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F. Clever Bald

Born: 1897   Baltimore
Died: 1970
Parents: Frederick William and Elizabeth (Krise) Bald
Spouse: Laura McGrath (1923-1953); Jane R. Howard (1953)
Children: Robert Edmund (with 1st wife)
Address(es):
Last known address
Boca Raton , FL

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
A history of Michigan in paintings [picture] / paintings by Robert Thom ; text by F. Clever Bald Michigan History Adult , Children , Teen [Lansing, Mich.] : Distributed by the Michigan Historical Commission through the John M. Munson Michigan History Fund, 1964 -1967
Michigan in four centuries / by F. Clever Bald ;
- line drawings by William Thomas Woodward. (Publication Years: 1954, 1961) 		Non Fiction , Michigan History Adult New York : Harper & Brothers 1954
From the beginning-- : A Detroit profile Non Fiction , Michigan History Adult Detroit : Detroit Historical Museum 1951
Detroit's First American Decade, 1796-1805 Non Fiction , Michigan History Adult Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press 1948
Gabriel Richard, the first vice-president of the University of Michigan Non Fiction , Biography , Michigan History Adult Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan 1948
How Michigan men helped make the Treaty of Greenville Michigan History Adult Ypsilanti, Mich. : University Lithoprinters 1945
De Bonne-De Repentigny Seigniory at Sault Ste. Marie, 1750-1867 Non Fiction , Michigan History Adult [Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. 1936

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Other - Historian

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 13-14 Contemporary Authors Permanent Series, volume(s) 1 		1965 -1975
Michigan Authors, 1st ed., 2nd ed., 3rd ed.
- Award received for following years: 1960, 1980, 1993 		1960

Memberships:

Name Date
Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission
Michigan Historical Society
- trustee and president
Algonquin Club of Detroit
- vice president
Washtenaw County Historical Society
- Vice President
American Historical Association, Mississippi Valley Historical Association, American Association for State and Local History and the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters.

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Dissertation: The First American Decade: Detroit, 1796-1805. His dissertation was published in 1948 by the University of Michigan Press as Detroit’s First American Decade, 1796 to 1805 		University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1943
Master of Arts (M.A.) Wayne University (now Wayne State University) Detroit , MI 1937
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1920
Studied University of Aix-Marseille France 1919
Studied Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster , PA 1914 -1917

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Professor of history
- Director of Michigan Historical Collections 		University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1960 -1967
Assistant director
- Michigan Historical Collections 		University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1943 -1960
Instructor University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1943 -1947
Professor Detroit Institute of Technology Detroit , MI 1932 -1943
Headmaster Hudson School (private school for boys) Detroit , MI 1929 -1932
Teacher Hudson School (private school for boys) Detroit , MI 1922 -1929
Private First Class
- Ambulance Company 111, 103rd Sanitary Train, attached to the 28th Division of the American Expeditionary Force. The ambulance unit went into action on July 15, 1918 in the Second Battle of the Marne. He also participated in the Oise-Aisne Offensive, and Meuse-Argonne Offensive 		U.S. Army England and France 1917 -1919

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Other Comments:

F. Clever Bald papers. Bentley Historical Library

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