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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' MONUMENT. 14
The committee also named as the executive committee Hon. C. C. Trowbridge, Hon. John Owen, Hon. H. P. Baldwin, Hon. N. H. Walker, J. F. Conover, Esq., and C. I. Walker, Esq., all of Detroit; ex-Governor Blair, of Jackson; Hon. E. H. Thomson, of Flint; and Hon. S. M. Cutcheon, of Ypsilanti, with the president, treasurer, and secretary ex officio.
A meeting was also held on June 26th, 1867, with Judge Witherell in the chair, when a report was submitted by Mr. Trowbridge, which he had been selected to prepare, relative to the merits of the numerous designs which had been presented by the different competing artists.
Next morning the death of Judge Witherell occurred, and the association was called upon to deplore the sudden and unexpected loss of its founder, a gentleman peculiarly interested in its patriotic work, and who had spent nearly the last hour of his life in planning and advising as to its future labor.
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