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The Michigan legislature established a home for disabled soldiers, sailors and marines on June 5, 1885.
Charles T. Foster was the first Lansing man to enlist in the Civil War. 
Dr. Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Dr. Grace Eldering (1900-1988) developed the first successful whooping cough vaccine in 1938. It virtually eliminated all fatalities from the disease.
The women in this vintage photo seem to be having fun in the “old stage coach.” One suspects that, even then, the stagecoach could evoke the “romance” of the old frontier.
