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HISTORY OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
as it was told me by a lady friend. In the summer of 1834 two young ladies, contemplating marriage, went to the village of Bronson, now Kalamazoo, to obtain the wedding outfit. Coming to the bank of the river they tied their horses, and taking an Indian canoe they crossed the stream. The town could boast of but one store only, kept by a man by the name of Huston. Here the outfit was purchased, consist- ing in the one case of a pair of slippers and a yard of white ribbon. My informant was not quite sure just what purchases her friend made, but thinks she was rather more extravagant in her views. Those ladies are members of our congregation to-day.
"The Rev. William Jones first introduced the cooking-stove. The usual mode of baking was on pans or tins set up before the fire, only the more favored possessing the old-fashioned cast-iron baking-kettle, using live coals on the cover as well as beneath. A citizen has given a sketch of social life in those early times. It was a wintry evening, and a blazing fire was in the old-fashioned fireplace in one end of the room. Friends had been invited for an evening's visit, arriving with their ox-teams in due time. There would be a social, happy meeting of neighbors and friends around that blazing fire, and now, in dis- cussing matters not only of a local, but of a wider and more general interest, the social hour would quickly pass. The evening meal would be announced, consisting of dried venison, warm bread with stewed cranberries, sweetened with Indian sugar, and perhaps a cake, sweet- ened with the same commodity. Ten o'clock arriving, the question would come up, who should have the pleasure of entertaining the present company one or two weeks hence. Those happy social hours are often dwelt upon by the early pioneers as a green spot in their memory.
" Mr. A. S. Parker related the following incident : It was in the fall of 1830 that he, in company with Mr. Dillie, went to Prairie Ronde after provisions. Daylight had all gone when, tired and hungry, they arrived at the Kalamazoo River. Fording the stream, they took the trail for Gull Prairie, but those hungry oxen were bound to feed on the way, and it was no easy task to keep them in the right direction. Mr. Parker, tying a white handkerchief over his shoulder, led the way, and Mr. Dillie, guiding the team as best he could, followed on. Since then, said Mr. Parker, I have seen some tired days, but never a more weary hour than when, late at night, we arrived at our journey's end.
" In October, 1832, the mill at Comstock was completed. A good many days' labor were donated by our people in the previous summer months in excavating the race for that mill. Previous to the comple- tion of this enterprise the milling of the grain was no small matter. There was no mill nearer than White Pigeon, fifty miles away. Deacon Simeon Mills relates the following : In the summer of 1831, immediately after harvest, he thrashed a grist and sent his son to mill. This was probably the first wheat thrashed in this portion of the county. Arriving at White Pigeon, the mill was out of repair. There was no alternative but to wait. On returning, the Kalamazoo River was high. Taking the grist in an Indian canoe, and swimming the cattle across the stream, he arrived home after an absence of three weeks. The last flour had been used, the bran resifted, and we can easily believe the deacon when he says there was rejoicing in his household when his son came home from mill.
" We speak of the hard times, but our young men of to-day know little by experience of the meaning of that term. Our pastor told us Sunday evening how, after preaching here for the term of three months, and with a contemplated journey before him of several hun- dred miles, the sum of $5 was all that could be raised in this entire community. I well remember one year when a boy, in company with my brother, down on the old homestead, harvesting 50 acres of wheat. It is true the quality was not very good, but such as it was we could have taken 44 cents for it, which was the market price at that time. But the firm of Howe & Cummings had rented the mill at Yorkville, and proposed to the farmers to receipt their wheat, they doing the grinding, furnishing the barrels, and sending it East, keep- ing an account of freights, commissions, etc., the farmers, after deduct- ing these, to have full benefit of Eastern prices. Now, what was the result ? Werealized just 22 cents per bushel, and our experience was similar to that of others before me to-day. Deacon Woodward, of Kalamazoo, then a young man, did our thrashing that year, and we paid him sixpence per bushel, the regular price. By the application of a little arithmetic, we shall find that after deducting the cost of thrashing we have remaining 152 cents for cost of raising and the profits on the business. In passing, I would recommend the deacon as faithful in whatever he undertakes. I do not know as he will ever
. want your jobs, but if he should it would give me great pleasure to recommend him as one who thoroughly understands the business.
"I well remember, when a boy, of hearing Judge Logan relate this incident : The people used to get their milling done at Pigeon. Now, a journey of forty miles with an ox-team, fording streams with a heavy load, is no trifling matter ; sometimes one neighbor would go, sometimes another. This time it was John Barnes' turn to go, and so, taking a grist for each of his neighbors and putting on two yokes of oxen, he started. On unyoking his cattle for the night near Prairie Ronde one of them came home. Now, here was a dilemma ; one yoke of oxen could never even move that load of 50 bushels of grain, and the third ox was useless without the fourth, and so there was no other way but to come home, leaving his load; and getting his team together again, he made another attempt. This time, after getting almost there, one of his oxen was taken sick and died, and this made him another trip home, and from the time he first started from home it was three weeks before he returned with his flour. 'And I tell you,' said he, 'there was rejoicing in all the settlement.' We were good neighbors in those days. Neighbor divided with neighbor. The last bread had been eaten, the last cake had been baked, and there was nothing left. I assure you that the news was not long in spreading that John Barnes with his grist had come.
"The summer of 1838 will long be remembered as the sickly summer. A number of years since Dr. Upjohn related this incident in his early practice : 'I had been gone from home,' said he, 'for two or three days, visiting the sick at almost every house, and staying wherever night overtook me. Tired and exhausted, I was making my way home.' (At that time he lived in what is now the Carson neigh- borhood.) 'I was walking along,' said he, 'leading my horse, and was within a mile of home. I heard the sound as of some one riding rapidly behind me, and my first impulse was that I would dodge into the bushes and let him pass. "Halloo, there !" says some one. And on coming up the man says, " Is this Dr. Upjohn ?" "Yes." "Well, you are wanted." . "Where ?" "Three miles from Yankee Springs." "Who is sick ?" " A woman by the name of -. " Now, Yankee Springs was twenty miles away, and, under the circumstances, I hesi- tated. "Is she very sick ?" " Very," said the man, "and very poor. You will probably never get your pay." I wrote a note to my wife,' said the doctor, ' for some medicine and sent it by the man, and made my way back, getting there at three o'clock the next morning, finding his patient in a poor log house and very sick indeed, and in the log barn nothing but straw for his horse. Such was the physician's expe- rience in those early days.'
"Mr. Parker long had a curiosity to see an Indian. There were some encamped near by, and now he thought was his time, and so, going down to look in, was confronted by a tall, drunken Indian, de- manding, in a loud voice, ' Simaw,'-the Indian for tobacco. Now Mr. Parker, not expecting such a salutation, took to his heels, and the In- dian, exasperated beyond measure that he could not make himself understood, took after him, and we can easily imagine that they both in that race made tolerably good time. In one of those first years the house now owned by Mr. Browning was moved on to the corner where the hotel now stands from South Street, where it was origi- nally built. This building was moved with oxen, and it is said that they had a very hard time and a very high time in moving it, and I suppose it is true that one of our good deacons, now a-strong temper- ance man, actually furnished the wine, and that some really took more than was for their good.
" These things are alluded to not only because it is the duty of the faithful historian to chronicle all those facts, but in the changes which years have wrought they show also what the grace of God can do for the heart of man."
ORIGINAL LAND-ENTRIES.
The following list embraces the names of those who pur- chased from the general government lands in this township, and shows also their place of residence and date of purchase. Those marked with an asterisk (*) were actual settlers :
SECTION 1.
Horace H. Comstock, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. George Thomas,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836.
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SECTION 2.
Samuel Woodruff,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Levi White,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1832. William Parker, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1833. Samuel Woodruff,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. William Logan,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1836. Leonard W. Simpson, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1836. Edward Judson,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1836. Loyal H. Jones,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836. Amasa S. Parker,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1836. Salmon C. Hall,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1837.
SECTION 3.
Orville Barnes,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. John B. Barnes,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July 4, 1831. Cornelius Northrop, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July 4, 1831. Luther Lincoln,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July 4, 1831. John W. Anderson, St. Joseph Co., Mich., July, 1831. Luther Lincoln,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1831. William Parish, Litchfield Co., Conn., October, 1831. Simon Calkins,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1833.
SECTION 4.
John F. Gilkey,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., September, 1831. Lawrence Van Dewalker,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Chauncey Pratt, C. S. Grant, and W. G. Grant, Seneca Co., N. Y., March, 1836.
Philo Bronson, Ontario Co., N. Y., March, 1836. John F. Gilkey,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. Joseph Allen, Calhoun Co., Mich., February, 1837.
SECTION 5.
Stephen Warren, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Philo Bronson, Ontario Co., N. Y., March, 1836. Justus Butterfield,# Calhoun Co., Mich., May, 1836. Willard Butterfield," Calhoun Co., Mich., May, 1836. John F. Gilkey,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. Chauncey W. Calkins,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1837.
SECTION 6.
Stephen Warren, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Rodney D. Hill, Wayne Co., N. Y., March, 1836.
SECTION 7.
Jacob Woodworth, Montgomery Co., N. Y., July, 1836. D. C. and A. C. Kingsland, N. Y. City, January, 1837.
SECTION 8.
John W. Barton, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1833. Mumford Eldred," Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1833. Cyrus P. Deming, Sullivan Co., N. H., July, 1833. Wm. H. Allen, Wayne Co., Mich., June, 1834. Mumford Eldred, Jr.,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Seymour Hoyt, Jr.," Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Mumford Eldred, Jr.,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1836. Hugh Kirkland,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1836. Jacob Woodworth, Montgomery Co., N. Y., July, 1836. Joseph Allen, Calhoun Co., Mich., January, 1837.
SECTION 9.
Mumford Eldred,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Hazael Hoag,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. John F. Gilkey,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Mumford Eldred,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1833. Mumford Eldred, Jr.,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835.
SECTION 10.
John F. Gilkey,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. John B. Barnes,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Levi S. White,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Selden Norton,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. William Logan,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831.
SECTION 11.
John H. Adams, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. John B. Barnes,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. David Page, St. Joseph Co., Mich., June, 1831.
Peter W. Powell, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., August, 1831. Joseph Miller, Litchfield, Conn., May, 1833.
James Porter,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1833. Betsey Woodruff,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1833.
SECTION 12.
Joseph Miller,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1834. John S. Porter,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1835. Joseph Miller,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1836. Samuel Brown,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1837. Mumford Eldred, Jr.,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1837. Melzer P. Barnes,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1837.
SECTION 13.
Cornelius Northrop,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1831. Asa Jones,# St. Joseph Co., Mich., August, 1831. Rockwell May," Berkshire Co., Mass., May, 1833. Alonzo Downs, Berkshire Co., Mass., June, 1833. Wells Byington, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1833. Samuel Hubbard and Isaac Parker, Boston, Mass., May, 1836. John D. Batchelder,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836.
SECTION 14.
Samuel Brown,# Hampden Co., Mass., June, 1831. Loyal H. Jones,* St. Joseph Co , Mich., June, 1831. Isaac Briggs,# Cheshire Co., N. H., June, 1831. James Porter,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Cornelius Northrop,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Isaac Barnes,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1832.
SECTION 15.
Philip Gray,# Newport, R. I., June, 1831. Horace H. Comstock, Otsego Co., N. Y., June, 1831. William Jones," Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Samuel Brown,# Hampden Co., Mass., June, 1831. Levi S. White,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831.
SECTION 16.
School section.
SECTION 17.
Charles P. Calkins, Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. William Daubrey,# Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. Cyrus P. Deming, Sullivan Co., N. H., July, 1833. William Daubrey,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Charles Calkins, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Levi S. White,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836.
Charles and Chas. P. Calkins, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836.
Hosea Ballou Huston, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836.
SECTION 18.
Thompson L. Newell, Stafford Co., N. H., January, 1836. Chauncey Pratt, Seneca Co., N. Y., March, 1836. Charles Calkins, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836. George Thomas,# Cayuga Co., N. Y., December, 1836.
SECTION 19.
Benjamin F. Cummings,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., August, 1834. Mumford Eldred, Jr.,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Henry Mower, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1836. Horace Hawkins Comstock, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836. James H. Cummings, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836.
SECTION 20.
John M. Eldredge, Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. Lloyd Burr, Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. Isaac Sherwood, Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. Lyman T. Clark, Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. Myron Hensdill,# Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. Mitchell Hensdill,# Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. Horace H. Comstock, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1836. Henry Mower, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836.
SECTIONS 21 AND 22.
University lands. SECTION 23.
Philip Gray,# Newport, R. I., June, 1831. Loyal H. Jones,# St. Joseph Co., Mich., June, 1831.
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Simeon Mills,* Washtenaw Co., Mich., June, 1831. Jonathan Russell,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Jane L. Giddings," Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Linus Chittenden, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831.
SECTION 24.
Philip Gray,* Newport, R. I., June, 1831. Jane L. Giddings,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1831. Isaac Barnes,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1832. Levi White,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1832. Rockwell May,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1835. Dauphin Brown,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Ezra D. Giddings,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1836. Andrew T. McReynolds, Wayne Co., Mich., December, 1836. Mumford Eldred, Jr.,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1836.
SECTION 25.
Linus Chittenden, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., July, 1831. Stephen Warren, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Simon Davis, Jr., Windham Co., Conn., December, 1835. Simeon and Augustus Mills,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1835. William Upjohn,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1837. Mumford Eldred, Jr.,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1837. Oramel Griffin, Allegany Co., N. Y., March, 1837.
SECTIONS 26 AND 27.
University lands. SECTION 28.
Samuel Boyles," Cass Co., Mich., June, 1831. Augustus Mills, Washtenaw Co., Mich., July, 1832. Josiah Buell,# Lenawee Co., Mich., July, 1833. Merrit Barrett,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., June, 1834. Truman Kellogg, Monroe County, N. Y., June, 1835. Stephen Warren, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Benjamin F. Cummings,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1835. William H. Cummings,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1835. Samuel Boyles,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1835.
SECTION 29.
Royal Bell, Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. David E. Deming,* Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. George Wingert,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., November, 1834. Truman Kellogg, Madison Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Elizabeth Gellston, New York City, September, 1835. George Wingert,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., December, 1835. Isaac Vickery, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., April, 1837.
SECTION 30.
Henry W. Taylor, Ontario Co., N. Y., June, 1835. Henry Mower, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1836. Timothy Mills,* Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1836. A. D. H. Cadwell, Washington Co., Vt., March, 1836. Alonzo Sherman, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1836. Horace H. Comstock, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1836. Joseph Hutchins, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1837.
SECTION 31.
Donald F. Mckenzie, Scotland, June, 1834. William A. Ward,* New York City, September, 1834. Edmund Astley, New York City, September, 1834. Augustus H. Ward, New York City, November, 1834. Alonzo Sherman, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., March, 1836. Elisha Belcher, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., February, 1836.
SECTION 32.
Cyrus Stockwell, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., October, 1833. Ezra B. Ely, New London, Conn., May, 1834. Augustus H. Ward, New York City, 1834-36.
SECTION 33.
Samuel Boyles,* Cass Co., Mich., June, 1831. Mason Knappen,* Chittenden Co., Vt., July, 1832. Solomon Prindle, Kalamazoo Co., Mich., May, 1834. Buell Pickett, Fairfield Co., Conn., June, 1834. Thomas Masters, New York City, September, 1835. Samuel Hubbard and Isaac Parker, Boston, Mass., September, 1835. .
SECTION 34.
University lands.
SECTION 35.
Stephen Warren, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Adam B. Henry, Cayuga Co., N. Y., April, 1836. D. C. and A. C. Kingsland, New York City, January, 1837. Mumford Eldred, Jr.,# Kalamazoo Co., Mich., January, 1837.
SECTION 36.
Stephen Warren, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., October, 1835. Jonathan Carr, Cayuga Co., N. Y., April, 1835. A. Green and C. W. Clapp, Cayuga Co., N. Y., April, 1835. Cicero Webster, Washtenaw Co., Mich., April, 1835.
CIVIL HISTORY.
When the old township of Brady was formed, Nov. 5, 1829, comprising the then counties of Kalamazoo and Barry, and all the country lying north of them attached to St. Joseph County, the territory now known as Richland formed part of it. By an act, approved July 30, 1830, the Territorial Legislature divided the county of Kalamazoo into two townships, viz., Arcadia and Brady; the former occupying the northern half, and the latter the southern. This condition of affairs continued until the spring of 1832, when the inhabitants of the Gull Prairie region, at a meet- ing assembled for the purpose of raising Amasa S. Parker's barn,-the first framed barn erected in the township, *- resolved to petition the Legislative Council, then in session, for the passage of an act authorizing the erection of a new township. Upon the suggestion of Simeon Mills it was determined to name the same Richland.
The necessary papers were forwarded to Detroit, where the following act duly received the concurrence of the Legislative Council then in session, and the approval of the Governor, June 29, 1832 :
"Be it enacted by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan. "SECTION 1. That all that part of the county of Kalamazoo known as townships numbered one and two south of the base line, in ranges numbered nine and ten west of the principal meridian, be a township by the name of Richland, and the first township-meeting shall be held at the house of Caleb Eldred in said township.
"SECTION 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the 31st day of March next."
FIRST TOWNSHIP-MEETING.
Pursuant to the foregoing act the electors of the town- ship of Richland assembled at the house of Caleb Eldred on the first Monday in April, 1833, and proceeded as fol- lows : The meeting was called to order by Isaac Barnes, a justice of the peace, of Arcadia township. Sherman Cum- mings was chosen moderator, and Leland Lane clerk pro tem. The board of election having been duly qualified, it was voted to " elect all town officers that the law requires to be elected by ballot by single ticket." At the close of bal- loting the officers declared elected were as follows: Isaac Barnes, Supervisor ; Leland Lane, Township Clerk ; Corne- lius Northrop, Simeon Mills, G. C. Merrill, Assessors ; Wil- liam Logan, Collector ; George Townsend, William Logan, Constables ; John B. Barnes, Samuel Percival, Overseers of the Poor ; John Moore, Charles Andrews, Isaac Barnes, Highway Commissioners ; Simeon Mills, Orville Barnes,
* This barn and farm are situated in the township of Prairieville, Barry Co. It was the first erected in that county. This settlement was the earliest in. Barry County .- ED.
RES. OF WILLIAM J. HUMPHREY , RICHLAND, KALAMAZOO CO., MICH.
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George Townsend, School Commissioners ; Henry White, Isaac Briggs, Lovell Moore, School Inspectors ; William Y. Gilkey, Roswell Ransom, Henry Little, Fence-Viewers ;* Isaac Barnes, Simeon Mills, Poundmasters ; Leland Lane, Augustus Mills, Amasa S. Parker, Sherman Cummings, Overseers of Highway.
" Voted, that fences shall be five feet high in said township ; that all stallions be prohibited from running at large, under the penalty of ten dollars; that all boars be prohibited from running at large over two months old, under the penalty of five dollars; to adjourn this meeting to the house of Samuel Brown, on Gull Prairie, on the first Monday in April, 1834."
OTHER TOWNSHIP LEGISLATION.
At a general election held July 8, 1833, for the purpose of electing a delegate to the United States House of Rep- resentatives, Lucius Lyons received 17 votes and William Woodbridge received 10 votes.
In 1834, $5 bounty was offered for each and every wolf destroyed in the township.
The township election was held in the school-house near Daniels' tavern in 1835, and in the meeting-house in 1836. During the same year Timothy Mills, Willard Butterfield, and J. C. Stonehouse were granted tavern licenses by the payment of $5 each.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
The following tables embrace complete lists of township officers from 1833 to 1879, inclusive :
SUPERVISORS.
1833-34, Isaac Barnes ; 1835, John F. Gilkey ; 1836, Mitchell Hens- dill; 1837, Mumford Eldred, Jr .; 1838, John S. Porter; 1839, Simeon Mills ; 1840, Samuel Brown ; 1841, Samuel Boyles; 1842 -45, Uriah Upjohn; 1846, Marsh Giddings; 1847, Augustus Mills; 1848-49, Uriah Upjohn; 1850, Stillman Jackson ; 1851, James Henry, Jr .; 1852, Leonard S. Evans; 1853, Henry Knappen ; 1854-57, Gilbert E. Read; 1858-59, Elijah O. Hum- phrey ; 1860-70, Richard H. Warn ; 1871-73, Morgan Curtis; 1874, Reuben Spencer; 1875-76, Gilbert E. Read; 1877-79, Albert Little.
TOWNSHIP CLERKS.
1833, Leland Lane ; 1834, Carlos Barnes ; 1835, William P. Giddings; 1836, Mumford Eldred, Jr .; 1837, Alvin Hood; 1838, H. B. Blashfield ; 1839-41, C. W. Calkins ; 1842-43, William E. Powers; 1844, Alfred Nevins ; 1845, Eli R. Miller; 1846-47, Samuel T. Smith; 1848, Gilbert E. Read ; 1849, J. Warren Hubbard; 1850, Frank Little ; 1851, William H. King; 1852, Frank Little; 1853, William H. King ; 1854, Gordon W. May ; 1855-56, J. E. Powers; 1857, Reuben S. Hawley ; 1858, John S. Porter ; 1859, Nelson H. Walbridge ; 1860-61, John S. Porter ; 1862-63, Moses W. Colton ; 1864, Theodore B. Diamond ; 1865-66, Nelson H. Walbridge; 1867-68, M. S. Scoville ; 1869, Reuben S. Hawley; 1870, Nelson H. Walbridge; 1871-72, Amasa S. Parker; 1873, George N. Jewett; 1874, William S. Logan; 1875-78, Samuel P. Jewett ; 1879, William F. Doolittle.
TREASURERS.
1833-38, none elected; 1839-40, Mumford Eldred, Jr. ; 1841, Uriah Upjohn ; 1842, Augustus Mills; 1843, William C. Sabin ; 1844, Henry Little; 1845-46, William C. Sabin; 1847-48, Henry Knappen ; 1849, Charles B. Brown ; 1850, James Henry, Jr .; 1851-52, Henry Knappen ; 1853, Elmer N. Peck ; 1854, Marvin Barrett ; 1855-56, Charles W. Jones; 1857-58, Albertus A. Bis- sell; 1859-61, Edwin Lynch; 1862-63, William Doolittle; 1864 -65, Charles A. Crosby ; 1866-67, Norman S. Whitney ; 1868-69, Elmer N. Peck ; 1870-71, Albert Little; 1872-73, A. J. Burrell ; 1874-75, Oliver Peake; 1876, Charles L. Barrett ; 1877-78, Arvin Olin ; 1879, William S. Logan.
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