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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.

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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.

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INDEX

XXV

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.

Private schools, 421.

Proctor, Colonel, 58, 80; report of, 61;
opposed by Tecumseh, 103.

Proposed settlement, 143.

Protestant churches of Monroe county,
434.

Public libraries, 475.

Public Square, The, 473.

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St. Charles Parish, 658.

St. John's Catholic church (view), 424.
St. John's church, 431.

St. Joseph's church, Erie, 433.
St. Mary's church (view), 424.
St. Mary's church dedicated, 1834, 427;
history of, 428.

St. Mary's college and academy, 704.
St. Mary's college, Monroe (view), 430.
St. Michael's Catholic church (view), 424.
St. Michael's church, 431.

St. Michael's Commandery, Knights of
St. John, 432.

St. Patrick's church of Exeter township,
433.

St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church,

438.

St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church
(view), 424.

Salt licks, 266.

Sancraint, John B., 512.

Santa Anna, General, 174.
Sawyer, Alfred I., 414.

Schafer, F. William, 934.

Schaub Brothers, 1004.

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Schaub, Joseph, 999.
Schaub, Peter A., 1003.
Schaub, Phillip, 1007.
Scheurer, Adam H., 897.
Schmidt, William F., 809.
Scholl, Daniel C., 989.

Schoolcraft and his Indian wife, 26.
Schoolcraft, Henry R., 26, 122.
Schools, 416.

Schrauder, John, 1014.
Schuler, Frederick, 752.

Scientific study of limestones, 266.

Seal of the territory, 125.

INDEX

Serious shortage of provisions, 74.
Seventeenth (Stonewall) Regiment, 225.
Seventh Michigan Infantry, 221.
Seventy common birds, 305.

Shaler, Charles, 155.

Shaler succeeds Mason, 155.

Shawnee Spring, 326.

Shelby, Gov. Isaac, 66.

Sheriff's residence (view), 252.

Shin plasters, 249.

Ship Canal, The, 379.

Shipwreck and legend of the “Favorite,”

547.

Shore Line Stone Company, 281.

Sibley quarry, 270.

Siege of Fort Detroit, 14.

Sieur de Vincennes, 8.

Siffer, Jules J., 924.

Sigler, John L., 668.

Sill, Fred J., 925.

Simmons, Benjamin F., 964.
Sisung, Victor, 869.

Sleeping bear (view), 267.
Smith, Diantha, 731.

Smith. Fred, 589.

Smith guards of Monroe, 177, 220.

Smith, Henry, 731.

Smith, Jasper N., 816.

Smith, Robert, 889.

Smith, Thomas H., 572.

Smith, William A., 834.

"Smith's Tavern" (view), 332.

Social and other clubs, 459.

Social and sportmen's clubs, 458.

Social clubs, establishment of, 458.
Soils and subsoils, 313.

Soldiers from Monroe county in Mexican
war, 171.

Solid French buildings, 40.

Sortor, Dwight W., 810.

Southeastern portion of Michigan (1835),
(map), 404.

South wall of Woolmith quarry (view),

273.

Southworth, Benjamin H., 602.
Southworth, Charles T., 901.
Southworth, Charles T., Sr., 898.
Southworth, Clinton B., 648.
Spanish-American war, 229.
Specie, 346.

Sperry, Roy M., 634.
Stable government, 114.
Stage coach traveling, 328.
Stage drivers, 330.
Standard Mill, 398.

Start of Monroe nurseries, 383.
"Starved Rock," 30.

State curbs on speculation, 350.
State forces threaten to clash, 139.
State seals and mottoes, 125.
Sterling, Joe C., 919.
Sterling, Joseph M., 821.
Sterling, William C., 826.

Sterling, William C., Jr., 829.
Sterns, Harry H., 851.
Stickney, Major, 154.
Stickney's arrest, 154.

Stone and stone crushing, 269.

Stone business of Monroe, 280.
Stone, George A., 852.

Stone quarries, 40.

Stoner, George W., 1012.

Streets, parks and bridges, 471.

Strimbell, Jacob J., 919.

Strong, Captain George W., 527.
Strong, John, 1021.

Stuart, Henry, 718.
Stumpmeir, Conrad, 605.
Sturgeon, 396.

Sturn, Bernard, 968.
Sturn, Frank S., 652.
Sturn, William E., 651.

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Sugar making by Indians and pioneers.

495.

Summerfield township, 250, 483; first ar-
rivals, 484; farm statistics, 327; first
township meeting, 484; supervisor
(1912), 494.

Superstitions of early settlers, 28.

Support of the Union, 175.

Surface drainage, 293.

Surrender of Detroit, 87, 96.

Surrender, The, 81.

Sykes, John E., 837.

Target shooting and shooters, 546.
Taverns, 329.

Taylor, Gen. Zachary, 167, 171.
Teall, Chas. W., 735.

Tecumseh, the Great Shawnee, 30, 69, 88,
104, 506; death, 106; (portrait), 68.
Territorial and state seals and mottoes,

125.

Territorial period and beyond, 255.

Third Michigan Cavalry Brigade, 239.
Thurber, Jefferson G., 261.

Tiffany, Arthur L., 925.

Timber growth and conservation, 320.
Timothy Mallary, narrative of, 83.
Tin lamps evolved, 498.

Toasts and responses, 132.

Todd, Alexander, 606.

Todd, Frank S., 945.

Todd, James H., 1010.

Toledo and Detroit turnpike, 330.

Toledo war, 137.

Toll, Charles, 854.

Toll, Philip R., 854.

To restrain wild banking, 351.

Total enlistment in county, 219.
Township histories, 481.

INDEX

Township supervisors (1912), 494.
Townships of Monroe county, 250, 481.
Trabbic, Flagget, 872.

Trabbic, John B., 864.
Trabbic, Victor M., 865.

Tradition of the sacred fire, 29.
Transportation business for 1912, 380.
Transportation, means of improved, 117.
Trees planted soon after war of 1812,
384.

Trinity Episcopal church, 440.

Trinity Episcopal church (view), 424.
Trinity Lutheran church, 442.
Trinity Lutheran church (view), 424.
Triquet, August, 995.
Trophies and prisoners, 108.
Troublous days of travel, 333.
True medicine men, 499.
Tuttle, Orlie A., 821.

Two famous sportmen's clubs, 459.

Underground drainage, 297.
Under three powers, 1.
Unique batteau, 51.

United States claims unsettled, 170.
United States Hotel, 164, 334.
United States survey levels, 292.
University branches, 417.
University of Michigan, 416.
Upper Canada troubles, 163.
Ups and downs (1839-56), 363.

Van Akin, Simeon, 843.

Van Houten, Charles L., 603.
Van Riper, Jacob M., 630.

Venia, Harvey R., 811.

Verdon, Thomas E., 849.

Veterans of the War of 1812, 126, 128.
Veterans present at reunion, 127.
Veterans' reunion, 128.

Veteran surveyors, 482.

View from the other side, 109.

View of government canal of today, 380.
Views, an old French homestead, 34;

one of the earlier French houses of
the old regime, 40; ancient French
pear trees, 41; Coureur de Bois, 44;
Pierre Jean Baptiste Cadotte De La
Repentigny, 50; Jean Boucher, 50;
British plan of battle of River Raisin,
January 22, 1813, 56; Winchester car-
toon, 60; Tecumseh, 68; Colonel
Navarre's home, 82; monument mark-
ing the battle ground, 85; Guyor,
Joseph, 129; Combs, General Leslie,

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133; Kentucky soldiers' monument in
Monroe, 176; armory and opera house,
229; Custer, General George A., 232;
Custer, Elizabeth B., 232; Custer me-
morial, Monroe, 240; courthouse, Mon-
roe, 244; Monroe county courthouse,
250; on the county farm, 252; sheriff's
residence, 252; county infirmary, 252;
Monroe county buildings, 252; Mam-
moth boulder, Monroe county, 267;
south wall of Woolmith quarry, 273;
bed of Ottawa Sink, 276; quarry floor
(west wall) Monroe Stone Company,
283; Lake Erie
Erie sand ridge, 290;
River Raisin looking westward, 294;
flood on River Raisin (February 8,
1887), 295; rock opening, big sink,
298; an old-time mail coach, 329;
"Smith's Tavern," 332; bank of River
Raisin, Monroe (1836), 348; govern-
ment canal of today, 380; Monroe
churches, 424; first union school in
Monroe, 418; Monroe's present high
school, 420; First Presbyterian church,
Monroe, 435; Monroe churches, 424;
Zion Lutheran church, 424; Trinity
Episcopal church, 424; Trinity Lu-
theran church, 424; St. Paul's Method-
ist Episcopal church, 424; First Pres-
byterian church, 424; St. John's
Catholic church, 424; St. Mary's
church, 424; St. Michael's Catholic
church, 424; Evangelical church, 424;
Baptist church, 424; St. Mary's col-
lege, Monroe, 430; First Presbyterian
church, Monroe, 435; first officers of
Golo club, 461; new postoffice, 479;
Navarre, Peter, 506; Disbrow, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry, 518; Johnson, Colonel
Oliver, 520; Bulkley, Major Gershom
T., 523.

Visit to Chief Chenagar, 30.
Vivian, John, 915.

Vivian, Richard, 573.

Vivian, Robert G., 917.
Voyageur, 49.

Wabash R. R., 365.
Wagner, Fred C., 732.
Waldorf Mill, 398.

Waldorf Paper Mills, 399.
Wallace, Samuel L., 794.
War declared, 171.

War of 1812, 87, 111.

Warner, Eugene, 930.

Washington again upholds Michigan, 150.
Washington street, Monroe (view), 472.
Waterloo mills, 397, 989.

Water supply, question of, 470.
Weber, Frank D., 877.
Weier, Anton, 756.
Weier, August J., 757.
Weilnau, David, 786.

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