History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan, Part 60

Author: Durant, Samuel W. cn
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia : D.W. Ensign & Co.
Number of Pages: 772

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MRS. WILLIAM COOK.

idence. While the farm has been enlarged, the family have kept pace; nine children have been born, six of whom are now living, five sons and one daughter, and all of whom have received liberal educations.

Two of the sons, William G. and James D., are lawyers, and settled at Texarkana, Ark .; John B., M. J., and Geo. W. remain at the old homestead ; the daughter, Sarah Ann, married John C. Gunn, a farmer in Delhi. Mr. Cook, wishing to be relieved from the cares of so large a farm, has built a residence near the former one, where the pioneer couple are handsomely situated, to enjoy their ample competency, leaving the care of the farm to the sons.

Mr. Cook's habits of industry, early formed, have never deserted him. Being public-spirited and enterprising and decidedly in favor of educating the masses, he is a valuable man in the community, and has aided largely in estab- lishing and improving the schools of the district.

Mr. and Mrs. Cook were members of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland; they affiliated with that organiza- tion in the United States, and contribute liberally to its support.

Politically, Mr. Cook is a Democrat, and has held several offices of trust and honor in the town.

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MRS. JOHN THORBURN.

JOHN THORBURN.

John Thorburn was born in the parish of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, March 29, 1824. At the age of twenty-three he had served four years as an apprentice to the blacksmith's trade, and worked six years as a journey- man. He emigrated to America in 1848, in company with his younger brother, Robert, his father and mother fol- lowing the next year. He worked a short time at his trade in Pittsburgh, Pa., but came to Michigan the same year and located one hundred and twenty acres of land in Delhi, which is a part of the farm he now owns. He chopped five or six acres of woodland and built a log house, which his father occupied the next spring. He then worked four years in Ypsilanti, Mich., and from there went to Lansing

JOHN TIIORBURN.

in 1852 and commenced blacksmithing in North Lan- sing.

Two years later he married Miss IIannah J. Olds, who was born in Prattsburg, N. Y., in 1829, and came to Michigan in 1832. Ile worked five years and did a suc- cessful business ; but his health failing he moved to his present home in Delhi, and turned his attention to the management of the farm and to stock-raising. He has now over eight hundred acres of land in a high state of cultivation, with good buildings and fences, and a large part of it tile-drained. He owns a very fine herd of short- horn cattle, and sheep and swine of the most improved breeds. He has three sous,-James B., who is superin- tending the farm; William Warren, who is also a farmer ; and Robert Clark, who is at home with his parents.

INGHAM.

NATURAL FEATURES.

GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, ETC.

THE township of Ingham occupies a position immediately southeast of the centre of the county of the same name, and is bounded north by Wheatfield, east by White Oak, south by Bunker Hill, and west by Vevay. The west line of the township is the principal meridian of the State, and the tier of sections lying next it are fractional, being less than half-size, caused by the variation of the surveys on the cast side of the meridian. Both the township-lines and the subdivisions were surveyed by Joseph Wampler, the former in 1824, and the latter in 1826.

Ingham township is watered by Deer and Doan Creeks, both of which flow in a northerly direction into the Cedar

River. Deer Creek takes its rise in the township, as does also one branch of Doan Creek. The surface of the town is much diversified, hill, dale, and plain, with occasional swamps, being found. In some portions it resembles the more level portions of New England, and the fine beech and maple woods can nowhere be surpassed. In the southern portion are two small lakes, which drain sonth into Bunker IIill. Dansville is a thriving village of 440 inhabitants, situated at the centre of the township. " Meadville" is a locality in the southeast part of town.

LAND ENTRIES.

The tract book at the office of the county register shows the following entries of land in town 2 north, range 1 east, (now Inghamn) :

"RIDGEVALE FARM" RESIDENCE OF JOHN THORBURN , DELHI TP. MICH.

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Section 1 .- Caleb Carr, May 26, 1836; Jeremiah Newton, Jane 6, 1836; Simeon Oaks, June 6, 1836; William Reid, Jr., July 8, 1836; Williama E. Burton, Aag. 6, 1838; Samuel Mulholland, Sam- uel Mulholland, Jr., and William Malholland, Nov. 26, 1836. Section 2 .- Caleb Carr, Jane 3, 1836 ; Oswell Willard, July 11, 1836; Caleb Carr, Sept. 21, 1836.

Section 3 .- Russell Winchell, Cornelius R. Foster, Juue 8, 1836 ; Elijah S. M. Steves, Seth P. Benson, Jane 20, 1836; Aretus Dann, March 13, 1837.

Section 4 .- Benjamin Worden, June 15, 1836; Seth P. Benson, June 25, 1836; Lyman Betts, Nov. 14, 1836; Isaac F. Dann, Feb. 25, 1837.

Section 5 .- Lansing B. Mizner and Richard Clark, July 7, 1836; Josiah Snow, Aug. 4, 1836; Ebenezer Learned, Oct. 27, 1836; Daniel H. Mills, Stephen Mills, Jan. 13, 1837; Benjamin B. Kercheval, Feb. 3, 1837; Isaac F. Dunn, March 13, 1837.

Section 6 .- Charles Thayer, Feb. 5, 1836; Sylvanus P. Jermain, April 7, 1836; Jacob M. Howard, June 4, 1836.

Section 7 -- Charles II. and William T. Carroll, June 22, 1836; John B. Banter, June 23, 1836.

Section 8 .- Mizner and Robinson, Jaly 7, 1836; Benjamin F. Burnett, Sept. 21, 1836; Seth Spencer, Sept. 23, 1836; Phebe L. Branson, Oct. 31, 1836; Benjamin B. Kercheval, Nuv. 26, 1836; William Buthwell, March 13, 1837.

Section 9 .- George W. Wait, Jane 10, 1836 ; Oliver Ranney, Jane 11, 1836; Randolph W. Whipple, Juno 25, 1836; Isaac F. Duno, Feb. 25, 1837; John A. Torrey, Feb. 7, 1844.

Section 10 .- James Bond, Elijah S. M. Steves, Henry Harmon, Seth P. Benson, B. B. Kercheval, no dates.

Section 11 .- Horace Warner, April 21, 1836, Lucius Wilson, Sasan T. Leach, May 18, 1836; Samuel Ward, May 19, 1836; Jesse Dewey, May 28, 1836; John Whiting, Nov. 30, 1836; Eliphas F. Daggett, Jan. 19, 1839.

Section 12 .- Juel Dann, March 23, 1836; Erastus llickley, May 23, 1836; Cargill Wheeler, Kirtland Wheeler, May 24, 1836; Wil- liam Carr, May 26, 1836; Horace W. Brown, Jane 30, 1836; James H. Wood, Jaly 15, 1836; David S. Kates, Aag. 5, 1836. Section 13 .- Jushaa Doan, Amaziah Winchell, March 8, 1836; Marcas Beers, March 23, 1836; Jabez W. Brown, April 5, 1836; William Parks, April 8, 1836; Healey and Kercheval, May 31, 1836.

Section 14 .- Asa Crosman, Samuel Crosman, May 28, 1836; Healy and Kercheval, May 31, 1836.

Section 15 .- Isaac Phillips, April 9, 1836; Asa Crosman, Samuel Crosman, Rachel P. Hitchcock, May 28, 1836.

Section 16 .- J. W. Post, J. M. Edwards, no dates.

Section 17 .- Robert F. Palmer, June 6, 1836; Benjamin F. Barnett, Sept. 21, 1836; Seth Spencer, Sept. 23, 1836; Joseph E. Beebe, Jan. 10, 1856.

Section 18 .- Thomas Cloagh, entire section, Feb. 20, 1837. Section 19 .- Joseph S. Wilson, entire section, May 31, 1836.

Section 20 .- Elisha R. Searl, Joseph C. Wilson, Daniel Lattiner, May 31, 1836.

Section 21 .- Joseph S. Hendee, June 28 and Nov. 15, 1836; Hale Judkins, Dec. 13, 1836.

Section 22 .- Isaac Phillips, April 9, 1836; Joseph E. North, Jr., May 20, 1836; Daniel Sheldon (Ist and 2d), May 28, 1836 ; Orsun Sey- mour, Dec. 16, 1836.

Section 23 .- Marvin Geer, May 30, 1836; Healy and Kercheval, May 31, 1836; Benjamin P. Avery, June 1, 1836 ; Stephen V. R. Bu- gert, Aug. 4, 1836 ; David S. Skates, Aug. 5, 1836.

Section 24 .- John D. Daan, Jan. 20, 1836; Jedediah Bennett, March 8, 1836; Lydia Wilson, May 18, 1836; Erastas Hinckley, May 23, 1836; Zenas Atwood, May 26, 1836; Marvin Geer, May 30, 1836; William A. Bronson, Jane 27, 1836 ; David S. Skates, Aug. 15, 1836.

Section 25 .- Erastas Blanchard, March 10, 1836; John H. Bennett, April 13, 1836; Gedra Phillips, May 14, 1836 ; John Dakin, May 21, 1836 ; Caleb Carr, June 3, 1836; Bowen Ilicks, June 14, 1836; Thomas Hunter, July 5, 1836; Jacob Dakin, Nov. 14, 1836; B. B. Kercheval, Feb. 4, 1837.

Section 26 .- Joseph E. North, April 23, 1836 ; John Dakin, May 21, 1836; Samael B. Wessels, June 7, 1836; Stephen V. R. Bugert, Aug. 4, 1836.

Section 27 .- J. E. North, Jr., April 23, 1836; Daniel Peck, Jane 6, 1836; Liudsley Ward, Mark A. Squier, June 7, 1836.

Section 28 .- lliram K. Smith, June 6, 1836; Don Carlos Smith, Oct. 29, 1836; Oliver M. Smith, Jr., Aag. 2, 1837.

Section 20 .- Solomon A. Clark, Daniel Peck, June 6, 1836; Benjamin F. Barnett, Sept. 20 and 21, 1836; Peter Hartman, Sept. 23, 1836; Abner Potter, Nov. 4, 1836; Ezekiel Wilson, March 28, 1837.

Section 30 .- Benjamin F. Barnett, Sept. 20, 1836; Ezekiel Wilson, March 18, 1837.

Section 31 .- Albert Hosmer, June 22, 1836; Reuben Rohie, March 21,1837.

Section 32 .- Thomas Smith, June 20, 1836; Peter Ilartman, Sept. 23, 1836; John Burnett, Mary W. Fisk, April 24, 1837; Joseph E. Beche, Jan. 10, 1856.

Section 33 .- Don Carlos Smith, Oct. 29, 1836; Joseph L. Hendee, Nov. 15, 1836; Amos Crosman, June 8, 1837.

Section 34 .- John D. Reeves, Nov. 17, 1836 ; Henry Smith, Nov. 18, 1836; Blois llard, Jaly 10, 1837; Jacob Countryman, Sept. 11, 1849; Charles Arnold, Nov. 29, 1850.

Section 35 .- Joshua North, May 24, 1836 ; John D. Reeves, Nov. 17, 1836; William C. Harris, March 5, 1838; Jacob Countryman, Oct. 27, 1847.

Section 36 .- Silas Holt, Sept. 17, 1835 ; Governeur Kimble, March 19, 1836; John H. Bennett, April 13, 1836 ; Zephaniah Hicks, June 14, 1836; Stephen V. R. Bogert, Aag. 4, 1836; John D. Reeves, Nov. 17, 1836.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

Amaziah Winchell, a native of Plattsburgh, Essex Co., N. Y., wrote as follows in 1875 :

" My first remembrance is the burning of the barracks and arsenal at Plattsburgh. Soon after my father moved to Ticonderoga, and in 1816 to Shoreham, Addison Co., Vt. In August, 1833, I was married to Rhoda Arvilla Abbott and came to Michigan; landed at Detroit, Sept. 8, 1833; settled in the town of Lima, Washtenaw Co .; resided there until November, 1835, then moved to Pinckney, Livingston Co. Located my present home in Ingham County in 1836, it being the southeast quarter of section 13, town 2 north, of range 1 east. I have five children,-three sons and two daughters,-all living. I have never had over nine months' schooling. The first pair of shoes I had was in the winter of 1824. I was one of ten children in my father's family,-four boys and six girls. My first hat cost me one bushel of wheat, which I picked up ar gleaned after the reapers. I have voted at every election and town-meeting, except one, since I have resided in the State. I was orderly sergeant in the Washtenaw regiment dur- ing the Taleda war ; have been sheriff of Ingham County four years ; superintendent of the county poor five years ; member of the Legisla- ture one year, and held several of the town offices. Am now (1875) drain commissioner for Ingham Coanty. I was the first barber in Ingham County that cat hair after the fashion of the country."

Thomas Clough came from the State of New York in 1836, and settled at Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich,, on the 14th of July in that year. December 2d, following, a son, Albert B. Clough, was born. Mr. Clough removed with his family to Ingham County, and settled in the town- ship of Ingham, March 20, 1842. The family then con- sisted of himself, his wife, and three children. They lived in a log house, with a clay hearth and stick chimney, and bears, wolves, and other wild animals were daily and nightly visitors. Mr. Clough died Aug. 29, 1878.

Marcus Beers, a native of Darby, New Haven Co., Conn., settled at Ann Arbor, Mich., in September, 1833. About the last of May, 1836, he settled on section 13, in the town- ship of Ingham, Ingham Co. He writes: "I hired two teams to move to my new home, and got to our cabin the third day about noon, all right and in good spirits. When I moved in Ingham there were but three families in the four townships, and our first organized town contained what are now Ingham, Wheatfield, White Oak, and Leroy."

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Mr. Beers' wife, Mrs. Lucinda Beers, who was a native of Dryden, Tompkins Co., N. Y., died in 1879. ·

Abner Potter, from the State of New York, settled in this town with his family in 1839. Ile is now deceased. Several of his sons are residents of the county,-Allen, living in Aurelius, Edmund in Leslie, and Elijah in Bunker HIill. Daniel, who also lived in the latter town, died Sept. 26, 1880. William, who settled in Gratiot County, is also deceased. The family came to Ingham County in very des- titute circumstances, but its members who are living are now all independent.

Reuben Torrey, who was born Jan. 7, 1789, in Guilford, Windham Co., Vt., settled in Lenawee Co., Mich., May 23, 1837, and removed to and became a resident of Ingham township, Jan. 15, 1841. He died Oet. 31, 1875, at his residence in Ingham, in the eighty-seventh year of his age ; his wife's death occurred Dec. 29, 1864, when she was seventy-eight years old.

Martin A. Sweet, a native of Slippery Rock, Mereer (now Lawrence) Co., Pa., came to this township and set- tled in May, 1844; removed afterwards to Mason.

Andrew Hunt, a native of Naples, Ontario Co., N. Y., settled in Ingham township in May, 1846, and says the first time he went to Mason he found but one mud-hole, and that extended the entire distance from Henry A. Hawley's to the village.

John Potter, from Saratoga Co., N. Y., settled in the county in the fail of 1837, his parents having located in the township of Ingham, on seetion 29, where his father died in 1842, and his mother about 1850. Mr. Potter re- moved to the township of Alaiedon about 1853.

Bowen Hicks, a native of Ilomer, Cortland Co., N. Y., emigrated to Michigan in the spring of 1836, and settled in the town of Sharon, Washtenaw Co., where he lived until 1840, when he removed to Ingham County, and set- tled in the township of Ingham on eighty acres of land be had purchased in the summer of 1836. Mr. Ilicks died April 1, 1876, aged nearly sixty-nine years.

Jabez W. Brown, who was born at Norfolk, England, came to America in 1827, and in 1836 became one of the first settlers in the township of Ingham, Ingham Co., Mich. His death occurred April 22, 1838, of heart dis- ease, while visiting a sick brother in Oakland County.

Joshua Doan and his son, John D. Doan, io company with Amaziah Winehell and Jedediah Bennett, came to what is now the township of Ingham in the winter of 1835-36, and purchased land on seetions 13 and 24. Mr. Winchell employed a man to assist him, and early in the season of 1836 built on his place the first shanty erected in the township, remaining in it for several weeks, while the two chopped perhaps ten aeres. Bennett also built a shanty at nearly the same time. He removed, after ten or twelve years, to Kalamazoo County, or some other locality in the western part of the State. The first of the men named to bring his family to the township was Joshua Doan, who came from Franklin Co., N. Y., about 1831, and settled at Dexter, Washtenaw Co., Mich., whenee they came to Inghamn in March, 1836. Snow lay quite deep on the ground, and Mrs. Doan was at the time suffering with the ague. Iler illness necessitated a stop for rest and

recuperation while on the way from Dexter. Mrs. Doan was the first white woman who came into the wilderness of Ingham to locate. Her death was caused by an aeci- dent about 1860-62; Mr. Doan died about 1848. A small shanty was built for the accommodation of the family after their arrival in the township, and on the place was cut some of the first timber felled by settlers in town. The old farm is now occupied by Mr. Doan's sou, Joshua Doan, Jr.

Alonzo Doan, another son of the above, was a young man when his parents moved to this county. He visited them here in 1837, and about 1841 returned to Franklin Co., N. Y., where he remained ten years. During that time he was married, and in 1851 came back with his family to Michigan, and settled in the township of Wheatfield, where he at present resides. His brother, John D. Doan, is now a resident of Dexter.

Benjamin Avery, from the town of Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y., settled with his family in Ingham about 1836-37, immediately south of Dansville, and is now living in the village, at the age of nearly eighty years. His son, Syl- vester Avery, is one of the firm of Doan & Avery, fruit- dryers, at Dansville.

In the southeast part of town is a locality known as " Meadville," which at one time was filled with the hope of some day becoming a metropolis. A man named Mead, from Milan (Unadilla), Livingston Co., built and conducted a hotel for several years, but finally, as his schemes were realized to be hopeless, he left the place, and it now con- tains only a small store.

Marvin Geer, from Lyons, Wayne Co., N. Y., settled in 1837, on seetion 24, near his present location, and the town- ship has been his home most of the time since. His wife, a son, and a daughter accompanied him here. At that time there were living in the neighborhood, with their families, Marcus Beers, Shubael Waldo, Caleb Carr, and a man named Davidson ; Waldo and Davidson are now deceased. Davidson lived on the farm now owned by Henry Walker.

Ilubbard Dakin, from Allegany Co., N. Y., came to this county and settled at Dansville about 1843-44. Daniel Lebar, from the same locality, settled in the township in 1849. His son, Charles Lebar, is now a resident of the township of Bunker Hill.

Ephraim Walker, from Broome Co., N. Y., came to Ing- ham Co., in April, 1842, and settled on a farm north of Dansville. Ile at present resides in the village, and at the age of seventy-eight years appears as young as many men of fifty.

Zenas Atwood came with his family from Cayuga Co., N. Y., in October, 1836, and settled on the west half of the northeast quarter of seetion 24, in Ingham, having pur- chased the land the previous spring. The family consisted of Mr. Atwood and his wife, four sons, and two daughters, two other daughters having remained in New York. Mr. Atwood died in October, 1850. IIis son, Marcus M. Atwood, who has practiced law for thirty years in the township, is now living at Dansville, where he located in September, 1858.

Elias J. Smith, Esq., now of Dansville, eame to Miehi- gan with his parents, in 1829, from Genesee Co., N. Y., and

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settled in Washtenaw County. In 1836 he purchased land in Stockbridge, Ingham Co., to which town he removed in 1848. Has lived in Dansville since November, 1862.

Henry L. Strong, from Senate, Cayuga Co., N. Y., settled on a farm at what is now Dansville, in May, 1842, with his wife, who is a daughter of Samuel Crosman, at which time there were but four log houses on the site of the village, and possibly only three of them were occupied.

The following resident taxpayers appear on the asscss- ment-roll for the township of Ingham in 1844 :

William Reid, Jr., William Parks, Isaac Asseltine, Gaylord Il. Hatch, Perry Crippen, Paul Otis, Caleb Carr, Hiram Fletcher, John Hutchinson, Josiah Camp, James Titus, Jr., Joseph T. Crandell, Hampton D. Granger, Romanzo J. Munn, Gardner Fletcher, Stephen Curtis, Ephraim Walker, Elias S. Clark, Aaron M. Fitch, Jonathan Garrison, Julius Ranney, Cornelius N. Bevins, Henry Asseltine, Randolph W. Whipple, Allen H. Whipple, Benjamin E. Crandell, Samuel B. Garrison, Eli A. Pettit, Lyman Habert, Benjamin F. Sawyer, Benjamin P. Avery, Ebenezer HI. Cross- man, Robert Chappell, William Carr, William V. Corwin, James Iluffman, Samuel Skadan, Amaziah Winchell, Jabez W. Brown, Joshua Doan, Andrew J. Townsend, Marcus Beers, Jesse P. Smith, Henry L. Strong. Thomas Clough, Amasa Clough, John Swan, Thomas Field, Esek Field, Hiram N. Gray, John M. Torrey, Renben Torrey, Henry Hunt, John M. Ball, Jonab T. Kent, Joseph L. Ilendee, Ilarrison II. Dakin, John Bullen, Heze- kiah Ferguson, Edward Eaton, George Drake, Zenas Atwood, Shubacl Waldo, Marvin Geer, Jedediah Bennett, John Densmore, Jr., Bowen Hicks, Jacob Dakin, John Dakin, John B. Lobdell, Samuel B. Wessels, Crandall M. Iloward, John C. Haynes, Judson Dakin, John Densmore, Henry Densmore, Hiram Smith, Winance Davis, Abram Diamond, John Potter, Timothy Root, William Root, Hinman Ilurd, Joseph Hannee, Joseph L. Hendee, William Isham, John D. Reeve, Marshall Z. Hicks.

TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION, ETC.

The original town of Ingham, as organized by act of the Legislature approved March 11, 1837, included the present townships of Ingham, White Oak, Wheatfield, and Leroy, the latter three having been since set off and organized as separate townships. The act organizing Ing- ham provided that the first township-meeting should be held at the house of Caleb Carr, and from the township record is taken the following account of said meeting :

"THE FIRST ANNUAL TOWN-MEETING HELD IN THE TOWN OF INGHAM, A.D. 1838 :

" At the annual town-meeting, held at the house of Caleb Carr, for the purpose of electing town officers, on the 2d day of April, A.D. 1838, the following number of persons received the following unmber of votes set opposile their several names : For supervisor, Henry Lee, 53; for tawn clerk, II. Ferguson, 23; Mareus Beers, 30; for justice of the peace, Cyrus Post, 60; Caleb Carr, 37; Henry Lee, 35 ; James Huffman, 31; Amaziah Winchell, 24; David Gorsline, 24; HI. H. Smith, 20; for constable and collector, John Clements, 24; Jonathan Thomas, 23; for assessors, Ephraim Mecch, 44; James Rathbun, 36; Andrew Stevens, 47; J. L. Ilendee, 28; Jobn Dakin, 32; William Carr, 20; William A. Dryer, 26; for school inspectors, John Clem- ents, 47; Lucius Wilson, 30; William Post, 29 ; II. H. Smith, 17; Caleb Carr, 17; for highway commissioners, Daniel Countryman, 61 ; Lucius Wilson, 59; John Clements, 32; Uriel Smith, 29; for direc- tors of the poor, Zenas Atwood, 46; James Rathbun, 27; Jacoh Dakin, 17 ; for constables, E. Il. Jubb, 46; Thomas Stevens, 47 ; for town treasurer, J. B. Lobdell, 15."

At a special meeting, held June 6, 1838, John Clements, Lucius Wilson, and William A. Dryer were elected school inspectors. At the regular election in 1839, Caleb Carr was elected supervisor ; William A. Dryer, town clerk ;

Hezekiah Ferguson, treasurer ; and Cyrus Post, justice of the peace. In March, 1839, the township was divided, and, at a special election, Hezekiah Ferguson and Jacob Olds were elected justices of the peace, and George Q. Watkins town clerk. May 1, 1844, a license was granted to John B. Lobdell to keep a public-house on the east half of the southeast quarter of section 26, and he was author- ized to " keep and entertain travelers ; to retail rum, brandy, gin, and other spirituous liquors ; also, ale, cider, beer, and other fermented liquors, and to have and to use all the privileges granted by the laws of the State of Michigan to keepers of public-houses."

Following is a list of the principal officers of the town- ship since 1840 :

SUPERVISORS.

1840, Hezekiah Ferguson ; 1841-45, Samuel Skadan; 1846-47, Ran- dolph W. Whipple; 1848, Daniel A. Ilewes; 1849-50, John S. Crossman; 1851-53, Samuel Crossman ; 1854-55, R. W. Whip- ple; 1856-57, Samuel Skadan; 1858, Marcus M. Atwood; 1859, Samnel Skadan ; 1860-61, Thaddeus Densmore; 1862, Daniel L. Crossman ; 1863, John B. Dakin ; 1864-71, Samuel Skadan; 1872, Lemnel Woodhouse; 1873-79, Samuel Skadan.

TOWNSHIP CLERKS.

1840-42, Ilezekiah Ferguson; 1843, Marvin Geer; 1844, Ilezekiab Ferguson ; 1845, William Carr; 1846, Hale W. Granger ; 1847- 48, John S. Crossman ; 1849, Marcus M. Atwood; 1850, Samuel Crossman ; 1851-52, Benjamin F. Robinson; 1853, James M. Royce; 1854-55, Ambrose P. Hicks; 1856, Daniel T. Weston ; 1857, A. P. Ilieks; 1858, Daniel T. Weston; 1859, Daniel L. Crossman ; 1860, Marshall Haweroft ; 1861, Daniel L. Crossman ; 1862-63, Marshall Haweroft; 1864, Daniel T. Weston ; 1865-66, D. L. Crossman ; 1867, Thaddeus Densmore ; 1868, Elias J. Smith ; 1869, Theodore Iluffman ; 1870, Joseph Keene; 1871, Marshall Hlaweroft ; 1872, J. Edgar St. John ; 1873, Joseph Keene;# 1874, Henry J. Wilcox :+ 1875, William G. Hawcroft; 1876-79, Levi Geer.

TREASURERS.

1840, Hezekiah Ferguson ; 1841, William Parks; 1842, William Carr; 1843, Amaziah Winchell; 1844-45, John B. Lobdell ; 1846, Ama- ziah Winchell; 1847, Christopher Avery; 1848, William Carr; 1849, Ambrose P. Hicks; 1850, Marcus Beers ; 1851, Hampton D. Granger ; 1852, Abram Diamond ; 1853, John B. Dakin ; 1854, Cornelius N. Bevens; 1855, John Densmore; 1856, Daniel Jes- sop ; 1857, Robert Chappell; 1858, Ephraim Hilliard ; 1859, Henry L. Strong ; 1860, Aaron Parks ; 1861, Jonathan Thomas ; 1862, Nelson A. Whipple ; 1863, David D. Fox ; 1864, Isaac II. Briggs ; 1865, George Iliekox ; 1866, Alfred B. Coy; 1867, Lem- vel K. Strong ; 1868, Joseph Keene; 1869, Cyrus W. Dean; 1870- 71, Zebina Ransom ; 1872, Simon P. Hendrick ; 1873, Marshall Haweroft ;# 1874-75, Joseph Keene; 1876, Omer R. Whiting ; 1877, Lemuel K. Strong ; 1878-79, Joseph Keene.

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History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan, Part 60

Author: Durant, Samuel W. cn Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Philadelphia : D.W. Ensign & Co. Number of Pages: 772

Author: Durant, Samuel W. cn
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia : D.W. Ensign & Co.
Number of Pages: 772