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For many years she led the rich counties of Michigan in the quantity of wheat and other cereals produced, while her well- teemed fields also support more sheep than any county in the State. But her chief crown is not in the variety or amount of agricultural productions, but in the educational facilities she affords her sons and the sons of other counties of Michigan, as well as of the whole United States. For within her borders are located the University of Michigan, the cap sheaf of the grand educational ºn of the State, and also the State Normal School, which annually sends out hundreds of well trained teachers. But not only does Washtenaw possess the means of training the mind and feeding the body but the many picturesque features of the landscape appeal strongly to the artistic senses implanted in mankind. The Isaac Walton of our time may find within her border ſogaev ：）\ol as noſ Lae noo INON， LSGAAHLO OS ONI （1001 ſoNICI Ing aegrº， NºvoIHOLIN JO ALLS√≠√AIN， ---- - - |（ （~~~~ （~~~~ - - - | - - - RESIDENCE OF MR T E FISHER–YpsiANT TT T RESIDENCE OF MIR WM EVANS–YPSILANTI. - º Sºº * * * *- (238S,333. opportunities to try his skill and the tired and heated denizen of the cities may find resorts well fitted to while away the summer days. The county contains 720 square miles, or 460,800 acres of land, the most of which is tilled. The land is rolling throughout most of the county, although there are a few plains to give variety to the landscape. Three rivers run through the county and a fourth finds its head within her borders; the picturesque Huron, yet called the raging Huron, although since the clearing up of the land it has ceased to rage, the serpentine Raisin, which runs 130 miles to reach sixty; the Saline, which rises near the center of the county and winds its way to the Raisin and the Grand, the principal river of the State, which rises in the extreme western part of the county, in the short hills of Sharon. These are the rivers of Washtënaw and it is from the latter of these, the Grand, that the county takes its name. There are eighty-eight lakelets in the county of diameters larger than an eighth of a mile; twenty-seven of these are in Lyndon township and twelve in Dexter. The largest lake in the county is the beautiful Portage, which is two and one-half miles in diameter. Whitmore lake, around which a noted summer resort has been built up, is one and a half miles long and two-thirds of a mile wide. Among the other more notable lakes are Cavanaugh, around which many summer homes have been erected, and North lake, with its high banks and pretty expanse of water. Only a few of the Indian names in this delightful region have been preserved. Cos-scut-e-nong sebee is what the Indians called the Huron, which may be translated into Burnt District river, probably referring back to a time far beyond the research of the historian, when this section was swept by a heavy forest fire. for when the white man first found his way along its banks, they were heavily timbered. But the name of the county is of Indian derivation. The Indian name for Grand river was Washtenong, which has been translated, Grand. A very pretty tale has come down from the earlier antiquarians as to how the river was originally named. An Indian of the Pottawatomie tribe, who lived near Pittsburg, when Washington was conducting his campaign against the Indians, named his son after him. This son afterward moved westward and settled on the banks of the Grand river, which was called after him by the Indians, Washtenong, the termination “ong" meaning “place or residence of." From the Indian - Aw Lºs MEDICAL Bºš. Cº. All UNIVERSºº BLANKB00% lºsſº SCENE ON STATE STREET – ANN ARBOR. Hill ſ= E. ºſ BANK BLOCK –YpsiANTI. LADIES' LIBRARY_YPSILANTI- º iº "illº. MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD DEPOT-YPSILANTº i ſoºſ v №v-SIVILI ISOH NIVOIHOIIN JO ALISMA AINO |- -- - - - ===№± |-#№ "CIRIVAATIQO8 GIHAL INORIA ‘’RIORI™I V NOEN V CIRIVAA OJL ONIXIOOTI º º - ºr - - | | || º - THE W. H. PARISH PUBLISHING CO. 1893. - idea of the “Father of his Country" comes the word Grand, into which Washtenong has been translated. But if enough mystery surrounds the naming of the county to give rise to this pretty, if idle, tale, so also does mystery darken the earlier history of the county. It is not known when Caucasian feet were first set upon Washtenaw soil or who first penetrated its virgin thickets. The noted French explorer, Robert de La Salle undoubtedly explored the county. The French fur traders, who had settled in Detroit as early as 17O I, had unquestionably made their way to the banks of the Huron in quest of furs, which must have been plentiful in forests which teemed with wild game, as did these of Washtenaw. In 1809 three adventurous Frenchmen, Gabriel Godfrey, Francis Pepin and Romaine de Chambre established a trading post on the Huron river at Ypsilanti, called then Godfrey's trading post. They evidently intended to make the county their permanent home as they divided 2,363 acres of land in the county among themselves, but the trading post was soon afterward abandoned. These three men, however, have the honor of being the first three white men who are known to have been in the county. But the early comers to the county were not all here for legitimate purposes, for many years afterward near Godfrey's trading post, was found a case and utensils for counterfeiting which had been long unused. The Indians who made the county their home and ranged through its forests were the Ojibaws, Ottawas, Hurons and Pottawatomies, the latter of whom were the most numerous. Bears, deer, wolves, foxes, prairie chickens, wild turkey and all manner of wild game abounded, while otter was found on the Huron's banks. In 1819, the Indian title to a portion of the land of this county was extinguished and the land opened for settlement. On September 10, 1822, Governor Lewis Cass issued his proclamation organizing the county and defining its boundaries. At this date not a single white inhabitant was to be found within the borders of the county. It was not until the next year, 1823, that the first permanent settlement was made near the city of Ypsilanti and it was not until 1826 that there were found by the legislature of the territory sufficient inhabitants to form a county organization. But with the opening of the county for settlement the land speculator appeared along with the genuine settler and the rich and fertile region was soon explored and rapidly settled, principally by men from New York and Virginia. As has been seen, the first - ' （TTF） 1， ：nn：， !\!\!\， |-ſººſ º- ſoºſ NNV–XIOOTISH OINOSVIN ſae ae ſº： º º | || º - º i | "TOO HOS HOIH （IO 8I（IV NOEN V - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - 'N VOI HOIIN JO ALLS√≠√AINO LVINOIS， NINAÐ --- - … º. º - - T- - - -- -- " - -- - - - º explorers were Frenchmen, but the permanent settlers were principally men with English blood coursing in their veins and very few of the older families are of French descent, as they are in the adjoining county of Wayne. The earlier settſers came overland from Detroit by Indian trails and felled the trees which obstructed their way. In 1825 the first highway, the Detroit and Chicago road, was surveyed through to Ypsilanti, and for several years the early settlers had to go to Detroit, a journey of thirty or forty miles, for their flour and meal, taking four or five days to make the trip. The first settlement in the county was made at Woodruff's grove, near the city of Ypsilanti by Major Benjamin J. Woodruff. who came from Ohio by way of Monroe, where he met some former neighbors, fishermen, who had explored the waters o the country, who advised him to settle near Godfrey's trading post, on what was known as the Pottawatomie trail. Instead of settling in what became Ypsilanti, he strove to start the city of Woodruff's Grove, and it was not until a highway had been surveyed which left him out in the cold, that he gave way and removed to what is now the flourishing city of Ypsilanti. He had, however, the honor of building the first house, of being the first postmaster, the first justice, the first sheriff and the first mill-builder in the county. His wife came July 6, 1823, and on the 4th of July 1824, a grand celebration was held at Woodruff's Grove, participated in by the entire population of the county, twenty-eight in number. At this celebration was the youngest inhabitant, Alpha Washtenaw Bryant, son of John Bryant, who was born at Woodruff's Grove, October 23, 1823, and being the first born in the county, was named by Allen and Rumsey, the founders of Ann Arbor. Thus friendly were the early relations between the rival towns of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. Among the settlers who came with Woodruff or about the same time were Robert Stitt, John Bryant, Daniel Cross, Leonard Miller, John Barney, George Hall and John Stewart. The two latter settled inside what are now the city limits of Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti was named about the year 1825, after the then famous Greek patriot and general, Demetrius Ypsilanti. It owes its name to the firmness of the eccentric old Judge Woodward, who strongly opposed the name Waterville wanted by some of the early settlers. It soon surpassed Woodruff's Grove and became early a trading point for the pioneers who were scattered through the woods. It is one of the prettiest cities in Michigan and has become quite a manufacturing as well as an educational center. The Huron is nowhere more beautiful than - º -- º º º/ º º --- - --~~~ º º) º º º º º - - º º - º - º º º º . OF ... - ſº - Pa blished in ºwelve Parts. THE W. H. PARISH PUBLISHING CO. - - - º |- º - - - - | - - : i - - i i VIEW IN FOREST HILL CEMETERY. VIEW IN FOREST HILL CEMETERY. ººººººººº， Lºº （LS NON Q H NO GINGIOS - - - - - - * * - º º - VIEW ON THE HURON RIVER, M. E. CHURCH-Y PSILANTI. ſººv ^^V， XOOTSI NNVINNIGA ---------------- º --- Millllllllll . tiºn --- m ſumnuſun - * º º º º -------------------- mm - - where it winds through the city of the Greek name. Fine private residences are numerous, and its citizens are noted for their public spirit and enterprise. Settled, as we have seen, in 1823, in 1837 it contained 12 I dwelling houses. The township of Ypsilanti was organized in 1829, when fifty-nine votes were cast. In 1832 the village o Ypsilanti was organized by the territorial legislature. In 1858, shortly after Ann Arbor became a city, Ypsilanti also took on city airs, obtained a city charter and opened its first council meeting with prayer. At a still earlier date Ypsilanti had exhibited the enterprise for which her business men are noted. In 1833 a public meeting was held at which $1,400 was raised to build a boat to navigate the Huron. The boat was built, made several unprofitable trips to Detroit and two days before Christmas was wrecked. Before this date boats of twenty tons burden often made the trip from the lakes to Ypsilanti which may explain the problem which has often puzzled the youthful student of geography as to why the Huron is put down in the books as a navigable river. The Indians did not bother the settlers for many years, but as late as 1826 a band of Sioux Indians, 500 strong, camped at Ypsilanti on their way to Malden to raise money from the English. They held a war dance in what is now the heart of the city of Ypsilanti. In 1838, Ypsilanti was infested with criminals to such a degree that a local vigilance committee was organized which held secret sessions and saw that prompt punishment was inflicted. In one year I 12 convictions were secured and the hard characters soon gave Ypsilanti a wide berth. - The Michigan Central railroad was completed by the State as far west as Ypsilanti by February 8, 1838, and three months later the road had acquired the magnificent equipment of - - four engines, two passenger vehicles and three freight trucks. The first train out from Detroit brought Governor Mason and his staff, but on the return trip the flues of the engine were burned out and the governor and his party were compelled to walk to Detroit. This trunk line was the only railroad of Ypsilanti until 1870, when the Ypsilanti branch of the Lake Shore was built from Ypsilanti to Hillsdale. Ypsilanti has had its share of misfortunes. In 1851 a big fire swept the city, destroying all the buildings on Congress street from Washington street to the river and in 1893 a terrific cyclone swept through the city razing the fine opera house and many other large buildings and many dwellings. Happily no lives were lost and the damage has been quickly repaired. º THE W. H. PARISH PUBLISHING CO. 1893. - - - º º º º | - - ºn º º, º | * º * | * º | illº. * | | | | º | l º * 1. | º º º | º º : i / º, - - -- - - º (ſ( - *" | ſº - = | | | || - - - | - - A ( |\ | - ſº - - -w\ º | º - --- º | - |*. º i i |- ：ſae ſtillſ|||||||| № №wwwwww. ¿ EMANUEL'S CHURCH-MANCHESTER. （~ ſae： "ILNV， IIS， À LV "NOXIO H GIHUL NO | _ _ ）. AACHIA , º, . . - "…º. - / º º tº º º . º - º ºf - º 4. - º - - - - º |º - º º - - º- - ººº- º- - - CHURCH OF CHRIST – ANN ARBOR. congregational church as Asso. : i Ypsilanti has put in the modern improvements. She has a fine system of water works and also of sewerage and owns her own electric lighting plant. Owning so many of these modern conveniences, she is also modern enough to have a city debt, which she is providing for as fast as it matures. Shortly after the settlement at Woodruff's Grove, the first settlers arrived in the city of Ann Arbor. They were John Allen and Elisha W. Rumsey and wife; the former was from Virginia and the latter from Genesee county, N. Y. They met in Cleveland on their way west and came the rest of the way in company. They located in a beautiful new oak forest and pitched a tent at the foot of the hill on the east side of what is now known as Allen's creek. Rumsey soon erected a log hut in which he installed his wife, whose first name was Mary Ann, and after whom the city was named. She had an arbor under which the families of Rumsey and Allen often met. As the name of both women was Ann, the arbor came to be called Ann's Arbor, which, when applied to the village as it soon was, came to be Ann Arbor. Like many of the pioneers who sought new homes in the west about this time Allen and Rumsey had visions of becoming the founders of a city. They arrived in Ann Arbor in February, 1824, and in May of that year they platted a village, which plat comprised the land from Allen's creek to Division street and from Jefferson street to Huron street. Rumsey started a tavern in his log cabin and in the following year Allen built a large log tavern on the corner of Main and Huron streets which he painted a blood red so that the corners were long known as - Bloody Corners. He wrote his wife that the tavern held twenty families and when she joined him she was surprised to find that its only partitions were blankets. This tavern Allen soon sold to his brother for $300. A small store was run in one corner of the tavern by John Harford. A visitor who saw Ann Arbor first in November 1824, says it contained then six or seven log huts crowded by as many inmates as could get in them, and that John Allen's tavern had that night two bedsteads, but sheltered fourteen men and twenty-one women and children. Wolves abounded and were quite troublesome to the pioneers. The same visitor says that there were at the time four or five families at Woodruff's Grove, one house in Ypsilanti and two log houses between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. In 1825 there were nine small houses in Ann Arbor. Two years later three new taverns had been built and there were three stores, thirty cabins and a population of 150. In 1825 a military - º - º … - . | --- - º º/º. º º . º - Z/ º - --- --- - --- º º | º º º - - º º . º --- - -- * -- º º-º-, ſº º º º º - --- OF --- TISO OH LINIO OO ALNO OO ^AVNGILIH SVAA -（.7） ！！！！！！！！！！！！（ （ （！！！ CLEARY BUSINESS COLLEGE –YPSILANTI. - - - - - " RESIDENCE OF MIR. W. A. ROBISON YpsiANTI. RESIDENCE OF MR. SAMUEL POST YpsiANTI. 'N VOI HOI W HO ALIS RITH AINO ILV IN Q， ISO IN · - - - - - "（IO 8I（IV NOEN V JLV TIOCI I （181："（I （IN ’N ? （V V JL - º - º º - *- º -- --- --- - º º - - º º Ž º - º º º º - --- - - --- º º ºf º -> - -- º º - º - --- =º *- THE W. H. PARISH PUBLISHING CO. º 1893. company was organized with Elisha W. Rumsey as captain, and general training days were inaugurated, but the company was never called upon to do any actual fighting, although as late as 1827 several hundred Indians surrounded the village. From the start Ann Arbor became prominent. It was made the county seat in 1824. it was made a postoffice in 1825, John Allen being the first postmaster and the mail being carried by Indian trails. In 1834 the village had a population of 830, and four years later it had grown to be a place of about 2,000. The village was incorporated April 23, 1833, in which year the munificent sum of $320 was raised for village expenses. In was incorporated as a city April 4, 1851. The first county court was held at the house of Erastus Priest in the village of Ann Arbor on the third Monday in January, 1827, with the Hon. Samuel W. Dexter chief justice, the grand jury indicting the man in whose house the court was held for selling liquor in less quantities than one quart. This was the only case tried at this term of court and Priest was found not guilty. Three licenses were granted. The circuit court of Washtenaw county was established in 1827 and its first term held in November, 1829. So rapidly was the county settled up that the total number of votes cast at elections grew from 247 in 1827 to 590 in 1831 and to 4, IO5 in 1837. The first public building erected in the new county was a jail built in 1829. A court house was not built until 1834. The present handsome court house was erected on the site of the old one in 1877 on the public square, which was the price Allen and Rumsey paid for securing the county seat. The first jail building was replaced in 1837 and the present handsome little jail was built in 88s. but so free from crime is the county that the inmates do not average more than three or four a day. The first newspaper to be published in the new county was the Western Emigrant started in Ann Arbor in November 1829, as the organ of the Anti-Masons. In a few years the county seat had a number of papers, only one of which, the Argus, started in 1835, has come down to battle with its modern rivals. Ann Arbor soon became one of the leading villages of the State and it was here that the constitutional convention was held which gave the assent of the State to the terms proposed by Congress for its admission into the Union. In the early days of statehood all the political |---- ：|- |× |（108， V NINY， TITIV H A RINITIĶIAATIN |（~~~~ ~~~~ - · · · · · · · - º-º-º-º-º-º: |（108） V NNW->{{IA\OL TISO OH LINIO OO JAIO （I.-I. LSVGIH LO OS O NIXIOOTI NWII.SaW----HSSB>]}\,{}}W{) （I）|||[]O·| |-OSN|×OO| ĐCII（{{ILEIGH （ILS II. - - - - - - |- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #FFFFFFF º º --- - --- - ----|（： , -- ：） -- |- ---- Post office block. As Asso. STARK WEATHER MEMORIAL CHAPEL, IN HIGH LAND CEMETERY. -- - - º - - A. WRIGHT ANN ARBOR. RESIDENCE OF MRS. C. i parties held their State conventions here; and, while the political parties now seek the larger cities, Ann Arbor is still a favorite meeting place of State associations of all kinds. The later history of the city is singularly uneventful. Its citizens have been noted for minding their own business. No great fires have made eras in its history, but a steady growth in prosperity has marked its progress. Its officials have administered their trusts with singular fidelity, the rates of taxation have been kept down, the city furnished with modern conveniences, while being kept nearly free from debt. Water works were built in 1888. A paid fire department was established in 1889. A street railway was build in 1890 and at the present time a general system of sewerage is being put in. The residences erected in the past four years are very handsome ones, the streets are all heavily shaded with maple trees and the city at once cirms all visitors. It is built on hills and the scenery in the various parts of the city is strikingly beautiful. Cedar Bend avenue, a pleasure drive built in 1888, which runs along the bluffs of the Broadway hill, gives one glimpses which rival the scenery of Switzerland which the views are said to resemble. The history of the county outside of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor may be summed up in a few words. The various towns were first settled in the years named, Ann Arbor, 1824; Augusta, 1836; Bridgewater, 1829; Dexter, 1825; Freedom, 1831; Lima, 1825; Lodi, 1825; Lyndon, 1833; Manchester, 1831; Northfield, 1824; Pittsfield, 1824; Salem, 1825; Saline, 1826; Scio, 1825; Sharon, 1831; Superior, 1823; Sylvan, 1830; Webster, 1824; York, 1824; Ypsilanti, 1823. The county was divided into the three townships of Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor and Dexter in the year 1827, since which time these towns have been gradually subdivided until the county now consists of twenty townships of nearly equal size with the exception of the two towns out of which the cities have been taken. The county was represented in the bloodless Toledo war in 1835, by two companies whose captains shook dice to determine who should command. The point in dispute was the possession of the strip of land on which Toledo is located which was then claimed by Ohio and the Territory of Michigan. The matter was amicably arranged after the Washtenaw companies had shown their ability to provide forage for themselves in the enemies country. When war in earnest came, the loyal sons of Washtenaw flocked to the standards of the government and the county which cast 7,916 votes in 1860, sent about 4,000 men to the front - = . º THE W. H. PARISH PUBLISHING CO. 893. - wºvº - N - - - - -- --- - - - FEE) ==== ſº ſº. , * "F" |- //, - - ſ////////// ====9 |====9| º º º/, * ====9 ===9 'LSTIAN ONIXIOOTI VILNV （IIS） A BIO MAGHIA GHAEISCIRIIGI ---- |----- º º - - VILNVTISŁA-TOO HOS TVIN （ION ŒIL VOELS ：：：：：： （ ） |× （|- · |-|× VIEW ON MAPLE STREET_YpsiANTI. RESIDENCE OF MR. E. A. Bover Ypsilºn. during the continuance of the great struggle, and at least 450 of them were left on the southern battlefields. Washtenaw at present contains five incorporated villages with populations according to the 1890 census as follows: Chelsea, 1,356; Manchester, 1, 191; Milan, 917; Dexter, 879; Saline, 706. The thriving village of Chelsea was platted in 1850 by Elisha and James Congdon, and a station was at once built on the Michigan Central Road. A store was built in 1851, which was quickly followed by others. The village has been three times swept by fires, but each time was rebuilt at once and it is noted as one of the most wide awake, active, pushing villages in the State. In 1834, what is now the village of Manchester contained six families, a store and a saw mill. It was in this year that the village was platted by John Gilbert. It was incorporated in 1867. It has two railroads, both branches of the Lake Shore. The business portion was burned in 1853, but it was quickly rebuilt and Manchester has long held a prominent place as a trading point for a large and prosperous farming community. Milan is the youngest of the incorporated villages of the county, being incorporated in 1885. With the building of the Wabash and the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Roads it quickly grew and its inhabitants dreamed that they were the pioneers of a great city. The first post office was established in Milan fifty years ago. Dexter is the oldest of the villages of the county. In fact, Judge Samuel W. Dexter, its founder, contemplated making it the metropolis of Michigan. Judge Dexter, who was an able man, settled in the village in 1824. The village was not platted until 1830. Its streets were laid out like the spokes of a wheel coming to a common center. They are very broad and were intended to answer the needs of a large city, It was incorporated in 1855. It possesses an elegant school building, numerous churches and handsome residences. Orange Risdon, who surveyed the first road through the county, entered the land on which Saline village now stands. He platted it in 1832 in which year a store was erected. The village is named after the river and township in which it was originally believed that there were extensive deposits of salt. The village was incorporated in 1866. It contains some palatial private residences and excellent business men, and is situated on the Ypsilanti branch of the Lake Shore road. QART IMME - º = 'N VOI HOIIN AO ALIS （IAIN O"A NO LV （IſIVT ON INIȚITINI ONGI · |-- - |- ·|-|- ----- - - - - | _：-） | |-|-！ | -- ：， ， ， , |-----|-| | - ， !-- -： |-- ：| . ----ſae...….………… |- ：ae.¿） _|-|-|- -： | Tae|×-ſaeae · （ ） -- - （ ）ſaeaeae|-| || .….…ſaeae ： ， ：*（ ：： - （ ）ſ.：： （）|-|-----§§|（~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~→（（（（--~~~~ |-№ （№.|- |- ſaeae！！！！！！： ：： - |× // / ， ！ ſae ： TOO HOS NOIN O VTISTITIHO | 7ſae |×|-ſ.ſſſſſſſſſ|×ſºſſae·|× ---- . . -|-- - - - - - （ ） ſ_（№ ſae， - |- ）-： …………. ---- . |- |- -|- |- |- |-ſ. -|---|- |- （~~~~）|- - - - … ： ！ ！ ！ （ ） ： ~ ¡ ¿ - | _） ：- ！！ ！！ ） ■|× |-- - - - -· ·| | || … （…）·|-ſae - - - - - - - - … … - - - - - - - - HARRIS HALL ANN ARBOR. - --- --------- º § RESIDENCE OF MRS, JANE HARPER–SALINE. - - - - - - 1--- - - - n º º - ". . . . . --- | -- iii…ºf º - - - - - - :::::::::::: - - - - - - - --- º º º: - --- ºf º * Residence of Mrs. H. R. watson salise RESIDENCE OF MR. C. F. EBERBAUGH-ANN AREor. - º - RESIDENCE OF MR. J. A. BEALS-ANN ARRoR. "GINITVS — ILGIGINALS NOVINCIVſi Nv Oſvo^. Oov OIHOſa Nºoo - - - - - - - - - - ---- . . . .| _ |- - - .-------- with a faculty of five professors, Dr. Sager presiding. In its first year, ninety-one students were enrolled. In 1852, Rev. Henry P. Tappan, D. D., of New York, was made the first president of the University and with his coming may be dated the real development of the University. This wonderful man was thoroughly imbued with the Prussian ideas of education. So generous and comprehensive were his ideas, that Dr. Frieze did not exaggerate when he said: “This University, whatever may be its progress toward the highest development, whatever amplitude it may attain in the variety of its departments or the diversity of its learning, will always represent and can never go beyond the ideal held up before it by its first president." At once the citizens of Ann Arbor raised money for increasing the library, and the citizens of Detroit contributed funds for erecting an observatory, over which Prof. Brunnow presided. His most eminent pupil was James C. Watson, who succeeded him, and whose brilliant discoveries added so much to the fame of the University. At first dormitories were built on the University campus, but in 1856 they were done away with and the students thereafter were treated as citizens of Ann Arbor, and the buildings were converted into recitation rooms. In 1852 a scientific course was established. In 1856 a chemical laboratory was built. The same year a school of engineering was established. In 1859 thc law department was established and the first three professors appointed were Thomas M. Cooley, James E. Campbell and Charles I. Walker. The law building was not built, however, until 1863. The University steadily advanced in numbers and greatly increased in usefulness during the administration of President Tappan, but differences having arisen between the regents and the president, a resolution was passed in 1863 removing Dr. Tappan from office, much to the regret of all lovers of higher education. A great deal of exitement was caused by this act. Rev. Erastus O. Haven was now appointed president of the University. He found the University with 652 students and a wide reputation. His administration of six years was a highly successful one and by 1864 the number of students had risen to 856, increasing three years later to ass A school of Mines was established in 1865, and a school of Pharmacy in 1868. The library was largely increased, as was also the museum. THE W. H. PARISH PUBLISHING CO. 1893. - | 1：1 is， Lae a Ln LIL SNI ： ſ ſººſ 'Tu'， |×ſººſ ºſ ſ *（--~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ • .………… ··· ſºlº- - - - - - - - - - - - - % ） , , ， e ſº º： --~~~~~ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. “Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” So runs the good old ordinance of 1787 which created the old Northwest territory. It was in this spirit that Congress acted in creating territories, and the State universities of the West have been reared on national grants. To this ordinance Michigan University proudly traces back its inception. In 1817 an elaborate scheme for the establishment and regulation of the University was drawn up by the governor and judges of the territory and it was contemplated setting apart fifteen per cent of all taxes for its maintenance. But no active steps were taken for the establishment of the University until after Michigan became a State, and then the grandiloquent name attached to the first scheme, Catholepistemiad, was dropped. Congress had, however, in 1804 set apart a township of land for the University, which was in 1826 increased to two townships. In 1837 the University was established at Ann Arbor, the Ann Arbor Land Company giving forty acres of land for a campus in order to secure its location in that village. The regents of the University held their first meeting in Ann Arbor June 5, 1837. The State loaned the board $100,000, and the regents at first designed the erection of a half million dollar building, but Superintendent of Public Instruction, John D. Pierce, to whom the University owes much of its greatness, refused to consent. “Able teachers, scientific collections, museums and libraries,” he said, “are the essentials of a great University, not bricks and mortar." With the $100, Ooo four professors' houses were built in the campus. The first expenditure of the regents was the purchase of the collection of minerals of Baron Lederer for $4.OOO and the eight volumes of Audubon's Ornithology for so?o. In 1838, Dr. Asa Gray was appointed professor of botany and zoology and given $6,500 to go to Europe, where he was to spend $5,000 for books. This he did so well as to give the University library a most excellent nucleus. Prof. Gray never actually gave instruction here. Dr. George P. Williams was appointed professor of mathematics and Rev. Joseph Whiting professor of languages. This faculty of two received in September, 1841, six students. The University regents experienced considerable difficulty in paying their salaries. In 1844–5 the faculty had grown to three and the students to sixty-five, and in August, 1845, the University graduated its first class, eleven bachelors of art. In 1847 the regents were memoralized to establish a medical department, and this department was established in 1850, ºſoa， NNºw！—L'ŒILS NNV INONÆ HOLOOS 'LEI™I （ILS NIVIN ſºſ- ſwae!!! ſaeº -- - ： | - - |（108） V NNW-HONIQ HO OITO HILVO SVINOHJL （LS ºw …º. --- * VIEW ON THE HURON RIVER, THE W. H. PARISH PUBLISHING CO. º UNION SCHOOL_MANCHESTER. - - - - - ：IȚIAIN NON Q H GIHUL NO GINHOS Zºº fºr - - - 1 - º - º - - - L. - * * | º - º * º |（108， V NNV–HONIQ HO SAA™IŅICIN V JLS ſºllTVS-CI VON O™) VOI HO NO GINTHOS - W \ H º E.- - On President Haven's resignation in 1869, Prof. Henry S. Frieze became acting president for two years. During his administration women were first admitted as students to the Univer- sity and in the first year thirty-four women took advantage of this privilege. On August 1, 1871, President James B. Angell began his administration, In 1873 Uuiversity Hall was completed and in that year the legislature granted the University one twentieth of a mill tax, which annual tax remained until 1893, when it was increased to one-sixth of a mill. In 1876 a school of Homeopathy was established. In 1875 a hospital was built, part of the funds for which, were raised by the citizens of Ann Arbor. This hospital gave way in 1890 to two large hospitals built some distance from the campus, and for the erection of which Ann Arbor contributed $25,000, the balance being made up by a generous State. A dental department was established in 1875 and its graduates soon attained high reputation. Its diploma was recognized in all parts of Europe as a guarantee of thorough, professional training. In 1879, a large museum building was erected, since the erection of which the collections and specimens have been largely increased and many gifts have been made to it, chief among which is the gift from the Chinese government of the exhibit in the New Orleans Exposition Nº. in 1885. A large library building was completed in 1882. It contains a semi-circular reading room with seating capacity for 2 Io readers, fire-proof vaults for the books, a large number of seminary rooms, and rooms for the art collection of the University. In 1884, Randolph Rogers, the famous sculptor, presented the University with a complete collection of casts and models of his work valued at over $200,000; about the same time Henry C. Lewis of Coldwater bequeathed to the University a valuabe collection of about 700 paintings and 35 pieces of statuary. Many other gifts have since been made to the library and art gallery. - A large gymnasium has just been built, a gift of private individuals to the State. It is called “The Waterman Gymnasium" after Mr. Waterman of Detroit who contributed $20,000 toward its erection. The main building known as University Hall was erected in 1871. Beside the buildings already named, during President Angell's administration a scientific laboratory, a physical and hygenic laboratory and engineering laboratory, and anatomical laboratory and two boiler houses have been erected. The law building has been very greatly enlarged. The faculty has been - -º-º: º: .… ºr tº -** - --- - YPSILANTI UNDER WEAR MILLS. N º º -" - - - º º -- º - --- 'N VOI HOIIN HO ALIS AGAINO （ITV H ALIS， AINO VIEW ON FOREST AVENUE_YpsiANTI. SCENE ON MIDDLE STREET_CHELSEA. º º * * |-- º * - : : - - i : i RESIDENCE OF MRS: OLIVE C, FRIEND MILAN. ºº - *** - - - - RESIDENCE OF MIR. GEO. HOLMES_YpsiANTI. increased from 36 to 160. The students have grown in numbers from 1,100 to 2,778, and represent forty-four States and Territories and seventeen foreign countries and provinces. The library has grown from 20,000 to 80,000 volumes. This growth in the University speaks more for the high efficiency of President Angell's long administration than any mere words could do. The growth in the University has been steady and uniform, and the tendency in its alumni and other generous lovers of education to remember it with valuable gifts bid fair to greatly increase its usefullness in the future. Already the University has outgrown its recitation rooms and a new building to be used for recitation purposes is in process of erection. The University has furnished from its graduates a large number of college presidents, United States senators, congressmen, judges and other men of high official position. STATE Nor MAL SCHOOL AT YPSILANTI. As early as 1836, Hon. John D. Pierce, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, recom- mended the establishment of a State Normal School, but it was not until 1849 that the legislature passed a law providing for it. Many towns and cities offered inducements for the location of the school, but the offer of Ypsilanti was accepted. This included a site, $13,500 and the payment of the salaries of the teachers in the model department for five years. A brick building sºice feet in size and three stories high was built by October, 1852, and the school was first opened in March, 1853. During the existence of the school it has had the following principals: Adonidah S. Welch, David P. Mayhew, C. F. R. Bellows, Joseph Estabrook, Malcom McVicker, Daniel Putnam, Edwin Willetts, John M. B. Sill and the present principal, Dr. Boone. The school has graduated over 2,Ooo young men and women, nearly all of whom have taught in the schools in Michigan. The attendance grew to 231 in 1870, 475 in 1883, 909 in 1890 and 1,002 in 1893. The original building was destroyed by fire in October, 1859, but was at once re-built and received a large new front in 1878. Another addition was built in 1882 and in 1888 two wings were built. At the present time a gymnasium building is in progress of erection. 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