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VIENNA TOWNSIIIP.
1844 .- Whole number of votes cast, 42. John Taylor, Supervisor, unanimous vote; George T. Bingham, Town Clerk ; George Sparks, Justice of the Peace; William Wright, Treasurer; Hiram Benjamin, Rensselaer Black- mer, Joshua Pattee, Assessors ; Joseph W. Metcalf, Reuben J. Warner, George W. Huyck, Highway Commissioners; Nelson S. Hurd, Justice ; S. W. Porter, Munson A. Stan- ton, Constables; Russell G. Hurd, Harry G. Hinckley, School Inspectors ; Daniel N. Montague, Theo. P. Dean, Poor-Masters.
1845 .- Whole number of votes cast, 45. Daniel N. Montague, Supervisor ; William Wright, Treasurer; George 'F. Bingham, Town Clerk ; John Taylor, Justice of the Peace ; Joshua Pattec, Leonard Beckwith, Assessors; Humphrey McLean, John Van Patten, Christopher Hughes, Highway Commissioners; Daniel N. Montague, John Phil- lips, School Inspectors ; Anson II. Beebe, Humphrey Me- Lean, Poor- Masters; Munson A. Stanton, Daniel P. War- ner, Hamilton Pattce, Constables.
1846 .- Whole number of votes cast, 68. Daniel N. Montague, Supervisor ; John Taylor, Treasurer; George T. Bingham, Town Clerk; Joshua Pattee, Justice of the Peace ; Ezra B. Sparks, School Inspector ; Samuel Hub- bard, Harry G. Ilinekley, Assessors ; Grovener Vinton, Hiram Benjamin, Humphrey McLean, Highway Commis- sioners; Reuben J. Warner, Richard Taylor, Poor-Masters ; Lorenzo B. Curtis, Jeremiah Ilunter, Munson A. Stanton, Hamilton Pattee, Constables.
1847 .- Whole number of votes cast, 57. Harry G. Hinckley, Supervisor, unanimously ; William Bodine, Town Clerk ; Isaac Van Tuyl, Treasurer ; Truman Herrick, Jus- tice of the Peace; John Van Patten, William Franklin, Uriah IIcath, Highway Commissioners ; George T. Bing- ham, School Inspector; Hamilton Pattee, Samuel Aplin, Justin S. Porter, William Whitehouse, Constables; Grove- nor Vinton, Poor-Master ; Wm. C. Conrad, 1, Daniel N. Montague, 2, Henry Plew, 3, Wm. II. Parker, 4, Overseers of Ilighways.
1848 .- Whole number of votes thrown, 72. Isaac Van Tuyl, Supervisor; George T. Bingham, Town Clerk ; Harry G. Ilinckley, Treasurer; George Sparks, Justice of the Peace; Ezra B. Sparks, School Inspector; Justin S. W. Porter, Commissioner of' Highways ; Daniel N. Montague, Joshua l'attee, Overseers of Poor; Munson N. Stanton, William Whitehouse, Hamilton Pattee, Samuel Aplin, Constables.
1849 .- Whole number of votes thrown, 62. Daniel A. Montagne, Supervisor ; William Bodine, Town Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer; Alanson Dickinson, Isaac Van Tuyl, Justices of the Peace ; John I. Phillips, Russell G. Ilurd, School Inspectors; Grovener Vinton, Ilighway Commissioner ; Rensselaer Blackmer, Russell G. Hurd, Poor-Masters; Samuel Aplin, Munson A. Stanton, Ilawil- ton Pattec, Iliram Benjamin, Constables.
1850 .- Whole number of votes given, 56. Daniel N. Montague, Supervisor ; John I. Phillips, Town Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer ; Benjamin Paine, John Taylor, William Bodine, Justices of the Peace ; Humphrey Me Lean, Ilighway Commissioner ; Ira T. Farrand, School Inspector; Rensselaer Blackmer, Harry G. Hinckley, Poor- Masters;
Samuel Aplin, Hiram Hurd, Williamu Whitehouse, Oscar Bradley, Constables.
1851 .- Whole number of votes given. 88. Daniel N. Montague, Supervisor; John I. Phillips, Town Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer ; Reuben M. Ford, Justice of the Peace; George W. Huyck, Poor-Master; George T. Bingham, School Inspector ; Samuel Aplin, Hiram Hurd, William C. Conrad, William Blackmer, Constables.
1852 .- Whole number of votes given, 99. William Bo- dine, Supervisor ; John I. Phillips, Town Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer ; George Sparks, Samuel C. Munson, Justices of the Peace; Ezra B. Sparks, School Inspector ; John Taylor, W. W. Neff, Commissioners of Highways; Rensselaer Blackmer, Grovenor Vinton, Poor-Masters ; Samuel Aplin, Isaac Huyck, Theodore Abbey, Oscar Bo- dine, Constables.
1853 .- Whole number of votes polled, 101. William Bodine, Supervisor ; Ezra B. Sparks, Town Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer ; Russell G. Hurd, Albert F. Young, Justices of the Peace ; George T. Bingham, School In- spector ; Uriah Heath, Oscar Bradley, Highway Commis- sioners ; George IFart, R. Blackmer, Poor-Masters ; Theo- dore B. Abbey, Isaac Huyck, William Whitehouse, Hiram IIurd, Constables.
1854 .- Whole number of votes polled, 127. Albert F. Young, Supervisor; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer; Oscar Bradley, Justice of the Peace; Ezra B. Sparks, Town Clerk ; David R. Hammontree, Ilighway Commissioner ; John I. Phillips, School Inspector ; Jacob Phillips, John Jackson, Poor-Masters; William Whitehouse, Jacob Phil- lips, Mortimer Bodine, William Gibson, Constables.
1855 .- Whole number of votes polled, 154. Daniel N. Montagne, Supervisor ; Ezra B. Sparks, Town Clerk ; Jus- tin S. Porter, Treasurer ; James Bradley, George T. Bing- ham, School Inspectors ; Grovenor Vinton, Highway Com- missioner ; Jacob Phillips, John Jackson, Poor-Masters ; Richard Rone, David Iluyck, Jacob Phillips, Joshua Coon, Constables.
1856 .- Whole number of votes cast, 161. George Sparks, Supervisor ; Ezra B. Sparks, Township Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer ; Austin Griffes, Justice of the Peace ; Wm. Whitehouse, Uriah Ileath, Highway Commis- sioners ; Austin Griffes, James A. Sheldon, Poor-Masters ; David S. Griffes, School Inspector ; Justin S. Porter, Rich- ard Rone, Marlin R. Reed, Jacob Phillips, Jr., Constables.
1857 .- Whole number of votes polled, 171. George Sparks, Supervisor ; George S. Warren, Town Clerk ; Jus- tin S. Porter, Treasurer ; Nathan S. Reed, Justice of the Peace; David R. Hammontree, Highway Commissioner ; Ezra B. Sparks, School Inspector ; Russell G. IIurd, Oscar Bradley, Poor-Masters ; William Canfield, Aram Knapp, Justin S. Porter, Abram Reed, Constables.
1858 .- Whole number of votes polled, 216. Charles L. Cole, Supervisor ; Samuel Lathrop, Township Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer; John Taylor, Ira S. Begole, Justices of the Peace; Nelson F. Ganoung, Highway Commissioner ; Daniel N. Montague and Alanson Dickin- son, Directors of the Poor; Daniel N. Montague, Myron G. Miller, Assessors ; William Canfield, Abram Reed, John Ballard, Justin S. Porter, Constables.
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1859 .- Whole number of votes polled, 195. Charles L. Cole, Supervisor : Benjamin F. Leland, Town Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer; George R. Gould, Lovett W. Stanton, Sehool Inspectors; E. R. Frost, Alanson Dick- inson, Poor-Masters; Daniel J. Frazer, Milton B. Stage, Highway Commissioners ; George Sparks, George R. Gould, Justices of the Peace; Stephen II. Stanton, Justin S. Porter, Richard Rone, John Ballard, Constables.
1860 .- Whole number of votes cast, 187. James Brad- ley, Supervisor ; Ezra B. Sparks, Township Clerk ; Justin S. Porter, Treasurer ; George Hart, Justiec of the Peaec ; William Whitehouse, Highway Commissioner ; George R. Gould, School Inspector ; Justin S. Porter, William Can- field, Stephen II. Stanton, Jacob Phillips, Constables.
1861 .- Whole number of votes polled, 171. Anson Jackson, Supervisor; William M. Canfield, Treasurer ; Ezra B. Sparks, Township Clerk ; Charles L. Cole, Lovett W. Stanton, Andrew J. Sumner, Justices of the Peaec ; Da- rius Diamond, Highway Commissioner; Wm. J. Burnett, Chester M. Burk, Sebool Inspectors ; Stephen E. Webster, Wm. M. Canfield, Ira Delling, Orson J. Knapp, Constables.
1862 .- Whole number of votes polled, 200. Ezra B. Sparks, Supervisor; Garrett Post, Township Clerk ; Wm. M. Canfield, Treasurer; John Jacobs, School Inspector ; Benjamin F. Tinney, Highway Commissioner; John Van Patten, Justice of the Peace; Caleb W. Stearns, George Fairman, Orson J. Knapp, Darius Diamond, Constables.
1863 .- Whole number of votes polled, 198. Fletcher Linsley, Supervisor; John Jacobs, Clerk ; William M. Can- field, Treasurer ; Isaac Beeman, David S. Halsted, School Inspectors ; Daniel J. Frazer, Edmund S. Johnson, High- way Commissioners ; William Wadsworth, Justice of the Peace; Justus Beebe, Sylvester B. Bartholomew, John Sloan, Henry A. Tibbetts, Constables.
1864 .- Whole number of votes polled, 181. Fletcher Linsley, Supervisor ; John A. Jackson, Clerk ; William M. Canfield, Treasurer ; Philander B. Taylor, School Inspector ; Richard Rone, Highway Commissioner; George Hart, Phineas Upham, Justices of the Peace; Wm. H. Gillett, John Sloan, Duane Reed, Philip Devoc, Constables.
1865 .- Whole number of votes polled, 124. George Ilart, Supervisor ; John A. Jackson, Township Clerk ; Sawyer Hurd, Treasurer ; David S. Halsted, School In- spector ; Sylvester B. Bartholomew, Robert Johnson, IFigh- way Commissioners ; Charles L. Cole, James A. Sheldon, Justices of the Peace ; Milton S. Benjamin, William M. Canfield, John Sloan, Andrew J. Sumner, Constables.
1866 .- Whole number of votes polled, 236. Charles L. Cole, Supervisor; Horaee G. Webster, Township Clerk ; David R. Hammontrec, Treasurer ; Hiram II. Mccullough, School Inspector; John Wallace, Justice of the Peace ; Darius Diamond, Highway Commissioner ; Chester Wads- worth, Daniel P. Day, James Sissins, Joseph Heath, Con- stables.
1867 .- Whole number of votes polled, 273. Charles L. Cole, Supervisor ; Daniel E. Salisbury, Township Clerk ; David R. Hammontree, Treasurer ; David Franklin, High- way Commissioner; James A. Sheldon, Justice of the Peace ; David S. Halsted, School Inspetor ; Elijah Heath, John Sloan, Samuel Rone, IFiram D. Cole, Constables.
1868 .- Whole number of votes polled, 333. Joseph Van Buskirk,* Supervisor ; Richard II. Halsted, Township Clerk ; David R. Ifammontree, Treasurer ; Philander P. Taylor, Richard HI. Halsted, School Inspectors ; Ebenezer IIill, Justice of the Peace; David P. Waldo, Highway Commissioner ; Darius Diamond, George Ladue, John Ben- jamin, Charles Parmlee, Constables.
1869 .- Whole number of votes polled, 270. Ezra B. Sparks, Supervisor; Hiram H. Mccullough, Township Clerk ; Isaac W. Andrews, Treasurer ; Chas. L. Cole, Jus- tiec of the Peace ; Richard II. Halsted, School Inspector ; Richard Rone, Highway Commissioner; Elijah Heath, Philip Devoe, Garrett Post, Charles Palmer, Constables.
1870 .- Whole number of votes polled, 326. Ezra B. Sparks, Supervisor ; William Reardon, Township Clerk ; Isaac W. Andrews, Treasurer ; John Wallace, David S. Halsted, Justices of the Peace ; Mark D. Seeley, School Inspector; Richard Rone, Highway Commissioner ; Elijah Heath, Herrick C. Lefevre, Garrett Post, John Sloan, Con- stables.
1871 .- Whole number of votes polled, 363. Ezra B. Sparks, Supervisor ; Charles B. Mann, Township Clerk ; George L. Holmes, Treasurer ; James A. Sheldon, Mark D. Seeley, Justices of the Peace ; Richard II. Halsted, School Inspector ; Alanson L. Foster, Highway Commis- sioner; Seth N. Beden, Drain Commissioner ; Amos Webster, G. N. Elwood, George Brown, Elijah Heath, Constables.
1872 .- Whole number of votes polled, 365. Ezra B. Sparks, Supervisor ; George L. Holmes, Treasurer ; Thomas Reardou, Township Clerk ; James L. Curry, John White, Justices of the Peace; Mark D. Seeley, School Inspector ; Darius Diamond, Robert Johnson, Highway Commis- sioners ; Garrett Post, Julius C. Stocking, Philip Devoc, George L. Holmes, Constables.
1873 .- Whole number of votes polled, 315. Philo M. Begole, Supervisor; Darius Diamond, Treasurer ; John K. Frost, Township Clerk ; Charles L. Cole, Justice of the Peace ; George Aplin, School Inspector ; George Palethorp, Highway Commissioner ; Milton B. Stage, Drain Commis- sioner ; Amos U. Webster, Garrett Post, George Berridge, Joseph Hempsted, Constables.
1874 .- Whole number of votes polled, 267. Philo M. Begole, Supervisor ; Darius Diamond, Treasurer ; S. Jerome Oliver, Township Clerk ; David S. Halsted, Justice of the Peace ; John M. Sanborn, School Inspector; Catlin W. Munsell, Highway Commissioner ; Robert Johnson, Drain Commissioner ; Jacob A. Springer, John White, Sidney W. Smith, Garrett Post, Constables.
1875 .- Whole number of votes polled, 328. Ezra B. Sparks, Supervisor ; Darius Diamond, Harold F. Congle- ton, Clerks ; John K. Frost, Justice of the Peace ; Sher- burne Gunn, School Inspector; Archibald D. Metz, Super- intendent of Schools; George Palethorp, Highway Com- missioner ; Robert Johnson, Drain Commissioner ; Joseph Wilson, Sidney W. Smith, Hiram D. Cole, Jacob A. Springer, Constables.
1876 .- Whole number of votes polled, 375. Ezra B.
# Resignel Dec. 17, 1868. Charles L. Cole appointed to fill vacancy.
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VIENNA TOWNSHIP.
Sparks, Supervisor ; Darius Diamond, Treasurer ; Charles Berridge, Township Clerk ; James L. Curry, George Hart, Justices of the Peace ; John K. Frost, School Inspector ; Archibald D. Metz, Superintendent of Schools; William S. Palethorp, Highway Commissioner; David Franklin, Drain Commissioner ; William H. Baker, Jacob A. Springer, Crocker Williams, James Inkster, Constables.
1877 .- Whole number of votes polled, 429. Ezra B. Sparks, Supervisor; Henry Herring, Treasurer ; Charles Berridge, Township Clerk; Charles L. Cole, Justice of the Peace ; Sherburne Guun, School Inspector ; Archibald D. Metz, Superintendent of Schools; James Inkster, High- way Commissioner ; Sidney W. Smith, Crocker Williams, Charles Woolson, Jacob A. Springer, Constables.
1878 .- Whole number of votes polled, 422. William 11. Davis, Supervisor ; Henry Herring, Treasurer ; Charles Berridge, Township Clerk ; Benjamin Paine, Justice of the Peace ; Sherburne Gunn, School Inspector; Archibald D. Metz; School Superintendent ; Howard M. Rice, Highway Commissioner ; Benjamin W. Tinney, Drain Commissioner ; Jacob A. Springer, Charles Woolson, Earl Ware, Crocker II. Williams, Constables.
1879 .- Whole number of votes polled, 474. William II. Davis, Supervisor ; Harold F. Congleton, Treasurer ; Charles Berridge, Township Clerk ; George Hart, Justice of the Peace ; John M. Sanborn, School Superintendent ; Sherburne Gunn, School Inspector; William Wadsworth, Highway Commissioner; Emmett O. Knapp, Charles Wool- son, Earl Ware, Jacob A. Springer, Constables.
VILLAGES.
The villages of Vienna are Clio, Pine Run, and Far- randville.
CLIO,
the principal commercial centre, is situated upon the small stream known as Pine Run, and one mile east of the geo- graphical centre of the township. It is also a station of some importance on the line of the Flint and Père Mar- quette Railway, and contains two churches,-Congrega- tional and Protestant Methodist,-one hotel, five stores of general merchandise, two hardware-stores, three drug-and- grocery stores, two grocery-stores, one furniture-store, one liquor-store, a graded school, two grist-mills, one grain-ele- vator, one warehouse, a meat-market, saloons and restau- rants, several millinery-, dressmaking-, tailoring-, harness-, blacksmith-, wagon-, watch-repairing., boot- and shoe-shops, and about 450 people.
The medical profession is represented by Drs. Samuel Lathrop, W. Il. Russell, and L. L. Fuller; the legal by Messrs. J. 4. Richards, and R. Jones. Capt. James L. Curry, postmaster ; C. C. Rice, express-agent ; JJohn Cham- bers, station-agent.
Theodore P. Dean began the first improvement upon the village site in 1837 or 1838, when he erected his saw-mill. From that time until the building and completion of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway, in 1861, its history was uneventful. Pine forests occupied a portion of its site, and hundreds of acres of the same valuable timber were standing in its immediate vicinity. But the stupid cu-
pidity which actuated one or two men in or near the old village of Pine Run, during the building of the railway, was Clio's opportunity, and this new avenue of commerce, which would have more fully developed and built up a neat little village already an important trading and manufactur- ing point, was diverted from its proposed route, Pine Run was given the go-by, and the station of Clio established in its stead.
The prosperity of Clio was then assured. A village was platted, stores and manufacturing establishments sprang into existence, lumbering became an important in- terest, and the new village rapidly increased in numbers.
In 1873 steps were taken to obtain a village charter. This was accomplished by an act approved March 13, 1873. The act of incorporation, together with the names of village officers from 1873 to 1879, inclusive, are herewith ap- pended.
By Senate Bill No. 231, dated at Lansing, Mich., March 13, 1873, the people of the State of Michigan, represented in Senate and House of Representatives, enacted as follows : "SEC. 1. That all that tract of country situated in the township of Vienna, in the county of Genesce, in the State of Michigan, designated and described as the north- west quarter of the northwest quarter of section 23, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 14, and the cast half of the southeast quarter of section 15, and that part of the west half of the southeast quarter of section 15 lying south of Pine River Creek, and the north half of the northeast quarter of section 22, in town- ship 9 north, of range No. 6 cast, be, and the same is hereby, constituted a town corporate, under the name of Clio."
It was further declared that the inhabitants within the boundaries aforesaid be a corporation, by the corporate name of " The Village of Clio," and that the first meeting for the election of officers be held at the Clio Hotel, on the second Monday in April, 1873. The plat as described aforesaid has since been enlarged by Curry's and Sumner's additions, and now contains about 480 square acres.
At the first charter election for the election of village officers, held on the 28th day of April, 1873, at the Clio House in said village, 74 votes were given to the candidates for the office of president, and the following officers de- clared elected : David S. Halsted, President ; Isaac K. Kel- sey, George L. Holmes, Jerome B. Garland, Trustees ; Charles B. Mann, Clerk ; William W. Blackney, Assessor ; Isaac M. Beeman, Treasurer ; Sidney W. Smith, Marshal.
1874 .- Votes cast, 61. James L. Curry, President ; George L. Holmes, Daniel Reid, Trustees ; Jerome Oliver, Clerk ; Isaac M. Beeman, Treasurer ; George N. Elwood, Assessor ; Sidney W. Smith, Marshal.
1875 .- Votes polled, 51. Julius F. HI. Miller, Presi- dent ; Isaac M. Beeman, Trustee; Henry Herring, Clerk ; George B. Congleton, Treasurer ; George N. Elwood, As- sessor ; Sidney W. Smith, Marshal.
1876 .- Whole number of votes polled, 75. John White, President ; Daniel Reid, Henry Herring, Trustees ; Harold F. Congleton, Clerk ; George B. Congleton, Treasurer ; George N. Elwood, Assessor ; William II. Baker, Marshal.
1878,-Whole number of votes cast, 97. David S. Hal- sted, President ; Harold F. Congleton, Clerk ; George B.
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Congleton, Treasurer ; Jerome B. Garland, Richard II. ITal- sted, Trustees ; Isaac K. Kelsey, Assessor; Roland Frank- lin, Marshal.
1878 .- Whole number of votes polled, 94. Ausel C. Fuller, President ; Harokl F. Congleton, Clerk ; George B. Congleton, Treasurer; Henry Herring, Isaac K. Kelsey, Julius F. II. Miller, Trustees ; Charles B. Mann, Assessor ; Crocker Williams, Marshal.
1879 .- Whole number of votes polled, 82. Alden M. Varney, President ; Archibald D. Metz, Clerk; George B. Congleton, Treasurer ; Charles Berridge, Charles L. Can- field, Solomon J. Oliver, Trustees; Charles B. Mann, As- sessor ; William H. Ilerrington, Marshal.
PINE RUN.
The village of Pine Run, the site of the first settlement in the township, is situated upon the old Saginaw road, and one mile due east from the village of Clio. It contains the church edifices of the Congregational and Christian religious societies, two iron-foundries, one grist-mill, two hotels, two stores of general merchandise, one drug-store, one grocery- store, a post-office, and a population of about two hundred inhabitants. As previously mentioned, Charles McLean Hiram Benjamin, Humphrey MeLean, Sylvester Vibbard, Isaiah Merriman, Theodore P. Dean, and John R. Whitte- more were among the earliest settlers upon its site and in the immediate vicinity. Here was established the first post- office on the route between Flint and Saginaw, and from the date of the county organization until the commence- ment of Clio's history as a village, here was centred an important trade which extended into the townships of Montrose, Thetford, Mount Morris, and Genesee. Eph- raim K. Frost, a native of New Hampshire, came from Athol, Mass., and settled here in 1855. He has since been engaged in the boot and shoe trade and general merchan- dising. The merchants in business here at the time of his arrival were Ezra B. Sparks, George Warren, and the brothers Oscar and James Bradley. Dr. Samuel Lathrop was the physician,-the first resident physician in the township. Garrett Post was the blacksmith, while Aram Knapp and A. F. Young presided over their respective places of entertainment for man and beast. The Congre- gational church edifice was then in course of construction by William Sheldon, and the Genesee and Saginaw plank road had just been completed. George C. Eceleston, a native of Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y., came in as the first shoemaker the same year,-1855. Abram Reid's steam shingle-mill was also in operation.
William Tinker and son came from Ashtabula Co., Ohio, in December, 1865, and soon after established the present foundry and machine-shop. Their work consists in manu- facturing and repairing plows and other agricultural instru- ments. Previous to 1871 their attention was mainly devoted to the manufacture and repair of stationary engines.
Peter Smart, who located in Pine Run in 1866 and fol- lowed the occupation of blacksmithing, erected a small iron-foundry in 1875, and began the manufacture of east- iron plows, points, etc., and also does a general repairing in iron-work. A steam grist-mill was erected by Duane Read in 1870.
FARRANDVILLE.
The small village of Farrandville, which forms the northern apex of the triangle made by roads connecting it with Clio and Pine Run, is sitnated about one mile distant from the villages just mentioned. It contains the church edifice of the Free Methodists, and about fifteen dwellings. It was platted and receives its name from Ira T. Farrand, an early settler in its vicinity.
SCHOOLS.
The first board of school inspectors, composed of Messrs. Russell G. Hurd, Isaiah Merriman, and William Hotehkiss, met at the house of Charles Mclean, May 10, 1837, and resolved as follows : " That the town should be divided into two school districts [the town then comprised the present towns of Montrose, Vienna, and Thetford], and all that part of the said town of Vienna lying north of sections 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30, in surveyed township 9 north, and ranges No. 5, 6, and 7 cast, shall constitute and be de- nominated school district No. 1, and all that part remaining of said town, to wit, sections 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36, in said township 9, and ranges 5, 6, and 7 east, shall form a school district, to be designated No. 2."
A school-meeting was held in the house of Charles McLean on the 19th of the same month, when Russell G. IFurd was chosen Moderator; George Sparks, Assessor ; and Iliram Benjamin, Director of Schools.
On the 13th day of November, of the same year (1837), a meeting was held in the school-house* in district No. 1, when it was voted to "raise $500 for the purpose of build- ing a school-house and locating a site; to raise $5 for a library-case, and $10 for the purchase of books for said district ; also to raise $20 for repairing the school-house, and for fuel the ensuing winter, and the additional amount of $60 for the use of schools in said district the current year."
In December, 1838, the boundaries of the school districts were changed as follows : "Resolved, That hereafter school district No. 1, in said township, shall contain the following territory, to wit, sections 11, 12, 13, 14, east half of 15, east half of 22, and the whole of 23, 24, and north half of northwest quarter of 26, in township 9 north, of range 6 east, also the west half of section 9, west half of section 18, west half of 19, in township 9 north, of range 7 east. That school district No. 2 shall contain hereafter the fol- lowing extent of territory : Section 26, except the north half of the west quarter, all of sections 25, 35, 36, in town- ship 9 north, of range 6 cast, and sections 30, 29, west half of 28, west half of 33, and all of sections 31 and 32, in township 9 north, of range 7 east."
In March, 1840, district No. 3 was organized as follows . " All that territory comprised in the south half of section 10, southwest quarter of section 11, the whole of section 15, west half and southeast quarter of section 14, whole of
* This house was a frame structure. It was situated in the village of Pine Run, and is now used as a blacksmith-shop. It was also the first framed building erected in the township, and in it the Hon. Josiah W. Begole, now a prominent citizen of Flint, taught the first school, in the winter of 1837-38.
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