LANSING (ante), a city in s. Michigan, the capital of the state; incorporated as a city in 1859; the junction of the Detroit, Lansing and Northern railroad, the North western Grand Trunk, the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw railroad, and the n. Lansing branch of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad; pop. '74, 7,442. It is the center of a populous district, surrounded by a region of great fertility, which with the coal and lumber id the immediate vicinity forms the stimulus of an ever-increasing trade. The rivers Grand and Cedar supply water-power and additional means of transporta tion. Among the manufactures are sashes, doors, and blinds; wheels, barrels, agricul tural implements, sewing-machines, and steam-engines. Its educational advantages are superior, both in the number and systematic grading of the public schools, and the rare opportunity for culture afforded by the libraries. It contains the state library of 40.000 vols., 2 national banks with a capital of $175,000, an insurance company with a capital of $100,000, an opera-house, a young men's literary association, and an odd fellows' institute for the education of the orphans of members of that order, established in 1871.
It has also the Michigan Homeopathic college, open to both sexes, having a library of 1500 vols. It is 37 m. n. of Jackson, 208 m. e. me. of Chicago, and 72 in. e.s.e. of Grand Rapids. It is situated on high bluffs divided by the Grand river, which is spanned by a wooden bridge and 4 iron ones. It is a well-built town, with avenues 5 rods and 7 rods in width. In the southern portion, near the mouth of the Cedar river, is a celebrated mineral spring. LANSING, Joux, 1754-1829; b. N. Y.; stuilied law, but during the beginning of the revolutionary war was gen. Schuyler's military secretary. He served seven years in the legislature of New York, was mayor of Albany four years; a member of the congress of 1784-88, and of the state convention on the constitution of the United States. He was judge of the supreme court in 1790, chief-justice 1798, and chancellor of the state 1801-14.