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From that time on he has remained a substantial and respected citizen of the town, and one of its most success- ful farmers. His farm has been enlarged to one hundred and sixty aeres, and is in an excellent condition, the result of thorough cultivation and careful judgment. With his own hands he has cleared about one hundred aeres of his own, besides clearing considerable for others in the vicinity. He has recently erected a commodious and comfortable residence, where he and his wife dispense their hospitality in that generous, free-hearted, kindly way that has ren- dered " Irish hospitality" proverbial the world over.
Always connected with the Roman Catholic Church, he has, sinee his residenee here, and since its organization, been a worthy member of the church at Flint. In politics he has ever been a Democrat, and has held the offices of high- way and drain commissioner, town treasurer, and justice of the peace. In the last-named office he has now served upwards of nineteen years.
His children have been ten in number,-Mary, born Feb. 14, 1846; Rose, born March 24, 1847 ; John, born May 27, 1849 ; Sarah, born Aug. 21, 1851 ; Anna, born June 3, 1853; Michael, born March 24, 1855 ; Ella, born Oet. 21, 1857; William (1st), born September, 1859 ; William (2d), born Aug. 24, 1861 ; and Ida, born Aug. 14, 1868. John died April 1, 1865, and William (1st) died Nov. 23, 1861. Mary married Michael Nolan, and now lives in Grand Blane ; Anna married Thomas Burns, and lives in the adjoining town of Gaines. All of the other children are residents of Clayton.
RESIDENCE OF D. S. HALSTED, CLIO, MICHIGAN.
VIENNA.
Titis township, which is designated by the original sur- vey as township number 9, of range number G east, is situated upon the north border of the county, west of the centre. It is bounded on the north by Saginaw County, and on the east, south, and west by the respective town- ships of Thetford, Mount Morris, and Montrose, in Genesee County.
Its surface may be deseribed in general terms as an ele- vated plain, eut by the rather deep ravines formed by its water-courses. On several sections to the immediate west and southwest of Clio village pine originally predominated. The remainder of the township was covered principally with heavy forests of deciduous trees, common to this portion of the State.
Brent's and Pine Run are the principal water-courses. These streams flow towards the northwest, and ultimately empty their waters into Flint River. They have rendered service in former years to assist in sawing into merehanta- ble lumber the valuable pines which once swayed their towering tops over a large portion of the township, and the latter stream does duty at the present time in propelling the machinery of the grist-mill in Clio. The people are chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits, the staple products being wheat, corn, and live-stoek. Since the disappearance of the pine forests and lumbering interest the attention of the inhabitants has been more exclusively devoted to agri- culture. The soil, though light and sandy in those portions once denominated " pineries," is well adapted to wheat and other cereals. The whole township is being rapidly devel- oped into good farming-lands, and a corresponding increase in wealth and population is the result.
According to statistics of the State of Michigan pub- lished in 1874, this, in area, is the largest township in the county, and contains 23,119 acres. It now has a voting population of 500, and an approximate total population of 2000.
PIONEER SETTLEMENTS.
The first settler in this township, Charles MeLean, was formerly a resident of the State of New York, and emi- grated to the Tittabawassee River country, in Saginaw County, about the year 1826. There he remained until July, 1833, when, having purchased of the government the northwest one-fourth of the northwest one-fourth of section 24,-a tract on the line of the old Saginaw Road, and the site of the present small village of Pine Run,- he soon after erected a strong, though rude, log cabin, be- came a resident during the fall of the same year, and long before he was joined by others than his own family and hired assistants had opened his house to the public as a hostelry and place of entertainment For those who journeyed
over the then widely-known route to Saginaw. A single man, by the name of Sylvester Vibbard, came here with Mr. McLean, and in August, 1833, purchased the west one- half of the southwest one-fourth of section 13,-a traet lying adjoining and directly north of MeLean's purchase, and now owned by Charles L. Cole, Esq. When Mr. Me- Lean first established his tavern, it was the only public-house on the route between F'lint River village and Saginaw. At an early date he built the first framed house in the town- ship. Its site was nearly opposite the present village school-house. In this house was kept the post-office for all the region lying between Flint and Saginaw. The office was established about 1836 or 1837, Charles McLean post- master. Here also was held the first township election, in the spring of 1837.
During the year 1835, ITiram Benjamin, from Pontiac, Josiah C. Winters, and Ilumphrey Mebean, a brother of Charles, became residents of the little settlement sinee known as Pine Run. Mr. Benjamin was a cabinetmaker by trade, and at a period shortly following his settlement here opened a small store or trading-post. The goods were brought from Pontiac at the time of his settlement, and when they were sold out his stock was never replenished. Ile was the first township clerk of Vienna, in 1837, a ter- ritory which then comprised the present townships of Vienna, Thetford, and Montrose. To him is also ascribed the honor of being the sire of the first child born in the new settlement,-a daughter,-which event occurred early in 1836.
In 1836 the settlement was still further increased in numbers by the arrival of George Sparks, Waterman W. Neff, Clark Abbey, George Iluyck, Theodore P. Dean, from Saginaw County, who built the first saw-mill * in the town- ship, in 1838, Reuben J. Warner, and his son, Daniel P. Warner.
Prominent among the settlers of 1837 was Russell G. Hurd. lle, with a family consisting of Nelson, Calista, Eliza, Hiram, George, Franklin, and Sawyer, came from Pike, Wyoming Co. (then Allegany Co.), N. Y., and ar- rived in Vienna in February. Their route led them through Canada, crossing the waters which divide the homes of the free from Victoria's dominions at Port Huron. The stock brought in consisted of two yoke of oxen, two cows, and a team of horses,-the first horses owned in the township. A log house was hastily erected upon the premi- ises now owned by one of the sons, Sawyer Hurd, and occupied before its completion. During the following summer provisions and produce were procured in Pontiac, for which they paid $20 per ton for hay, for wheat $2, po-
* This milt was erected on the site of the present grist-mill in Clio village.
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tatoes $1, and oats 75 ets. per bushel ; for pork 25 ets. per pound. Mr. Nelson Hurd remembers the fact that some one of the family was kept upon the road going to and returning from Thread Mills and Pontiac the greater por- tion of the first six months to obtain and bring in the necessary family supplies.
Mr. Hurd, about the year 18.10, erected a frame build- ing which was occupied by him as a store. He also estab- lished an ashery, whereby the early settlers were enabled to exchange ashes for dry-goods. In 1855, assisted by his sons, he built a saw-mill, which was situated one and one- half miles west of Clio. The following year a grist-mill- the first in the township-was put into operation. This is the mill now located at Pine Run. Mr. Hurd succeeded Mr. Melcan as postmaster, and was in various other capaci- ties prominently identified with the best interests of his township.
The mails at an early day were taken on horseback. The route extended from Flint to Saginaw, and semi- weekly trips were made. Tim Wallen and Nelson Hurd were carly mail-carriers. No bridge spanned Cass River then, and very frequently the carriers found it necessary to swim their horses. After the completion of the plank road, about 1856, Messrs. Boss & Petty ran a daily line of stage-coaches over the route for the carrying of mails and passengers.
Among other settlers of 1837 were William Hotchkiss, from Niagara Co., N. Y., who enjoyed the distinction of being the first supervisor of the township; Isaiah Merri- man, one of the first justices of the peace; Edward May- bee, the first, collector; Christopher Hughes, who now resides in the village of Mount Morris; William Sissins, and Joshua Pattee, the latter from Monroe Co., N. Y. Mr. Pattee settled in East Bloomfield, Oakland Co., in 1820, and remained there till the date of his settlement in this township. His land, situated upon section 35, was pur- chased of the government in December, 1835, being the first tract entered upon that section. He served as justice of the peace for many years. His son, L. W. Pattee, who was born in Vienna in December, 1838, still resides on the homestead.
In 1838, George T. Bingham, Samuel Rone, John R. Whittemore, tavern-keeper at Pine Run, Ormond Booth and Joel, his brother, Marcus Goodrich, Nahum N. Wilson, the surveyor, Lemuel Johnson, John Jackson, Charles Montle, a son-in-law of Charles Mclean, Justin S. W. Porter, and Nicholas Sigsby became residents in the town- ship.
Mr. Rone had been a soldier in the war of 1812, was severely wounded in the battle of Black Rock, and in rec- ognition of his services was early granted a pension. The only United States pensioners residing in the county of Genesce, June 1, 1810, were Reuben Robinson, aged eighty- two years, living with J. N. Robinson, township not stated, and Samuel Rone, of Vienna, aged fifty-two years.
Daniel N. Montagne, a native of Hadley, Mass., settled in Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y., in 1834, and removed from thence to his present premises in this township in the spring of 1839. Ile represented his county in the lower house of the State Legislature in 1855, and has most worthily filled
many other official positions in the gift of an appreciative public.
Capt. Robert L. Hurd, a native of Connecticut, a gallant soldier of the Revolutionary struggle with Great Britain, and the father of Russell G. Hurd, became a resident in 1846. He died Aug. 27, 1856, aged ninety-four years.
The resident tax-payers in 1844,* alphabetically arranged, with the sections upon which they paid taxes, were as follows :
Benjamin, Hiram, 23.
MeLean, Humphrey, 13.
Benson, Henry, 26.
Montle, Charles C., 1, 13.
Bogue, Almond, 22.
Nett, Waterman W., 25, 26.
Bingham, George T., 26.
Pattec, Joshua, 25.
Booth, Ormond, 23.
Phillips, Jacob, 13, 24, 26.
Beebe, Anson, 23.
Porter, Juslin S. W., 26.
Blackmer, Rensselaer, 14.
Sigsby, Nicholas, 35.
Conrad, William C., 4, 14.
Sparks, George, 24, 25.
Colby, Zachariah J., 33, 31.
Travis, Richard (Montrose), 23.
Taylor, John, 24.
Dean, Theodore P., 14, 23. Ensign, S. W. (Montrose), 22.
Farrand, Ira T., 22, 21.
Van Patten, John, 14, 24.
Goodrich, Marcus, 22.
Wright, William, 20, 27.
Hinkley, Harry G., 14, 25, 29.
Wright, John C., 27.
llurd, Russell G., 13, 14, 22, 26.
Wright, Joshon, 20. Willis, Hiram, 21.
Hughes, Christopher, 25.
Woolfitt, Thomas, 36.
Henth, Urial, 23, 27.
Williams, David, I.
Johnson, Lemuel, 22.
Warner, Reuben J., 13.
Jackson, John, 36.
Warner, Daniel P'., 13.
Montague, Daniel N., 36.
Wilcox, George (Montrose), 23.
Metcalf, Joseph W., 33.
Taylor, Richard, 23, 24.
Huyck, George, 26.
Grovener Vinton, one of the early pioneers in the northern part of Genesce County, and a resident of the village of Mount Morris at the present time, came from Avon, Liv- ingston Co., N. Y., in January, 1830, and settled on the Tit- tabawassee, four miles from the present city of Saginaw. Having, in 1835, purchased lands of the government, situ- ated in the present townships of Vienna and Thetford, he removed to the latter township in February of the same year, and immediately began the improvement of his pur- chase. fle was located in the vicinity of what was soon afterwards known as the Pine Run settlement, and found that Charles MeLean and Vibbard were the only ones who had preceded him as settlers. Mr. Vinton was present at the first township election in Vienna, and was elected high- way commissioner and fence-viewer. Upon the erection of Thetford as a separate township, in 1842, he became a citizen of the latter. In 1844 he removed across the road, and again became a resident of Vienna, where he continued until 1875. Since the last-mentioned date the village of Mount Morris has been his place of residence. Mr. Vinton is a remark- ably well-preserved man, physically and mentally. The long years of an active, arduous pioncer life, with all its attendant privations, for a period of nearly a half-century, rest lightly upon a head scarcely yet sprinkled with the frosts of old age. His voice is full and resonant. llc speaks promptly and decisively, and his recollections of events connected with the carly settlement of Genesce County are most vivid and interesting. Surrounded by the comforts and luxuries which a long life of industry, true economy, and sobriety so surely brings, he bids fair to
# The township then included Vienna and Montrose.
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remain conspicuously as one of the loved and respected landmarks of the past for many years to come.
Seth N. Beden, one of Michigan's pioneers,-although a resident of this township only since 1866, -- came, with his father's family, from Rose, Wayne Co., N. Y., and settled in Hadley, Lapeer Co., Mich., in 1836. His grandfather, William Beden, a native of Massachusetts, joined the Continental army immediately after the battle of Lexing- ton, and remained in the service until the close of the war. Smithfield Beden, son of William, was the first white child born in Smithfield,-now the town of Fairfield, Vt., -in 1789, and to the newly-born Vermonter was granted forty acres of land by a unanimous vote of the people. During the war of 1812, the veteran of the Revolution, with his son Smithfield, served with credit with the New York State forces. Smithfield, with a wife and family of seven children, settled, as before stated, in Lapeer County, in 1836. Seth, the sixth child and third son of Smithfick, served with the 4th Michigan Cavalry* during the war of the Rebellion. During the latter part of the war he was detailed on special service as topographical engineer on the staff of Gen. Wilson, the cavalry leader.
LAND ENTRIES.
The first entry for lands in this township occurred in June, 1830, when David A. Rhodes, from Steuben t'o., N. Y., purchased the cast half of the southeast quarter of seetion 14. The next tracts were entered by Charles Me- Lean and Sylvester Vibbard, both from Saginaw Co., Mich. Mr. Mclean purchased the northwest quarter of the north- west quarter of section 2.1 in July, 1833, while Vibbard bought the west half of the southwest quarter of section 13 in August of the same year.
Ilarry G. Hinckley, also from Saginaw County, entered the first land upon section 25 in October, 1834.
During the year 1835, Grovener Vinton, Humphrey Me- Lean, Joshua Pattec, and others, became purchasers from the general government.
The following is a transcript from the land-office records, so far as showing the names of those who purchased from the government at the rate of $1.25 per acre. The figures denoting years show the date of the first purchase upon each section :
1836, section 1 : Whitney and Crawford, Daniel R. Prin- dle, William Ilotchkiss, David Adams, Charles Bunn, Charles Grunewold, Francis Jacobs, John Cook.
1836, section 2: Richard E. Dibble, John Simpson, Hugh Birckhead, John Diamond.
1835, section 3: Andrew Mack, Wmn. Hotchkiss, David G. Ilanmer, Richard E. Dibble.
1836, section 4: Herman Camp, Orrin Safford, Benja- min Pearson, HI. M. Henderson.
1836, section 5 : Jabez W. Throop, Hugh Birck head, William Newton, Hiram Boom.
1836, section 6: Edward Otley, Jabez W. Throop, Charles Il. and Wm. T. Carroll, Waterman W. Neff, Hiram Boom.
1836, section 7 : Edward Otley, George II. Howe, Rich-
ard B. Bailey, Jacob Duell, Miles Gillett, Francis Wiggins, Giles Bishop.
1836, section 8: Joseph Lawrence, Adrian Abbott, George W. Howe, I. I. Charrand & Co., F. Buell, Hugh Birckhead.
1846, section 9 : John MeNeil, Isaac Waterbury, Schuy- ler A. Stowell, Alexander Dibble.
1835, section 10 : Sally P. Bogue, Russell Bishop, Iler- man Camp, Henry M. Henderson, Isaac Waterbury,
1836, section 11 : A. D. Fraser, Alexander McArthur, C. Ilulburt, James Denison, A. Ten Eyck, Henry A. Walker, Herman Camp, Hugh Birckhead.
1836, section 12: Herman Camp, Hugh Birekhead, Charles J. Stedman, George Sparks, Joseph D. Morehouse.
1833, section 13 : Sylvester Vibbard, Russell G. Ilurd, Clark Abbey, Lemuel Beckwith, Nelson Hurd, William W. Whitney, Eber Crawford, Reuben J. Warner, Parley Ewell, George Sparks.
1830, section 14: David A. Rhodes, Isaiah Merriman, Miles Dorman, Harry G. Hinckley, Lewis Williams, George W. Williams, Sewell Wesson, Susan Baxter, Royal II. Waller.
1836, section 15 : Daniel Goodwin, Edwin Rose, Her- man Camp, Hugh Birckhead.
1836, section 17: Joshua Howard, Sally Hunter, Jason Swift, John II. Norton, John W. P'ahner, Peter Vedder, John K. Kuceland, David Anderson.
1837, section 18: Peter Sharp, Amelia Anderson, John Welch, William Aylward, Amos G. Griffin, David Ander- son, Nelson Hurd, John Welch.
1836, seetion 19: Thomas L. L. Brent, Charles and Al- bert Draper, John II. Parmelee, Nahum N. Wilson, Win. Aylward.
1836, section 20 : Thomas L. L. Brent, Levinus Mun- son, Jacob Huyck, Oscar F. North, John Curran, George and Henry Sparks.
1836, seetion 21 : Thomas L. L. Brent, Patrick Gribben, Consider Warner.
1836, section 22: Edwin Rose, Thomas L. L. Brent.
1835, section 23: Humphrey Mclean, Theo. P. Dean, Charles MeLean, Daniel Goodwin, Thomas L. L. Brent.
1833, section 24 : Charles MeLean, Humphrey Me Lean, Miles Dorman, Charles D. Hinckley, Gardner D. Williams, . Benjamin Clapp, William Hotchkiss.
1834, section 25: Harry G. Hinckley, Benjamin Pear- son, Timothy G. Walling, Benjamin G. Parker, Clark Abbey, William Lund.
1836, section 26 : Clark Abbey, Joseph MeFarlen, John S. Boss, Russell G. Hurd, Edward Maybee, C. J. Woodson, and R. Cooper.
1836, section 27: James Stage, Robert Duff, Luther Pierce, Daniel James, Henry James.
1836, section 28: Thomas L. L. Brent, Johnston B. Clark, John Cooper, Allen Cooper, Wm. H. Parker.
1836, section 29 : Thomas L. L. Brent.
1836, section 30: Thomas L. L. Brent, Alfred Jones.
1836, section 31: David Pifford, Bouck, tebherd, and Dietz, Enoch Sweet, Peter Vedder.
1836, section 32 : Thomas L. L. Brent, David Pifford, David E. Evans.
# A detachment of this regiment captured Jeff Davis in petticoats.
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1836, seetion 33: Thomas L. L. Brent, Samuel Rose, Thomas Utter, David Pifford, II. & V. R. Hawkins.
1836, section 34: Ilealey & Kircheval, James Stage, Luther Pierce, David E. Evans.
1835, section 35: Joshua Pattec, John and Thomas Kennedy, David Pifford, Lyman and Alanson Pritchard.
1835, section 36 : Grovener Vinton, Benjamin Pearson, William Sissins, Alanson Dickinson, James llosmer.
CIVIL HISTORY.
The State Legislature, by an act approved March 11,. 1837, enacted as follows :
" All that portion of the county of Genesee designated in the United States survey as township 9, north of ranges 5, 6, and 7 cast, be, and the same is hereby, set off and or- ganized into a separate township, by the name of Vienna ; and the first township-meeting therein shall be held at the house of Charles McLean in said township."
Thetford was set off in 1842, and Montrose, as Pewon- agowink, in 1846.
At the first election Thomas J. Drake, a lawyer from the village of Flint River, assisted the electors with his pres- enee and advice. Until the election of Gen. Harrison, in 1840, Vienna was usually counted upon as a Democratic stronghold. Its vote was thrown for the hero of Tippe- canoe, however, and from that time until the disbandment of the Whig organization, neither party was certain of a majority until the votes were counted. Since the Republi- eans rose to power, its vote has been east, usually, for the latter party.
FIRST TOWNSHIP-ELECTION.
At a meeting of the voters of the township of Vienna, held at the house of Charles MeLean, on the first Monday in April, 1837, convened for the purpose of electing town- ship officers, " It being the first meeting held in said township, and there being no persons iu said township au- thorized by law to act as inspectors of election, the voters present, by viva voce, clected William Hotchkiss, Moderator, ITiram Benjamin, Grovener Vinton, Josiah C. Winters, In- spectors of Election, and Thomas J. Drake, Clerk." As a result of this meeting, the following-named persons were declared elected to the offices set opposite their respective names, viz. : William Hotchkiss, Supervisor ; Hiram Ben- jamin, Town Clerk ; Clark Abbey, Isaac Van Tuyl, George Sparks, Assessors ; Edward Maybec, Collector; Charles McLean, Theodore P. Dean, Directors of the Poor; Grove- ner Vinton, IFiram Benjamin, Waterman W. Neff, High- way Commissioners ; Edward Maybee, Charles MeLean, Constables ; Russell G. Hurd, William Hotchkiss, I. Mer- riman, School Inspectors; Russell G. Hurd, Hiram Ben- jamin, George Sparks, Isaiah Merriman, Justices of the Peace; Grovener Vinton, Iliram Benjamin, Russell G. IIurd, Fence-Viewers ; Charles McLean, Pound-Master; Russell G. Hurd, Overseer of Highways.
" Resolved, That thirty dollars be raised for the support of the
At the gubernatorial election in 1839, William Wood- bridge received 15 votes, and Elon Farnsworth 18 votes.
In 1860, Austin Blair received 159 votes, and John S. Barry 80 votes.
The following is a list of the township officers from 1838 to 1879, inclusive :
1838 .- Russell G. Hurd, Supervisor; Corydon E Fay, Town Clerk ; George Sparks, Isaiah Merriman, Joshua Pattee, Assessors; Edward Maybee, Collector; Charles McLean, Clark Abbey, Overseers of the Poor; Iliram Benjamin, Grovener Vinton, Humphrey McLean, Highway Commissioners ; Joshua Pattee, Justice of the Peace ; Isaiah Merriman, Nahum N. Wilson, Russell G. IIurd, Inspectors of Common Schools; Edward Maybee, Hum- phrey Mclean, Waterman W. Neff, Constables ; Charles McLean, Grovener Vinton, Clark Abbey, Fence- Viewers.
1839 .- Nahum N. Wilson, Supervisor; Russell G. Hurd, Treasurer; Corydon E. Fay, Clerk ; Joshua Pattee, George Sparks, J. R. Whittemore, Assessors ; Humphrey MeLean, Hiram Benjamin, Grovener Vinton, Highway Commis- sioners ; Joel A. Booth, Collector ; Russell G. Hurd, Na- hum N. Wilson, John R. Whittemore, School Inspectors ; Charles McLean, George J. Bingham, Directors of the Poor ; James Goodrich, Joel A. Booth, Constables.
1840 .- Nahum N. Wilson, Supervisor and Treasurer ; Corydon E. Fay, Clerk ; Reuben J. Warner, Justice of the Peace ; Benoni Clapp, John R. Whittemore, Leonard Beck with, Assessors ; Albert Castle, Grovener Vinton, George T. Bingham, Highway Commissioners ; Humphrey McLean, Waterman W. Neff, Nelson S. Van Tuyl, Con- stables ; Waterman W. Neff, Collector ; George T. Bing- ham, Nahum N. Wilson, John R. Whittemore, School In- spectors ; Charles McLean, Joshua Pattec, Poor-Masters, Charles MeLean, Waterman W. Neff, Thomas Aplin, Grovener Vinton, Ezra Martin, Overseers of Highways.
1841 .- George Sparks, Supervisor and Treasurer ; Be- noni Clapp, Russell G. Hurd, Hiram Benjamin, Assessors ; D. Lyons, Joshua Pattee, Daniel N. Montague, Highway Commissioners ; Daniel N. Montague, Russell G. Hurd, Smith W. Porter, School Inspectors ; Isaac Van Tuyl, Justice of the Peace; Corydon E. Fay, Clerk ; W. W. Boughton, Constable and Collector; Samuel Rone, Iliram Benjamin, Poor-Masters; Nelson S. Van Tuyl, O. Booth, llumphrey McLean, Constables.
1842 .- Whole number of votes cast, 31. Nahum N. Wilson, Supervisor ; George Sparks, Treasurer ; George T. Bingham, Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Joshua Pattee, Justices of the Peace; Nahum N. Wilson, Joel A. Booth, David Lyons, Joshua Pattee, Assistant Assessors ; Reuben J. Warner, Justin S. Porter, David Lyons, Highway Com- missioners ; Dan. N. Montague, N. N. Wilson, Justin S. Por- ter, School Inspectors ; Joshua Pattee, George Sparks, Poor- Masters ; Ilumphrey McLean, George Huyek, Constables.
1843 .- Whole number of votes cast, 32. Daniel N. Montague, Supervisor ; William Wright, Treasurer; Theo- dore P'. Dean, Town Clerk ; John C. Wright, Russell G. Ilurd, Justices of the Peace ; Harry G. Ilinckley, J. S. Porter, Laben Spencer, Highway Commissioners ; Daniel N. Moutagne, Russell G. Ilurd, School Inspectors; George T. Bingham, Hiram Benjamin, Assessors ; George Huyck, Samuel Rone, Poor-Masters ; Humphrey McLean, Nelson S. Hurd, Constables.
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