Charity Island Lighthouse

ISLANDS, CHARITY

RG 62-16 Descriptive Notes for Map

Lighthouse established 1857 and discontinued 1940.  Modern owner was Robert Gillingham, Caseville, Michigan.  He reported September 27, 1963, that “Mr. Robert L. Hanson of 1476 North Michigan Avenue, Saginaw, Michigan, has information regarding the Charity Island and the Lighthouse, as he is one of the parties who has an equity in the island.  He has been gathering all the information he can find.”  Gillingham’s sold in 1963 (?) and two islands are to become a resort area.

Orr uses the island in his book, White Gold.

Centennial Farms

CENTENNIAL FARM RECORDS

MS 64-55, Lot 1, 1955-1963, 1 box 4/19/4
RG 68-3 State, Lot 20, 1963-1965, Cum. B-2, 5/12/4
RG 68-99, State, Lot 28, 1948-1967, 3 boxes, 10/20/3
RG 73-27, State, Lot 81, 1900-1973, 1 box photos 3/19/5

Census history

CENSUS, STATE OF MICHIGAN

Michigan Constitution 1835:

Art. IV Sect. 3
Census to be taken in 1837 and 1845 and then every 10 years thereafter.

Michigan Constitution 1850:

Art.  IV Sect. 4
Census to be taken in 1854 and every ten years thereafter.

Michigan Constitution 1908:

Art. V Sect. 4
No state census required.  Apportionment to be based on federal census.

Laws of Michigan 1837, pp. 182-3:

Act #93
“An Act to provide for taking the census.”

Laws of Michigan 1853 pp. 60-64.

Act #43
“An Act to provide for taking the census and statistics of this State.”

Public Acts of Michigan 1883 pp. 153-9

Act #146
“An Act to provide for taking the census and statistics of this State.”

Census –  See also Indian-Census

Source:

1.     See Vertical File re Ms. Michigan censuses

2.     See Vertical File re Ms. Federal Censuses from:  General Censuses and vital statistics in the Americans.  U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington:  1943.  U.S. Library of Congress.  Pages 74-76.

3.     Pealy, Dorothee Strauss.  A Statewide Census every Five Years, Bureau of Government Inst. of Public Administration, U-M, Ann Arbor., April 1954.

4.     Census of 1880.  Lansing Republican, January 17, 1880. offers districts and enumerators.

5.     Michigan School Census for 1879.  Lansing Republican, February 3, 1880, School Census; February 10, 1880, School Statistics; February 24, 1880.  Statistics on higher education.

6.     Census of 1820.

Macomb

Annotated by E. B. Kresge (Mrs.) in Detroit Soc. Geneal. Res. Mag., 13:137-140; 14:21-3; June-Oct, 1950.

Monroe

Annotated by Mrs. Raymond Millbrook in Detroit Soc. Gen. Res. Mag., 14:83-6, 109-13, Feb-Apr., 1951. 14:51-4, 1950.

Oakland

Annotated by Mrs. E. B. Kresge in Detroit Soc. Geneal. Res. Mag., 13:113-15, April, 1950.

7.     MHC – Archives.  SA Exec. Acts, March 24, 1845.  Directive to appointment of  census enumerators for that year.

Michigan Centennial

CENTENNIAL – MICHIGAN, 1935-6

See correspondence.  Delf Norona, West Virginia Centennial Commission, October 30, 1959

Minutes of the Michigan Historical Commission, 1935+

Michigan History V21. – p. 198-200

P.A. 1935, p. 454

Lewis Cass

RESEARCH – CASS – RESIDENCE OF GOV. CASS IN MICHIGAN TERRITORY (DETROIT)

Source:

1.     McKenney.  “Sketch of a tour of the Lakes,” 1827.  P. 113-4 [Thos. L.*]

GII        Letters concerning legislative matters, 1849-1858.
B458        ALS re Cass’s resignation from Senate in 1850.

See RG-44, B128 F5

Letter carrying Lewis Cass’s signature repetition received from T. L. Haymond (criminal cases) re pardon for Arthur Watson.

Capitol War Relic Museum

Capitol – War Relic Museum

Resolution – Senate Concurrent Resolution #30 passed March 1, 1957 by the Senate and April 23, 1957 by the House places jurisdiction of the exhibit cases on the ground floor of the Captiol with the Historical Commission.  All other historical materials in the building are still under the jurisdiction of Department of Administration.

State Capitol Building

Capitol Building

Source:

1.     Bishop, Levi.  “Recollections of the old Capitol,” in Michigan Historical Collections, Vol. 1, P. 511.  Detroit.

2.     Butler, Alexander R. “A’ Wilderness Rejoicing’:  the New Capitol of Michigan,” in Michigan History, Vol. 38 (1954), pp. 273-284.

3.     “Michigan’s Old State Capitol Succumbs to the flames after thirty-five year of service,” extract, Lansing REPUBLICAN, Dec. 19, 1882, in Michigan Historical Collections, Vol. 6, pp. 290-1.

4.     “A brief bit of history  about the location of the old Capitol,” from the Detroit EVENING NEWS, Dec. 16, 1882 in Michigan Historical Collections, Vol. 6, pp. 292.

5.     MICHIGAN:  GUIDE TO THE WOLVERINE STATE.  Oxford:  New York, 1946,  pp.  333-6.

6.     “The Capital and Capitol Buildings,” in LEGISLATIVE MANUAL, 1879, pp. 367-384.

7.     Sanford, George.  “Reminiscential,” in Michigan Historical Collections, Vol. 6, pp. 292-3, extract from Lansing JOURNAL, Feb. 22, 1883.

8.     “The New State Capitol,” reported at the annual meeting of the Historical Society, in Michigan Historical Collections, Vol. 31, pp. 227-232.  1901.

9.     Hathaway, Ellen.  YOUR CAPITOL AND MINE.  Michigan Historical Commission, 1953. 95p. Third Grade level.

10.     Larner, Mortimer F. comp., publication, photographer.  THE HISTORY OF MICHIGAN’S CAPITOL.,  ads. 13p.

11.     J. W. Knapp Company.  LANSING, MICHIGAN:  PAST AND PRESENT, illus., 16p.  Includes some of the same pictures that are in the Edmonds Collections.

12.     Upton, William W. “Locating the Capitol of the State of Michigan,” in Michigan History, Vol. 23, pp. 275-290.

13.     Jenison Collection in Michigan State Library vault.  Contains many mementos of the dedication, etc.

14.     Detroit POST AND TRIBUNE, Jan. 1, 1879, P.2, Col. 1, 2, 3.  January 2, 1879, P. 1., Cols-1–7.  Reminiscenses.  Plans and appointments of the nw building.

15.     The Scientific American, May 20, 1876, p. 322.  Line drawings of the Michigan State building at the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876.

Selected Bibliography of Materials Relating to the Present State Capitol

PRIMARY MATERIALS

EXECUTIVE OFFICE RECORDS, ACCESSION 44
Building Commissioners, Board of, 1871-77                    Box – 178
Capitol, State Board of Building Commissioners            Box – 242
State Building Commission, 1871        Box –   61

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ACCESSION 56-26
Proposals for Construction of Capitol and State Institutions        Box – 191
Accounting Journals, Supt. Of Construction. (James Appleyard)        Acc 21, Box 1

SECONDARY MATERIALS

BOURS, ALLEN L.
Documents Relating to the Erection of the New Capitol of
Michigan, 1871-1879.    Lansing, 1879
Inaugural Proceedings at the Dedication of the New Capitol
of Michigan.    Lansing, 1879

CROSBY, JACK
The State Capitol of Michigan.    Lansing, 1968

DUFFIELD, GEORGE
The New Capitol:  or the Wilderness Rejoicing.    Lansing, 1878

LARNER, MORTIMER
The History of Michigan’s Capitol.    Lansing, 1928

MICHIGAN.  BOARD OF STATE BUILDING COMMISSIONERS.
Acts of the Legislature, Session of 1877, Providing for the
Completion & Furnishing of the Building.    Lansing, 1877
Annual Report, 1871-78.    Lansing, 1878
Final Report…,1877-79.    Lansing, 1879
General Instructions for the Guidance of Architects.    Lansing, 1871
Laying the Cornerstone of the New State Capitol.    Lansing, 1873
Proceedings at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the New Capitol    Lansing, 1873

MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
Legislative Manual, 1879-80.    Lansing, 1879, p. 367-84

Michigan History Magazine
Volume 37, (1953), p. 299-303.
Volume 38, (1954), p. 273-284.
Volume 52, (1968), p. 82

Michigan State Capitol.    Lansing, 1972

MICHIGAN.  PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIEY
Michigan Historical Collections.
Volume 31, (1901), p. 227-232.
Volume 32, (1902), p. 441-443.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.  May 20, 1876.  New York, 1876. p. 322.

THESES

Koellner, Martha Ann.  Elijah E. Myers, Architect.  M.A.,
Western Illinois University, 1972.

NOTES

Many of the above materials, and most newspaper articles about the capitol, can be found in the Jenison Collection, State Library.  Approximate bulk, 3 cubic feet.

February 2, 1978.

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Pioneer Collections: Vol. 6 (1883), p. 103-105

Michigan History Magazine: Vol. 22 (1938), p. 443-457
Vol. 26 (1942), p. 331-333.
Vol. 29 (1945), p. 44-50.
Vol. 40 (1956), p. 203-214
Vol. 50 (1966), p. 349-360
Vol. 62, No. 4 (1978), p. 42-55

Book: A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution Under Michigan Law by David G. Chardavoyne (Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 2003).  (Details last execution in Michigan Territory, then explains how Michigan came to abolish the death penalty.  It also discusses subsequent attempts to reinstate it and how the subject is treated in the 1963 state constitution.)

Compiled Laws: 1838: p. 678-679
1846: p. 168, 658.
1857: p. 1502, 1600.
1871: p. 2069, 2187.
1897: p. 3379, 3544-3545.
1915: p. 5447-5448.
1929: p. 5802-5803, 6015-6016, 6029.
1948: p. 14403, 14425-14426.
1970: p. 8708, 8719-8720.
1979: p. 10775

Streeter: 364, 4296, 4297, 6204.

Official Record of the Constitutional Convention, 1961: p. 595-598, 2968.

1840’s

Pardon — Gov. Felch
Ebenezer H. Miller Convicted of murder 1843 (squaw-Kent Co.)
Pardoned before 1847. Sentenced to be executed, commuted to life imprisonment.

Materials located in:

1. Secretary of State Papers, Executive Journal 83-49, Vol. 9

2. Exec. Office Papers RG-44 B115, F5

Research on death penalty

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Death Penalty

Canals

Canals – Clinton and Kalamazoo

G7
B1
F14    Petition of inhabitants of Mt. Clemens July 28, 1842 requesting inspection    of C. & K. canal line in view of present suspension of construction.

Campaign Finance

From Joanne Porter:

Many of us have received questions about campaign finance records or reports. The archive does not retain these records. According to the Secretary of State, Elections Division, the department retains these records for 5 years, then according to the Campaign Finance Act, the records are purged. If someone is looking for finance records within the 5 year window the department suggests they be directed to the elections division or search there web site at http://www.sos.state.mi.us/election/elect.html The Elections Division is located at 208 North Capitol, 4th floor Mutual Building.
The Library of Michigan Government Documents section has published campaign finance reports from the year’s 1977198S. The citation number is ST E38:3. The Law Library has the reports from 198S on. Apparently this record is published in a bulletin format and might duplicate some of the information found in the Secretary of States Campaign Reports.