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Executive and historian of Consumers Power Company of Michigan. Correspondence, speeches, articles, and copy of his history of the company entitled, "Song of Service; A Century of Consumers Power Company and Its Predecessors"; also include articles on history of Jackson County, Michigan; and photographs.

The papers of E. Hardy Luther reflect his life-long interest in Consumers Power and the local history of Jackson County. Luther's history of Consumer's Power, "Song of Service," comprises the bulk of the collection. The several inches of Luther's personal papers include correspondence, speeches, interviews, and unpublished articles relative to the development of electrical power in Michigan, management techniques of Consumers Power and the history of the Jackson Community in the 19th century.

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Family based in Detroit and Alpena, Michigan and engaged in many business enterprises; business records detailing involvement in lumbering, milling, paper manufacturing, and power and light companies, mainly in Alpena, Michigan.

The Fletcher family collection consists primarily the records of the family's business activities. The business correspondence date from 1856 to 1936 and relates to the operation of family firms, notably A. F. Fletcher & Co., Fletcher Pack & Co., and George N. Fletcher & Sons. The business records series is more specifically arranged by company name and includes the Alpena Power Company/Alpena Electric Light Co., George N. Fletcher & Sons, and the Alpena Water Company among others. Other series in the collection relate to both personal and corporate litigation. The Frank W. Fletcher Personal papers concerns his tenure as a regent of the University of Michigan and his continuing interest in university affairs.

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Professor of civil engineering at University of Michigan. Railroad valuation and appraisal files; lectures and reports; personal materials.

The Henry Earle Riggs collection includes correspondence and documents, 1914-1924, relating to valuation of the Detroit United Railway. This includes correspondence removed from the files of Mortimer E. Cooley. There are also other materials relating to public utilities valuation, civil engineering, and public works, mainly lectures, addresses, articles, and testimony.

Of special note is a file of correspondence relating to University of Michigan Civil Engineering alumni killed in World War I, file on the history of the Ann Arbor Railroad, and a 1942 speech describing problems of the proposed Willow Run, Michigan, wartime housing development.

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Lawyer at Coldwater, Michigan, Civil War officer, U.S. Marshal of Eastern District of Michigan and Minister to Belgium. Correspondence from family, friends and associates regarding personal and business affairs, military matters, and Democratic politics; miscellaneous other materials and photographs.

The John G. Parkhurst collection consists of correspondence from family, friends and associates regarding personal and business affairs, military matters, and Democratic politics; miscellaneous other materials and photograph. the collections has been divided into the following series: Correspondence; John G. Parkhurst Civil War service; John G. Parkhurst diplomatic and other activities; and Other family materials, business records, and miscellaneous.

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Attorney General of Michigan, 1912. Briefs and other legal papers relating to the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad case and the Grand Rapids Gas Company case; correspondence, 1907-1908, on his campaign and activities in the Michigan Constitutional Convention; scrapbooks on the Constitutional Convention and Michigan politics, 1907-1920.

The Roger Irving Wykes papers are comprised of four series: Correspondence; Michigan Constitutional Convention, 1907-1908; Miscellaneous; and Litigation Case Files. Most of the correspondence relates to his campaign for delegate to the Constitutional Convention. The great bulk of the Litigation series relates to his participation in the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic Railroad Company Rate Case.

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Detroit, Michigan attorney, member of the board of directors of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. Testimony taken in telephone company rate cases, decisions of the utilities commissioners, and miscellaneous court cases.

The Thomas G. Long papers consist only of materials from his activities as a member of the board of directors of the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. These files pertain to telephone rate cases and to other court cases and decisions of the state's utilities commission.

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