1910 in Michigan
Year
Events from the year 1910 in Michigan .
Office holders
State office holders
Gov. Fred M. Warner
Mayors of major cities
Detroit Mayor Philip Breitmeyer
Federal office holders
U.S. Sen. Julius C. Burrows
Population
In the 1910 United States census , Michigan was recorded as having a population of 2,810,173, ranking as the ninth most populous state in the country. By 1920, Michigan's population had increased by 30.5% to 3,668,412.
Cities
The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 10,000 based on 1910 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1900 and 1920 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. In recent decades, all of the state's most populous cities lie in the southern half of the lower peninsula. In 1910, owing largely to an economy based on extraction of natural resources, eight of the state's most populous cities were located north of 44° latitude; in the chart below, these cities are shaded in aqua.
1910 Rank
City
County
1900 Pop.[ 1]
1910 Pop.[ 1]
1920 Pop.[ 2]
Change 1910-20
1
Detroit
Wayne
285,704
465,766
993,678
113.3%
2
Grand Rapids
Kent
87,565
112,571
137,634
22.3%
3
Saginaw
Saginaw
42,345
50,510
61,903
22.6%
4
Bay City
Bay
27,628
45,166
47,554
5.3%
5
Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo
24,404
39,437
48,487
22.9%
6
Flint
Genesee
13,103
38,550
91,599
137.6%
7
Jackson
Jackson
25,180
31,433
48,374
53.9%
8
Lansing
Ingham
16,485
31,229
57,327
83.6%
9
Battle Creek
Calhoun
18,563
25,267
36,164
43.1%
10
Muskegon
Muskegon
20,818
24,062
36,570
52.0%
11
Port Huron
St. Clair
19,158
18,863
25,944
37.5%
12
Ann Arbor
Washtenaw
14,509
14,817
19,516
31.7%
13
Pontiac
Oakland
9,769
14,532
34,273
135.8%
14
Escanaba
Delta
9,549
13,194
13,103
−0.7%
15
Ironwood
Gogebic
9,705
12,821
15,739
22.8%
16
Alpena
Alpena
11,802
12,706
11,101
−12.6%
17
Sault Ste. Marie
Chippewa
10,538
12,615
12,096
−4.1%
18
Manistee
Manistee
14,260
12,381
9,694
−21.7%
19
Traverse City
Grand Traverse
9,407
12,115
10,925
−9.8%
20
Marquette
Marquette
10,058
11,503
12,718
10.6%
21
Adrian
Lenawee
9,654
10,763
11,878
10.4%
22
Menominee
Menominee
12,818
10,507
8,907
−15.2%
23
Holland
Ottawa
7,790
10,490
12,183
16.1%
Boom cities of the 1910s
The 1910s saw an explosion of growth in the population of small cities near Detroit. Highland Park and Hamtramck were the most extreme cases, each experiencing population increases in excess of 1,000% during the 1910s.
1910 Rank
City
County
1900 Pop.[ 1]
1910 Pop.[ 1]
1920 Pop.
Change 1920-30
Highland Park
Wayne
427
4,120
46,499
1,028.6%
Hamtramck
Wayne
--
3,559
48,615
1,266%
Counties
The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 50,000 based on 1910 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1900 and 1920 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.
1910 Rank
County
Largest city
1900 Pop.[ 1]
1910 Pop.[ 1]
1920 Pop.[ 3]
Change 1910-20
1
Wayne
Detroit
348,793
531,591
1,177,645
121.5%
2
Kent
Grand Rapids
129,714
159,145
183,041
15.0%
3
Saginaw
Saginaw
81,222
89,290
100,286
12.3%
4
Houghton
Houghton
66,063
88,098
71,930
−18.4%
5
Bay
Bay City
62,378
68,238
69,548
1.9%
6
Genesee
Flint
41,804
64,555
125,668
94.7%
7
Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo
44,310
60,327
71,225
18.1%
8
Calhoun
Battle Creek
49,315
56,638
72,918
28.7%
9
Berrien
Niles
49,165
53,622
62,653
16.8%
10
Jackson
Jackson
48,222
53,426
72,539
35.8%
11
Ingham
Lansing
39,818
53,310
81,554
53.0%
12
St. Clair
Port Huron
55,228
52,341
58,009
10.8%
13
Oakland
Pontiac
44,792
49,576
90,050
81.6%
14
Lenawee
Adrian
48,406
47,907
47,767
−0.3%
15
Marquette
Marquette
41,239
46,739
45,786
−2.0%
16
Ottawa
Holland
39,667
45,301
47,660
5.2%
17
Washtenaw
Ann Arbor
47,761
44,714
49,520
10.7%
18
Muskegon
Muskegon
37,036
40,577
62,362
53.7%
19
Allegan
Holland
38,812
39,819
37,540
−5.7%
Sports
Baseball
Ty Cobb
1910 Michigan Wolverines football team
1910 Michigan Wolverines football team – Under head coach Fielding H. Yost , Michigan compiled a 3–0–3 record and outscored opponents 29 to 9.[ 8] Left guard and team captain Albert Benbrook was selected as a consensus first-team All-American for the second consecutive year.
1910 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team – Under head coach Chester Brewer , the Aggies compiled a 6–1 record and outscored their opponents 168 to 8.[ 9]
1910 Central Michigan Normalites football team - Under head coach Harry Helmer , the Central Michigan football team compiled a 6–1–1 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 112 to 33.[ 10]
1910 Western State Hilltoppers football team - Under head coach William H. Spaulding , the Hilltoppers compiled a 4–1–1 record and outscored their opponents, 75 to 20.[ 11]
1910 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team – Under head coach Curry Hicks , the Normalites compiled a record of 0–5–1.[ 12]
1910 Detroit College football team – Under head coach George A. Kelly , the team compiled a 3–2 record, but was outscored by its opponents by a combined total of 67 to 28.
Chronology of events
Births
January 1 - Seth Lover , designer of amplifiers who the humbucker or hum-cancelling electric stringed instrument pickup, in Kalamazoo
January 26 - William C. Lawe , United States Navy sailor who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart for his role in the Battle of Midway during World War II, in Carson City, Michigan
February 12 - Jay Leyda , avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S., Soviet, and Chinese cinema, in Detroit
February 27 - Kelly Johnson , aeronautical and systems engineer who was a team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works whose contributions included the Lockheed U-2 , SR-71 Blackbird , the first production aircraft to exceed Mach 3, and the first fighter capable of Mach 2, in Ishpeming, Michigan
March 12 - Roger L. Stevens , theatrical producer and founding Chairman of both the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (1961) and National Endowment for the Arts (1965), in Detroit
April 3 - James Enright , basketball referee who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame , in Sodus, Michigan
April 3 - Curtis Williams Sabrosky , entomologist specializing in chloropidae , in Sturgis, Michigan
April 5 - Watson Spoelstra , sportswriter for The Detroit News and president of the Baseball Writers' Association of America , in Grand Rapids
April 28 - Everett Barksdale , jazz guitarist and session musician, in Detroit
May 14 - Willard J. Smith , thirteenth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1966 to 1970, in Suttons Bay, Michigan
May 30 - Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen , physicist known for his work in molecular spectroscopy, in Menominee, Michigan
May 30 - Frank S. Besson, Jr. , general in U.S. Army and head of the U.S. Army Materiel Command , in Detroit
June 28 - John D. Kraus , physicist known for his contributions to electromagnetics, radio astronomy, and antenna theory, in Ann Arbor
July 14 - Virginia Harriett Kline , geologist, stratigrapher, and librarian, in Coleman, Michigan
November 22 - Mary Jackson , actress (The Waltons , Days of Our Lives ) in Milford, Michigan
December 7 - Clem Sohn , airshow dare-devil who perfected a way of gliding through the air with a home-made wingsuit, in Fowler, Michigan
December 17 - Sy Oliver , African-American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader, in Battle Creek
Deaths
See also
References
^ a b c d e f Thirteenth Census of the United States: Population by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions . U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor Bureau of the Census. pp. 231– 248.
^ Fourteenth Census of the United States Volume I Population 1920 . United States Department of Commerce Bureauof the Census. 1921. pp. 232– 236.
^ Fourteenth Census of the United States Volume I Population 1920 . United States Department of Commerce Bureauof the Census. 1921. pp. 458– 468.
^ a b "1910 Detroit Tigers Statistics" . Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
^ "1910 AL Batting Leaders" . Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
^ "2012 University of Michigan Baseball Record Book" (PDF) . University of Michigan. 2012. pp. 22, 64. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
^ 2012 U-M Baseball Record Book, p. 13.
^ "1910 Football Team" . University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
^ "2016 Football Media Guide" (PDF) . Michigan State University. pp. 146, 151. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
^ "Central Michigan 2015 Football Media Guide" (PDF) . Central Michigan University. 2015. pp. 100, 107. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2016. Retrieved July 26, 2016 .
^ "Football Records: Annual Results" . Western Michigan University. Retrieved July 5, 2016 .
^ "2015 Eastern Michigan Football Digital Media Guide" (PDF) . Eastern Michigan University Football. pp. 159, 170. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
^ "Hon. Geo. L. Maltz Has Passed Away" , Alpena Evening News , p. 1, August 2, 1910, retrieved April 28, 2023