USA > Michigan > Wayne County > Detroit > History of Detroit and Wayne County and early Michigan: A Chronological Cyclopedia of the Past and Present, Vol. I > Part 153
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118 | Part 119 | Part 120 | Part 121 | Part 122 | Part 123 | Part 124 | Part 125 | Part 126 | Part 127 | Part 128 | Part 129 | Part 130 | Part 131 | Part 132 | Part 133 | Part 134 | Part 135 | Part 136 | Part 137 | Part 138 | Part 139 | Part 140 | Part 141 | Part 142 | Part 143 | Part 144 | Part 145 | Part 146 | Part 147 | Part 148 | Part 149 | Part 150 | Part 151 | Part 152 | Part 153 | Part 154 | Part 155 | Part 156 | Part 157 | Part 158 | Part 159 | Part 160 | Part 161 | Part 162 | Part 163 | Part 164 | Part 165 | Part 166 | Part 167 | Part 168 | Part 169
June 26. The city contracts for its first steam fire engine.
July 1. Adelina Patti visits Detroit.
July 6. Boiler of steam tug A. S. Field exploded at foot of Bates Street ; five persons were killed and six wounded.
August 26. New Jerusalem Church on Macomb Avenue dedicated. Tabernacle Baptist Church, Washington Avenue, dedicated.
August 30. French Methodist Church dedicated as a Jewish Synagogue.
September 4. Tuesday. Immense Republican gathering,-Wideawakes out in multitudes ; 3,500 torchlights in procession; speech by Governor Seward.
September 20. Arrival of the Prince of Wales.
September 27. Lady Jane Franklin visits the city on her way West ; she stopped at the Russell House.
September 28. Miss Dix, the philanthropist, visited the city, and inspected the jail, hospitals, and the poorhouse at Wayne.
October 2-5. Twelfth Annual State Fair; held on west side of Woodward Avenue, north of Daven- port Street. Hon. Cassius M. Clay gave an ad- dress.
October 15. Monday. Immense Democratic meeting ; speech by Stephen A. Douglas.
October 21. Anniversary of M. E. S. S. Union and Tract Society.
November 20. Second steam fire engine or- dered.
December 10. Meeting of business men to coun- sel regarding trouble occasioned by discount on Western money.
December 17. First U. S. Treasury Notes au- thorized. In this month St. Peter's Episcopal Church was first used.
1861. January 8. Salute of 100 guns in honor of Major Anderson.
January 13. Westminster Church, on Washing- ton Avenue, dedicated.
January 28. Great Union meeting at City Hall. March 12. First Police Commissioners provided for
March 16. St. Luke's Hospital incorporated.
April 4. Forty-two Wisconsin banks suspend.
April 13. News arrives of the attack of April 12 on Fort Sumter. Meeting of lawyers at Bar Li- brary in favor of Union.
April 15. Immense Union meeting at Firemen's Hall.
April 17. Flag raised on Board of Trade build- ing ; speeches in favor of Union. General Cass present. Detroit Light Guards organize for the war.
April 18. Flag raised on Custom House and Post Office.
971
THE ANNALS OF DETROIT.
April 20. Oath of allegiance administered to all Government, State, City, and County officers, in front of Post-Office. Sherlock, Scott, and Brady Guards organize for the war.
April 23. Flag raised on Firemen's Hall.
April 25. Flag raised on City Hall; Union speech by General Cass ; "Star-spangled Banner " sung by 3,000 school-children.
May 4. Legislature makes provision for relief of families of volunteers.
May 11. Presentation of banner and cockades to First Regiment on Campus Martius.
May 13. The First Regiment left for Washing- ton.
June 2. The Second Regiment left the city. Franklin Pierce visited Detroit about this time.
June 25. Paid fire engine companies provided for.
July 6. House of Correction completed.
July 13. Old church on Melcher Farm burned.
July 20. A war meeting resolves to erect a Sol- diers' Monument.
July 24. Third steam fire engine procured.
August 2. Reception of First Regiment on their return from Washington ; procession, dinner, etc.
August 6-7. Sessions of the Police court held under poplar trees on present site of City Hall.
September 25-29. Thirteenth Annual State Fair ; held on Detroit Riding Park, Woodward Avenue, north of Davenport Street.
October 23. Funeral of ex-Governor Wm. Wood- bridge.
October 26. A Union political convention agrees to put only one ticket in the field.
November 6. Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society or- ganized.
November 21. New Young Men's Hall opened. Address by Jacob M. Howard.
November 28. Reception to Colonel Mulligan, the hero of Lexington, Mo. Procession, dinner, etc.
December 19. St. John's P. E. Church conse- crated.
1862. January 2. Ordinance requiring fees from all market-wagons passed.
February II. First French Baptist Church ded- icated.
February 17. Receipt of news of the victory at Fort Donelson; procession in evening, illumina- tions, etc.
March 3. Explosion of J. H. Harmon & Co.'s Oil Refinery. Four men killed ; loss $1 5,000.
March 17. St. Patrick's Catholic Church conse- crated.
April 2. M. C. R. R. engine-house and nine lo- comotives burned.
April 13. National Thanksgiving by proclama- tion of President. The Michigan Soldiers' Relief Society was organized this month.
June 19. Tenth annual conference of Western Unitarian churches began.
July 8. The Advertiser and Tribune were con- solidated.
July 15. Large war meeting ; speeches by Wm. A. Howard, Theo. Romeyn, and H. A. Morrow.
July 22. Great war rally; speeches by H. A. Morrow, General Lewis Cass, Major Flanigan, Duncan Stewart, C. I. Walker, H. H. Emmons, Lieutenant-Colonel Ruehle, and James F. Joy.
July 24. City bounties first pledged.
July 28. War meeting in front of Biddle House; 5,000 present ; great enthusiasm.
August 9. Passes to Canada required to prevent citizens fleeing from military service.
August 26. Presentation of colors to Twenty- fourth Regiment of Michigan Infantry on Campus Martius.
August 27. General O. B. Willcox returns to Detroit and receives a public welcome.
September 11. Meeting of the Bar to consider the propriety of adjourning the Wayne Circuit Court on account of the condition of the country; union of action of all parties recommended.
September 12. Arrival of Twenty-first Regi- ment ; reception and supper at the depot.
September 22 to 26. Fourteenth Annual State Fair ; held at Detroit Riding Park; Parson Brown- low, the editorial hero of East Tennessee, gave an address.
October 30. Postal currency first received at Detroit.
November 8. Major-General Richardson's re- mains arrived; escorted to depot by military and citizens.
1863. January 29. Meat market licenses reduced from $50 to $5.
February 24. Michigan divided into two judicial districts.
February 25. National bank system created.
March 6. Riot against negroes; Faulkner, a mulatto, arrested for alleged outrage on a little girl; tried, convicted, and sentenced for life; military called out; 400 men of Twenty-seventh Regiment called in from Ypsilanti; city fired in twenty places; thirty-five buildings destroyed.
March 7. Public meeting of citizens, condemning the mob and calling for arrest of rioters.
April 9. Christ P. E. Church dedicated; second building.
June 15. Michigan branch of U. S. Christian Commission organized.
July 18. Congress Street M. E. Church burned. James A. Garfield visited Detroit about this time.
972
THE ANNALS OF DETROIT.
August 3. Jefferson Avenue and Woodward Avenue street-cars commenced running.
September 12. Gratiot Avenue street-cars com- menced running.
October 11. Second brick Baptist Church erected, corner of Fort and Griswold Streets.
November 4. Second National Bank opened for business.
November 16. First National Bank opened for business. In this month the Michigan Avenue cars commenced running.
December 26. Jail on Clinton Street completed. 1864. February. First M. E. and Congress Street church societies united.
March 20. Brockway Mission Chapel first used.
April 24. Shakespeare Ter-Centenary celebra- tion ; tableaux and grand musical entertainment at Young Men's Hall ; addresses by Judge Avery, G. V. N. Lothrop and Theo. Romeyn.
April 27. Presentation of flags to old Twenty- fourth Infantry on Campus Martius. The recon- struction of Fort Wayne was begun this year.
May 21. The propeller Nile blew up at Buckley & Co's dock ; six persons killed, eleven injured.
August I. Detroit Y. M. C. A. organized.
September 3. News of victory at Atlanta; im- promptu celebration ; national salute; speeches by Theo. Romeyn, J. M. Howard, and D. B. Duffield.
September 19. Steamer Philo Parsons seized by rebel sympathizers in the Detroit River.
September 23. Former St. Matthew's colored Episcopal Church dedicated as Shaary Zedec Syna- gogue.
September 27. First draft in city to fill required quota.
October 12. Harper Hospital first opened. Free mail delivery by carriers began this month.
November I. P. O. money orders first issued in Detroit. Flint & Pere Marquette cars arrive at De- troit, using track of D. & M. R. R. from Holly. Great Union and Republican demonstration ; speeches by Salmon P. Chase and others ; illumina- tions, torchlight procession, etc.
1865. January 25. State convention of colored men assembled at Second Baptist Church to petition Legislature to grant the right of suffrage.
February 1. Steam fire engine No. 4 arrived.
February 17. Paid hand fire engine companies disbanded.
February 22. Board of Trade Building dedi- cated ; address by G. V. N. Lothrop; ball in the evening. Concordia Society organized.
February 26, Sunday. Rev. E. P. Hammond began his revival labors.
February 28. Freedman's Fair opened at Merrill Hall. Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners created.
March 21. Second draft for filling quota of De- troit.
March 25. Public library opened in old Capitol.
April 3. Reception of news of fall of Richmond; impromptu celebration, salute of 100 guns, illumina- tions, etc.
April 10. News of surrender of rebel army. Sa- lute on Campus Martius, bonfires, fireworks, etc.,
April 15. Reception of news of murder of Presi- dent Lincoln ; the city in mourning ; intense feeling of the people.
April 16. Public meeting on Campus Martius.
April 19. Sermons on the death of President Lincoln.
April 25. Funeral obsequies in honor of Presi- dent Lincoln ; oration by Jacob M. Howard on Cam- pus Martius ; procession two miles long.
May 30. National Fast. General suspension of business ; more thoroughly and generally observed than any previous occasion of similar character.
June 7. Michigan troops begin to return from the war.
June 27. Steam fire engine No. 5 procured.
July 4. The Daily Union first issued.
July 11. International Commercial Convention at Board of Trade Building.
July 26. American National Bank organized.
August 11. Michigan Soldiers' Monument Asso- ciation organized.
August 12. General Grant arrived on a two days' visit ; received by an immense concourse of people.
August 27. Police Commissioners enforce the Sunday ordinance for the first time.
September 1. Central M. E. Chapel on Adams Avenue dedicated.
September 6. Fort Street Railroad opened from Woodward Avenue to the river.
September 15. Chicago officials visited the city. September 18. M. C. R. R. freight depot burned. Loss $1, 500,000.
November 5. Immanuel Lutheran Church, Trum- bull Avenue, dedicated.
November 26. Salem Lutheran Church, Cath- arine Street, dedicated.
December 28. Lafayette Avenue Baptist Church dedicated.
1866. February 1. Detroit Fire and Marine Insurance Company organized.
February 7. General W. T. Sherman arrived ; received by a large number of citizens.
March 17. Grand Fenian demonstration ; 1,000 Irishmen in procession ; meetings on Campus Mar- tius and in City Hall. Speeches by General Mor- row, J. Logan Chipman, Levi Bishop, and others.
March 27. Detroit Daily Post first issued.
April 19. Observance of day of fasting and prayer appointed by the governor.
973
THE ANNALS OF DETROIT.
April 26. D. & M. freight and passenger depots burned, with the ferry Windsor and a passenger train ; 18 lives lost.
May 17. City Mission Board organized.
June 20. Funeral of General Cass, who died on June 17. Large procession. Pullman sleepers be- gan running on the M. C. R. R.
July 4. Great celebration, participated in by sol- diers of the'late war ; speeches by Governor Crapo and General Willcox. During the day President Roberts addressed a large assembly of Fenians.
August 7. Annual meeting of Western Associ- ated Press.
August 22. General Hooker arrived to super- sede General Ord in command of this Depart- ment.
August 23. Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Pharmaceutic Association.
September 4. President Johnson visits Detroit. September 19. East end of Fort Street and Elm- wood Railroad opened.
October 23. State S. S. Convention, D. L. Moody and Ralph Wells in attendance.
October 24. Trinity Lutheran Church, Gratiot Avenue, dedicated.
October 25, M. E. Centenary Jubilee ; sermon by Dr. E. O. Haven ; Union love-feast, etc.
October 28. Political speech by General Butler at D. & M. R. R.
October 29. Trinity Catholic Church, corner of Porter and Sixth Streets, consecrated.
November I. Political speech by Schuyler Colfax at Young Men's Hall.
December 2. St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church consecrated.
December 6. Rev. Wm. E. Armitage consecrated Bishop of Wisconsin.
December 23. Jefferson M. E. Chapel dedicated.
1867. January I. Laying of third rail on G. W. R. R. completed. Freight cars first transported by boats across the river.
January 4. Fire alarm telegraph first tested.
January 11-12. Ristori performs in Detroit.
March 26. Board of Fire Commissioners pro- vided for.
April 26. Odd Fellows' Celebration, commemo- rative of the forty-eighth anniversary of the found- ing of the order in America.
May 15. Third Constitutional Convention as- sembles in Lansing.
May 26. St. Anthony's Male Orphan Asylum opened.
May 28. Annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars for North America.
July 4. Laying of corner-stone of Soldiers' Mon- ument in East Grand Circus Park. Masonic cere- monies and immense procession.
July 8. Woodmere Cemetery Association organ- ized.
July 10. Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany organized.
July 23. Second Congregational Chapel dedicated. August 13. Great base ball tournament begun ; lasted six days.
August 30. Former Tabernacle Baptist Church dedicated as Beth El Temple.
September 10-13. Nineteenth Annual State Fair ; held on Race Course in Hamtramck.
September 27. New gas - works commenced operations.
November I. Father Matthew Hall, corner Fourth and Porter Streets, dedicated.
November 17. Central M. E. Church, corner Woodward and Adams Avenues, dedicated.
December 8. Our Lady of Help, Catholic Church, consecrated.
1868. January 2. City Mission Lodging Rooms, corner of St. Antoine and Atwater Streets, opened.
January 14. Meeting of State Christian Conven- tion in First Congregational Church.
March 1-2. Great snow-storm, blocking trains, etc. April 23. Observance of Fast Day appointed by the governor.
May 6. Annual State Convention of Grand Army of the Republic.
May 10. Third Avenue Mission building dedicated.
June 24. Thirteenth International Y. M. C. A. Convention at Central M. E. Church. Adjourned June 28.
August 6. Corner-stone of City Hall laid ; impos- ing ceremonies ; address by C. I. Walker. In this year the wards were first divided into election districts.
September 15-18. Twentieth Annual State Fair ; held on Race Course in Hamtramck.
October 23. Schuyler Colfax visits the city. Grand River Avenue cars commenced running.
November 7. Trumbull Avenue Congregational Mission dedicated, in original location.
November 29. Pine Street Protestant Methodist Church dedicated.
December 25. Catholic Union Society organized.
1869. January 29. Meeting of citizens vote to raise $100,000 in aid of Detroit, Hillsdale, & South- western R. R.
February 2. Detroit Medical College opened.
February 17. Brick building for Brockway Mis- sion dedicated.
March 9. Funeral obsequies of Bishop Lefevere ; an archbishop, two bishops, and seventy-nine priests in attendance.
March 29. Detroit Opera House first used.
May 13. Merchants & Manufacturers' National Bank organized.
May 29. Memorial Day first observed. Soldiers'
974
THE ANNALS OF DETROIT.
graves decorated ; a large procession; oration by E. B. Fairfield.
July 12. Voters of the city decide against issuing bonds to aid railroads.
July 14. Woodmere Cemetery dedicated.
August. House of Providence opened on Four- teenth Avenue.
August 7. Hamtramck street-cars commenced running.
August 16. Celebration of one hundredth anni- versary of birth of Napoleon Bonaparte.
September 12. The United Presbyterian Society dedicated their building on corner Lafayette Ave- nue and Wayne Street.
September 14. Humboldt centennial celebration ; large procession of German societies; orations at Grand Circus by Dr. Kiefer and Prof. Feldner.
October 11. Colored children first admitted to all public schools.
December 13. Calvary Presbyterian Church ded- icated.
1870. January 10. Citizens vote $300,000 in aid of Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad.
February 6. Hamtramck Presbyterian Mission dedicated.
March 27. Memorial services in honor of Bishop Edward Thompson, of the M. E. Church.
April 7. Celebration by colored people of the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution; large procession ; oration at the Opera House.
April 24. Rev. C. H. Borgess consecrated Ro- man Catholic Bishop of Detroit.
May 8. First German Baptist Church dedi- cated.
May 30. Memorial Day observed; decoration of soldiers' graves; large procession ; oration by Duane Doty.
June 9. Knights Templar procession of nearly one thousand.
June 14. State Sunday School convention in Fort Street Congregational Church.
July 2. Second Annual Regatta of Northwestern Amateur Boating Association.
July 22. Simpson M. E. Church dedicated.
September 19. Mandlebaum's auction sale of sixty lots on Cass Farm, above Holden Road.
October 2. Park Street Baptist Church dedicated.
October 17. Triennial Council of Congrega- tional Churches convenes.
October 20. Slight shock of earthquake felt.
November 3. Gamewell fire-alarm telegraph first tested.
November 8. Colored people first voted.
November 29. Annual convention of North- western Woman's Suffrage Association.
December 21. Grace P. E. Church dedicated.
1871. January 1. People's Savings Bank or- ganized.
January 24. First meeting to consider Park and Boulevard question.
April 15. Park Act passed by Legislature; it provided for and appointed commissioners.
May 1. Peace Festival, commemorating peace between France and Germany, celebrated with pro- cession, concert, and ball.
May 4. Wayne County Pioneer Society organized.
May 31. Last meeting in old Wayne County Court Room. Commemorative meeting and supper of the Bar.
June 21. Celebration of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the pontificate of Pope Pius IX; large procession.
July 4. Celebration and formal opening of new City Hall.
July 8. Boiler explosion in Ingersoll's sash and blind factory ; much damage done.
July 18. Common Council formally vacated old and took possession of new City Hall.
August. Railroad completed between Detroit and Lansing.
September 12. D., L. & N. R. R. formally opened to Greenville, with an excursion from Detroit.
October 2. Wayne County Savings Bank or- ganized.
October 9. Great fire in Chicago ; $25,000 raised at citizens' meeting in one hour to aid those who were in need.
October 12. Citizens' meeting for relief of dis- tress by fires on Lake Huron and at Manistee.
October 15. Fort Street M. E. Church dedi- cated. Zion African M. E. Church dedicated.
November 1. Signal service reports commenced at Detroit.
November 5. Scotch Presbyterian Church, brick building, dedicated.
December 13. National Commercial Convention of Board of Trade at Board of Trade building.
December 23. Great gale of wind, blowing down wooden steeple of Mariners' Church and large chimney on Biddle House, and unroofing Republic Brewery.
December 27 to 29. State Teachers' Association held.
December 27. First citizens' meeting concerning purchase of Park.
December 28. Arrival of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia.
December 30. F. Stearns's store burned; four lives lost.
1872. April 9. Soldiers' Monument on Campus Martius unveiled.
April 13. Great gale of wind, breaking trees, blowing off chimneys, etc.
975
THE ANNALS OF DETROIT.
May I. A citizens meeting considers question of issue of $200,000 worth of bonds for use of Park Commissioners. Great confusion and no de- cision.
May 16. Presbyterian General Assembly con- venes.
July 14. First St. Albert's Catholic Church con- secrated.
July 25. Board of Trade and Common Council excursion to Indianapolis on opening of Detroit & Eel River R. R.
July 28. Sixteenth Street M. E. Church dedi- cated.
August 21. Board of Trade excursion from In- dianapolis arrived by way of new Eel River R. R.
August 10. Gymnasium Building on Congress Street, near Randolph, burned.
August 25. Street -cars stopped running on account of horse disease ; the express companies delivered and collected goods in hand-carts for several days.
November 3. New Jerusalem Church, corner of Cass Avenue and High Street, dedicated.
November II. Meeting of citizens to express sympathy and proffer aid to Boston on account of fire of November 10.
November 15. Wood-working room of M. C. R. R. burned ; loss, $100,000.
November 22. Old City Hall torn down.
November 25. Anniversary of M. E. Tract So- ciety.
1873. January 12. Immanuel Lutheran Church, corner Seventeenth and Pine Streets, dedicated.
February 16. St. Paul's German Lutheran Church, corner Seventeenth and Rose Streets, dedi- cated.
March 28. Superior Court established. Board of Estimates created.
April 2. Anti-park meeting held at Young Men's Hall to defeat purchase of park by securing a Board of Estimates opposed to it.
April 7. A Board of Estimates opposed to the park was elected.
April 13. Tribune Building burned: loss $112,000 ; insured for $55,000.
April 22. Sessions of the Supreme Court after this date were held only at Lansing.
April 29. Board of Public Works created.
May 15. Postal cards first received for sale.
June 1. Eighteenth annual convention of Ger- man Roman Catholic Benevolent Union at St. Mary's Hall.
June 7. Steamboat Meteor and Buckley's ware- house burned, loss $100,000.
June 17. Convention of Michigan publishers.
June 30. K. C. Barker's Tobacco Factory burned ; loss, $80,000. Evangelical Alliance organized.
July 9. Plumer & Leavitt's sale of 150 lots at Grand Trunk Junction.
July 13. Rev. Dr. Hogarth preached his farewell sermon.
July 31. Detroit & Bay City R. R. completed to Bay City. In this year all stage lines from Detroit ceased, and the fences were removed from most of the parks.
August 12 and 13. H. Weber's great sale of lots in Greenfield.
August 18. Anti-park meeting held to protest against Common Council providing money to pay for lands contracted for by Park Commissioners.
August 23. The Evening News first issued.
August 24. St. Aloysius Church dedicated. Old Lafayette Street M. E. Church torn down.
September 8. St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Jos. Campau Avenue, dedicated.
October 11. Great fire,-J. F. Weber's mill, a brewery, bottling works, and eight dwellings burned.
October 15. Cass Avenue and Third Street Railroad opened.
November 13. Canada Southern Railroad opened to Toledo.
November 16. St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Or- leans Street, consecrated. Rev. Newman Hall, of London, visited the city.
November 18. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church consecrated.
November 19. Detroit Transit Railroad first used.
December 4. Great wind storm,-doing much damage to shipping, buildings, etc.
December 6. Congress and Baker street-cars commenced running.
1874. March 10. Amusement meetings in Young Men's Hall began ; use of Hall given by Lu- ther Beecher.
March 13. Temperance meeting to consider the Crusade movement. Committee of five ladies ap- pointed to report plan of action.
March 23. Ladies' meeting at Central M. E. Church to consider the "Crusade" phase of the temperance question.
April 7. State meeting of citizens of Michigan to consider the Bridge question. Resolution passed favoring a bridge.
April 14. Burning of Burial Case Factory ; loss $75,000.
April 15. Convention of vessel-owners at Young Men's Hall declare in favor of a tunnel.
April 16. Detroit Scientific Society organized.
May 10. Westminster Presbyterian Chapel on Parsons Street dedicated.
May 20. State convention of druggists.
June 2. Twenty-fifth meeting of American Med- ical Association.
976
THE ANNALS OF DETROIT.
June 5. Heavy rain, flooding cellars in various parts of the city.
July 2. Dr. John Hall spoke on the American S. S. Union and its work, at Fort Street Presbyterian Church.
July 22. Reception of Board of Trade of Peoria at City Hall. Building illuminated in evening.
August 4. Three important conventions began, -National Educational Association, Fifth Annual Convention of German-American Teachers, and American Dental Convention. In this month the Reformed Dutch Church, on Catharine Street, was dedicated.
August 12. State meeting of liquor dealers in favor of license, held at Opera House.
August 19. Reception of Lord Dufferin, Gov- ernor-general of Canada.
August 20. Corner-stone of New Odd Fellows' Hall laid ; procession, etc.
August 27. State meeting of Grangers.
September 2. Convention of State Insurance Commissioners.
September 5. Ebenezer African M. E. Church dedicated.
September 13. Tabernacle M. E. Church dedi- cated.
September 20. St. John's Lutheran Church, Rus- sell Street, dedicated.
October 6. The Whittle and Bliss revival meet- ings began.
October 13. Sixth annual meeting of American Womans' Suffrage Association at Opera House.
October 21. Home of Friendless dedicated.
November 18. Meeting of Western Associated Press.
November 21. Second Congregational Church dedicated.
1875. January 14. Opening of Union Fair in Young Men's Hall.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.