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Who are the people who made Ann Arbor the city we all know and love? Click on the names below for an image and information from the exhibit.

Airey, John
Allen, Ann
Allen, John
Allmendinger, David
Angell, James B.
Bach, Anna Botsford
Bach, Philip
Beal, Rice
Beckley, Guy
Brown, Daniel
Brown, William E. Jr.
Burns, George, Plumer
Butterfield, W. S.
Chase, Dr. Alvin
Clark, Mary
Cowie, Dr. David Murray
Dean, Elizabeth
Dean, Sedgewick
Douglass, Silas
Finkel, Maurice
Foster, James and Clarice
Frieze, Henry Simmons
Gallup, Eli
Gillespie, George D.
Hall, Israel and Olivia
Henderson, Mary Bartron
Hangsterfer, Jacob
Hoag, Gerald
Hoover, Leander
Kelly, Edward D.
Kempf, Reuben and Pauline
King, Horace

Kingsley, James
Larcom, Guy
Lorch, Emil
Mack, Christian
Maynard, William S.
Maynard, Ezra
Mann, Mrs. and Mrs. Jonathan
Morse, Ellen
Mosher, Dr. Eliza
Muehlig, Andrew
Muehlig, Bertha
Muehlig, Florian C.
Nichols, Walter and Esther
Otto, Henry
Perry, Walter S.
Poulos, Angelo
Power, Eugene
Rogers, Moses
Rumsey, Elisha
Schmid, Frederick
Sedgewick, George
Seeley, H. H.
Simonds, Ossian Cole
Sink, Charles & Alva
Staebler, Michael
Stanley, Albert
Sunderland, Jabez
Tappan, Henry
Towsley, Harry
Towsley, Margaret Dow
Vaughan, Victor
Wines, Levi "Daddy"
Wuerth, J. Fred

Comments

Submitted by ginnyb60 on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 9:20pm.

handy reference!

Submitted by ompopp on Sun, 06/24/2012 - 1:16am.

This is a great reference for all the great people in Ann Arbor's history!

Featured Local History

Ann Arbor Street Art Fair

AADL has partnered with the Street Art Fair to create a history of the event that has defined Ann Arbor summers for half a century. This exhibit brings together images, videos, and audio memories from fairgoers and fair participants alike to paint a picture of Ann Arbor's most creative festival.

Random Founders Image

Dr. Chase's Steam Printing House,1970

Random Gallery Image

Southeast Corner, Main and Liberty, ca. 1868