Clinton County

County Seat: St. Johns

Origin of Name: Hon. DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York

Set Off: 1831

Organized: 1839

Population in 1990: 57,883

For many counties the number of items listed is quite long. Navigational buttons are located only at the end of the list. This list of material represents the library's holdings as of July 1997. Be sure to check with us for any additional items we may now have either by contacting the library or by pressing the " Centra-Libraries Catalog" link to the left.

Bingham Bicentennial Committee. Bingham. [1976].

Burnett, Harold B. History of Bath Charter Township, Clinton County, Michigan, 1826-1976. Bath, MI: Bath Charter Township Bicentennial Committee, 1978.

Ceasar, Ford Stevens. Forgotten Communities of Central Michigan; a Study of the Counties of Clinton, Ingham and Gratiot. . . Address. . .. Greater Lansing Historical Society, 1963.

Clinton County Republican News. May 1, 1924-December 26, 1940.

Clinton Independent. August 20, 1866-April 7, 1881; January 19, 1882-October 1, 1903.

Clinton Republican. July 24, 1863-May 26, 1865; July 7, 1865-June 4, 1869; October 8, 1875-March 3, 1876; February 25, 1881-April 24, 1924.

Daboll, Shermand B. Past and Present of Clinton County, Michigan. Chicago, IL: S.J. Clarke, 1906.

DeWitt Weekly Advertiser. August 9, 1957-August 29, 1968.

Ellsworth, M.J. The Bath School Disaster. n.p., 1927.

Elsie Centennial, 1857-1957. [Elsie, MI: Sun Publishing Co., 1957].

Elsie Leader. August 16, 1884-August 8, 1885.

Elsie Sun. January 9, 1885-August 26, 1965 (early years scattered).

Fowler Centennial: 100 Years of Progress, 1857-1957. [n.p., 1957].

Fowler Post. March 3, 1938-December 30, 1965.

Hazen, Hiram. As the Eagle Soars: An Illustrated History of Eagle, Michigan, 1834-1976. [n.p., 1976].

Hicks Store, St. Johns, MI. One Hundred Years in Clinton County, 1849-1949. [n.p., 1949].

History of Elsie; Elsie Once! Elsie Twice. (Newspaper clippings from the Elsie Sun, 1932, pasted into a magazine).

History of Shiawassee and Clinton Counties, Michigan. . .. Philadelphia, PA: Ensign & Co., 1880.

Loudenbeck, Doris. Village of Maple Rapids 1834-1934. CMU Term Paper, 1972.

Maple Rapids Dispatch. April 22, 1882-July 5, 1923 (scattered).

Maple Rapids Press. January 15, 1931-July 30, 1942.

Marsh, Amy. Roadside Museum: A Historical Analysis of Clinton County. [St. Johns, MI:] Clinton County Historical Society, 1976.

Martin, Jean. A History of St. Joseph Parish, St. Johns, Michigan. St. Johns, MI: St. Joseph Home School Council, 1984.

Morris, Mrs. Matie, editor. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Johns, Michigan. [n.p., 1938].

Of Pilgrimage, Prayer and Promise: A Story of St. Mary's Westphalia, 1836-1986. Westphalia, MI: Westphalia Historical Society, 1986.

Ovid Michigan Register. January 20, 1870-September 7, 1871.

Ovid Register-Union. December 3, 1886-September 5, 1890; September 7, 1893-June 25, 1967.

Ovid Weekly Register. June 17, 1869-January 13, 1870.

Parker, Grant. Mayday. Lansing, MI: Liberty Press, 1980. (Bath).

Portrait and Biographical Album of Clinton and Shiawassee Counties, Mich., Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County. Chicago, IL: Chapman Bros., 1891.

Saint Johns Bird's Eye View. Map, 1868.

Saint Johns News. September 6, 1889-July 26, 1923.

St. Mary's Centennial, Westphalia, Michigan, 1836-1936. [n.p., 1936].

Shellenberger, Chalmer W. Early History of St. Johns. [St. Johns, MI: Hicks Store, 1949].

Die Westphalia. September 29, 1886-November 10, 1886 (scattered).

Wilcox, N. Pencil Sketches of the Village of Elsie, Michigan. [n.p., 1885-1890].