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Rogers spent her whole life advocating for the admittance of women into Michigan universities. In September 1855, she founded the Michigan Women's College in Lansing, Michigan, with Delia Rogers and pioneer James Turner, [1] [2] with the stated goal "to keep before the public mind as constantly as they could, the duty of the State to provide for the education of its daughters as it had already ...
He was assistant prosecutor for Ingham County, Michigan in 1950 and city attorney of East Lansing and legal counsel to the Michigan State Senate judiciary committee in 1953 and 1954. He was prosecuting attorney for Ingham County, 1955–1956.
Michigan Historical Commission. 1924. Michigan Biographies: Russell Alger, Lansing. Michigan Commandery of the Military of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Final Journal of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1957. Compiled by Cora Gillis, Jamestown, New York, Past National President, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War from 1861 to ...
The Michigan Legion was organized along military lines, with 5 brigades, 16 regiments, 64 battalions, and 256 companies. It boasted of a membership of one million Legionnaires in Michigan, but observers estimated that it had between 20,000 and 30,000 members. [9] One-third of them were located in Detroit, with many living in Highland Park.
Kim Sigler won the Republican gubernatorial primary by a 50,000-vote margin over Vernon J. Brown (lieutenant governor), Raymond J. Kelly (former commander of the American Legion), and Edward Jeffries (Detroit mayor). Sigler ran on his reputation as a crusader against government graft and a promise to clean house in Lansing. [66] [67]
Eva Lois Allmon Evans (January 14, 1935 – July 20, 2020) was an American educator based in Lansing, Michigan, and the 24th international president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2005.
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American Legion NUWARINE Post 535: 2017 Michigan's last remaining all-female American Legion post [27] Ella Mae Backus (1863–1938) 2017 First woman in Michigan to become an Assistant U.S. Attorney [28] Clara Bryant Ford (1866–1950) 2017 Wife of Henry Ford, created and funded programs benefiting women [29] Lisette Denison Forth (c. 1786 ...