Alma, Michigan
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Alma is the largest city in Gratiot County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,488 at the 2020 census. It was incorporated as the Village of Alma in 1872 and became a city in 1905.
Alma City Hall
A sign welcoming visitors to "Scotland, USA" (Alma, Michigan)
Ralph Ely
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Ralph Ely was an American politician and military officer from Michigan. He was the first settler of Alma, Michigan, and served as a colonel in the Union Army and was brevetted brigadier general. He s
Alma, Michigan
…6.09 square miles (15.77 km2), of which 5.93 square miles (15.36 km2) is land and 0.16 square miles (0.41 km2) is water. Alma was founded in 1853 by Ralph Ely. Perhaps first known for the Alma Springs Sanitarium, built and promoted in the 1880s by millionaire lumberman and capitalist Ammi W. Wright, it achieved…
Portrait of Ely in a 1911 publication