History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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too much money in alterations to make them hospital-fit. Then should
they build? Yes. And to that end they bought three lots of Robert J.
Lounsbury on Huron street."
Thus was inaugurated a project which in the course of ten years
has developed into one of the finest institutions known to the city of
Pontiac, and probably the one of which the city is most proud.
With the beginning of the evolution of their idea, the ladies had begun to earn money for the support of the plan, and at the end of 1902
they had a credit of $886.57 in the treasury, variously earned, and it was
then they bought the three lots of Mr. Lounsbury, paying for them the
sum of $500. Many people considered them unwise in that they went so
far out of town, but they knew what the qualities were which went to
make a desirable hospital location, and accordingly chose a site sufficiently
distant from any factory and on naturally high land and on a car line.
PONTIAC CITY HOSPITAL
On October 7, 1902, they incorporated under the state laws as the
Pontiac City Hospital, and those who signed the articles of incorporation
were: Mrs. Samuel W. Smith, Mrs. W. R. Sanford, Mrs. Harry Coleman, Mrs. C. V. Taylor, Aaron Perry, Mrs. Charles Fisher, Mrs. J. R.
Mitchell, Miss Anne Murphy, Mrs. S. S.,Mathews, Mrs. M. S. Brewer,
Mrs. J. S. Stockwell, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Mrs. Charles Going, Charles
A. Fisher and E. W. Murphy.
In I903 they began bringing the Lyman Howe moving pictures to
Pontiac, and since then that has been an annual source of revenue to the
board. At the end of that year they had a treasury fund of $I,602.I9.
At the end of 1904 they had $2,655.96; 1905, $3,530.80; I906, $5,326.29.
In 1907 they began to build, and their tribulations increased in complete
accordance with their extended operations. Mrs. S. W. Smith at the
time made searching studies of different hospitals in Washington, D. C.,