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The Kalamazoo Valley Family News Letter

Vol. 2, No. 1         September 1972

Pages 16 & part 2 or page 32

 

OTSEGO TOWNSHIP.
Otsego Township Map
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First explorations were made by persons during the winter of 1829-1830, who returned and settled with their
families in the fall of 1830. On April 6, 1833, the first election in Allegan County was held in Otsego township,
with 22 votes being cast, electing officers of Allegan Township, which included all the territory in the present
County of Allegan. By act of Legislature in 1836, Otsego township was made to include the present boundaries
of Dorr, Hopkins, Watson and Otsego. The three former townships were legally separated in 1842. Early
settlements were made at Pine Creek and at the rapids of the Kalamazoo Ricer(now Otsego). A postoffice
was established at Otsego soon after 1831 or 1832, and was named for Otsego County, New York. Otsego
Village was incorporated in 1865, and as a city in 1918
.

 

Supervisor Clerk Treasurer
Hull Sherwood, Jr. (1836) L. B. Coats (1836-7) Eber Sherwood (1839-42)
Oka Town (1837) O. Eaton (1838) Henry Sheldon (1843)
Hull Sherwood (1838) C. D. Parkhurst (1839) Leland Lane (1844-6)
Oka Town (1839-40) L. C. Anderson (1840) R. C. Dennison (1847)
Hull Sherwood (1841) Henry Sheldon (1841) Abram Hoag (1848)
L. B. Coats (1842) James Fitch (1842-3) James B. Porter (1849-52)
Osmond Smith (1843) W. G. Eaton (1844) Willard Higgins (1853)
Henry Sheldon (1844) Daniel M. Hall (1845) Darwin A. Drew (1854-8)
Hull Sherwood (1845-6) R. C. Dennison (1846) Joel S. Pratt (1859-60)
Leland Lane (1847) Abram Hoag (1847) Turner S. Day (1861-2)
Oka Town (1848-9) James Fitch (1848) Alfred Reid (1863)
Willard G. Eaton (1850) O. Eaton (1849) Nahum Gilbert (1864-9)
R. F. Kellogg (1851-2) Abram Hoag (1850) Henry M. Pratt (1870)
Abram Hoag (1853-7) Willard Higgins (1851) Byron Ballou (1871)
Ira Chichester (1858-9) Clark D. Fox (1852-5) Abram Hoag (1872)
Philip Burlingham (1860) James Monteith (1856) James Franklin (1873-5)
Ira Chichester (1861-6) C. N. White (1857) Abram Hoag (1876)
M. G. Higgins (1867) Clark D. Fox (1858-60) Albert T. Palmer (1877-8)
Edwin M. Allen (1868) I. T. Clapp (1861) Stephen B. Hoag (1879-80)
James Franklin (1869) James Smith (1862-4) Adison M. Buck (1881-2)
Wilson C. Edsell (1870) Alvah D. Botsford (1865) Cornelius Engles (1883-4)
Alva D. Botsford (1871-2) James Smith (1866-72) Stephen B. Hoag (1885-6)
A. J. Van Wyck (1873) Stacey K. Potter (1873-4) Andrew Thornton (1887-8)
Alva D. Botsford (1874-6) James Smith (1875-8) Charles F. Ruthrauff (1889)
Abram Hoag (1877) A. J. Van Wyck (1879) Andrew Thornton (1890)
John F. Hale (1878) Abram J. Van Wyck (1880) Charles F. Ruthrauff (1889)
Alvah D. Botsford (1879) A. T. B. Palmer (1881-6) Andrew Thornton (1890)
Theodore Hart (1880-2) C. A. Barnes (1887-90) Charles H. Prentiss (1891-2)
James Franklin (1883) E. J. Rose (1891-3) C. M. Edmonds (1893-4)
D. S. Gardner (1884) H. D. Mills (1894-5) G. S. Sherwood (1895-6)
James Franklin (1885) Irving Temple (1896-7) Fred Tubbs (1897-8)
Daniel S. Gardner (1886-90) George R. Brown (1898-1906) W. W. Hains (1899-1900)
Thomas E. French (1891-5)   C. F. Stuck (1901-02)
C. M. Edmonds (1896-1903)   George Gilbert (1903-04)
A. B. Tucker (1904-05)   W. H. Walcott (1904-06)
Frank Fairfield (1906)    

INDEX
Allegan City Douglas Village Just so you know Pioneer Society
Allegan County History Drinkwine Bible Record Kalamazoo Library Plainwell City
Allegan County Officials Early Marriages Laketown Township Presbyterians
Allegan Township Editorial Lee Township President Message
Allegan Vacations Family Names, and how they came about -"The Dutch" Leighton Township Salem Township
Allegan's Oldest Living Graduate Fennville City Library References Saugatuck Township
Biographical Historians Fillmore Township Manlius Township Saugatuck Village
Casco Township Ganges Township Martin Township Smile, you've been in Allegan County
Cheshire Township Gravestone of a Genealogist? Martin Village Source of the Quarter
Clyde Township Gun Plain Township Monterey Township Trowbridge Township
County Clerk's Letter Hamilton High School Band Photo News Clippings Valley Township
County Commissioners 1971 Heath Township Nostalgia Anyone Watson Township
Credits and Dedication Help!! Old Fashioned Wayland City
Daniel Like Record Hopkins Township Otsego City Wayland Township
Dann Family Hopkins Village Otsego Township  
Dorr Township Hyder Family History Overisel Township  

 

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