1865 in Michigan

Events from the year 1865 in Michigan.

State office holders

 * Governor of Michigan: Henry H. Crapo
 * Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Ebenezer O. Grosvenor
 * Michigan Attorney General: Albert Williams
 * Michigan Secretary of State: James B. Porter
 * Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: Gilbert E. Read
 * Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court: George Martin

Mayors of major cities

 * Mayor of Detroit: Kirkland C. Barker
 * Mayor of Grand Rapids: Wilder D. Foster

Federal office holders

 * U.S. Senator from Michigan: Zachariah Chandler (Republican)/Isaac P. Christiancy
 * U.S. Senator from Michigan: Jacob M. Howard (Republican)
 * House District 1: Fernando C. Beaman (Republican)
 * House District 2: Charles Upson (Republican)
 * House District 3: John W. Longyear (Republican)
 * House District 4: Francis William Kellogg (Republican)/Thomas W. Ferry (Republican)
 * House District 5: Augustus C. Baldwin (Democrat)/Rowland E. Trowbridge (Republican)
 * House District 6: John F. Driggs (Republican)

March

 * March 12 - The Detroit Police Department was formed. The first uniformed officers began patrolling on May 15.
 * March 25 - The Detroit Public Library opened on the second floor of the old Michigan State Capitol building in Detroit.

April

 * April 9 - Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia, bringing an end to the American Civil War.
 * April 15 - Abraham Lincoln died after being shot one day earlier.
 * April 16 - At the invitation Mayor Barker, an overflow crowd of Detroit residents assembled at City Hall. Resolutions were passed, including one expressing "profound sorrow" and "horror and anguish".
 * April 25 - A parade in Detroit honored Pres. Lincoln.

July

 * July - The Upper Peninsula miners' strike of 1865 was put down by a naval detachment from the USS Michigan, using an improvised armored train, and later with an army detachment from Chicago.

August

 * August 13 - General Ulysses S. Grant visited Detroit.

September

 * September 12/13 - The Colored Men's Convention met in Detroit.

October

 * October 17 - The 102nd Regiment United States Colored Troops returned to Detroit and was disbanded.

Births

 * March 21 - George Owen Squier, U.S. Army officer and inventor, in Dryden, Michigan
 * April 13 - Grant Fellows, Michigan Attorney General (1913–1917), in Hudson Township, Lenawee County, Michigan
 * June 28 - Frank Scheibeck, Major League Baseball shortstop (1887–1906), in Detroit
 * July 21 - Fred M. Warner, 26th Governor of Michigan (1905–1911), in Hickling, Nottinghamshire
 * November 15 - Jerome H. Remick, music publisher, in Detroit
 * December 1 - Friend Richardson, Governor of California (1923–1927), in Friend's Colony, Michigan
 * Date unknown - Lyster Hoxie Dewey, botanist, in Cambridge Township, Michigan