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In 1852-53 and 1853-54 he attended the medical de- partment of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which he graduated March 30, 1854. December 4th of the same year he located in Decatur, Mich., and com- menced the practice of medicine. He has since resided at that place, with the exception of the time spent in the army during the war of the Rebellion, when he served as con- tract surgeon, and was assigned to duty at post hospital, City Point, Va., General Grant's headquarters. He was on duty at that place when Petersburg and Richmond were evacuated by the rebels, and also when General Lee surrendered his army to General Grant, and returned to Washington on the memorable 14th of April, 1865,-the day of President Lincoln's assassination.
He has been president, vice-president, and censor of the Van Buren County Medical Society, and has served as health-officer of the village and township of Decatur ever since the law establishing that office has been enforced. He is now surgeon to the Michigan Central Railroad at that place. In politics he is a Republican.
His father and two brothers, Hiram and John, with their families, came to Michigan in 1855, locating in Keeler township, where the father died July 10, 1856, aged seventy-seven years. The brothers are farmers in the lat- ter township at this time. Three sisters are still living, viz., Mrs. Nancy Naramor, in Macomb Co., Mich .; Mrs. Fanny Dolbee, and Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon, both in Penn- sylvania.
Dec. 31, 1857, Dr. Baker was married to Adelia M. Nutting, daughter of Lucius and Eliza B. Nutting.
CHAPTER LVIX. GENEVA TOWNSHIP .*
Boundaries and Topography-Settlement of the Township-Organi- zation and List of Officers-Early Roads-Irvington-Schools- Religious Societies.
BOUNDARIES AND TOPOGRAPHY.
THE township of Geneva contains 36 full sections, and is the first full township from the lake in the north tier of townships. It is bounded on the north by Allegan County,
on the east by Columbia, on the south by Bangor, and on the west by South Haven. Its soil is varied and well adapted for fruit- and grain-raising.
The surface is somewhat broken in the central part, but is in the other portions generally level or slightly un- dulating. Like all the territory in Southwestern Michigan, it was originally heavily timbered with whitewood, bass- wood, beech, maple, and ash, and in parts pine and hem- lock.
It is well watered by the south branch of the South Black River and its branches. It enters the township on section 34, flows northwesterly, and passes out at the north- western corner of the town.
SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWNSHIP.
The territory that now comprises Geneva was a wilder- ness after other townships east and north had become the homes of a few emigrants. The year that South Haven, then embracing several townships, was set off (1837) Clark Pierce, a native of Marlborough, Vt., bought of J. H. Monroe 160 acres of land, it being the southeast quarter of section 32, lying on the Monroe road, laid out two years before. He emigrated to Michigan in 1833, and lived at St. Clair for a time. After locating this land he built a log cabin, and lived alone about two years, his nearest neigh- bors being settlers at Breedsville and his brother Daniel, who was occasionally at South Haven, where he had bought land and put up a cabin. In the summer of 1839, Daniel and Clark Pierce rented 90 acres of land of Stephen Wil- bur and Elias Rawson at Schoolcraft, and sowed it to winter wheat. They retained the farm together till the fall of 1841, when in October of that year Clark Pierce married Miss Royce, and remained on the farm till the fall of 1842, when he, with his wife and one son (A. J. Pierce, of South Haven), with their household goods, and a few young cattle, came back to the humble log cabin, and there passed two years of hermit life, being the only family in the town- ship till 1845. The lands at South Haven had passed into the hands of a New York company, of which William A. and William L. Booth and Dr Abbott were partners. Lewis A. Booth, a brother of William A., was the agent. In the spring of 1845 this company proposed to build a mill at that place and other improvements. Clark Pierce was hired to move there, erect a boarding-house and take charge of the property. His family moved there in 1845, having at that time two sons (Irving, the youngest, being the first white child born in Geneva township), and they remained at that place till June, 1846, when they returned to the farm, and from 1837 to February, 1846, no one had set- tled in the town. At that time Eri Eaton and Andrew Miner came in and settled near the centre of the town. In 1845, Mr. Pierce moved to Illinois, and in the spring of 1858 came back on the farm where he has since lived.
Considerable land had been bought by speculators, and emigrants were slow in coming in and paying their prices for land. In the. latter part of the fall and winter of 1845-46, Eri Eaton and Leander J. Eastman came through this sec- tion of country to seek locations. On their return home, at Adrian, they purchased land of Cornelius B. Bogart, of that place,-Mr. Eaton 40 acres, Eastman 20 acres, and
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Andrew Minor, a son-in-law of Mr. Eaton, 20 acres, on sec- tion 15. In the February following, 1846, Eri Eaton and Andrew Miner, with their families, came in and stopped a few days with Hiram Chappell, until they finished their own cabins. At that time Clark Pierce, on section 32, was the only man living in the township. Mr. Miner afterwards sold and bought of government 90 acres on the northeast quarter of section 3, where he still resides. Mr. Eaton is living with his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Beebe, at the centre of the township.
Philip Hoag, a native of Cuyahoga Co., owned a farm near Kalamazoo, and traded for land in this township, getting therefor 80 acres on the east half of northeast quarter and 80 acres on east half of southwest quarter. In 1848 he built a log house on the northeast quarter, where he lived until 1878, and moved to the southwest quarter, where he now lives. He was instrumental in getting the town set off from Columbia.
In 1847, Marvin Hannahs, of Albion, commenced a settlement on section 18, where he built a saw-mill (the first in the township) on the Black River. The lumber for the construction of the mill and the boarding-house in connection with it, was hauled from Breedsville. The first family who kept the boarding-house was that of Henry Hogmire. In the following year a large tannery was built by him at the same place, and he also erected a school-house, and made several other improvements as an inducement for settlers to locate in the neighborhood. Eri Bennett came to the place as foreman for Mr. Hannahs. He was elected justice of the peace in 1855-56, and supervisor in 1859. The de- mands of the tannery for bark gave employment to many at that time, and the settlers in the vicinity employed their time when not engaged in their own clearings in working for Mr. Hannahs.
The place was nicknamed Jericho by the workmen in the mill and tannery, but Mr. Hannahs named it Hunter. It was from this place that Joseph Sturgis and his as- sistants went down the river to commence the settlement that became South Haven. After the latter place became established, the Jericho or " Hunter" settlement lost its importance, but the nickname given it by the employees of Mr. Hannahs outlived both the tannery and the name be- stowed by its proprietor.
Nathan Tubbs came from Grand Rapids to this town in 1849, and bought land in the southeast quarter of section 2, and remained here several years. He sold to John Chris- man, who in 1859 sold to Jerome B. Watson, a native of Monroe County, who moved on the farm with his family, where they still live. Mr. Tubbs was the first supervisor of the town.
Charles N. Hoag, brother of Philip, in the fall of 1851 left Ohio and emigrated to this town, purchasing on the southwest quarter of section 1, where he lived till 1858, and removed to Lawrence, purchasing a farm there. He re- turned again to Geneva in 1865, and bought 120 acres on the south half of section 3, where he now lives. Charles Davy in the winter of 1851-52 purchased 80 acres on west half of the southeast quarter of section 3. James Bates came in 1851 and settled on 40 acres on the northeast quarter of section 14, where his son Edwin lives.
Moses Welch, a native of Madison Co., N. Y., emigrated to Prairie Ronde, with his wife and three children, in the fall of 1847, and in the winter of 1850 bought of James Jones 80 acres of land on the southeast quarter of section 3, and moved upon it with his family Jan. 15, 1852. Mr. Welch was one of the first members of the Methodist class in the township, and was instrumental in getting the first road through to South Haven, in 1852, and in 1853 had the contract for building the east end of the causeway of logs along the section line between sections 4 and 9, Jesse Lane having the contract for the other part. Mr. Welch lives on the place where he settled in 1852. His present wife is a sister of Andrew Miner.
Jesse Lane in 1852 bought of William Knowles (a brother of Elisha, who settled at Breedsville in 1837) 160 acres, the northeast quarter of section 10. He afterwards traded with W. D. Metcalf, of Kalamazoo, and moved to Missouri.
James Kelly also in this year located land on the south- east quarter of section 4. Orrin G. Hoag, a brother, came in the fall of 1852, and settled near Charles and Philip, his brothers. Orrin and Charles married Laura and Har- riet, sisters of Charles Brott. Philip Brooks, a native of Genesee Co., N. Y., came to this township in the fall of 1853, and settled on the southwest quarter of section 12. His widow and two sons are still on the farm.
Benjamin Knowles, from Livingston Co., N. Y., emigrated with his father, Elisha Knowles, to Breedsville in 1837. He went through to the mouth of the Black River with Clark Shaffer in 1849, when nothing was there except the single house built in 1845, and the ruin of the Monroe house. In 1852 he first located at Geneva, on the north- east quarter of section 10, where he still resides.
Charles Brott emigrated from Ohio to this township in 1855, purchasing the year before the south half of the northeast quarter of section 1, and has lived there to the present time. He married a daughter of Mr. Chappell, an early settler.
Samuel Lull, from Broome Co., N. Y., emigrated to Kala- mazoo County in 1840, and to Geneva township in the spring of 1854. He bought his farm of John Glover, on the west half of the northwest quarter of section 11. With the exception of the little clearings of Nathan Tubbs, Moses Welch, and Charles Day, that neighborhood was then a wilderness. Mr. Lull is now largely engaged in the culture of peaches and apples.
About 1856, Daniel and Mahlon Funk settled on the southwest quarter of section 34. About the same time William Miller purchased 80 acres on section 33, and the same on section 34. George Mckenzie was the first set- tler in the southeast quarter of the town, on section 36.
Between this time and 1862-63, Peter Chambers settled on the northeast quarter of section 8, where he still resides. Perry Kidney settled on the same section, where Mr. Cobb now lives. S. M. Trowbridge bought land on sections 6 and 7, on Black River, and erected a mill there known as Geneva Mills. He is now engaged in a flour- and feed-store in South Haven. Yetter settled on the Sand Hill east of Trowbridge's mill. James Peters, about 1862, lived on the southwest quarter of section 10. Anson Warner, a native
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RESIDENCES OF GILMAN AND PHILENA WHITE, IRVINGTON, GENEVA TP., VAN BUREN CO., MICHIGAN.
GENEVA MILLS.
RESIDENCE OF S. W. TROWBRIDGE, GENEVA TP., (NEAR SOUTH HAVEN LINE.) VAN BUREN CO., MICH.
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of New York, came in 1863, and purchased on the southeast quarter of section 9. He was the first to settle on that section. Soon after, Lucius Mead and Sylvanus Cobb settled near him. Benjamin Westcott, a native of Wayne Co., N. Y., emigrated to Bangor in 1848, and in December, 1864, located on the southwest quarter of section 8, purchasing of Perry Kidney, where he still lives. William W. Worth- ington settled on section 18, near Mr. Westcott, in August of the same year.
George H. Reeves, from Connecticut, moved to Suffolk Co., N. Y., and emigrated to Geneva in 1864, settling where he still lives, on section 22.
Many others came in from 1858-64, among whom were Hubbard C. Pond, Abel Edgerton, Daniel D. Hathaway, F. M. Jones, J. G. Lafler, Henry Pease, Lewis B. Trues- dell, and Daniel Rooker.
ORGANIZATION AND LIST OF OFFICERS.
This township, originally a part of Lafayette township, in the division in 1837 was made a part of South Haven. Again in 1845 it was set off from that township as a part of Columbia, then organized, and Jan. 5, 1854, it became a separate township by action of Board of Supervisors, by which body it was then
" Resolved, that township 1 south, range 16 west, situated at present in and belonging to the township of Columbia be, and the same is hereby set off from said township and organized into a new township by the name of the township of Geneva, and that the time and place for holding the first annual township-meeting in said township of Geneva shall be on the first Monday of April next, 1854, at the dwell- ing-house of Nathan Tubbs, on section 2, in said township, number 1 south, range 16 west, and that Nathan Tubbs, Clark Pierce, and Charles N. Hoag be and are hereby appointed to act as the Board of Inspectors of election to preside at said meeting."
Election was held accordingly on the 3d of April, 1854, when twenty-two votes were cast and the following officers elected : Supervisor, Nathan Tubbs; Township Treasurer, Philip M. Brooks; Township Clerk, Charles N. Hoag; Justices of the Peace, Eri Bennett, Leander J. Eastman, Jesse L. Lane, Philip Hoag; School Inspectors, Hiram Simmons, Francis M. Jones; Commissioners of Highways, Clark Pierce, Leander J. Eastman, Jesse L. Lane; Direc- tors of the Poor, Eri Eaton, Clark Pierce.
The principal township officers from that time until the present have been those named in the following list :
SUPERVISORS.
1855-56, O. H. Burrows; 1857-58, Nathan Tubbs; 1859, Eri Ben- nett; 1860-61, Jerome B. Watson; 1862, Hubbard C. Pond ; 1863, Jerome B. Watson; 1864, Abel Edgerton ; 1865, V. D. Dille; 1866, Gideon Hall; 1867-68, Jerome B. Watson; 1869, S. M. Trowbridge; 1870-72, William R. Tolles ; 1873-77, Jerome B. Watson ; 1878-79, Goodwin S. Tolles.
TOWNSHIP CLERKS.
1855, Charles N. Hoag; 1856-57, Daniel D. Hathaway ; 1858-60, Pomeroy Prince; 1861, F. M. Jones; 1862, J. G. Lafler; 1863, 0. S. Hoag; 1864, J. G. Lafler; 1865-66, Samuel B. Phelps; 1867-68, Benson Paddock; 1869, J. G. Clark; 1870-71, James Martin ; 1872-77, George H. Reeves; 1878, William A. Burlin- game; 1879, George H. Reeves.
TREASURERS.
1855-60, Philip M. Brooks; 1861, Benjamin Clark ; 1862, Philip M. Brooks; 1863, Henry Pease ; 1864, James W. Peters; 1865-69, H. Wenban ; 1870-72, Goodwin S. Tolles ; 1873-78, James Mar- tin ; 1879, Gilbert Mitchell.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1855-56, Eri Bennett; 1857, Daniel D. Hathaway ; 1858, Clark Pierce; 1859, Lewis B. Truesdell ; 1860, Daniel Rooker; 1861, William Miller, Philip Hoag; 1862, Pierce M. Funk ; 1863, Lewis B. Truesdell; 1864, Truman Fletcher, C. C. Terrill; 1865, F. Reeve, George Mckenzie; 1866, Clark Pierce, Benjamin Knowles ; 1867, Philip Hoag; 1868, J. N. Osborn ; 1869, Jona- than T. Elliot, John N. Osborn; 1870, George Mckenzie, Clark Pierce ; 1871, John B. Hicks; 1872, Benjamin B. Clark ; 1873, Clark Pierce, Edward S. Jelly ; 1874, A. J. Wyman, Clark Pierce; 1875, John N. Osborn, John S. Hicks ; 1876, Lucian F. Mace, George Mckenzie ; 1877, Philip Hoag, George Mckenzie; 1878, George McKenzie; 1879, Edward S. Jelly.
SCHOOL INSPECTORS.
1855-56, Clark Pierce; 1857, Charles N. Hoag; 1858, A. Edgerton ; 1859, Lewis B. Truesdell; 1860, George Mckenzie; 1861, Philip Hoag ; 1862, H. A. Pond; 1863, Francis M. Jones ; 1864, Man- ley B. Peters ; 1865, C. H. Emerson, F. M. Schurz; 1866, Charles N. Hoag; 1867, Allen W. Davis; 1868, James Abbott; 1869, John N. Osborn ; 1870, Benjamin F. Chapman ; 1871, John N. Osborn ; 1872, Francis R. Cady ; 1873, Edward B. Jelly ; 1874, Francis R. Cady ; 1875, Aaron B. Gates; 1876, Irving W. Pierce ; 1877-78, Charles H. Mace; 1879, James Martin.
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS. 1875-76, John B. Hicks ; 1877-79, John H. Tripp.
EARLY ROADS.
The first road laid out in the township was the road that crosses sections 32 and 30 diagonally, running in a north- wardly direction. It was laid out by Charles U. Cross and Judge Monroe, from Paw Paw to South Haven, in 1835, and was a continuation of the road from Prairie Ronde, laid out earlier. When the township was laid out the records of previous roads were transcribed from the Colum- bia records, March 30, 1853, as follows: Murch road, surveyed by Charles U. Cross, June 29, 1839 ; Stearling road, surveyed June 22, 1846; Eaton's road, surveyed June 25, 1846; Pierce's road, surveyed Dec. 14, 1846; Tubb's road, surveyed Oct. 5, 1852.
IRVINGTON.
Irvington is a hamlet on the line of the Kalamazoo and South Haven division of the Michigan Central Railroad, and lies in the northeast part of the township, in the centre of section 1. It was platted by Enoch Pease in July, 1871. It received its name from Irving Pierce, son of Clark Pierce, who was the first white child born in the township. It contains a Methodist church, depot, about thirty dwell- ings, three stores, steam-mill, coal-kiln, blacksmith- and wagon-shop.
SCHOOLS.
The first school taught in the township was by Mrs. Caroline Miner, wife of Andrew Miner, about 1848, at her house. The pupils were the Eaton, Eastman, and Miner children. In the winter of 1849-50 a school was taught in the log house of Clark Pierce, by Laura Rogers, who was succeeded by Fanny Kidder. A school-house was built at Jericho by Marvin Hannahs, to induce emigrants to settle there, but some time elapsed before school was taught there. Ellen Fish was the first to teach in that house.
In the northeast quarter of the town Laura Pratt, now Mrs. Orrin S. Hoag, taught a school in 1853, in a rough shanty near Eri Eaton's. Angeline Foster, in the summer
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of 1854, taught in a board cabin on Moses Welch's place. A school-house was erected about 1855 where the present school-house stands, in what is known as the Lull district. Mrs. Harriet Hoag, wife of Charles N. Hoag, and Augusta Smith, now Mrs. Benjamin Knowles, were both among the first teachers there. Soon after the organization of the township the taxable inhabitants met and petitioned the school inspectors to organize a school district. The peti- tion was granted and signed by Francis M. Jones and Charles N. Hoag, inspectors. The petition for the first district was signed by B. Knowles, J. L. Lane, P. M. Brooks, O. S. Hoag, James Bates, Nathan Tubbs, M. Welch, and Henry Pease.
Feb. 24, 1855, a new district (No. 2) was formed by dividing District No. 1.
June 2, 1855, a school-house site was chosen on the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of section 11.
Oct. 6, 1855, the inspectors reported, as from District No. 1, 20 scholars between four and eighteen years of age, and voted to raise $1 by tax for each scholar.
District No. 2 reported 17 scholars, and voted to raise $180 for building a school-house, $15 for contingent ex- penses, and $17 for tuition purposes.
District No. 3 reported 6 scholars; no report of date of organization of this district.
Appropriation of school fund, 1857, $25.97,-53 cents to each scholar,-District No. 1, $10.60 ; District No. 2, $12.19; District No. 3, $3.18.
March 6, 1858, District No. 4 was organized, and was bounded by the base line on the north, town line on the west, sections 16, 17, 18 on the south, and sections 3 and 10 on the east.
The appropriation for 1857, as per taxes of 1856, are as follows (mill tax, $81.07) : District No. 1, $22.89 ; District No. 2, $26.31; District No. 3, $6.87.
The township library was started while the township was a part of Columbia, and a subsequent division of books gave the new town a nucleus. At the present time the library numbers 251 volumes, 80 being purchased in 1878.
A list of the teachers receiving certificates from the inspectors from the organization of the town to 1868 is given, as follows :
1855 .- Fanny Kidder, Jan. 26; same date. Angeline Foster; June 11, Amvietta Blood ; April 15, Helen M. Fish.
1856 .- Nov. 1, Wm. M. Welch; Nov. 7, Israel P. Boles. 1857 .- May 4, Ruth Hunt; May 18, Mary E. Welch.
1858 .- April 24, Augusta Smith; May 15, Lucinda E. Young.
1859 .- April 30, Evaline Fellows; May 2, Sarah Shaver; Nov. 26, Sarah Young.
1860 .- Nov. 5, Henry C. Rowman ; Nov. 22, Francis M. Jones ; Nov. 25, Olivia Kleckner.
1861 .- April 15, Mary H. Briggs; May 18, Sarah A. Peacock ; June 1, Amanda Rawen ; June 7, Aldena Hoag ; July 15, Aure- lia Ellsworth; Nov. 2, Mary Lulte; Nov. 18, Helen Ails- worth ; Dec. 9, James Southard.
1862 .- April 12, Eliza Clark ; April 26, Adaline Deming; Nov. 1, Kate C. Peters, Martha E. Grover.
1863 .- May 25, Mary A. Rowland ; Nov. 9, Rebecca A. Burlingame; Dec. 2, Emily A. Loomis ; Dec. 19, Helen M. Pool.
1864 .- May 24, Georgia Williams; Nov. 5, Cordelia Worralon, Han- nah Cross, Laura Pierce; Nov. 12, Aurelia Stillwell ; Dec. 17, Aristene E. Metcalf.
1865 .- April 8, Susan A. Cassidy ; May 3, Janet Hurlbut; Nov. 4, Gideon Hall; Nov. 25, Carrie Longwell, Marion Balfour.
1866 .- Jan. 6, Fanny Peacock ; March 31, Mary Penrod; April 28, Ellen Chapin ; May 19, Hattie Shaw, Hattie Fuller; Nov. 3, Laura Mayberry, Emmeline Rowley.
1867 .- Jan. 12, Lettie Cornwall; Feb. 9, Elsie A. Crowell; March 16, Theresa Dean.
The following school statistics of the township are from the directors' report for 1879 :
Number of Number of
Dis- Children be-
trict. tween 5 and 20 Years.
Frame School- Houses.
Seating Capacity.
Value of Property.
Number of Wages of Teachers. Teachers.
No. 1 ..
105
1
50
$400
3
$285
No. 2 ..
54
1
60
1000
3
152
No. 3 ..
37
1
32
350
1
150
No. 4 ..
73
1
80
1800
2
138
No. 5 ..
52
1
135
500
2
215
No. 6 ..
58
1
60
800
2
168
No. 7 ..
63
1
50
100
1
132
Total ... 442
7
467
$4950
14
$1240
RECEIPTS.
Dis-
trict.
Moneys on hand Sept. 1878.
Two-Mill Tax.
Primary- School
District
Raised
Total Re-
No. 1 ..
$59.00
$110.90
$158.24
$1.00
$328.14
No. 2 ..... 103.32
51.84
$22.88
115.35
14.00
311.39
No. 3 .. ..
50.53
59.36
28.94
57.00
....
195.83
No. 4 ...
6.16
79.68
37.92
92.50
19.75
236.01
No. 5 ....
128.39
60.00
33.12
48.53
17.25
287.29
No. 6 ...
22.66
62.62
28.32
159.38
29.75
302.73
No. 7 .....
14.96
...
31.68
130.00
16.50
193.14
Total .. $385.02
$524.40
$182.86
$761.00
$97.35 $1854.53
EXPENDITURES.
District.
Paid Teachers.
Paid all other purposes.
Amount on hand Sept. 1, 1879.
Total Expendi- ture during the Year.
No. 1 ..
$285.00
$21.51
$21.63
$328.14
No. 2
152.00
68.74
90.65
311.39
No. 3.
150.00
33.85
11.98
195.83
No. 4.
138.80
49.50
47.71
236.01
No. 5
215.00
20.10
52.19
287.29
No. 6
168.00
40.41
92.82
302.73
No. 7
132.00
11.05
50.09
193.14
Total.
$1240.80
$245.16
$367.07
$1854.53
The school directors for 1879 were Jerome B. Watson, Samuel Johnson, Isaac M. Saunders, W. W. Hodge, A. A. Hough, Lewis D. Port, Levi Ackley.
RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
Methodist Church .- The first preacher in the township- one of the Methodist denomination-was the Rev. J. H. Robinson, who formed a class at the log house of Nathan Tubbs at the same time, March, 1854. The constituent members of that class were Nathan Tubbs and wife, Moses Welch and wife, Mrs. Harriet Hoag, Mrs. Catharine Miner, Mrs. Charles Davy, and Philip Hoag.
The circuit that included this territory embraced Breeds- ville, Bangor, Watervliet, Coloma, and St. Joseph. The ministers who succeeded Mr. Robinson on the circuit were the Revs. Thomas Clark, Hendrickson, Blowers, Rodgers, E. L. Kellogg, I. Skinner, Paddock, Thomas Clark, J. Odin, - Harper, - Van Fossen, Jaynes, and Law- rence, the present pastor. The church has about 80 mem- bers, with a Sunday-school containing 60 pupils,-Adam White, superintendent. The church was built at Irving- ton in the summer of 1876, at a cost of $800.
A Methodist class was started at Chambers' school-house in 1875, at the close of a revival, under the charge of the Rev. E. H. Mackinney. The class is under the charge of the South Haven Church, and has been supplied with
Taxes for from other sources for
the Year.
Fund. all purposes. sources.
TOWN RESIDENCE OF N. S. TAYLOR, BANGOR, MICH.
N. S. TAYLOR.
MRS. N . S. TAYLOR.
PROP. OF MAS. N.S. TAYLOR, BANGOR MICH.
RESIDENCE OF NOBLE S. TAYLOR , GENEVA TP., VAN BUREN CO., , MICHIGAN.
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preaching by the Revs. H. Parker, W. A. Huhnsberger, and N. D. Carroll. It has at present 15 members.
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