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Michigan Jackson
CHURCHES.
St. John's, Catholic; St. Paul's, Episcopal; Chapel of the Good Samaritan, Episcopal; First Methodist; Free Methodist; Synagogue Beth Israel, Hebrew; First Baptist; Freewill Baptist; Second Baptist, colored;, Junction Sunday-school at car-shops; Moody Hill Sunday-school; Unitarian ; First Congregational; Second Congregational; Evangelical Association ; German Lutheran ; Adventist; Simpson Mission; African Methodist; Young Men's Christian Association gospel meetings; Junction gospel meetings; Church of the Apostles; Simpson mission ; Prison chapel.
schools.
The city is divided into two districts, one (number seventeen) on the east and one (number one) on the west side of Grand river.
The school census of 1877 gave as the number of scholars in district number one 2225, and in number seventeen 1668, making a total of 3893. District number one has one high school and eight schools of a lower grade, in the different parts of the district, so distributed as to-accommodate all localities. District number seventeen has one^ high school and five schools of lower grade, distributed as in number one.
Besides the public schools there are the St. John's Parochial school,, (Catholic), the Hebrew school, the German Lutheran school, Miss Todd's select school for children, and the Jackson business college.
The population of the city is estimated to be 20,000.
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