Monroe County Oral History Index LOCAL FLAVOR Almo the Mighty: Daniels 5 Altenheim: Bonifacio 5 Andersonville Prison: Stocking 12 Armory: Berns 5 Armory: Boos 9 Armory: Cloum 2 Armory: Gutman 13 Armory: Smith 31 Artesian Well: Smith 32 Automobile Manufacturing: Pipis 8, 9 Bacon Plan: Robinson 2 Bank closings: Gere, D. 12 Baptisms in River Raisin: Gere, D. 11 Bar Shell: Wright 2, 3 Barnes Community Band: Barnes 1 Baseball: Parmelee 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 Battle of Brownstown: Gillespie 4 Battle of the River Raisin: Shoemaker 4 Big Band Era: Schmidt 9 Black Hand Gang: Parker 14 Black Hand: DeSloover 3 Black Hands: Cooper 2 Black Market: Stotz 8 Black Mike: Heck 4 Blacks-employment: Pipis 11 Blind Pig: Stotz 13 Blind Pig: Vuich 3 Blind Pigs: Binns 12 Bootlegging: Bashaw 6 Bootlegging: Frey 1, 6 Bootlegging: Gaynier 8 Bootlegging: Krueger, S 13 Bootlegging: Parker 15, 16 Bootlegging: Parmelee 20 Bootlegging: Poupard 13 Bootlegging: Reifert 1 Bootlegging: Stiffler 4 Bootlegging: Stotz 11-13 Bootlegging: Tremble 9 Bootlegging: Vuich 3 Breezewood: Burkett 2 Camp Custer: Conlisk 8, 16 Canning Factory: Gawronski 6 Canning: Yoas 9 Carleton Fires: Smith, N 3 Carp Farming: Manausso 8 Carp Ponds: Champagne 3, 4 Carp Ponds: Cooke 7, 8 Carp Ponds: Laginess 7 Carp Ponds: Munson (II) 15 Cars: Parmelee 16 Cemeteries: Graves 2, 3 Cemetery: Conlisk 12, 19 Charter Township Act: Chapman, D. 7 Cheese factory in Lulu: Gere 8, 9 Christman: Kreps 4 Christmas Tree (early): Smith 13 Cider Mill: Schuler 22 Cigar Factory: Waddell 16 Circus: Manausso 11 Citizen’s Batallion: Strait 10 Citizens Police: Metz 1, 2, 4 Citzen Marching Band: Barnes 1 Civil War: Robinson 5 Community Activities: Schmidt, R 9 Consolidated Paper Strike: Poupard, B 5 Country Roads: Shoemaker 2 Culture-Early 1900s: Salisbury 18-20 Custer Day: Rye 5, 6 Custer Farm: Milligan 7 Custer Farm: Schmidt 4 Custer Monument: Bernitt 7 Custer Monument: Bert 3 Custer Monument: Bonifacio 11 Custer Monument: Cloum 1 Custer Monument: Gertz 3 Custer Monument: McWebb 28, 46 Custer Monument: Parks 9 Custer Monument: Parks 9 Custer Monument: Rye 6 Custer Monumnet: Fix 10, 11 Custer Statue: Cloum 2 Custer Statue: Colpaert 5 Custer Statue: Deinzer 5, 6 Custer Statue: Dentel 12 Custer Statue: Doty 5 Custer Statue: Kundrat 5 Custer Statue: Meyer, C 11 Custer Statue: Noble 11 Custer Statue: Sefcik 19 Dairies: French 8 Dairies: Young 4, 5, 14 Dairy Farming: Rigel 2, 7, 8 Dairy Work: Schmidt 1 Dairy: Welch 3, 4 Dandy (Gen. Custer horse): Schmidt 4 Darington Place: La Roy 3 Darington Place: Reifert 2 Depression: Bellair 2, 8, 9 Depression: Calkins 6 Depression: Cloum 5 Depression: Conlisk 20 Depression: Covington 17 Depression: Degner 1, 2, 4 Depression: Dennison 2, 9 Depression: Dentel 9 Depression: DeSloover 2-5, 12 Depression: Dise 3, 4 Depression: Donnelly 8 Depression: Ebersole 1, 2 Depression: Folk 7 Depression: Garty 7 Depression: Gaynier 10-12 Depression: Gere, D. 12, 13, 14 Depression: Giarmo 2 Depression: Gonyea 6, 7 Depression: Gooden 11 Depression: Harpst 5, 15 Depression: Harris, P. 8 Depression: Hechel 8 Depression: Holcomb 3 Depression: Jacobs 27-29 Depression: Jeffrey 3, 4, 6, 10, 11 Depression: Kennedy 3 Depression: Krueger 6 Depression: Krueger, S 1, 3, 16, 17 Depression: Lammers 2, 10, 11 Depression: Langton 1, 3 Depression: Liedel 6 Depression: Liparoto 1, 2, 10 Depression: Little, El. 1, 6 Depression: Little, Ev. 3 Depression: Lockmiller 13 Depression: Loughney 3 Depression: Lowe 6 Depression: McWebb 3, 42 Depression: Meiring 6-8 Depression: Mentel 5 Depression: Meyers 2-6 Depression: Miller 1 Depression: Moede 4 Depression: Morris 14, 15 Depression: Muszynski 10 Depression: Ong 2, 5, 10, 11, 12 Depression: Pace 7, 13 Depression: Parker 3, 5 Depression: Parks 3, 6 Depression: Parmelee 9 Depression: Patania 2 Depression: Pillarelli 1 Depression: Poupard 9, 10 Depression: Reifert 1 Depression: Rigel 2 Depression: Rodziewicz 4 Depression: Rogers 4 Depression: Rozycki 8, 9 Depression: Scheuerman 9 Depression: Schmidt, R 6-8 Depression: Schuler, 1, 2, 12-18 Depression: Schultz 21-23 Depression: Schwartz 2 Depression: Sefcik 14, 22 Depression: Shey 1, 2, 4 Depression: Smith 8 Depression: Smith, N 6,7 Depression: Smith, R 3, 8 Depression: Stasa 15 Depression: Stiffler 2, 3, 4 Depression: Stocking 9 Depression: Stoner 2, 3 Depression: Stoner, L 1, 4 Depression: Stotz 1, 6, 8, 10 Depression: Stotz, Hugo 7 Depression: Strimpel 9 Depression: Sweet 7 Depression: Tremble 5, 8 Depression: Ucci 10-12 Depression: Vuich 3 Depression: Waddell 1, 3, 6, 18 Depression: Wickenheiser 13 Depression: Wilson 3 Depression: Woelmer 5, 6 Depression: Wright 6 Depression: Yoas 12 Depression: Zast 5, 6 Derrington Housing Project: Zinner 2, 14, 15 Dikes: Sisung 4 Diptheria: Smith, N 9,10 Dominion Nuns: Liedel 1 Doty Cemetery: Doty 1 Draft: Stiffler 17, 18 Dundee school fires: Gere, D. 11 Early lighting: Gere 10 Early Radio: Scheuerman 7 Early Telephones: Shoemaker 1 East End: Caine Crenshaw 3 East End: Cusumano 10 East End: Dise 1, 7 East End: Krueger, S 2 East End: Licina 6 East End: Sordini 5 East End: Stiffler 5 East End: Strait 1, 9 East End: Switney 1, 2, 12 East End: Trpelka 2 East End: Vitale 11 East End: Willets 3 East End: Zast 1, 9 East Side (Monroe): Lockmiller 12 East Side of Monroe: Lockmiller 12 East Side: Hatcher 3 East Side: Licina 6 East Side: Noble 12, 13 East Side: Pace 11, 12 East Side: Rathke 10 East Side: Spinale 3, 4, 6, 7 East Side: Vuich 6 Eastern Star: Donnelly 4 Eastside: Graves 1, 2 Electricity (First time): French 2 Erie Marshes: Schwartz 6 Fairgrounds: Noble 13 Fairview: Doty 8 Fairview: Nolan 6, 8 Fairview: Rogers 12 Farm Life: Schultz 2, 3, 12-15, 19 Farm Life: Sefcik 20 Farm Life: Sisung 4 Farmer’s Market: Woelmer 1 Farming: Baker 2 Farming: Bellair 5, 12 Farming: Bigelow 1, 2, 4 Farming: Bigelow 1, 2, 5, 6 Farming: DeSloover 2, 13 Farming: Dubke 2, 6 Farming: Duvall 1, 2 Farming: Emerick 3, 4, 9 Farming: Evans 3 Farming: Forrest 4 Farming: Gawronski 3 Farming: Gere, D. 1 Farming: Gere, D. 1 Farming: Jacobs 1, 3, 6 Farming: Kahlbaum 2 Farming: Kaper 10-12 Farming: Kaper 4 Farming: Korte 6, 8, 9 Farming: Kreps 1, 3, 5 Farming: Laginess 3, 6 Farming: Lammers 2 Farming: Lowe 5 Farming: Masserant 10, 12, 13 Farming: Miller 9 Farming: Muszynski 9, 10 Farming: Parker 5 Farming: Parmelee 17 Farming: Porter 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 Farming: Poupard 1, 2 Farming: Rigel 6 Farming: Rodziewicz 4, 6 Farming: Rogers 7 Farming: Schaub 13, 16 Farming: Sontag 5 Farming: Stasa 2, 8, 9 Farming: Stiffler 8 Farming: Stocking 1,4,6 Farming: Stotz 2-4, 7, 8 Farming: Stotz, Hugo 1-4, 8 Farming: Tremble 1 Farming: Weber 3 Farming: Wertenberger 2-4 Farming: Winter 17-19, 21 Farming: Young 11-13 Farming: Zinner 4, 5 Farming; La Roy 2, 3, 4, 14 Fires: Smith 13 First Auto: Shoemaker 1 Fishing: Cooke 2 Fishing: Duvall 11 Fishing: Emerick 5, 6 Fishing: Foshag 10 Fishing: Nolan 7 Fishing: Sontag 1, 8, 9 Fishing: Stoner 1 Fishing: Tremble 1, 9 Fishing: Waddell 16 Fishing: Willets 4 Fishing; Fix 2, 7 Five Indian Tribes: Robinson 4 Flooding: Garty 11, 13 Floods: Binns 2 Floods: Garty 11, 13 Floods: Hatter & Hiser 20 Floods: Rye 4 Floods: Sisung 5 Fort Malden: Gillespie 4 Gasoline Rationing: Smith, N 12 George Custer: Golden 7 German POW Camp: Pace 8 Goat Ladies: Bird 12, 14 Goat Ladies: Rodziewicz 7 Grape Bridge: Little, El. 6 Half-Way House: Salisbury 3 Hall of Divine Child: Foshag 8, 9 Hall of Divine Child: Pilette 1, 3 Hellenberg Field: Emerick 8 Hennifer Building: Bonifacio 7 Holidays: Bellair 1, 8 Holidays: Brooks 9 Holidays: Geiman 11, 12 Holidays: Graves 2 Holidays: Hatcher 7 Holidays: Jacobs 27-29 Holidays: Jones 10, 11 Holidays: Krueger, S 10 Holidays: Liparato 10 Holidays: Miller 9 Holidays: Pace 11 Holidays: Parker 4 Holidays: Parks 2 Holidays: Patania 4 Holidays: Pillarelli 12, 13, 14, 18 Holidays: Rodziewicz 8 Holidays: Rossi 10 Holidays: Savage 10, 11, 12 Holidays: Scheuerman 11, 12 Holidays: Schuler 3-5, 12-18, 26-28 Holidays: Schultz 8, 9, 25, 26 Holidays: Sefcik 3 Holidays: Shock 1 Holidays: Smith, N 8 Holidays: Stasa 3 Holidays: Stocking 10 Holidays: Stoner, L 4 Holidays: Sweet 6, 7 Holidays: Tremble 1-3,6, 7 Holidays: Vitale 4 Holidays: Waddell 2, 3 Holidays: Wertenberger 5, 6 Holidays: Woelmer 4 Holidays: Yoas 5 Holidays: Zinner 8 Holocaust: Parker 8, 9 Holy Cross Brothers: La Roy 20 Homesteading: Schuler 3-5 Horse Races: Manausso 10 Hospitals: Stiffler 14, 15 Huckster Wagon: Gere, D. 3 Huckster: Salisbury 12-15 Hucksters: Schaub: 8-11 Hunting: Cooke 2, 7, 8 Hunting: Emerick 5, 6 Hunting: Krueger 10 Hunting: Schultz 12-15 Hunting: Schwartz 6 Hunting: Sontag 1, 6 Ice Dams on Lake Erie: Garty 13 Ida canning factory: Stoner, L 3, 8 Ida Doctors: Schultz 18 IHM Motherhouse: Binns 9 IHM Motherhouse: Hattendorf & Griffing 3 IHM Motherhouse: Trpelka 4-6 Immigrants: Rozycki 2, 3 Immigrants: Savage 8 Immigration: Cusumano 1-3 Immigration: Pace 1, 4 Immigration: Ucci 1 Influenza: Poupard 5 Iyudols Fruit Stand: Elmer 9 Jack Dempsey Training Camp in Toledo, Ohio: Schmidt 3 Jess Willard Training Camp in Toledo, Ohio: Schmidt 3 JL Hudson Thanksgiving Parade: Barnes 3 Johnson Island: Eber 11 Johnson Island: Metdepenningen 8, 9 Johnson’s Island: Manausso 12 Johnson’s Island: Poupard 11 Johnson’s Island: Poupard, B 7 K of C Hall: Poupard 8 Kinderfest: Krueger, S 10 KKK: Forrest 6 Korean War: Pace 6 Korean War: Rodziewicz 5 Korean War: Strimpel 7 Ku Klux Klan: Bashaw 4 Ku Klux Klan: Bird 2, 16 La Rue Darow: Reaume 3 Lake Erie: Manausso 10 Liberty Bond drives: 24 Life in Early 1900’s: Judson 1-7 Life in Early 1900’s: Kaper 4 Life in Late 1800’s: Judson 1-7 Lighthouse: Bunkleman 8 Lighthouse: Eber 8, 9 Lighthouse: Gutman 4 Lighthouse: Poupard 11 Lighthouse: Rye 4 Lilies-Lotus: Eber 12 Livestock: Porter 3 Long Building: Smith 30 Loranger Square: Gutman 14 Loranger Square: Imo 6 Loranger Square: Noble 10, 11 Lotus Beds: Bunkleman 3, 8 Lotus Beds: Cooke 9 Lotus Beds: Manausso 4 Lotus Beds: Munson (III) 3 Lotus Beds: Reifert 4 Lotus Leaf: Gutman 37 Lotus Lilies: French 6 Lotus Plants: Poupard, B 7 Lotus Seeds from Egypt: Eber 11 Lotus: Willets 6 Lutheran Home: Liparoto, L.