Ann Isabella Barry McCue Allen

Following Indian trails west along the Huron River, Allen and Rumsey chose a large hill covered with big oaks and not much underbrush. A creek nearby would furnish power for their new community's saw and flour mills. They laid out a village and hurried back to Detroit to register their claim, naming it in honor of Allen's wife, Ann. Other Reading: Ann Arbor's First Lady: Events in the Life of Ann I. Allen, by Russell E. Bidlack, 1998 Bentley Image Bank: BL000030