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• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

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• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Biographical Memoir of Cleveland Abbe, 1838-1916 (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1919), by W. J. Humphreys (page images at Google)
• Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), by Benjamin Banneker, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
  • HTML at UMD
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell, First Woman Astronomer in America (New York: Macmillan, 1949), by Helen Wright
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, by Maria Mitchell, ed. by Phebe Mitchell Kendall
  • page images at Harvard
  • Gutenberg text

• Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, by George Biddell Airy (Gutenberg text)

• Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (London: J. Murray, 1876), by Mrs. John Herschel, contrib. by Caroline Lucretia Herschel
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men, by Evening News Association (Detroit) (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Michigan Biographies (2 volumes, 1924), by Michigan Historical Commission
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Volume II (L-Z): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• General History of the State of Michigan (Detroit: R. D. S. Tyler and Co., 1873), by Charles R. Tuttle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• A Gallery of Pen Sketches in Black and White of Our Michigan Friends "As We See 'Em.", by Newspaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of Barry County; With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men (Grand Rapids, MI: Reed-Tangler Co., ca. 1912), by William W. Potter, Ford Hicks, and Edward Butler (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Herring Lake, With an Introductory Legend, The Bride of Mystery, by John Harris Howard (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• A Century of Conquest, 1852-1952: St. Alphonsus Parish, Dearborn, 1952 (Kingsport, TN: Printed by Kingsport Press, 1952), by Maurice W. Geary (page images at HathiTrust)

• "This is a War for the Utter Extinction of Slavery": The Civil War Letters of James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, Hospital Steward, 1st Michigan Colored Infantry (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2020), by James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, ed. by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• History of Livingston Co. Michigan, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: Everts and Abbott, 1880) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Many Moons: Petoskey, Michigan Centennial, 1852-1952 (Petoskey, MI: Petoskey Public Schools, 1952) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (third local volume of a Michigan history set, ca. 1928; for earlier two statewide volumes, see Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes), ed. by George N. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Past and Present of Washtenaw County, Michigan; Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. co., 1906), by Samuel W. Beakes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes (2 statewide volumes plus a third local volume that varies per set; third volume in this set dedicated to Washtenaw County; Dayton, OH: National Historical Association, ca. 1924-1926), ed. by George N. Fuller and Byron Alfred Finney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Golden Jubilarian: Father A. X. M. Sharpe (special issue of the Sacred Heart Guardian; Dearborn, MI: Sacred Heart Parish, 1949) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aunt Sally, or, The Cross the Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan (Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858), by Isaac Williams (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by Christopher H. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at wayne.edu)

• Into the Latter-day Light: An Autobiography (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1929), by John J. Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Margaret A. Leary (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Bark Covered House, or Back in the Woods Again, by William Nowlin
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Gutenberg text