USGenWeb Project     MIGenWeb

The Kalamazoo Valley Family News Letter

Vol. 2, No. 1         September 1972

Page 18 & Part of 24

WATSON TOWNSHIP

Watson Township Map
      Click on image to enlarge        

1971 Officials
Carl Strand, Supervisor; Woodrow Spohn, Clerk
Josephine Wilson, Treasurer;
Axel Swanty, Trustee; Goldie Miner, Trustee 

Earliest pioneers arrived in 1836.   At first the township was part of Otsego, was set off
(with townships of Dorr and Hopkins) as township of Watson in 1842; Dorr was set off in 1847,
and Hopkins in 1852, leaving Watson with its present boundaries. It is named for an early resident,
who surveyed he earliest road about 1837
.
 

 

Supervisor  Clerk Treasurer
A. D. Dunning (1842) Eli P. Watson (1842) Eli Watson (1842)
William S. Miner (1843) A. D. Dunning (1843) C. N. Miner (1843)
A. D. Dunning (1844) Daniel Leggett (1844) Luther Howe (1844)
B. P. Chase (1845) Eli P. Watson (1845) W. S. Miner (1845)
Samuel Edgarton (1846) Daniel Leggett (1846) Jesse D. Stone (1846)
J. B. Alexander (1847) C. A. Miner (1847) K. C. Osborn (1847)
W. S. Miner (1848) A. D. Dunning (1848) A. W. Beals (1848)
Lloyd Austin (1849) Eli P. Watson (1849) Randall Brooks (1849)
Wells Field (1850) W. B. Andrus (1850) John S. Gorton (1850)
Lloyd Anstin (1851) C. E. Watson (1851) W. C. Rowe (1851)
Wells Field (1852-3) A. D. Dunning (1852-3) N. K. Lonsbury (1852)
Lloyd Austin (1854) Nelson Fisk (1854) J. D. Stone (1853)
Wells Field (1855) Samuel Fisk (1855) Alfred Stone (1855)
William W. Kent (1856-8) C. L. Horning (1856-60) James W. Kent (1856)
S. Van Dusen (1859) Daniel Leggett (1861-2) L. D. Nichols (1857-60)
William W. Kent (1860) John L. Hughes (1863-4) M. B. Nichols (1861)
L. D. Nichols (1861) L. D. Nichols (1865) George Kent (1862)
C. L. Horning (1862-3) H. D. Edgarton (1866-7) L. D. Nichols (1863)
Herman Johnson (1864) James C. Leggett (1868-70) C. A. Miner (1864-5)
S. Van Duzen (1865) Henry J. Leggett (1871) John F. Beebe (1866)
C. D. Clements (1866) Wesley F. Tefft (1872-7) John G. Kent (1867-9)
John H. Wicks (1867) G. A. Miner (1878) James W. Kent (1870-1)
S. Van Duzen (1868-9) Wesley S. Tefft (1879-80) George Kent (1872)
C. D. Clements (1870) Samuel Fisk (1881) Samuel Fisk (1873-4)
Benjamin Pratt (1871) Gilbert A. Dunning (1882) (1883) John J. Jones (1875)
C. D. Clements (1872-8) Wesley S.Tefft (1884) John G. Kent (1876-7)
Robert Konkle (1879-80) James L. Felton (1886-6) J. E. Lonsbury (1878)
Dennis Delano (1881-2) Wesley S. Tefft (1887-90) F. C. McClelland (1879)
S. P. Albertson (1883) William MacDougall (1891) Edgar L. Moon (1880)
Fordyce D. Reed (1884-5) Frank Andrews (1892-3) John G. Kent (1881)
Isaac Page (1886-8) William MacDougall (1894) J. E. Lonsbury (1878)
John W. Blair (1889) J. Monroe Kent (1897-8) F. C. McClelland (1879)
Robert Konkle (1890-1) William MacDougall (1899-1900) Edgar L. Moon (1880)
Stephen Case (1892) C. E. Shepard (1901-03) John G. Kent (1881)
Anthony Weber (1893) George W. Townsend (1904) Frank L. Kent (1882-3)
Frank Andrews (1894-6) Frank A. Taylor (1905-06) F. C. McClelland (1884)
J. T. Wynne (1897-1900)   Frank L. Kent (1885-6)
F. C. McClelland (1901)   John W. Blair (1887-8)
J. Monroe Kent (1902-06)   Granville A. Miner (1889)
    Patrick McLaughlin (1890-1)
    F. C. McClelland (1892-3)
    Granville A. Miner (1894)
    John Frost (1895-6)
    Martin C. Miner (1897-8)
    William Earley (1899-1900)
    Martin C. Miner (1901-2)
    James Roblyer (1903-4)
    James A. Bracelin (1905-06)

 

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  

Return to Allegan County MIGenWeb Home PageReturn To Home Page

   All rights reserved.
This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated
in any fashion without my consent.
The information on these pages is meant for personal genealogical
research only and is not for commercial use of any type.

Top of Page