Edward Tiffin was the first Governor of Ohio.  He was later a U.S. Senator, and eventually was appointed by President Madison to be the Chief Land Surveyor of the Northwest Territory, of which Michigan was a part.  A medical doctor by trade, and also an itinerant preacher, Tiffin conducted a survey of the territories of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin between 1814 - 1816 as part of an plan to make land available to veterans of the War of 1812 as payment for their services.  He returned his survey to the War Department in December of 1816, with a favorable report for Indiana and Illinois, but an very unfavorable one for Michigan.  This impacted the early view in the East of Michigan being mostly a swamp land with very little prospects for farming.  

This view did not change until the results came in of the Lewis Cass Expedition in 1820.  

This episode the life of Edward Tiffin and the survey that impacted Michigan.

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