Mailing List:1999-11-06 03, Whitney data gleaned from Ancestry.com Free databases, by Allan E. Green
Mailing List Archives > 1999-11-06 03, Whitney data gleaned from Ancestry.com Free databases, by Allan E. Green
From: <ALLAGREEN -at- aol.com> Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Whitney data gleaned from Ancestry.com Free databases Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 02:19:30 EST Dear WRG: Daily, I get the newsletter from Ancestry.com, announcing the free databases for guests/visitors each day, and they remain free for ten days each. Over the past few days I have seen several that looked like they might have some possible utility to some of us, so have viewed them and am passing along the contents in the hope that it will be of value to one or more WRG members. The first one is Midwest Pioneers: Michigan Business Directory, 1863: DE WITT. Whitney Bradley I, grocer. Click to view full context Marquette County. page 109 The well known iron mines of the Jackson Iron Company, the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, and the Lake Superior Iron Company, are situated upon this road; the first fourteen miles, the second sixteen miles, and the last seventeen miles from Marquette. They are upon the dividing ridge between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, between 850 and 900 feet above the level of Lake Superior. The ore is an igneous product which has been forced up from below the slate and trappean rocks of the azoic system. It is a specular oxide of great purity; an inexhaustible quantity of it can be obtained yielding from sixty-five to seventy per cent. metallic iron. The following abstract of analysis of [p.109] specimens is taken from the report of Messrs. Foster & Whitney, United States geologists, made to congress in 1851. Click to view full context ADRIAN. page 166 Ripley Whitney, prop Adrian city mill, foot w Maumee. Click to view full context ADRIAN. page 166 Whitney, Bowen & Paulding, (C S Whitney, H Bowen, Isaac Paulding), grocers, Main. Click to view full context ALMONT. page 172 Whitney A J, physician. Click to view full context BATTLE CREEK. page 192 Protection Engine Company No. 1--Jackson street, Albert A. Whitney, foreman; Joseph Larry, foreman of Hose. Click to view full context BATTLE CREEK. page 195 Whitney Albert A, baker, Main. Click to view full context BRIDGEPORT. page 205 Clerk--Ira Whitney. Click to view full context BRIDGEPORT. page 205 Whitney Ira, justice of the peace. Click to view full context BYRON. page 212 Whitney George B, blacksmith. Click to view full context Viewing records 1-10 of 58 DE WITT. Whitney Bradley I, grocer. Click to view full context Marquette County. page 109 The well known iron mines of the Jackson Iron Company, the Cleveland Iron Mining Company, and the Lake Superior Iron Company, are situated upon this road; the first fourteen miles, the second sixteen miles, and the last seventeen miles from Marquette. They are upon the dividing ridge between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, between 850 and 900 feet above the level of Lake Superior. The ore is an igneous product which has been forced up from below the slate and trappean rocks of the azoic system. It is a specular oxide of great purity; an inexhaustible quantity of it can be obtained yielding from sixty-five to seventy per cent. metallic iron. The following abstract of analysis of [p.109] specimens is taken from the report of Messrs. Foster & Whitney, United States geologists, made to congress in 1851. Click to view full context ADRIAN. page 166 Ripley Whitney, prop Adrian city mill, foot w Maumee. Click to view full context ADRIAN. page 166 Whitney, Bowen & Paulding, (C S Whitney, H Bowen, Isaac Paulding), grocers, Main. Click to view full context ALMONT. page 172 Whitney A J, physician. Click to view full context BATTLE CREEK. page 192 Protection Engine Company No. 1 -- Jackson street, Albert A. Whitney, foreman; Joseph Larry, foreman of Hose. Click to view full context BATTLE CREEK. page 195 Whitney Albert A, baker, Main. Click to view full context BRIDGEPORT. page 205 Clerk--Ira Whitney.= Click to view full context BRIDGEPORT. page 205 Whitney Ira, justice of the peace. Click to view full context BYRON. page 212 Whitney George B, blacksmith. Click to view full context BYRON. page 212 Whitney William E, foundry. Click to view full context CAMPBELL. page 213 Whitney Joseph, cabinet maker. Click to view full context CROTON. page 235 Whitney David H, grocer. Click to view full context DETROIT. page 243 The first newspaper printed in Detroit, was published under the auspices of Rev. Gabriel Richard, of St. Ann's Church, by James M. Miller, and was called the "Michigan Essay or Impartial Observer." It was published a few months and then discontinued. In 1817, John P. Sheldon, commenced the publication of the "Detroit Gazette," which was the first successful newspaper printed in the territory. The Gazette office was destroyed by fire in April, 1830, and its publication was not renewed. The Michigan Herald, was established in May, 1825, by Chipman & Seymour, and after being continued for about two years, was discontinued. In November, 1829, George L. Whitney commenced the publication of the Weekly Advertiser, which has been issued without interruption ever since. The Advertiser has been issued daily since 1835. The Detroit Daily Free Press, published by the late Sheldon McKnight, appeared a few weeks after the Advertiser, and still pursues a successful career. The Detroit Daily Tribune was established in November, 1849, by H. Barns, Esq. and after having been successfully published for some thirteen years, was consolidated with the Advertiser, [p.243] in July 1862, and the two papers are now published under the title of the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune. Besides these, there is the Commercial Advertiser, published by Charles F. Clark, a weekly Journal, devoted chiefly to the trade and commerce of the city and state; The Monitor, a daily paper devoted to politics and general news, by Joseph Warren; the Michigan Farmer, a monthly Journal, published by W. S. Bond and George Snyder, devoted to agriculture, and the Democratic Farmer, a political and agricultural journal, published by John S. Bagg. All of the above papers are published in the English language. There are also three German newspapers published daily and weekly, to wit: the Michigan Journal, by A. & C. Marxhausen, the Democrat and Volksblatt, by Matthew Cramer & Co., and the Michigan Staats Zeiturg, by DeHaas & Beierle. Click to view full context EDUCATIONAL. page 258 Detroit and Sunday -- T. Whitney, Capt. S. F. Atwood; Henry Mason, 1st Engineer. Dock, foot of Bates street. Leaves Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 9 A.M. Click to view full context Box Makers -- Wood and Packing. page 266, Reynolds Whitney, 132 Beaubien. Click to view full context Box Makers--Wood and Packing. page 269 Wachter Augustus, Whitney bet Hastings and St. Antoine. Click to view full context Box Makers--Wood and Packing. page 272 Scuftlehen Carl, ne cor St Antoine and Whitney. Click to view full context Box Makers--Wood and Packing. page 276 Whitney David Jr., room 5 Merrill block. Click to view full context Box Makers--Wood and Packing. page 277 Simmons & Whitney, cor Monroe av and Campus Martius. Click to view full context More next time. Allan E. Green
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