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Enos, A. D., 468
Ewald, Edward W., 886
Farmers and Merchants Bank, Lawrence, 351
Farnum, Matthias, 477
Farrow, Phineas, 1121
Fausnaugh, Adelbert, 1103
Fenton, Matthew, 538
Ferguson, James, 407
Ferguson, James D., 1149
Ferguson, James E., 381
Fields, Calvin, 504
Fifteenth Michigan Infantry, 286
Fifth Michigan Cavalry, 290 Fifth Michigan Infantry, 283
Financial and other institutions-First Na- tional Bank, Paw Paw, 342; the Paw Paw Savings Bank, 343; First National Bank, South Haven, 344; Citizens State Bank, South Haven, 345; banks of Decatur, 348; Hartford banks, 349; West Michigan Sav- ings Bank, Bangor, 350; the People's Bank, Bloomingdale, 351; at Gobleville, Covert, Lawrence and Lawton, 351; South Haven Loan and Trust Company, 352; Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 352; tele- graph and telephone lines, 353
Finch, Charles A., 720
First Baptist church, Hartford, 529
First Baptist church, Lawrence, 561
First Baptist church, Paw Paw, 584
First Michigan Cavalry, 232
First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, 274
First Michigan Infantry, 282
First Michigan Sharpshooters, 278 First National Bank, Decatur, 348
First National Bank, Paw Paw, 342
First National Bank, South Haven, 344
First Regiment Michigan Light Artillery, 279
First Presbyterian church, Lawrence, 561
First state convention, 69
Fish, Ellen, 497 Fish, Hiram, 86, 474, 477 Fisher, Everett A., 880
Fisk, Stephen W., 398, 400
Fitch, George A., 357
Fitch, Henry, 412
Fitch, Lyman A., 412
Fitch, Morgan L., 406, 412
Fitzsimmons, Michael, 863
"Fonetic Klips," 367 Foote, S. J., 575 Forbes, Fred, 1099
Ford, Henry, 112
Foster, Dwight, 535, 771
Foster, George S., 525
Foster, Ida, 858 Foster, Josephine, 858
Foster Sisters, The, 856
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Cobb, Alonzo, 398 Cobb, Vera P., 365 Cochran, Andrew M., 1019
Cochrane, Donald F., 362, 703 Cochrane, H. F., 362 Cochrane, James G., 430, 466 Colburn, Byron H., 553
Cole, Hiram A., 356, 700 Coleman, Henry D., 83, 503, 504, 509 Coleman, Sheldon, 412, 792 Collins, John H., 504 Columbia, 110, 472
Columbia township-Mention, 85; physical fea- tures and railroads, 464; site of Breedsville selected, 465; property holders and taxes, 467; settlers prior to 1845, 468; civil and political, 468; as a resort region, 469; pres- ent village of Breedsville, 470; village of Berlamont, 471; village of Columbia, 472; village of Grand Junction, 472
Comley, Maria, 508 Company C, 70th N. Y. Infantry, 300
Compton, John D., 486
Comstock, Albert, 445
Comstock, Darius E., 178
Comstock, Horace H., 109
Cone, Mehitable, 514
Congdon, William L., 1093 Congregational church, Bangor, 446
Congregational church, Covert, 480
Congregational church, Hartford, 530
Congregational church, Lawrence, 561 Congregational church, Mattawan, 422 Conklin, David, 883 Conklin, Luke, 517 Conklin, Mrs. Martha, 521 Conklin, Mary E., 883 Conklin, Thomas, 517
Connery, George B., 895
Conway, Austin D., 504
Conway, S. Tallmadge, 89, 94, 355, 358 Cook, John R., 1105 Cook, Sarah, 490 Cook, Sullivan, 363 Cooley, Franklin, 957 Cooper, John, 409 Copley, Alexander B., 86, 389, 484 Copley, E. B., 349 Copley, G. N., 483 Corey, Anthony, 405 Corey, Sanford, 602 Corey, Warren S., 601, 602 Cornish, George W., 369, 1101 Cornish, John H., 602, 1098 Cornish, Thomas J., 1044 Corwin, Jacob, 29 Coterie Club, 586 County buildings (new), 141-158 County clerks, 172 County commissioners, 171 County commissioners of schools, 174 County judges, 171
County seat-Lawrence as the seat of justice, 129; Paw Paw displaces Lawrence, 130; proposed county buildings, 132; old court- house completed, 134; South Haven bids for county seat, 136; popular vote for Paw Paw,
138; new county buildings, 141; courthouse corner-stone laid, 141; cost of present county buildings, 155 County surveyors, 174
County treasurers, 173
Courthouse (see County buildings)
Courts (see Bench and Bar)
Covert, 113, 479
Covert Resort Association, 478
Covert township-Mention, 186; the original township, 474; physical features, 475; earli- est settlers, 475; roads and schools, 477; statistical and political, 478; the village of Covert, 479 Covey Hill, 623 Covington township-Mention, 80, 81, 82, 83
Cox, Elisha C., 84
Cox, Isaac J., 535
Cox, Joseph, 625
Cox, O. E., 432
Coy, Daniel, 737
Crandall, J. C., 523
Crandall, Wallace W., 954
Crane, Alonzo, 569
Crane, Loyal, 569-575
Crane, Jane, 569
Crane, James, 342, 569
Craw, Joseph W., 443 Cronin, M. C., 381
Cronkhite, John, 420
Crops of the county, 324
Cross, Alfonso, 1030
Cross, Calvin, 442, 444, 526
Cross, Charles U., 438, 439, 440, 442, 444, 496, 603
Cross, Samuel P., 442
Crouse, Conrad, 472 Culver, Samuel, 766
Currier, Jacob, 397
Curry, David, 485
Curtenius, Frederick W., 184
Cushman, Charles M., 470
Cutter, Frank F., 681
Daines, G. W., 457
Daniels, Lyman I., 576, 578
Danks, Richard B., 549
Danneffel, Adolph, 535, 877
Danneffel, George J., 535
Danneffel, Henry H., 999
Darling, James H., 400 Darling, Loren, 575 Davey, George, 992 David, James I., 267
Davis, George W., 725
Davis, Jefferson (capture of), 259
Dayton, Edwin J., 1139 Decatur, 109
"Decatur Republican, " 359
Decatur township-Mention, 80, 81, 82; first white settler of the county, 482; first native white child, 483; first Gospel sermon and pioneer school, 483; A. B. Copley on early days, 484; various pioneers, 485; civil. and political. 486; statistics, 488; village of De- catur, 489; retrospect, 494 Decker, Milton L., 343, 496, 713
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Foster, Truman, 504, 557 Fountain, Stephen, 544 Fourteenth Michigan Infantry, 285
Fourth Michigan Cavalry, 256
Fowler, Orville, 885
Free, John W., 94, 112, 343, 575 Free Will Baptist church, Gobleville, 462 Free Will Baptist church, Waverly, 398
Freeman, John D., 555
Freese, George S., 487 French, Milford T., 605 French, Warren F., 400 French period (1634-1764), 53
Fruit Belt line, 402
Fuller, Frank H., 432
Fuller, Ora F., 828
Fuller, Sidney, 432 Funk, Charles, 836
Gage, Walter O., 521
Gantt, James N., 356
Gantt, Samuel N., 354
Gault, John, 625
Gay, William I., 825
Gaynor, Andrew, 468
Geneva township-Mention, 85; descriptive, 495; roads and physical features, 496; polit- ical and educational, 496; pioneers of the township, 498; statistical and physical, 500; village of Lacota, 500; village of Kibbie, 501; general township progress, 501
Geology-The Cambrian age, 311; Ordovician age, 312; the Silurian, 313; the Devonian, 314; Lower Carboniferous, 315; the Pleis- tocene (last chapter), 315
George, Charles G., 535
George, Edward, 847
Gerow, Isaac, 655
Gibbs, Dexter, 551, 554
Gibbs, Elizabeth, 551
Gibney, Henry E., 882
Giffen, John R., 381
Gilbert, Henry C., 218
Gillett, Charles, 363, 443
Gleason, Bert, 1064 Gleason, William H., 675
Glendale, 626
Glendale creamery, 626
Glen Springs Trout Hatchery, 415 .
Glidden, Asa C., 412
Glidden, E. M., 575 Glidden, O. D., 575 Goble, Edna, 382 Goble, Hiram E., 459, 461 Gobleville, 110, 459, 596 Gobleville creamery, 463 "'Gobleville News," 366 Godfrey, Stafford, 133, 135
Goodenough, Fanny, 529 Gorton, Frank E., 1132 Goss, Henry, 447 Goss, John P., 968 Goss, M. O., 969
Gould, Gilbert, 864 Grand Junction, 110, 114
Grant, George, 474
Grant, Roland B., 832
Grape industry, 329 Graves, Benjamin F., 163
Gray, Emily, 594
Gray, James, 545, 552, 553, 557
Gray, James M., 468, 470
Gray, Wells, 406 Green, Sanford M., 162 Gregory, Albert E., 535 Gregory, Don F., 958
Gremps, Peter, 161, 575, 576, 578, 581, 582
Grover, Nathaniel, 611
Gunton, Samuel, 80, 550
Gunsaul, Jacob, 475
Hadsell, O. D., 356, 361, 362
Hagar, Solomon B., 504
Hale & Company, 345
Hale, George, 475, 977
Hale, George N., 345, 974
Hall, Alvin, 395
Hall, Benoni, 575
Hall, Charles G., 689
Hall, Clair G., 749
Hall, David P., 1075
Hall, Elmer W., 412
Hall, Freeman, 395
Hall, Gideon, 496
Hall, Isaac, 601
Hall, J. M., 366
Hall, Syrena B., 705
Hall, Walter A., 1102
Hall, Wesley M., 781
Hall, Willis V., 642
Halleck mill, 610
Hamilton, Alexander, 1062
Hamilton, A. & Sons, 1062
Hamilton, Horace E., 1064
Hamilton, William L., 1064
Hamilton township-Mention, 83; civic and political matters, 502; physical features, 504; taxpayers and taxes of 1839, 505; first building and first permanent settlers, 505; also settled prior to 1844, 507; illustrative of the pioneers and their times, 508; schools then and now, 510; the Hamilton township fair, 511 Hammond, Catharine, 517
Hammond, Henry, 514
Hammond, James H., 1070
Hammond, John, 514
Hammond, Mary G., 1071
Hannahs, George, 611, 613
Hannahs, Marvin, 472, 499, 552
Hard, James T., 426
Harper, Harvey, 801
Harris, Alvinsy, 429, 432
Harris, Floyd, 1111
Harris, Jefferson D., 432
Harris, Leonard M., 1111
Harris, Percy F., 1049
Harrison, Aaron, 793 Harrison, George M., 343, 688
Harrison, Thaddeus R., 358
Harrison, William Henry, 66, 67
Hart, Roswell, 521, 523
Hartford, 112, 113, 114, 523
"Hartford Day Spring," 361
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Hartford township-Mention, 83; named and organized, 513; first things and events, 514; Allen's paper town, 515; first actual settlers, 517; a soldier of the Revolution, 519; terri- torial and official, 520; "When the World Goes Wrong with Me," 522; the village of Hartford, 523; educational and professional, 525; churches and societies, 528; business and industries, 531 Harvey, Edward H., 742
Harvey, E. P., 441 Harvey, H. D., 796
Harvey, Henry W., 744
Harvey, Marshall J., 1108
Harwick, Allen, 736 Harwick, Frank, 736
Harwick, Harman, 412
Harwick, Peter, 412 Haskin, Albert S., 94, 548, 549, 679
Hathaway, George, 1100
Hathaway, William B., 605, 611 Haven, Augustus, 451, 454
Haven, Davis, 454
Haven, Edward A., 900
Havens, Charles W., 1116
Hawes, Josiah L., 164
Hawley, G. W., 462 Hawkins, Nathan, 1086
Hawkins, William R., 581
Haydon, Arthur W., 349, 507, 511, 668 Haydon, Philotus, 134, 504, 507
Hayne, John D., 1087 Haynes, Alonzo M., 613
Haynes, John R., 80, 335, 544, 545, 553, 556
Hazard, Enos E., 677 Heagy, George, 535 Heath, Arvin, 432 Heath, Charles E., 427
Heath, Major, 424, 432
Heath, Morrison, 429 Heckert, Benjamin F., 73, 166, 179
Hempstead, C. J., 345
Henderson, Port H., 788
Hendryx, Josiah, 511 Herron, Ashbel, 449 Herron, John W., 945 Herzog, Adolf, 1109 Hicks, Evart B. D., 608 High, Leon, 1066 High, Mary R., 1067 High, William A., 490 Hill, E. Parker, 349, 488, 490 Hill, James, 534, 537 Hill, Justus, 537 Hill, L. Dana, 349 Hill, Lyman G., 535 Hilliard, Weare, 523 Hilton, George V., 387 Hilton, Orrin N., 165 Hinckley, Asa G., 569 Hinckley, Isaac, 612 Hinckley, Jonathan, 135, 404, 465, 569
Hinckley, Marvin, 488 Hinckley, Peter, 406 Hinckley, Rodney, 567, 612 Hinckley, Roy, 753 Hipp, Benton W., 400
Hipp, E. M., 350, 443 Hoag, Charles N., 495 Hoag, Mrs. Harriet, 497 Hoag, Mrs. Orrin S., 497 "Hog Creek" (Roseville), 516
Hogmire, Conrad, 431 Hogmire, Daniel, 430
Hogmire, Henry, 431 Hogmire, John, 431 Hogmire, Mitchell H., 432, 433, 1016
Hollister, Chauncey, 488, 602
Hollon, Joseph A., 343
Holmes, Reason, 410, 411
Hood, Charles, 659
Hood, George, 723 Hopkins, Josiah, 809
Horticulture (see Agriculture and Horticulture)
Hoskins, Myron, 466-7
Hosmer, C. F., 749
Houghton, Hiram T., 449
Houseknecht, Jacob D., 1104
Hover, Josephus S., 1026 Howard, Barnard M., 465
Howard, Harvey H., 898
Howard, Jonathan, 455, 467, 468
Howard, Nancy, 466
Howard, Turner W., 831
Hoyt J., 529
Hoyt, Wilbur F., 768
Hudson, Frank G., 659
Hudson, G. J., 575
Hudson, J. B., 400
Hudson, Thomas, 450
Hull, Moses, 359 Hull, William, 63-66
Humphrey, Horace, 467, 468
Humphrey, Luther, 561
Hungerford, Benjamin, 538
Hungerford, Volney R., 773
Hunt, Adeline P., 725
Hunt, Benjamin F., 605
Hunt, Charles F., 344
Hunt, Garrie W., 724
Hunt, Isaiah F., 432
Hunt, John, 405, 412
Hunt, John A., 975 Hurlbut, William H., 440, 442, 574, 605, 608
Hutchins, Elias, 1000
Hutchins, George G., 833
Hutchins, George W., 937
Ihling, John, 111, 112, 412 Indian mounds in Lawrence township, 337 Indian trails, 98
Indians-First church built by, in Van Buren county, 4; Chief Pokagon's address, 5; Poka- gon's last wigwam, 12; Julia Pokagon's ad- dress, 12; "Old Wapsey," 14; Do Indians cry, laugh or joke?, 20; Algonquin legend of man's creation, by Pokagon, 21; legend of Paw Paw and the Paw Paw valley, by Poka- gon, 24; Algonquin legends of South Haven, by Pokagon, 26; after me-me-og (squabs) in Van Buren county, by C. H. Engle, 29; In- dian basket-making, 30; the "buck pony" ride, 33; "never carry a revolver, boys, " 37; Saw-kaw's love story, 38; me-me-og, the wild pigeon, by Pokagon, 45
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Lacota, 110, 500
Laduke, Nelson, 1024
La Fayette township, 79, 80, 81, 82, 86, 564, 565 Lake Cora, 565
Lake Mills (Gobleville), 461
Lake of the Woods, 488, 504
Lake Park, 566 Lamb, Frank, 861
Lampson, Truman A., 475
Landphere, E. A., 355
Lane, W. K., 361
Langdon, George, 709
Langdon, Phoebe F., 709
Langelan, Herman, 1138
Lannin, J., 323
Lanphear, Oel E., 902
Lawrence, 111, 113, 129, 130, 135, 558-63 Lawrence, Robert R., 712 "Lawrence Times, " 365
Lawrence township-Mention, 80, 81, 82, 337; streams and lakes, 543; early pioneers and settlements, 544; the Branch family, 546; Judge Jay R. Monroe, 547; first marriage, birth and death, 551; the food problem, 552; roads and mails, 552; flat-boat traffic, 554; paper town of Van Buren, 555; civil, educa- tional and political, 556; looking backward, 558; village of Lawrence, 558; churches and societies, 561; business and general features, 563
Lawton, 109, 111, 113, 401, 413
Lawton, Charles D., 120, 177, 412, 415, 754
Lawton, George W., 112, 165, 361, 415
Lawton, Nathan, 413, 416
"Lawton Leader, " 361 Lawton Lodge, No. 216, A. F. & A. M., 417 Lawton Lodge No. 83, I. O. O. F., 417
Lee, Bert, 1081 Lee, Hiram, 489
Lee, James, 570
Lee, James A., 535
Lee, Uriel C., 570
Lee, William H., 570
Leedy, William, 1125
Le Fevre N., 487 Lemont (Glendale), 626
Lewis, Abram, 432
Lewis, C. E., 361
Lewis, Cyrus H., 475
Lewis, Marshall, 538
Lincoln, F. T., 367
Linderman, I. S., 323
Linton, Charles, 455, 894
Littlejohn, Flavius J., 163
Live stock, 328
Lobdell, Howard, 136, 137, 521
Local option in the county, 180 Lockard, E. D., 470
Lockman, DeWitt C., 592
Longcor, Wesley N., 1058
Longstreet, Andrew, 411, 412, 413, 415
Longstreet, Samuel, 406 Longwell, James M., 959
Longwell, Phoebe A., 960
Loomis, Russell F., 970
Lord, Frederick, 165 Lothrop, Edwin H., 109 Luce. Charles W., 468
Jennings, James G., 365 Jennings, Ralph E., 965 Jewell, James, 1002 Johns, Thomas J., 521
Johnson, Andrew, 360
Johnson, James H., 166, 605 Johnson, Lewis, 507 Johnson, L. S., 362 Johnson, Smith, 83, 520
Johnstone, W. A., 457
Jones, A. B., 330 Jones, M. Adelia, 719 Jones, Sylvester H., 719
Jordan, James F., 356
Kalamazoo & South Haven Railroad, 109, 595 Karınsen, Oscar, 795
Kaw-kee, Joe, 33-37
Keeler, 541
Keeler, E. H., 502, 534 Keeler, Wolcott H., 80, 83, 161, 536-7
Keeler township-Descriptive, 533; lakes and resorts, 534; civil organization, 534; first set- tlers of township, 535; Wolcott H. Keeler, 537; settlers of 1836-44, 537; tax payers, property and schools, 540; Keeler and other towns, 541; general view, 542
Keith, Henry S., 535
Kelley, Patrick H., 177 Kelley, James, 1128 Kemp, Thomas, 514
Kendall, 597
Kendall, Lucius B., 453, 454
Kennedy, Almus, 997
Kennedy, John C., 400, 706
Kern, Julius M., 1060
Kern, Menasseh, 602
Ketcham, E. B., 320
Ketchum, James, 397 Ketchum, Oliver P., 702
Kibbie, 110, 501
Kietzer, Charles, 1113 Killefer, Henry, 453-4
Killefer, William, 575, 717
King, Edward H., 1143
Kingsley, Henry M., 951
Kinney, Elijah, 598
Kinney, Luther, 602
Kinney, Stephen, 487
Kinney, Uri, 602 Kitzmiller, W. K., 456 Klett, John M., 692 Klock, Ernest G., 365 Knapp, Royal R., 685 Knowles, Elijah, 466, 467, 468
Knowles, William H., 468
Krogel, Fred, 1029 Krohne, Sophie, 698
Krull, Frederick, 395
Labadie, Anthony, 568 Labadie, Joseph, 672
Indiana territory formed, 62 Ingalls, J., 349 Irwin, Thomas B., 556 Isabella Club, 417 Ives, Joseph, 429
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Lurkins, Harry J., 658 Lyle, Jason J., 657 Lyle, John, 328, 568 Lyle, Lemuel, 1123 Lyle, Levi N., 850 Lyle, William, 328
Lyle, William G., 1046 Lyon, T. T., 324 Lytle, Charles, 1088 Lytle, David, 739 Lytle, E. H., 484 Lytle, John, 1067
MeAdams, Edward, 1092
MeAdams, Leslie, 1092 McAlpine, John, 521, 535
MeAlpine, John G., 837 McCon, Frank, 830
McDonald (Deerfield), 447
McKee, Darwin, 1090 McKeyes, Frank, 351
McKeyes, Juan, 351, 467, 787
McKinley, Napoleon B., 412
Mckinney, John, 177, 355, 487, 602
MeKinney, Lewis, 445
MeLain, James C., 1050
MeLain John C., 602 McNeil, Henry, 415 McNeil, Harry L., 641 MeNight, Jane ( Mrs. Dr. A. S. Haskin), 548
MeNight, Mary Nancy, 548
MeNitt, Alpheus A., 816
MeNitt, Leslie A., 818
Mc Williams, Archibald P., 521
Madill, R. J., 347
Maguire, Phillip, 1095
Malbone, John S., 605, 920
Mallory, Merlin M., 449
Manley, C. B., 1131 Manley, Hervey, 467
Maple lake, 565 Marble, Elisha, 624
Markillie, John J., 768
Markillie, William, 397
Marshall, John, 602, 1054
Marshall, Nelson S., 549
Martin Edwin, 112 Martin, Francis, 1022
Martin, Harry A., 690
Martin, Mrs. A. C., 358
Martindale, Samuel, 445
Marvin, A. E., 361
Marvin, J. D., 561
Mason (Lawrence), 544, 560
Mason, Stevens T., 70-72
Mason, Williamson, 133, 579, 580
Mather, Eusebius, 468
Mather House, 555 Mattawan, 109, 111, 113, 401, 419
Matthews, G. W., 355 Maxwell, James E .. 504 Maxwell, John C., 765
May, Charles J., 938 Maynard, Charles, 359
Mead, Hannah, 582 Mears, Edwin, 337
Medicine and Surgery-Medical scientific re- search, 370; preventive medicine, 371; sur-
gery, 375; the country physician and the trained nurse, 376; early physicians of Van Buren county, 377; Paw Paw physicians, 379; Bangor, 381; Gobleville, 381; Hartford, 382; Covert, 383; Lawrence, 384; Lawton, 386; the profession in South Haven, 387; South Haven City Hospital, 388 Decatur, 390; the Veterinary school, 392
Me-me-og (wild pigeons), 45-52 Mentha, 110, 597 Menig, Ferdinand, 734
Menig, Mary S., 735
Merrifield, Edwin J., 455 Merriman, George W., 846 Merriman, Harry J., 847
Merriman, Marcus, 503
Merry, Elizabeth, 399
Merwin, Jesse, 453 Methodist church, Almena township, 399
Methodist church, Bangor, 443
Methodist church, Bloomingdale, 456
Methodist church, Decatur, 491
Methodist church, Gobleville, 462
Methodist church, Hartford, 529
Methodist church, Keeler, 541
Methodist church, Lacota, 500
Methodist church, Lawrence, 562
Methodist church, Lawton, 418
Methodist church, Mattawan, 422
Meyer, Herman, 794
Michigan Central Iron Company, 416
Michigan Central Railroad, 107-109
Michigan Fruit Exchange, 418
Michigan Provost Guard. 289
Michigan territory formed. 63
Middletown ( Roseville), 515
Miller, H. B., 354
Miller, Samuel O., 411
Miller. William H., 774
" Millerism, "' 332
Mills. Alfred J., 164, 165, 178
Miner, Caroline, 497
Minty, Robert H. G., 240, 256
Mitchell, Alonzo S., 412, 1083
Mitchell, Gilbert, 496
Mitchell, Jacob, 915
Mitchell, J. W., 412
Molby, Charles B., 774
Monroe Bank, 350
Monroe, Charles E., 1028
Monroe, Charles J., 94, 177, 323, 325, 344, 350, 352, 605, 611, 802
Monroe, George (., 351, 822
Monroe, Hattie E., 1029
Monroe, Isaac. 556
Monroe, Jay R., 80, 89, 93, 161, 344, 352, 442, 496, 547, 606
Monroe, L. S., 352
Monroe, Miles, 1026
Monroe, Moses, 599
Monroe, S. E., 432, 441, 607
Monroe Realty Company, 352
Moon, E. B., 387 Moon. Peter, 405
Moon. Philin, 405
Moore, David F., 605
Moore, Henry, 948
Moore, Volney A., 551
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Morehouse, Edward A., 740
Morehouse, Stephen B., 320, 605, 611
Morgan, John (capture of), 268
Morrill, Charles M., 399, 400, 592
Morris, Dolphin, 326, 482, 483, 485, 488, 536 Morris, Elias, 484 Morris, Lewis Creighton, 483
Morris, Samuel, 485
Morrison, A. H., 114
Morrow, Henry A., 225
Moses, Charles A., 990
Moulton, Arba N., 360, 387, 490
Munger, George, 259
Munn, Benjamin S., 912
Murch, William, 622, 625
Murdock, Benjamin A., 94, 650
Murdock, Benjamin F., 570
Murdock, Mary V., 651
Murphy, Norman D., 381
Murray, Mary E., 594
Mutchler, George, 760
Myers, Mallory H., 449, 621, 625
Myers, Merlin M., 621
Myers, Reuben J., 449, 621, 624, 625
Myers, Ruth Ann, 621
Myers, Sarah, 622
Myers, William H. H., 449, 621, 626 .
Myhan, George H., 665
Nash, Augustus W., 165 Nash, Rufus C., 358, 359
Nesbitt, James, 507, 536
Nesbitt, John, 599
Nesbitt, Mary, 508
Nesbitt, Minnie, 776
Nesbitt, Robert, 504, 506, 508, 509, 510
Nesbitt, Sophia L., 775
Newbre, F. D., 748
Newcomb, Mary, 398
Newcomb, Orlando H., 450
Newcomb, Willard, 83, 394, 395
Newspapers (see Press)
Nichols, John F., 887
Nichols, John J., 1004
Nicholas, Wesley E., 1008
Nik-a-nong (South Haven), 28
Niles, F. L., 529
Ninth Michigan Cavalry, 267 Ninth Michigan Infantry, 284 Northrup, Caleb, 438, 439, 442
Northrup, Emmett, 1079
Northrup, Mehitable, 440
Northrup, Perrin M., 439, 440
Northrup, Willard S., 445
Norton, Hiram E., 799 Noud, John F., 922 Nower, Charles L., 824 Noye, J. F., 134
Noyes, Kirk W., 605
Nutting, Ransom, 488 Nyman, Joseph, 444 Nyman, Joseph H., 442 Nyman, R. C., 862
"Oak openings,'' 326 Ocobock, Mrs. Emma, 531 Ocobock, George W., 888 O'Dell, Allen, 952
()'Dell, Barnabas, 356, 357, 785
Olds, Estella M., 528 Olds, Ferdino, 513, 517
Olds, Hezekiah, 517
Olds, L. T., 490
Olds, Orson, 517 Olds, Volney W., 528, 889
Olney, Burrell A., 514
Olney, Burrill A., 517, 521
Olney, Horace M., 343, 349, 527, 528
Olney National Bank, 349
Oppenheim, Jacob, 349, 886
Ordinance of 1887, 59-61 Orton, Edwin P., 1078
Orton, Samuel J., 956
Osborn, Erastus, 762
Osborn, Lester E., 874
Oslerism, 94
Overton, Miller, 981
Overton, S. E., 1127
Packard, Alfred H., Jr., 479 Packard, William O., 474
"Painters, '' 334
Page, Thomas P., 468
Palmer, Chauncey B., 400
Palmer, Ephraim, 558
Palmer, Ezra A., 383
Palmer, Frank W., 445
Palmer, Lewis, 1042
Palmer, Milton F., 382, 526
Palmer, Russell, 395
Parker, Thomas E., 1043
Parks, E. F., 343, 355
Parmeter, J. F., 420
Parsons, L. E., 345, 346 Paw Paw, 24, 113, 130, 136, 138, 158, 576-590 "Paw Paw Courier," 356
"Paw Paw Democrat, " 354
"Paw Paw Free Press, '' 354
"Paw Paw Free Press and Courier, "' 355 Paw Paw Fruit Growers Union, 587 Paw Paw Lodge No. 18, I. O. O. F., 585
Paw Paw Railroad, 111 Paw Paw river as a carrier, 105, 554
Paw Paw Savings Bank, 343
Paw Paw township-Mention, 82, 86; original township of La Fayette, 564; becomes Paw Paw township, 565; lakes, 565; the hardy pioneers, 566; Mr. and Mrs. Pe-Pe-Yah, 571; David Woodman's pioneer pictures, 571; the Paw Paw irrevocably crooked, 574; statisti- cal, political and horticultural, 575; village of Paw Paw, 576 Pease, Anson D., 699
Pease, Enoch M., 500 Peck, J., 467
Peoples Bank, Bloomingdale, 351
Pe-Pe-Yah, "Mr. and Mrs., "' 571
Pere Marquette Railway, 113
Perkins, Roy D., 365, 455
Peters, John, 477 Phelps, Alexander H., 549
Phelps, Horatio N., 555
Phelps, Theodore E., 134, 535 Phillips, Benjamin, 411
Phillips, Charles C., 362, 363 Phillips, David M., 366
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Phillips, Eugene, 1134 Phillips, M. F., 504 Phillips, Norman, 323 Phillips, Solomon, 408, 411 Phillips, Waldo E., 504
Pierce, Almon J., 444, 500
Pierce, Clark, 498, 607 Pierce, Daniel, 498, 607 Pierce, H. M., 443 Pierce, Ransom T., 991 Pine Grove, 110, 597
Pine Grove township-Mention, 85; organized, 592; shingles as legal tender, 592; marital and legal, 594; Kalamazoo & South Haven Railroad, 595; general progress, 595; Goble- ville, 596; Pine Grove, 597; Kendall, 597; Mentha, 597
Pioneer farm implements, 327 Place, Clarence E., 605 Plank roads, 103 Pokagon, Julia, 8, 11, 12-14
Pokagon, Simon (chief), 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 21, 24, 26, 99
Politics of county-General elections (1837-1910), 168; the parties in the county, 169; presidential vote in the county, 170; county officers, 171; members of the state legislature, 175; other important officials from Van Buren county, 177; constitutional conventions, 178; proposed constitutional amendments, 179; Van Buren county and the liquor traffic, 180 Pomeroy, George B., 605 Pontiac, 56-58
Poole, Olive, 514, 521
Poole, Watson, 550 Poor, Charles N., 510 Poor, Melvin H., 674
Poor, Simon B., 673 Poorman, Byron M., 1073
Population of county (1840-1910), 74 Porter, George G., 68
Porter township-Mention 82, 84; first set- tlers, 598; the Kinney settlement, 598; the Adams family, 600; township named and or- ganized, 600; educational and political, 601; a retrospect, 602 Potter, Allen, 110 Potter, John B., 556 Pratt, Warren, 610
Presbyterian church, Decatur, 492
Presbyterian church, Paw Paw, 585
Press of Van Buren county-"Paw Paw Free Press, " 354; "Paw Paw Free Press and Courier, "' 355; "The True Northerner, " 356; "Decatur Republican,"' 359; the "Lawton Leader, " 361; "Hartford Day Spring, " 361; the "Bangor Advance, " 363; early Lawrence newspapers, 364; "Lawrence Times,'' 365; "Bloomingdale Leader, " 365; "Gobleville News, " 366; South Haven newspapers, 366 Pritchard, Colonel, 258, 259, 260 Probate judges, 171 Prohibition in the county, 180 Prosecuting attorneys, 173 Prospect lake, 544 Pugsley, C. Ray, 649
Pugsley, Henry M., 569
Pugsley, John K., 568, 575 Pugsley, Milton H., 352, 653 Pugsley, Nathaniel M., 569 Pugsley 's Lake, 565
Quackenbush, Elizabeth, 408 "Queen of the Woods, " 6 Quinn, Francis, 188
Radtke, Charles, 800
Railroads-Michigan Central, 107; Kalamazoo & South Haven, 109; the Paw Paw Railroad, 111; Toledo & South Haven Railroad (Fruit Belt line), 111; the Pere Marquette Rail- way, 113 Randall, V. F., 468
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