What a wonderful look at life in 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of St. Clair County and its people.

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 2-Volume set published in 1912.

 

ST. CLAIR COUNTY

MICHIGAN

ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE

 

A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress

and its Principal Interests

 

BY

WILLIAM LEE JENKS

 

VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2

 

ILLUSTRATED

 

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK

 

1912

 

900 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II - EARLY MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS

CHAPTER III - BOUNDARIES AND NAME

CHAPTER IV – COUNTY GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY

CHAPTER V - FLORA OF THE COUNTY

CHAPTER VI - OUR FIRST FACIILIES—THE INDIANS

CHAPTER VII - SOURCES OF LAND TITLES

CHAPTER VIII - ST. CLAIR COUNTY UNDER THREE FLAGS

CHAPTER IX - EARLY GOVERNMENT OF THE COUNTY

CHAPTER X - IN THE EARLY DAYS

CHAPTER XI - REMINISCENCES OF THREE PIONEERS

CHAPTER XII - MILITARY

CHAPTER XIII - COURTS AND BAR

CHAPTER XIV - LOCATION AND REMOVAL OF COUNTY SEAT

CHAPTER XV - TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION

CHAPTER XVI - CITIES AND VILLAGES

CHAPTER XVII - EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

CHAPTER XVIII - THE PRESS OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY

CHAPTER XIX - THE COUNTY CELEBRITIES

CHAPTER XX - RELIGIOUS HISTORY

CHAPTER XXI - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

CHAPTER XXII - THE FRATERNAL SOCIETIES

CHAPTER XXIII - NATURAL RESOURCES

CHAPTER XXIV - AGRICULTURE AND LIVE STOCK

CHAPTER XXV - TRANSPORTATION

CEIAPTER XXVI - SHIPPING

CHAPTER XXVII - NATIONAL INTERESTS

CHAPTER XXVIII - BANKS AND BANKING

CHAPTER XXIX - OFFICIAL AND STATISTICAL

 

 

Surnames Shown in Index

Abernethy, Abraham, Acheson, Adams, Addison, Ainsworth, Alexander, Algonquian, Allen, Alvord, Ames, Anderson, Andreae, Andrews, Ardiel, Ash, Ashley, Ashpole, Atkins, Atkinson, Aulls, Avery, Ayrault, Baby, Bacon, Badin, Baggerly, Baird, Baker, Baldwin, Ballentine, Bancroft, Baraga, Barber, Barnum, Barron, Bartlett, Bassett, Batchelor, Bates, Beard, Beardsley, Beaubien, Beavis, Beazell, Beebe, Belknap, Bell, Bellows, Bennett, Berry, Bigsby, Bissell, Black, Blackney, Blagborn, Blodgett, Blood, Boardman, Bonhomme, Bonner, Bottomley, Boughton, Boulvin, Bower, Bowes, Boyce, Boynton, Brady, Brakeman, Brandimore, Brenner, Bricker, Brindamour, Brokaw, Brooks, Brown, Browning, Bruin, Brush, Buckeridge, Buel, Buffington, Bunce, Burbank, Burch, Burk, Burnham, Burns, Burt, Burtch, Burtless, Burtis, Bush, Butler, Butterfield, Buyse, Cady, Cameron, Campbell, Canan, Canfield, Cantine, Carleton, Carman, Carpenter, Casey, Cass, Caswell, Catlin, Cavanagh, Chalmers, Chamberlain, Chapman, Chase, Chester, Chipman, Christie, Church, Chute, Clancy, Clark, Clarke, Cleary, Clough, Cobb, Coburn, Coddington, Coe, Cogley, Cole, Collver, Coltman, Comstock, Conat, Conger, Conroy, Cook, Cooke, cooper, Copeland, Cornell, Cottrell, Couden, Cowan, Cowles, Cox, Craig, Crawford, Crittenden, Crowell, Crowley, Cullinane, Cumming, Cummings, Cusick, Dancey, Dane, Danger, Daniels, Darby, Dascom, Dauncy, Davidson, Davis, Dean, Deamud, Decker, De Gurse, DeGryse, Derck, Deroyer, Devona, Dewey, Dickey, Dickinson, Dixon, Dodge, Donahoe, Donahue, Dongan, Dours, Downey, Drake, Drawe, Drury, Duff, Duncan, Dunnigan, Dunning, Dutton, Dwight, Dysinger, Eaton, Eddy, Edison, Eisenhauer, Elliott, Emmons, Enjelran, Estabrook, Facer, Fairfield, Fairman, Falkenbury, Farman, Farrand, Fay, Fead, Fechet, Finn, Finster, Fish, Fiske, Fitzgerald, Fitzgibbon, Fleming, Fletcher, Foerste, Forbes, Foster, Francis, Fraser, French, Frink, Frost, Fuller, Fulton, Gage, Gallagher, Galpin, Gannon, Gardner, Germaine, Gibson, Gier, Gilbert, Gilchrist, Gillett, Glover, Glyshaw, Goodwillie, Goodwin, Gough, Grace, Graf, Graham, Granger, Gratiot, Graveraet, Graves, Gray, Greeley, Green, Greene, Griffin, Grinnell, Griswold, Grosvenor, Grout, Gruel, Gunniss, Hagedon, Hall, Halloway, Halsted, Hamilton, Hand, Hardwick, Harrington, Harris, Harrow, Harsen, Hart, Hartsuff, Hatch, Hause, Hawes, Haynes, Heath, Heavenrich, Heintzleman, Heisler, Heminger, Hendrick, Hennepin, Hibbard, Hill, Hinkley, Hitchings, Hodder, Hodges, Hoffman, Hogge, Holden, Holland, Hopkins, Hough, Howard, Howe, Hoyt, Hubbard, Hubel, Hudson, Huling, Hull, Hungerford, Hunt, Hunter, Hutchins, Inches, Ingles, Jacobi, James, Jarvis, Jenkins, Jenks, Jenney, Jerome, Johnson, Johnston, Johnstone, Jones, Joslyn, Joss, Jouett, Karrer, Kaumeier, Kendall, Keen, Keene, Kelley, Kemper, Kemp, Kenyon, Keogh, Kibbee, Kilroy, Kimball, Kinch, King, Kingott, Kitton, Klumpp, Krause, Krebs, Kuhn, Lamb, Langell, Larama, Larned, Latta, Laughton, Law, Lawes, Leatomo, Lee, Lester, Lett, Lewis, Linderman, Liscom, Little, Losie, Lovielle, Luce, Lucia, Lynn, McAndrew, McCabe, McCall, McComb, Macomb, Maconse, McCormick, McCue, McDonald, McDougall, McElroy, McIlwain, McIntosh, McIntyre, Mackay, McKenney, McKinnon, McKinstry, McLachlan, McLaren, McLouth, McMahan, McManus, McMeens, McMorran, McNaught, McNiel, NcQueen, Manley, Mann, Manwaring, Markey, Marshall, Marston, Martin, Marx, Mason, Mather, Maurer, May, Maynard, Maxfield, Meredith, Meldrum, Merchant, Merriam, Merrill, Merritt, Miles, Miller, Millikin, Mills, Mini, Minnie, Mitchell, Moak, Moffatt, Molloy, Monson, Monteith, Montgomery, Moore, Morass, Morley, Morrison, Morse, Mudge, Muir, Mulford, Mullaley, Munday, Murphy, Murray, Nash, Naumann, Neaton, Newberry, Newell, Ney, Nichols, Nicol, Noble, Northup, Nutt, Nutting, Oakes, O'Brien, O'Connell, O'Connor, O'Dette, Ogden, Ohmer, O'Keefe, O'Leary, O'Neill, Osmun, Ottaway, Owen, Palmer, Parker, Parkinson, Parks, Patterson, Peabody, Pearson, Peckins, Peer, Pelton, Pendergast, Penney, Pepper, Percival, Perkins, Perrot, Perry, Petit, Phillips, Pitcher, Platt, Pond, Porter, Potter, Powers, Pratt, Purdy, Putney, Quick, Racine, Radonsky, Rains, Rankin, Randall, Rathbone, Raymond, Recor, Reed, Reeves, Reid, Reighley, Reineche, Rice, Rickert, Richardson, Riebling, Riguana, Ristolen, Riley, Rix, Roach, Robbins, Roberts, Robertson, Robeson, Roby, Rodd, Romeyn, Rood, Ross, Rowe, Rowland, Ruff, Runnels, Russell, Rust, Ryan, Sabin, Sales, Sanborn, Sanderson, Saph, Satler, Sauber, Sawher, Scarritt, Schepferman, Schlinkert, Schnoor, Schoales, Schoolcraft, Schultz, Scott, Seaborn, Selkirk, Sewart, Shattuck, Shaw, Sheldon, Shepherd, Sherman, Shirkey, Sibley, Siegel, Silverthorn, Sims, Simmons, Sinclair, Slaughter, Slay, Sleneau, Smart, Smead, Smith, Spalding, Spencer, Sperry, Stacey, Stansbury, Stapleton, Starkweather, Stead, Steele, Stevens, Stevenson, Stewart, Stockton, Stockwell, Stone, Sraight, Strauss, Streit, Strevel, Stringer, STromness, Sturgess, Sutherland, Sweetser, Taft, Taggart, Talbot, Tappan, Tarte, Tawas, Taylor, TenEyck, Tenney, Ternes, Terry, Thatcher, Thomas, Thompson, Thorn, Tibbals, Tierney, Titus, Tolman, Tompkins, Toulouse, Townsend, Travers, Treadway, Trip, Truesdail, Trumble, Tucker, Turner, Tyler, Upchurch, Vance, Van Lauwe, Vanneste, Vickery, Vincent, Wade, Wadhams, Wagenseil, Wagner, Walker, Walter, Walsh, Wands, Ward, Waring, Warren, Waterloo, Waters, Watson, Weaver, Webb, Weed, Weil, Wellman, Wells, West, Westbrook, Westcott, Westrick, Wharton, Whipple, Whistler, White, Whiting, Whitney, Wilkinson, Willson, Wilson, Winchell, Wing, Witherell, Wolcott, Wolverton, Wolvin, Wonch, Woodbridge, Woodward, Worthington, Wright, Young, Yuill, Zeh, Zemmer, Zink