Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
1895 - Ann Arbor

Ann Ar’bor, a city of Michigan, and the capital of Washtenaw co., is pleasantly situated on the Huron River, and on the Michigan Central Railroad, 38 miles W. of Detroit, 38 miles E. of Jackson, and 246 miles E. by N. from Chicago. It has 13 churches, a national bank, 2 savings banks, a high-school building which cost $90,000, several large hotels, 3 breweries, and manufactures of agricultural implements, carriages, furniture, paper, woollen goods, sash, blinds, also a street electric railway system, gas- and electric light-works, and many fine residences, &c. It is the seat of the University of Michigan, which was founded in 1837 and is liberally endowed by the state, having an annual income of about $400,000. Its students number about 2700, and its Faculty about 120. It comprises, besides the literary department, colleges or departments of medicine, law, dental surgery, pharmacy, and mechanical engineering. It has a hall erected at a cost of $120,000, an astronomical observatory, a library of 80,000 volumes, and handsome college fraternity houses. Six newspapers are published here, besides several monthly periodicals (including the "Michigan University Medical Journal"), some of which are edited by students of the university. Pop. in 1870, 7363; in 1880, 8061; in 1890, 9431.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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