1915 in Michigan

Decades:	1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s;
See also:	History of Michigan; Historical outline of Michigan; List of years in Michigan; 1915 in the United States;

Events from the year 1915 in Michigan.

Office holders

State office holders

Governor of Michigan: Woodbridge N. Ferris (Democrat)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Luren D. Dickinson (Republican)
Michigan Attorney General: Grant Fellows (Republican)
Michigan Secretary of State: Coleman C. Vaughan
Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: Charles W. Smith (Republican)
Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court:

Mayors of major cities

Mayor of Detroit: Oscar Marx (Republican)
Mayor of Grand Rapids: George E. Ellis
Mayor of Saginaw: Ard E. Richardson/Hilem F. Paddock

Federal office holders

U.S. Senator from Michigan: Charles E. Townsend (Republican)
U.S. Senator from Michigan: William Alden Smith (Republican)
House District 1: Frank Ellsworth Doremus (Democrat)
House District 2: Samuel Beakes (Democrat)
House District 3: John M. C. Smith (Republican)
House District 4: Edward L. Hamilton (Republican)
House District 5: Carl E. Mapes (Republican)
House District 6: Samuel William Smith (Republican)/Patrick H. Kelley (Republican)
House District 7: Louis C. Cramton (Republican)
House District 8: Joseph W. Fordney (Republican)
House District 9: James C. McLaughlin (Republican)
House District 10: Roy O. Woodruff (Progressive)/George A. Loud (Republican)
House District 11: Francis O. Lindquist (Republican)/Frank D. Scott (Republican)
House District 12: William Josiah MacDonald (Progressive)/W. Frank James (Republican)

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

1915 Detroit Tigers season – The Tigers compiled a 100-54 record, the second best in club history, but finished in second place in the American League behind the Boston Red Sox.^[4] The Tigers' 1915 outfield of Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, and Bobby Veach finished first, second, and third in the American League in both runs batted in and total bases and was selected by baseball historian Bill James as the best in major league history.^[5]
1915 Michigan Wolverines baseball season - Under head coach Carl Lundgren, the Wolverines compiled a 16–7–3 record.^[6] Edmund McQueen was the team captain.^[7] George Sisler played first base and pitcher for the team.^[8]

American football

1915 Detroit Heralds season - Under head coach Bill Marshall, the team compiled a 5–1–1 record.
1915 Michigan Wolverines football team – Under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the Wolverines compiled a 4–3–1 record.^[9]
1915 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team – ^[10]
1915 Western State Hilltoppers football team - ^[11]
1915 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team – ^[12]
1910 Detroit Titans football team –

Chronology of events

Births

January 11 - Lucille Farrier Stickel, wildlife toxicologist whose research on contaminants in wildlife ecosystems and on the pesticide DDT helped form the basis for Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in Hillman, Michigan
March 14 - Roy Kellerman, U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated, in New Baltimore, Michigan
April 10 - Harry Morgan, actor (Bill Gannon on Dragnet, Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H), in Detroit
April 13 - Bob Devaney, head football coach at Wyoming (1957–1961) and Nebraska (1962–1972), and athletic director at Nebraska (1967–1993), in Saginaw, Michigan
May 19 - Elman Service, cultural anthropologist who researched Latin American Indian ethnology, cultural evolution, and theory and method in ethnology, in Tecumseh, Michigan
June 15 - Thomas Huckle Weller, virologist who received Nobel Prize in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Deaths

November 16 - Julius C. Burrows, United States Senator from Michigan (1895-1911), at age 78 in Kalamazoo^[13]

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.
^ "1915 Detroit Tigers Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
^ "1915 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, 65. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
^ 2012 U-M Baseball Record Book, p. 13.
^ 2012 U-M Baseball Record Book, p. 16.
^ "1915 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved July 11, 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.
^ "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.
^ United States Congress. "Julius Caesar Burrows (id: B001142)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

[C10-1] ^ ^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.

[2] Fourteenth Census of the United States Volume I Population 1920. United States Department of Commerce Bureauof the Census. 1921. pp. 232–236.

[3] Fourteenth Census of the United States Volume I Population 1920. United States Department of Commerce Bureauof the Census. 1921. pp. 458–468.

[DT-4] "1915 Detroit Tigers Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 10, 2017.

[5] "1915 AL Batting Leaders". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 10, 2017.

[6] "2012 University of Michigan Baseball Record Book" (PDF). University of Michigan. 2012. pp. 22, 65. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2017.

[7] 2012 U-M Baseball Record Book, p. 13.

[8] 2012 U-M Baseball Record Book, p. 16.

[9] "1915 Football Team". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library. Retrieved July 11, 2017.

[10] "2016 Football Media Guide" (PDF). Michigan State University. pp. 146, 151. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2017.

[11] "Football Records: Annual Results". Western Michigan University. Retrieved July 5, 2016.

[12] "2015 Eastern Michigan Football Digital Media Guide" (PDF). Eastern Michigan University Football. pp. 159, 170. Retrieved June 30, 2016.

[13] United States Congress. "Julius Caesar Burrows (id: B001142)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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v t e Years in Michigan
19th century	1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024