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1845. R. S. Norris.
1866. E. D. Tripp.
1846. B. Morton.
1867. G. W. Barker.
1847. M. Green wood.
1848. 1I. S. Harrison.
1849. R. S. Norris.
1870. E. D. Tripp.
1851. H. W. Hudson.
1872. J. N. McFarlan.
1853. I. C. Palmer.
1874. E. D. Tripp.
1854. G. Conn.
1875. A. Stout.
1855. C. Iliggins.
1876. J. N. De Witt.
1856. Z. Il. Harrison.
1877. W. H. Moote.
1857. J. O. Palmer.
1878. II. P. Adams.
1858. O. L. Spaulding.
1879. C. M. Merrill.
1859. J. II. Cranson.
1880. W. Brunson.
1860. George Serviss.
1868. J. M. McFarlan.
1869. W. N. Willey.
t850. Isaac Wait.
1871. William Taylor.
1852. Z. 11. Ilarrison.
1873. S. Iloyt.
TOWNSHIP HIGHWAYS.
The first highways recorded in the township records were laid out by Highway Commissioners Barker and Stevens, July 15, 1839. Road No. 1 is described as follows:
" Commencing at the southeast corner of section 26, in town 8 north, of range 2 west; thenee north, 52º west, 30 chains and 37 links to angle ; thence north, 57º west, 1 chain and 63 links to angle; thence north, 53}° west, 73 chains and 75 links to the west line of said section 26; thence north on seetion-line 11 chains and 26 links to the northwest corner of said section ; thence north on section- line 200 chains to the quarter-stake on the east line of section 10; thence west, 22° south, 144 chains and 50 links to maple stub; thence west, 30° south, 15 chains and 50 links to quarter-stake- on the east side of section 8; thence west, 22° south, 152 chains to the quarter post on the west line of section 7,-all in said town 8 north, of range 2 west.
" No. 2 .-. Also a road beginning at the southwest corner of section 30 in the above-named township; thence east, 43º north, 6 chains and 90 links to post and angle; thence south, 41° east, 4 chains and 92 links to buttonwood-tree ; thence south, 54° cast, 5 chains and 45 links to a post ;
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thenee south, 48° east, 50 chains and 50 links to post ; thenee south, 52º east, 10 chains to post ; thence south, 43º east, 5 chains to post ; thence south, 50° east, 15g chains to becch-tree ; thence south, 46° east, 6 ehains and 25 luks to post ; thence south, 48° east, 7 chains to post ; thenee east, 23º north, 120 chains to post ; thence south, 66° east, 5 chains to beech-tree; thence south, 77º east, 10 chains and 65 links to beech-tree ; thenee east, 33º north, 6 chains and 60 links to post ; thence south, 65° east, 13 chains and 75 links; thence south, 59º east, 4} chains to basswood- tree; thenee south, 58° east, 19} chains to beeeh-tree; thenee south, 80° east, 8 chains and 40 links to maple-tree ; thence south, 85° east, 15 chains and 38 links to post ; thence south, 75° east, 30 chains and 38 links to post ; thence east, 17º north, 4 chains and 96 links to elm-tree ; thence east, 18 chains and 25 links to post ; thence east, 27° north, 7 chains to basswood-tree; thence east, 14º north, 11 chains and 56 links to post ; thence south, 85° · east, 19 chains and 87 links to post ; thenee east, 4º north, 4 chains; thenee north, 37° east, 3 chains; thence east, 29º north, 11 chains and 81 links; thence east, 5° south, 92 chains ; thence east, 13º south, 7 chains and 56 links ; thenee east, 5° south, 12 chains and 30 links; thence east, 10º north, 15 chains and 12 links; thenee 39º north, 4 chains and 11 links ; thence east, 43}º north, 5 chains and 75 links ; thence east, 32}º north, 6 chains; thenee east, 48° north, 24} chains to the south [east] corner of section 36 in said town 8 north, of range 2 west.
" No. 3 .- Also commencing 23º north, 40 chains east of quarter-post, on the west line of seetion 6, town 7 north, of range 1 west ; thence east, 23º north, 36 chains and 5 links to post ; thence north, 5° west, 46 chains to the north line of said section 6, 5 chains and 17 links west of the northeast corner of said seetion 6."
COPY OF ENTRY IN HIGHWAY RECORDS.
" Mr. Stephen Pearl, T.C., of the township of Bingham : We the undersigned, highway commissioners of the said town, having determined to lay out the following roads, do hereby order you to record the same.
" The minutes of the surveys of the several roads are as follows :
" Town & north, of range 2 west.
" No. 1 .- Beginning at the west quarter stake of section No. 23; thenee running north 873º east, 80 chains to the east quarter post of 23.
" No. 2 .- Beginning at the northeast corner of section No. 27; thence running south, 873º west, 160 chains to the southwest corner of seetion No. 21.
" Town 7 north, of range 1 west.
" No. 1 .- Beginning at the southwest corner of section No. 36; thence running south, 87º west, 19 chains ; thence north, 523° west, 8 chains; thenee south, 51}º west, 17 chains and 3 links; thenee south, 87° west, 32 chains and 13 links to the southwest corner of section No. 35.
" No. 2 .- Beginning at the southwest corner of section No. 36; thence running north, 3º west, 92 chains ; thenee north, 45° east, 37 chains and 70 links to a stake 59 links north, 3º west, from w. oak 18 inches in diameter.
" Town 8 north, of range 1 west.
" No. 1 .- Beginning at a stake bearing south 87}° west, 20 chains from the northwest corner of section No. 33; thenee running south, 23° cast, 80 chains and 24 links ; thence south, 15° west, 3 chains and 75 links; thenee south, 26° west, 13 chains and 52 links ; thence south, 2}º east, 12 ehains and 59 links to a stake standing in the eentre of the highway.
" Recorded Dee. 14, 1839.
" SAMUEL BARKER,
" CHARLES STEVENS,
" STEPHEN PEARL, T. C.,
"Commissioners of Highways."
EDUCATIONAL.
Bingham's first school was taught on the Silas Parks .place by Mary, daughter of Nathan Smith, of Olive. The school-house was an abandoned cabin, and the pupils were from the families of Lueins Morton, Silas Parks, and Ben- jamin Finkle. Mary Smith taught the school two terms, and after that Orpha Fisk taught in the same house. The next teacher was Lucinda Richmond, who kept school about two years in Lucius Morton's house, Morton having built an addition to his residenee for this purpose. He hired Miss Richmond at one dollar a week, and charged a certain sum per capita for each child to cover expenses. Some of the pupils were boarded by him and others brought their dinners.
The records of an early date having been lost, very little touching the history of township schools from the begin- ning can be gleaned. There is, indeed, nothing to be gathered from the records antedating 1855. On the 6th of October in that year it appears of record that distriet No. 4 was organized to contain the south half of section 9 and the whole of section 16, except the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter. On the same day district No. 5 was formed, and contained sections 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24. Fractional distriet No. 6 was formed Oct. 27, 1855, of a portion of Olive and section 26, the east half of seetion 34, and the whole of section 35 in Bingham. Oct. 27, 1855, No. 7 was organized to contain section 29, the south half of section 30, the whole of section 31, the north half of the northwest quarter, the southwest quarter of the north- west quarter, the southwest quarter, and the west half of the west half of the southeast quarter of seetion 32. No. 8 was organized Feb. 2, 1856, and comprised the northwest quarter of section 28, the north half of seetion 29, and the north half of section 30.
From 1853 to 1858 teachers were appointed as follows:
Nov. 20, 1853 .- Pamelia Bliss.
May 6, 1854 .- Jane Clark.
May 29, 1854 .- Stella Ferguson.
Nov. 6, 1854 .- S. J. Wileox.
Dee. 2, 1854 .- Tamour Doty.
Dec. 5, 1854 .- Catherine A. Fenner.
May 7, 1855 .- Mary C. Richmond.
Nov. 3, 1855 .- R. Dubois.
Dec. 15, 1855 .- William Silverwood.
Dec. 21, 1855 .- C. A. Lamb.
VIEW OF GRAINERY NORTH OF RESIDENCE.
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FIRST HOME BUILT IN 1845.
RESIDENCE OF J, R, HALE, BINGHAM, MICH.
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BINGIIAM TOWNSHIP.
Jan. 17, 1856 .- Susan Gardner, Emily Rowan. April 29, 1856 .- Nancy M. Richmond, Adelaide Smith. Nov. 1, 1856 .- Charles T. Euoc. Nov. 19, 1856 .- George L. Wait. Dee. 17, 1856 .- Catherine A. Fen ner. Jan. 1, 1857 .- John O. Palmer. Jan. 26, 1857 .- George W. Doty.
April 13, 1857 .- Sally Lamphere.
April 21, 1857 .- Ann Davidson. May 1, 1857 .- Lney M. Palmer.
June 19, 1857 .- Betsey Warren.
Nov. 7, 1857 .- Seth Hunt, Jr., Anthony Swarthout.
Nov. 12, 1857 .- John Van Horn.
Dec. 2, 1857 .- John R. Pond.
Dee. 12, 1857 .- Esther Powell.
Jan. 5, 1858 .- Naney Sewell.
March 4, 1858 .- Jeanette E. Newell.
April 10, 1858 .- Elizabeth Severanee, Rosina Severance, Sophronia Corbin.
The annual school report for 1879 gives the following details :
Number of districts (whole, 5; fractional, 5) 10
scholars of school age ... 1,049
Average attendance .. 889
Value of school property ...
$17,725
Amount of teachers' wages. $5,014.50
The school directors fer 1879 were H. W. Hale, C. II. Sebert, Lyman Sperry, Josiah Upton, William Atkinson, N. Williamson, Jans Purvis, Eugene Shulters, Frank Sacket, and Richard Gay.
RELIGIOUS.
THE WEST BINGHAM UNITED BRETHREN CLASS.
In September, 1867, Rev. William Palmer, of the Ben- gal Cireuit, organized the West Bingham United Brethren elass, with five members, viz. : D. C. Norris, Henry Lar- kens, George Yallap, Mary Larkens, and Mary Yallap, the class-leader being Henry Larkens. The Peek school-house, in distriet No. 3, has been used as the place of worship since the class organization. The class has now a member- ship of thirteen, and meets for worship once a fortnight. Mr. Palmer's successors on the work have been Revs. Dor- rance, Beechler, Shelley, Barnaby, Older, Duryea, Lane, Maynard, and Mowers. There is also a union Sunday- school, of which Robert Larkens is superintendent, and in which the attendance averages forty.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JOHN R. HALE.
John R. Hale was born at Sangersfield, Oneida Co., N. Y., Feb. 5, 1822, on the same farm and in the same house where his father, Seneca Hale, was born in 1790. John R. lived at home until he was twenty-one, and that year ( 1842) came to Michigan with one hundred dollars, bought land in Ingham County, where he remained some three years, exchanging that property for one hundred and sixty acres
of land where he now resides, and upon which he moved in 1845. The whole county was then a wilderness, seareely settled and all new beginners,-not more than fifty acres of land at that time had been plowed in the town of Bing- ham. Mr. Hale's first dwelling was a log cabin of the most primitive kind, where he and his mother lived for several years. To supply the necessaries of life Mr. Hale was obliged to seek employment in the more populous portions of the State, consequently the improvements upon his own land were made with the greatest difficulty. In 1852 he went to California ; was absent two and a half years, when he returned with sufficient money to enable him to purchase other lands, ereet a more pretentious log house, and make substantial improvements from time to time until he now has a fine farm of three hundred and twenty aeres and a commodious briek residence, a view of which may be seen in this work. Mr. Hale has been twice married: first to Cor- delia E. Redfield, June 2, 1847. She died Dec. 26, 1876, leaving two children,-Emma, married Milton Smith ; the son, Frank O., lives at home. Mr. Hale was again married August, 1877, to Dorissa Miles, by whom he has one daughter. Politically, Mr. Hale is a Demoerat, has held several town offices, and is classed amoug the substan- tial and reliable men of Clinton County.
JOHN AVERY.
John Avery was born in the town of Lyme, Conn., May 4, 1798, and is of English and Seotch descent. When six years of age his parents moved to Jefferson Co., N. Y., and when the war of 1812 broke out, John Avery, then a lad of thirteen years, moved by a spirit of adventure and independence which has characterized him through life, enlisted in the Twenty-third Regiment of United States Infantry. He participated in the capture of Fort George, and nearly all the engagements on the frontier during the war, and took part in the eapture of the brigs " Adams" and " Caledonia ;" was taken prisoner at the battle of Fort Erie by the Indians, who took him to the forests of Canada, where he remained more than a year in charge of Jack Brandt, when his freedom was purchased by Adams & Ball, merchants at Twelve-Mile Creek. Ile then returned to Adams, Jefferson Co., N. Y., where he was married, August, 1821, to Sarah Cooper, of Watertown. After a few years they went to Chautauqua County, and in 1836 eame to Michigan, stopping in Oakland County two years, arriving in Clinton County the fall of 1838 with fifty dollars; pur- chased forty acres of' land in the town of Greenbush, where he remained five years, then purchased eighty aeres in Bingham, where he has siuee resided. At that time this part of the county was sparsely settled, and all new beginners, with limited means. Mr. Avery cut out the road for two miles, and put in the first log bridges on that road. The country was heavily timbered, and the process of making a farm was slow, but by the indomitable perse- verance and strong arm of this pioneer the improvements were made, other lands added, until at one time he had more than four hundred aeres of land, with large and sub- stantial improvements. He has raised a family of seven children,-five sons and two daughters,-besides three chil-
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HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
able there were several in addition to those given in the list of officers for that year.
By vote the following persons were elected pathmasters in the several distriets :
Silas W. Rose, distriet No. 1.
William Young, distriet No. 2.
Philemon Newinan, distriet No. 3.
W. J. Partelo, distriet No. 4.
Jesse Jameson, distriet No. 5.
John Collister, distriet No. 6.
The first meeting of the town board of the township of Ossowa, to audit its accounts, was held Nov. 18, 1839, at which time the following accounts were entered :
James Smith. $10.50
W. E. Young
2.25
Jonathan Burke ..
2.50
Daniel M. Blood
3.00
S. W. Rose ..
28,00
Alva Coddington
3.00
Jesse Jameson
21.00
Hugh Ilagerty.
18.00
Hosea Root.
4,50
John Collister
8,50
Philemon Newinan
10.50
W. J. Partelo
7.15
Total
$120.00
On Jan. 23, 1840, " James M. Blood, in consideration of twelve and one-half cents, received to [his] full satisfae- tion," leased to school district No. 3 of the township of Ossowa one-quarter of an aere in the northwest corner of seetion 13, now in the township of Vietor, " to have and to hold the same for the use of said distriet as long or as many years as the school distriet desire to oeeupy it as a site for a school-house." This was the first lease made and recorded in the township.
The first license to keep a tavern was granted to James M. Blood. A few days after, the following one was granted to Samuel Chappel, in the following words :
" COUNTY OF CLINTON, )
STATE OF MICHIGAN. S 88.
" At a meeting of the town board [of the township of Ossowa], at the house of James M. Blood, for the purpose of granting permits to taveru-keepers and common vietual- sellers, on the 11th day of April, 1840, Samuel Chappel was allowed to keep a tavern in all its varions branches, ex- cepting the privilege to retail ardent and spirituous lickours, which privilege the board do not grant or permit ; said license to take effect on the 1st day of May of the present year, and to expire on the last day of April, 1841, in his house, formerly belonging to Chancey Davis, on seetion 27, town 6 north, range 1 W., and no other.
" JAMES M. BLOOD, II. HAGERTY, JESSE JAMESON, JOHN COLLISTER,
Town Board."
As has been stated, Ossowa was divided in 1843 and the township of Bath was organized. The first election held in Bath as a distinet township was at the house of Silas W. Rose, on the 18th day of April, 1843, on which oeea- sion the whole number of votes cast was twenty-five.
The township officers of Ossowa and Bath annually eleeted from 1839 to 1880, inclusive, have been as named in the following list, viz. :
OSSOWA.
1839 .- Supervisor, Silas W. Rose ; Clerk, C. Davis *; Com- missioners of Highways, James Smith, Hosea Root, Jesse Jameson ; Assessors, Hugh Hagerty, A. Coddington, Philemon Newman ; School In- speetors, Silas W. Rose, W. J. Partelo, A. Cod- dington ; Justiees, Hugh Hagerty, Jesse Jame- son, P. Newman, S. W. Rose; Collector, Jona- than Burke; Constables, Jonathan Burke, Peter Finke, Chauncey Davis, J. Canklin ; Directors of the Poor, Robert Fineh, James Smith ; Treas- urer, Jesse Jameson.
1840. - Supervisor, James Blood ; Treasurer, Jesse Jame- son ; Assessors, A. Coddington, D. H. Blood, Hugh Hagerty ; Collector, P. Finch ; School Inspectors, W. J. Partelo, R. Collister, Jr., Jonathan Burke ; Directors of the Poor, Robert Collister, W. E. Young ; Commissioners, Robert Fineh, Joseph Parsons, James M. Blood ; Jus- tiees, W. J. Partelo ; Constables, Peter Finch, Stephen Fineh, Samuel Chappel, W. Calkins.
1841 .- Supervisor, W. W. Upton ; Clerk, Silas W. Rose ; Treasurer, O. A. Phelps ; Assessors, Hugh Hagerty, Henry Goodrich, Jesse Burke; Col- leetor, John Crist ; Sehool Inspectors, Walter Laing, John G. Brindle, W. W. Upton ; Com- missioners, Edwin L. Phelps, C. Potter, Went- worth Calkins ; Justice, Walter Laing; Consta- bles, John Crist, William Culver, W. Calkins ; Directors of the Poor, James Smith, Jesse Jame- SOD.
1842 .- Supervisor, W. W. Upton ; Clerk, D. H. Blood ; Treasurer, Ainsworth Reed ; Assessors, John Groom, Walter Laing; Commissioners, Howe Covert, John Collister, Joshua Priest ; Justice, Stephen Smith; School Inspectors, John Brin- gle, John Groom, W. W. Upton ; Dircetors of the Poor, David B. Cranson, D. S. Coates ; Con- stables, William Fineh, C. S. Swegles, A. Groom ; Sealer of Weights and Measures, James Calkins.
BATH.
1843 .- Supervisor, O. A. Phelps; Clerk, S. W. Rose ; Treasurer, E. L. Phelps ; Assessors, R. J. Burt, H. Culver; Sehool Inspectors, R. J. Burt, A. Priest ; Directors of the Poor, Jacob Conklin, S. W. Rose; Commissioners, P. Newman, Wil- liam Cass, James Smith ; Justiees, S. Call, Wil- liam Cass, J. Burke; Constables, R. J. Burt, II. Stevens, J. Persons, M. W. Newman.
1844 .- Supervisor, O. A. Phelps; Clerk, S. W. Rose ; Treasurer, E. L. Phelps ; Assessor, A. Eldrich ; School Inspector, R. J. Burt. The minutes of the meeting of this year are incomplete and in- definite.
* At a special election called on May 11, 1839, for the purpose of filling vacancies, the following-named persons were chosen : Clerk, John Collister; Assessor, Jesse Burke; School Inspector, William E. Young.
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BATH TOWNSHIP.
1845 .- Supervisor, S. Cole; Clerk, W. H. HI. Culver ; Treasurer, --; Assessors, John Covert, I. B. Towner ; Commissioner, J. Calkins ; Sehool Inspector, S. B. Smith ; Directors of the Poor, J. Smith, I. Fletcher ; Justice, R. Burt ; Con- stables, T. Newman, L. Priest.
1846 .- Supervisor, Samuel Cole; Clerk, Israel R. Trem- bley ; Treasurer, Jesse Burke; Commissioners, Edwin L. Phelps, Stephen Gregory, Montgomery Burt ; School Inspectors, D. L. Elert, Samuel B. Smith ; Justices, Ezias A. Phelps, Isaac Fletcher ; Directors of the Poor, Isaac B. Towner, Isaae Fletcher ; Constables, Montgom- ery Burt, Harrison Levanway, Hamilton Stevens, William H. Culver.
1847 .- Supervisor, D. Levanway ; Clerk, John Crist ; Treasurer, Jesse Burke ; Commissioners, George Smith, William Coss, E. L. Phelps ; School In- spector, Richard Burt ; Justices, Samuel Cole, John Tyler ; Directors of the Poor, Jacob Conk- lin, Harrison Levanway ; Constables, Hamilton Stevens, Alexis Tyler.
1848 .- Supervisor, Dorus Levanway ; Clerk, Sylvanus Bachelder; Justice, Isaac Fletcher ; Treasurer, Jesse Burke; School Inspector, Dorus Levan- way ; Commissioner, A. Tyler ; Assessors, Joseph Piersons, Isaae B. Towner; Directors of the Poor, J. Conklin, James Smith ; Constables, A. Stevens, S. Tyler, P. Conklin, W. H. Culver. 1849 .- Supervisor, R. Burt ; Clerk, S. Bachelder ; Justice, R. Burt ; Treasurer, J. Burke; Sehool Inspee- tors, W. II. Culver, J. Marsden ; Commission- ers, J. Tyler, S. Cole; Assessors, R. Collister, J. B. Towner ; Directors of the Poor, J. Smith, J. Conklin ; Constables, L. Tyler, M. Cushman, T. Newman.
1850 .- Supervisor, S. B. Smith ; Clerk, S. Bachelder ; Treasurer, A. Tyler ; Justice, Thomas Peacock ; School Inspector, J. R. Trembley ; Commissioner, James Smith ; Assessors, E. L. Phelps, W. Il. Culver ; Directors of the Poor, James Smith, Jacob Conklin ; Constables, Stephen Tyler, James Smith, Peter Conklin, Morris Cushman. 1851 .- Supervisor, S. B. Smith; Clerk, S. Bachelder ; Treasurer, J. Burke; Justice, S. Cole ; School Inspector, R. Burt ; Commissioner, D. P. Dryer ; Assessors, J. Piersons, T. Peacock ; Directors of the Poor, J. Smith, J. Tyler ; Constables, A. Sweet, P. Rose, L. Tyler, S. Cole.
1852 .- Supervisor, S. Bachelder ; Clerk, S. Fletcher ; Treasurer, A. Cole ; Justice, S. R. Trembley ; School Inspector, S. Bachelder ; Commissioner, J. Tyler ; Directors of the Poor, R. Burt, D. P. Dryer ; Constables, A. Crane, A. Sweet.
1853 .- Supervisor, S. Bachelder; Clerk, I. Fletcher ; Treasurer, S. Cole; Justice, E. L. Phelps ; School Inspector, A. Crane; Commissioner, Joseph Pierson ; Directors of the Poor, S. Cole, A. Sweet; Constables, A. Crane, W. Peacock, R. Rose, James Smith.
1854 .- Supervisor, S. Bachelder ; Clerk, I. Fletcher, Jr. ; Treasurer, S. Cole; Justice, D. P. Dryer ; School Inspector, S. Bachelder ; Commissioner, E. Trumble; Directors of the Poor, S. Cole, E. L. Phelps ; Constables, S. Hunt, R. Rose, L. Tyler, S. Tyler.
1855 .- Supervisor, S. Bachelder ; Clerk, I. Fletcher, Jr .; Treasurer, 1. Cole; School Inspector, W. R. Norton ; Commissioner, A. Smith ; Directors of the Poor, R. Collister, Jr., E. R. Phelps; Con- stables,` J. Burke, J. Spangler, W. Stevens, S. R. Tyler.
1856 .- Supervisor, James II. Cayvett; Clerk, Jacob Spang- ler ; Treasurer, D. P. Dryer ; School Inspector, James II. Cayvett ; Justice, John Watlin ; Com- missioner, Benjamin Martin ; Directors of the Poor, A. K. Shay, Henry Goodrich ; Constables, L. Potter, N. P. Gallup, D. Marr, Wm. Stevens. 1857 .- Supervisor, John M. Easton ; Clerk, Samuel Cole ; Treasurer, I. Fletcher, Jr .; Justice, A. Crane ; School Inspectors, John G. Brindle, P. R. S. Crage; Commissioners, Walter Love, Oney Davis ; Directors of the Poor, E. L. Phelps, Henry Goodrich ; Constables, William Stevens, Walter Coss, Jared Debar, Robert Rose.
1858 .- Supervisor, Thomas Woodman ; Clerk, W. M. Van Leuven ; Treasurer, Isaae Fletcher, Jr .; Jus- tices, E. L. Phelps, Samuel Bender ; School Inspector, Jacob Spangler ; Commissioners, A. Debar, Silas W. Rose; Directors of the Poor, Joseph Piersons, Henry Goodrich ; Constables, A. Debar, E. Smith, W. Love, M. Cushman. 1859 .- Supervisor, Thomas J. Woodman ; Clerk, W. M. Van Leuven ; Treasurer, Isaae Fletcher ; School Inspectors, John M. Easton, John G. Brindle ; Justices, Walter Love, Isaac M. Dryer ; Diree- tors of the Poor, E. L. Phelps, Albert Smith; Constables, James Culver, R. C. Comstock, Abraham Smith, P. N. Galliger.
1860 .- Supervisor, John M. Easton ; Clerk, William M. Van Leuven ; Treasurer, Isaac Fletcher ; School Inspector, Hiram Rathburn ; Justices, Samuel Cole, John G. Brindle ; Commissioner, Silas W. Rose ; Constables, Alexander MeKibbin, R. C. Comstock, James L. Culver.
1861 .- Supervisor, John M. Easton ; Clerk, W. M. Van Leuven ; Treasurer, Isaac Fletcher ; Justice, T. J. Woodman ; School Inspectors, John M. Easton, W. R. Norton ; Commissioner, James L. Culver ; Constables, William P. Trembly, Lyman S. Potter, Ransford C. Comstock, Silas W. Rose. 1862 .- Supervisor, Thomas J. Woodman; Clerk, Wash- ington Youry ; Treasurer, Isaac Fletcher ; Jus- tice, Marion Smith ; Commissioner, Daniel Sober; School Inspectors, Jacob Spangler, John Seely ; Constables, Albert P'. Smith, Charles Cushman, George II. Spangler, Wilber Thompson.
1863 .- Supervisor, Thomas J. Woodman ; Clerk, Washing- ton Youry ; Treasurer, Stephen B. Roby ; Jus- tices, Samuel Hunt, Elisha Abel ; Commissioner,
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HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, MICHIGAN.
able there were several in addition to those given in the list of officers for that year.
By vote the following persons were elected pathmasters in the several distriets :
Silas W. Rose, distriet No. 1.
William Young, district No. 2.
Philemon Newman, district No. 3.
W. J. Partelo, distriet No. 4. Jesse Jameson, distriet No. 5.
John Collister, distriet No. 6.
The first meeting of the town board of the township of Ossowa, to audit its accounts, was held Nov. 18, 1839, at which time the following accounts were entered :
James Smith. $10.50
W. E. Young
2.25
Jonathan Burke.
2.50
Daniel M. Blood
3,00
S. W. Rose.
28.00
Alva Coddington.
3,00
Jesse Jameson
21.00
Hugh Ilagerty
18.00
Hosea Root
4,50
John Collister
8.50
Philemon Newman.
10.50
W. J. Partelo.
7.15
Total.
$120.00
On Jan. 23, 1840, "James M. Blood, in consideration of twelve and one-half eents, received to [his] full satisfac- tion," leased to school district No. 3 of the township of Ossowa one-quarter of an acre in the northwest corner of section 13, now in the township of Vietor, " to have and to hold the same for the use of said distriet as long or as many years as the school district desire to occupy it as a site for a school-house." This was the first lease made and recorded in the township.
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