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Another well-remembered old pioneer, Benjamin Depue, came from Niagara Co., N. Y., in 1835, and " took up" three lots on section 9, settling on the east half of the southeast quarter of said section. He improved a large farm, was a social and good man, and died a few years ago. His son, Oliver, now lives in Comstock village.
Luke Keith and his family came in 1834 from Coving- ton, Genesee Co., N. Y., and began his pioneer work on the
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north half of the northwest quarter of section 25. He afterwards located lands on section 36. He was an excel- lent man, and died in 1866. His son, Harvey, came here in 1833, settling on the land now owned by N. L. Randall.
He was a useful man in a new region like this, and served his township in its most important offices. He died while supervisor in 1851. C. L. Keith, the second son, who is now living on part of the land his father located, came here in 1837. He was the first wagon-maker in this region, has filled various offices in the township, and has the esteem and confidence of his fellow townsmen. His son, Ethan, has evinced much ability as an inventor. He has greatly im- proved the grain-binder, and is now, in connection with his older brother, Henry, constructing a new grain-binder that is an acknowledged improvement on this kind of machine.
J. W. Keith, who came here with his father in 1833, settled a number of years afterwards on the lands now owned by Geo. S. Nye, where he remained till 1875, when he removed to Kansas. Mr. Keith was an efficient town- ship officer.
Amos Whitcomb came fromn Cambria, Niagara Co., N. Y., with his family in 1833, and began life here on the west half of the northwest quarter of section 27, where he made the first betterments. He died many years ago. Mrs. Martin Turner, of Kalamazoo, is his daughter. His son, Charles, now lives in Galesburg. The old place is to-day owned by Marcus Simmons. Warren Wilcutt came from the same place in 1834. He cut the first tree and turned the first furrow on the eighty acres now owned by James Milham. Hannibal Taylor, from the same part of New York, came here two years later than Mr. Wilcutt. In 1838 he settled on the land located by J. W. Turner. Mr. Taylor yet lives on the south part of section 24, where he first commenced farming in this new region. Martin Tur- ner, who came from Niagara Co., N. Y., in 1833, settled on the lands now owned by A. H. Towne, on section 26.
Eli B. Anderson and family came in 1835, from Gaines, Orleans Co., N. Y., settling on section 18, where he now lives. He bought the land of Linus Ellison. He had been here in 1834 to locate his lands. 'Squire Anderson, as he has been called for the last forty years, is now, from long residence in this township and venerable bearing, the patriarch among the surviving pioneers of Comstock. He came from a good family; some of the best blood of " '76" runs in his veins. He was born in Ira, Rutland Co., Vt., Dec. 8, 1800. His father, John Anderson, who was born near Boston, was a brave, strong man. He was at Lexington, where the first blood was shed for our liberties ; was at Bunker Hill under Stark ; went up the steps with Ethan Allen at " Old Ti," and heard the immortal exclamation from Allen's lip; was with Stark at Bennington ; and with Allen when he was captured. He carried the express mail from one of our armies to the other during the Revolution; and when Arnold gave André the pass as " John Anderson," it was after this real John Anderson,* who was known so well by reputation as mail-carrier.
Mr. Anderson came from Rutland Co., Vt., to Gaines, Genesee Co., or Holland Purchase, now Orleans County, in 1819. Here he married Miss Abigail Dewey, of the same county.
Previous to his marriage he was waiter to Dr. Thomas A. Anderson eighteen months, during the war of 1812. Was one winter at Ogdensburg. His brother, Dr. T. A. Anderson, was in the battle of French Mills.
Governor Stevens T. Mason commissioned him justice of the peace for Comstock in 1835. In 1837 he was elected to that office by the people, and for some forty years has served his township in that capacity. He has cleared and improved a large farm, and reared a numerous family.
The Powlisons, although of New Jersey birth, came in 1835 from Cambria, Niagara Co., N Y., to this town- ship. John C. Powlison, with his wife and family, a daughter and six sons, commenced life here amid all the trials and difficulties that surrounded the early settlers. Mr. Powlison died in 1859. Mrs. Catharine Powlison, the mother, now in her ninety-first year, is living with her son Isaac in the old homestead, of which she has been mistress for so many long years. Isaac has the old home. The rest of the family are married and settled in various parts of the State, Joseph living in New Jersey ; Cornelius is dead. The father was a member of the Congregationalist Church, and the aged mother can yet be seen, every Sab- bath morning, ascending the steps of the Congregational church in Galesburg, to attend service there. Isaac and family are Methodists.
Manasseh Bixby, from Windham Co., Vt., entered 80 acres on section 12, in 1835, which he improved. His wife, the daughter of Silas Joy, another pioneer of this township, was one of the first school teachers in this sec- tion. Mr. and Mrs. Bixby were worthy members of the old pioneer band. She died in Galesburg a few years ago.
Smith Sharpsteen was among those who " came to the front" in 1836. Rearing a house on his lands upon section 12, he at his death, in 1870, left a well-cultivated farm to his wife and family.
Milo B. Bostwick was from Cayuga Co., N. Y., in 1838. He erected a log house for his family on part of the lands now owned by B. Vosburg. Some years after, he removed to the farm now owned by L. Qua, where he remained many years, and left it with good buildings and in a fine state of cultivation. He then removed to Galesburg, where he now resides.
A. R. Brown came to Michigan from Somerset Co., N. J., in 1835, and commenced clearing his new lands, the east half of the northwest quarter of section 12. He lived on his farm till 1870, when he sold it to its present owner, F. B. Austin. Mr. Brown now lives in Galesburg with his son Isaac, where, with his books and friends, he is enjoying a life of leisure.
James H. Hopkins, one of our successful and intelligent farmers, came from Cayuga Co., N. Y., with his father's family in 1837, and with them settled in Charleston. Mr. Hopkins removed to this township in 1860, having pur- chased the west half of the northwest quarter of section 23, the land that Linus Ellison had reared his log house upon in 1831. Mr. Hopkins is giving to his farm the best
* His granddaughter, Mrs. Ezra Beckwith, has the pocket-Bible that he carried with him during the Revolutionary war, and on the leathern cover of which he used to strap his razor. There was a large reward offered by the British for his capture, dead or alive.
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cultivation that experience and agricultural knowledge can suggest.
Henry Luttenten has now the old farm that he helped his father reclaim from its wild state. His father died some twenty years ago ; his aged mother is yet living with him.
Edward Coe, of Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., came to Mich- igan in 1836, settling on Genesee prairie, where he remained some two years. He removed to Kalamazoo, and a few years after located the east half of the northeast quarter of section 29, in Comstock, which he improved. He died a number of years ago at the home of his son, La Fayette, in Charleston. His oldest son, Walter, now owns the old farm. Mrs. Reuben Coe (a daughter of Edward Coe) and her sister now live in Galesburg.
David Ingersoll came to the township of Portage in 1836, and to this township in 1846, settling on the west half of the northwest quarter of section 30. He has lately sold his farm and removed to Kalamazoo. He has done his part as a pioneer, and reared a fine family. Three of his children have proved successful teachers. His son, Ross A. Inger- soll, a very promising young man, died in 1877. He had evinced more than usual talent as a teacher.
David Simonds, an old settler, and a worthy one, made a fine farm of the northwest quarter of section 29. He died at his home a few years ago.
Henry Vose settled, some time in the thirties, on the land his son George now owns ; and Pliny Billings on the land, in the southwest part of the town, where the family now live; and Harrison Gray on the land he now owns.
Isaac Odell came to this frontier in 1836, and, after living in Galesburg a year or two, settled on the north part of the southwest quarter of section 11. He is now on his old farm, and is one of our good farmers and worthy citizens.
Pixley Judson came from Cayuga Co., N. Y., in the year 1833, and pitched his tent near Tecumseh, in Lenawee Co., Mich. ; remaining there but one year, he returned to New .York State. In 1838 he came to Charleston, this county, and began life on the lands now owned by John J. Hoover, which he reclaimed, and in or about 1850 he came to this township, settling where he now lives.
Gilbert Stannard, of Otsego Co., N. Y., began Western life in 1838, on section 30, in the township of Climax. He came to this township in 1856, settling on the farm now managed by his sons George and William. He resides in Galesburg.
Alanson Brimminstool began his pioneer life, in 1836, among the settlers in Calhoun County, where he lived many years ; coming to this township about 1858, he purchased the west half of the southwest quarter of section 12, and lived here till he died, in 1879. He was an honest, hard- working man. He left a wife and one daughter.
William Johnson came from Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, to Huron, Wayne Co., Mich., with his parents in 1823, and to the home of his uncle, Lyman Tubbs, on the 4th of July, 1838. He began to make a clearing for his own home on the northwest quarter of section 35, where he still lives. Mr. Johnson has, with his axe, not only cleared his own farm, but has done efficient service in helping his neighbors clear theirs.
ASSESSMENT ROLL OF COMSTOCK FOR 1838.
Names.
Amounts.
Names. Amounts.
Anderson, E. B.
$527
Lane, Leland ..
$819
Andrews, Charles.
1,160
Lee, Charles ...
15
Babcock, Jonathan.
878
Moon, Micajah
790
Botsford, Sabrina. 410
McAllister, William
75
Bishop, Philander.
15
Mathews, A. S
474
Burlingham, V. H.
51
Moore, John
2,071
Blakesly, Asahel
340
Mathews, Gideon
205
Bradley, Catharine.
335
Merrill, Joseph
1,410
Brown, Abram R.
475
Merrill, T. W.
2,902
Bostwick, Milo ...
645
Merrill, G. C ..
150
Bixby, Manasseh.
555
McNett, Andrew
Packard, Madison.
820
Caldwell, David.
2,674
Percival, Samuel.
4,058
Clinton, Eli
480
Pitkin, Wesley
105
Cuykendall, Solomon.
430
Reynolds. James
987
Cook, William
330
Ransom, Roswell
1,680
Clark, Ira
378
Redfaith, James
715
Comings, Sherman
1,465
Riddle, Joseph E
252
Demman, Caleb
453
Springstead, Jesse
320
Durkee, Thomas
425
Springstead, Isaac ..
135
Day, Gordon ..
175 Smith, Ziba
215 165
Depue, Benjamin.
1,180
Schoonover, Joseph.
15
Ellis,
200
Sheldon, Henry.
1,223
Earl, Alva.
570
910
Earl, Jesse (2d).
400
1,400
Earl, Jesse ..
1,907
Sumner, Mathias.
880
Edwards, T. A. H.
1,000
Sutton, Thomas.
2,675
Ferris, Allen
15
Smith, C.
15
Fox, Lonzo ...
240
Sherman Comings, for V. D. Taylor
480
Gray, I. H ..
400
230
Gale, George L ..
1,140
Turner, Martin
1,120
Gray, Philip ...
815
Turner, Jesse W
1,195
Galligan, C. P
857
Tyrrell, John W
1,075
Hook, William
2,771
Tubbs, Lyman
2,323
Hale, David
625
Tubbs, H. N
640
Hill, William
15
Tubbs, Alvira.
800
Hall, Festus.
495
Tuttle, Ralph
1,144
Hill, John C
15
Townsend, George.
180
Jacobs, James
345
Tucker, Samuel.
210
Joy, Silas.
585
Whipple, Ephraim.
160
Keith, Luke ..
1,060
Whipple. S. L
175
Keith, Harvey
402
Wilcut, Warren
590
Kingsley, Salmon.
435
Whitcomb, Amos.
680
Kellogg,
658
Wheeler, George
790 730
Lee, Ezekiel ..
610
Wheaton, Joel.
15
Logan, Herman
165
Willard, Lemuel.
395
Losey, Casper.
305
Willard, Edward
700
Loveland, A. S
105
Wiseman, Joseph S.
21
Lee, Joseph W.
320
Lee, G. C.
1,645
Total. $95,065
"We, Sherman Comings, Harvey Keith, and Leland Lane, do severally Swear that the sums at which property is assessed in the foregoing Assessment roll are, according to our best judgment, the fair cash Value of such property.
" SHERMAN COMINGS,
" LELAND LANE,
" HARVEY KEITH."
" COMSTOCK, May 10, 1838.
"STATE OF MICHIGAN, 88.
" KALAMAZOO COUNTY,
"On this tenth day of May, 1838, personally appeared the above- named Sherman Comings, Harvey Keith, and Leland Lane, and subscribed oath.
" NATHANIEL COTHREN, Justice of the Peace."
" COMSTOCK, May 10, 1838.
"I certify the above to be a true copy of the Assessment Roll of The Town of Comstock for the year 1838.
" HENRY SHELDON, Town Clerk."
The assessed value of real and personal property in the township of Comstock in 1879 was : Real estate, $1,013,359; personal, $137,610; total, $1,150,969. The State tax is $2626.42; county tax, $2052.63.
The following is a tax receipt of the year 1832 :
" Received of Sherman Commins eighty-seven cents in full of his county tax for the year 1832.
"N. HARRISON, Col."
642
Burnet, Benjamin
480
Pitcher, Horace.
175
Comstock, H. H.
16,174
Powlison, J. C.
395
Burnett, James ..
1,835
Percival, Montgomery
Cothren, Nathaniel 870
Davis, Demerrit
320
Staley, Abram
Smart, Caleb
Shafter, H. M.
Fox, Luman W
505
Stetson, Ezra ..
Luttenton, Jared
1,990
Wheaton, William.
Loveland, J. S.
375
237
White, J. B ..
372
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TOWNSHIP OF COMSTOCK.
This was the tax on 80 acres of land and the better- ments. J. R. Comings, son of the above, paid this year (1879), on twice the number of acres of land, $108 tax.
NON-RESIDENT LANDS, AS ASSESSED IN 1838.
Section 1 .- 461 acres, value $1,841.
3 .- 251
1,004.
4 .- 78
312.
5 .- 433
= 1,732.
604.
7 .- 299
8 .- 40
160.
9 .- 120
480.
60
10 .- 320
1,280.
=
11 .- 280
"
1,120.
12 .- 320
800.
14 .- 200
66
800.
15 .- 80
320.
17 .- 80
320.
18 .- 223
892.
21 .- 96
384.
22 .- 155
620.
25 .- 40
66
160.
27 .- 80
320.
29 .- 200
800.
30 .- 150
700.
31 .- 405
2,020.
66
32 .- 400
1,600.
33 .- 320
66
1,280.
35 .- 120
480.
36 .- 160
66
6
640.
ORGANIZATION.
1834 to 1880 .- Previous to the organization of the township of Comstock, in 1834, it had been included within the limits of the township of Arcadia, then em- bracing the whole of the north half of the county. At the first town election, held in 1832, in Arcadia, in the house of Titus Bronson, and in the village bearing his name, Caleb Eldred was elected Supervisor, and Leland Lane Town Clerk. The town remained part of Arcadia until 1834, when it was organized and called Comstock.
At a meeting of the electors of the township of Com- stock, held in the house of James Burnett, April 7, 1834, Lovell Moore was chosen moderator and Leland Lane clerk pro tem., and, after being qualified as the law requires, pro- ceeded to elect the following officers : William Earl, Super- visor ; Leland Lane, Town Clerk ; Daniel O. Dodge, Charles Andrews, E. M. Clapp, Assessors ; Leland Lane, Collector ; Jabez Rogers, James Burnett, Directors of the Poor ; Charles W. Spaulding, Charles Andrews, George Town- send, Commissioners of Highways; Erastus A. Jackson, Constable; Stephen Eldred, Sherman. Comings, Samuel Percival, School Commissioners. Elected by ayes and noes : Daniel O. Dodge, Thomas W. Merrill, Charles An- drews, Lovell Moore, Sherman Comings, School Inspectors ; Leland Lane, district No. 1, John Moore, No. 2, Jabez Rogers, No. 3, Joseph Flanders, No. 4, A. A. Smith, No. 5, Alva Earl, No. 6, Overseers of Highways and Fence- Viewers; Leland Lane, Ralph Tuttle, Stephen Eldred, Pound-Masters.
SUPERVISORS.
1834-37, William Earl; 1837, Lyman Tubbs ; 1838, Caleb Smart ; 1839, Leland Lane ; 1840-45, Horace H. Comstock ; 1845, John . Sleeper ; 1846, Harvey Keith ; 1847-49, Ervin M. Clapp; 1849, Harvey Keith; 1850, Ezra Stetson ; 1851, Harvey Keith; 1852- 54, Marius O. Streator; 1855, Guyon Fisher; 1856, Joseph M. 46
Kidd ; 1857, Anthony L. Mason ; 1858, Jesse Earl ; 1859, Marius 0. Streator; 1860-62, Milo B. Bostwick ; 1863-64, Marius O. Streator ; 1865, John Sleeper; 1866, Geo. R. C. Adams; 1867, Calvin B. Mitchell ; 1868, Orrin F. Burroughs ; 1869-70, William Blass; 1871, Henry S. Sleeper; 1872, Isaac Mason ; 1873-80, Geo. R. C. Adams.
TOWNSHIP CLERKS.
1834, Leland Lane; 1835-36, Edwin M. Clapp ; 1837-38, Caleb Smart ; 1839, Henry Sheldon ; 1840, Charles Andrews; 1841, Columbus Cabell; 1842-43, Nathan H. Burlingham ; 1844, John C. White; 1845, Nathan H. Burlingham ; 1846-47, John Sleeper; 1848, James W. Cothren; 1849, Gilbert Powlison; 1850, James H. Allen ; 1851, David S. Crowell; 1852, Cornelius Powlison ; 1853, John W. Keith ; 1854-55, Orrin Page ; 1856, E. R. Billings ; 1857-58, John M. Lay ; 1859-60, Lyman M. Gates ; 1861, Abram Pelham ; 1862-63, Isaac J. Burker ; 1864, Edgar R. Howlett; 1865, Alonzo D. Beckwith; 1866, Wm. H. King; 1867-69, Alonzo D. Beckwith; 1870-75, A. D. P. Van Buren ; 1875-78, Corydon Beach ; 1879, A. D. P. Van Buren.
COLLECTORS.
1834, Leland Lane; 1835, John McAllister ; 1836, J. W. Turner ; 1837, Wm. McAllister ; 1838, Hiram Cook.
TOWNSHIP TREASURERS.
1839-40, Samuel Percival; 1841-43, John M. Lay; 1844 and 1846, N. H. Burlingham ; 1845, Harvey Keith ; 1847, James H. Allen; 1848, John Sleeper; 1849, Manassah Bixby ; 1850, Harvey Keith ; 1851, N. H. Burlingham ; 1852, David S. Crowell; 1853, Jesse Earl; 1854-56, Wm. Blake; 1857-60, Josiah Loveland ; 1861-62, Peter S. Carmer; 1863-65, Russell B. Mason; 1866, Charles W. Struble ; 1867, Geo. O. Richardson; 1868, Maxon F. Lewis; 1869, Anson D. P. Van Buren ; 1870-72, Wm. W. Baldwin ; 1873-78, Ezra C. Rowland; 1879, David F. Powlison.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
1836, Samuel Percival, Nathaniel Cothren, C. M. Nichols, Caleb El- dred ; 1837, Orrin N. Giddings; 1838, Nathan H. Burlingham, Harvey Keith, Abram H. Stevens ; 1839, Caleb Smart; 1840, Eli B. Anderson ; 1841, Samuel Percival; 1842, Lemuel Willard; 1843, James W. Cothren ; 1844, Nathan H. Burlingham; 1845, Ezra Stetson ; 1846, Solomon Cuykendall ; 1847, James H. Allen ; 1848, Samuel D. Wells; 1849, Charles P. Galligan, Jotham C. Bliss ; 1850, Eli B. Anderson ; 1851, James H. Allen, Solomon Cuykendall; 1852, Seaman Bristol; 1853, Charles P. Galligan, John C. Blake ; 1854, David S. Crowell; 1855, Job H. Aldrich ; 1856, Win. P. Sutton ; 1857, Sylvester W. Mills, Solomon Cuyken- dall ; 1858, B. F. Broadwell; 1859, Eli B. Anderson, Seaman Bris- tol ; 1860, Wm. A. Blake; 1861, Solomon Cuykendall; 1862, Eli B. Anderson; 1863, Lyman M. Gates; 1864, Seaman Bristol, Alonzo B. Sumner ; 1865, Daniel H. Sumner ; 1866, Eli B. An- derson ; 1867, Ralph S. Van Vleet ; 1868, Seaman Bristol; 1869, Thomas C. Ford; 1870, Eli B. Anderson, Alonzo D. Beckwith; 1871, Alonzo D. Beckwith ; 1872, John M. Lay, Edward Chad- wick ; 1873, Thomas C. Ford, Russell G. Smith; 1874, Nathan Bigalow, Hugh M. Shafter ; 1875, Russell Smith, Guyon Fisher ; 1876, Hugh M. Shafter; 1877, Edwin M. Clapp; 1878, Perry A. Peer; 1879, Frank P. Muhlenberg.
SCHOOL INSPECTORS.
1835, Charles Andrews, Lovell Moore, Edwin M. Clapp, Sherman Comings, Stephen Eldred ; 1836, Thomas W. Merrill, Nathaniel Cothren, Stephen Eldred, C. M. Nichols, Lovell Moore; 1837, Ezra Rice, Edwin M. Clapp, Caleb Smart ; 1838, Caleb Smart, Henry Sheldon, Abram H. Stevens; 1839, Caleb Smart, Ezra Stetson, I. M. Cooper; 1840, Veron D. Taylor, Harvey Munger, Roswell Ransom ; 1841, Veron D. Taylor, James R. Caldwell, Luke C. Keith; 1842, Jas. W. Cothren, Jas. R. Caldwell, Rufus S. Clapp ; 1843, Jas. W. Cothren, Ezra Stetson, Jas. R. Caldwell ; 1844, N. H. Burlingham; 1845, Ezra Stetson ; 1846, Jas. H. Allen ; 1847, Ezra Stetson ; 1848, Roswell Ransom ; 1849, Solo- mon Cuykendall; 1850, Jas. W. Cothren ; 1851, Ezra Stetson ; 1852, Jas. W. Cothren ; 1853, Ezra Stetson; 1854, Seaman Bris- tol ; 1855, Job H. Aldrich ; 1856, Amos L. Flint, H. Dale Adams; 1857, Wm. Stilwell ; 1858, I. J. Babcock ; 1859, Russell G. Smith ;
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6 .- 151
1,196.
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HISTORY OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
1860, Myron B. Rawson; 1861, Lyman M. Gates; 1862, Myron B. Rawson ; 1863, Lyman M. Gates; 1864, Orrin F. Burroughs; 1865, Lyman M. Gates; 1866, Geo. R. Jenkins; 1867, Lyman M. Gates ; 1868, Philip Potts, A. D. P. Van Buren ; 1869, Francis Hodgman ; 1870, Philip Potts ; 1871, Nathan Bigalow, David B. Hull; 1872, David B. Hull; 1873, Nathan Bigalow ; 1874, David B. Hull ; 1875, Wm. W. Baldwin ; 1876-79, Geo. S. Nye.
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS.
1835, Linus Ellison, C. W. Spaulding, Ralph Tuttle; 1836, Ralph Tuttle, C. M. Nichols, Samuel Percival; 1837, Isaac Pierce, Solo- mon Cuykendall, Nathan Burnett; 1838, Solomon Cuykendall, Salmon Kingsley, Ira C. Clark ; 1839, Charles P. Galligan, Sal- mon Kingsley, Solomon Cuykendall ; 1840, Salmon Kingsley, Charles P. Galligan, Milo B. Bostwick ; 1841, Salmon Kingsley, Robert Emery, Allan Ferris; 1842, Jotham C. Bliss, Henry Cook, Allan Ferris ; 1843, Jotham C. Bliss, Samuel D. Wells, Allan Ferris; 1844, Joseph Lee, Allan Ferris, Benjamin Depew ; 1845, Manassah Bixby, Harrison Gray, David Caldwell ; 1846, Thomas C. Ford, Manassah Bixby, Myron Harrington ; 1847, Manassah Bixby, Jotham C. Bliss, Henry H. Reading ; 1848, William Fletcher, Myron Harrington ; 1849, Benjamin Depew ; 1850, James R. Comings; 1851, Jacob Carlton ; 1852, Edwin M. Clapp, Stephen B. Loveland; 1853, Milo B. Bostwick ; 1854, Stephen B. Loveland ; 1855, Edward Hodges; 1856, Bernard Vosburg, Pixley Judson, Eli B. Anderson ; 1857, Edward Hodges ; 1858, E. S. Nettleton, David D. Hinion ; 1859, Stephen B. Love- land ; 1860, David S. Bronson; 1861, Luther Burroughs ; 1862, John H. Wells ; 1863, David S. Bronson ; 1864, Joseph Gault; 1865, Stephen B. Loveland; 1866, Henry King; 1867, George R. C. Adams; 1868, Stephen B. Loveland, Milo B. Bostwick ; 1869, Calvin B. Mitchell ; 1870, Jesse Earl; 1871, Leverett Crooks, David S. Bronson ; 1872, Calvin B. Mitchell; 1873, John W. Keith ; 1874, William W. Russell, Zera C. Durkee, A. L. Runney ; 1875-77, Calvin B. Mitchell ; 1878-79, Anson L. Runney.
CONSTABLES.
1835, John McAllister; 1836, Jesse Earl; 1837, Wesley Sherman, William McAllister ; 1838, Joseph S. Wiseman, Hiram Cook ; 1839, Joseph S. Wiseman, William Glover, William McAllister ; 1840, William McAllister, Wm. Glover; 1841, Gideon Mathews, Stephen Willard ; 1842, Rasselas C. Botsford, Wesley Pitkin ; 1843, Rasselas C. Botsford, John G. Hogobome; 1844, R. C. Bots- ford, John G. Hogobome ; 1845, David K. Rogers, Stephen B. Loveland ; 1846, Joseph Wiseman, John Luttenten ; 1847, Smith Sharpstein, Albert W. Peacock ; 1848, R. C. Botsford, George N. Flint ; 1849, Smith Sharpstein, John W. McNitt; 1850, Alonzo B. Sumner, R. C. Botsford ; 1851, Lewis Harris, R. C. Botsford, Alonzo B. Sumner ; 1852, Isaac H. Gray, David Simonds, Jr. ; 1853, L. L. Harris, E. Beckwith, Richard Milham, Bushrod W. Spaulding ; 1854, Thomas J. Whiting, Eliphalet Beckwith; 1855, Isaac H. Streetor, Eliphalet Beckwith, Porter H. Whitford; 1856, D. E. McCleland, William A. Gleason, David D. Henion, Daniel A. Frink ; 1857, Warren Nichols, Daniel A. Frink, Ezra Beckwith, E. P. Oatman ; 1858, Andrew Nichols, Andrew Caywood, Daniel A. Frink, Ashel P. Barlow ; 1859, Daniel A. Frink, Bushrod W .. Spaulding, Warren Nichols, Andrew Caywood; 1860, Daniel A. Frink, Philip G. Corey, Byron Clark, Dwight B. Anderson ; 1861, Daniel A. Frink, Abel Hoag, Warren Nichols, David D. Henion ; 1862, Abram Ough, Abel Hoag, Bushrod W. Spaulding, John W. Keith ; 1863, Daniel A. Frink, Henry H. Troutwine, J. Q. Streator, Abram Ough ; 1864, Henry L. Bennett, Abel Hoag, Dwight Taylor, Joseph Gault ; 1865, Abel Hoag, Henry L. Keith, Henry H. Troutwine, Leman H. Spier; 1866, Wm. O. Towsley, Russell F. Johnson, Thos. A. Anderson, Henry S. Sleeper ; 1867, Richard H. Barber, Thos. A. Anderson, Thaddeus Clapp, John N. Shafter ; 1868, Frank W. Carlton, Richard H. Barber, Hugh M. Shafter, Abel Hoag; 1869, Abel Hoag, Charles W. Struble, Marius O. Streator, Josiah Loveland; 1870, Ephraim Quimby, Andrew Cay- wood, Abel Hoag, Richard H. Barber ; 1871, Stephen M. Daken, Wm. O. Towsley, George De Friest, John Q. Streator; 1872, Abel Hoag, William O. Towsley, James R. Flanders, Eli H. Anderson ; 1873, Nathaniel Potts, Chauncey Mitchell, Henry H. Hale, Abel Hoag ; 1874, Edwin G. Smith, Abel Hoag, James N. Shafter, George T. King ; 1875, George T, King, James N. Shafter, Lewis
.C. Miner, Edwin G. Smith; 1876, Lewis C. Miner, Abel Hoag, James N. Shafter, Edwin G. Smith; 1877, Wm. P. Jeffers, James N. Shafter, P. S. Carmer, Jacob Fancher ; 1878, James N. Shafter, Abel Hoag, Wm. P. Jeffers, Austin Potts ; 1879, Abel Hoag, Jas. N. Shafter, John Freer, Joseph C. Mitchell.
DRAIN COMMISSIONER.
1876 to 1879, A. L. Runney.
SETTLERS OF THE SECOND PERIOD.
The second decade, the period from 1840 to 1850, brought an excellent class of settlers to this township. They came with larger means, better implements, and the increased facilities of their day, although many of them began on new lands and were pioneers in the true sense, as far as starting in the woods was concerned. Others settled on improved farms and are now among our best farmers and citizens.
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