    Presque Isle
72    Roscommon
73    Saginaw
74    St. Clair
75    St. Joseph
76    Sanilac
77    Schoolcraft
78    Shiawasee
79    Tuscola
80    Van Buren
81    Washtenaw
82    Wayne
83    Wexford

Department of Corrections

Ledger, Recapitulation of Paroles, 1915-1916
Ledger, Parole data, 1921-1926
Out-of-state parole histories, 1948, 1950 (2 r.u. boxes)

Prisons and reformatories

1913 Copper Strike

RG 46 Woodbridge N. Ferris Papers: Seeberville Affiar

RG 64-24, Lot 10 (7-21-7) Box 1
Acc. 46 Executive Office
Streeter 6868
Michigan History Magazine.    V.43 (1959), p. 294-314
V.54 (1970), p. 275-292

MINES AND MINING  – COPPER STRIKE, 1906, 1913

See research card – Mines and Mining

BII
B12

Finish complaint against America in Rockland Mine Strike.

GII
B485

Old Militia.  Mobs.  Strikes, etc.  Several folders re to strikes in copper country.

Replies to 110 questions submitted by Mr. Walter B. Palmer, Special Agent of the U.S. Department of Labor to Ahmeek Mining Company, Allouez Mining Company, Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, Cetnenial Copper Mining Company, Isle Royale Copper Co., LaSalle Copper Co., Laurim Mining Company, Osceola Mining Company, Superior Copper Company, Tamarack Mining Company during strike in 1913.  Source of papers unknown, material was delivered to Museum after State Office Building fire.  Uncat. N. 1956.  Material includes replies to inquiries, pictures, and printed reports.

ALS to Philip Mason from William N. Davis, Jr., Historian, California State Archives, datelined November 19, 1956, Sacramento 14, California, reports that neither the California State Archives nor the California State Library in Sacramento contain any Mss on copper strike.

COPPER STRIKE  – 1913

Sullivan, William A. “The 1913 Revolt of the Michigan Copper Miners,” in Michigan History, Vol. 43, No. 2 (September 1959) P 294-314; sketch of, 384.

See Executive Office – Ferris – 5 mss boxes

See also    Vandercook papers at MHC, Ann Arbor
Scrapbooks of Vandercook and some material that Vandercook had sent to Governor Ferris’ son, C. G. Ferris, who planned to write a biography of his father.  Apparently C. G. Ferris deposited material with the Collections.

Vandercook Papers at MSU-Museum, East Lansing
Contain originals of Ferris’ letters to Vandercook; the copies in the Ferris papers are press copies and difficult to read.

Senior Paper (U-M) in process, 1963

Supreme Court Case File
RG 96-174
Box 49 #25905

Copper Mining and Discovery

Copper Boulder – See Ontonagon Copper Boulder

GII
B503 old

Indian Affairs.  1836-1865.  Re:  copper mining on Kewenaw peninsula in 1851.

ONTONAGON COPPER BOULDER

Source:

1.    SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE.  Report of the U.S. National Museum for the year ending June 30, 1895.  Pages 1021-1030.  Moore, Charles, The Ontonagon Copper Bowlder in the U.S. National Museum.”

2.    Schoolcraft, H. R. NARRATIVE JOURNAL OF THE TRAVELS THROUGH THE NORTHWESTERN REGIONS OF THE U.S. ALBANY, 1821.  Pages 175-8.

3.    New York WEEKLY HERALD, October 28, 1843.  Report efforts of Julius Eldred during the 16 years he was involved with the acquisitions and transportation of the mass.

4.    Whittlesey, Charles, SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS, Vol. XII.  Cut and full description.

5.    Sne.  Doc.  260.  28th Congress.  1st.  Session.

Reports Eldred’s activities.

6.    Foster and Whitney’s Report.  House Ex. Doc. 69, 31st Congress, first session, page 159.

7.    McKenney, Thomas, SKETCHES OF A TOUR TO THE LAKES.  Baltimore, 1827, pages 477-478.

8.    Shepherd, Forrest.  Remarks on a Builder mass of native copper from the southern shore of lake Superior.  In American Journal Scientific,, 1847.  (2), IV, 115-116.

9.    Moore, Charles, “Ontonagon Boulder in the National Museum,”  in MICHIGAN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS, Vol. 27, page 260.

Reports by Cass in 1819, Barbeau in 1821, Eldred Houghton, 1841.

Joseph T. Copeland

Source:

1.     Brigham, S. D. Early History of Michigan with biography.

2.     Howell, C. B. Michigan Nisi Pruis Cases

3.     Orchard Lake and its Island – Ward

4.     Michigan Biographies, Vol. I:  200

5.     Greenbag, Vol. 2:385 (1890)

6.     Photo in File

Warner, 1957

Cooperage

Source:

1.     Hankerson, Fred Putnam.  Cooperage Handbook well illustrated.

2.     Gould, Mary Earle.  Early American Wooden Ware and Other Kitchen Utensils.

3.     VanWagenen, Jared Jr. The Golden Age of Homespun.  P. 106-7

4.     Mercer, Dr. Henry C.  Ancient Carpenter’s Tools and Implements.

5.     Early American Industries, Inc., The Chronicle 1956.

6.     Territorial Laws of Michigan, Vol. 3, P-916.  An Act to provide for the inspection of staves and heading.  Wet cooper or tight cooper made barrels and casks for liquids, using white oak.  Work required most skill.  Dry or slack cooper made barrels for flour and sugar, for which he used red oak, maple, elm, ash, hickory, and chestnut. The white cooper made small pieces, such as buckets, tubs, and staved boxes, and butter churns using pine, beech, maple, birch and hickory.

7.     Grand Traverse HERALD, June 20, 1895.  Account of new city of Cedar, 15 RR miles from Traverse City and 13 highway miles from Traverse City.  End of RR.  Describes main industry, Dewey Stave Company, building, stave and hoop departments, etc.

1835 CONSTITUTION OF MICHIGAN

Michigan became a Territory in 1805.  After waiting 30 years, most of its citizens were anxious to become part of the Union.  Responding to this desire, the Legislative Council passed a bill on January 26, 1835, enabling the people of Michigan to form a state constitution.

The election of delegates to the constitutional convention took place on April 4, 1835.  All but 12 of the 89 men selected to draft the document were Democrats.  Their average age was 45, and only five were native Michiganians.  Among the delegates were William Woodbridge, Lucius Lyon, John S. Barry, Isaac Crary, John Norvell, and John R. Williams.

These men and their associates met at the capitol in Detroit on May 11, 1835.  After conferring for 44 days, they submitted a proposed code for governing the new state.  On October 5, 1835, the citizens of the Territory of Michigan approved the constitution by a majority of 83 percent.  With this affirmation, Michigan declared itself a state.

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