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Democratic State Convention at
Erie, 428 : 433. Dentists, First, 780.
Depinet, John, Mayor, 638.
Devil's Backbone, 6.
Dickson's Hotel, 845.
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Dinwiddie. Governor. French, 31. Discovery of Lake Erie, 20.
Dispatch, the Daily. 874.
Dobbins, Captain and the President, 121. Doom of the Eries, 16.
Downer Oil Co., 569.
Draft, First, in Civil War, 360; Second, 361; Third, 361.
Draketown, 550.
Drummer's Baseball Club, 853.
Duncan Tavern, 846 ..
Duquesne's Enterprise, 22.
Eagle Hotel, 847. Eagle Village, 50%.
Earliest Inhabitants of Erie County, 10. Early Industries, 187.
Early Lake Navigators, 205.
Early Mail Service, 103.
Early Plagues at Erie, 607.
Eastern Baseball League, 853.
Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 806. East Sixth Street Baptist Church, 818. East Springfield, 526. East Ward School, 793.
Eaton, Rev. Johnston, 459.
Edinboro, 551.
Edinboro Academy, 552.
Edison Electric Light & Power Company, 743.
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Education in Erie County, 175.
Educational Evolution, 176.
Eichenlaub, V. D., 684.
Eighty-Third Regiment, 325.
Electric Lighting, 741.
Electric Railways, 748.
Elevator, Building of First, 648.
Elkcreek Township, 451.
Elks, B. P. O., 843.
Ellicott and Irvine, Surveyors, 593.
Ellsworth House, 847.
Engines, First Builders of in Erie, 693.
English Claims West of the Alle- ghanies, 40.
English Colonization, 19.
English Evang. Lutheran Church, 809.
Ensign Price at Le Bœuf, 51.
Episcopal Graveyard, 865.
Epizootic and Street Railways, 750. Erhart, Stephen, 735.
Erhart. First of the Germans, 246. Erie, Banks, 730; a Borough, 597; Erie Borough Scrip, 605; Boundaries Extended, 625; Business Affairs, 727 ; Business Organizations, 227; Cemetery, 865 ; Churches, 802; City Scrip, 630; Early Plagues, 607; Fin- ances, 631; Fire Department, 634; Fireworks Appropriation, 631; First Borough Officers, 599 ; First House in. 595 ; First Jail, 596; First Main Sewer,
633 ; First Meeting City Council, 623; First Postoffice, 598; First Sewer, 610; First Water Works, 606; Grade Crossings, 638; Indian Fight at, 52; Industries, 688; in the Wars, 665; in the War of 1812, 611; Harbor, 641; Health Officers, 783; High School, :95 ; Hotels, 845 ; How Laid Out, 592; Journals and Journalists, 869; Lafayette's Visit, 612; Landmarks of Old Town, 615; Mayors, 637 ; Mer-
cantile Trade, 735; Organiza- tion of City Government ; 623; Parks and Resorts, 855; Pav- ing of Streets, 627; Plan of, 591; Postoffice, 639; President Fillmore's Visit, 615; Public Buildings, 763 ; Public Library, 796; Public Markets, 680; Real Estate Boom of 1836, 608 ; Regulating the Streets, 600; Schools, 288; Social Or- ganizations, 830; Sports, 845; Stock in Sunbury & Erie Rail- road, 623; Street Lighting, 627; Suburbs, 626; Theatres, 845; Town Pump, 608; Town Clock, 609; Under Mayor Noble, 632; Under Mayor Scott, 632; Vanished Indus- tries, 713; Visit by President Taylor, 614; Waterford's Con- tribution to, 558 ; Water Reser- voir, 635.
Erie Academy, 791.
Erie Academy Lyceum, 830.
Erie Amusement Company, 849.
Erie Ball Players, Prominent, 853.
Erie Baseball Club, 853.
Erie Bethel Association, 828.
Erie Blast Furnace, 716.
Erie Car Works, 698.
Erie Centennial, 639 ;
Erie City Bank, 731.
Erie City Baseball Club, 831.
Erie City Iron Works, 693.
Erie City Railroad Company, 262.
Erie Club, 112, 832.
Erie College Women's Club, 842.
Erie Company, The, 145.
Erie County Bird Club, 841.
Erie County Electric Company, 744.
Erie County Lighting Company, 741.
Erie County Medical Society, 781.
Erie County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 734.
Erie County Organized, 10%.
Erie County Savings Bank, 734.
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Erie Dime Savings & Loan Com- pany. 733.
Erie Electric Motor Company, 752. Erie Engine Works, 695.
Erie Forge, 698.
Erie Gas Company, 627.
Erie Golf Club, 834.
Erie Harbor Appropriations, 211.
Erie Harbor, Obstructions, 206; Channel Constructed, 206.
Erie Harbor Protection Begun, 208; Permanent Harbor Im- provements, 210. Erie Institute, 790.
Erie Kennel Club, 841.
Erie Liedertafel, 831.
Erie Lighthouses, 212.
Erie Malleable Iron Company, 698. Erie Minute-men for Harrisburg, 354.
Erie Minute-men Go to Pittsburg, 355.
Erie Natural History Society, 840.
Erie Passenger Railway Company, 748. Erie Press Club, 841.
Erie Railway, 301.
Erie Rapid Transit Street Railway Company, 757.
Erie Regiment in Civil War, 670.
Erie Soldiers of 1812, 120.
Erie Southern Railroad, 307.
Erie Transit Company, 755.
Erie Triangle, 57. Erie Tribe of Indians. 14.
Erie Trust Company, 733.
Erie Water & Gas Company, 634.
Erie Women in War Time, 673.
Erie Yacht Club, 835.
Erie & North East Railroad, 259, 282.
Erie & Pittsburg Dock, 651. Erie & Pittsburg Railroad, 299.
Erie & Western Transportation Company, 648. Erie. Burning of the, 657.
Erie's Ancient Streams, 587.
Erie's War Regiments, 324.
Eries Exterminated, 17.
Evans Line Vessels, 649. Executions for Murder. 389.
Exploration by the French, 20.
Fairs, 507.
Fairview Borough, 460. Fairview Township, 455.
Farmers' Mutual Insurance Com- pany. 734.
Farrar Hall, 848. Federal Building, 766.
Federal Electric Company, 746.
Felgemaker Church Organs, 699.
Fenian Excitement at Erie, 371.
Fifteenth Regiment in Spanish War, 390.
Finnish Lutheran Church, 811.
Fire Engine, Keystone, 634.
Fire Commissioners, 638.
First Baptist Church, 816.
First Births, 94.
First Christian Church, 828.
First County Buildings, 114.
First County Officers, 110.
First Courts, 110.
First Erie County Families, 79.
First Erie School, 788.
First Death, Seth Reed, 93.
First Doctors, 779.
First Fishermen. 653.
First House in Erie, 595.
First Iron Foundry, 519.
First Jail in Erie, 596.
First Mail to Pittsburg, 104.
First Marriage, 93.
First Marriage in County, 502.
First M. E. Church, 812.
First Military Organizations Erie, 667. First National Bank, 731.
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First Permanent Resident Attor- ney, 378.
First Polling Places in County, 419.
First Postoffice at Erie, 598.
First Presbyterian Church, Erie, 803.
First Public Building at Erie, 763. First Resident Attorney, 378. First School Superintendent, 183.
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First Settlers, 90.
First Sewer, 610.
First Vessels Built for Lake Com- merce, 204.
Fish Hatchery, 565 ; at Erie, 655 ; Fishing at Erie, 653.
Fishing, Steamboat Introduced, 654.
Fist Fight Fixes Land Title, 108. Florence Crittenton Home, 774.
Fort Ancient, 11, 12. Fort at Wintergreen Gulf, 14. Fort Duquesne, Building of, 42; Burned, 4%. Forbes, General, Expedition, 46.
Fort Le Bœuf, 24, 45, 51, 556; Evacuated. 48; Garrison at. 23.
Fort Niagara. Capture of, 48. Fort Presque Isle, 45; Building of, 23 ; Building of American Fort, : Captured by Indians, 53; Description of. 28; Ensign Christie at, 52: Evacuated, 48. Fort Stanwix Treaty. 61.
Fort Venango, 26.
Forster's Mills, 455.
Fossils. 8. Franklin Canal Railroad, 260.
Franklin Literary Association, 830. Franklin Township, 463.
Freemasonry, 842.
Freeport, 513. Free School Act Accepted. 181.
French and Iroquois, 20.
French Claim of Title, 21.
French Claims to the West, 41.
French, Fall of Their Power, 40.
French Graveyard, 865.
French in Erie County, The, 19.
French Road, Old, 25, 98.
French Route, 556.
French Routes, 15.
Fuller School for Young Ladies, 790.
Furnaces, Iron at Erie, 689.
Furniture Business at Union City, 538.
Galbraith-Benson Campaign, 429.
Galbraiths, Father and Son, 381. Gara, Mrs. I. B., 674. Gara, Isaac B., 872. Gas Tax, 627.
Gazette, The, 871. General Electric Company, 703.
General Training Days, 666.
Geology of Erie County, 8.
German Baptist Church, 817.
German Evang. Trinity 811. Church,
Germans in Erie County, 245. German Free School, ?49.
German Free School Association, 794.
German Insurance Company, 734. German Savings Institution, 734.
German Societies, 252.
Germer, Dr. E. W., 85, 254.
Germer Stove Company, 695.
Gibbons, James, 411.
Gibsonville, 313. Gill-net Fishing Begun, 653.
Girard Borough, 468.
Girard Township, 466. .
Glacial Remains. 9.
Glenwood Park, 863. Gore, The, 115, 501.
Grace Lutheran Church, 810.
Grade Crossings, Abolition of, 638.
Graded Schools Introduced, 184.
Graham. Jake, 857. Grand Army of the Republic, 843.
Grant and Lewis Defeated, 46.
Grant Presidential Campaigns, 424.
Grape Belt, The. 412.
Great Serpent Mound. 12. Greeley, Family and Horace, 566. Greeley, Horace, 400.
Greene Township, 477.
Greenfield Road, First, 99.
Greenfield Township, 481.
Gridley, Capt. C. V., 394; Burial of, 395. Griffith, William, 413.
Griswold Manufacturing Company, 696. Grove House Park. 863. Grubb, Capt. John, 74.
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Half-King's Rebuff, 25. Hammermill Paper Company, 702. Hammond, John W., Mayor, 637. Hamot Hospital, 770.
Hanna (M. A.) & Company, 651. Happy Valley Industries, 196.
Harbor at Erie (see Erie Harbor). Harborcreek and the Railroad War, 282. Harborcreek Township, 486.
Harbor of Erie, 641; Principal Trade of. 652.
Hardwick, William, Mayor, 638. Hare, Michael, 559.
Harrisburg and Presque Isle Com- pany, 69. Harrisburg & Presque Isle Land Company, 455.
Harry G. Barnhurst, The, 860. Harvest Home, 858.
Hays Manufacturing Company, 700. Head, The, 856.
Hebrew Cemetery, 868. Herald, The, 878. Heroine of 1812, 129.
High School, Erie, 795.
High Schools, Township, 185.
Hoffman's Grove, 753.
Holland Land Company, 69. Holley, Samuel E., 878. Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 825. Home for Aged Women, 772.
Home for the Friendless, Erie, :71. Home Guards Build a Fort, 358. Home Guard in Civil War, 353. Home Heating Company, 745. Home-made Uniforms for Soldiers, 673.
Homeopathic Doctors, First, 780. Homeopathic Medical Society, 782. Horticultural Society, 840. Hospitals, Erie, 769. Hotels, Erie, 845. Howard's Falls, 7. Howard's Stone Quarry, 7, 465. Humboldt's Safe Deposit & Trust Company, 734. Hunter, Capt. James, 857.
Hunter, Captain, Story of a Plot, 345.
Huron, Nation, 16.
Ichabod Run, 589. Indian Clanship, 16.
Indian Corn, 12.
Indian Fight at Erie, 52.
Indian Marriage Law, 16.
Indian Mound at Albion, 14.
Indian Mound at Corry, 13.
Indian Mound in Wayne, 13.
Indian Population, 15.
Indian Trails, 2. Indian Tribes of Erie County, 14.
Industries, Early, 187.
Industries of Erie, 688.
Industries Vanished, 213.
Ingersoll, Louisa and Calista, 790. Irish, O. II., 409.
Iron Foundry, First in County, 519.
Iron Ore, Beginning of Trade in, 648.
Iron Works, First, 689.
Iroquois Indians, 15, 16. Irvine and Ellicott, Commissioners, 74. Irving Literary Institute, 830.
Jarecki, Herman T., 236. Jarecki Manufacturing Company,
691. Jericho, 626. Jerusalem, 626. Jerusalem Council, 842. Jesuit Missionaries, 20. Johnson, Sir William, 48. Joncaire's Services, 27. Jones, D. T., Mayor, 637. Jones, Henry S., Erie School Su- perintendent, 794.
Journals and Journalists, Erie, 869. Judges, President, of Erie District, 375.
Kahkwa Club, 833. Kahkwa Indians, 14. Kate White, The, 860. Kearsarge, 506.
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Keepville, 446.
Kellar, Harry, Magician, 407.
Kelsey, Sidney, 874.
Keystone Baseball Club, 852.
Keystone National Bank, 732.
Kimberly Hotel, 847.
Kingsley M. E. Church, 815.
Kingtown, 627.
Kinney, W. D., 878.
Knights of Pythias, 843. Knoll's Band, 839. Knox, Robert, 598.
Ladies' Aid Society in Civil War, 624.
Lafayette, Gen., Visits Erie, 612.
Lafferty, James, 662.
Laird House, 846.
Lake Commerce, 204.
Lake Erie, Discovery of, 20.
Lake Pleasant Road, 102.
Lake Road, 100.
Lake Shore Seminary, 517.
Lakes of Erie County, 6.
Lakeside Cemetery, 868.
Landmarks of Old Erie, 615.
Land Title, Disputed, 511.
Land Title, Settled by Fist Fight, 108.
Law and Lawyers, 374. Lawyers, First. 374.
Lawyer, First Resident, 378.
Lawsuit, Famous, 388.
Le Bœuf (see also Fort Le Bœuf). Le Bœuf Township, 491.
Lee's Run, 588.
Lee's Surrender Celebrated, 366. Legardeur St. Pierre, 25, 34; Re- ply to Gov. Dinwiddie, 39. Lexington, 446. Liebel House, 847.
Liebel, Michael, Jr., Mayor, 638.
Lighthouses at Erie, 212.
Lincoln, Campaign of 1861, 422. Lincoln, President, Call for Sol- diers, 670. Loesch Omnibus Line, 749.
Log Cabin Campaign, 420. Lone Fisherman's Inn, 861.
Louis Phillipe of France in Erie County, 74. Lovell Manufacturing Company, 702.
Lower Greenfield Township, 511. Lowville, 544.
L. S. & M. S. Railroad, 265.
Luther Memorial Church, 809.
Lutheran Home for the Aged, 777.
Lutherans in Erie County, 169.
Lutje, \V. F., 24. "Lying Block," 598. Lynn, B. F. H., 874.
Macadam Roads, 105.
Mail Service, Early, 103.
Maize, The Origin of, 12.
Majestic Theatre, 850.
Malting Manufacture, 701.
Manchester, 457.
Mansion House, 846.
Manufacturing (See in chapters re- lating to individual townships and cities). Marine Hospital, 764; in Politics, 425; on the Peninsula, 229.
Marine National Bank, 732.
Marin's Expedition, 23. Markets, Public, 680.
Martin, Artemas, 409.
Marvin, Selden, Mayor, 637.
Masonry, 842.
Massassauga Hotel Burned, 858.
Massassauga Point, 857. McBride, Jerome, 663.
McCarter, Joseph, Mayor, 637.
McKean Township, 496.
McLallen's Corners, 550.
McLane, Capt. John W., 671.
McLane Village, 550.
Mead, John J., 877. Medical Examiners, 783.
Medical Profession, 779.
Medicine and Politics, 782.
Mehl's Band, 839.
Merchants and Manufacturers Company, 745.
Methodism, Beginning of in Erie County, 525.
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Methodist Church History, 165. Michigan, Building of the, 611. Middleboro, 498. Middlebrook Church, 543.
Miles, James, 467. Miles, William, 532.
Millcreek Township, 500.
Milling Business at Erie, 200. Mills, Early, 188.
Millvillage, 494. Ministerial Association of Erie, 829. Minnig, Peter, 736.
Minute-Men and Conscripts Civil War, 352.
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Missimer, Henry C., School Super- intendent, 495.
Mizener, Frank A., Mayor, 637.
Moravian Good Luck Grant, 493. Moravian Hospitality Tract, 522. Moravian Land Grant. 70.
Morton House, 847. Monument at State Line, 62.
Mound Builders, 10, 13.
Mosblech, Dr. P. W., 283. Mt. Olivet Commandery. 842. "Muddy Dock," 648. Muehler's Battery, 338. Mulberry Orchard, 719. Mutual Baseball Club, 852. Mutual Telephone Company, 741.
Nagle Industries, 694. National Foundry Company, 696. National Game, The, 85 ?. National Guard, Erie Companies, 396. Natural Features, 6, 7. Naval Band, 840. Naval Recruits for the Civil War, 341. Neutral Nation, 16. New Furnace, at Erie, 690. Newspapers (see in chapters relat- ing to individual townships and cities). New York and Pennsylvania League, 854. Nicholson Pavement, 628. Nickel Plate Railroad, 303.
Noble, Orange, 632. No-Man's Land, the Triangle, 58. Normal School at Edinboro, 552.
North American Forest, 3.
North East Borough, 513. North East and Grape Culture, 416.
North East Township, 510.
North Girard, 474.
North Park Row, Paving, 628. North Presbyterian Church, 804.
Notable People, 400.
Oath of Loyalty by City Council, 631.
Odd Fellows Organizations, 843. Ohio Company, The, 21. Ohio and Pennsylvania 854.
League,
Oil Barrels, Manufacture of, 724. Oil Cloth Industry, 713. Oil Creek Railroad, 302.
Oil Refining at Erie, 721. Old Furnace at Erie, 690.
Old Yellow Meeting House School, 789. Olds, Lewis, Recollections, 96. One Hundred and Eleventh Regi- ment, 330.
One Hundred and Forty-Fifth Reg- iment, 334.
Organization of County, 107. Original Site of Erie, 585. Ottawa Indians and Pontiac, 50. Overland Freight Route, 688.
Pageville, 452. Parade Street Market, 686. Park Hall, 848. Park House, 846.
Park Market House, 682.
Park Opera House, 849. Park Presbyterian Church, 805.
Park Spirit, Real, 863. Park View Hotel, 847. Parks and Resorts, 855. Pean, and His Wife, 22. Peninsula, The, Description of, 214 ; Transferred to U. S. Govern- ment, 228, 231.
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Pennsylvania Petroleum Railroad, 30%.
Pennsylvania Population Company, 65, 68.
People's Bank of Erie, 734.
People's Market, 686.
Perry, Commodore, Arrives at Erie,
124; Battle Flag, 135; Dis- patch, 147; Fleet Afloat, 126; Fleet Built, 122; Losses, 148; Prize Money, 153; War Ships, Fate of, 154.
Perry Iron Company, 703.
Perry Masonic Lodge, 842.
Pest House, Erie, 769.
"Pewterinktum," 692.
Phelps, F. S., 877.
Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, 295. Philadelphia Road, 99. Philharmonia Band, 840. Philippines, An Erie Officer in, 393. Phillips, Gen. John, 544. Phillipsville, 544.
Philo Parsons, The, Privateer, 349.
Pig Iron to Pittsburg, 689.
Pioneer Conditions, 95.
Pioneers, 90; Coming of, 72.
Pitt, William, Premier, 44.
Pittsburg Pirates, 854.
Plank Roads, 102; Erie Subscribes Stock in, 623. Pleasure Steamboating Days, 860.
Political Meeting in Erie, Greatest, 421.
Political Record, 419.
Pontiac's Conspiracy, 49.
Population Road, 99. Postal Service, Country, 116.
Postoffice, Erie, 639, 767.
Poultry and Pet Stock Association, 841.
Presbyterian Graveyard, 865.
Presbyterianism in the County, 161. President Judges of Erie District, 375. President Taylor Visits Erie, 614.
Presque Isle ( see also Fort Presque Isle), 28; Fort, 23; Relics Found, 24.
Presque Isle Academy, 789.
Presque Isle Hotel, 845.
Presque Isle Lodge of Perfection, 842. Press of Erie, The, 869.
Prosecuting (District) Attorneys, 381. Public Buildings of Erie, 763.
Public Dock, 646.
Public Education, 1:1.
Public Library, Erie, 796.
Public School System, Adopted at Erie, 793.
Public Steamboat Landing, 652.
Public Wharf, 642.
Pumping Station of Erie, 635.
Putnam, Israel, at Erie, 55.
Quarrying. 8.
Race Track, at Erie, 851.
Railroad Bridge Pulled Down, 276. Railroads, Building of, 294.
Railroad Consolidation Begun, 261 ; Opposed, 2:1. Railroads, The, 258.
Railroad Trouble Adjusted, 290.
Railroad War, The, 267.
Rawle, Henry, Mayor, 637.
Real Estate Boom of 1836, 608.
Rebel Plot to Capture the Michi- gan, 344. Red Bank, 855.
Red Man's Highways, 2.
Reed, C. M., Mayor, 637.
Reed Family, Arrival in Erie Co., :4. Reed House, 846.
Reed. Miss Sarah. 678.
Reed, Seth, 74.
Reed Steamboats, 646.
Reed's Dock, 643.
Reed's Stage Line, 104.
Reed's Steam Mill, 195.
Rees, Thomas, 74.
Rees, Thomas, Makes Survey, 67.
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Rees's Road, 98. Regiments in Civil War, 325, foll. Reis Theatre Circuit, 849. Religious Beginnings in County, 160. Reparti, Captain, 34. Reservations and Grants of Land, 70. Retail Merchants Association, 730. Revolutionary Soldiers, at Erie, 666. Rice, Dan, 470.
Ridge Road, 100.
Rindernecht, Mrs. W. F., 677.
Rippers and Shanghais, 279.
Roads, Laying Out of, 97.
Rocks of Erie County, 8.
Roman Catholic Church in Erie County, 171.
Rural Free Delivery, 639.
Rural Mail Routes, 116.
Rutledge, Ralph, Killed by Indians, 76.
St. Andrew's Catholic Church, 823. St. Ann's Catholic Church, 825.
St. Benedict's Academy, 799. St. Boniface Village, 479.
St. James A. M. E. Church, 815. St. John's Catholic Church, 823.
St. John's Evang. Lutheran Church, 808.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 823. St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, 777. St. Luke's Evang. Lutheran Church, 812.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 819. St. Mary's Catholic Church, 822. St. Mary's College, 517. St. Matthew's Lutheran
Church, 810.
St. Michael's Catholic Church, 824. St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral, 821.
St. Patrick's Roman Cath. Church, 821.
St. Paul's Catholic Church, 824.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 818.
St. Paul's Evang. Lutheran Church, 811. St. Peter's Cathedral, 822. Vol. I-57.
St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, 824. St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 810. St. Vincent's Hospital, 769. Sale of Water Lots in Erie, 604. Salem Church, 826.
Saltsman, Robert J., Mayor, 637.
Sanford Library Project, 797.
Sanford Presbyterian Church, 807. Sarah Hearn Memorial Presbyter- ian Church, 829.
Scene of the Story, 1.
School District of the City of Erie. 794. School, Jane Wilson's, 789.
Schoolhouse, First in County, 516. Schools, Earliest of the County, 179. Schools (See in chapters relating to individual townships aud cit- ies). Schools of the County, 175.
Schools of Erie, 788. Schwingel Tragedy, 509. Scott Republican Campaign, 430.
Scott, Walter, Mayor, 637.
Scott, William L., as Mayor, 637.
Scott ( W. L.) & Co., 651.
Scott, W. L., His Farms in Mill- creek, 504. Scott's Music Hall, 851.
Seal of Harborcreek, 284.
Second Baptist Church, 817.
Second National Bank, 732.
Second Ward Market, 686.
Security Savings & Trust Company. ¥33.
Seminary, First, 290.
Settlement Acts, 68.
Settlement of Erie County, 65, 88.
Settlers, First, 72.
Seven Years' War, 40.
Sewers, First of Erie, 633.
Shenango Railroad, 304.
Shenk ( Henry) Company, 699.
Ship Building at Erie, 704.
Shriners' Club, 835. Sibley Campaign, 432.
Silk Manufacture, 719. Simpson M. E. Church, 813. Sixteenth Regiment, 399.
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Sixth Judicial District, Its Changes, 375. Skinner Engine Company, 694.
Slavery in Erie County, 308.
Soap Manufacture, 718. Social Organizations, Erie, 830.
Soils of Erie County, 7.
Soldiers' Bounties, 362.
Soldiers of 1812 from Venango, 542.
Soldiers' Monument in Erie, 369.
Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 765.
Sommerheim Association, 862.
Sommerheim Club, 840.
South Erie, 629.
South Erie Improvement Associa- tion, 730.
South Erie Iron Works, 696.
South Shore Wine Company, 414.
Soznoski, Madame, 790.
Spanish-American War, 390.
Spanish Colonization, 19.
Spaulding, Jonathan, 76.
Springfield Academies, 524.
Springfield Township, 522.
Sports, 845. Stage Line, Reed's, 104.
Stanwix, General, 47.
Starch Manufacture, 725.
State Line Monument. 62.
State Line, The Old, 61.
State Street Improvement Begun, 601.
State Street Paving, 628.
Steamer Lena Knobloch, 860.
Steamer Massassauga, 860.
Sterrett, Joseph M., 871.
Sterrettania, 497. Streams of Erie County, 6.
Street Market, 680.
Strong, Martin, Arrival of, 75; His Pioneer Experience, 94.
Sturgeon Fishing, 655. Sturgeonville, 461. Suburban Trolley Lines, 755.
Summit Township, 528. Sunbury & Erie Railroad, 268, 625. Superintendent, First School, 183. Superintendent of Streets, 638.
Surrender of British to Perry, 150. Surveying of Triangle, 67.
Surveyors' Starting Point in Erie, 594.
Swan's Tavern, 456.
Swedenborgian Church, 827.
Swedish Baptist Church, 817. Swedish Lutheran Bethany Church, 811.
Tamarack Swamp, 8.
Tanning Industry at Erie, 703.
Tarbell, Ida M., 403.
Telephone, Beginnings of, 739.
Telephone Exchange, Invention of, 740.
Tenth Street M. E. Church, 814.
The Ancient Borough, 556.
"The Sleepy Borough," 598.
Theatres, Erie, 845.
Thompson, Dennian, 408.
Thompson, Judge James, 381.
Times, The, 877.
Tinkcom, Douglas, 683.
Tobacco Indians, 16.
Topography of Erie County, 5.
Tourgee, Judge Albion W., 406.
Town Pump of Erie, 608; Town Clock, 609.
Township High Schools, 185.
Townships and Boroughs, 437.
Townships, Original, 109.
Tracy University. 793.
Trask, Prescott & Richardson Com- pany, 738. Trees of Erie County, 4.
Triangle, The, 57; Claims to, 58; Purchase of, 60. Trinity Cemetery, 867.
Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church, 820. True American, The, 871. Truesdell, Albert, 581.
Turf. The, 851. Tuscaroras, 16.
Tyrian Masonic Lodge, 842.
Underground Railroad, 311. Undine Boat Club, 831.
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Union City, 535. Union Club, 834. Union Iron Works, 695.
Union Mills Borough, 534. Union Musical Association, 838. Union Township, 531.
Union Telephone & Telegraph Com- pany, 741. Union & Titusville Railroad, 302. United Presbyterian Church, 803.
United Presbyterian Graveyard,
865. United States Bank, 730. United States Hotel, 846.
United States Horse Shoe Com- pany, 702. U. S. Marshal Arrested in Railroad War, 286. U. S. Steamer Michigan, 341. Unitarian Church, 826. Universalist Church, 826.
Venango Township, 541. Vessels Owned at Erie, 652. Villa Maria Academy, 799.
Wager of Battle, 108. Wagner & Reis, 849. Waldameer, 754. Wales. 478.
Walther, Jacob F., 735.
War Debt Paid, 362.
War of 1812, 117, 128.
War of the Rebellion, 324.
War History of Erie, 665.
Warner Brothers, 735.
Warrentown, 506. Water Commissioners, First, 635.
Water Lots and Harbor, 641.
Water Lots, Voted to Sunbury & Erie Railroad, 625. Water Works, Erie, 635; First at Erie, 606. Waterford Academy, 558. Waterford Borough, 562. Waterford's Contribution to Erie, 558. Waterford Harbor, 557. Waterford Township, 556.
Waterford Turnpike, 100. Waterford, Washington at, 33. Washington, George, His Mission to Erie County, 30. Washington Township, 547.
Washington at Waterford, 33, 559.
Washington's Defeat, 13.
Washington's Expedition Against Fort Duquesne, 42. Washington's Journal, 32.
Watson Dock, 651.
Watson Paper Mills, 702. Wattsburg, 545.
Wattsburg Road, 102.
Wayne, Death of Gen. Anthony, 81; Removal of His Body, 84; Discovery of His Grave, 85.
Wayne Guards, 667.
Wayne Hall, 850.
Wayne Street M. E. Church, 814.
Wayne Township, 563.
Wayne Township, Indian Mound, 13. Weeks, Setlı, 565.
WVeigeltown, 506.
Weiss Library, 505.
Wellsburg, 452.
Wesleyville, 487.
Western Fish Hatchery, 565.
West Springfield, 526. West Ward School, 793.
Whallon Dock, 649.
Whitman, Benjamin, 877.
Whittier Literary Association, 831.
Willard, James R., 876.
Wintergreen Gulf, 6, 14.
Woman's Club of Erie, 836.
Women of Erie in War Time, 673.
Wonderland, 851.
Woolen Industry, 717.
Works of Mound Builders, 11.
Yankeetown, 506. Y. M. C. A., 775. Y. W. C. A., 775. Zem-Zem Temple, Mystic Shrine, 843. Zimmerman's Band, 839. Zimmerly House, 847. Zion's Lutheran Church, 810.
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