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4th Michigan Territorial Council
The Fourth Michigan Territorial Council was a meeting of the legislative body governing Michigan Territory, known formally as the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan. The council met in Detroit in two regular sessions between May 11, 1830, and March 4, 1831, during the terms of Lewis Cass and George B. Porter as territorial governor. Leadership and organization Abraham Edwards was president of the council, Edmund A. Brush secretary, and William Meldrum sergeant-at-arms. Members A January 1827 act of the United States Congress provided for the direct election of a 13-member legislative council by the people of the territory; the same act gave the council responsibility for determining the apportionment of seats. The council apportioned the seats as follows in an 1828 act: Notes References * * * * {{Citation , author = State of Michigan , title = Laws of the Territory of Michigan , date = 1874 , url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan Territorial Council
The Michigan Territorial Council, known formally as the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan, was the legislative body of the Territory of Michigan from 1824 to 1835, when it was succeeded by the Michigan Legislature in anticipation of Michigan becoming a U.S. state (though this did not happen until 1837). A session of the council including only members from what would become Wisconsin Territory met in 1836. History The council represented the second stage of Michigan's evolution from a territory administered by a governor and judges to full statehood. Background Since its creation from part of Indiana Territory in 1805, the government of Michigan Territory had consisted of a governor, a secretary, and three judges. In this "first stage" government outlined by the Northwest Ordinance, the governor—or the secretary, in his absence—exercised executive power, with the judges forming the judicial branch of government, and all of them were appointed by Congress. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenawee County, Michigan
Lenawee County ( ') is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 99,423. The county seat is Adrian, Michigan, Adrian. The county was created in 1822, from territory partitioned from Monroe County, Michigan, Monroe County. Its governing structure was organized in 1826. Lenawee County comprises the Adrian, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is served by the Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Media market. Lenawee County is home to the Potawatomi, Ottawa, Chippewa, Iroquois, Miami, Sauk, Fox, Mascoutens and Huron tribes. History The county owes its formation to the 1807 Treaty of Detroit, by which the Ottawa (tribe), Ottawa, Ojibwe (called Chippewa by the Americans); Wyandot people, Wyandot and Potawatomi nations ceded their claims to the United States of their traditional territories in today's southeast Michigan. However, many leaders of these tribes believed that the treaty was coercive and opposed it. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawford County, Wisconsin
Crawford County is a county in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,113. Its county seat is Prairie du Chien. History Along with Brown County, Crawford County is one of Wisconsin's original counties, established by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818, and named after William H. Crawford, James Monroe's Treasurer at the time. It originally covered the western half of Wisconsin's present area. In 1836, it was transferred to the newly formed Wisconsin Territory as Michigan prepared for statehood and has gradually been subdivided into its present area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of , of which is land and (4.8%) is water. The county's highest point is near St. James Church in Rising Sun. Three rivers run through the county: The Kickapoo River, nicknamed "the crookedest river in Wisconsin" was carved out by glacial run-off. It is considered one of the best Class 1 padd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chippewa County, Michigan
Chippewa County is a county in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 36,785. The county seat is Sault Ste. Marie. The county is named for the Ojibwe (Chippewa) people, and was set off and organized in 1826. Chippewa County comprises the Sault Ste. Marie, MI micropolitan statistical area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (42%) is water. It is the second-largest county in Michigan by land area and fifth-largest by total area. The Michigan Meridian runs through the eastern portion of the county. South of Nine Mile Road, M-129 (Meridian Road) overlays the meridian. In Sault Ste. Marie, Meridian Street north of 12th Avenue overlays the meridian. Adjacent counties & districts * Algoma District, Ontario, Canada (northeast) * Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada (east) * Presque Isle County (southeast) * Mackinac County (south) * Luce County (west) Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown County, Wisconsin
Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 268,740, making it the fourth-most populous county in Wisconsin. The county seat is Green Bay, making it one of three Wisconsin counties on Lake Michigan not to have a county seat with the same name. Brown County is part of the Green Bay, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Brown County is one of Wisconsin's two original counties, along with Crawford County. It originally spanned the entire eastern half of the state when formed by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818. It was named for Major General Jacob Brown, a military leader during the War of 1812. Several towns along the Fox River vied for the position of county seat in Brown County's early years. The first county seat was located at Menomoneeville (now a part of Allouez) in 1824. In 1837, a public referendum relocated the county seat to De Pere. The location was put up for the popular vote again in 1854, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kingsley
James Kingsley (6 January 1797 – 10 August 1878) was an attorney and mayor of Ann Arbor from 1855 to 1856. Attorney James "Honest Jim" Kingsley, who came to Ann Arbor in 1826, was the first member of the Washtenaw County Bar, a probate judge, and a member of both the territorial and later the state legislature, as well as Ann Arbor's second mayor and a regent of the University of Michigan. Kingsley Street in Ann Arbor is named after him. Sources James Kingsley Ann Arbor District Library History of the University of Michigan By Burke Aaron Hinsdale Published by the University of Michigan, 1906; p. 182 Kingsley Family Papers, 1830-1901 Bentley Historical Library The Bentley Historical Library is the campus archive for the University of Michigan and is located on the University of Michigan's North Campus in Ann Arbor. It was established in 1935 by the regents of the University of Michigan. Its mission i .... 1797 births 1878 deaths Mayors of Ann Arbor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washtenaw County, Michigan
Washtenaw County () is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, the population was 372,258. The county seat is Ann Arbor. The county was authorized by legislation in 1822 and organized as a county in 1826. Washtenaw County comprises the Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is home to the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Washtenaw Community College, and Concordia University Ann Arbor. History First Nations' Territories The first peoples occupying the central portion of what is now Michigan included: "the Pottawattamies, the Chippewas, the Ottawas, the Wyandottes and the Hurons". Early tribes and Ojibwe etymology of the word: Wash-ten-ong". First nations whose territories included land within the Washtenaw County boundaries are shown to have included: Myaamia (Miami), Bodéwadmiké ( Potawatomi), Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Peoria, Meškwahki·aša·hina (Fox), and the Mississauga nation. Etymology of Wash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel LeRoy
Daniel LeRoy (May 17, 1775 – February 11, 1858; Fenton, Michigan) was the last attorney general for the Michigan Territory, and the first Michigan attorney general. Born in Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1801 LeRoy moved to Chenango Point. After a bridge to cross the Chenango River was built, he became the first to organise roads and a school on the river's west side. He worked to build a small settlement west of the Chenango, which he purchased from William Bingham's estate. LeRoy held the deed, but for ten years made no payments on its interest or principal, so left New York insolvent with his wife and seven children. He came to the frontier of Michigan, and by January 20, 1818 was appointed associate justice for Macomb County, Michigan. LeRoy was first appointed by John Quincy Adams as Michigan's territorial attorney in 1826 and served until 1834. He was the first Michigan attorney general from 1836 to 1837. From 1850 to 1862 what is now Webberville, Michigan was known as LeRo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakland County, Michigan
Oakland County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of the metropolitan Detroit area, located northwest of the city. As of the 2020 Census, its population was 1,274,395, making it the second-most populous county in Michigan, behind neighboring Wayne County. It is the largest county in the United States without a city of 100,000 residents. The county seat is Pontiac. The county was founded in 1819 and organized in 1820. Oakland County is composed of 62 cities, townships, and villages, and is part of the Detroit–Warren– Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city of Detroit is in neighboring Wayne County, south of 8 Mile Road. In 2010, Oakland County was among the ten wealthiest counties in the United States to have over one million residents. It is also home to Oakland University, a large public institution that straddles the border between the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills. In 1999, Oakland County started the organization Automati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stockton (Michigan Soldier)
John Stockton (December 24, 1798 – November 21, 1878) was an American soldier, pioneer, and territorial legislator. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he moved with his family to a farm in Chillicothe, Ohio. During the War of 1812, Stockton served in the United States Army. In 1815, Stockton served as private secretary to Lewis Cass, Governor of Michigan Territory. In 1817, Stockton settled in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Stockton served as clerk, register, and justice of the peace of Macomb County, Michigan. Stockton served in the Michigan Territorial Council from 1824 to 1831 and then 1834 to 1835. He was a Democrat. Stockton also served as postmaster of Mount Clemens, Michigan. Stockton served as an officer of the 8th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confeder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macomb County, Michigan
Macomb County ( ) is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Michigan, bordering Lake St. Clair, and is part of northern Metro Detroit. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 881,217, making it the third-most populous county in the state. The county seat is Mt. Clemens. Macomb County is part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city of Detroit is located south of the county's southern border. Macomb County contains 27 cities, townships and villages, including three of the top ten most-populous municipalities in Michigan as of the 2010 census: Warren (#3), Sterling Heights (#4) and Clinton Township (#10). Most of this population is concentrated south of Hall Road (M-59), one of the county's main thoroughfares. History The Ojibwe lived in the area for centuries before European contact and were preceded by other cultures of ancient indigenous peoples. The first European colonizers were French, and they arrived in the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
