The Drakes of Van Buren County, Michigan

The Drakes of Van Buren County, Michigan
Author: Toni Jackson Benson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1991
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Joshua Cope Drake (1817-1906), son of William Jehiel Drake and Hannah Montross, was born in Long Point Bay, Ontario, Canada, and died in Bangor, Michigan. He married (1) Elizabeth J. Little (1819-1879), daughter of Nathaniel and Ann Little. She was born in Charleston, New York. He married (2) Mary Elizabeth Clark Penrod (b. 1845), daughter of John Marvin and Ann Mary Woodward Clark, in 1879 in Bangor, Michigan. She was born in New York. He had fifteen children.

A Stronger Kinship

A Stronger Kinship
Author: Anna-Lisa Cox
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2007-09-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803260184

Presents the story of the nineteenth-century community of Covert, Michigan, describing how its mixed-race citizens lived in harmony and enjoyed completely integrated schools and churches and shared power and wealth between races.