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1865
1865
Events from the year 1865 in Michigan.
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Office holders
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State office holders
Governor of Michigan: Austin Blair/Henry H. Crapo
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Charles S. May/Ebenezer O. Grosvenor
Michigan Attorney General: Albert Williams
Michigan Secretary of State: James B. Porter
State Land Commissioner: Cyrus Hewitt
Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: Gilbert E. Read
Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court: George Martin
Mayors of major cities
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Mayor of Detroit: Kirkland C. Barker
Mayor of Grand Rapids: Wilder D. Foster
Mayor of Flint: William Hamilton/William B. McCreery
Mayor of Saginaw: Samuel W. Yawkey
Mayor of Lansing, Michigan: Dr. Ira H. Bartholomew
Mayor of Ann Arbor: Ebenezer Wells/William S. Maynard
Federal office holders
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U.S. Senator from Michigan: Zachariah Chandler (Republican)/Isaac P. Christiancy
U.S. Senator from Michigan: Jacob M. Howard (Republican)
House District 1: Fernando C. Beaman (Republican)
House District 2: Charles Upson (Republican)
House District 3: John W. Longyear (Republican)
House District 4: Francis William Kellogg (Republican)/Thomas W. Ferry (Republican)
House District 5: Augustus C. Baldwin (Democrat)/Rowland E. Trowbridge (Republican)
House District 6: John F. Driggs (Republican)
Population
Chronology of events
January
February
March
March 12 - The Detroit Police Department was formed. The first uniformed officers began patrolling on May 15.https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/detroit-police-department Detroit Police Department | Detroit Historical Society detroithistorical.org
March 25 - The Detroit Public Library opened on the second floor of the old Michigan State Capitol building in Detroit.https://www.historicdetroit.org/buildings/michigan-state-capitol Michigan State Capitol | Historic Detroit DAN AUSTIN of HistoricDetroit.org www.historicdetroit.org
April
April 9 - Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia, bringing an end to the American Civil War.
April 15 - Abraham Lincoln died after being shot one day earlier.
April 16 - At the invitation Mayor Barker, an overflow crowd of Detroit residents assembled at City Hall. Resolutions were passed, including one expressing "profound sorrow" and "horror and anguish".April 17, 1865 The National Loss 1 Detroit Free Press https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14914531/the_national_loss/ Newspapers.com
April 25 - A parade in Detroit honored Pres. Lincoln.https://blogs.lib.msu.edu/red-tape/2017/apr/april-25-1865-detroit-holds-parade-honor-slain-president-lincoln/February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/crowd-mourning-abraham-lincoln-s-death-detroit-michigan-1865/kQEhoDscyQwQsQ Crowd Mourning Abraham Lincoln's Death, Detroit, Michigan, 1865 Google Arts & Culture
May
June
July
July - The Upper Peninsula miners' strike of 1865 was put down by a naval detachment from the USS Michigan, using an improvised armored train, and later with an army detachment from Chicago.
August
August 13 - General Ulysses S. Grant visited Detroit.General Grant's 1865 visit to Detroit http://abesblogcabin.org/general-grants-1865-visit-to-detroit dead https://web.archive.org/web/20171107010224/http://abesblogcabin.org/general-grants-1865-visit-to-detroit 2017-11-07 2017-11-05
September
September 12/13 - The Colored Men's Convention met in Detroit.https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/246 Proceedings of the Colored Men's Convention of the State of Michigan, Held in the City of Detroit, Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 12th and 13th, '65, with Accompanying Documents. Also, the Constitution of the Equal Rights League of the State of Michigan. MI) State Equal Rights League of the State of Michigan (1865 : Detroit May 20, 1865 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. New York Public Library.
October
October 17 - The 102nd Regiment United States Colored Troops returned to Detroit and was disbanded.
November
December
Births
March 21 - George Owen Squier, U.S. Army officer and inventor, in Dryden, Michigan
April 13 - Grant Fellows, Michigan Attorney General (1913–1917), in Hudson Township, Lenawee County, Michigan
June 28 - Frank Scheibeck, Major League Baseball shortstop (1887–1906), in Detroit
July 21 - Fred M. Warner, 26th Governor of Michigan (1905–1911), in Hickling, Nottinghamshire
November 15 - Jerome H. Remick, music publisher, in Detroit
December 1 - Friend Richardson, Governor of California (1923–1927), in Friend's Colony, Michigan
Date unknown - Lyster Hoxie Dewey, botanist, in Cambridge Township, Michigan
Deaths
See also
History of Michigan
History of Detroit
References
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