Source Information

Ancestry.com. Michigan, Biographical Sketches, 1870-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2000.
Original data:

  • Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1999.

  • Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men. Detroit: Evening News Association, 1900.

  • About Michigan, Biographical Sketches, 1870-1900

    Originally published in 1900, this database is a collection of biographical sketches of prominent men in Michigan in the late nineteenth century. It includes men from business, professional, political, educational, and cultural enterprises. It also provides an extensive selection of historical background material regarding such subjects as military service, education, religious organizations political parties, and prohibition laws. It provides the names of over 2,000 individuals. For those persons seeking important men from Michigan in the late nineteenth century, this collection can be very informative.