Daily mail established

93

Daily stage from Jackson

121

Death of a centenarian

140

Death in the woods

55

Death Penalty, Indian

37

Death records required

162

Deaths by drowning

123

Deaths by explosion of a blast

137

Deaths of early settlers, alphabetical list

624

Deaths of Kent County soldiers during service, alphabetical list

614-621

Deaths at the Soldiers' Home, alphabetical list

369-371

Decoration Day, first formal

129

Deep snow

130

"Deep Well" boring begun

140

"Deep Well" strata

5

Dental Association

728

Dentistry

727

Diamond wall finish

504

Directories, City

273

Directors of the Poor, City

400

Diseases, prevalent

693

District Courts

735

District school beginnings

220

Don Quixote, steamer

260

Double street railway tracks permitted

165

Dray, first

92

Dressmaking

486

Drugs and medicines

728

Dwelling house, first

55

Dust blowers

500

Early banking

669

Early buildings

761-766

Early descriptions

69-80

Early elections

73

Early pencil sketch, 1832

52

Early residents, personal sketches of

98-120

Early settlers, a few

72

Early settlers, places of

77-78

Early snow

135

Early wagon roads

523

East Side canal, beginning of

102

East Side canal completed

516

Eastern Star, order of

629

Eclipse of the sun, 1869

129

Edge tool making

447

Education, Board of

227

Election, first town

85

Elm trees in Bostwick street

10, 11

Errata, table of

794

Eight hour labor day adopted

159

Electric lighting

136, 163

Electric lights and power

215

Electric power for street cars

166

Electric street railway

541, 793

Elks, B. P. O. of

633

Emancipation Day

138

Emily Campau claim settled

134

Engine house appropriation

156

Engine house, first

155

Engine houses

184-186

English sparrows, Poundmaster instructed to kill

165

Engraving and electrotyping

274

Enterprising pioneers

98-120

Events of forty years

121-142

Everett, Franklin, early sketch by

79

Everett, Franklin, poetic address

144

Explorers, first white

45-46

Express lines

538

Execution, an Indian

37

Excelsior making

480

Factories burned

136

Farm, garden and stock

505

Farmers' Club, West Michigan

510

Farming implements

459

Fast driving in streets

158, 162

Fatal accidents

141, 142

Fatalities in the active service, alphabetical list

614-621

Felt boots and shoes

496

Female saloon waiters forbidden

162

Fifty-six winters

174-178

File Works, Valley City

449

Financial crash of 1837

60, 78

Financial stringency

90

Fire alarm system

162

Fire bell

163, 183

Fire at Bridge street, great

131

Fire companies, early

181, 182

Fire Department

181-187

Fire in Exchange Place

126

Fire engines, hand

182-183

Fire engines purchased

155

Fire engines, steam

183

Fire, first large

123

Fire ladder and truck

500

Fire loses--eighteen years

793

Fire at Lyon street

127

Firemen, alphabetical list

186

Firemen's Fund Association

187

Firemen's pay voted

157

Fire Wardens

182

Fire, West Bridge street

133

Fires on Canal street, heavy

130

Fires, Chicago and Holland

130

Fires, disastrous, 1844 to 1888

188-190

First bookstore

762

First dwelling house

55

First half year

57

First railroad movement

122

First stone dwelling house

764

First trader's cabin

47

First white visitors among the Indians

24

Five-million-dollar loan

72

Flavoring extracts

504

Flood, a rescue from

65

Flouring mills

424

Forest fires

137

Foundry business, early

438

Freight facilities

538

Freights in 1844

659

French and British influences

24, 25

Freshets in Grand River--

65, 89, 104

Freshets in Grand River--

121, 129

Freshets in Grand River--

138,172,173

Funeral feast, Indian

34

Furniture and cabinet wares

461-482

Furniture Factories--

Bed Lounges

471

Berkey & Gay Company

465

Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co.

473

Caster Association

473

Clark & Hodges Company

470

Converse Company

471

Crockett & Hoppins

471

Dressing Case Company

470

Folding Chair and Table Co.

472

Gleason Wood Ornament Co.

480

Grand Rapids Chair Co.

477

Grand Rapids Furniture Co.

469

Haney Manufacturing Co.

469

Kent Company

467

McCord & Bradfield Co.

472

Nelson, Matter & Co.

462

Newaygo Company

470

New England Company

470

Oriel Cabinet Company

469

Peninsular Company

472

Phoenix Company

467

Refrigerator Company

471

School Furniture Company

468

Sligh Company

470

Stow & Davis

470

Strahan & Long Co.

480

Universal Tripod Company

472

Valley City Rattan Works

479

Valley City Table Co.

471

Veneer Works

472

W. A. Berkey Company

468

Waddell Manufacturing Co.

469

Welch Folding Bed Company

471

Widdicomb Company

465

Wolverine Company

479

Worden Company

468

Z. E. Allen Factory

472

Furniture Manufacturers' Association

473

Galvanized iron work

447

G. A. R. State Encampment

140

Gas fitting and plumbing

449

Gas lighting

123, 155-156

Gas lighting

214

Geology

3-5

General Lee's surrender

126

General Shields visits the city

163

General wood work shop

503

German bicentennial celebration

138

Gilbert Trust Fund

125, 222

Good Templars

200,361,634

Golden weddings

624

Government, State, Departments of

82

Government Building

362

Governmental sketch

82-84

Governors, Colonial

81

Governors, State

83

Governors, Territorial

82

Grade Bench, City

407

Grading through the hills

159

Grand Army of the Republic

635

Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F.

135, 142

Grand Lodge, S. of I.

135

Grand Lodges, meet

134

Grand Rapids, the name

1

Grand Rapids exhibits at New Orleans

139

Grand Rapids and Kent County in the War for the Union

575-599

Companies and regiments--

Batteries, B. C and K

597

Battery, Thirteenth

597

First Cavalry

587

Second Cavalry

587

Third Cavalry

588

Fourth Cavalry

588

Fifth Cavalry

589

Sixth Cavalry

593

Seventh Cavalry

594

Tenth Cavalry

596

Eleventh Cavalry

597

Lincoln Cavalry

597

Engineers and Mechanics

586

First Infantry

577

Third Infantry

577

Fifth Infantry

584

Eighth Infantry

584

Thirteenth Infantry

584

Fourteenth Infantry

584

Twenty-first Infantry

585

Twenty-fifth Infantry

585

Twenty-sixth Infantry

585

Colored Infantry

597

Sharp Shooters

597

Grand Rapids Township proceedings, early

85-86

Grand Rapids volunteers for the war

600

Grand River Bend

8

Grand River Valley, early routes to

77

Grand River Valley in 1837

76

Gravel and felt roofs

502

Gravel houses

766

Gravel roads

542-543

Grease refinery

504

Grocers' State Convention

140

Guild Family, the

58

Guild Joel, anecdote of

58

Gunsmithing

448

Gypsum mining and manufacture

417-423

Hack and omnibus line

564

Halls and Assembly Rooms--

Arbeiter

568

Armory

568

Collins (Empire)

567

Commercial Block

566

Concert

567

Faneuil

567

Germania

568

Hartman's

568

Irving

567

Leppig

568

Lincoln

568

Lovett Block

568

Luce's

567

Metropolitan

568

National Hotel

567

Odd Fellows

568

Rathbun House

567

Science

570

Sons of Temperance

567

Union School House, West Side

568

Yellow Warehouse

566

Halls, theaters and dancing

566

Hard times in Montcalm

123

"Hard Winter"

74, 91, 175

Health, Board of

697

Heat and drouth, excessive

135

Heavy wind storm

131

Heavy rains and deep snows

137

Heptasophs

633

Hibernians, A. O. of

634

High School, Central

230

High school, first

222

High School, Union

232

High water in winter

139

Highways, early

523

Hilton and the Indian

108

Holland Colony anniversary

135

Home for the Aged

355

Home for Fallen Women, the Emerson

360

Home, St. Mark's

354, 696

Home, U. B. A.

352, 695

Home and Hospital, Woman's

359

Homeopathy

717

Hook and ladder company

181

Hoop skirts

501

Horse Associations

513

Horse block, John Ball's

72

Horse fair and races, first

129

Horticultural Society, G. R. V.

508

Horticultural Society, State

507

Hose company

182

Hospitals

695, 696

Hot day

123

Hotel, Bridge Street

559

Clarendon

563

Eagle

559

Michigan

562

The Morton

560

National

560

Rathbun

560

Sweet's

562

Western

562

Hotel keepers' meeting

138

Hotels and taverns, early and late

562

House, first frame

55, 56

House, John Ball's

72

Houses, log

761

Humane Society

635

Hydraulic Company

157, 206-208

Hydropathy

729