St. Mark's Home and Hospital

354, 696

St. John's Orphan Asylum

355

Saddle, harness and trunk making

496

Saddlebag Swamp crossing

134

Saenger Hall Festival

137

Saladin Temple

630

Salaries of city officers

152

Saleratus

491

Salt making begun

91

Salt wells and works

414-416

Salvation Army

344

Sanitation

692

Sash, doors and blinds

429

Saw mills, early

78, 425

Saw mills, steam

426

Saw works

501

Scarcity of provision

67

School Alumni societies

250

School Athletic club

251

School Board, Presidents of

228

School buildings

230

School district, first

86

School exhibition in 1838

566

School fraternities

251

School grading

221

School growth

229

School, industrial

227

School Inspectors

237

School library

246-249

School studies

229-230

School taxes, by wards

791-792

School Teachers' Association

238

School, training

226

School Trustee, first woman elected

228

School, ungraded

226

School, writing

241

Schools, Coldbrook

224

Schools, early

219

Schools, early select

240

Schools exhibit at New Orleans

226

Schools, free

225

Schools, night

226

Schools, Public, 1889--

Center Street

235

Coit Avenue

235

East Bridge Street

237

East Leonard Street

235

Fountain Street

233

Grandville Avenue

234

Henry Street

235

Jefferson Street

234

Madison Avenue

237

North Division Street

232

North Ionia Street

234

Pine Street

235

Plainfield Avenue

236

Seventh Street

237

South Division Street

232

South Ionia Street

237

Straight Street

237

Turner Street

236

Turner and West Leonard Street

234

Wealthy Avenue

234

Schools, West Side

223

Scottish Rite, Ancient Accepted

630

Social life among the pioneers

565

Second hand furniture trade

482

Sewerage

212, 213

Sewer drainage fees

158

Sewer drainage, report on

164

Shingle machines

443

Shingle mill machinery

443

"Shin plasters," merchants'

90, 670

"Shin-plasters," village

95, 670

Show cases

501

Shirts and underwear

486

Sidewalks, cement, ordered

159

Sidewalks, first ordered

96

Silver change appears

133

Silver dollars, new

135

Skating park, first artificial

128

Smith, A. H., his journey in

103

Snow 106 days

177

Snowy winter

135

Soap and candles

491

Social, literary and aid societies

635

Soil and products

8

Soldiers' Aid Society

126, 127

Soldiers camped in the city

125

Soldiers' fair

126

Soldiers' Home

366

Soldiers' Monument Association

126

Soldiers' Monument

139, 407

Soldiers' and Sailors' reunion

131-133

Soldiery since the war

572

Sons of Malta

124, 663

Sons of Temperance

199

Sons of Veterans

139, 573, 635

Special casting

449

Specie payment resumption

135

Speculations

60, 78

Spices and condiments

504

Spiritualists

345

Sporting societies

638

Springs and water courses

7

Stage running, days of

524, 525

Standard city time

164

State Agricultural Society

506

State Horse Fair

134

State Salt Well, strata

5

State Taxes, by wards

791, 792

State Telephone Exchange

136

State Troops

574

State Troops Encampment

134

Statistics

789

Stave Works

497

Steamboat, first

73

Steamboat engine, first made

92

Steamboat explosion

122

Steamboat Michigan launched

122

Steamer Alpena disaster

136

Steam saw-mill, first

122

Steel wire nails

450

Stone cutting

490

Stone houses

765, 766

Stone school house, first

220

Storms and gales

173

Street grading

550

Street names, changes of

557

Street names, derivation of

556

Street names and locations

552-556

Street numbering

551

Street cars started

159

Street paving

123, 551

Street railway, first movement

126

Street and Cable Railway

165, 166

Street Railway Company

540

Street railway franchise granted

158

Street railway movements in 1890

793

Street Railway, North Park

541

Street reservoirs

161

Street, Sewer and Water Works expenses--

twelve years

792

Street sidewalks

552

Streets, number and length

550

Superior Court

742

Supreme Court

729

Supervisors, by towns and wards

386-390

Surgery, Dental

727

Surprise party to Mrs. Burton

140

Surveyors, City

403

Surveyors, County

386

Sweet's Hotel block

124

Swine ordinance

157

Tailoring

484

Tanner Taylor's addition, resolution concerning

164

Tavern accommodations

72

Tavern license

86

Taverns, early

559

Taverns, first two

73

Taxation, by wards, for a series of years

791, 792

Telegraph message, first

123

Telegraph, G. R. & I.

217

Telegraph, Postal and United lines

217

Telegraph, Western Union

216

Telephone, the

218

Telephone Exchange

135

Telephone for fire service

163

Temperance crusade

131

Temperance movements

200

Temperance societies, early

199

Territory, under French and English rule

81

Thanksgiving gifts to the poor

139

Theater, Lyceum (Wonderland)

570

Theological seminary (Holland)

360

Thomas Mission, the

50-51

Three wild bears killed

124

Thunder Bay Island

260

Thunder storm, terrific

134

Tin and sheet iron work

444

Topography

6

Tower clock block begun

133

Tower clock lighted

163

Town officers, Grand Rapids, from settlement to 1850

87

Town officers, Walker

88

Townships of Kent county--population at five censuses

790

Trade summary

660

Trading Posts, Indian

47-48

Trains to Traverse City

130

Travel, early modes of

77

Treasurers, City

393-395

Treasurers, County

385

Treaties, Indian

26, 30, 31

Tree association

125

Two bridges finished

124

Undertakers

411

Unfortunate cow

64

United States Court

746

United Workingmen, A. O. of

639

Union Benevolent Association

352, 695

Union fair exposition

130

Union High School

232

Union school house, stone

94

Union school organization

223

Upholstering

480

Valley City Guards

575

Valuations as assessed, by wards, 1872 to 1890

790, 791

Veneer goods

481

Vermont Society

135

Veteran soldiers' reunions

139

Village in 1842

90-91

Village of Grand Rapids

89-97

"Village of Kent,"

84

Village legislation, 1838 to 1850

94-97

Village officers, 1838 to 1850

97

Village roads and city streets

548-558

Village sketches, by Frank Little

89, 92

Village and Valley in 1846

79

Villages and chiefs, Indian

28-30

Villages of Kent county

790

Visitors, early

60

Viszczky, an adventure of

68

Votes, city and county, total in certain years

198

Votes for Governor, city and county

197

Votes for President, city and county

197

Votes in the State by parties, thirteen years

198

Wabasis, tragic death of

30

Wagon Factory, Arthur Wood

455

Wagon Factory, G. C and J. O. Fitch

452

Wagon Factory, Harrison

453

Wagon Factory, Heinzelmann and others

455

Wagon making, early

451

Wagon shops, several of them

458

Wagons anchor-circle

457

Wagons and Sleighs, Belknap

455

Walker Township incorporated

84

Walker Township organized

87

War bounty bonds

125

War commissions, Kent County officers

602-613

War, enlistments for the

125

War of the Rebellion

575

Wards, number of increased

161

Watches and jewelry

486

Water gas franchise granted

166

Water main across the river

162

Water main burst

136

Water Power Company

643

Water power, east side

642

Water power, west side

642

Water reservoir built

162

Water supply

206-213, 693

Water Works bonds

162

Water works system adopted

161

Weddings, golden

624

Wells, artesian

211-212

Wheat raising in the city

125

Wheat speculation collapse

136

Wheelbarrows

458

Whisky, story of a trade in

46, 47

White Man advent of the

45-53

Wholesalers, recent

656, 657, 658

Wholesaling, beginnings of

655

Wild animals, about

64

Wild bear killed in the city

122

"Wildcat" banks

90, 671

Wind gale

133

Wines and liquors, traffic in

204

Wire works

450

Wolf bounties authorized

86

Wolf in hen-house

64

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

357

Woman's Home and Hospital

359

Wood pavement, first

162

Wood working machinery

450

Wooden pumps

501

Wooden shoes

499

"Woodman, spare that tree"

10

Woolen manufacture

483

Woolen mills burned

128, 131

Workingmen's meeting

141

Yacht launch

138

Yellow warehouse

566

Young Men's Christian Association

356