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