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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Pontiac Company, 7, 7 76, 103, 189, 286.
Pontiac Council No. 3, R. & S. MA., 365.
"Pontiac Courier," 312.
Pontiac Drop Forge Company, 329.
Pontiac Educational Society, 335.
Pontiac electric lighting, 304, 306.
Pontiac English and Classical school,
334.
Pontiac Fire Company No. I, 294.
Pontiac fire department, 298, 390, 311.
Pontiac Foundry Company, 330.
P:ontiac's fraternal societies-Masonry
in Pontiac, 362; third lodge in territory, 362; Pontiac Lodge No. 21, 364;
Pontiac Council No. 3, R. & S. M.,
365; Oakland Chapter No. 5, R. A.
M., 366; Pontiac Commandery No. 2,
K. T., 366; Pontiac Chapter No. 228,
O. E. S., 367; Masonic Temple Association, 367; Canton Pontiac No.
3, I. 0. 0. F., 368; Pythian Knights
and Sisters, 368; Dick Richardson
Post, G. A. R., 369; Knights of Columbus, 369; Royal Neighbors of
America, 369: Order of Elks, 369;
other lodges, 370.
Pontiac gas works, 315.
"Pontiac Herald," 312.
Pontiac High School, 335, 336 (view).
Pontiac indebtedness, 310.
Pontiac's industries, 320.
"Pontiac Jacksonian," 312.
Pontiac Knitting Works, 320.
Pontiac Land Company, 29.
Pontiac Light Company, 314.
Pontiac Literary Society, 334.
Pontiac Lodg(e No. 2I, A.. & A.M.,
364.
Pontiac Lodge No. 19, K. of P., 368.
Pontiac Medical Society, 256.
Pontiac mills, 321.
Pontiac Motor Cycle Company, 329.
Pontiac municipal government, 304.
Pontiac Oxford & Northern railroad,
238. 239.
Pontiac police department, 297.
Pontiac postoffice, 315, 316 (view).
Pontiac Power Company, 314.
"Pontiac Press-Gazette," 8, 26I.
Pontiac public library, 264.
Pontiac Savings Bank, 244, 245.
Pontiac schools - Sarah McCarroll's
sketch, 333; the old Pontiac Academy, 334; first common schools, 334;
public system organized, 334; the "Old
Union," 335; high school building of
I871, 336; school superintendents and
high school principals, 337; the new
high school, 337; public system and
list of schools, 337; Michigan Military Academy, 338.
Pontiac sewerage system, 307.
Pontiac State Hospital, 316.
Pontiac State Hospital. main building
(view), 317; chapel (view), 318.
Pontiac telephone systems. 304, 306, 308.

Pontiac township, 32, 195, I98, 199, 200,
20I, 207.
Pontiac (village)-In 1821, 39; Colonel
Mack's Company, 286 first Pontiac
settlers, 287; settlers of 1822, 288;
county seat and court house, 289j
township orglanization, 289; the vi!lage of Auburn (Amy), 290; Pontiac
village incorporated, 291; early trustee imeetilngs, 291; real estate item,
292; the mill pond nuisance, 293; the
fire of 1840, 293; early bridges, 293;
icommon council," the governing
body, 293; the village fire department,
294; gas works inaugurated, 294;
heads of the village government, 294.
Pontiac water works, 300, 302, 306, 307.
Pontiac's conspiracy, 20.
Pontiac's early business men, 325.
Pontiac's industries, 320.
Poppleton, O., 22, 29, 30, IO2, 374.
Population, 200.
Porter, Daniel L., 250, 253.
Porter, Moses, 96.
Portion of dormitory and power house
and "Castle," Polish seminary, Orchard lake (view), 480.
Portraits-Thomas L. Patterson, I26;
Aaron Perry, 147; John lI. Patterson,
153.
Post, (Mliss) V., 269.
Postal, George, 33, 406, 488.
Potter, ltlmuel, 92.
Potter. Lydia 1., 92, 196.
Potts, Henry A., 895.
Powell, Joseph C.. 120, 690.
Powell, (Mrs.) J. S., 266.
Powell, Sybil Maria, 690.
Powell, William H., 423.
Power, Arthur, 452, 453. 454, 455.
Power, D. H., 245.
Power, Jared, 452.
Power, John, 452, 453.
Power, Nathan, 458.
Power, Samuel, 454.
Powers, Pliny, 254.
Power's settlement (Farmington), 455.
PralI, J. R., 263, 354.
Pratt, Caleb, 91.
Pratt, William A., 221.
Precipitation, 1o.
Predmore, J. C., 247.
Predmore, John H., 783.
Press-Pontiac newspapers, 312; Holly
newspapers, 397; Rochester newspapers, 412; Oxford newspapers,
425.
"Press Gazette," 312.
Price, Roy F., 709.
Price, William. 211, 212.
Prince. Eri, 385.
Probate courts, 114, ii8, 119.
Probate judges, 119, 191.
Prosecutinii attorneys, 123.
Public lands. 215.
Purd\.,Roblert, 449.
Pythian Sisters. P)lltiac, 368.