Charlotte Copp brings a chair attributed by family tradition to King Strang to Beaver Island, 1988

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Event

Date: 1988-08-04
Kind: Occurrence
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Historical Society
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: heritagehistorycommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On August 4, 1988, Charlotte Copp brought a chair to the Beaver Island Historical Society that her family tradition attributed to King Strang. The Beaver Beacon traced the story through Lyman Granger, an early Beaver Island lighthouse keeper, and later descendants who retained several related chairs.

Evidence limits

The chair’s attribution and chain of custody are reported family tradition, not independently verified provenance or an authenticated King Strang artifact determination.

Sources

“King Strang's Chair,” Beaver Beacon, October 1988.
Reports Charlotte Copp bringing a chair to the Beaver Island Historical Society on August 4, 1988, and recounts the family's tradition connecting four surviving chairs to King Strang through Lyman Granger and his descendants. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the artifact-return account.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Charlotte Copp brings a chair attributed by family tradition to King Strang to Beaver Island, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-king-strang-chair-return-1988/, accessed [date], citing “King Strang's Chair,” Beaver Beacon, October 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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