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A Photograph of a Painting of Andrew Carnegie
A Photograph of a Painting of Andrew Carnegie that is on display in the Carnegie part of the library. The painting is in color.
Read about Andrew Carnegie on Wikipedia.Tags library -
Dr. Chung-Woong Kim, pediatrician in Howell, Michigan -1977
Dr Chung-Woong Kim, a board certified pediatrician from Korea, practiced in Howell with Dr. Dong-Soo Kim -
Howell High School Baseball, Howell, Michigan - 1966/1967
Howell High School Baseball, Howell, Michigan - 1966/1967
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Sarah Barley Reason (1841-1929)
She came from England by herself as a young woman.
Married George W. Reason. They had three daughters and two sons. -
George W. Reason (1837-1926)
He was a well known businessman in Pinckney, owning a hardware store as well as selling buggies and farm machinery. His farm was near the Putnam and Unadilla Township, Livingston County, Michigan line. Reason road is in that area.
In addition to the hardware business Mr. Reason also sold coal, but his chief interest was in the sale of buggies and farm machinery. He left the store work to others. He traveled the country in his horse and buggy selling his favorites. He sold more buggies than any other dealer in the section, his sales some years being over 300. The same held true for farm machinery. He would take (customers') old buggies and machinery in trade for stock or anything of value.
The buggies used to come all wrapped in paper to prevent marring...53 buggies in 70 days was one record.
There were many stories told of him. One illustrates his shrewdness. At one time the country farm advertised for bids for a binder. Mr. Reason's bid was lowest and he got the sale. He sent for a man named Corwin to set it up, who told the following story. He found Mr. Reason had sold the binder at cost and said, "I don't see where you make anything on this." Mr. Reason said, "Wait and see." When the poor farm superintendent came for the binder, he had a lumber wagon which Mr. Reason loaded with pitchforks, shovels and hardware, a year's supply for the farm. Then he turned to the machinery company man and said, "Now do you see the profit in that binder?"
Mr. Reason was quite a builder. He built the W.H. Meyer Building which was his store, the Lee Lavey store and the building formerly occupied by the tavern. He also built a roller skating rink on the site later occcupied by the bowling alley. This burned in 1921.
(This information was gathered by a descendant, Dorothy Reason Malette).
His wife was Sarah Barley Reason. They had three daughters and two sons. -
McPherson Health Center School of Practical Nursing, Howell, Michigan, Class of 1964
In 1964, the first graduates of the McPherson Health Center School for Practical Nursing, Howell, Michigan, received their diplomas in a ceremony at Hawkins Elementary School Brighton. The graduates were twenty-one women. The School for Practical Nursing was sponsored by the McPherson Health Center where classes were held, and by Brighton and Howell Public Schools. It was funded by government funds under the Manpower Retraining Act through 1966. All of the graduates passed their state board examination and were eligible to be licensed by the State Board of Nursing as Licensed Practical Nurses. The School for Practical Nursing graduated their last class in 1987.
In this 1964 photograph, the School of Practical Nursing Class honors its graduating class in the traditional white uniform dress.
Standing back: Tami Alexander, unknown, Dorothy Yeagle, unknown, Sydney Morse, Susan Haynes, unknown, unknown, unknown
Middle row: unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mary Bugard Korsgren, unknown
Front Row: unknown, Elaine Woodruff, Emily Janet Rohrabacher, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown -
McPherson Health Center School for Practical Nursing, Howell, Michigan, 1964
In 1964, the first graduates of the McPherson Health Center School for Practical Nursing, Howell, Michigan, received their diplomas in a ceremony at Hawkins Elementary School Brighton. The graduates were twenty-one women. The School for Practical Nursing was sponsored by the McPherson Health Center where classes were held, and by Brighton and Howell Public Schools. It was funded by government funds under the Manpower Retraining Act through 1966. All of the graduates passed their state board examination and were eligible to be licensed by the State Board of Nursing as Licensed Practical Nurses. The School for Practical Nursing graduated their last class in 1987.
In this 1964 photograph, the School of Practical Nursing Class honors its student nursing class garbed in the Student Nurse Uniform.
Standing: unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mary Bugard Korsgren, unknown, Elaine Woodruff, Susan Haynes, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown.
Seated: unknown, unknown, unknown, Muriel Simmons, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Dorothy Yeagle, Sidney Morse, Emily Janet Rohrabacher, unknown. -
Charles Schafer - Wildlife Artist - 1976
Portraits of Charles Schafer a wildlife artist taken in 1976. Charles Schafer is a notable Howell, Michigan native as listed in The Howell Bicentennial History 1776-1976 Part 1. He was an artist for Michigan Department of Natural Resources Publication. -
Elizabeth (Marsh) Pangborn (1812-1890)
James Pangborn (1802-1885) married Elizabeth (Marsh) Pangborn (1812-1890)
Early landowner in Unadilla, Michigan. Grandparent of Judge Hiram Smith.