Index to Biographies of Early and Prominent Settlers
 

• Arends, Mrs. A. Arends  article from the G. R. Herald, 23 October 1929

• Cutler, Dwight - early settler of Grand Haven

• Diekema, Gerrit John Diekema - U. S. Representative of Michigan, U. S. Minister to the Netherlands

• DeKraker Louis  - articles on his occupation as a Holland butcher and on some G. A. R. Reunions.

• Ferry, William - founder of Ferrysburg

• Gilmore Mrs. C. VanRaalte, article on daughter of Rev. A. C. VanRaalte, from G. R. Press, 1925

• Haworth, Gerald W. - founder of Haworth, Inc.

• Hefferan, Thomas - employed by the Eastman family of Eastmanville and President of the Peoples' Savings Bank of Grand Rapids

• Kirkby, Thomas W. - businessman and shipyard owner, Grand Haven

• VanderJagt, Guy - U. S. Senator, 9th District, Michigan, 1966 - 1993

• Biographical Sketches from the 1882 Ottawa County History, Georgetown Township - includes Hiram Jenison, Thomas Curry, E. Franklin Bosworth, Lucius and Luman Jenison, J. W. Closterhouse, John F. Hardy, Eugene A. Weatherwax, Ira Y. Burnham, Franklin Phelps, John Green, Homer E. Hudson, Independence Day Knappen, Dell Barnaby, Albertus Kronemeyer, Benjamin Robinson, George Weatherwax, John H. Toren and Dudley Cunningham

• Biographical Sketches from the 1882 Ottawa County History, Jamestown Township
  Gardner Avery, George A. Brown, Lucius B. Brown, Thomas Garfield, S. L. Gitchel, Lambert Luten, Charles H. Richardson, Thaddeus Skeels, Riley Standish, Jan Tiesinga, John N. Waite and Theron C. Whipple

• Portrait and Biographical Record of Muskegon and Ottawa Counties, Michigan, 1893

Created: 23 January 2008
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