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Stove Co., Detroit, SII.
Stove Co., Michigan, 816.
Stove Co., Peninsular, 816.
Stoves first used, 470.
Strawberry festivals, 640.
Strawberries of large size, 16. Streams and mills, 8.
Street and road officers, 933.
Street cars, influence of, 376.
Street cleaning and repairing, 930.
Street Commissioners, 927, 935. Street cries, 773.
Street lighting, 469.
Street names, more care requir- ed in, 948.
Street names, changes in, 946, 947, 948.
Street names lost in the fire, 946.
Street paving, 929, 930.
Street paving, the earliest, 929. Street railroads, 931, 932, 933. Streets, 926.
Streets, former condition of, 928.
Streets, length of paved, 930. Streets, opening of, 927.
Streets, supervision of by Board of Public Works, 927.
Streets, vacating of, 927.
Streets, width of, 927.
Streets, worked by prisoners, 929. Street scenes, 926.
Street-sweeping machines, 930. Stump tail currency, 853.
Sturgis, railroad to, first open- ed, 902.
Sugar making, a poem on, 12. Sugar making taught to In- dians, 12.
Suicide of Kiskauko, 161. Sulky Harrow Co., Gale, 836. Sumter, Fort, 853.
Sunday amusements, 349.
Sunday arrests, 201.
Sunday, laws passed on, 95. Sunday markets, 201, 796.
Sunday ordinance, 841, 842.
Sunday School for people of color, 632.
Sunday School morning mis- sion, 569.
Sunday School, the first, 631.
Superintendent of the Poor, 645
Superintendent of Public In- struction, 93.
Supervisor, name changed to Overseer, 934.
Supervisors, Board of, 123. Supervisors for each ward, 934. Supervisors of roads, 933.
Supervisors of townships, 130, 131, 132.
Surrender by Gen. Hull, 224, 277.
Surrender of Detroit in 1760, 222.
Surrender of Lee's army, 309. Surrender of western posts, 264. Survey of State completed, 35. Surveyor of city, office created, 935.
Surveyor-General at Chillico- the, 15.
Surveyor-General's office moved to Detroit, 37. Swill Point, 928.
Synod of the West, convention held, 603.
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Table supplies, 338.
Tallahassee, death of Wood- ward at, 185.
Taverns and Hotels - American, 480.
American Temperance House, 486.
Bagg's Hotel, 484.
Bernard House, 487.
Biddle House, 485.
Blindbury's Hotel, 486.
Brighton House, 487.
Brunswick House, 487.
Buena Vista House, 303, 485. Cass House, 485.
Central Railroad House, 484. City Hotel, 485.
Commercial Hotel, 484. Coyl House, 484.
Detroit Cottage, 483.
Dodemead House, 480. Eagle Hotel, 482. Eisenlord House, 487.
Finney House, 487.
Franklin House, 481, 482. Garrison House, 486.
Goodman House, 484.
Grand River House, 484.
Griswold House, 486. Hotel Goffinet, 487. Hotel Henry, 487.
Hotel Renaud, 487.
Howard House, 486. Indiana House, 484.
Johnson's Hotel, 448.
Kirkwood House, 488.
Larned House, 486. Leland House, 486.
Madison House, 486.
Mansion House, 481, 483.
Merchants' Exchange, 486.
Michigan Exchange, 482.
Michigan Hotel, 480.
Michigan Railroad Hotel,
484.
Taverns and Hotels - Cont'd. New York and City Hotel, 48I.
New York & Ohio House, 482. Northern Hotel, 484.
Peninsular Hotel, 486. Pierson House, 486. Purdy's Hotel, 486.
Railroad Exchange, 487. Railroad Hotel, 483. Revere House, 486. Rice's Hotel, 487. Russell House, 482. Sagina Hotel, 480.
St. Charles Hotel, 486.
St. Joseph House, 483. Smyth's Hotel, 480.
Standish House, 487.
Tremont House, 486. United States Hotel, 483.
Wales' Hotel, 480. Waverly House, 486.
Western Hotel, 484.
Woodworth's Hotel, 480. Yankee Boarding House, 481.
Taxable property, increase of, 156.
Taxation authorized for schools, 753.
Taxation, French and English, 149.
Taxation of M. C. R. R., 898. Tax, The first town, 151.
Tax for Public Library, 761.
Tax for repairing wharf, 8.
Tax on incomes, 159.
Tax - payers, delinquent, 149, 150.
Tax rolls, how prepared, 157.
Tax titles, 39.
Taxes, Letter to Col. Campbell about, 222.
Taxes on liquor dealers, 156, 844, 845.
Taxes, United States Internal Revenue, 159.
Territorial taxes, 149.
Telegraph and Irishman, 884.
Telegraph, American Union Line, 883.
Telegraph, Atlantic and Pacific Line, 885.
Telegraph, Bankers and Mer- chants' Line, 885.
Telegraph cable laid across De- troit River, 884, 885.
New Telegraph Company, York and Mississippi Valley Printing, 884.
Telegraph, District, charges and messengers, 885.
Telegraph fire alarm tested, .513.
Telegraph, first dispatch sent, 883.
Telegraph Line, Atlantic, Lake & Mississippi, 884.
Telegraph, Mutual Union Co., 885.
Telegraph, Northern Michigan line, 884.
Telegraph, O'Reilly line, 884. Telegraph, Snow line, 884.
Telegraph, Western Union Co. organized, 884.
Telegraph, United States Co., 885.
Telephones, first exhibition, 885.
Temperance and total absti- nence, 839.
Temperature, 45.
Ten-Thousand-Acre Tract, 22, 26, 27.
Territory, The Northwest, 85.
Territory of Indiana, 86, 87.
Territory of Michigan, 87.
Territory of lowa, 99.
Territory of Wisconsin, 99.
Teuchsa Grondie, 3.
Texas, 820.
Text-books in public schools, 737, 740, 742.
Thames, battle of, 283.
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INDEX - MISCELLANEOUS.
Theatres, 357, 358.
Tinware, manufacture of, 822. "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," 108.
Tippecanoe, Indian defeat of, 327.
Titles to lands, 39.
Tobacco business, growth of, 826.
Tobacco Co., American Eagle, 820.
Tobacco Factory, Bagley, 836. Tobacco Factory, Banner, 827. Tobacco Factory, Globe, 827. Tobacco Factory, Hiawatha, 827.
Tobacco to Baltimore, 15. Toghsaghrondie, 3.
Toltecs, 321.
Toledo, Michigan troops in, 300.
Toledo, railroad from, to Adri- an, first opened, 901.
Toledo, arrests in, by Monroe sheriff, 300.
Toledo war, 89.
Toll-gates, 926.
Tolling bell at funerals, 49, 57. Tomahawks consecrated, 246.
Tombstone of Ensign John Gage, 52.
Tomato catsup, revenue from, for schools, 736.
Tombstone of Hamtramck, 52. Torch-bearers, 110.
Towers, Brush light, 469.
Town Crier, The, 669.
Town elections, when held, 129, 130.
Township constables appointed, 202.
Township officers, 129.
Township supervisors, 130, 131, 132.
Townships and boundaries, 127, 128.
Tract societies, 641.
Trade, extent of, see Shipments. Trails, 925.
T rails, first use of in Michigan, 894.
Transportation, 889.
Traps, manufacture of, 811.
Traveling on horseback, 887.
Treasurers of city, 167.
Treasurers of the Territory of Michigan, 89.
Treasurers of State of Michi- gan, 92. Treaty of Ghent, 269.
Treaty of Greenville, 121.
Treaty of Paris, 21.
Treaty of Paris, or Versailles, 83.
Treaty, The Jay, 266.
Treaty with England, 262.
Treaties with England and Spain, 269.
Trees, kinds indigenous to De- troit, 11, 12.
Trees, numerous in Detroit, 376.
Trial of General Hull, 289.
Troops at Detroit in 1779, 223. Troops called to Detroit in riot of 1833, 346.
Troops entirely withdrawn from city, 225.
Trowbridge School, 752. Troy, N. Y., 816.
Trustees of Detroit, 133. Trustees of water works, 65.
Tuebor, meaning of word, 91. Tuetle, or Tutelos, 321.
Tunnelling Detroit River, 891. Turkeys and quails numerous, II.
Tuscaroras, 322.
Two day elections, III, 112.
Typographical Union, 674.
Tyranny of Governor Hamil- ton, 173.
Tyschsarondia, 3.
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Uniforms, proclamation of Hull concerning, 314.
Uniforms, protest of grand jury against, 315.
Union Depot Co., 906.
Union Door Knob Co., 822.
Union meetings, religious, 642. Union of political parties, 110. Union religious societies, 638. United States Attorney, 175.
United States Express Co., 892. United States Lake Survey, 918. United States Land Office, 37. United States land patents, 22. United States Marshal, 176.
United States Representatives, 102, 103.
United States Sanitary Com- mission, 658.
United States Senators, 102.
United States Zouave Cadets, 318.
University of Michigan, 728, 731.
University act repealed, 730.
University, branch at Detroit, 731, 732.
University lot, sale of, 41.
Upper Canada, 84.
Upper lakes, expedition to, in 1820, 907.
Utah, 828.
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Vaccinating the poor, 59.
Valuation of city by decades, 156.
Van De Poele electric light ex- hibited, 468.
Varnish Factory, Berry Bros., 826.
Vassar, railroad to, first opened, 901.
Versailles the model for Wash- ington, 29.
Vessels entering or clearing the port of Detroit, yearly lists, 915.
Vessels, yearly list of first arri- vals and departures, 914, 915. Vicksburg, celebration in honor of capture of, 308.
Victory of Gen. Wayne, 266.
Victory of Palo Alto, 303.
Vincennes, 85, 94, 242, 250, 251, 252, 670, 837, 951.
Virginia, 85, 242, 252, 258.
Voting by soldiers, 110.
Votes, number of, cast in De- troit 1820 to 1880, 117.
Voters, qualifications for elec- tions, III, 112, 113.
Voters, ladies as, 115.
Voters, importation of, 108.
Voters, colored, 113.
Voters, acts respecting, 114, 115.
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Wa-be-no, an Indian society, met annually, 50.
Wagons, first at Detroit, 888. Wampum money, manufacture of, 846.
War and death-whoops, 262.
War influences stimulate the use of liquor, 841.
War material to be collected, 273.
War parties sent out by English, 249.
War songs of the British Gov- ernor, 246.
Ward collectors, 165.
Wardens, fire, 505.
Ward's casts of fossils, 714.
Wards, their establishment and boundaries, 147, 148.
Wars-
Black Hawk, 299. British and Indian, 262.
1812, 274.
French and English, 231.
Indian, 231, 272.
Mexican, 303.
Patriot, 300.
Pontiac, 235.
Revolutionary, 242.
Seven Years', 231.
Toledo, 299.
With South, 305.
Washington, 27, 29, 305, 835, 880, 887.
Washington Market, 794.
Washtenaw County, 121.
Water and Water Works, 62.
Water Commissioners, 65, 71.
Water of Detroit River ana- lyzed, 69, 70.
Water-melons, large, 15.
Water meters, 71.
Water rates, 70.
Wa-we-a-tun-ong, an early
name for Detroit, 3.
Wayne County, 86.
Wayne County, French farms in, 977.
Wayne County, its establish- ment and boundaries, 118, 120, 12I.
Wayne, Fort, 225, 228, 305.
Wayne, railroad from, first opened to Northville, 905.
Webster's speech on Cass Farm, 108.
Weighmasters, 798, 799.
Weights and measures, 797.
Welland Canal opened, 889.
Wells built by Governor and Judges, 62.
Western Confederacy, efforts to form, 269.
Western posts, English opposi- tion to surrender, 264. West Indies, 811, 829, 833.
Wharves and docks, 8.
Wheat crop, extent of, 15.
Wheat elevators, 891.
Wheat from France, 12.
Wheel and Foundry Co., Rus- sel, 805.
Wheeling, 249.
Whig party buying votes, 108. Whigs, State meeting of, 108.
Whipping and selling of crimi- nals, 190.
Whipping of Loudon, a black man, 190.
Whirlwind, 47.
White bronze goods, manufac- ture of, 811.
White, the word voted out of State Constitution, 348.
White's Grand Theatre, for- merly Music Hall, 479.
Whitney's Grand Opera House, 478.
Whitefish, large catch of, 16. White Lead Works, Boydell Bros.', 825.
White Lead Works, Michigan, 824.
White Pigeon, railroad to, first opened, 902.
Whortleberries, indigenous, 12. Wide-Awakes, 110.
" Wild cat " banking, 850.
Willow-ware Factory, Donde- ro's, 833.
Willows, best kind grown at Detroit, 802.
Windmill, The Knaggs, 10. Windmill Point, lighthouse at, 5. Windmills, 6.
Window and door screens, man- ufacture of, 809.
Windsor, Bibb's paper published at, 346.
Windsor, G. W. railroad to, first opened, 904.
Winnebagoes, 322.
Winnipeg, 832, 836.
Winston, N. C., 827.
Winter amusements, 350.
Winter dress, 350.
Wintergreen tea, 337.
Wire & Iron Co., National, 8og.
Wire & Iron Works, Barnum, 8II.
Wisconsin, State of, created, 89. Witherell Farm included in city, .34.
Witherell Street, now Wood- ward Avenue, 947.
Wives wanted, 334.
Wolves, bounties for killing, 11. Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union, 842, 845.
Women's Crusade, 842.
Woman suffrage denied, 114.
Women voting, 113.
Wood markets, 797, 798.
Wood - working Michel's, 809.
machinery,
Woodenware Works, Frost's, 836.
Woodmere Cemetery, 5, 56, 57. Woodward Avenue, former names, 947.
Woodward Avenue Market, 793. Wool, wasted and unused, 338. World's End, 57.
Wyandottes, 3, 7, 234, 238, 321, 323, 324.
Wyandotte village, missionary at, 576.
Wyoming destroyed by a party from Detroit, 249.
Wyoming Territory, 828.
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Yerkes Lake, fish in, 16. Yon-do-ti-ga, 3.
York currency first issued, 846.
Young Men's Christian Associ- ation, 478, 638.
Young Men's Hall, 478.
Ypsilanti, M. C. R. R. first opened to, 896.
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Zoological garden, 352.
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