persons to a dwelling. This is a very slight falling off in the percentage of persons to a family and an increase of 1.1 in the number of persons to a dwelling. Detroit's foreign-born population in 1910 was 156,565, or 33.6 per cent of the whole. In 1920 it was 289,297, or 29.1 per cent of the whole. The nationalities were as follows:

The following table shows the vote cast in Wayne County for President and Vice President of the United States from 1836 to 1916. The letters in parentheses after the names of the candidates refer to the parties, to wit: (D) democrat, (R) republican, (G) greenback, (P) prohibition, (Peo) people's party, (Pro) progressive, (S), socialist, (S L) social labor, (U L) union labor, (N) national, (N D) national democrat, (I) independent, (W) whig. The vote for Greeley and Brown in 1872 included the liberal republicans, and in some of the early elections there were a few "scattering" votes cast for candidates not regularly nominated by party conventions. These scattering votes are not included.

In the November, 1920, election there were over twice as many votes cast as in any other election in the city's history.

PUBLIC OFFICIALS

The succeeding list of the principal city and county officials has been compiled for ready reference, and as several of the state governors were residents of Wayne County at the time of their election, a list of the chief executives since the admission of Michigan into the Union is included. Following the name of each official is the year in which he was elected or entered upon the duties of the office, and each one-except in a few cases of death or resignation— served until his successor was elected and qualified. ·

Governors-Stevens T. Mason, 1835; William Woodbridge, 1840; J. Wright Gordon (acting), 1841; John S. Barry, 1842; Alpheus Felch, 1846; William L. Greenly (acting), 1847; Epaphroditus Ransom, 1848; John S. Barry, 1850; Robert McClelland, 1852; Andrew Parsons (acting), 1853; Kinsley S. Bingham, 1855; Moses Wisner, 1859; Austin Blair, 1861; Henry H. Crapo, 1865; Henry P. Baldwin, 1869; John J. Bagley, 1873; Charles M. Crosswell, 1877; D. H. Jerome, 1881; Josiah W. Begole, 1883; Russell A. Alger, 1885; Cyrus G. Luce, 1887; Edwin B. Winans, 1891; John T. Rich, 1893; Hazen S. Pingree, 1897; Aaron T. Bliss, 1901; Frederick M. Warner, 1905; Chase S. Osborne, 1911; Woodbridge N. Ferris, 1913; Albert E. Sleeper, 1917; Alexander J. Groesbeck, 1921.

Mayors-John R. Williams, 1824; Henry J. Hunt, 1826; Jonathan Kearsley, 1826; John Biddle, 1827; Jonathan Kearsley, 1829; John R. Williams, 1830; Marshall Chapin, 1831; Levi Cook, 1832; Marshall Chapin, 1833; Charles C. Trowbridge, 1834; Andrew Mack, 1834; Levi Cook, 1835; Henry Howard, 1837; Augustus A. Porter, 1838; De Garmo Jones, 1839; Zina Pitcher, 1840; Douglas Houghton, 1842; Zina Pitcher, 1843; John R. Williams, 1844; James A. Vandyke, 1847; Frederick Buhl, 1848; Charles Howard, 1849; John Ladue, 1850; Zachariah Chandler, 1851; John H. Harmon, 1852; Oliver M. Hyde, 1854; Henry Ledyard, 1855; Oliver M. Hyde, 1856; John Patton, 1858; Christian H. Buhl, 1860; William C. Duncan, 1862; Kirkland C. Barker; 1864; Merrill I. Mills, 1866; William W. Wheaton, 1868; Hugh Moffat, 1872; Alexander Lewis, 1876; George C. Langdon, 1878; William B. Thompson, 1880; S. B. Grummond, 1884; M. H. Chamberlain, 1886; John Pridgeon, Jr., 1888; Hazen S. Pingree, 1890; William Reichert, 1896; William C. Maybury, 1896; George P. Codd, 1905; William B. Thompson, 1907; Philip Breitmeyer, 1909; William B. Thompson, 1911; Oscar B. Marx, 1913; James Couzens, 1919-1921.

City Clerks Voltaire Spaulding, 1824; John J. Deming, 1827; John L. Whiting, 1831; John Winder, 1833; Felix Hinchman, 1835; George Byrd, 1836; Caleb F. Davis, 1840; Robert E. Roberts, 1843; Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 1849; Amos T. Hall, 1850; Daniel Munger, 1851; Horace S. Roberts, 1853; Richard Starkey, 1854; Francis W. Hughes, 1858; Rollin C. Smith, 1860; Herman A. Lacey, 1861; Francis Parmstaller, 1862; Henry Starkey, 1866; Charles H

RUINS OF THE DETROIT OPERA HOUSE TAKEN OCTO-
BER 9, 1897, TWO DAYS AFTER THE FIRE

DETROIT OPERA HOUSE AND SURROUNDINGS IN 1878, SHOWING SPIRE
OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN, OR FIRST PROTESTANT, CHURCH
IN THE BACKGROUND, WHICH STOOD ON THE SITE OF
THE PRESENT HUDSON STORE