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William J. Moody
William Jackson Moody (1796 – likely 1855 or 1856) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. He was active in the U.S. states of New York and Michigan, and served multiple terms in the Michigan Senate. Biography William Jackson Moody was born in Unity, New Hampshire, in 1796, to Israel Moody and Rebecca Jackson. He lost his left arm fighting in the War of 1812. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1821 and studied law alongside William H. Seward under Elijah Miller, who became Seward's father-in-law. In 1825, he was a judge in Orleans County, New York. He lived in Penfield, New York, before moving to Detroit in 1833. In 1830, Moody was among a group of real estate speculators who purchased land surrounding the claim of Russell Blackman, one of the co-founders of Jackson, Michigan. Blackman had planned to purchase the additional land, but was away raising money at the time the so-called "squatter act" came into effect on January 1, which allowed Moody ...
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Michigan's 4th Senate District
Michigan's 4th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Darrin Camilleri since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Marshall Bullock. Geography District 4 encompasses part of Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County. 2011 Apportionment Plan District 4, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, was based in central Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan, Wayne County, also covering the nearby communities of Allen Park, Michigan, Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Michigan, Lincoln Park, and Southgate, Michigan, Southgate. The district was split three ways among Michigan's Michigan's 12th congressional district, 12th, Michigan's 13th congressional district, 13th, and Michigan's 14th congressional district, 14th congressional districts, and overlapped with the Michigan's 3rd House of Representatives district, 3rd, Michigan's 4th House of Representatives district, 4th, Michigan's 5th House of Representatives di ...
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Jackson, Michigan
Jackson is a city in Jackson County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The population was 31,309 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located along Interstate 94 in Michigan, Interstate 94 and U.S. Route 127 in Michigan, U.S. Route 127, it is approximately east of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo, west of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor, west of Detroit, Michigan, Detroit and south of Lansing, Michigan, Lansing. Jackson is the core city of the Jackson Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan area, which includes all of Jackson County and has a population of 160,248. The city was founded in 1829 and named after President Andrew Jackson. Michigan's first prison, Michigan State Prison (or Jackson State Prison), opened in 1838 and remains in operation. Jackson was historically regarded as the "birthplace of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party" due to a meeting held there in 1854, during which political figures gathered to oppose the expansi ...
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19th-century American Lawyers
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ...
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Michigan State Court Judges
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio to the southeast, and the Canadian province of Ontario to the east, northeast and north. With a population of 10.14 million and an area of , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by total area east of the Mississippi River.''i.e.'', including water that is part of state territory. Georgia is the largest state by land area alone east of the Mississippi and Michigan the second-largest. The state capital is Lansing, while its most populous city is Detroit. The Metro Detroit region in Southeast Michigan is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Other important metropolitan areas include Grand Rapids, Flint, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, the Tri-Cities, and Musk ...
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1850s Deaths
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Democratic Party Michigan State Senators
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1796 Births
Events January–March * January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.) * February 1 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark, Upper Canada, Newark to York, Upper Canada, York. * February 9 – The Qianlong Emperor of China abdicates at age 84 to make way for his son, the Jiaqing Emperor. * February 15 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Invasion of Ceylon (1795) ends when Johan van Angelbeek, the Batavian Republic, Batavian governor of Ceylon, surrenders Colombo peacefully to British forces. * February 16 – The Kingdom of Great Britain is granted control of Ceylon by the Dutch. * February 29 – Ratifications of the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States are officially exchanged, bringing it into effect.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wils ...
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Bremer County, Iowa
Bremer County () is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 24,988. Its county seat is Waverly. The county was named for Fredrika Bremer, a Swedish feminist writer. Bremer County is included in the Waterloo- Cedar Falls, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.9%) is water. It is intersected by the Cedar and Wapsipinicon rivers. Major highways * U.S. Highway 63 * U.S. Highway 218 * Iowa Highway 3 * Iowa Highway 27 * Iowa Highway 93 * Iowa Highway 188 Adjacent counties * Chickasaw County (north) * Fayette County (east) * Floyd County (northwest) * Black Hawk County (south) * Buchanan County (southeast) * Butler County (west) Demographics 2020 census The 2020 census recorded a population of 24,988 in the county, with a population density of . 97.01% of the population reported being of one race. 92.39% ...
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University Of Michigan Medical School
The University of Michigan Medicine (branded as Michigan Medicine) is the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It consists of the university's Medical School, affiliated hospitals, and affiliated healthcare centers. History In 1869 the University of Michigan opened the first hospital in the country owned and operated by a university, in a house in Ann Arbor originally built as a professor's residence. In 1876 a new hospital building was opened adjacent to the old one. At the insistence of the Michigan Legislature, the new building had two separate departments, one for medicine and the other for homeopathy. In 1891 the hospital moved to a set of new buildings away from the university campus, on Catherine Street. The homeopathy department closed in 1921. In 1925 the university opened a hospital building at a cost of $3.85 million. It was designed by Albert Kahn (architect), Albert Kahn and built by T ...
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Cholera
Cholera () is an infection of the small intestine by some Strain (biology), strains of the Bacteria, bacterium ''Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea lasting a few days. Vomiting and muscle cramps may also occur. Diarrhea can be so severe that it leads within hours to severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. This can in turn result in Enophthalmia, sunken eyes, cold or cyanotic skin, decreased skin elasticity, wrinkling of the hands and feet, and, in severe cases, death. Symptoms start two hours to five days after exposure. Cholera is caused by a number of Serotype, types of ''Vibrio cholerae'', with some types producing more severe disease than others. It is spread mostly by Waterborne diseases, unsafe water and Foodborne illness, unsafe food that has been contaminated with human feces containing the bacteria. Undercooked shellfish is a common source. Humans are the only known host fo ...
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Racine, Wisconsin
Racine ( ) is a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River (Wisconsin), Root River, south of Milwaukee and north of Chicago. It is the List of cities in Wisconsin, fifth-most populous city in Wisconsin, with a population of 77,816 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Racine metropolitan statistical area (consisting only of Racine County) with 197,727 residents. The Racine area is part of the greater Milwaukee metropolitan area#Combined statistical area, Milwaukee combined statistical area. Racine is the headquarters of several industrial companies, namely Case IH, Dremel, InSinkErator, Modine Manufacturing, Reliance Controls, and S. C. Johnson & Son. Historically, the Mitchell & Lewis Company began making motorcycles and automobiles in Racine at the start of the 20th century. Racine was also home to the Horlicks malt factory, where ma ...
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