"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."
- Abraham Lincoln
Michigan County Histories
URL: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micounty/
The Michigan County Histories collection is a collaborative effort of
Michigan's Council of Library Directors. The collection is projected to provide
access to 192 histories dating from 1866 to 1926. There are 172 volumes in 146
titles currently online.
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
BEGINNINGS OF MICHIGAN
A Study of the Settlement of the Lower Peninsula during the
Territorial Period 1805-1837
Lansing: Wynhoop, Hallenbeck & Crawford Co
SOURCES
AND CHARACTER OF POPULATION
BAY COUNTY HISTORY
Indian and Pioneer
History of the Saginaw Valley, with Histories of
East Saginaw, Saginaw City and Bay City,
From Their Earliest Settlements, also Pioneer Directory and
Business Advertiser, for 1866 and 1867.
Compiled and Published by Thomas & Galatian, East Saginaw
Lewis & Lyon, Book and Job Printers, 1866.
History of Tuscola and
Bay Counties, Michigan
With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Men and
Pioneers
Published in 1883
Contents:
Map of Tuscola County
History of Tuscola County
Township and Village History
Biographies of Tuscola County
Map of Bay County
History of Bay County
Biographies of Bay County
Index
History of Bay County,
Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent
men and pioneers.
Chicago, H. R. Page
& Co. 1883
History of Bay County - 1883 - Index
Churches
and Church History - pages 84 to 91
History of the Lake Huron Shore, by H R Page & Co, c 1883
History
of the Lake Huron Shore - Bay County Index by The Huron Shore
Genealogical Society.
Some of the Early
Comers - pages 72 through 78; includes biographies of those in
Bay County by 1850:
Israel Catlin, William Catlin, Patrick J. Perrott, Charles S. Munger, Julius B.
Hart, B. B. Hart, Edwin Park, Jonathan Smith Barclay, Thomas Carney, Alexander
McKay, The McEwans, Charles B. Cottrell, Col. Henry Raymond, James
Watson, Dr. George E. Smith, Jesse M. Miller, Charles E. Jennison, John Drake,
George Lord, Phillip Simon, Christopher Heinzman, W. L. Fay, Richard Padley,
and Joseph Trombley.
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Portrait and
Biographical Record of Northern Michigan containing Portraits and
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens... Index
to Portrait and Biographic Record Northern Michigan, |
Gansser, Capt. Autgustus H., Bay City, Michigan, editor and compiler
History of Bay
County, Michigan and Representative Citizens
Published by Richmond & Arnold, Chicago, Illinois, 1905
Entire book of scanned pages:
Author: Gansser, Augustus H., ed. 1872-
Title: History of Bay County, Michigan: and representative
citizens / ed. and comp. by Augustus H. Gansser.
Publication date: 1905.
Columbus Avenue - 1937 - This is a "memory" by DFD of the Columbus Avenue Historical District.
Electric
Autolite Plant - contains
photos of workers at the plant, also a file from 8-D of the seniority dates,
job categories, name and addresses of the workers. If you have any
association with this factory please contact me.
The
Valley That Would Not Stay Down Is Full Of History
by J. George O'Brien, Michigan Motor News, June 25, 1931
A brief history of Bay City from the Mid Michigan Computer Consultants site.
History of Bay City from Bay City On-Line
The Coal Fields of Bay County, Michigan
Publisher: Bay
County, Michigan: Charles B. Schaefer, ca. 1890.
History of the coal fields and mines in Bay County, Saginaw County and
Michigan.
Coal Mining in Bay
County, Michigan
The history of coal mining in Bay County, Michigan. Written by Kay Heath, it includes information
about the first recorded death in a Bay County Coal Mine, pictures of the
Monitor and Auburn Coal Mines and "A Coal Miner's Story", by Alfred
Begick.
Address of the Chiefs of
the Chippewa Nation, 1797
Early French Missions on
the Saginaw by
Fred Carlisle
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, 22:244-246
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 1899.
Fifty-Two Years of
Itinerant Life in the Michigan Conference of the M.E. Church by Rev. R. C. Crawford
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, 16:266-281
Lansing, Michigan: The Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 1893.
A MISSIONARY
AMONG THE INDIANS REMINISCENCE OF REV. M. HICKEY AS A MINISTER &
MISSIONARY OF THE MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
MICHIGAN
PIONEER & HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL 6, 1922
Death and Burial of
"Injun Jim". An Incident in the Lives of Two Alpena County Pioneers by James A. Case
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, 35:73-77
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 1912.
The Indians of Michigan and the Cession of Their Lands to the United States by Treaties
Sketch of John Tanner,
Known as the "White Indian"
By Judge Joseph H. Steere
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, 22:246-254
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 1899.
The Treaty of Saginaw
in the Year 1819
by William L. Webber
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 1895.
Saginaw One Hundred Years
Ago: And the Origin of a Band of Indians, and of the name of a Locality in
Genesee County By
Judge Albert Miller
From Michigan Pioneer & History Collection in Annual Meeting of 1890
NEW ENGLAND
INFLUENCE IN MICHIGAN by
Rev. Wolcott B. Williams
From Michigan Pioneer and
History Collection Annual Meeting 1890
The Press Of
Michigan - A Fifty Years' View
By S. B.
McCracken, read at the annual meeting of the Michigan
Pioneer and Historical Society, June 3, 1891
A Story of Midland
by Lawrence H.
Conrad
[Author of “Temper,” “The Author’s Mind,” Etc.]
MICHIGAN HISTORY MAGAZINE VOL XI APRIL, 1927 WHOLE No. 39
INDIANS
AND PIONEER LIFE By Miss Minnie B. Waite
From Vol. # 38 MICHIGAN PIONEER & HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
VOL: 10 PIONEER COLLECTIONS
REMEMBRANCES
OF EARLY DAYS:
INDIANS AND AN INDIAN TRAIL– A TRIP FROM PONTIAC TO GRAND BLANC
AND THE SAGINAWS
BY EPHRAIM S. WILLIAMS, OF FLINT
FIRST
SOCIAL REUNION
PIONEER SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN, Vol. 1, pgs 18-22
In compliance with the
invitation of the President, Hon. Albert Miller, and the recommendation of the
Executive Committee, the State Pioneer Society met at Saginaw and proceeded
down the river to Bay City, for a social reunion, on Wednesday, June 24th,
1874. Includes a short history of Bay City.
SKETCH OF
THE LIFE OF “UNCLE HARVEY WILLIAMS”
By Hon. C. D. Little of
Saginaw
PIONEER SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN, Vol. 1, pgs 22-27
INDIAN MISSIONS
By Martin
Heydenburk, of Marshall
Pioneer Society of Michigan, Read February 5, 1880
Vol. 3, 1883, 2nd Edition, 1903
History of the Great
Lakes. Volume I
by J.
B. Mansfield, ed.
A
transcription for the Maritime History of the Great Lakes site by Walter Lewis
and Brendon Baillod, Halton Hills, ON, Canada : Maritime History of the
Great Lakes 2003
based on the
original document:
J.
B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers
& Co., 1899
History of the Great
Lakes. Volume II
by J.
B. Mansfield, ed.
A
transcription for the Maritime History of the Great Lakes site by Brendon
Baillod Halton Hills, ON, Canada : Maritime History of the Great Lakes
2003
based on the
original document:
J.
B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume II, Chicago: J. H. Beers
& Co., 1899
Great Lakes Shipwreck Research
Downward Bound - a guide to shipping on the Great Lakes, both ships and the people who sailed them.
The USS Charles F. Adams, a ship built in Bay City that served the Navy from 1959-1990.
MichiganRailroads.com - extensive history of Michigan railroads.
Discovery and
Development of the Salt Interest in the Saginaw Valley.
By Hon. William
L. Webber, of East Saginaw.
Pioneer Society of Michigan, Vol. 4, pgs. 13 - 22.
Memorials
of A Half-century
By Bela Hubbard, 1814-1896.
Collection of essays by a noted writer, explorer, and Detroit civic leader
offers detailed descriptions of Michigan's geography, geology, and local
history. Hubbard discusses the natural history of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan,
and Lake Huron; topographical and geological features of Michigan; a geological
expedition to the salt springs of the Grand and Saginaw river
valleys with the new state's geologist, Dr. Houghton (1837); local factors and
the 1837-38 financial panic; and land speculation and settlement. In addition
Hubbard writes about Michigan Indians and Indian antiquities; flora and fauna,
animal behavior; climatology; and the world of Michigan's French-speaking
inhabitants, especially Detroit habitants, rural farmers, and voyageurs (who
paddled the waterways as guides, trappers, and tradesmen), comparing the
life-styles of French speakers and Yankees. The book is heavily illustrated
with sketches of Indian artifacts, landscapes, folk architecture, trees, and
diagrams representing the Mound-Builders' ancient garden beds.
EARLY LUMBERING IN THE
VALLEY.
Excerpt From “The Saginaw Valley” by Judge Albert Miller in Pioneer Society of
Michigan 1884 Vol. 7
The
Autobiography of David Ward.
This privately-printed narrative, written by a self-made millionaire for his
descendants, provides a personal mirror of Michigan's development during the
nineteenth century. Born in 1822 in Essex County, New York, Ward moved
with his family in 1836 to a farm on the St. Clair River near Newport,
Michigan, and spent the next thirteen years working at a variety of jobs while
recovering from respiratory ailments. Trained by his father as a surveyor, he
used his skill to benefit himself and others, laying claims to the best stands
of Michigan pine as soon as they became available. By the late 1850s, he had
run his own lumbering operation in Sumner township on the Pine River (where he
served as town supervisor), and set up residence in Saginaw with his
wife, Elizabeth Perkins Ward, and their children. In 1863, when his vigorous
prosecution of "log thieves" caused his children to be harassed, the
family moved to a farm at Orchard Lake (Oakland County), near Pontiac, and
lived there year-round until business responsibilities obliged them to winter
in Detroit. From this new base, Ward began lumbering on the Tobacco and
Chippewa rivers and, later, the Manistee. He expanded his forest holdings in
Wisconsin as well as the Upper Peninsula and served for two years as president of
the First National Bank of Pontiac. During the 1870s and 1880s, Ward traveled
extensively, describing his impressions of West Coast forests, and journeying
to the Southern Appalachian region where he purchased land containing forests
and coal and iron deposits. He also purchased extensive stands of California
redwood. In his later years, he continued to make trips into the woods and
actively supervised such operations as grading railroad beds for lumber
transport. Throughout his career, Ward had to contend with sharp business
practices and unscrupulous associates--some within his family. It seems that he
wrote this autobiography in part as a warning and as a compendium of good
advice.
RESIDENTS OF BAY COUNTY IN 1847.
BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
Annual Meeting of the Pioneer Society of Michigan, 1891, pgs. 433 - 445.
BAY COUNTY. A
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ITS ORGANIZATION.
BY GEN. B. F.
PARTRIDGE
Read at the meeting of the Bay County Pioneer Society, Jan. 13, 1876
Published in the Michigan Pioneer Record, 1876, Volume I, pgs. 102 - 110.
BAY COUNTY HISTORY, -
ITS PIONEER RECORD AND WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT.
A PAPER BY GEN. B.
F. PARTRIDGE.
Read at the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Pioneer Society, February 5, 1890.
Published in the Michigan Pioneer Record, 1891, pgs. 316 - 338.
MEMOIRS OF
DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE BAY COUNTY BAR
BY A. C. MAXWELL
From the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Pioneer Society, 1893.
Published in the Michigan Pioneer Record, 1893, pgs. 226 - 235
RECOLLECTIONS
OF A PIONEER OF EARLY MICHIGAN
BY JUDGE
ALBERT MILLER
From the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Pioneer Society, 1893
Published in the Michigan Pioneer Record, 1893, pgs. 461-463
SKETCH OF JOHN TANNER,
KNOWN AS THE " WHITE INDIAN."
BY JUDGE JOSEPH H.
STEERE.
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, 22:246-254
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 1899
EARLY FRENCH MISSIONS ON
THE SAGINAW
BY FRED
CARLISLE.
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, 22:244-246
Lansing, Michigan: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 1899.
First Presbyterian Church, Bay City,
1881 -
from the Pioneer Society of Michigan Reports, Vol. 4
TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND SUNDAY-SCHOOL
[Extracts from a Sermon by Rev. J. Ambrose Wight, D. D., Pastor, May 1, 1881.]
Includes original scanned images from the publication. (Hint: If you are
searching for a particular surname, load up the page and then use your
browser's Find function [Ctrl-F in Microsoft Explorer] to search for the name
on that page). This document is courtesy of Pat Hamp. (August 1999)
A RESPONSE TO
DR. WIGHT'S ANNIVERSARY SERMON
BY JUDGE
ALBERT MILLER
Published in the Bay City Tribune, June 16, 1885.
THE LAYING
OF THE CORNER STONE OF THE NEW FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BAY CITY
CONTRIBUTED BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER,
includes a short history of the church and the pastors who served.
From the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Pioneer Society, 1893
Published in the Michigan Pioneer Record, 1893, pgs. 466 - 470
Letter to a Friend, November 10, 1875 - Bill Carney found a letter written on November 10, 1875 from a newly engaged gentleman in Kawkawlin to a friend in Ohio. He also mentions some common acquaintances, which might make this of value to genealogists as well. Some of the names mentioned are: Brown, Brisbo, Cooper, Dunns, Durby, Howe, Hurbeck, Maloney, McGuiness, Osborn, Smith, Sutherland. (Added November 16, 1999)
First Flight - A special letter sent on July 17, 1928 commemorating the first Airmail flight from Bay City to Chicago. (Added November 16, 1999)
There's a bear over there! - A postcard from Pinconning, featuring a bear, circa 1910. (Added November 16, 1999)
The Honor Roll - a photo of the Honor Roll in Essexville listing all of it's citizens who had left the city to fight for our country in World War II. Bill Carney's grandmother took this photo during the War. It's a large image (482K) and is slightly compressed. When my scanner is replaced I'll upload a better image. In the meantime, feel free to download the picture and use an image viewing program to zoom in and read some of the names. (September 18, 1999)
A brief history of Tri-City Airport (now MBS Airport) outside of Bay City.
History of the William Clements home, http://www.clementsinn.com/legacy-wm-clements.htm, now a bed and breakfast.
Michigan's Historic
Sites Online http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/preserve/michsite/index.html
This is a wonderful searchable database of the various designated
historical landmarks in the State of Michigan. Almost all of them have pictures,
explanations of the historical importance of the place or building, and often
the text of the plaque at the location. There is a search wizard that will help
you narrow down your selections, as well as a photo tour.
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