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He was a member of the Michigan Territorial Legislature, 1826–7. He served as Mount Vernon's first postmaster from 1832 to 1856. He was a Macomb County Circuit Court judge in 1833, a state legislator in 1853, and a deputy U.S. surveyor from 1833 to 1853. [1] While surveying, he won acclaim for his accurate work on public land surveys.
Melville Peter McPherson [1] (born October 27, 1940) is president emeritus of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.He previously served as a special assistant to President Gerald Ford, administrator of USAID under President Ronald Reagan, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury, President of Michigan State University from 1993 to 2004, and Chairman of Dow Jones.
Michigan State University President Start year End year Reference Joseph R. Williams: 1857 1859 [3] Lewis R. Fiske: 1859 1862 Theophilus C. Abbot: 1862 1885 Edwin Willits: 1885 1889 Oscar Clute: 1889 1893 Lewis G. Gorton: 1893 1895 Jonathan L. Snyder: 1896 1915 Frank S. Kedzie: 1915 1921 David Friday: 1922 1923 Kenyon L. Butterfield: 1924 1928 ...
Statue of Jefferson surveying a site for the University of Virginia. Prior to independence, Peter Jefferson, along with his son Thomas Jefferson, were land surveyors for the crown. At this time, surveyors used a system known as the metes and bounds system, which used "monuments"; identifiable objects such as rocks, trees, etc., as property ...
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John Mullett (1786–1862) [1] was a prominent [2] surveyor based in Detroit, Michigan in the early 19th century.. Under the Public Land Survey System, he was surveyor-general for the Northwest Territories [3] and as such, assisted or led "in many of the government's original surveys of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana," [2] and especially in Michigan.
Two board members are elected to the board every two years and serve for eight years. The most recently elected trustees to the board were Renee Knake Jefferson and Dennis Denno, both Democrats ...
Michigan is largely divided in the same way as many other U.S. states, but is distinct in its usage of charter townships. Michigan ranks 13th among the 50 states in terms of the number of local governmental entities. The state is divided into 83 counties, and further divided into 1,240 townships, 276 cities, and 257 villages. Additionally, the ...