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  • 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.
  • McPherson Family, Howell, Michigan - 1918

    McPherson family
    915 N. Michigan Ave. Howell, Michigan - 1918

    unknown people
  • McPherson Family, Howell, Michigan - 1918

    McPherson Family,
    915 N. Michigan Ave. Howell, Michigan - 1918

    unknown people
  • McPherson Family, Chemung Hills Golf Course, Howell, Michigan

    This is an Emil Bode Photo of the McPherson Family, Chemung Hills Golf Course, Howell, Michigan, 1926. The names of the persons are unknown.
  • McPherson Family Gathering, Howell, Michigan - 1880

    A photo of a McPherson family gathering in 1880.

    Top Row: Edward, Mary, William Jr., Ella, Alexander.

    Sitting: Martin, Isabella, William Sr., Elizabeth.
  • McPherson Family at the McPherson Mansion - 1918

    A photo of Robert Bruce McPherson with his wife Eva Love Hickey McPherson and their children Robert and Frederick McPherson. 

    This photo was taken in 1918 on the porch at the McPherson mansion. Most likely taken by Emil Bode on the same day as several other pictures of the family. R. Bruce Mcpherson was a businessman prominent in Howell Michigan. The mansion was built in 1915, three years before the photo was taken.
  • McPherson Cottage on Lake Chemung, Livingston County, Michigan - 1957

    McPherson Cottage on Lake Chemung, Livingston County, Michigan - 1957
  • McPherson Community Health Center, Howell, Michigan, 1958

    Photographs of labeled McPherson Community Health Center, Howell, Michigan in 1958. The persons in most of the photographs are unknown.

    McPherson Memorial Hospital  operated from 1928 to 1958 in the converted mansion given to the City of Howell by the McPherson family, which was located on North Michigan Avenue.

    In 1958, McPherson Community Health Center opened as a brand new hospital at 620 Byron Road, Howell, Michigan.
  • McPherson Browning House, 925 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan

    These photographs are of the McPherson Browning House, 925 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan.  The Brownings lived there in the 1950's.  It was later owned by  Ernestine Hart and later by John Howell.
  • McPherson Browning Home, 925 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan

    These photographs are of the McPherson Browning home, which was later the Alex McPherson home, 1910.  The address was 925 West Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan, and later became the  site of the Paul Bennett Recreation Center.
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