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 FOUNDERS' DAY 
 
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 Drawing by Rev. J. Booth 
 
 Baptist Mission 
 
 Trading Post 
 
 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23rd, 1909 
 
 AT HALF AFTER TWO O'CLOCK 
 
 AT THE LADIES' LITERARY CLUB, SHELDON STREET 
 
 IN HONOUR OF 
 
 LOUIS AND SOPHIE DE MARSAC CAMPAU 
 
 FIRST SETTLERS AND FOUNDERS OF THE CITY OF 
 GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 
 
 IN 1827 
 
 UNDER THE AUSPICES 
 OF THE 
 
 SOPHIE DE MARSAC CAMPAU CHAPTER 
 DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 
 
programme 
 
 Invocation 
 
 Michigan, My Michigan 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS, DIRECTOR MISS BUTZ 
 
 Reading of High School Prize Essay 
 
 "How Michigan Became a State" 
 
 BY THE SUCCESSFUL CONTESTANT 
 
 Presentation of Prizes 
 
 BY THE CHAPTER REGENT 
 
 In Memoriam 
 
 MRS. E. P. FULLER (1826-1909) Honorary Vice Regent of the 
 Sophie de Marsac Campau Chapter 
 
 Report of the Sophie de Marsac Campau Memorial Committee 
 
 MRS. JAMES P. BRAYTON 
 
 The Inception of Founders' Day 
 
 MRS. JAMES H. CAMPBELL. Chapter Regent 
 
 
Address 
 
 THE HONORABLE GEORGE E. ELLIS, Mayor of Grand Rapids 
 
 Louis Campau (1791-1871) Fur Trader, First Settler, Founder 
 of the City of Grand Rapids in 1827 
 
 CAPTAIN CHARLES E. BELKNAP 
 
 Sophie de Marsac Campau — Gentlewoman (1825-1869) 
 
 MRS. J. C. BUCHANAN 
 
 Presentation of the Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Campau 
 
 By MRS. FRANCES E. CAMPAU DANFORTH 
 MRS. ANNA CAMPAU BABY 
 
 The portraits were painted by Charles H. Moore, a Grand 
 Rapids artist, son of Judge Lovell Moore, about 1850 
 
 Reading, "Bury Me With My Grand Army Badge on My 
 Breast" Poem by Adelphe T. Campau (1841-1909) 
 
 MRS. I. PLATT POWELL 
 
 Reading of Mrs. Harriet Guild Burton's Statement of the 
 
 Bringing of the Guild Family to Grand Rapids by 
 
 Louis Campau, June 23rd, 1833 
 
 MISS BARR, a descendant of Joel Guild 
 
 From Fur Trading Post to Mansion, from Mansion to Cottage 
 
 A retrospective View by Old Time Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Campau 
 
 Music, "America" 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS 
 
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