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  • Michigan's first governor remains missing

    06/29/2010 12:27:39 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 30 replies
    upi ^ | June 29, 2010
    DETROIT, - Detroit officials said workers have been unable to locate the remains of Michigan's first governor as part of a park renovation project. The officials said workers moved the statue of Gov. Stevens T. Mason, who was first elected governor at the age of 24 in 1835, two years before Michigan gained statehood, in Capitol Park, but there was no sign of the governor's remains beneath the memorial, The Detroit News reported Tuesday. Experts said details of Mason's last reburial, which occurred in 1955, are sparse due to a strike at the local newspapers. The remains are variously described...