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INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
The political parties were nearly equally divided when the election for the third term occurred, and Charles S. Palmer was a candidate for the office on the whig ticket, his party nominating him against his wishes because he was thought to be the only person who could beat me in the election. He could command his party vote and a certain number of democratic votes (he kept a saloon), and of course under such circumstances he was elected, but he declared he would never do any of the business of the office, and when anything in the office must be done I transacted the business for him. He may have signed some papers, but I think he never put his hand to the record. He died in 1846, and Judge Jewett was elected to fill the vacancy.
Now, as to the picture, I never could get a handsome one of myself, and they do not get any better looking as I grow older. I will see the artist and find out what he can do. You can depend on a representation of myself of some kind, for I shall deem it a great honor to have my likeness hung in the
palace the people of Saginaw City have built for the use of the county. Had it been the old court house that has passed away, I might think I had some claims to be there, for I did much in the way of procuring the erection of that edifice.
I received my commission in February, 1835, issued by Stevens T. Mason, acting Governor of the territory of Michigan, which I would gladly have sent to you to be preserved with the records of the court, but I presented it a few years ago to the Michigan Pioneer Society and I think now I will present your letter to the Society and have it pinned to- the commission with the pin you sent, so the whole may be preserved as a relic of the early history of Saginaw.
I hope you will not tire reading these lines traced by the hand of an old man.
Yours truly,
Albert Miller.
Michigan
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