Duffield, Henry M.

5/15/1842

Detroit, Michigan

Commander in G.A.R.
President of Detroit Light Guard, 1895
Counselor for Detroit Board of Education, 1866-1870
Detroit City Counselor, 1881-1887
First President for Michigan State Bar Association

1859 attended University of Michigan
1861 Graduate from William College, Williamstown, Mass.

Served in Civil War and Spanish-American War. Held several City offices & comissions

1861, 1st Lieut. then Adjutant, 9th Michigan Volunteers. Appointed assistant Adj. General 23rd Brigade, Army of Cumberland. Prisoner of War, exchanged August 15, 1862. Honorably discharged 1864

Spanish American War was Brigadier General in command of 33rd and 34th Michigan and 9th Mass. Volunteers

Fist commander of Detroit Post No. 384, G.A.R.

1874-1883: Colonel in State Military Board of Michigan

1910: Commander in Chief of National Commandery of Naval and Military Order of Spanish-American War

1865: Admitted to the bar
Professor of federal practice and jurisprudence Detroit College of Law.
Member of Detroit Board of Water Commissioners
Member of Detroit Board of Park Commissioners

1903: Appointed umpire in German-Venezuelan arbitration by President Roosevelt

Chairman Republican State Central Committee. Attended national conventions at Chicago and Minneapolis and attempted to secure presidential nomination for Russel A. Alger.

Member of Sons of American Revolution, Detroit Lodge, B.P.O.E, Union Leageue and University Clubs of New York City, Army and Navy Club of Washington, D.C., Detroit Club, Yondetaga Club and Country Club, Detroit.

George Duffield

Isabella Bethune

Frances Merrill Pitts, m. 12/29/1863, Detroit, Michigan

William Beach
Henry (b. 1865)
Pitts (b. 1869)
Divie Bethune (b. 1870)
Francis
Morse Stewart (b. 1874)
Graham

American