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HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS CONNECTED WITH WYANDOTTE AND
VICINITY BY DR. E. P. CHRISTIAN
During the twenty-one years in which she has enjoyed the privileges of a city charter, she has made various creditable municipal improvements, among which, we may mention, her city hall and a well equipped fire department, with appurtenances, and has expended large sums already for sewerage. Her schools are organized on the graded system; the curriculum of her high school designing to furnish those candidates seeking it a preparation for entrance to the freshman class of the university, whither she had already sent many scholars, and her graduates are filling various honorable and influential positions in various fields and callings. The school board have three fine brick school houses, one in each ward; the higher departments occupying- the central building. Seven religious organizations are represented by church edifices and regular services; the Roman Catholics and the Methodists being among the first to occupy the field, as is usually the case in new places of special promise. The former had an organized parish, and a plain but suitable frame building, erected in 1853, and were ministered to for some years by Rev. F. De Prater. The old building still stands, and is used for a parochial school, a new and handsome brick church, St. Patrick's, having been erected some six or seven years ago. The German Catholics also have a large brick church, built in 1870, named St. Joseph's. In 1857, the Methodists and Presbyterians were having services on alternate Sundays in the old
school house, a frame building no longer used for that purpose. The Methodist church, at that time, was ministered to by that well known and revered veteran, Mr. Jacokes, still living at Pontiac, where he acts as chaplain to the Eastern Michigan Asylum for the insane. The Presbyterians were served by Reverend Mr. Nail, since deceased at an advanced age. The Methodists erected their building in 1860. The German Lutherans, were the next to build, in 1862. St. Stephen's Episcopal parish was organized in 1860, and the church edifice erected in 1867. The Presbyterians built in 1867-68, and the German Reformed, an offshoot from the Lutherans, in 1870.
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