Michigan is Amazing

October 22, 1864

Chelsea was incorporated.

Settled in 1834, this Washtenaw County community was first called Kedron until it was renamed after Chelsea, Massachusetts.

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October 21, 1842

Will Carleton was born.

Born near Hudson in Lenawee County, Will Carleton authored “Over the Hill to the Poorhouse,” which was one of the most popular poems in Michigan during the late nineteenth century. Carleton’s popularity led the state legislature to declare his birthday a state holiday. According to Harper’s Weekly, Carleton was one of America’s “most popular poets and the one whose writing have been more widely read and appreciated than those of any poet since the days of Whittier and Longfellow.”

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October 20, 1994

Marie-Therese Guyon-Cadillac was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

Madame Cadillac became the first European woman to settle in Michigan when she traveled from Montreal to join her husband in his newly founded settlement of Detroit in the fall of 1701.

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October 19, 1875

Zachariah Chandler was named secretary of the Interior.

Elected U.S. senator in January 1857, Zachariah Chandler became an outspoken Radical Republican during and after the Civil War. Defeated in his 1875 reelection to the Senate, Chandler was appointed secretary of the Interior by President U.S. Grant, where he served “with considerable distinction.”

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