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Highland, Oakland County, Michigan

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TENNY, RUFUS

Early History Of Michigan With Biographies Of State Officers, Members Of Congress, Judges And Legislators,
Published Pursuant to Act 59, 1887, Lansing, Thorp & Godfrey, State Printers And Binders (1888), p. 639

RUFUS TINNEY [Sic],

Representative from Oakland county in 1841, settled in Highland, Mich., in 1833, coming from Wheatland, Monroe county, N.Y.  He was a farmer, and resided where he first located until his death in 1858.   He was the first supervisor of the town in 1835, and filled that office for six terms.

 

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