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Source 014 – Official Letter: George E. Nichols, Estate of Alta Thomas

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Author: George E. Nichols of Ionia, MI
Title: Letter to Mrs. Charles R. Thomas [Iva M. (Cooper) Thomas] of East Jordan, MI
Date: 15 March 1915
Curator: Christine Fisher
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March 15, 1915
Mrs. Charles R. Thomas
East Jordan, Mich

My dear Mrs. Thomas:
Yours of the 11th at hand. I note what you say in relation to Charlie’s condition and tell him not to worry about the statement that I sent him, or the application to the probate court for the allowance of his final account, but just let that matter stand as it is until he has entirely recovered his nerve. The thing is all right anyway and I told the Judge of Probate that Charlie was sick and it might be some time before he got around with the account and he said, all right, to take our time for it, so there is no use worrying about that.

I hope that the indication of pus doesn’t mean that he will be laid up very much longer. I know you are having a very unfortunate time but things will clear away. I have been through the same proposition in different ways when I could see nothing but a dark cloud in front of me and yet in time it has cleared itself up and everything was all right. Now you tell Charlie, in relation to the estate, that I will look into that some day when I am in Grand Rapids and find out what is being done and will report to you so he will know about it.

I hope that he will come along fast now and that you will be able to pass on your worries in a little while. I remain,
Yours truly, George E. Nichols, Lawyer, Ionia, Michigan

Source 013 – Official Letter: George E. Nichols

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Author: George E. Nichols of Ionia, MI
Title: Letter to Mrs. Charles R. Thomas [Iva M. (Cooper) Thomas] of East Jordan, MI
Date: 12 March 1915
Curator: Christine Fisher
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March 12, 1915
Mrs. Charles R. Thomas
Commercial Hotel, East Jordan, Michigan

Dear Mrs. Thomas:
I have your letter of the 10th. I do hope that Charlie will come on rapidly now and I do not want to have you get discouraged. I sent you a check as requested, which I presume you have received before this, and I sent a statement of the township matter to Charlie at Ellsworth, which perhaps will reach you before you leave East Jordan.

If there is anything you want me to do about looking after the estate or getting money out of your brother, or anything of that kind, I will look after it.
Yours truly,
George E. Nichols, Lawyer, Ionia, Michigan

Source 079 – Official Letter: George E. Nichols, Estate of Alta Thomas

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Author: George E. Nichols of Ionia, MI
Title: Letter to Charles R. Thomas of Ellsworth, MI
Date: 08 March 1915
Curator: Christine Fisher
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March 8, 1915
Charles R. Thomas
Ellsworth, Mich.

My dear Charlie:
I went to Grand Rapids Friday and collected from the township of Byron $5260.81. There is still due $103.70 for interest that they hadn’t figured and the treasurer didn’t have enough money to pay the whole amount with him but agreed to come in within a week and pay the $103.70. I didn’t release the judgment and shall not until the $103.70 is forthcoming, but there will be no trouble about that, I apprehend.

I am sending your account as administrator. You will notice that I set up the fact that your wife [Alta A. Brown] had no estate except the claim against the township of Byron, and the further fact that you entered into a contract with us to prosecute the case, agreeing to give us one-half of any judgment recovered and collected and our disbursements and expenses, which amount to $546.23. I have received from you $100 on Sept 7, 1910, when we were going to take the case to the supreme court. You brought in $100 to take up the bond of $100 as security for costs signed by your father and that was placed in our hands to be paid on the costs provided we did not win in the supreme court, and that $100 you are to be credited with. I also collected $216.80 costs in the supreme court and then I have collected $369 costs in this last settlement, making the total moneys I have received outside of the judgment $685.80, thus leaving in my hands a balance of $139.57 of which you are entitled to one half as I understand the contract. So the account stands like this. I will be entitled to one half of the judgment and costs, $4981.81, or $2490.90, and you would be entitled to one-half of the balance less your fees, $1170.45, and $150 commission and one-half of the proceeds now in my hands, $139.57, or $69.78, or you should be credited upon your account with me $1390.23.

If the probate court should require me to pay the money to the trust company as guardian of your daughter, I will have to do so. By making this turn and charging the statutory fees for carrying on this law suit, you will have $1390.23 to your credit in my hands.

If the court would permit the guardian to leave the money in my hands to be applied upon the contract, the $1170.45, I would be glad of it, but I don’t think the judge will do it. As soon as you can get around to it, get a justice in or a notary public and swear to your account and send it back here and I will file it and have it allowed. I shall make no entries upon my books or upon our contract until I get it all straightened up, so the figures I give you in this letter may be changed.

I hope you are improving rapidly. When I spoke of you father’s estate I didn’t mean to make you any costs or charges by having Mr. Shaw look after it. I would make no charge in the matter unless there should be some law suit or something. I only did that as a means of seeing that things moved along all right and that your interests were protected.

With best regards to yourself, your wife and the kid [Robert Thomas], I am,
Yours truly, George E. Nichols, Lawyer, Ionia, Michigan

Source 188 – Department of Interior Pension Letter to George S. Thomas

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Author: H.L. Rorthe, Special Examiner, Department of the Interior
Title: Letter to George S. Thomas
Date: 16 Feb 1891
Curator: Christine Fisher
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Department of the Interior
Office of Special Examiner U.S. Bureau of Pensions at Grand Rapids, MI
16 Feb 1891

Sir:
You are hereby informed that, in pursuance of authority vested in me, and instructions from the Commissioner of Pensions, I will be at North Dorr, Allegan Co., MI, on or about the Feb. 19, 1891, to specially inquire into the merits of your claim for pension, No. 104064, and to advise you more specifically as to the exact time and place of entering upon said inquiry.

You are also informed that it will be your right and privilege and you will be afforded ample opportunity to be present during the examination, either in person or by attorney, or both, and confront and cross-examine the witnesses, and introduce evidence of witnesses in your own behalf should you so elect.

Should you, however, decline or for any reason be unable to attend or employ an attorney in your behalf, your interests will be guarded and protected in all respects as though you were present. You will not be obliged or compelled to be present at the investigation, and if you desire to stay away, the examination will be openly and fairly conducted in your absence, and the evidence thus taken will, if practicable and you are accessible, be read to you by me before returning the papers to the Bureau of Pensions for final action.

Very Respectfully,
H.L. Rorthe, Special Examiner

Source 132 – Official Letter by J.H. Kellogg

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Author: J.H. Kellogg, O.G. Place, The Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich.
Title: Letter to E.L. Thomas
Date: 20 September 1889
Curator: Christine Fisher
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Dear Sir: From our investigation of your case we are led to the conclusion that you are suffering from catarrh of the stomach and bowels. We usually find this disease very obstinate, which you have doubtless yourself discovered by your experience. Nevertheless, we are of the opinion that by a persevering use of the measures of treatment which we are already employing in your case, together with such other means as your symptoms may indicate, you may be restored to very comfortable health. Very truly yours, J.H. Kellogg, O.G. Place, The Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich.

Source 190 – Pension Letter from Representative Julius Houseman to George S. Thomas

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Author: Julius Houseman, U.S. House of Representatives, of Washington D.C.
Title: Letter to George S. Thomas of Dorr, MI
Date: 19 Dec 1884
Curator: Christine Fisher
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George S. Thomas Esquire, Dorr, MI

My Dear Sir!
Has anything occurred to you by which I can get your Pension claim reinstated if there is anything I can do before the expiration of my term, I will cheerfully do it. Very Respectfully,
Julius Houseman

I an introduce a bill for your relief but there is but little prospect owning to the short time allowed to get any of the present sessions bills to any issue.