ADRIAN, Mich., city and county-seat of Lenawee County; on the Raisin River, and on the N. Y. C., the Wabash and the Detroit, T. and I. railroads, 33 miles west of Toledo, Ohio, and 60 miles southwest of Detroit It is situ ated in the midst of a prosperous agricultural section and is fast becoming an important manufacturing centre owing to its favorable location and railway advantages. Among the chief industries are wire-fence plants, con densed milk plant, steel and iron casting foundry; and manufactories of cotton knitted underwear, screens for doors and windows, electric bells and horns, pianos, organs, leather, rockers, razor strops, concrete products, steel posts and rural mail boxes, baskets, gloves, mit tens and toothpicks. Tomato preserving and tomato seed growing are also important in dustries with headquarters at Adrian. The United States Census of 1914 reported 68 manufacturing establishments on a factory basis employing 1,506 persons of whom 1,256 were wage earners, and a combined capital of $5,032,000. The annual value of the pro ducts amounts to $5,442,000. There are five
banks with a combined capital and earn ings of $737,298 and deposits of $4,805, 834. The city has a fine system of public schools with 2,500 pupils and is the seat of Adrian College (q.v.) ; St. Joseph's Academy for Girls (Catholic) with 500 pupils; a good business college, and the State Industrial Home for Girls. There are many fine churches, a Y. M. C. A. building, a new post office, a public library with 23,264 volumes. Streets shaded with maple trees and lighted with electricity and handsome private residences make Adrian an attractive home city. It was founded in 1825 by Addison J. Comstock, incorporated as a village in 1828 and chartered as a city in 1853. The government is the commission form with a mayor and two commissioners. The city has a good sewerage system, water works, public steam heating and an electric street car line, and is connected by an interurban line with Toledo. Pop. (1910) 10,763; (1917) 12,000.