Michigan+VIPs

This is a page to help you find information about people who were very important people in Michigan history.
 * Welcome to the Michigan VIP Page!**

 **Aardema, Verna – author**

__A Bookworm Who Hatched/Aardema__ (B Aardema)

__[]__ __http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/16/arts/verna-aardema-88-chronicler-of-african-folklore-for-children.html__ __http://history.librarypoint.org/Verna_Aardema__

 **Abbott, Jim – baseball player**

__Jim Abbott: star pitcher/Gutman(__B Abbott) __Jim Abbott/Stewart__ (B Abbott)

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 **Beaumont, William – doctor**

__Dr. Beaumont and the Man with the Hole in His Stomach/__Epstein (612 Eps)

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 **Bunche, Ralph – U.N., Nobel Peace Prize**

__Ralph J. Bunche/McKissack__ (B Bunche)

__[]__ __[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=219__

 **Cadillac, Antoine da la Mothe – explorer**

__Antoine de La Cadillac/Knudsen__ (B Cadillac)

__[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=149__

 **Cadillac, Marie-Therese – first Lady of Detroit**

__First Lady of Detroit/Bush__ (B Cad)

__[]__ [|Michigan Women Hall of Fame]


 * Ben Carson -- Surgeon**

__Ben Carson/Lewis__ (B Carson) __Gifted Hands/Carson__ (B Carson)

[|Biography.com] [|Academy of Achievement] [|Carson Scholar Fund]

** [[image:http://crestoncs.pbworks.com/f/Lewis%20Cass.gif width="113" height="155"]] Cass, Lewis -- Governor of the Michigan Territory **
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 **Chaffee, Roger – astronaut; 1967 fire** __….On Course to the Stars/Chrysler__ (B Chaffee)

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=== **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Champlain, Samuel de – explorer ** === <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Samuel de Champlain/Kline__ (B deChamplain)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/samuel-de-champlain.htm

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Chrysler, Walter – auto industry** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Walter Chrysler: boy machinist/Weddle__ (B Chrysler)

__[]__ __[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=153__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Clemenc, Anna (Annie) – heroine**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Big Annie of Calumet__ (B Calumet) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Historic Women of Michigan/Troester__ (977.4 His)

[] [|Michigan Women Hall of Fame]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Cobb, Ty – baseball player**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Ty Cobb__/Macht (B Cobb)

__[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=108__ [|Official Website of Ty Cobb]


 * Curtis, Christopher Paul** -- **author**

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=49 http://www.nobodybutcurtis.com/ []

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Custer, George Armstrong -- general**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__George Armstrong Custer__/__Rau__ (B Custer)

__[]__ __http://www.georgearmstrongcuster.com/__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **deAngeli, Marguerite – author/illustrator**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Bold Women of Michigan History/Burns__ (977.4 Bur) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Remarkable Michigan Women/Pferdehirt__ (977.4 Pfe) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Historic Women of Michigan/Troester__ (977.4 His)

__[]__ __http://www.unc.edu/~bflorenc/libraryladies/deangeli.html__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Edison, Thomas A – inventor**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Thomas Edison/Middleton__ B Edison <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Always Inventing/Murphy__ B Edison <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__In Their Own Words: Thomas Edison__ B Edison <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Thomas Edison/Raatma__ B Edison

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Edmonds, Sarah Emma – Civil War Spy**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Behind Rebel Lines/Reit__ B Edmonds

__[]__ [|Michigan Women Hall of Fame]

**Etheridge, Annie -- Civil War nurse**

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[[image:http://michiganvip.pbworks.com/f/betty_ford-image-43.jpg width="92" height="116"]] Ford, Betty - First Lady
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Ford, Gerald R. – President**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Gerald R Ford/Margaret__ (B Ford)

__http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/grf/fordbiop.asp__ __[]__ __http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/geraldford__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Ford, Henry – auto industry**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Henry Ford/Schaefer__ (B Ford) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Henry Ford/Joseph__ (B Ford) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Eat My Dust! Herny Ford’s First Race/Kulling__(B Ford) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__We’ll Race You, Henry/Mitchell__ (B Ford)

__[|http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp#childhood]__ __[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=127__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Franklin, Aretha – singer**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Aretha Franklin/Carroll__ (B Franklin)

__[]__ __[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=72__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Frostic, Gwen – artist**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Remarkable Michigan Women/Pferdehirt (977.4 Pfe)__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__The Life and Wisdom of Gwen Frostic/James__ (B Frostic)

http://www.gwenfrostic.com/t-aboutgwen.aspx [|Michigan Women Hall of Fame] []

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Freeman, Julia Wheelock – Michigan’s Florence Nightingale**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Remarkable Michigan Women/Pferdehirt (977.4 Pfe)__

[|Michigan Women Hall of Fame] []

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Gillette, Genevieve – champion of Michigan Parks**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Bold Women of Michigan History/Burns (977.4 Bur)__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Remarkable Michigan Women/Pferdehirt (977.4 Pfe)__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Historic Women of Michigan/Troester__ (977.4 His)

[|Michigan Women Hall of Fame] [|Michigan's Department of Natural Resources] [|Gillette Nature Center]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Haviland, Laura – abolitionist**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Bold Women of Michigan History/Burns (977.4 Bur)__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Remarkable Michigan Women/Pferdehirt (977.4 Pfe)__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Historic Women of Michigan/Troester__ (977.4 His)

[|Michigan Women Hall of Fame] [|Learning to Give] [|Michigan's Department of Natural Resources] [|American History]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Howe, Gordie – hockey player**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Gordie: a hockey legend/MacSkimming__ (B Howe)

__[]__ __[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=75__ [|Gordie Howe's Official Website]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Johnson, Magic – basketball player**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Magic Johnson/Frank__ (B Johnson) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Magic Johnson: champion with a cause/Greenberg__ (B Johnson)

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Kahn, Albert – architect**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Albert Kahn: builder of Detroit/Matuz__ (B Kahn)

__[]__ __[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=57__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Kellogg, W.K. – inventor**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__W.K. Kellogg/Peterson__ (B Kellogg)

[|Biography.com] __[|Ideafinder]__ [|Kellogg's Foundation]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **LaFramboise, Magdelaine – fur trader**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Bold Women of Michigan History/Burns (977.4 Bur)__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Remarkable Michigan Women/Pferdehirt (977.4 Pfe)__ <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Historic Women of Michigan/Troester__ (977.4 His)

[|Michigan Women Hall of Fame] [|St. Anne's Church] (and the role Magdelaine LaFramoise played in it)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **La Salle, Sieur de -- explorer**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Sieur de La Salle/Santella__ (977 San)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Lindbergh, Charles – aviator**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Charles Lindberg/Raatma__ (B Lindbergh) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Lindberg/Demarest__ (B Lindbergh) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Charles Lindbergh/Davis__ (B Lindbergh)

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> **Lipinski, Tara – ice skater**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Tara Lipinski: queen of the ice/Gutman__ (B Lipinski) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Tara Lipinski: Triumph on Ice/Lipinski__ (B Lipinski) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Tara Lipinski/Wheeler__ (B Lipinski)

__[|Figure Skating]__ __[|Sports Illustrated]__ [|Tara Lipinski's Official Site]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Louis, Joe – boxer**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Joe Louis: America’s Fighter/Adler__ (B Louis)

__[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=73__ [|Joe Louis' Official Website]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **McCoy, Elijah – inventor**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__The Real McCoy/Towle__ (B McCoy)

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Rosa Parks – civil rights leader**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Rosa Parks/Dubois__ (B Parks) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott/Celsi__ (B Parks) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Rosa Parks/Greenfield__ (B Parks) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Rosa Parks/Schaefer__ (B Parks)

__[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=107__ [|Rosa Parks' Official Website] [|Biography.com] [|Academy of Achievement]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Polacco, Patricia -- author**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Firetalking/Polacco__ (B Polacco)

__[]__ [|Reading Rockets][|Scholastic]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Pontiac – Native American chief**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Pontiac: young Ottawa leader/Peckham__ (B Pontiac)

__[]__ __[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=148__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Quimby, Harriet – aviator**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Harriet Quimby: America’s First Lady of the Air/Hall__ (B Quimby) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Brave Harriet/Moss__ (B Quimby)

__[]__ [|Harriet Quimby's Official Website] [|Centennial of Flight]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Reuther Brothers – labor leaders**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__The Reuther Brothers: Walter, Roy, and Victor/Smith__ (B Reuther)

__http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=145__ [|American Postal Union Workers] [|Washington Post]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Ross, Diana – singer**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Diana Ross/Wyeth__ (B Ross)

__[]__ __[]__ __http://www.detroithistorical.org/main/encyclopedia_item.aspx?ID=171__

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">**Salk, Jonas -- polio vaccine**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Jonas Salk: polio vaccine pioneer/Parks__ (B Salk)

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Shaw, Anna Howard – suffragist**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__A Voice from the Wilderness/Brown__ (B Shaw) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Historic Women of Michigan/Troester__ (977.4 His)

[|Michigan Women Hall of Fame] [|New York Times][|Biography.com] [|Great Women.org] <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Sojourner Truth – abolitionist**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Sojourner Truth/McLoone__ (B Truth) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Sojourner Truth: antislavery activist/Krass__ (B Truth) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Sojourner Truth/Jaffe__ (B Truth) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Historic Women of Michigan/Troester__ (977.4 His)

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Tecumseh – Native American**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Tecumseh: Shawnee War Chief/Fleischer__ (B Tecumseh) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Tecumseh/Kent__ (B Tecumseh)

__[|Biography.com]__ [|History 1880s] [|Book Rags]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **Van Allsburg, Chris – author/illustrator**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Chris VanAllsburg/Wheeler__ (B Van Allsburg)

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> **X, Malcolm -- civil rights leader**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Malcolm X/Davis__ (B X) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">__Malcolm X and Black Pride/Cwiklik__ (B X)

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