[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Michigander"

[dave@wilton.net]

A slightly earlier one at [ https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/michigan ]( https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/michigan ): 
 
“Michigan” (16 September 1838). Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Massachusetts), 14 November 1838, 1. Readex: 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. Another one parallel, and but a few miles south of it, is about being made in the States of Ohio and Indiana, from the Maumee River to Michigan city."
 
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Michigander (OED 1838 [14 Nov.])

1838 _Bangor Daily Whig and Courier_ 18 Oct. (Newspapers.com)

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 to St. Joseph's.

Fred Shapiro


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