1917 Rural Directory of Kent County, Michigan ~ Genealogy ~ Farming/Farmers ~ Farm Journal

Title: [1917] The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Kent County, Michigan
Publication: Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Company, 1917

Description: Covers soiled and worn. First leaf of advertisements torn; small chip on page 125 (with loss of a couple words); page 382/383 was detached and reinserted (partial loss along tear of a list of Farmers' Bulletins and an advertisement on the opposite side), otherwise interior is generally clean. Lacking the county road map, else complete. 392, [2] pages.

1917 rural directory for Kent County, Michigan. Residents are identified by name, typically identifying the name of spouse if married, the number of children, occupation, if they are owners, tenants or boarders, number of acres, number of horses and cattle, township, and rural mail route. A classified business directory is also included.

There are about a couple dozen small black-and-white photos: some are humorous, some show scenes on farms, and there also somewhat grainy photos that show the Main streets of Lowell, Caledonia, Rockford, Cedar Springs, and Sparta's Division Street).

''Names in CAPITALS are those of Farm Journal subscribers -- always the most intelligent and progressive people in any county. No Tumbledowns, for no farmer can keep on reading the F. J. and being a Tumbledown, too. Many have tried, but all have to quit one or the other''

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair

Keywords: genealogy, farmers, farming, Grand Rapids, Lowell, Sparta, Caledonia, Rockford, Cedar Springs, Michigan,