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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INDEX

Pettibone mills, 447.
Petty, Jacob,.93.
Phelps, Benjamin, 237.
Phelps, Edwin, 102.
Phelps, Guy, 488.
Phelps, Joel, 87.
Phel)s, William W., 124.
Phelps, Zenas, 473.
Pheney, Sylvester, 140.
Phillips, Archibald, 30, 31.
Phillips, Theodore S., 803.
Physical features-Surface and elevations, 9; surface geology, II.
Physicians (see medical profession).
Pickering, Effie G., 826.
Pickering, George 1H., 825.
Pierce, A. K., 451.
Pierce. Benjamin H., 36, 372.
Pierce, Delavan J., 802.
Piety Hill (Birmingham), 340, 373, 374,
375.
Pilcher, E. -I., 343.
Pilcher, Leander W.. 337.
Pine Knob, 466.
Pine lake, 2.
Pine lake (postoffice), 479.
Pinkerton, Thomas, 483.
Pioneer records, Ioo.
Pioneer relics, 102.
Pioneer times-Hervev Parke comes to
Oakland county, 37; Bloomfield and
Royal Oak in 1821, 38; infant village of
Pontiac, 39; Governor Wisner and his
'"mullet" story, 39; becomes Horatio
Ball's assistant, 40; Joseph Wampler's assigned territory, 40; a surveyor's hardships, 41; returns with his
family, 42; birthplace of John H.
Parke, 43; homestead at last, 44; surveys from Pontiac, 45; running lines
under difficulties, 45; fresh trails of
the Black Hawk war, 48; between
Saginaw bay and Lake Huron, 50;
surveys in the Black Hawk reservation, Iowa, 52; another Iowa contract, 53; Captain Parke's recapitulation, 53; recollections of Benjamin
0. Williams, 55; dear old Oakland,
the best of all, 57; a picture of memory, 58; advent of the pioneer, 59;
railroad as a fun maker, 6o; the life
bequeathed by the pioneer, 6I; fifty
years ago and now, 61; contrasts of
life. 61; "Granny" McCracken, 64;
Father and Mother McCracken, 66;
the schools of fifty years ago, 67;
Mormon visitation of 1832; 67; Auburn the young pioneers, 69; social
and industrial revolution, 70.
Pittman, C. C., 301.
Plummer, Ada, 394.
Poe, O. M., 276.
Polish Catholic Seminary, Orchard
lake, 479, 481.
Pontiac Academy. 228, 334.
Pontiac & Paint Creek Turnpike Company, 236.

Pontiac & Orchard Lake Railroad Company, 239.
Pontiac & Sylvan Lake electric road, 6.
Pontiac armory, 284.
"Pontiac Bill Poster," 312.
Pontiac Board of Water Commissioners, 301.
Pontiac branch State University, 228,
333.
Pontiac breweries, 323, 331.
Pontiac Buggy Company, 328.
Pontiac Chapter No. 228, 0. E. S., 367.
Pontiac (chief), 19, 2i, 24.
Pontiac churches - Earliest Methodist
preachers, 340; first Methodist church
in county, 341; pastors from 1826 to
the present, 342; Mrs. Shattuck's reminiscences, 342; Central Methodist
Episcopal church, 345; the First Baptist church, 347; First Presbyterian
church, 349; how the first church was
built, 351; first Congregational church,
352; third Congregational church in the
state, 353; new Congregational church.
354; St. Vincent de Paul's church,
355; All Saints Episcopal church,
356; St. Trinitatis Lutheran church,
358; the African M. E. church, 358;
Young Men's Christian Association,
359; Red Ribbon Club of Pontiac,
360.
Pontiac city-Mention, I98, 200, 201,
202, 207; population by wards, 207;
chartered, 296; first election, 297;
city police department born, 297; first
city hall, 297; value of property in
1876, 298; John P. Foster No. 2,
298; smallpox epidemics of I881-82,
299; newspaper sensation, 299; investigating light and water systems,
300; resignation of Chief Engineer
Foster. 300; city finances in I886,
301; Board and Water Commissioners created, 301; the new Fifth ward,
301; original system of waterworks,
302; electric lighting and telephone
systems, 304; first Gamewell Fire
Alarm Telegraph, 304; municipal
government in 1894, 304; first three
years of water service, 306; lighting
and telephone service again, 306; sewerage system inaugurated, 307; extension of waterworks, 307; telephone
service u1-to-date, 308; commission
government adopted, 309; increased
efficiency of fire department, 311; the
present city hall, 311; mayors of Pontiac, 312: the city press, 312; Oak
Hill Cemetery, 313; gas lighting and
electric power, 314; postoffice and
postmasters. 315; the Pontiac State
Hospital. 316.
Pontiac city hall, 311.
Pontiac City Hospital. 261, 262 (view).
Pontiac City mills, 322.
Pontiac Commandery No. 2. K. T., 366.
Pontiac Commercial Association, 332.