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

Van Valkenburg, Jacob, I8I, 218.
Vegetation, I.
Views-At Lake Orion, 4; Neeley's flats
near Rochester, I6; Apple Island, Orchard lake, 22; Oakland county court
house, 203; court house of I857-8,
205; county jail, 208; first car into
Rochester, 241; Pontiac City Hospital, 262; Buckland Memorial Chapel,
314; the new Pontiac postoffice, 316;
main building Pontiac State hospital,
317; Chapel, Pontiac State hospital,
318; old Hodges house, 326; old high
school (I87I), 336; Woodward avenue, Birmingham, 382; high school,
Birmingham, 382; Main street, Holly,
396; Avon township hall, 402; Main
street, Rochester, 407; water works
wells, Rochester, 4Io; reservoir under construction, Rochester, 4IO; on
the shores of Stony lake, 421; Oxford Union school, 422; Union school,
Royal Oak, 434; scenes along Paint
creek, 442; typical old grist mills,
446; on the Shiawassee river, 477; on
the shores of Pine lake, 478; front of
Academic building, portion of dormitory and power house and "Castle,"
Polish seminary, Orchard lake, 480;
scene on the Rouge river, 492.
Vincent, John, 445.
Voorheis, Carl S., 684.
Voorheis, Isaac L., 212.
Voorheis, Jacob N., I93.
Voorheis, James K., 713.
Vowles, Frank J., 208, 583.
Vowles, Joseph, 447.
Vulcan Gear Works, 330.
Wade, D. W. C., 256.
Waite Brothers, 628.
Waite, Elwin L., 628.
Waite, L. Edwin, 628.
Wakefield, Daniel B., 216.
Wakelin. Thomas, 398.
Wakeman, C. E., & Company, 321.
Walch, James A., 34I.
Waldo, A. P., 398.
Waldo, C. E., 245.
Waldron, Henry, IOI.
Walker, Amos, 255.
Walker, Fred I., 414.
Walker, Solomon, 453.
Wallace, M. H., 355.
Walled lake, 2, 3.
Walled lake village, 470.
Walrod, Abram, 469.
Walter, Mark, 312, 367.
Walters, (Mrs.) F. J., 261, 268.
Wam-ler, Joseph, 30, 31, 40.
Wandle, J. A., 195.
Ward. David, 3, 824.
Ward, Elizabeth B., 50I.
Ward, Henry C., 497.
Ward, Willis C., 824.
War of the Rebellion, 274.
War of 1812, 271.

Warner, Fred M., 214, 221, 457, 812.
Warner, P. Dean, 218, 221, 454, 457, 8IO.
Warner, Seth A. L.. 129, 165, 454.
Warner's Exchange Bank, 246.
Warren, Henry M., 95.
Waterford mills, 324.
Waterford township-Mention, 35, I94,
195, I98, I99, 200, 201, 207; its lakes,
484; coming of the Williams' families,
484; Waterford of today, 486; Drayton plains, 486; old Clintonville, 486.
Water works wells, Rochester (view),
410.
Waters, Sarah W., IO9.
Water-shed, 9.
Watson, Joseph, 31.
Watson, Samuel G., 172.
Wattles, John M., 179.
Weatherson, Charles, 472.
Webb, Alfred, 301, 303, 860.
Webb, Ezekiel, 453, 454.
Webb, Harriet, 860.
Webster, Aaron, 290, 362.
Webster, Burt M., 869.
Webster, Charles P., I40.
Webster. Elmer R., I40, 152, 229, 333,
337.
Webster, James, 218.
Weed, Leonard, 362, 363, 364.
Weeks, James A., IOI, 212, 291, 295,
327.
Weeks, Smith, 33, II8, II9, 191.
Weelman, Joel, 32.
Weir, W. I., 416.
Weisbrod, S. L., 258.
Welcome Rebekah Lodge No. 246, I. O.
O. F., 368.
Wellman, Zadock, 89.
Wells Cultivator Company, 447.
Wendell, John A., 473, 477.
Wendell. Matthew, 669.
Wendorph, J. A., 439.
We-se-gah, 25.
Wesson, Suel, 292, 294.
West Bloomfield township-Mention, 34,
194, 195, 198, 199, 200, 201, 207; lakes,
478; earliest pioneers, 478; sale of Indian reservations, 479; first postoffice, 479; Orchard Lake postoffice, 479;
the Polish seminary, 481.
West Highland, 473.
West Side Reading Club, 267.
Western Knitting Mills, 408.
Wetmore, John, 35, 36, 440.
Wheaton, F. W., 411.
Wheeler, Harris A., 338.
Wheeler, Morris, 473.
Whipple, Charles W., 121, 123.
White, George, 392.
White, Jonathan R., 179.
White, Phineas, I79.
White, Samuel, 212, 218.
Whitehead, Almeron, 212, 244, 383.
Whitehead, Richard, 275.
White Lake postoffice, 494.
White Lake township, 33, I95, I98, I99,
200, 20I, 207, 493.