BAY CITY

DIRECTORY

--FOR--

1890 - 1891

EMBRACING

A COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BUSINESS FIRMS AND PRIVATE
CITIZENS; A CLASSIFIED LIST OF ALL TRADES, PROFESSIONS
AND PURSUITS; A DIRECTORY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS,
CHURCHES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS, BENEVOLENT,
LITERARY AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS, BANKS, INCOR-
PORATED INSTITUTIONS; ALSO A STREET DIREC-
TORY AND A MAP OF BAY CITY, WEST BAY
CITY AND ESSEXVILLE.

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TO WHICH IS ADDED A COMPLETE DIRECTORY OF
ESSEXVILLE

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VOLUME XI

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SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY

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PUBLISHED BY
R. L. POLK & CO.
40 TO 41 LARNED STREET WEST, DETROIT, MICHIGAN

C & J GREGORY, PRINTERS, BAY CITY

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Entered according to Act of Congress,  in the year 1890 by R. L. Polk & Co., in the
office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
 

Introductory

                        In presenting the eleventh consecutive volume of the Bay City directory to its
                        patrons and the general public, the publishers desire to say that their aim has been
                        to produce a work that shall fairly and fully represent the manufacturing, mercantile
                        and other business interests of this, one of the leading cities of the Commonwealth of
                        Michigan.

                            All the work upon this edition, save the binding, has been done by Bay Cityans,
                        and the handsome appearance of the book is evidence that Bay City is not
                        behind any municipality in Michigan in the art of bookmaking.  The general use
                        of the volume during the next directory year will, it is hoped, establish its claim to
                        accuracy and completeness.

                            Upon its 452 closely printed pages - a gain of 12 pages over the edition of 1889 -
                        will be found the names of all male residents over 18 years of age.  In this edition
                        we have largely omitted including the names of ladies without occupation residing
                        with their parents, as well as the names of boys under 18 years employed as clerks
                        or engaged in the various mill and other manufacturing establishments.  Previous
                        years such names have been included in the directory.

                            The classified directory shows that Bay City is behind no Michigan city of its
                        size in the number and variety of its manufacturing and mercantile industries.

                            For the reason that the census enumerators have so recently reported the
                        population of the city, we will merely state that this volume contains 11,581
                        names, and, as has been stated these include the names of but few under the
                        age of 18 years.  The custom heretofore followed by all directory publishers
                        in the west, that of allowing each directory name to represent three persons,
                        would give Bay City at this time a population of 34,743.

                            We heartily return thanks to the public spirited citizens who by their business
                        favors have helped to sustain the annual publication of the Bay City Directory.

                                                                                                            THE PUBLISHERS

Bay City

West Bay City

Essexville