The Boy Governor: Stevens T. Mason and the Birth of Michigan Politics

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181 Notes Chapter One 1. Peter L. Bernstein, Wedding of the Waters (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 27. 2. Kent Sagendorph, Stevens Thomson Mason: Misunderstood Patriot (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947), 47. 3. Patricia J. Baker, “Stevens Thomson Mason,” Great Lakes Informant, ser. 1, no. 5 (2001): 1, Michigan Historical Center. 4. Major W. C. Ransom, speech before the Historical Society of Michigan, January 26, 1871, in Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. 6, 1883, 110. Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections is a series of volumes created from materials that were presented at meetings of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. These volumes are available at a number of libraries throughout the state, including the Ann Arbor District Library. The series is particularly useful to studies of early Michigan. 5. Lawton T. Hemans, Life and Times of Stevens Thomson Mason (Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission, 1920), 34. 6. Kent Sagendorph, Michigan: The Story of the University (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1948), 52. 7. Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (New York: Random House, 2008), prologue. 8. Ibid., 82. 9. Sagendorph, Stevens Thomson Mason: Misunderstood Patriot, 84. 10. Hemans, Life and Times of Stevens Thomson Mason, 36. 11. Baker, “Stevens Thomson Mason,” 1. 12. Quoted in Meacham, American Lion, 289. 13. Letter of August 22, 1830, John Thomson Mason Papers, 1787–1850, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, Detroit. 14. Quoted in Hemans, Life and Times of Stevens Thomson Mason, 89. 15. Sagendorph, Stevens Thomson Mason: Misunderstood Patriot, 131. 16. Silas Farmer, History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan (Detroit: Silas Farmer, 1890), 962. 182 notes to pages 17–27 17. Letter of July 26, 1831, MS/Mason, Stevens Thomson, 1831–1842, Mason Papers, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. 18. Ibid. 19. Letter of August 1, 1831, box 1, Stevens T. Mason Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 20. Letter of December 20, 1831, box 1, Stevens T. Mason Papers, Bentley Historical Library. 21. “Accounts and Claims between S. T. Mason and U.S.A.,” box 3, Department of State, Michigan State Archives, Lansing. 22. Letter of January 4, 1832, William Woodbridge Papers, 1780–1861, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. Chapter Two 1. James Z. Schwartz, Conflict on the Michigan Frontier: Yankee and Borderland Cultures, 1815–1840 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009), 92. 2. Brian C Wilson, Yankees in Michigan (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2008), 36. 3. Howard Peckham, The Making of the University of Michigan, 1817–1992 (Ann Arbor: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1967), 3. 4. Ibid., 8. 5. Michigan Manual, 2001–2002 (Lansing: Legislative Service Bureau, 2002), 6. 6. Willis Dunbar, Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1965), 135. 7. C. Warren Vander Hill, Settling the Great Lakes Frontier: Immigration to Michigan, 1837–1924 (Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission, 1970), 2. 8. Don Faber, The Toledo War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), 31. 9. Vander Hill, Settling the Great Lakes Frontier, 3. 10. Cass, in a June 7, 1824, message to Territorial Council, quoted in George Weeks, Stewards of the State (Detroit: Detroit News; Ann Arbor: Historical Society of Michigan, 1987), 10. 11. Quoted in Kent Sagendorph, Michigan: The Story of the University (New York: E. P. Dutton,1948), 45. 12. Sagendorph, Michigan: The Story of the University, 46. 13. Harry L. Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (New York: Hill and Wang, 1990), 25. 14. Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 392. 15. Ibid., 393. 16. Ibid. 17. Wilson, Yankees in Michigan, 2. notes to pages 27–36 183 18. Quoted in George N. Fuller, Economic and Social Beginnings of Michigan (Lansing : Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford, 1916), 486. 19. Quoted in N. B. Sloan, “Citizenship in the Public Schools,” in Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. 38, 1909–11, 612. 20. Dunbar, Michigan: A History, 201. 21. Bruce Catton, Michigan: A Bicentennial History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1976), 73. 22. Ibid., 68. 23. Schwartz, Conflict on the Michigan Frontier, 79. 24. Ibid. 25. Ibid., 4, 5. 26. Ibid. 27. Catton, Michigan: A Bicentennial History, 69. 28. John T. Fierst, “Rationalizing Removal: Anti-Indianism in Lewis Cass’s North American Review Essays,” Michigan Historical Review 36, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 11. 29. Ibid., 15. 30. Ibid., 32. 31. Watson, Liberty and Power, 107. 32...