Excerpt from Fort Wayne Directory, 1877: Comprising an Alphabetically Arranged List of Business Firms and Private Citizens; A Classified List of All Trades, Professions and Pursuits; A Miscellaneous Directory of City and County Officers, Public and Private Schools, Churches, Banks, Etc A large amount of information concerning the public, religious, chari table and private institutions of the city will be found on pages 299 to 315. The work contains names, against in our last issue, an increase of 709 names. From these figures we estimate the present population of the city to be This 'includes territory outside the limits and adjacent to the city proper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.