History of Saginaw County, Michigan; historical, commercial, biographical, Volume II, Part 85

Author: Mills, James Cooke
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Saginaw, Mich., Seemann & Peters
Number of Pages: 838


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Au-saw-wa-mic 81-3


Alderton, George A. & Co. 634-6


American Cash Register Co 521-3


American State Bank


768-9


Arnold, The H. B. Co. 677


B


Barie. Wm. Dry Goods Co 621


Barnard, Arthur, coal mine 451


Beach, Horace S. 136


Beach & Moores. 619


Beese, J. H. & Co. 628


Binder, William 200


Bliss, Aaron T., gifts of. 252.


335


Bliss, Solomon Bond 198 Incident of 41-2


Blyben, Captain Wm. 191, 712


Boyd. Robert 631


Braley, Phineas D 122


Brooks, George B


786-7


Brown, James F


179-81


Bunnell, Willard


111


Burrows, George L. & Co. 750


Burt, W. R., gifts of. 264-6, 293-4


Mill of 410, 421-2


Busby, Joseph 120


Butman, Myron 200-1, 300-1


Bancroft House .609-17


Bank of Saginaw


755-58


Bartlett, A. F. & Co . 532-5


Blind Institution


597-600


Bliss Coal Co. 464-5


C


Callam, W'm. narrative of 404-6


Camp, Charles H 786


Campau, Louis 49


Cater, Abram and Charles. 114


Central Agricultural Society


701


Cincinnati, Saginaw & Mackinaw R. R. 729-30


Citizens National Bank 752 Clay, Sam G. .. 671-2 Cooper, Rev. David M 314-5


Crane, William A ..


163-7


Cronk, James W. (Uncle Jimmy) 139


Page


Curtis, Bliss & Co.


630


Cushway, Benjamin


122


Caledonia Coal Co.


452-4


Commercial National Bank


766-67


Consolidated Coal Co ..


461-63


Cornwell Company


641-2


D


Davenport, Elijah N. 100


Davis, George Washington.


169


De Tocqueville, narrative of ..


. . .


.66-78


Dorr, Albert Il., stock raising expe-


riment


691


Doughty, T. E.


625


Draper, C. Stuart 783


E


East Saginaw National Bank 749


Eaton, Frederic L., Sr.


784


Edget, John .V .. Judge


Edwards, William 11


420-1


Ellsworth, Stewart S


216


Elsmore, O. E., narrative of .. 424-5


Emerson, Curtis.


143-7, 396, 709-10


Estabrook, John S


416


Erd Motor Co


.509-10


F


Fraser, James 103, 125, 689


Freeman, D. B


621


First National Bank of East Sagi- na w 748


First National Bank of Saginaw 751


Flint & Pere Marquette R. R.


719-25


Foote, Dan P ..


787


Fair, S. & Son, Inc.


558-60


Fordney Hotel


608


Franklin, Benjamin, Hotel.


617


Franklin Theater


673


G


Gage, Chauncey H 778


Gage, DeWitt C.


Gaylord, Augustine S., teacher


275


Lawyer


782


Goff, Gilbert B., incident of


496-7


Good Roads Movement.


734-7


Grant, Charles W.


147, 156-7


Green, Washington S ..


418-19


Germain Manufacturing Co


578-80


Page


H Page


Harvey & Coleman. 628


llill, Arthur, gifts of


281


Narrative of 497-8


Home National Bank


748


Houghton, Dr. Douglas


426-28


lloyt, Jesse, gifts of ..


251, 304


Herzog Art Furniture Co


.568-73


Hill-Carman Companies


770-1


I


Ide, Mary Hubbard.


169


Ippel, J. W. Co


622


J


Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw R. R. 725-7


Jerome, D. H. & Co.


619


Jewett, Eleazer ...


. . . . 84, 125. 137, 164-5


Jochen, Emil


619


Jackson & Church Co. ..


536-38


Jackson-Church-Wilcox Co.


.538-41


K


Kain, Patrick


.233-5


Keeler, Sanford . 431-2. 721-5


Kendrick, Wm. R.


Kerngood, Sloman & Rosenthal


Ketcham & Tuthill


628


Kirby, Stephen R


430-31


Kis-kan-kou


Koehler Brothers


588-89


L


Lamorandiere, Thadeas de 169


Lefevre, Father


326


Little, Dr. Charles. 84


Little, Charles David 153


Little, Norman


132.148-53,


706


Little, Wm. L. P.


153


Little & Co., Bank of.


746-7


Loveland, Ralph A. 419-20


Loveland, William J. 784


Lull. Charles .1.


G84


Lee & Cady, Saginaw branch


.636-39


Mc


McCarty, Thomas and Edward R ... 688


McCormick, William R. .117-19


McDonald, Wmn., fur trader. 82. 111


Mc Knight, Robert B. Judge. 779


M


Malden, Captain


140


Matrau, Rev. B. F. 310


Maus, Rev. Il. P. . 326


Merchants National Bank 747


Merrill, Charles


415-6


Mershon, A. H .. account of 413


Moores, Emil A. L., reminiscences of 181-2


Mosely, Major, incident of 139


Mower. T. Dailey 231


Melze, Alderton Shoe Co 638-40


Mershon, W. B. & Co. 574-7


Miller. Albert


.101, 125, 137


Narratives of 685, 691-3, 705-6-7


Miller, Hiram L ..


123. 313-5


Miller, Norman L., reminiscences of 161-4


Miz-co-be-na-Sa


Montanus, Rev. Emil 320


Moore, John, reminiscences


174-5


Michigan Employment


Institution .


597-600


Michigan Salt Association


439


Michigan Sugar Co., trip through


Carrollton plant


479-87


Mitts & Merrill


.542-4


Morley Brothers


644-7


N


Naegely, Captain, and lumber jacks 407-8


Nacgely House


618


Nau-qua-chic-a-ming 31


Nay-o-kee-man


30


Neh-way-go


93-6


National Engineering Co.


547-9


O-ge-maw-ke-ke-to


32


Speech of at treaty negotiations.


53


()-ke-mos


31


( )-saw-wah-bon


32


Owosso Sugar Co., proprietors


Prairie Farm


694-9


P


Parsons, Isaac


419


Pau-pem-is-kobe


30


Pere Marquette


.39-40


Port Huron & Northwestern R. R ... 729


Prairie Farm, development of . .. . 694-97


Parker Dairy Co ..


.587-8


People's Building & Loan Associa-


tion


772-4


People's Savings Bank


764-5


Polson, Wm. and Co ..


566-7


Prairie Farm, stock raising


698-9


R


Richardson, John W 171-2


Richman, Mrs. A. M., diary of 126


Richman, Charles 11 127


Riggs, John


98 .


Reis, Rev. Joseph 343-4


Remer Brothers 628


Rudd, Anson


182-3


Rust, Ezra, park


256


Reminiscences


500-3


S


Saginaw City Bank 741


Saginaw County Savings Bank 752


Ma-say-nos .


32


Saginaw Courier


650-2


Saginaw Enterprise 650


Saginaw Evening Journal 650


Saginaw Journal


648


Saginaw North Star


648


Saginaw Republican 648


Saginaw Valley lerald 648


Saginaw Street Railways


731-4


Saginaw Valley Agricultural Society 700-1


Saginaw Valley & St. Louis R. R .. F28


Savings Bank of East Saginaw 749


Schmitz, Anton 363


Schupp & Baric


621


Seely & Spencer.


622


Seemann, Joseph, sugar develop- ment . 471-3


Seemann & Peters


594-6


Seligman, Joseph ( Little Jake) 623-4


Seyffardt & Walz


620


Judge


776


Shaw-we-nos-se-ga


32


Page


Shaw, Bullard & Co 630


Sherman House 618


Shop-en-a-gons


Simpson, Thomas ( Elixir Boga)


Smith, Jacob ( Wa-be-sins)


55


Smith, Captain Martin


711-2


Stewart, James 631


Stinson, James


625


Streeb, George 174-630


Sutherland, Jabez G., Judge 775


Swarthout, Anthony R 135-6


Sweeney, Father 342


Sweet, William H 201-3


Lawyer 756


Saginaw Courier-Herald 652-6


Saginaw Creamery Co.


586-7


Saginaw Daily News 657-62


Saginaw Hardware Co. 643


Saginaw Ladder Co.


514-5


Saginaw Manufacturing Co. 510-12


Saginaw Mirror Works 583


Saginaw Plate Glass Co ..... 561-3, 440-5


Saginaw Press-Publishing Co .662-3


Saginaw Sheet Metal Works 512-3


Saginaw Show Case Co.


582


Saginaw Sugar Co. 476-87


Saginaw Valley Development Co. . 503-6


Saginaw Valley Trust Co 759


Schwahn-Khuen Agency


678


Second National Bank


760-63


Seemann & Peters 594-7


Sommers Brothers Match Co 508


632-4


Symons Brothers Co T


Tarbell, Professor, action of . 201


Tarsney, Timothy E.


Tewell, Rev. Joseph Riley. 341


Tracey, Joseph P., fiasco of. 499


U


United States Graphite Co.


.364-6


Valley Sugar Co. .. 479


Vanderbom, Father 341


Vanderhayden, Father


325


Vinton, Grosvenor 98


Valley Grey Iron Foundry Co 545-7


Valley Printing Co. 592-3


Vincent Ilotel 618


W


Wah-be-sins (Jacob Smith) 55


Wallis, George W .. 217-8


Webber, James S., diary of .. 189-93


Webber, William L., coal mining .. 448 Webster. Samuel H. 417


Webster, Benjamin F 418


Wells-Stone Mercantile Co 631


Wentz, E. L., narrative of. 128-9


Wheeler, John J 782-3


Whittier, Joseph A., reminiscences . 178-9 Wilber, Eugene, Judge 779


Williams, Ephraim S. 89-93


Narrative of 204-5


Williams, Gardner D. 89-93, 394-5


Williams, Harvey ( Uncle ) .ST-8, 394


Williams, William A., reminiscences 787


Wisner. Chauncey W 787


Wisner Oscar F 783


Wright, Ammi W., characteristics. 414-5


Werner & Pfleiderer Co .550-57


Wickes Brothers .524-30


Wickes Boiler Co. 530-32


Wolfarth Bakery .516-20


Wolverine Glove Co. 590-1


Y


Youmans, Henry M., sugar bounty


.473-4


law


Z


Bank of Zilwaukee


. .


......


745


V Page


INDEX


of


SUBJECT TITLES (Chapter Sub-Headings)


A Page


Aboriginal Stone Weapons. 18


Aboriginal Tribes in Michigan 21


Academy, School, first public 285


Academy of Music. 670-1


Advent of Ottawas ·2 1


Advent of Fur Traders


Advent of Enterprising Men 1.85


Advent of Steam Fire Engine 213-5


Advent of Territorial Banks 739


Advent of the Automobile 673


Amusements 670


Amusing Mistake of Juryman


Ancient Fortifications Found 1-


Ancient Pipes 19


Anecdote of Major Mosely 139


Anecdote of G. D. Williams 394-5


Antiquities in Michigan


Arbeiter Vereins 366


Arbeiter Verein of Saginaw City 367


Arrival at Saginaw River 75


Art Club


312


Arthur Hill Trade School. 281-2


Assimilation with Chippewas 21


Auditorium


264-6


B


Bancroft House, Opening of . 609-10


Bancroft House, Banquet and


Toasts 610-12


Bancroft House, Grand Ball. 612


Bancroft House, Proprietors of. 612


Baptist Church, First 338


Barnard, Arthur, begins mining coal 451 Battle of Skull Island.


Beginning of Park System 2,51


Beginning of Rapid Transit. 733


Beginning of Sound Banking 746-7


Benefit to Farmer 486


Benjamin Franklin Hotel 617


Big Fire Losses


223


Big Fire of May, 1893 224


Bit of Holland in Michigan 697


Blind Learn to Read and Write 601


Bliss Park is Ideal Playground. 252-4


Boot and Shoe Trade. 624


Bubble Bursts 135


Boiling Down Rich Syrup. 483


Boosters Become Active. 490


Building Conneil House 52


Building First Court House. 109


Building of Bancroft House 609


Building Cement Sidewalks 248-9


Building Deep Wells 249


Building Plank Road to Flint 150-2


Building of the "Julia Smith" 70S


Building of Flint & Pere Marquette 719-20


Building of Jackson, Lansing &


Saginaw 725-7


Building of Saginaw Valley & St. Lonis 728


Building of Saginaw, Tuscola & Huron 728


Building of Port Huron & North- western 729


Building of Cincinnati, Saginaw &


Mackinaw 729-30


Building Up of Sugar Bowl. 470-1


Burt, W. R. & Co's Saw Mill. 410


Burt Manual Training School.


293-6


Business of Hamilton Street .. .


205


Butman-Fish Memorial Library .300-1


C


Caches and Corn Pits. 16


Caledonia Mine Wins Ont.


454


Character of Au-saw-wa-mic .. 81-3 Characteristics of Saginaw Coal. 455


Characteristics of A. W. Wright . . 414-5 Chippewas Wage Warfare . 24


Church of the Sacred Heart 343-4


City's Cemeteries 260


City Officials in 1868 207


City Officials in 1915 .. 271


City Exacts a Motor License .. 676


City Government by Commission . . 266-9 City Sewer System 246-8


Clothing and Furnishing Trade. . . . 622-4 Close Association of Pioneers 682


Coal Operators Regain Advantage .. 455


Coal Production 461


Coal, Lime and Cement.


628


Coal Operators Oppose Socialists .. 452


Page


Page


Coming of First Steamboat. .. . .. 709


Commercial Interests, East Sagi-


naw. 1858 .195-7


Commercial Interests, Saginaw City, 1858 203


Coming of Jesuits to Michigan


35


Congregationalists


336-8


Convivial Habits of Pioneers.


137


Consolidation of Water System.


230


Consolidation of Coal Companies


461


Consolidation the Only Remedy 241


Controlling "Red Sash" Brigade.


233


Converting Syrup into Sugar.


484


Copper Mining on Isle Royal.


5-6


Cork Pine of the Cass River


400-1


Costs of Coal Mining.


456


Cost of Road Improvements


737


Council in 1915.


270


Court Street Bridge.


243


Currency of Bank of Zilwaukee ⑆45


Creation of Park


and Cemetery


Commission


235


Curtis Emerson Comes


143


Eccentricities


144-6


Lays Out Village of Buena Vista 147


Customs and Habits of Indians. . .. 81


D


Dark Days for Sugar Industry


476-7


Decline of River Commerce


718


Decline of Salt Production


440


Deep Wells, City


249


Derivation of "Saginaw


23


Development of Salt Industry


435-6


Development of Beet-Sugar


Industry


468


Development of Coal Mines. 455


Development of Prairie Farm 694


Deviltry of Kis-kau-kou ..


62


Diary of Mrs. A. M. Richman


127


Diary of James S. Webber.


189-94


Did Jesuits Visit Saginaw ?.


42-3


Difficulties and Privations of Early Pioneer Life 121


Difficulties of Travel 703


Difficulties of Salt Manufacturers .. 436


Discovery of Coal in Saginaw


County .


447-8


Discovery of Great Lakes. 35


Disruption of Board of Trade


Threatened


499


Dry Goods and Notions


621-2


Drugs and Medicines


626


E


Early Conflagrations 188


Early Contemporary Lawyers. 781


Early Discoveries of Salt


426


Early Experiments in Beet Culture 467


Early French Explorations


34


Early Fruit Growing


688-9


Early Newspapers 648


Early Judges of Saginaw County: John Moore 776


De Witt C. Gage 777


Chauncey H. Gage


John A. Edget ..


778


Eugene Wilber


779


Early Methods of Salt


Manufac-


ture 433-4


Page


Early Mining at Sebewaing 448-9


Early Missionaries


313


Early Pioneers


19


Early References to Saginaw


46


Early River Navigation


706-7


Early Growth of Postal Business


667


Earliest Saw Mills


394


Earliest Schools


274


Earthworks in Ohio Valley


East Saginaw Club


.378-9


East Saginaw in 1854, A. Rudd. .


.182-3


East Saginaw Starts Improvements 238


Economics of Modern Salt Manu-


facture


440-1


Edelweiss Club


312


Elks Club, Lodge No. 47 ..


.. 384-5


Emerson Shipped First Cargo of Lumber from Saginaw River. . . . 396-7 Employment Suited to Blind Women 599-601


Enter a New Element, Police


233


Encounter with Indian. .


70


Enterprise of Norman Little


132-4


Erection of First Salt Block


431-2


Evolution of Sawing Machinery


397


Expansion of Coal Industry.


+49-50


Expansion of Schools


277


Experiences in North Woods. .


404-6


Experiences in Early Road Mak-


ing


703-4


Extension of School System


289-90


Extermination of the Sauks


27


Extracting Sweet Matter


481


F


Failure of State Salt Experiment .. 429


Federal Building


667-8


Features of Olden Times 97


Financial Ruin


745


Finding Human Remains 3


Finis of Bancroft House.


612


Fire Department


208


Fire Fighters of Saginaw City


220-2


First Auto Garage


676


First Bank Cashier, J. F. Brown 179


First Baptists


322-4


First Baptist Church


338


First Church in East Saginaw


327-8


First County Bond


109


First Christian Mission


36


First Criminal Trial


111-3


First Plank Road


705


First Probate Case


114


First Presbyterian Church of Sagi- naw City 314-7


First Mill at East Saginaw.


396


First Mine in Saginaw County


449


First Gas Propelled Carriage


675


First Popular Gasoline Cars ..


675


First Steamboat on Saginaw River 125


First Steamboat, Coming of. 709


First Schools at East Saginaw


282-5


First Settler, Louis Campau 19


First Taverns


607


First Wheat Raised


684


First Vessels on Saginaw River


708


First Volunteer Fire Fighters.


208


Fish Trade


204


Forest Lawn Cemetery


263


Early Railroad Projects


718


Conclusion, In


790


Page


Franklin, Benjamin, Hotel. 617


Franklin Theater 673 Fraternal Orders 389-91


Furniture and House Furnishing


Business . 625


G


Gaylord, Augustine S., takes charge of schools 275


Germania Society 362-5


German Lutheran Church 321


German Papers


663


Ghost of the Sauks.


Good Roads Movement 734-6


Grains and Vegetables ..


690


Grand Ball at Bancroft House


612


Granulation of Sugar


484-6


Grocery and Provision Trade.


630-1


Growth of Factories.


491-3


Growth of Postal Business


667


H


Habits and Customs of Indians 22


Hardships of Pioneer Life.


60


Ilardships of Travel 74


Hardware Trade 619-20


llardy Pioneer Life.


165-6


High Place Won by


Wisner


&


Draper


783-4


Hill "Puts One Over" on Wright . . 497-8


llill Trade School


281-2


Holly Water Works.


225-9


Home for Friendless


349


Hotel Bancroft


614-7


Hotel Fordney


608


Hotel Vincent


618


Hotels of Saginaw City.


607-8


How a Bank Created Specie. 744


llow Beets are Scoured


480


llow Farmers Fared


685-6


Ilow a Lawyer's Joke Won a Law


Suit


781


Hoyt Library


304-7


Humorous Incident


789


I


Idea of Civic Beanty


251


Indian Payment Days 80


Incorporation of Salina. 194


Incorporation of Saginaw City 198


Incorporation of First Salt Co ..


430-1


Index to Portrait Galery of Pioneers


of Saginaw


332


Industry Among Blind Folk.


597


Influence of Wah-be-sins .. 55


Intense Rivalry between Cities on the Saginaw 237


Interest in Sugar Beets. 467


Interurban Electric Traction 751


Items of History


604-7


Items of Interest


186


J


Jewelry, etc.


625-6


L


Labor Difficulties in Coal Mining .. 451 Land Grants and Earnings,


F. & P. M.


723-4


Lawyer of Old School, W. J. Love-


land


784


Lax Banking Laws


239


Legend of Lone Tree 20


Liberal Christians 322


Literary Clubs 307-8


Little, Norman, Founds East Sagi-


naw


148-50


Locating Seat of Justice.


108


Lost at Night in Forest.


71


Logs and Booms


399


Lumber Production, 1858 397


Lumber Production, 1851 to 1897


403


Lumber Production, 1892


411


Lumbermen Gain Unexpected Riches 496-7


M


Marshes Attract Buyers


690


Masonic Orders


387-8


Mayors of Saginaw 272


Mershon-Whittier Natatorium 250


Methods of Mining Coal 158


Methodists of Saginaw City 320


Michigan Appetite


686


Michigan Salt Association


439-40


Military Occupation


59


Military Companies of Early Days. 372-5


Miners Become Operators ..


452


Mining Machines Introduced


458


Mode of Indian Life


29


Model Saw Mill


410


Modern School Buildings 278-80


Mounds and Ancient Relics.


12


Mosquito Road to Prairie Farm. . . 695-6 Mutuality of Interests, Saginaw and old F. & P. M. R. R. . . 724-5


N


Naegely, Captain and Lumberjacks.407-8 New Steamer Replaces "Daniel Ball" 716-7


Northern Canal Project.


130-3


Notable Figure, Win. M. Miller


781


O


Oakwood Cemetery


260


Occupation for Blind Men


598-9


Official Proceedings


115


Oil Development . 503-4


oil Well Spouted High 504


Oil Speculators Foiled


506


0)1d Business Houses


164


Old-Time Saw Mills


408-9


Opening of Treaty Council. 52


Opening


Celebration


Bancroft


House


609-10


Opening Excursion of F. & P. M.


R. R.


722-3


Operations of Centrifugals


484


Opposition of Eastern Sugar Magnates 477-8


Organization of Township 106


Organization of Saginaw County ... 106 Organization of Board of Education 288 Organization of First Church ... .. . 313-6 Organization of Saginaw and Bay Salt Company 43


Organization of "Wild Cat" Banks .. 741 Organization of Home National Bank 748


Organization of First National


Bank


748


Page


Page


Organization of Savings Bank of Page


Real Estate and Insurance 627-8 East Saginaw 749 Organization of East Saginaw National Bank 749


Organization of American Com- mercial and Savings Bank ... 750 Organization of G. L. Burrows & Co. 750


Organization of First National Bank, Saginaw 751


Organization of Citizens National Bank 752


Organization of Saginaw


County


Savings


732


Original Plat of East Saginaw


142


Ornaments and Charms


20


Other City Bridges


243-5


Output of the Tittabawassee.


400


P


Packing and Meat Trade. 640


Packing Sugar for Market 486


Parks, Smaller 258


Parochial Schools 296-7


Penetrating Virgin Forest


73


Period of Depression 494


Period of Speculation ₾40


Pere Marquette Founds First Settle- ment in Michigan .39-40


Picture of Early Saginaw


Pioneer Lawyer, J. B. Sutherland .. 775


Pioneer Life in Wilderness 67


Pioneer Farming


681


Pioneers Were Migratory, Some. 683


Pioneer Newspapers, East Saginaw.650-2


Pioneer Teachers, "Academy 286


Plague of Blackbirds 140


Platting the Town 107


Police Department 231


Pottery Exhumed 13


Practical Experience in Beet Cul- t11rc 472-3


Predictions of Early Settler 393


Preparing the Ground. 681


Primitive Coal Mining 447


Primitive Corn Planting. 682


Primitive Trading Posts 603


Primitive Maps


45


Primitive Settlement of East Sagi- naw 140


Primitive Hand Fire Engines. 211


Prominent Lawyers Who Came Later 783-86-7


Prominent Lawyers of Today (1918) 789 Provisions for New City Hall. . 241


Public Library .300-302-3 Purifying Diffusion Juice (Sugar ) . 482-3 Purity of Saginaw Salt 433


Q


Quiet and Absorbed was John J.


Wheeler


R


Raising Blooded Stock, at Prairie Farm . . 697-9


Rapid Increase in Agriculture ...... 690 Rapid Decline of River Commerce 718 Reach Flint River.


Reading Club 311


Reclaiming Marsh Lands. 693 Recollections of N. L. Miller 160 Shoots First Bear 163 Reconstruction of Industrial Sagi- 495-6


Recovery Was Slow in "Wild Cat" Times :46


Reporter's Reminiscences


.648-50


Retail Grocers of Olden Times .. .. 630


Reorganization of Fire Department 216


Retarded Settlement and Causes .. .


Retributive Justice of Savages. 30


Research Club


311


Rescue Missions


358


Revival of Industries


408


Rise and Decline of River


merce


714-5


River and Shore Lines


715-6


Rough Forest Trails 703


Run on a Bank 731-2


Rivalry of Fire Companies


211


Rust Park Improvements 256


S


Sacred Heart Church 343-4


Saginaw City Bank


741


Saginaw City in 1837 128


Saginaw in 1851, John Moore. 174-7


Saginaw an Orderly City 234-5


Saginaw General Hospital 348


Saginaw Club .378-9


Saginaw Country Club 380-3


Saginaw Canoe Club 383-4


Saginaw Lodge, No. 47 B. P. O. E .. 384-5


Saginaw Post Offices


664-5


Saginaw Postal Business, 1915-6 .. 670


Saginaw Is-Saginaw Has 679


Saginaw County Farmers'


Organ. .


702


Saginaw Saw Mills in '80's 411


Saginaw Naval Reserves


375-8


Saginaw Reading Club 311


Saginaw Woman's Club 311


Saginaw Becomes a Distributing Lumber Market 413-4


Saginaw Sugar Company formed. . . 476 Salt and Lumber Industries United 432 Salt Production 445


Salvation Army


357


Sauks and Onottawas 23


School Teacher-Lawyer was Augus- tine S. Gaylord.


Semi-Centennial Celebration of Board of Trade, 1913. 500-3


Shipbuilding on Saginaw River .. 711-4


Shooting Wild Ducks, 1831


Side Lights on Pioneer Lumber-


inen


421-5


Single Germ Beet Balls


Slicing Beets 481


Sources of Sugar 466


Speculators ( Oil) Foiled 506


Spirit of Revenge.


Shop-ena-gons Account 28


Starting New Industries 489


State Bores for Salt. 427-8


State Reaps Benefits (Salt) 433


State Salt Inspection 437-8


Steamboat "Wellington R. Burt"


717


Steamer Lines


725


Page


Strength of Saginaw Banks 753-4


Street Railways 731


St. John's Episcopal Church


317-20


St. Andrews Catholic Church


.325-6


St. Paul's Episcopal Church.


.334-5


SS. Peter and Paul Church.


326


St. Mary's Catholic Church.


.341-2


St. Joseph's Catholic Church


342


St. John's G. E. Lutheran Church. . 344-5


St. Mary's Hospital


.345-6


St. Vincent's Orphans Home ..


346


Summary of Factories and Labor. . 493-4


Summary


Saginaw


Industries.


1914


.506-8


Sugar Making an Ancient Science ... 466


Sugar Bowl of Michigan.


468-9


T


Test of Firemens' Mettle


213


Teutonia Society


370


Theology in Camp 407


Timber Supplies Fail 459


To Whom Honor Is Due


98


Transcript of Saginaw Treaty


56-8


Trade Development Slow


604


Trail to Pontiac


67


Trail to the North


70


Treaties, Other


64-5


Treaty of Detroit.


51


Treaty Reservations to Rileys


80


Tribute to Jesse Hoyt.


178


Trip


Through


Carrollton


Sugar


Factory


479-86


Trust Control of Beet Sugar ..


478


Two Postoffices are Detrimental.


670


U


Um-zoo-ee Cnh


380


Union School. New


275


Union School District ..


278


Unique Character-Sam G. Clay. . . 671-2


Unique Garden Beds Found.


United States Land Office.


200


Utilizing of Waste Exhaust Steam


in Salt Manufacture


442


Utilization of Beet Pulp


477


V


Value of Coal Lands


437


Value of Beet Sugar Industry


to


Saginaw County


478


Value of Bottom Lands


686-7


Value of State Awards.


737


Veto of Electric Lighting Project


at Saginaw City


240


Village Sites in Saginaw County


10


Voyage Across Lake Erie


66


W


Wah-wah-sums


371


Warren Avenue Presbyterian


Church


339-41


Webster House (old)


134


Well Known Hotels.


618


West Side Churches ..


327


West Side Water System.


229


When Changes Were Rapid.


234


Why Saginaw Was Slow in Starting Beet Sugar Industry. 474-5


Why Saginaw Has Two Postoffices.668-9


Why Saginaw Was Cut Off


720-2


Why Saginaw Bar Was Strong.


785


Wild Fruits and Berries.


688


Willianis Saw Mill, First in Saginaw


Valley


394-5


Willcox Automatic Rakes


442-3


Winter Club


308


Wintering Stock on Rushes


691-2


Woman's Hospital


349


Work of Mound Builders 1


Working Up By-Products.


444


Working of the Banking Law 742


Workshops


18


Y


Young Men's Christian Association 354-7


Young Women's Christian


Association .


. . . . 350-2


Page


BIBLIOGRAPHY


History of Saginaw County, Truman B. Fox, Saginaw Enterprise Press. . 1858 History of Saginaw Valley, Truman B. Fox, Daily Courier Press 1868 Indian and Pioneer History, Thomas Galatin, in Saginaw Directory 1866 City of Saginaw Directory, Robert F. Dudley 1870


State Gazeteer 1863-4


History of the Saginaws, W. R. Bates: E. W. Lyon, printer 1874


History of the United States, Vol. 111. pp. 118-162. George Bancroft


Michigan Pioneer Collections, 4 vol., Michigan Historical Commission Proceedings of the Saginaw Valley Pioneer Society 1873


History of Saginaw County, Michigan, Chapman Brothers 1881


Portrait and Biographical Album, Chapman Brothers 1883 Industries of the Saginaw, J. W. Elstner & Co. 1887


Statistics of Lumber and Salt Business of Saginaw Valley,


Truman B. Fox 1866


Annual Statement of the Business of Saginaw Valley and "The Shore" George F. Lewis and C. B. Headley. 1867 to 1872


Saginaw and Bay Counties Biographical Pub. Co. 1892


Lumber and Forest History of the Northwest, George W. Hotchkiss. Chicago. 1898


Bench and Bar of Michigan


Cyclopedia of Michigan, John Bersey: Western Publ'y and Engraving Company 1890


Cyclopedia of Michigan, John Bersey; Western Publ'y and Engraving Company 1900


Saginaw in 1893, Annual Report of Board of Trade, S. G. Higgins. 1892


Annual Reports of Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad. 1868 and 1870 Constitution of Saginaw County Agriculture Society, First Fair 1866


List of Premiums, Eighth Annual Fair 1874


Proceedings of Board of Supervisors. 1869 and 1870


Annual Report of Controller of East Saginaw 1869 and 1870


Report of Saginaw and Bay Salt Company. 1870


Reports of Board of Public Works.


1900 to 1915


Reports of Board of Park and Cemetery Commissioners 1908 to 1915


Reports of Board of Education. 1873 and 1º06 to 1916


1874


Rules and Regulations of Board of Water Commissioners.


Saginaw, Michigan, in 1905, Industrial and Commercial, Illustrated.


Semi-Centennial Souvenir, Saginaw. Michigan, Frank S. Spencer 1907 Greater Saginaw, H. W. Gardner ; Saginaw Daily News 1912


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