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Digitized newspapers from Clare County

Archived at CMU’s Clarke Historical Library.

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Clare County Cleaver — Harrison — 1891 – 2017

Clare County Press — Clare — 1878 – 1886

Clare Courier — Clare — 1895 – 1922

Clare Democrat — Clare — 1885 – 1889

Clare Democrat and Press — Clare — 1890 – 1892

Clare Press — Clare — 1886 – 1887

Clare Sentinel — Clare — 1896 – 1999

Clare Sentinel (1892) — Clare — 1892 – 1894

Clare Sentinel and the Democrat-Press — Clare — 1894 – 1896

Farwell News — Farwell — 1953 – 1971

Rotary Chronicle — Clare — 1955 – 1975

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Clare County Review (Google News Archive) — 2004 – 2009

Newspaper clippings

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Clare Sentinel 27 August 1909 The scene Clare county, the subject matter the history of this locality the past 30 years.
CS 27 August 1909 – memories of Clare history, A. J. Doherty, Jim Carr, timber industry, Joe Hudson
Clare County Press 18 October 1879 Local Brevities
CCP 18 October 1879 – bear activity, election season, oxen running loose on main street
Clare County Press 02 January 1880 Crawford Settlement Christmas
CCP 02 January 1880 – Christmas of 1879, first Christmas tree in Crawford Settlement, Santa Claus, Alonzo Tatman, schoolhouse
CCC 19 May 1955 – Clare County history, surveyors, Kaykakee, McEwan, timber era, Chippewa, Wilkins, Crawford, Hinkle, Dr. Maynard, Calkins, Farwell, Harrison, Bridget Bergen, Ireland
CS 20 June 1947 - Clare firetrucks from 1921 and 1947
CS 20 June 1947 – Clare firetrucks from 1921 and 1947
Kiddies, Spooks and Goblins Party Saturday Night
CS 30 October 1936 – Halloween party
Digitized nonfiction books
Historical Society of Michigan

The Historical Society of Michigan publishes Michigan History Magazine six times per year.

Below is a list of selected articles (text only) that touch on Clare County history.

Libraries
Library of Michigan online resources

Residents of the state are entitled to free card access. Once registered, account holders have access to the following resources:

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) is a fraternal organization dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of veteran heroes who fought and worked to save the Union in the American Civil War. Organized in 1881 and chartered by Congress in 1954, SUVCW is the legal heir and successor to the Grand Army of the Republic. Learn more at https://suvcw.org/organization-overview.

There is a Michigan chapter along with a “Camp” in Cadillac named after General Orlando M. Poe. Clare County is within this territory. The group publishes an excellent newsletter and has recently published two articles about Clare residents. They are posted below:

JOHN W. DUNSMORE: SULTANA SURVIVOR & CLARE COUNTY RESIDENT

Michigan Engineer John W. Dunsmore only served in the Union Army for eighteen months, but during that time he survived wounding and capture at the hands of rebel cavalry, confinement for seven months in Confederate prison camp, and then the ill-fated journey of the steamer Sultana, a side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,167 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history. Article available as PDF.

RIEGLE AND YOUNGLOVE HONORED AS LAST VETERANS OF CLARE COUNTY, MICHIGAN

Two old men, two final witnesses to the great national tragedy, both residing in the Clare area, the two heroes were the Last Union Veterans of Clare County, Michigan. These well respected old Veterans of Clare County took their final breaths just one single day apart, on the 10th and 11th days of January 1939. Two men with incredible wartime stories that were revisited one last time. Article available as PDF.

Learn more about the Michigan Chapter at https://www.suvcwmi.org/.