contemporary who was well equipped for the task. Gives a large national setting for the early settlement of Michigan. ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. The Winning of the West. 4 vols., New York, 1889-1896. SEMPLE, E. C. American History and its Geographic Conditions. Boston, 1903. SHEA, JOHN GILMARY. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. 4 vols., New York, 1886-92. Vol. III covers 1808-1843. SMITH, THEODORE CLARKE. The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest. New York, 1897. The first two chapters give a good general survey of the negro problems in the Old North west. STEVENS, ABEL. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. 4 vols., New York, 1884. THOMSON, JOHN LEWIS. Historical Sketches of the late War between the United States and Great Britain. Philadelphia, 1816. TUCKER, GEORGE. Progress of the United States in Population and Wealth in fifty Years, as exhibited by the decennial Census. Boston, 1843. TURNER, F. J. Rise of the New West, 1819-1829. (American Nation Series). New York and London, 1906. The most scholarly brief account of these ten years. Contains a good general bibliography. WARDEN, DAVID BAILLIE. A Statistical, political and historical Account of the U. S. of N. A.; from the period of their first Colonization to the Present Day. 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1819. WILLIAMS, SAMUEL. Sketches of the War between the United States and the British Isles: intended as a faithful History of all material Events from the Time of the Declaration in 1812 to and including the Treaty of Peace in 1815. Rutland, Vermont, 1815. WINCHELL, ALEXANDER. The Climate of Michigan. (In Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1880, pp. 155-163). Lansing, 1881. WINCHELL, ALEXANDER. The Soils and Subsoils of Michigan, (In Three Lectures delivered before the Michigan State Agricultural Society [etc.]). Lansing, 1865. WINCHELL, ALEXANDER. Topography and Hydrography [of Michigan]. In Tackabury's Atlas of Michigan, Detroit, 1873, pp. 9-14 BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES MCLAUGHLIN, ANDREW C. Lewis Cass. Boston, 1891. Very valuable for the whole period of Michigan Territory, but especially from 1813 to 1831. Cass was governor of the Territory in those years, and zealously promoted settlement. SMITH, W. L. G. The Life and Times of Lewis Cass. New York, 1856. Contains original material for the Cass expedition of 1820. YOUNG, WM. T. Sketch of the Life and Public Services of General Lewis Cass [etc.]. Detroit, 1852. Early History of Michigan with biographies of State officers, members of congress, judges and legislators. Lansing, 1888. The most useful list of biographies covering its period. Compiled by authority of the legislature. The introduction gives items of interest for early settlement. CHAPMAN BROTHERS, Chicago (publishers). Branch County, 1888; Genesee County, 1892; Hillsdale County, 1888; Ingham and Livingston Counties, 1891; Ionia and Montcalm Counties, 1891; Jackson County, 1890; Kalamazoo, Allegan and Van Buren Counties, 1892; Lenawee County, 1888; Oakland County, 1891. BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLISHING CO., Chicago (publishers). Berrien and Cass Counties, 1893; Muskegon and Ottawa Counties, 1893; Oakland County, 1903; Saginaw and Bay Counties, 1892; Washtenaw County, 1891. Illustrated History and Bio A. W. BOWEN AND Co., Logansport, Indiana (publishers). Kent County, 1900. Emphasis on Grand Rapids. KNAPP, J. I. and BONNER, R. I. graphical Record of Lenawee County. WHITNEY, W. A. and BONNER, I. A. Record of Lenawee County. 2 vols., Adrian, Michigan, 18791880. Adrian, Michigan, 1903. Historical and Biographical HISTORIES OF MICHIGAN CAMPBELL, JAMES V. Outlines of the Political History of Michigan. Detroit, 1876. COOLEY, THOMAS M. Michigan, a History of Governments. Boston, and N. Y., 1905. The best general account of the history of Michigan. Much general information about settlements given. FARMER, SILAS. The History of Detroit and Michigan [etc.]. 2 vols., Detroit, 1884. 2nd ed. 1890; slightly enlarged to include events to date. A very full and accurate account of Michigan The Territory. The second volume is entirely biographical. first volume contains in the text many references to the sources, especially to contemporary newspapers. LANMAN, JAMES H. History of Michigan, Civil and Topographical, in a Compendious Form; with a View of the Surrounding Lakes. With a Map. New York, 1839. The author was a Michigan pioneer, contemporary with the latter part of this period. Especially valuable for contemporary physiographic conditions of settlement. SHELDON (MRS.) E. M. The Early History of Michigan, from the first Settlement to 1815. New York, 1856. Mainly on the French period. Useful for settlement about Detroit from 1805 to 1815. UTLEY, HENRY M., CUTCHEON, BYRON M. and BURTON, CLARENCE M. Michigan as a Province, Territory and State, the Twenty-Sixth Member of the Federal Union. New York, 1906. COUNTY AND OTHER LOCAL HISTORIES Interest in systematically collecting and publishing the records of Michigan's local history appears to have begun about the time of the centennial of 1876. The material for the first volume of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections was compiled in 1874-1876, and published in 1877. The opportunity for county histories afforded by this impulse was seized by three Philadelphia firms, L. H. Everts and Co., Everts and Abbott, and D. W. Ensign and Co., and a little later by Chicago firms, principally C. C. Chapman and Co. The wave of interest lasted from 1877 to about 1882, and resulted in the production of almost an even score of volumes for the counties south of Saginaw Bay. It is noteworthy that among these the older counties of Wayne and Monroe were not represented. The first county histories were those of Oakland, Calhoun, and St. Joseph counties. They were exceptionally full in pertinent details for early settlement, and the same may be said of those for Branch, Genesee, Hillsdale and Kalamazoo. These obviously furnished much of the data used in the later and more carefully constructed county histories. Some of the earlier histories, however, are especially poor. In this class are those for Kent, Saginaw and Washtenaw counties published by C. C. Chapman and Co. They give data of comparatively little value for settlement, garbling the papers furnished by pioneers, and abounding in appealing generalities. A second wave of interest in Michigan county history is shown by volumes appearing in the years 1888-1892. These came from two Chicago firms, Chapman Brothers and the Biographical Publishing Co., and differed from the earlier output by being distinctly biographical in character. Many of them bore names beginning "Portrait and Biographical Album." They are of much value in tracing the sources of population. Since 1905, two Chicago publishing companies have appeared in this field, one of which, the Lewis Publishing Co., is sponsoring work of a much higher grade than has been done hitherto. The title of these volumes begins "The Twentieth Century History." They lay the chief emphasis upon recent years, and hence are not so useful for data about early settlement as the older histories. As a whole they do not contribute much new data on the earlier period, but are better organized. Almost without exception, the county histories give a large section of their space to biographical sketches of pioneers and present day business men. Since the volumes are sold by subscription, the subjects of these sketches are in the main those who can afford to buy the volume. It thus happens that prominent early pioneers who happen not to have descendents living in the county, get scant treatment. Without exception these volumes are of the unwieldy folio or quarto size, with heavy leather binding, thick paper, and very poor indexes. Their generally poor quality and exhorbitant prices have made them justly the object of much ridicule and contempt among serious workers. Yet for many phases of early settlement they contain the main sources of information, poor as it may be. With proper checking they may be made to yield light on some problems, such as the founding of villages, routes of travel, prejudices of settlers, sources of population and conditions of pioneer life. For the present purpose it is thought most useful to arrange these books chronologically under the names of their publishers. Only those used by the author in this work are given. L. H. EVERTS AND CO., Philadelphia. Calhoun County, 1877. Oakland County, 1877. EVERTS AND ABBOTT, Philadelphia. Branch County, 1879. Genesee County, 1879. Hillsdale County, 1879. Kalamazoo County, 1880. D. W. ENSIGN AND CO., Philadelphia. Berrien and Van Buren Counties, 1880. INTER-STATE PUBLISHING Co., Chicago. WATERMAN, WATKINS AND CO., Chicago. M. A. LEESON AND Co., Chicago. H. R. PAGE AND Co., Chicago. Muskegon and Ottawa Counties, 1882. A. T. ANDREAS AND CO., Chicago. S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING Co., Chicago. Washtenaw County, 1906. THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO., Chicago. Allegan County. Berrien County. Branch County. Calhoun County. Cass County. Detroit. Monroe County. Saint Clair County. The following histories of cities or sections of the State were published mainly in Michigan: BAXTER, ALBERT. History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan. New York, 1891. The Appendix contains a brief history of Lowell, Kent County. |