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Jerome, David Howell

merchant, governor, was born Nov. 17, 1829, in Detroit, Mich. He was a merchant of Saginaw, Mich., and was a state senator from 1862 to 1868. In 1865 and 1866 he was military aid to the governor; was president of the state military board from 1865 to 1873; and in the latter year was appointed a member of the state constitutional commission. In 1875 he was appointed a member of the board of United States Indian commissioners, and was governor of Michigan from 1881 to 1883.