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Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA

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Kalamazoo is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. Kalamazoo is located geographically in Western and Southern Michigan. As of the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a total population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 326,589 as of 2010.

Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University, a large public university, and Kalamazoo College, a liberal arts school, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, a two-year community college. Kalamazoo is home to major players in the pharmaceutical and medical science industries. Kalamazoo is also known for its importance in the world of music as it was the original home to the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Kalamazoo has also built a reputation as a major player in the American craft beer movement.

Kalamazoo finds itself located equidistant from the major American cities of Chicago and Detroit, both less than 150 miles from Kalamazoo.

History:

The area on which the modern city of Kalamazoo stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium. Evidence of their early residency remains in the form of a small mound in downtown's Bronson Park. The Hopewell civilization began to decline after the 8th century and was replaced by other groups. The Potawatomi culture lived in the area when the first European explorers arrived.

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, passed just southeast of the present city of Kalamazoo in late March 1680. The first Europeans to reside in the area were itinerant fur traders in the late 18th and early 19th century. There are records of several traders wintering in the area, and by the 1820s at least one trading post had been established.

During the War of 1812, the British established a smithy and a prison camp in the area.

The 1821 Treaty of Chicago ceded the territory south of the Grand River to the United States federal government. However, the area around present-day Kalamazoo was reserved as the village of Potawatomi Chief Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish. Six years later, as a result of the 1827 Treaty of St. Joseph, the tract that became the city of Kalamazoo was also ceded.

In 1829, Titus Bronson, originally from Connecticut, became the first white settler to build a cabin within the present city limits of Kalamazoo. He platted the town in 1831 and named it the village of Bronson—not to be confused with the much smaller Bronson, Michigan, about fifty miles (80 km) to the south-southeast of Kalamazoo.

Bronson, frequently described as "eccentric" and argumentative, was later run out of town. The village was renamed Kalamazoo in 1836, due in part to Bronson's being fined for stealing a cherry tree. Today, a hospital and a downtown park, among other things, are named for Bronson. Kalamazoo was legally incorporated as a village in 1838 and as a city in 1883.

The fertile farmlands attracted prosperous Yankee farmers who settled the surrounding area, and sent their sons to Kalamazoo to become businessmen, professionals and entrpreneurs who started numerous factories. Most of the original settlers of Kalamazoo were New Englanders or were from upstate New York.

On August 27, 1856, Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln spoke at a rally in Bronson Park, promoting the presidential candidacy of John C. Fremont, who was running on the ticket of the new Republican Party. It was Lincoln's only public speech during his only visit to Michigan.

In 1959, the city created the Kalamazoo Mall, the first outdoor pedestrian shopping mall in the United States, by closing part of Burdick Street to auto traffic. The Mall was designed by Victor Gruen, who also designed the country's first enclosed shopping mall, which had opened three years earlier. Two of the mall's four blocks were reopened to auto traffic in 1999 after much debate.

An F3 tornado struck downtown Kalamazoo on May 13, 1980, killing five and injuring 79.

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Cox, James Leroy	25 Mrz 1937	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I395
2	Knerr, Charles Henry	4 Apr 1853	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209113
3	Knerr, Elizabeth Ellen	11 Okt 1855	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209114
4	Knerr, Emma Jane	16 Mai 1860	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209116
5	Knerr, Frank	1852	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209015
6	Knerr, Franklin Andrew	10 Mai 1851	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209112
7	Knerr, George Holly	26 Jan 1858	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209115
8	Knerr, Jeannie	17 Nov 1864	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209117
9	Knerr, Julia May	31 Mai 1868	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209118
10	Knerr, Mary Elizabeth	27 Sep 1847	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209014
11	Knerr, Nelly May	4 Sep 1872	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209119
12	Knerr, Stella	4 Sep 1872	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209120
13	Knerr, William A.	25 Sep 1860	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209016

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Kindelberger, Jakob	1 Jan 1947	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I103827
2	Knerr, Amos	12 Sep 1883	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209012
3	Knerr, Charles Henry	26 Dez 1904	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209113
4	Knerr, Elizabeth Ellen	27 Jan 1937	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209114
5	Knerr, Franklin Andrew	1852	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209112
6	Knerr, George Holly	23 Jul 1933	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209115
7	Knerr, Mary Elizabeth	25 Okt 1939	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209014
8	Knerr, Stella	7 Sep 1872	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209120
9	Knerr, Stephen	11 Sep 1872	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209110
10	Knerr, William A.	21 Jul 1941	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I209016
11	Nelson, Frances Ann	1 Mrz 2015	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I183413
12	Nichols, Pheobe Ann	1920	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I91892
13	Nuss, Emma Elisabeth	5 Sep 1982	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I13096

Beerdigung

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Beerdigung		Personen-Kennung
1	Kindelberger, Jakob		Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	I103827

Eheschließung

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	Familie	Eheschließung		Familien-Kennung
1	Knerr / Burrell	um 1846	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	F70044
2	Knerr / Schellenberger	10 Apr 1850	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA	F70065