Here in Mountain Home Cemetery in Kalamazoo at the top of a hill lies the 7th Governor of Michigan (1848-1850) and the first to be inaugurated in the new Capital of Lansing. He also served as the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1843-1847.
We found his gravesite yesterday and his tombstone is really hard to read but here it is.
A G.A.R. veteran marker was lying down and I propped it up but wondered why he has one considering that G.A.R. was founded in 1866 and Ransom died in 1859.
Kalamazoo has a Ransom historic marker that mentions how as judge he prevented the removal of Catholic Potawatomi Native Americans from their lands. Just the Catholics? More questions.
So here is just a small piece of Michigan history about a man with a really long first name who Kalamazoo remembers.
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