Album of the Michigan State Officers and Legislature, 1877-8, by C.H. Mead

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McCormick Michigan History Collection

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Album of the Michigan State Officers and Legislature of 1877-1878 assembled by Lansing photographer Charles H. Mead. Photography work done by J.H. Scotford. This volume belonged to Rep. Samuel M. Stephenson of Menominee with his name "S.M. Stephenson" embossed into the cover. The volume has the original photograph of the Second Capitol and the construction photo of the Third Capitol. The back section for autographs is mostly full. Each photograph in the album is numbered by hand. Near the back is a list of members of the legislature with numbers written corresponding to their images. These numbers were reconciled with the autograph section in the back and one other known copy of the album with identifications. All but two members have been identified as follows: 1 Governor Charles Croswell 2 Michigan’s Second Capitol 3 Michigan’s Third Capitol under construction 4 Attorney General Otto Kirchner 5 Secretary of State E.G.D. Holden 6 Auditor General Ralph Ely 7 Land Commissioner B.F. Partridge 8 Superintendent of Public Instruction Horace S. Tarbell 9 State Treasurer William B. McCreery 10 G.W. Hopkins, Gov. Croswell’s private secretary 11 State Librarian Harriet Tenney 12 Secretary of the Senate James H. Stone 13 Lieutenant Governor Alonzo Sessions 14 David Cook 15 Charles Nelson 16 William Chamberlain 17 John Waterbury 18 Gilbert Read 19 Roland Newcomb 20 Porter Perrin 21 Lorison Taylor 22 Dan Foote 23 Wilson Edsell 24 Charles Morse 25 possibly John Burleigh 26 Columbus Tyler 27 Heman Redfield 28 William Adair 29 Michael Shoemaker 30 Witter Baxter 31 Theodore Hinchman 32 Matthew Markey 33 Elliot Wilcox 34 Franklin Morgan 35 Marsden Burch 36 Charles Freeman 37 Senate Sergeant at Arms C.H. Perkins 38 Wiliam Cook 39 Reuben Osburn 40 Francis Rankin 41 Wesley Andrus 42 Crockett McElroy 43 Fitch Williams 44 Assistant Secretary of the Senate E.G. Hoskins 45 William Jenney 46 William Packard 47 Edward Breitung 48 Speaker John T. Rich 49 Clerk of the House Daniel Crossman 50 Stephen Stevens 51 Nathaniel Hayes 52 Dirk VanRaalte 53 Rasselas Reed 54 Derwin Sharts 55 Sanford Yeomans 56 Lester Curtiss 57 Robert Kelley 58 Fitch Phelps 59 George Steele 60 Simeon Billings 61 Charles Mills 62 Patrick McGinnis 63 Stephen Martin 64 Myron Coon 65 Louis Dillman 66 Paul Gies 67 Richard Hawley 68 Rodney Twadell 69 Stanley Turner 70 Erastus Welker 71 John Willett 72 Joseph Jewell 73 James M. Turner 74 Henry Stafford 75 Nathaniel Hamilton 76 George Edwards 77 Edwin Conely 78 Silas Ireland 79 Frederick Baker 80 Clarence Prindle 81 Simeon Baldwin 82 George Crandall 83 Welcome Johnson 84 Thomas Morrison 85 Amherst Cheney 86 Alonzo Davis 87 Edward P. Allen 88 Ezra Norris 89 Andrew Sawyer 90 George Smith 91 Seth D. North 92 John Norton 93 House Sergeant at Arms William K. Childs 94 Assistant House Sergeant at Arms Theodore L. Brundage 95 Benjamin Laubach 96 Luther Ludlow 97 Edwin Clark 98 James Wood 99 James Lee 100 Patrick Hankerd 101 William Abbott 102 Lucius Canfield 103 Seth Shetterly 104 Thomas Woodworth 105 Charles Mosher 106 107 Samuel Brown 108 Samuel Johnson 109 Augustine Farr 110 E. Parker Hill 111 William Turck 112 Joseph Stinchcomb 113 Samuel Hopkins 114 Asa Rork 115 James Ferguson 116 Oliver Stanchfield 117 Walter Palmer 118 Giles Ross 119 James Walkinshaw 120 Richard Keeler 121 Marcus Elliott 122 Speaker John T. Rich 123 Richard Robbins 124 Clement Stone 125 Alfred Hall 126 Eugene Chase 127 Jaocb Sawyer 128 Jonathan Parsons 129 Crosby Eaton 130 Simpson Howland 131 Joseph Valde 132 Lucien Miller 133 Jerome Winchell 134 Charles Harrington 135 William Allman 136 Charles F. Moore 137 Giles Markham 138 Charles Little 139 Herbert Hoyt 140 George Sackrider 141 John Fletcher 142 James Gibbs 143 John Jones 144 John Thomson 145 Samuel M. Stephenson 146 James Gould 147 Nathan Knight 148 Newton Baker 149 Samuel Nixon 150 Oliver White 151 Michael Dowling 152 Reporter for the Detroit Post 153 Eaton Reporter 154 Reporter for the Detroit Tribune 155 E.W. Scripps of the Detroit Evening News 156 Joseph Greusel of the Detroit Free Press 157 Postmaster W. Bruce Not identified are: William McArthur and Franklin Freeman

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C.H. Mead