General Topic Index, I - R
Baxter's 1891 History
Ice and fuel |
504 |
Ice gorge in the river |
128 |
Immigrants, German |
192 |
Immigrants, Holland |
192 |
Immigrants, Irish |
191 |
Immigrants, Swedes, Norwegians and Polish |
193 |
Immigration and nativities |
191-193 |
Important fires, 1844 to 1888 |
188-190 |
Improvements and progress |
641-644 |
Independence celebrations |
167-170 |
Independence Day, joyful |
127 |
Independent Doctors |
728 |
Indian burial grounds |
408 |
Indian Agents |
44 |
Indian Character |
42, 43 |
Indian Chiefs |
28-30 |
Indian Domestic Life |
42-44 |
Indian Funerals |
33-34 |
Indian Intractability |
34-36 |
Indian Justice |
36 |
Indian Legends |
40-41 |
Indian Missions |
27, 49-53 |
Indian Names |
30 |
Indian Payments |
31-32 |
Indian Population |
39, 44 |
Indian Punishments |
37-39 |
Indian Scholars, anecdote of |
35 |
Indian Social Life |
33 |
Indian Student, the |
36 |
Indian Trade |
32 |
Indian Trading Posts |
47-48 |
Indian Treaties |
26, 30, 31 |
Indian Villages |
28-30 |
Indians at Home |
42-43 |
Indians of Western Michigan |
22-44 |
Institute, Kent Scientific |
249 |
Insurance |
661 |
Internal Revenue office |
366 |
Internal Revenue, 1863 to 1890, receipts by years |
792 |
International Conference delegates, visit of |
142 |
Inventions |
500 |
Iron bridge, Bridge street |
164 |
Iron bridge, Fulton street |
165 |
Iron store fronts |
767 |
Iron Works, Grand Rapids |
439 |
Iron Works, Michigan |
440 |
Iron Works, Phoenix |
442 |
Iron Works, Valley City |
439 |
Iron Works, West Side |
439 |
Irving Hall |
128, 756 |
Islands in River |
1 |
Jail, Kent County |
374 |
Jail report for a year |
375 |
Joel Guild's letter |
57 |
John Almy's journey |
102 |
John Ball's narrative |
70-78 |
Journey of an explorer |
46 |
Journey to Michigan, memorandum |
54 |
Journeying in the woods |
66 |
Judges of Probate |
741 |
Junior Old Settlers |
147 |
Justices' Courts |
739 |
Justices of the Peace, city |
401 |
Kalamazoo plank road |
122, 525 |
Kent County Abstracts |
124 |
Kent County Agricultural Society |
509 |
Kent County Fair Grounds, sale and purchase |
793 |
Kent County organized |
84 |
Kent County, Physical geography of |
11-14 |
Kent County Villages, dates of incorporation |
790 |
Kent County Villages, population and location |
790 |
Kent, name changed to Grand Rapids |
85. 87 |
Kent Scientific Institute |
249 |
Kent soldiers in the field |
577 |
Kent street, effort to extend |
161 |
Kent Township organized |
84 |
Kindergarten |
225, 244 |
Knights of the Golden Eagle |
633 |
Knights of Honor |
633 |
Knights of the Maccabees |
633 |
Knights Templar |
629 |
Labor agitation |
140 |
Labor organizations |
639 |
Laborers lacking work |
139 |
Ladies literary clubs |
252 |
Land Entries, original |
19-21 |
Land looking by John Ball |
71 |
Land plaster and stucco |
423 |
Last Days of Pompeii exhibition |
142 |
Latitude and longitude |
2, 406 |
Lawyers of Kent County |
757 |
Lawyers, Prominent |
754, 755 |
Leather belting and hose |
496 |
Leather manufacture |
494 |
Legislature, Kent county members of |
83 |
Letter carriers start |
131 |
Life, loss of by fire |
134, 188, 190 |
Library, Grand Rapids Law |
249, 750 |
Library, Public School |
246-249 |
Liquor Dealers, Protective Order of |
201 |
Liquor law changes |
202 |
Liquor licenses in village days |
199 |
Liquor tax law |
201 |
Liquor traffic |
202 |
Literary clubs, ladies |
252 |
Livery barns |
563 |
Local events, 1850 to 1889, by years |
121-142 |
Locomotive Engineers, O. of |
634 |
Log houses |
761 |
Log running and booming |
428 |
Lost in the woods |
63, 64, 124 |
Lots, prices of in 1837 |
71 |
Lowlands inundated |
138 |
Luce Block |
767 |
Lyceums |
251 |
McCoy, Isaac, Government instructions to |
50 |
Machine Company, Fox |
442 |
Machine shops |
438-443 |
Mail carrying service |
364 |
"Maine law," the |
155, 199 |
Marble workers |
489 |
Marriages, first |
61, 62, 85 |
Marriages in village days |
622 |
Marshals, City |
393-395 |
Masonic Bodies |
629 |
Masonic Home corner-stone |
142 |
Mattress manufacture |
481 |
Mayor's Court |
741 |
Meat markets |
665 |
Mechanics Mutual Protection |
639 |
Medical Biographies, Homeopathic |
719-726 |
Medical Biographies, old school |
698-716 |
Medical Pioneers |
691 |
Medical societies |
694 |
Medicine and Surgery |
691 |
Mercantile trade, early |
652 |
Merchants, early |
653 |
Menagerie, first |
121 |
Michigan banks, early |
669 |
Michigan State, admission of |
82 |
Michigan Territory |
82 |
Michigan Trust Co. |
688 |
Military |
571 |
Military companies, early |
571 |
Military organizations, local |
574 |
Millinery |
485 |
Mission reserve, map of |
53 |
Missions, Indian |
27, 49-53 |
Monroe street paved |
156 |
Monroe street straightening |
160 |
Municipal annals |
154-166 |
Murder of Harriet Belden |
127 |
Murder of H. M. Powers |
141 |
Murder trial, first |
91, 753 |
Museum, the |
250 |
Music, vocal and instrumental |
257 |
Muskegon, a trip to |
72 |
Narrative by John Ball |
70-78 |
National Bank System |
668 |
National Government Centennial |
142 |
National Union |
634 |
Navigation |
515 |
New Orleans Exposition Fund |
138 |
Newaygo Railroad completed |
130 |
New England Society |
637 |
Newspaper epitaphs |
270-272 |
Newspaper, first |
260 |
Newspapers-- |
|
Times |
267 |
Eagle |
262, 263 |
Enquirer |
261, 262 |
Enquirer and Herald |
263 |
Evening Leader |
267 |
Grand River Times |
260 |
Herald |
262 |
Morning Democrat |
263 |
Morning Telegram |
267 |
Sunday Morning Eagle |
264 |
Telegram-Herald |
267 |
Newspapers, weekly and other |
268-270 |
Night watchman, first |
179 |
Northwest Territory |
81 |
Nurseries |
505 |
Odd Fellows, I. O. of |
630 |
Officers, State, from Grand Rapids and vicinity |
83 |
Oil refinery |
501 |
Old hand fire engine |
182 |
Old National Hotel |
762 |
Old Residents Association |
143-147 |
Old Residents Association, membership |
145-147 |
Old Settlers Society |
143 |
Old Settlers, Junior |
147 |
Old Yellow Warehouse |
761 |
Okemos, death of |
30 |
Opera House, Powers' |
568 |
Opera House, Redmond's |
569 |
Opera House, Smith's |
569 |
Opera House, Squier's |
568 |
Orders, societies and clubs |
629-640 |
Osborne, N. H., adventure of in the woods |
46 |
Ottawa Indians |
22, 40, 41 |
Ottawa Indians, legend of |
40-41 |
Ouashtenong River |
8 |
O-wash-ta-nong Boat Club |
637 |
Pail and tub works |
498 |
Painting, art |
256 |
Painting and decorating |
487 |
Panic of 1837 |
78 |
Panic of 1873 |
131 |
Parks in the city |
405-407 |
Parnell Relief Fund |
139 |
Pat and his pig |
584 |
Pedestrian contest |
137 |
Peninsular Club |
137, 636 |
Pension agents |
366 |
Phonograph |
135 |
Photography |
254 |
Physicians, City |
698 |
Physicians, Eclectic School |
716 |
Physicians, Old School |
698 |
Physicians, Physio-Medical |
716 |
Plank roads |
525 |
Plaster mills |
417-418 |
Plate glass fronts |
768 |
Piano manufacture |
259 |
Pine lumbering |
427 |
Pioneer cluster |
59, 60 |
Pioneer colony |
54 |
Pioneer grist-mill destroyed |
136 |
Pioneer journey |
54, 55 |
Pioneer settlement |
54-62 |
Pioneers of first five years |
59, 60 |
Poem on Death, by Everett |
624 |
Police and Fire Commissioners, Board of |
179, 182 |
Police Court |
744 |
Police Department |
179, 180 |
Police patrol boxes |
180 |
Police Relief Association |
180 |
Polish Aid Hall dedicated |
141 |
Political parties and elections |
194-198 |
Pomological fair |
139 |
Pomological Society, State |
507 |
Pontiac, conspiracy of |
25 |
Pontiac, murder of |
26 |
Pope Leo celebration |
140 |
Population, City, County and State, at each census in 1890 |
789 |
Population of Kent county villages |
790 |
Population by nativities |
789 |
Population by sex |
789 |
Population of townships in Kent county, five censuses |
790 |
Pork, a shoulder load |
65 |
Portable houses |
500 |
Port of delivery |
521 |
Post, John, death of |
74, 92 |
Postoffice |
362-366 |
Postmasters |
362 |
Potawatomies, the |
22 |
Pottery |
490 |
Pound Master, early |
86-87 |
Poultry Association |
514 |
Prairie Indians, the |
23 |
Press Club |
268 |
Press of Grand Rapids |
260 |
Prices in 1836 |
104 |
Printing business |
273 |
Printing machines |
275 |
Probate Court |
740 |
Probate, Judges of |
741 |
Probate, Registers of |
741 |
Prominent buildings |
140, 768 |
Prominent Lawyers |
754, 755 |
Prosecuting Attorneys |
737 |
Prospect hill |
56 |
Publications and authors |
275-277 |
Public lands, early sales of |
74-75 |
Public library opened |
131 |
Public schools, early |
219 |
Public Square surveyed |
154 |
Public Square, purchase of Campau claim |
155 |
Public Works, Board of |
403 |
Railroad bonds, G. R. & I. |
160 |
Railroad bridge, first |
123 |
Railroad bridge, G. R. & I. |
128 |
Railroad car shops |
448 |
Railroad Center, map |
4 |
Railroad freights |
659 |
Railroad, G. R. V. |
160 |
Railroad loan voted |
159 |
Railroad movement, first |
122 |
Railroad openings |
129, 130, 131 |
Railroad Points |
3 |
Railroad train, first |
123 |
Railroad train, first G. R. & I. |
128 |
Railroads, what they have done |
537 |
Railway Conductors, O. of |
634 |
Railway, C. & W. M. |
536 |
Railway, D., G. H. & M. |
528 |
Railway, G. R. & I. |
530 |
Railway, G. R., L. & D. |
536 |
Railway, G. R. V. |
535 |
Railway, L. S. & M. S. |
529 |
Railway mileage, fifty years |
538 |
Railway Telegraphers, O. of |
634 |
Railways, early |
525 |
Rainfall for seven years |
173 |
Raising troops |
576 |
Real estate dealers |
648 |
Real estate, some specimen prices |
645 |
Recorders, City |
393, 394, 741 |
Recreations, early |
74 |
Red Men, I. O. of |
633 |
Red ribbon movement |
202 |
Reeds Lake boats |
522 |
Registers of Probate |
741 |
Relief for Ohio flood sufferers |
138 |
Relief for sufferers in Germany |
137 |
Relief for yellow fever victims |
135 |
Reminiscences, early |
63-68 |
Rescue from the flood |
65 |
Review and Equalization, Board of |
404 |
River appropriation |
73 |
River and harbor appropriations |
517 |
River bridge, first |
92 |
River dam rebuilt |
127 |
River freshets |
65,89,104 |
River freshets |
121,129,138 |
River freshets |
172,173 |
River steamers since 1836 |
518-520 |
River survey, report on |
517 |
Rix Robinson Monument unveiled |
140 |
"Rochester of Michigan," |
69 |
Royal Arcanum |
633 |
Royal Templars of Temperance |
635 |
Transcriber: Judy Wilson
Created: 16 April 2002
URL: http://kent.migenweb.net/baxter1891/topicindex/ir.html