Howell Area Archives Digital Archive

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  • HCDL-ngp-A004-02-0066_u.jpg

    A portrait of Frank DelVero, Prosecuting Attorney in Livingston County, Michigan- 1986
  • HCDL-ngp-A004-02-0071_u.jpg

    Glenn C. Yelland holding a United States flag on the lawn in front of the Howell, Michigan courthouse. People are also gathered behind him on the lawn. He was an attorney and his father was Judge Judd Yelland.
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    This is a photograph of a receipt for Dennis Shields who purchased a burial plot at the St. Joseph Catholic Church, Cemetery, known as the Howell Catholic Cemetery, 1898.  Dennis Shields, attorney, Howell, Michigan, died August 28, 1898.  He is now buried in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Howell, which was established in 1914.  The date of purchase of this cemetery plot is September 1, 1898.

    According to the book, "Mt Olivet Cemetery Tombstone Transcriptions", August 1992, published by the Livingston County Genealogical Society, the first Catholic Cemetery in Howell was established March 14, 1891 when the Howell Catholic Cemetery Association purchased a 4.25 acre parcel of land from Charles E. and Katherine Itsell of Genoa township for the cost of $250.  The parcel was located on the west side of Chilson Road (formerly known as Ann Arbor Road), 600 feet south of the Old Grand River Road in section six of Genoa township.

    The LCGS did not find the names of the individuals interred in the present (1992) church records.  They concluded that sometime around 1900, remains were re-interred in other cemeteries although there are no know records or plats of the old cemetery and no history of removal and re-interment of those remains.   Later, the land was sold to several private individuals for home sites, and homes are located there now.

    View Livingston Republican August 31, 1898 Article (In Library Use Only)

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    A portrait of John Pikkarainen, attorney, 1982, Livingston County, Michigan
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    John Pikkarainen, Attorney, Livingston County, Michigan, 1982
  • HCDL-ngp-I001-01-0097_u.jpg

    This is a photograph Joseph Brady, Vice President, Citizens' Mutual Automobile Insurance Company,  Law Class, 1963.

    The names of the persons are unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-A004-02-0059_u.jpg

    Judge John Pikkarainen, attorney - 1983

    Livingston County District Court Judge for 18 years before leaving the bench in 2006.

    Livingston, Michigan
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    Judge Michael Carland, Circuit Court - 1958

    Michael Carland was born in Detroit in 1906, and died in Durand July 30, 1984.

    In December 1959, Michael Carland was sworn in as Circuit Judge of the 35th Judicial Circuit, comprising Shiawassee and Livingston counties, for a term of six years.

    Judge Carland served in that position until his retirement on September 30, 1917.  Livingston County was split from that Circuit in 1968
  • HCDL-ngp-A004-02-0130_u.jpg

    A portrait of Judge Willis Lyons in 1935.


    He was born in 1877 and died in 1970. He held the following positions:

    • Livingston County, Michigan Clerk
    • Livingston County, Michigan Prosecutor
    • Livingston County, Michigan Probate Judge
    • Livingston County, Michigan Circuit Judge
  • HCDL-ngp-A004-02-0077_u.jpg

    A portrait of Judge Willis Lyons in 1935.


    He was born in 1877 and died in 1970. He held the following positions:

    • Livingston County, Michigan Clerk
    • Livingston County, Michigan Prosecutor
    • Livingston County, Michigan Probate Judge
    • Livingston County, Michigan Circuit Judge
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