COUNTY OFFICERS

INDEX TO

From 1855 to 1913

140

MISCELLANEOUS IMPORTANT MATTERS.

HISTORY OF

Starvation times in Gratiot

141

Pioneer Society and Meetings

148

GRATIOT COUNTY

Circuit Court in Gratiot

163

169

170

MICHIGAN

11

Care of the Poor

171

Early History

14

Gratiot in the Civil War

178

Organized as a Territory

15

Gratiot in the Sp.-Am. War

190

Admitted into Union as a State

18

Gratiot Co. Agricultural Society

191

State's boundaries as given officially

16

M. C. U. Fair Association

198

The so-called "Toledo War"

17

Surveys-Meridian-Base Lines

199

Proposed canals across the State

17

Map-County Outline

200

Bad River and Maple River Canal

20

TOWNSHIPS-LOCAL HISTORY

Governors of Michigan from 1822 to 1913

21

Arcada

204

Presidents of the U. S. 1789 to 1913

Bethany

225

Elba

246

GRATIOT COUNTY

22

Emerson

259

Early History

22

Fulton

293

Discouraging early impressions

25

Hamilton

314

County was named and described

28

Ithaca

328

As to who was first on the scene

30

Lafayette

333

First permanent settler in County

31

Newark

353

Bethany German - Lutheran Mission

36

New Haven

379

Graduation Act Sett1ers multiplied

37

North Shade

401

As seen by early settlers-Barnaby, Nelson

47

North Star

426

First election-ordered by Legislature

124

Pine River

480

Full text of Organization Act

49 to 66

Seville

504

Reminiscences by Nelson, Barnaby, Miller

Sumner

526

IMPORTANT DOINGS OF THE SUPERVISORS

Washington

547

The first Board-January 7, 1856.

68

Wheeler

576

They settled with Clinton County

69

CITIES AND VILLAGES LOCAL HISTORY.

Began to locate the County Seat

74 to 78

Alma

584

They finished locating the County Seat

80

Ithaca

712

First Equalized Assessment

82

St. Louis

916

Bought a County Farm

86

Ashley

1063

Exchanged for the present County Farm

87

Bannister

1095

Abolished office of Supt. of Poor

91

Breckenridge

1102

Appropriated for County Fair

94

Elm Hall

1115

The Court House of 1870

100

Elwell

1118

Jail and Sheriff's Residence

107

Forest Hill

1126

Abolished office of Drain Com

109

Middleton

1138

First County School Com

113

North Star

1151

Commenced discussing present Court House

116

Perrinton

1157

They instructed the Court

118

Pompeii

1168

About depositing County Funds

123

Riverdale

1182

Equalization of 1912

Sumner

1187

COUNTY ELECTIONS.

Wheeler

1190

From 1855 to 1913

124

HAMLETS, FORMERLY WITH POSTOFFICES

1196