# 1865 in Michigan

Events from the year 1865 in Michigan.

## Office holders
### State office holders

* Governor of Michigan: Austin Blair/Henry H. Crapo
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Charles S. May/Ebenezer O. Grosvenor
* Michigan Attorney General: Albert Williams
* Michigan Secretary of State: James B. Porter
* Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: Gilbert E. Read
* Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court: George Martin

### Mayors of major cities

* Mayor of Detroit: Kirkland C. Barker
* Mayor of Grand Rapids: Wilder D. Foster
* Mayor of Flint: William Hamilton/William B. McCreery
* Mayor of Saginaw: Samuel W. Yawkey
* Mayor of Lansing, Michigan: Dr. Ira H. Bartholomew
* Mayor of Ann Arbor: Ebenezer Wells/William S. Maynard

### Federal office holders

* U.S. Senator from Michigan: Zachariah Chandler (Republican)/Isaac P. Christiancy
* U.S. Senator from Michigan: Jacob M. Howard (Republican)
* House District 1: Fernando C. Beaman (Republican)
* House District 2: Charles Upson (Republican)
* House District 3: John W. Longyear (Republican)
* House District 4: Francis William Kellogg (Republican)/Thomas W. Ferry (Republican)
* House District 5: Augustus C. Baldwin (Democrat)/Rowland E. Trowbridge (Republican)
* House District 6: John F. Driggs (Republican)

## Population

In the 1860 United States census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 749,113, an increase of 88.4% from the 1850 Census when the population was 397,654. By 1870, Michigan's population had increased by another 58.1% to 1,184,059.

### Cities

The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 3,000 based on 1860 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1850 and 1870 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.
| 1860 Rank | City | County | 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | Change 1860-1870 |
| 1 | Detroit | Wayne | 21,019 | 45,619 | 79,577 | 74.4% |
| 2 | Grand Rapids | Kent | 2,686 | 8,085 | 16,507 | 104.2% |
| 3 | Adrian | Lenawee | -- | 6,213 | 8,438 | 35.8% |
| 4 | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | 2,507 | 6,070 | 9,181 | 51.3% |
| 5 | Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | -- | 5,097 | 7,363 | 44.5% |
| 6 | Jackson | Jackson | 2,363 | 5,000 | 14,447 | 188.9% |
| 7 | Port Huron | St. Clair | -- | 4,371 | 5,973 | 36.7% |
| 8 | Ypsilanti | Washtenaw | -- | 3,955 | 5,471 | 38.3% |
| 9 | Monroe | Monroe | 2,813 | 3,892 | 5,086 | 30.7% |
| 10 | Battle Creek | Calhoun | 1,064 | 3,509 | 5,838 | 66.4% |
| 11 | Lansing | Ingham | 1,299 | 3,074 | 5,241 | 70.5% |

### Counties

The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 20,000 based on 1860 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1850 and 1870 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.
| 1860 Rank | County | Largest city | 1850 Pop. | 1860 Pop. | 1870 Pop. | Change 1860-1870 |
| 1 | Wayne | Detroit | 42,756 | 75,547 | 119,068 | 57.6% |
| 2 | Oakland | Pontiac | 31,270 | 38,261 | 40,867 | 6.8% |
| 3 | Lenawee | Adrian | 26,372 | 38,112 | 45,595 | 19.6% |
| 4 | Washtenaw | Ann Arbor | 28,567 | 35,686 | 41,434 | 16.1% |
| 5 | Kent | Grand Rapids | 12,016 | 30,716 | 50,403 | 64.1% |
| 6 | Calhoun | Battle Creek | 19,162 | 29,564 | 36,569 | 23.7% |
| 7 | Jackson | Jackson | 19,431 | 26,671 | 36,047 | 35.2% |
| 8 | St. Clair | Port Huron | 10,420 | 26,604 | 36,661 | 37.8% |
| 9 | Hillsdale | Hillsdale | 16,159 | 25,675 | 31,684 | 23.4% |
| 10 | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | 13,179 | 24,646 | 32,054 | 30.1% |
| 11 | Genesee | Flint | 12,031 | 22,498 | 33,900 | 50.7% |
| 12 | Berrien | Niles | 11,417 | 22,378 | 35,104 | 56.9% |

## Chronology of events
### March

* March 12 - The Detroit Police Department was formed. The first uniformed officers began patrolling on May 15.
* March 25 - The Detroit Public Library opened on the second floor of the old Michigan State Capitol building in Detroit.

### April

* April 9 - Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia, bringing an end to the American Civil War.
* April 15 - Abraham Lincoln died after being shot one day earlier.
* April 16 - At the invitation Mayor Barker, an overflow crowd of Detroit residents assembled at City Hall. Resolutions were passed, including one expressing "profound sorrow" and "horror and anguish".
* April 25 - A parade in Detroit honored Pres. Lincoln.

### July

* July - The Upper Peninsula miners' strike of 1865 was put down by a naval detachment from the USS Michigan, using an improvised armored train, and later with an army detachment from Chicago.

### August

* August 13 - General Ulysses S. Grant visited Detroit.

### September

* September 12/13 - The Colored Men's Convention met in Detroit.

### October

* October 17 - The 102nd Regiment United States Colored Troops returned to Detroit and was disbanded.

### December
## Births

* March 21 - George Owen Squier, U.S. Army officer and inventor, in Dryden, Michigan
* April 13 - Grant Fellows, Michigan Attorney General (1913–1917), in Hudson Township, Lenawee County, Michigan
* June 28 - Frank Scheibeck, Major League Baseball shortstop (1887–1906), in Detroit
* July 21 - Fred M. Warner, 26th Governor of Michigan (1905–1911), in Hickling, Nottinghamshire
* November 15 - Jerome H. Remick, music publisher, in Detroit
* December 1 - Friend Richardson, Governor of California (1923–1927), in Friend's Colony, Michigan
* Date unknown - Lyster Hoxie Dewey, botanist, in Cambridge Township, Michigan