Archival Collections

This record group consists of various records and papers collected by the Michigan Department of State, History Division, Museum. The record group includes: Alanson Calkins papers (1836-1897); Amori B. Cook papers (1860-1877); depositions (1877-1889), one dealing with Sally Pike's interpretation of the suicide death of Mrs. Speight, the second deposition from Mary E. Gryen, concerned with murder and organized crime; Ulysses S. Grant letter (1864) to Major General Halleck; William Hinman papers (1835-1904); letters (1848-1945) from William and Elizabeth Cable, C.G. Luce, and Private David B. Swigart; Henry McConnell papers (1902-1969); marriage certificates (1852-1868) for Josias C. Clark and Anna I. Rice and for Lloyd Hulbert Sanders and Frank Adeliza Woodworth; military certificates (1852-1868) for Leonard H. Hunt, F.E. Marsh, and Frederick C. Miller; pension papers (1883-1893) of Almera Chamberlain, mother of Union soldier Private George B. Chamberlain; and Sarah Lyons Wright papers (1862-1868).

This record group consists of various records collected by the Michigan Department of State, History Division, Museum. The record group includes: an account book of Michael Q. Whelan (1876), started his first day as a stage driver for George Rice of Eagle Harbor; a diary of Morris Dilts (b. 1838, d. 1896), giving an account of his service in Company D, First Michigan Cavalry during 1861; ledgers of the Delaware General Store (1881-1882) in Delaware, Michigan, and of the Hancock Mining Company (1865-1872); letters (1872, 1883) to the Allouez Mining Company, to George Rice, and to Fred Smith, superintendent of the Allouez Mining Company; a prayer book (1877) of George Rice, written in Gaelic, with some English notations; and the proceedings of court (1859), a single item describing the evolution of a court case at Copper Harbor, Mr. Learned vs. Charles Henry.