Since some of the Cooks and the Millers ended up in Detroit, known as Motor City USA, in the 1900s, it is not strange to find some of them employed in the auto industry. So, instead of providing a specific biography in this article, I thought it would be good to look at Detroit in general and then discover what one of our ancestors did. In its prime during the mid-1900s, Detroit was a vibrant city, peaking at over 1.8 million people after World War II, making it the fifth largest city in the USA. The auto industry provided good union-paying jobs to bolster America's middle class. However, by the late 1900s, many jobs went overseas or elsewhere in the US. Detroit saw a massive decline in population like so many Midwest cities dependent upon various industrial sectors. Detroit now only has a population of 600,000 in 2020. After the war, much of that population fled to Detroit's suburbs or followed job relocation to the southern states.
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