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t It is stated by others of the Kinney family that Amos did not arrive until January, 1837 ; therefore their statement or that of Mr. Wall is wrong. Mr. Foote is inelined to the belief that he was here in the fall of 1836, and had come the January previous instead of a year later.
į The first school in this township was taught by Joanna, now the wife of John Riley, probably in 1839, at her house. The school-honse was built in 1839.
¿ This statement is a little wild, for a saw-mill was in operation the previous year (1835) at Bellevue. (See history of said town and notes hy Mr. Hayt.) The une at Spicerville was the first in the eastern por- tion of the county, although but a short time ahead of the Ingersoll mill in Delta, which was erected in the fall of the same year (1836).
* This was in 1838.
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hinges, to have a neat board shelf where pans of milk and baked beans could be curtained away from the dust, to have a few boards to be Juosely laid down overhead, where the older children could be shelved snug in their beds under the shake roof. This teaches us the comfort of having a few sawed boards, and the sensation it caused when the news traveled through, from family to family, that some enterprising new-comer was going to build a saw-mill on some creek eight or ten miles away.
" It was an event when the Ingersolls eame into Delta and built a saw-mill on Grand River. Although, after the saw had ent the length of a log, the latter had to be slowly gigged hack by the aid of crow- bars, yet Genet Brown was glad to take five or six of the slabs and carry them on his shoulders five or six miles through swamps, to be used as a covering for his shanty, and no one made fun of that slow saw-inill. Of course Mr. William Wall was at the raising of the Spicerville saw-mill, in August, 1836.
" In the fall of 1837 a company of surveyors passed through this county, engaged in the survey of a ronte for a canal through Windsor, Benton, and Chester. Mr. Wall drew their provisions through from bis settlement to Searls Street, where Japhet Fisher took them and hauled them to some point in Chester.
" In the fall of 1838, Mr. Wall had a narrow escape from falling a victim to that terrible disease known as hydrophobia. A large rabid wolf passed through from the north during the night, biting every animal that was within its reach. It bit a hog on the Childs place in Eaton belonging to Benjamin Claflin. It next hit a hog belonging to James Pixley, for which he had paid twenty dollars in Jackson County. The wolf then visited William Wulls' place about midnight and hit three hogs belonging to him. Mr. Wall, not suspecting that the wolf was rabid, put his valuable dog on his track for pursuit. The dog was one which he valued at fifty dollars. He followed with an axe and soon found the dog and wolf clinched in a terrific encounter. Mr. Wall took the wolf by the tail preparatory to dealing him a blow with the axe, but the wolf instantly let go his hold of the dog and furiously attempted to turn and bite Mr. Wall. This compelled him to drup his axe and give both hands to the business of holding the animal by the tail. This rendered necessary a series of rapid evolu- tiona, such as hacking, jerking, twisting, straightening up, and swing- ing the monster round and round, sustaining him in the air by cen- trifugal force. Finally the dog caught the wolf again by the head, and Mr. Wall, retaining his hold, moved the combatunts along within reach of his axe and dealt the animal a finishing blow. Fortunately Mr. Wull did not receive a scratch from his fatal teeth, although he spent an hoor in the struggle.
" Mr. Pixley's hug went mad in about a week ; after that Mr. Wall's hogs and the dog all had to be killed. Mr. Wall received a bounty of eight dollars on the wolf's scalp, in exchange for about one buodred dollars worth of property lust.
" Mr. Wall was a good specimen of the Eaton County pioneer and farmer. He had the energy which led him to encounter the bardships of pioneer life in the dense, wild forest, and to clear up a heavily- timbered farm. Ilc was a good farmer, a good father, a good neigh- ber, a valuable citizen, and in every sense of the word a gued man."
The first religious meeting in Eaton township was held in the Wall settlement, the sermon being delivered by Rev. Mr. Jackson, at Mr. Wall's honse. In the same building, some time in the year 1837, the first marriage in town was celebrated, the parties united being Otis V. Cranson and Miss Elizabeth Babcock ; the ceremony was performed by Judge Adams, of Jackson County. The first white female child born in the township was Mr. Wall's daughter, Ruth F. Wall .*
. The date of this birth waa Feh. 18, 1839. The first male child was Allen, son of James Southworth, whose birth occurred Jan. 13, 1838. The wife of Samuel Searls was the first person who died in the township. The family of James Southworth came in the early spring of 1837, and in the summer following William Southworth brought jo his wife and children. Other early marriages in town were those of Willis Bush and Puella Banker, by Benjamin Knight, Esq., April 14, 1838, and Pierpont E. Spieer and Mary Winn (latter unly of Eaton township), by the same man, on the 26th of the same month.
It was a long time before the road along the section-line was worked through to Searls Street so that loaded teams could pass thither from the Wall Settlement. Searls Street was all there was then of Charlotte, and the only ronte to it for three years from outside was by way of Marshall, Bellevue, and Walton, and across a pole bridge over Battle Creek, southeast of the present fair-ground, and across the latter to the log house of Samuel Searls. Soon after Jona- than Searls built his house near to that of his brother.
The first frame barn in Eaton township was built by James Pixley ; } the second was erected by Amos Kinney soon after, and men came from the Wall settlement to help raise it. Samnel Searls was the " boss" workman, and ordered them to set up the bent ; they supposed it was up and did not move. Unele Samuel spoke again, "Set it up !" No move. " G- d- it, I suy set it up there !" The Wall settlement exerted its strength and the bent went elcar over.
A. L. Baker settled in Eaton, south of the Kinneys, in 1841. Benajah Claflin came also early, and in 1840, Nathan P. Frink, afterwards sheriff of the county, located in the Wall settlement. Sidney and Harry Allen came also in 1839, and their father, George Allen, in 1840. During these two years David Southard, - Hurlburt, Jonas Childs, and John Childs became residents of the township.
In December, 1836, William Wall, accompanied by two other men, went south into Brookfield to hunt land, and returning came up on the line between the townships of Carmel and Eaton. They found a party of Indians en- camped on the banks of Battle Creek, south of Charlotte, and the two men stopped with them while Mr. Wall pro- ceeded across to the house of Samuel Scarls, whom he had not before seen, and remained with him over-night. He had only met Amos Kinney on his trip in the previous October after his horses.
In the fall of 1837, William Wall, Chauncey Freeman, James Pixley, and George and James Southworth went on a deer hunt in the north part of the township, on a branch of the Thornapple River. James Southworth stationed himself on the run-way, while the others separated for the purpose of driving in the deer. Ere long they heard the report of James Sonthworth's rifle, followed quickly by a second, and next they heard him call. They returned at once, and found he had been beset by two large gray wolves. He had seen three of them passing and shot one, where- upon the others turned and came close to him, one on each side, before he had time to reload. As one of the animals stepped back a little Mr. Southworth poured some powder into his rifle and rolled a bullet down, and shot the brute in the neck, but did not kill him. At that juneture Wil- liam Wall appeared, and the wounded wolf went into a thicket. Messrs. Pixley, Freeman, and Wall followed, to drive him out, while the two Southworths stood ready to shoot. Mr. Freeman came upon the wolf lying down, and looking him in the face, and forgot to shoot. The animal ran out of the thicket, and George Southworth shot him.
Nathan l'. Frink, now of Nashville, Berry Co., also claims that honor.
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Mr. Wall, who was a tall man, said the wolf was the largest he ever saw, standing as high as his waist. The wolves would probably not have come nearer to James Southworth if he had refrained from shooting. Ilis temerity cost him a good scare, for he was " white as a sheet," said Mr. Wall, in relating the circumstance, " when I got to him."
Rufus Bigelow, now of Charlotte, moved from Novi, Oak- land Co., Mich., in the spring of 1848, and located in Eaton township, about two miles east of Shepherd's Corners.
The members of the Southworth family were originally from Genesee Co., N. Y. James Southworth left New York in the fall of 1835, and came to Michigan, locating on the River Raisin, in Monroe County, where a brother was living. The latter, Elijah Southworth, purchased land in Eaton County, and intended to settle here, but his wife died, and he did not come. Other members of the family soon after came to the State, and in October, 1836, James, William, and George made a prospecting trip to Eaton County, where they finally purchased land and settled. James was the first to move into the township, settling with his family in February, 1837. He had built a log house during the winter, heating the stones for the chimney-back in the fire, in order to have the mortar stick to them ; the balance of the chimney was built of sticks. This house was fairly comfortable when first occupied, as both windows and doors had been put in, a puncheon floor laid and part of a chamber-floor. William Southworth, who had been in Monroe County since the spring of 1836, moved his family into Eaton township on the second day of August, 1837, and the township has been the home of the South- worths since their first arrival in it. In 1839, James Southworth removed from the Wall settlement to the Hiram Shepherd place, near Charlotte, and on the first of June, 1840, he occupied the place where his widow and son Allen now live. He died June 11, 1867. George Southworth and his brother, Alonzo (who came with his father, Orrin Southworth), were unmarried at the time of their settlement.
James S. Pixley was from Shelby, Orleans Co., N. Y. His widow and two children-a sou and a daughter-are now living in the township. The first settler between the Wall settlement and " Searls Street" was Nathan P. Frink,* who was soon followed by Leonard Holcomb. Mr. Frink is now residing at Nashville, Barry Co.
The following facts relative to the early settlement of this township have been gleaned from the records of the County Pioneer Association :
Alonzo L. Baker, born on Long Island, N. Y., in the county of Suffolk, settled with his family at East Bloom- field, Oakland Co., Mich., in May, 1836. In March, 1841, he removed to Eaton County, and settled in Eaton town- ship, three miles south of Charlotte, which place is alleged to have contained at that time but one frame house. Mrs. Baker relates to the Pioneer Society that their nearest
neighbors lived three-fourths of a mile north; other fam- ilies resided two miles south, and four miles east and west.
Black snakes twelve and fourteen feet long abounded, and the angry bizz of the rattlesnake was also occasionally heard. Bears were venturesome enough to come three at a time into the very door-yard, but when Mr. and Mrs. Baker armed themselves respectively with rifle and axe and sallied forth on the shaggy brutes, they betook themselves to their dwelling-place in an adjacent swamp. Mrs. Baker considered her pioneer days, with all their hardships and trials, as among the happiest days of her life, and some- thing in the novelty of life in the back woods dispels anxi- ety and keeps the spirit of the toiler at a wonderful pitch.
Alpheus Porter, a native of Green, Chenango Co., N. Y., visited Eaton County in June, 1845, and settled in this township September 13th of the same year.
RESIDENTS IN 1844.
The following were residents and taxpayers of the town- ship of Eaton in 1844, as shown on the assessment-roll for that year : George Wilson, Daniel Slaughter, G. A. South- worth, Hiram Weed, Ichabod Paine, R. B. Nichols, Wil- liam Pegg, Samuel Mattison, Orrin Southworth, J. F. Babcock, A. Baraga, Horace Fuller, H. H. Hatch, Osmyn Childs, John Delana, Eber Card, Merrills Freeman, Henry Allen, C. Freeman, A. F. Babcock, D. Bryant, W. P. Wales, John Durlin, N. P. Frink, Orman Butler, Leonard Holcomb, G. B. Tripp, Samuel Aulls, Samuel Searls, Jonathan Searls' administrators, Stephen Searls, H. G. Rice, Allen Searls, James Southworth, Ira B. Shepherd, Isaac W. Hill, Hiram Wood, Charles Walters, Amos Kin- ney, Stephen Kinney, A. Baker, Sidney Allen, David Southard, Levi Hall, Elbert Smith, Truman Hinckley, Asa Gibbs, Jacob H. Steel, A. Smoke, William Stoddard, William Wall, John Strickland, James S. Pintey, William Southworth, Duncan McNaughton, John Riley, John Childs, Peter Britton.
TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION .- LIST OF OFFICERS, ETC.
The township of Eaton was organized by an act of the Legislature approved March 11, 1837, said act being as follows :
" All that portion of the county of Eaton designated by the United States survey as townships 1 and 2 north, of ranges 3 and 4 west, be and the same is hereby set off and organized into a separate town- ship by the name of Eaton; and the first township-meeting therein shall be held at the dwelling-house of - Spicer, in said township."
March 20, 1841, Brookfield and Tyler were set off from Eaton. Eaton Rapids was organized Feb. 16, 1842, when Eaton was reduced to its present limits, including town- ship 2 north, in range + west.
The earliest record of a town-meeting in Eaton, which has been preserved, is that of 1839, there being nothing in the township books to show the proceedings of the meet- ings for 1837-38. In the latter year a portion of the officers were Benjamin Knight, Town Clerk ; Simeon Hard- ing, Treasurer ; Warren Prescott and David Dunham, Asses- sors ; Amos Spicer and Simeon IFarding, School Inspectors ; Johnson Montgomery and Rufus HI. King, Commissioners
* Mr. Frink, who was formerly from Saratoga Co., N. Y., removed to Jackson Co., Mich., in 1834, and in 1840 purchased eighty acres of land in Eaton township, Eaton Co. This was entirely uoimproved, and on his way to it, with ox-teams, he was obliged to clear a road before him. He was prominent during his residence in the county. In 1850 he removed to Marshall, and in 1873 to Nashville.
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of Highways. In 1839 it was voted to raise $250 to build a bridge across Grand River, where the south line of sec- tion 34, town 2 north, range 3 west, crosses it; also voted to raise fifty dollars for the support of the poor ; also that hogs, horses, and horned eattle should be permitted to run at large without restraint. In 1840 it was voted to raise $150 in the township, to be distributed among the several school districts "according to the number of scholars, for the support of primary schools."
The following is a list of the principal officers of the township from 1839 to 1880, inclusive :
SUPERVISORS.
1839-40, Samuel lIamlin; 1841, James I. Rogers; 1842-43, Alonzo Baker; 1844-45, William Southworth; 1846-49, Joseph P. llull ; 1850, William Southworth; 1851-54, Joseph P. Hall; 1855, Henry Robinson ; 1856, llenry Perkey ; 1857-59, Joseph P. Itall ; 1860, Thomas W. Loring; 1861-62, Joseph P. llall; 1863-64, Alvan D. Shaw; 1865, S. P. Webber; 1866, A. D. Shaw; 1867, Benajah W. Warren ; 1868-70, Earl T. Church; 1871, llarlow Billings; 1872-77, Philip E. Pennington; 1878-79, James Murray.
TOWN CLERKS.
1839-40, Benjamin Knight; 1841, Horace Hamlin ; 1842-43, N. P. Frink ; 1844, Ormond Butler; 1845-49, Nathan P. Frink ; 1850, Joseph P. Hall; 1851-53, Henry Porkey; 1854, Samuel Aulls ; 1855, Joseph P. Hall; 1856, E. T. Church ; 1857, F. E. Leiter ; 1858, E. T. Church ; 1859, J. Q. A. Sessions ; 1860, Ellzey Hay- den ; 1861-65, Earl T. Church; 1866, Andrew J. Ives; 1867, Alfred A. Wood; 1868, A. L. Wheaton; 1869, Rollin C. Jones; 1870, Frank A. Hooker ; 1871, Joseph Summers; 1872-77, Henry Perkey, Jr. ; 1878-79, Daniel Curry.
TREASURERS.
1839, Samuel llamlin; 1840, Simeon Harding; 1841, Benjamin Knight ; 1842, William Wall; 1843, William Southworth; 1844, Samnel Aulls; 1845, Sidney Allen ; 1846-49, William South- worth ; 1850-51, J. G. Bellows; 1852-53, Rufus Bigelow ; 1854- 58, Christian Bush ; 1859-60, llenry Perkey, Sr .; 1861-63, James Sontbworth: 1864-65, Joseph Perkey ; 1866-67, Rufus Il. Kin- ney; 1868-70, Frederick E. Leiter; 1871, Harry Allen; 1872, Almon P. Hfartson; 1873-74, Henry Perkey, Sr .; 1875, Sidney Allen ; 1876-77, James Murray ; 1878-79, Josiah Wickard.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1839, Benjamin Knight; 1840, James Collins, George Y. Cowan; 1841, P. E. Spicer, James McQueen, David Barr; 1842, A. Baker, HI. Shepherd, E. Beadle, A. Smoke; 1843, Abraham Smoke; 1841, llenry 11. llatch ; 1845, John Flora, Merrills Freeman ; 1846, John Flora, Allen Searls ; 1847, Richard McFarlane, Sidney Allen ; 1848, A. Smoke, James Greenman, Dumon A. Winslow ; 1849, J. G. Bellows; 1850, Samuel Aulls, Erastus Field, Nicholas Kesiler; 1851, Watson P. Wales, William Reed; 1852, llenry l'erkey; 1853, Cyrus Cummins; 1854, William Southworth ; 1855, Alexander Laverty; 1856, Watson P. Wales; 1857, Alvan D. Shaw; 1858, S. Allen, II. Robinsou; 1859, A. A. Laverty, William Southworth; 1860, Watson P. Wales; 1861, llenry Robinson ; 1862, William Southworth; 1863, Anson A. Laverty ; 1861, Christian Bush ; 1865, Henry Robinson ; 1866, Watson P. Wales; 1867, William Wall, Mason II. Bacon; 1868, Daniel Diekinson; 1869, Frank A. Hlouker; 1870, Mason II. Bacon ; 1871, William Wall, William Southworth; 1872, Joseph Perkey, Samuel Aulls; 1873, Josiah Wickhard; 1874, Solomon S. Pen- nington ; 1875, William T. Cooley ; 1876, Joseph l'erkey ; 1877, Solomon Conrud; 1878, S. S. Pennington ; 1879, James F. Pixley. 1880 .- Supervisor, James Murray ; Township Clerk, Henry J. King; Treasurer, James McConnell; Justices of the Peace, M. T. Cooley, Joseph Perkins; School Superintendent, Harry Holeomh; School Inspector, Daniel Wickard; Commis- aioner of liighways, William Mikesell; Drain Comois- sioner, Henry Lage ; Constablea, Myron Southworth, Frank Rochester, George Michaela, Merritt Cox. .
EARLY ROADS.
Among the roads laid out during the earlier years of the settlement of this township were the following :
Childs' Road .- Surveyed May 2, 1839, by Anson Jack- son : beginning at the north quarter-post of section 35 ; thence east and southeast, with variations, to the township- line, 35 links south of the corner of sections 25 and 36; total length, 1 mile, 130 rods, and 4 links.
Hulbert Road .- Surveyed in same month, by same man : beginning at north quarter-post of section 27; thence north to north quarter-post of section 22; length, 322 rods.
Pegy Road .- Surveyed hy same : beginning at the Clin- ton road, on the north line of section 9, 102 rods west of north quarter-post of said section ; thence east 902 rods to the corner of sections 1, 2, 11, and 12 ; afterwards continued eastward to the town-line.
Town-Line Road between Eaton and Carmel .- Sur- veyed by same man, April 24, 1839 : originally had nu- merous angles, which were straightened in March, 1841.
Claflin Road .- Surveyed by same man : length, 2 miles, 131 rods, 19 links; beginning on township-line, 80 rods west of corner of seetions 4 and 5; thence, with varia- tions, to a point 43 rods west of the south quarter-post of section 7.
Wilson Road .- Commencing at west quarter-post of sec- tion 2; thence south to east quarter-post of section 15; thence south to Clinton road ; total length, 2 miles, 59 rods.
Bryant Road .- Surveyed by A. Jackson : length, 2 miles, 6 links ; beginning at corner of sections 10, 11, 14, and 15, and running thence, with variations, to the town- ship-line, 43 links south of corner of sectious 12 and 13.
RELIGIOUS.
The first religious services held in the township (at the Wall settlement) have been elsewhere mentioned. Two churches at present exist in town, both in the neighborhood above named. The United Brethren have a ncat frame church, which was erected in 1871, and meetings are held regularly, with Rev. William Duryee as pastor. Meetings have been held a short time in the locality by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who until recently occu- pied the United Brethren's building. In May, 1880, how- ever, a frame building, which had been erected on the town- line by the Methodists, was dedicated, and is now used by them. Rev. Mr. Knapp is the present pastor.
SCHOOLS.
The first school in the township is also mentioned in Mr. Wall's account of the early settlements. The present stand- ing of the schools of the township is shown in the report of the inspectors of schools for the year ending Sept. 1, 1879, from which the following summary is made :
Number of districts (whole, 6; fractional, 4) .... 10
school-children in township 438
" 44 attending during year. 396
Total number of days school taught during year. 145t
10
Number of school-houses (frame, 9; log, 1). scatings in same ...
497
16 teachers (males, 5; females, 14).
19
$1294.40
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Wages paid same (males, $195; females, $799.40) Total resources for 1879. 2071.13
Amount on hand, Sept. 1, 1879. 618.44
Total expenditures, less amount on band
1452.69
EATON RAPIDS.
NATURAL FEATURES. GEOGRAPHIY, TOPOGRAPHY, ETC.
THE township of Eaton Rapids, including congressional township 2 north, in range 3 west, occupies a position on the east side of Eaton County, south of the central di- viding-line. It is bounded north by Windsor township, east by Ingham County, and south and west respectively by the townships of Hamlin and Eaton.
The eastern portion of Eaton County abounds in exten- sive swamps and marshes, and the township of Eaton Rapids has its full share, although the cultivable land is in by far the greater proportion, and is generally very fertile. The principal crop raised is wheat, which generally yields largely. Grand River flows in a general northeasterly direction across the southeast part of town, after making a sharp bend from a westerly course at Eaton Rapids, where Spring Brook enters it from the southwest. Both streams furnish good power, which is utilized at the village. Two railways eross at Eaton Rapids,-the " Grand River Val- ley," or Grand Rapids Division of the Michigan Central, and the Lansing Division of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, or "Ramshorn," as it was originally called. The surface of the township is rolling. The town-lines were surveyed in 1825 by John Mullett, and the subdivisions in 1826 by Harvey Parke.
LAND ENTRIES.
The following persons entered land in what is now the township of Eaton (town 2 north, range 3 west) in the years and on the sections given :
Section 1 .- 1836, W. Page, R. W. Branch, C. Munger; 1837, S. Lee, A. Morrell.
Section 2 .- 1837, A. Morrell, A. Lamb; 1846, N. J. Seeley & A. Mest, H. Wolley ; 1848, E. Terryl, A. Mest; 1849, John Howard, E. Terryl, A. Mest, S. Mest.
Section 3 .- 1836, Aaron Kendall; 1837, W. S. IIntehinson, M. P. Wade; 1851, F. C. Ferris; 1852, S. N. Nichols, H. Purdy, C. Purdy ; 1853, Benjamin Nelson.
Section 4 .- 1837, Peter Robinson and John S. Holden, J. Voorheis ; 1843, Thomas Grinnell ; 1853, B. Nelson ; 1854, N. Root.
Section 5 .- 1837, Stephen H. Ludlow, J. Taber.
Section 6 .- 1836, J. Dates, H. Williams; 1850, J. Batcheler, S. Lindey, B. Root.
Section 7 .- 1836, H. Lewis, J. Dates ; 1837, D. Frink, H. Boody ; 1841, A. Gillett; 1858, Josiah M. Milbourn.
Section 8 .- 1837, P. Robinson and J. S. Holden, H. Boody ; 1849, J. S. Pangburn, A. D. Lent ; 1850, Daniel Young, S. B. Dayton ; 1858, Henry Boody, William H. Boody ; 1865, William Allen.
Section 9 .- 1837, Robinson & Holden, S. Fowler, C. Davis.
Section 10 .- 1836, Aaron Kendall; 1837, Robinson & Holden, C. Smith, George C. Beckwith.
Section 11 .- 1836, L. Munger; 1837, H. B. Webster, G. C. Beckwith ; 1846, N. J. Seeley and A. Mest; 1854, N. Flander.
Section 12 .- 1835, N. Silsbee ; 1836, S. W. Clark, C. Munger, S. Dar- ling ; 1838, D. Bond.
Section 13 .- 1835, N. Silsbee ; 1836, W. Page, T. Woodward.
Section 14 .- 1836, R. Whitmarsh, L. Munger, J. Marshall; 1838, G. W. Logan, A. Rogers; 1847, J. Phelps.
Section 15 .- 1837, HI. E. Kent, Daniel Clark; 1838, J. J. Rogers ; 1841, J. J. Rogers; 1847, D. Thompson; 1849, P. W. Rogers; 1854, M. M. Piper.
Section 16 .- 1854, Wm. Streeter ; 1862, Marcus D. Boody.
Section 17 .- 1836, Jacob Rhines; 1839, A. Powell, G. W. Peters ; 1845 and 1859, W. B. Clark.
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