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Austin, Henry R., 991.
Anten, Alanson, 711.
Average monthly temperature and pre- cipitation, 1871 to 1909. 288.
Bacon. Daniel S., 531.
Bad land reports, 343.
Baier, Andrew, 879.
Baier, Walter. 883.
Baird, Nelson D., 754.
Baker, Bert S., 622.
Bald-headed eagle, 310.
Bank examiner's work, 347.
Bank of Brest, 345.
Bank of Detroit created, 340.
Bank of Manhattan, 342.
Bank of Michigan incorporated, 342.
Bank of Monroe, 342.
Bank of River Raisin, 350, 352.
Bank of River Raisin, Monroe (view), 348.
(1836)
Bank of River Raisin tragedy, 357.
Banks and banking, 339.
Bannmiller, John, 736.
Barclay's squadron in action, 113.
Barnes, Linn, 701.
Barry, David S., 793.
Barry, James F .. 614.
Barry, James V., 792.
Bartow, George W .. 782.
Basket making by the Indians, 499.
Battle of Frenchtown, 57. Battle of Lake Erie, 109, 515.
Battle of Moravian Town, 103.
Battle of Pointe au Pelee, 164.
Battle of River Raisin, 83, 86.
Beauharnais. Governor-General, 39.
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Beaver, 303. Beck, Henry J., 957.
Becker, Andrew W., 682.
Bed of Ottawa Sink (a disappearing lake) (view), 276.
Bedford quarries, 285.
Bedford township, mention, 250, 485; farm statistics, 327; township officers, 485; organized, 485; first election, 485; first settler, 485; physical geography, 486; supervisor 494. (1912),
Beet sugar industry, 320.
Beitelspacher, F. C., 599.
.Bell, Lachlin J., 700. Bench and bar, 255.
Berlin township, mention, 250, 492; farm statistics, 327; organized, 492; first election, 493; first settler, 493; super- visor (1912), 494. Berry, Charles A., 611.
Berthelote, Victor J., 912.
Birch canoe, 51.
Birds of the county, 305.
Big Sink, 297.
Black Hawk, 39, 167; captured, 167; crosses the Mississippi, 167. - Black Hawk war, 167.
Bloodshed, 154.
Boehme & Rauch Company, 398.
Boehme, Charles A., 579.
Boehme, Mary, 581.
Bombardment of Detroit, 91.
Bond farms, 280.
Bond, Lewis W., 906.
Bordine, George H. 585.
Bouche, John, 337.
Boucher, Jean (portrait), 50.
Boundary dispute, 137.
Bowser, Howard H., 830.
Boys' and Young Men's Academy. 421.
Brackett, William H., 799.
Bradstreet, General, 22, 23.
Bragdon, Alonzo B., 972.
Brest and Newport, 549.
Brewer, Vernon C., 771.
Bridges of Monroe, 474.
Brightbill, Melvin R., 777.
British and Indian aggressions checked, 115.
British change of base, 100.
British flag ship opens battle, 110.
British forces leave Amherstburg, 58.
British-Indian alliance, 97.
British occupation closed, 102.
British plan of Battle of River Raisin, January 22, 1813 (map), 56.
British promises violated, 82. Bronson, John P., 970. Brown, Rolph, 887.
Bruckner, William T., 798.
Brunt, Frank G., 814.
Bulkley, John M., 1022.
Bulkley, Major Gershom T., 522. Bulkley, Major Gershom T. (portrait), 523.
Bulkley, Harry C., 789.
Burglary and robbery, First National Bank, 359.
Burglary of La Fountain & Loranger Bank, 361.
Buyea, Fred L., 866.
Byrd and Clark expeditions, 23. Byrd, Captain, 23.
Cadillac, De la Mothe, 7, 37.
Cadillac, LaMotte, 246.
Campbell, Judge, oration of, 129.
Campbell, Major, 14; death of, 20.
Campbell, Minor A., 719.
Campbell, Sam P., 722.
Canadian comments on Hull's surrender, 99. Candee family, of Whiteford township, 491.
Canning industry, 387.
Carr, George, 816.
Carroll, James' R., 634.
Carroll, Thomas H., 648.
Cartier and Champlain, 1.
Cartier, Jacques, 1.
Cass Guards, 227.
Cass Indian Expedition, 121.
Cass, Lewis, 105, 114. 116, 122, 143. 246, 249.
Cass, Lewis, and his responsibilities, 114.
Catholic church in Monroe, 428.
Catholepistemiad (University of Michi- gan), 416.
Catholic mission, the first church, 426. Catholic missionaries, 4.
Catholic priests of New France, 425.
Cause of later defeat, 78.
Ceas, Edward E., 714.
Centennial anniversary of first church, 427. Central Railroad Mail Line, 373.
Champlain, 2.
Chapman, Austin B., 608. "Charlevoix's Travels," 54. Chenager, Chief, visit to, 30. Choate, Charles S., Jr., 873.
Christian Science church, 447.
Christiancy quarry, 269.
Circulation in the Confederacy of wild- cat money, 349. Circuit court, 255. "Citizen," 407. City Guards, 168. Civic and public institutions, 469.
Civic Improvement Society, 477. Civil war, 175. Clampitt, Fred, 886. Clark, George Rogers, 24, 313. Clarke, Robert G., 412.
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Clarke, Walter P., 532. Climate of Monroe county, 287. Cole, Thomas G., 529. Combs, Gen. Leslie, of Kentucky (por- trait), 133. Coming of the Jesuits, 426. Commercial depressions, 362. Commercial fishing, 389. Company K, First Infantry, M. N. G., 228. Conant, Harry A., 775. Concentrate at Moravian Town, 105. Consear, Fred T., 890. Contour of the county, 291. Contribution to Brown's army, 148. Cook stove as a curio, 497.
Cooke, Jacob, 973. C'oote, Charles, 587. Coppernoll, Eliza A., 599. Coppernoll, George J .. 598. Council proceedings, 1857, 474. Country doctor in verse. 412.
County Farm and Infirmary, 253. County infirmary (view), 252. County lands for soldiers, 115. County of Monroe established, 246.
County organization, 245. County seat established, 249.
"Coureur de Bois," mention, 43, 45, 46, 337; described by the missionary, 46; regulation of the, 47; speaks for himself, 47. Coureur de Bois (portrait), 44. Courthouse. Monroe (view), 244. Court of Common Pleas organized. 255. Crary, Isaac E., 161. Craze for internal improvements. 344. Creque, Joseph, 883. Crimes against banks. 357. Crippled British fleet, 110. Cron, Otto H .. 952. Crowley. M. J .. 957. Crowning of the May queen (1858). 423. Custer, Mrs. Elizabeth B .. 240. Custer, Elizabeth B. (portrait). 232. C'uster, Maj .- Gen. George A .. 131, 233. Custer, Maj .- Gen. George A. (portrait), 232. Custer memorial, Monroe (view), 240. Custer momiment at West Point Mili- tary Academy. 238. C'uster National Monument Association, 238.
Daniels. Chester V., 716. Dansard, Benjamin, 566. Dansard, Benjamin, Jr .. 558. Dansard, Benjamin, Sr., 557. Dansard, Boyez, 562. Dansard B. and Son's Bank, 355. Darnell's "Journal," 72. Dasseau, Silas V., 865. Dazet, Joseph, 411.
Death of Tecumseh, 106. de Breboeuf, Father Jean, 2. de Champlain, Samuel, 36. de La Salle, Robert, 6. Dennison, Martin, 712.
Denton, Charles E., 720. Depressions of 1819-22, 362.
Detroit an English check, 39.
Detroit & Lima Northern R. R., 366.
Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, 365.
Detroit bank of discount, 340.
Detroit falls to the British, 10.
Detroit surrendered, 92.
Detroit, the key to supremacy, 7. Detroit, Toledo & Irouton R. R., 366.
Disbrow, Henry, pioneer, 518.
Disbrow, Mr. and Mrs. Henry (portrait), 518. District schools, 417.
Dixon, Thornton, 967.
Dohm, Augustus A., 863.
Doing honor to Monroe's hero, 237.
Dorsch, Edward. 1008.
Doty, Fred B .. 890.
Downey, James S .. 768.
Draper. Burton A., 710.
Drinkhalın, Robert, 585. Driving the Miamis, 31.
Du Buisson. 8.
Duck family, 308.
Dugout, 52. Dugout and Pinouge, 52.
Dulhut. Sieur. 38. 48. Dunbar, Addison E., 982.
Dunbar. William, 832.
Dundee Lodge No. 74, 454.
Dundee quarry, 271.
Dundee township. mention. 250. 486; farm statistics. 327; organized, 486; first white child born in, 486; first postoffice. 487; first land entry, 487; early schools, 487; supervisor (1912), 494. Durbin, Columbus, 666. Durocher, Hon. Laurent. account of. 64.
Earliest inhabitant. 265. Early French industries, 40. Early irresponsible banks. 339. Early members of the Monroe bar. 256. Early trials of agriculture, 312.
Eaton, Sidney N., 952.
Eby, Louis, 695. Eckhof, Michael, 582. Educational history, 416. Effect of Erie canal opening, 344. Eighteenth Michigan Infantry, 225. Elder, Josiah M., 802.
Elevated beach levels, 293.
Elevations within the county, 291.
'Elkhart Manufacturing Company, 401. English intrude into northern fur country, 38.
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Enlistment of July, 1862, 224.
Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad, 138, 366. Erie & Kalamazoo Railroad Company, incorporated, 369.
Erie canal, 344.
Erie township, mention, 250, 493; farm statistics, 327; organized, 481, 493; first election, 493; first supervisor, 493; supervisor (1912), 494.
Establishment of social clubs, 458.
Evangelical association of Monroe county, 446.
Evangelical church (view), 424.
Evans, Adelbert W., 878.
Eventful year, 1805, 248.
Exeter township, mention, 250, 485; farm statistics, 327; organized, 485; first election, 485; supervisor (1912), 494.
Exportation of cattle and hogs, 397. Extinguishment of Indian title, 120.
Extracts from a journal kept by Edward D. Ellis, 536.
Extract from diary of Henry Disbrow, 518.
Fair dealings with the Indians, 35. Faling, Ambrose P., 847.
Fall of military leader, 142.
Farmer's fences, 327.
Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany of Monroe and Wayne counties, 467.
Farm products, Monroe county, 318.
Farrell, Michael J., 629.
Fashionable dancing school, 336.
Faunce, Jay R., 833.
Federal bankrupt law, 350.
Felchi, Hon. Alpheus, 257.
Fillmore, Clarence C., 835.
Finances and financiers, 249.
First Baptist church of Monroe, 444.
First export of flour from Michigan, 538.
First local Masonic Lodge, 452.
First Monroe newspaper, 536.
First Monroe Union school, 418.
First National Bank, 353.
First National Bank of Monroe, 353.
First National burglary and robbery, 359.
First northwestern railroads operated. 366.
First Odd Fellows Lodge, 356.
First officers of Golo Club (portrait), 461.
First permanent nursery business, 385. First Presbyterian church (view), 424. First Presbyterian church of La Salle, 438.
First Presbyterian church, Monroe, 434. First Presbyterian church, Monroe (view), 435.
First Protestant preachers, 426.
First settlers, 482.
First telegraph well used, 352.
First township laws, 481.
First Union school in Monroe (view), 418.
First war meetings in the county, 176. First worthy master, Seneca Allen, 453. Fishing industry, 387.
Fishing not all profit, 390.
Five townships organized, 481. Fix, Leander, 986.
Flood on River Raisin, February 8, 1887 (view), 295.
Flour mills, 397.
Forestry and forest growth, 320.
Formal reunion, July 4, 1872, 128.
Forman, Stephen D., 870.
"Fort Fight On," 74.
Fort Lawrence township organized, 481. Fort Lawrence township upholds Mason, 139. Fort Meigs, 57.
Fort Winchester completed, 75.
Foster, Mrs. Elizabeth A., 941.
Fourth Michigan Infantry, 220.
Fourth year of Michigan Southern, 371.
Francisco, George W., 626.
Franke, Carl, 954.
French and Indian war, 57.
French and Yankee pioneers, 502.
French colonists, 34.
French fur dealers, 4.
French houses, 40.
French-Indian fur trade, 35.
French industries, early, 40.
French in the Pontiac war, 42.
French pears and apples, 383.
French seamen, 33.
French social traits, 42.
Frenchtown, 57, 83.
Frenchtown, battle of, 57.
Frenchtown quarries, 279.
Frenchtown system, 246.
Frenchtown township, 250, 483; farm statistics, 327; organized, 481; first supervisor, 483; supervisor (1912), 494. French voyageur, 49.
Frincke, H. F. R., 949.
Frontenac, 31. Fruit growing favored, 315.
Gale, Austin W., 650.
Gale, Joseph B., 532. Game, 301. "Gazette," 407.
General farm statistics, 327.
Geology of Monroe county, 265. Gerick, Fred, 590.
German carp, 393.
German Workingmen's Association, $67. Gilday, Alfred L., 909.
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Gilhouse, Albert L., 963. Gladwin, Major, 14, 17. Gladwin's position, 18. Godfroy, Philip W., 980. Gold, John G., 778.
Golden, Charles A., 894. Golden, Clayton C., 928. Golo club, 459; organized, 460. Golo club, past officers of (portrait), 461. Goodridge, Charles. 721. Gorham, Charles T., 875. Gottfried, Michael, 937. Government canal of today (view), 380. Gramlich, Joseph, 740.
Grams, Gustave, 696.
Grand Army of the Republic. 226. Grand Trunk R. R. system, 365. Greatest deer hunting region in Ida township, 488. Great Macon Drain, 489.
Greeley, Horace, 130. Greeley's letter, reproduction of, 130.
Greening, Benjamin J., 910.
Greening, Charles E., 640.
Greening, John C. W., 644.
Greening, Walter H., 994.
Gutmann, William G., 926.
Guyor, Joseph, 126.
Guyor, Joseph, aged one hundred and seven years (portrait), 127.
Haight, Edwin S., 715. Hammer, John C., 969.
Hansberger, Thomas I., 996.
Hansberger, Willis M., 987.
Harbor and transportation, 365.
Harrison enthusiastically received, 73. Harrison, General, 32, 66, 73. Harrison overtakes Proctor, 106.
Harrison takes the field, 67.
Harvey, Captain Luther, 513.
Haskell. Mrs. E. F., 386. Hasley, John C., 574. Hausmann, Frank M .. 951. Hawkes, Carlton E., 679. Haynes, John B., 787.
Hazen, Rodney O .. 730.
Heath, William H. B., 724.
Hecock, Amos T., 772. Hendershot, Sherman P., 785.
Hennepin, Father, 54. Hennepin's record, 54. Henrich, William G., 932. Herkimer, Clarence S .. 692. Herkimer, Harry C., 685. Herkimer, Henry H., 684. Herrera, General, 170. Heiss, William, 575. Hess, James A., 743.
High school of today, 420. Hilton, Edward W., 874. History of St. Mary's church, 428.
Hivon, Charles, 507. Hivon's story of the Frenchtown mas- sacre, 508. Hoffman, Henry D., 1017.
Hoffman, Ignatz, 677.
Hoffman, Leopold. 838.
Holmes, Hiram S., 726.
Honor to Monroe Masons, 456.
Hoover, David H., 805.
Horner, John S., 118.
Horner succeeds Mason as governor, 118. Horse theives and their cure, 545.
Houghton, Douglas, 266, 268.
House Island, 126.
Hubbard. Edward H., 805.
Hubble, Nathan B., 954.
Hudson Bay Company, 52.
Hull courtmartialed, 100.
Hull, General, 72.
Hull's surrender, 99. Humphrey, General Levi S., 251, 517. Hurd, George R., 960.
Hurd, William M., 959.
Huron and other streams, 296.
Ida quarries, 275. Ida township. 250, 488; farm statistics, 327; organized, 488; first settlers, 488; great deer-hunting region, 488; super- visor (1912), 494. Ilgenfritz Company, 385.
Ilgenfritz, Frank L., 742.
Ilgenfritz, Israel E., 595.
Ilgenfritz, Theodore E., 639.
Ilgenfritz, Wilbur F., 985.
Immediate cause of organization, 247.
Improvement of soils. 322.
Incorporated villages (census of 1910), 531. Increase of population. 344.
Indians, 2, 6, 8, 13, 20, 26, 32, 37, 495, 499.
Indians capture relief expedition, 20.
Indian deed to site of Monroe, 534.
Indian history and legends, 26.
Indian outrages, 81.
Indians support the Great Chief, 104. Indian title extinguished, 120. Indian treaty, 120. Indian warfare, 97.
Indian wars, 7.
Indian worship of the great Spirit, 28. Industries and commerce, 383. Ingersoll, Richard P., 745. Interesting and impressive proceedings, 128. Irish-Indian romance, 27.
.Jackman, Franklin G., 813. .Janney, Clarence E., 815. Jean Bouch (portrait), 50. Jesuit fathers, 41; martyrdom of, 2.
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Johnson, Colonel Oliver, 520.
Johnson, Colonel Oliver (portrait), 521. Johnston, Peter T., 698.
Jones, Charles L., 1007. Joliet, Louis, 6.
Joliet, Marquette and La Salle, 5. Joos, Edward, 706.
Justices divide territory, 143.
Kauch, Edward C., 580.
Keegan, James E., 789.
Keller, Herman D., 703.
Kelley, James J., 965.
Kelly, Ellis W., 818.
Kelly, Herbert E., 842.
Kemmerling, C. Wesley, 788.
Kemmerling, Jerry L., 787.
Kentuckians chagrined at surrender, 80.
Kentuckians describe battle of French- town, 72.
Kentucky Soldiers' Monument in Mon- roe (view), 176. Kiburtz, Carl S., 987.
Killed and wounded in battle of Lake Erie. 112.
Kinney, Argus J., 812.
Kinney, George R., 806.
kinsey, Henry C., 859.
Kirschner, John A., 956.
Kirschner, George C .. 923.
Klump, John S., 891.
Knab, Otto C., 907.
Knaggs, James, 336.
Knapp, Irwin, W .. 939.
Knapp, Lewis C., 857.
Knapp, William F .. 769.
Knowles, James, 739.
Kressbach, Fred M., 647.
Kull, Guy J., 953.
Kummerow, Albert F., 893.
L'Allemant. Father Gabriel. 2.
La Croix, Colonel Hubert. 510.
La Croix Manor house. 511. La Fountain & Loranger Bank, burglary of, 361. La Hontan, 45, 46. La Hontan's "Coureur de Bois," 45.
Lake Erie, battle of. 109.
Lake Erie sand ridge, showing stunted growth of oak and evergreens (view), 290.
Lambrix, Jacob J., 940.
Lamkin, Elijah M., 664. Lamphere, William N., 911.
Land grants, 39.
Landon, George, 412.
Landon, George M., 753.
Langdon, George, 800. Lanman, Charles, 542. La Plaisance Bay, 378.
La Plaisance Bay Harbor Company, 378, 537. La Point, Daniel E., 860.
La Salle, 6, 31, 47. La Salle quarries, 285.
Lasalle township, 250, 492; farm sta- tistics, 327; organized, 492; first election, 492; supervisor (1912), 494. Laskey, Norman J., 797.
Last battle at Tippecanoe, 32.
Laudenslager, Daniel J., 918.
Lauer, Edward G. J., 763.
Lauer, Emanuel S., 848.
Lawrence, Wolcott, 260.
Laying of corner stone first Union school, 418.
Leaders of the rebellion, 162.
Legal notis, 256.
Legendary lore of Indians, 26.
Legend of the "Floral City," 535.
Legend of the old cannon, 136.
Legend of the old pear tree, 41.
Lennington, A. B., 902.
Leonard, Orrin J., 917.
Leonard, Peter A., 914.
Libraries of Monroe, 475.
Liedel, Sebastian, 576.
Lights, 497.
Lincoln high school, 417.
Lincoln Lodge, No. 190, I. O. O. F., 457. Linenfelser, Fred, 697.
List of trees found in Monroe county, 321. List of volunteers in Civil war, 178.
Little Sink, 277, 297.
Little Sink quarry, 277.
Lockwood, Ezra L., 616.
Lockwood, Harry A., 637.
Lockwood, Jennie H., 621.
Lodges outside of Monroe city, 456. Lohr, John W., 737.
London township, 250. 490; farm sta- tistics, 327; organization, 490; first township meeting, 490; supervisor (1912), 494. Loose, Mrs. Emma R .. 932.
Loranger, Eli, 624. Luft, George A., 940. Luft, William J., 661.
MacBride, James G., 988.
Macomb Street House, 163, 334. Macon and Saline rivers, 296. Macon quarry, 269.
Mails and mail carriers. 336.
Main traveled roads, 329.
Mainzinger, Charles, 958.
Mainzinger, Charles L., 958.
Mainzinger, Gustav C., 756.
Making soft soap, 498.
Mallary, Timothy, narrative of, 83.
Mammoth boulder, Monroe county (view), 267.
Manhattan and Havre R. R., 377. Maple sugar and peltries a medium of exchange, 249.
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March to join Hull, 72. Marl beds, 326. Marquette, Father, 6, 31, 37.
Martin, Jacob, 883. Martyrdom of the Jesuit Fathers. 2.
Masons and Odd Fellows, 451. Mason, governor of new state, 161.
Mason Reserve, 248.
Mason, Stevens T., 118, 139, 140, 151, 159, 161, 166.
Mason, William H., 850.
Masonry in Michigan, 451.
Massacre at "Bloody Run," 22.
Matteson, Mrs. Allie M., 916.
Maumee Bank of Manhattan, 342.
Maumee Branch Railroad Company, 375. Maurer, John, 1013.
McArthur, Colonel, 89.
McCall, J. H., 904.
McCallum, George B., 990.
McClelland, Robert, 256.
McCormick, Augustine C., 928.
McFall, Daniel, 727.
MeLaughlin, Clarence. 567.
MeLaughlin, Dennis, 570.
MeLaughlin, Emery H., 568.
MeLaughlin, Howard, 667.
McMeekin, Robert, 888.
McMillan, John S .. 926.
MeMullen, Wm. John. 723.
Mean temperatures and snow-fall and
total precipitation. 1871 to 1909, 288. Means of transportation improved. 117. Meck, Henry L., 835.
Medical profession, 411.
Meigs, Josiah, 116.
Meier, Frederick W .. 759.
Meier, Walter A., 758.
Memorial place, 473.
Merchants and Mechanics Bank of
Monroe, 349. Merz, Gustav C., 651. Metty, Felix, 512. Mexican war, 170.
Michigan admitted to the Union. 158.
Michigan as a territory, 137. Michigan fisheries, 387. Michigan geological survey, 287.
Michigan Pioneer Society, 265.
Michigan Pottawatamies, fading of the, 30.
Michigan rejects olive branch, 149. Michigan soldiers, 175.
Michigan Sonthern R. R., 367.
Michigan takes her stand, 138.
Michigan territorial seal, 125.
Michigan undaunted, 154.
Michigan's First Grand Lodge, 452.
Michigan's later tribute to Kentucky, 134. Mies, John S., 688. Milan township, 250, 489.
Milan township, 250, 489; farm statis- tics, 327; organized, 489; early super- visors, 489; supervisor (1912), 494; great Macon drain, 489.
Military and Custer Monument, 227.
Military orders, 159.
Miller, Clarence L., 908.
Miller, Levi M., 862.
Mills, Emery, 837. Mineral Springs, 324.
Miscellaneous matters, 534.
Missions and settlements, 37.
Monore, Albert M., 662.
Monore, James L., 674.
Monroe and the valley in 1833, 538.
Monroe Binder Board Company, 400.
Monroe churches (view), 424.
Monroe City Guards, 227.
Monroe City Mills, 397.
Monroe Civic Improvement Society, 473, 477.
Monroe coaches and rontes, 328.
Monroe Commandery No. 5, No. 4 and No. 19, 454.
Monroe county as a game region, 54.
Monroe County Bible Society, 448.
Monroe county buildings (views), 252.
Monroe county courthouse (view) 250.
Monroe county "Exercised." 164.
Monroe county farm and infirmary, 253. Monroe county farm products, 318.
Monroe county fisheries, 389.
Monroe county geology, 265.
Monroe County Medical Society, 411.
Monroe county soldiers in Civil war, 178.
Monroe Foundry & Furnace Company, 403.
Monroe Glass Company. 401.
Monroe Historical and Library Asso- ciation, 476.
Monroe Home for Blind Babies and gen- eral hospital, 449.
Monroe Light Guards, 221. 227.
Monroe Light Guard, personnel of, 230.
Monroe Lodge, No. 27, 453.
Monroe Marsh Club, 126, 462.
Monroe nursery and garden, 385.
Monroe's present high school, 420.
Monroe's present high school (view), 420. Monroe quarries. 284.
Monroe Silica Company. 280.
Monroe State Savings Bank, 354.
Monroe Stone Company, 281, 282.
Monroe township, 250, 491; farm sta- tistics, 327; organized, 481, 491; first settlers, 492; first election, 492; su- pervisor (1912), 494.
Monroe woman founds canning industry, 386. Monroe Woolen Mill, 402. Monroe Yacht Club. 303, 466. Monroe Young Ladies' Seminary, 422.
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Monument marking the battleground (view), 85.
Moravian town, battle of, 103. Morin, T. G., 657.
Morris, Gouverneur, 262.
Mortifying defeat, 107.
Moser, Frederick D., 783.
Most common varieties of birds, 305. Mound builder, 265.
Mulligan (Fifteenth) Regiment, 224. Murphy House, 334. Muskrat lore, 301.
Muster roll. of "Wild Cats." 346.
Mutual and Michigan nurseries, 386.
Nadeau, Joseph C., 971.
Names of tribes and date of treaty, 121.
Narrative by an actor, 144.
Narrative of Timothy Mallary, 83.
Natural gas and oil, 323.
Natural products, 312.
Navarre, Alexander T .. 1011.
Navarre, Colonel Francis, 63. 502.
Navarre, Francis, 8, 265, 384.
Navarre home (view), 82.
Navarre, Joseph G., 504.
Navarre, Peter, the scout, 128, 505.
Navarre, Peter (portrait), 506.
Navarre, Robert, 504.
Navarre, Robert F., 503.
Navarre, Toussaint H., 942. Neutral nation, 4, 5.
Newcomb, Stanley O., 846.
New Dublin and Waterloo, 550.
New France, western pioneers of, 33.
New Government Postoffice, 480.
Newport quarries, 279.
New Postoffice (view). 479.
New Year's calls in 1836, 500.
News of British and Indians, 76.
Newspaper press, 403.
Newspapers, 408. Nichols, John G., 784.
Nickels, Bert J., 753.
Nimble French wits, 509.
Niswender, Henry W., 861.
Noble, David A., 259.
Nogar, Edwin E., 804.
Northwestern Company, 53.
O'Brien, Frank A .. 751. Oetjens, Godfrey G., 946. Official programme of Custer celebration, 242.
Ohio boundary commissioners routed, 150.
Ohio getting even with Uncle Sam, 156. Ohio-Michigan boundary dispute, 137. Ohio sets up claim, 138. Ohio's official pronunciamento, 152. Oil, 323.
O. L. Club, The, 459. Old Bank of Michigan, 342.
Old Chief Pokagon, 32. Old City Guard, 227. Old courthouse, 250.
Old French pear trees, 316.
Old roads and trails, 328.
Old-time Concord coach, 328.
Old-time domestic hearth, 496.
One of the earlier French houses of the old regime (view), 40. On the county farm (view), 252.
Opposed by territorial volunteers, 167. Oration of Judge Campbell, 129.
Original creating act, 246.
Original titles to lands, 245.
Orvis, Harry E., 767. Osgood, Charles R., 758.
Ottawa Lake, 297.
Ottawa Lake quarries, 278. Otter Creek Settlement, 492.
Outagamies destroyed, 9.
Outagamies threaten French colony. 8.
Overmyer, William F., 744.
Panic of 1857, 363.
Papineau, Louis J., 162.
Papineau rebellion or patriot war. 162.
Parish, Barnard, 627.
Parker, Burton, 978.
Parker, Luther, 411.
Parks, 473. Parmelee, Olin E., 976.
Passenger pigeon, 310. Patriotism fully aroused, 96.
Patriot war, 162, 166.
Pear trees, French, 316.
Pence, George W., 702. Penalties for unauthorized banking, 341. Pere Marquette R. R., 365.
Period of Civil unrest, 248.
Periods of commercial depressions, 364.
Perkins, Captain A. D., 525.
Perry, Commodore, 103.
Perry's official report, 111.
Perry's squadron in action, 113.
Pesonnel of the Monroe Light Guard, 230.
Peters, Frank S., 632.
Peterson, Charles W., 977.
Pettit, Cyrus W., 943.
Phillips, Nathan C., 709.
Physical geography of county, 287.
Pickard, Jackson H., 965.
Pickens, David C., 885.
Picture of the River Raisin, 295.
Pierre Jean Baptiste Cadotte De La Repentigny (portrait), 50.
Pioneer and Historical Society, 125. Pioneer domestic life, 495. . Pioneer roadside tavern, 332. Pirogue, 52.
Plum Creek quarries, 285.
Poem of the battle of River Raisin, 86. Pokagon, Old Chief, 32.
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INDEX
Police department, 469.
Pontiac, the Great Ottawa, 16, 21; con- spiracy of, 11; character of, 16; his ambitious plan, 16; death of, 17; con- spiracy thwarted, 17; attack on De- troit, 17; raises the siege, 22. Pontiac war, the French in, 42.
Population, 1810-1910, 551. Population of county, 327. Postoffices, 480.
Postoffice, new (view), 479.
Postoffices and postmasters county, 551.
of the
Posts pass into American hands, 24.
Potter, Edward C., 240.
Potter, James C., 863. Potter, Theodore O., 774.
Prehistoric remains near big prairie, 266. Preliminary gathering on house island, 126. Presbyterian church reunited, 436. President Taft's address, 241. Press, 403.
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