Antedating of "Michigander"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Michigander (OED 1842)

1838 _Hampshire Gazette_ (Northampton, Mass.) 14 Nov. 1 (America's Historical Newspapers)  I came, as I told you, the last thirty miles to Detroit by rail road.  This is part of one which the Michiganders are making across St. Joseph's.

Fred Shapiro

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