# 1901 in Michigan

Events from the year 1901 in Michigan.

## Office holders
### State office holders

* Governor of Michigan: Hazen S. Pingree/Aaron T. Bliss (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Orrin W. Robinson (Republican)
* Michigan Attorney General: Horace M. Oren
* Michigan Secretary of State: Fred M. Warner (Republican)
* Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives: John J. Carton (Republican)
* Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court: Robert Morris Montgomery

### Mayors of major cities

* Mayor of Detroit: William C. Maybury (Democrat)
* Mayor of Grand Rapids: George R. Perry
* Mayor of Flint: Charles A. Cummings/Clark B. Dibble
* Mayor of Ann Arbor: Gottlob Luick/Royal S. Copeland
* Mayor of Lansing: Benjamin A. Kyes
* Mayor of Saginaw: William B. Baum

### Federal office holders

* U.S. Senator from Michigan: Julius C. Burrows (Republican)
* U.S. Senator from Michigan: James McMillan (Republican)
* House District 1: John Blaisdell Corliss (Republican)
* House District 2: Henry C. Smith (Republican)
* House District 3: Washington Gardner (Republican)
* House District 4: Edward L. Hamilton (Republican)
* House District 5: William Alden Smith (Republican)
* House District 6: Samuel William Smith (Republican)
* House District 7: Edgar Weeks (Republican)
* House District 8: Joseph W. Fordney (Republican)
* House District 9: Roswell P. Bishop (Republican)
* House District 10: Rousseau Owen Crump (Republican)/Henry H. Aplin (Republican)
* House District 11: William S. Mesick (Republican)/Archibald B. Darragh (Republican)
* House District 12: Carlos D. Shelden (Republican)

## Population

In the 1900 United States census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 2,420,982, ranking as the ninth most populous state in the country. By 1910, Michigan's population had increased by 16.1% to 2,810,173 .

### Cities

The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 10,000 based on 1900 U.S. census data. Historic census data from 1890 and 1910 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 1900, owing largely to an economy based on extraction of natural resources, five of the state's largest cities were located north of 44° latitude; in the chart below, these cities are shaded in aqua.
| 1900 Rank | City | County | 1890 Pop. | 1900 Pop. | 1910 Pop. | Change 1900-10 |
| 1 | Detroit | Wayne | 205,876 | 285,704 | 465,766 | 63.0% |
| 2 | Grand Rapids | Kent | 60,278 | 87,565 | 112,571 | 28.6% |
| 3 | Saginaw | Saginaw | 46,322 | 42,345 | 50,510 | 19.3% |
| 4 | Bay City | Bay | 27,839 | 27,628 | 45,166 | 63.5% |
| 5 | Jackson | Jackson | 20,798 | 25,180 | 31,433 | 24.8% |
| 6 | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | 17,853 | 24,404 | 39,437 | 61.6% |
| 7 | Muskegon | Muskegon | 22,702 | 20,818 | 24,062 | 15.6% |
| 8 | Port Huron | St. Clair | 13,543 | 19,158 | 18,863 | −1.5% |
| 9 | Battle Creek | Calhoun | 13,197 | 18,563 | 25,267 | 36.1% |
| 10 | Lansing | Ingham | 13,102 | 16,485 | 31,229 | 89.4% |
| 11 | Ann Arbor | Washtenaw | 9,431 | 14,509 | 14,817 | 2.1% |
| 12 | Manistee | Manistee | 12,812 | 14,260 | 12,381 | −13.2% |
| 13 | Flint | Genesee | 9,803 | 13,103 | 38,550 | 194.2% |
| 14 | Menominee | Menominee | 10,630 | 12,818 | 10,507 | −18.0% |
| 15 | Alpena | Alpena | 6,153 | 11,283 | 11,802 | 4.6% |
| 16 | Sault Ste. Marie | Chippewa | 5,760 | 10,538 | 12,615 | 19.7% |
| 17 | Marquette | Marquette | 9,098 | 10,058 | 11,503 | 14.4% |

### Counties

The following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 40,000 based on 1900 U.S. census data. Historic census data from 1890 and 1910 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.
| 1900 Rank | County | Largest city | 1890 Pop. | 1900 Pop. | 1910 Pop. | Change 1900-10 |
| 1 | Wayne | Detroit | 257,114 | 348,793 | 531,591 | 52.4% |
| 2 | Kent | Grand Rapids | 109,922 | 129,714 | 159,145 | 22.7% |
| 3 | Saginaw | Saginaw | 82,273 | 81,222 | 89,290 | 9.9% |
| 4 | Houghton | Houghton | 35,389 | 66,063 | 88,098 | 33.4% |
| 5 | Bay | Bay City | 56,412 | 62,378 | 68,238 | 9.4% |
| 6 | St. Clair | Port Huron | 52,105 | 55,228 | 52,341 | −5.2% |
| 7 | Calhoun | Battle Creek | 43,501 | 49,315 | 56,638 | 14.8% |
| 8 | Berrien | Niles | 41,285 | 49,165 | 53,622 | 9.1% |
| 9 | Lenawee | Adrian | 48,448 | 48,406 | 47,907 | −1.0% |
| 10 | Jackson | Jackson | 45,031 | 48,222 | 53,426 | 10.8% |
| 11 | Washtenaw | Ann Arbor | 42,210 | 47,761 | 44,714 | −6.4% |
| 12 | Oakland | Pontiac | 41,245 | 44,792 | 49,576 | 10.7% |
| 13 | Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo | 39,273 | 44,310 | 60,327 | 36.1% |
| 14 | Genesee | Flint | 39,430 | 41,804 | 64,555 | 54.4% |
| 15 | Marquette | Marquette | 39,521 | 41,239 | 46,739 | 13.3% |
| 16 | Ottawa | Holland | 35,358 | 39,667 | 45,301 | 14.2% |

## Sports
### Baseball

* 1901 Detroit Tigers season – The Tigers finished in third place in the inaugural season of the American League with a record of 74–61. Roscoe Miller (23–13) became the Tigers' first 20-game winner. The team's best hitters were shortstop Kid Elberfeld (.308 average) and center fielder Jimmy Barrett (.293 average; 110 runs).
* 1901 Michigan Wolverines baseball season – Under head coach Frank Sexton, the Wolverines compiled a 13–8 record (8–2 in conference) and won the Western Conference championship. Edwin McGinnis was the team captain.

### American football

* 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team – In their first year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the team compiled a perfect 11–0 record, outscored its opponents by a combined total of 550 to 0, and defeated Stanford by a 49 to 0 score in the inaugural Rose Bowl game.
* 1901 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team – Under head coach George Denman, the Aggies compiled a 3–4–1 record and outscored their opponents 120 to 94.
* 1901 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team – Under head coach Clayton Teetzel, the Normalites compiled a record of 3–5 and were outscored by a combined total of 167 to 58. Phillip E. Dennis was the team captain.
* 1901 Detroit Titans football team – Under head coach John C. Mackey, the team compiled a 3–3 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 66 to 58.

## Chronology of events

* January 1 – Aaron T. Bliss, a Republican from Saginaw, was sworn in as Governor of Michigan in a ceremony in Lansing.
* May 1 – U.S. Representative Rousseau Owen Crump, who represented Michigan's 10th congressional district, died in office.
* October 15 – Henry H. Aplin is seated to fill the vacancy left in the United States House of Representatives by Rousseau Owen Crump's death.

## Births

* March 3 – Gwen Wakeling, Academy Award-winning costume designer, in Detroit
* March 25 – Evo Anton DeConcini, Attorney General of Arizona, and a Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, in Iron Mountain, Michigan
* May 28 – Paul G. Goebel, All-American football end and Mayor of Grand Rapids, in Grand Rapids
* August 15 – Les Sweetland, Major League Baseball pitcher from 1927 to 1931, in St. Ignace, Michigan
* August 15 – Jack Fleischman, American football lineman, in Monroe, Michigan
* October 10 – John R. Emens, President of Ball State University from 1945 to 1968, in Prattville, Michigan
* November 13 – Werner Emmanuel Bachmann, chemist and pioneer in steroid synthesis, in Detroit
* Date unknown – Leonard Peter Schultz, ichthyologist and expert on shark attacks, in Albion, Michigan
* Date unknown – Nell Scott, first woman to serve in Alaska Territorial Legislature, in Marengo, Michigan
* Date unknown – Forman Brown, leader in puppet theater and early gay novelist, in Otsego, Michigan
* Date unknown – Douglas V. Steere, professor of philosophy and Quaker ecumenist, in Harbor Beach, Michigan

## Deaths

* March 11 – Charles T. Gorham, one of the founders of the Republican party, an anti-slavery activist, a division commander in the Michigan Militia, United States Ambassador to the Netherlands, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, at age 89 in Marshall, Michigan
* March 18 – Mark S. Brewer, former U.S. Congressman and Civil Service Commissioner, at age 64 in Washington, D.C.
* March 26 – George Willard, former U.S. Congressman who was instrumental in opening the University of Michigan to women, in Battle Creek, Michigan
* May 1 – Rousseau Owen Crump, U.S. Representatives (1895–1901), died in office at age 57 in West Bay City
* June 18 – Hazen S. Pingree, former mayor of Detroit and Governor of Michigan, while traveling in London, England
* August 13 – Sanford M. Green, Michigan Supreme Court Justice (1848–1857), at age 94
* October 29 – Leon Czolgosz, assassin of Pres. William McKinley and a native of Alpena, Michigan, in electric chair