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