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The Kalamazoo Valley Family Vol. 2, No. 1 September 1972 Page 23-24 |
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SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP
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SAUGATUCK and DOUGLAS  Click on image to enlarge |
First white resident of Allegan county arrived
by vessel by way of the lakes in spring of 1830, and located at present site of Saugatuck Village, which was platted in 1833 as the Village of Kalamazoo. A postoffice was established in 1835. and at suggestion of the first postmaster, was named Saugatuck, an Indian word meaning "Mouth of River". The village itself retained the name of Kalamazoo, until incorporation of village of Kalamazoo, located in Kalamazoo County, then was called Newark until 1865 when it became known as Saugatuck. The village was incorporated by the Board of Supervisors in 1868. The Village of Singapore was located in 1834 on the north bank of the Kalamazoo River in section 4, and was platted in 1838, becoming a thriving lumber town, later it became completely buried by Lake Michigan sands. Another pioneer village known as Dudleyville was incorporated in 1870 as Douglas, named for Stephen A. Doulgas. Under act of Legislature in 1836, the township of Newark was created to include tract now occupied by the eight western townships of Allegan County. Seven townships were at various dates separated from Newark Township, and in 1859 attained the present dimensions of Saugatuck township, and the name was changed in 1863. The American Fur Co. had a trading post at Peach Orchard Point (later known as Mack's Landing,) about two miles above Douglas on the Kalamazoo River. Here a peach orchard in bearing was discovered by the earliest settlers, and it is believed to have been planted by the French fur traders, marking the beginning of peach culture in Allegan County. |
| Supervisor | Clerk | Treasurer |
|---|---|---|
| S. A. Morrison (1847-52) | H. R. Seymour (1847-8) | Lyman Fish (1847) |
| E. M. Dibble (1853-4) | Lorenzo Weed (1849-52) | M. B. Spencer (1848-51) |
| S. A. Morrison (1855-60) | A. W. Coates (1853-60) | S. D. Nichols (1852) |
| F. B. Wallin (1861) | H. R. Ellis (1861-2) | J. C. Haile (1853-8) |
| T. S. Coates (1862-4) | T. B. Dutcher (1863-4) | Warren Cook (1859-60) |
| B. F. Schanck (1865) | S. Johnson (1865) | S. A. Morrison (1861-4) |
| T. S. Coates (1866) | H. Manvel (1866) | T. B. Dutcher (1865) |
| R. Dunning (1867) | J. H. Porter (1867) | F. B. Wallin (1866) |
| S. A. Morrison (1868-9) | S. D. Nichols (1868-9) | Daniel Gerber (1867) |
| T. B. Dutcher (1870) | D. C. Putnam (1870) | J. G. Williams (1868-74) |
| S. A. Morrison (1871-2) | S. D. Nichols (1871-2) | W. S. Gill (1875) |
| Thomas Gray (1873-83) | R. B. Newnham (1873-6) | A. B. Taylor (1876-8) |
| John Nies (1884-5) | D. C. Putnam (1877-8) | R. B. Ames (1879) |
| Thomas Gray (1886) | A. B. Taylor (1879) | L. B. Coates (1880) |
| R. E. Newnham (1887) | J. M. Pond (1880) | A. B. Taylor (1881-2) |
| John Nies (1888-90) | S. D. Nichols (1881) | E. S. Pride (1883-4) |
| Daniel Falconer (1891-2) | D. C. Putnam (1882) | Frank Kirby (1885) |
| Dyer C. Putnam (1893) | Martin Gray (1883-4) | E. S. Pride (1886) |
| D. M. Gerber (1894-9) | A. B. Taylor (1885) | D. M. Gerber (1887) |
| Fred Wade (1900-01) | Martin Gray (1886-7) | P. E. Wilson (1888) |
| D. M. Gerber (1902-4) | F. Kirby (1888) | Elmer B. Weed (1889-90) |
| William White (1905-06) | Martin Gray (1889) | E. S. Pride (1891) |
| J. W. Prentice (1918-20) | Frank Wade (1890-1) | D. M. Gerber (1892-3) |
| William G. Tisdale (1921-4) | R. B. Newnham (1892) | Frank Kirby (1894) |
| Jno. A. Scarlett (1925-32) | Fred Wade (1893-6) | Elmer E. Weed (1895) |
| F. E. Wiley (1933-34) | D. B. Riley (1897) | George H. Plummer (1896) |
| Ralph W. Clapp (1935-42-?) | F. E. Wiley (1898) | James A. Aliber (1897-8) |
| Ralph Cartwright (-1971-?) | . H. Schultz (1899) | D. A. Heath (1899) |
| S. W. McDonald (1900-1) | W. G. Phelps (1900-1) | |
| Justice of the Peace | W. R. Takken (1902-03) | Frederick Kerr (1902-3) |
| W. H. Aden (1918) | H. A. McDonald (1904-5) | J. L. Henry (1904-05) |
| L. W. McDonald (1918-20) | L. E. Veits (1906-?) | Frederick Kerr (1906-?) |
| H. G. Welch (1918) | W. R. Gardner(1918-19) | August Pfaff (1918) |
| August Pfaff (1919-23) | Lemuel R. Brady(1920-4) | William G. Tisdale (1919-20) |
| W. R. Gardner (1920-21) | H. C. Simonson(1925-8) | Ward Reid (1921-22) |
| William R. Tachau (1921) | James M. Brown(1929-32) | Stephen L. Newnham (1923-4) |
| William McVea (1921) | Ben Wiegut (1933) | L. R. Brady (1925) |
| Horace G. Welch (1922) | James M. Brown(1934-42-?) | J. T. Norton (1926) |
| H. C. Simonson (1922-23) | Victor Egelkraut(-1971-72) | H. E. Kreager (1927-28) |
| John W. Engelkraut (1923) | H. M. Brachenridge (1929-30) | |
| Charles H. Purdy (1924-28) | Highway Commissioner | Arthur Welch (1931) |
| Leonard S. Brittain (1925) | Victor Egelkraut (1918) | H. Arthur Welch (1932) |
| S. L. Newnham (1925-43) | Robert N. Annesley (1919) | Florence Beery (1933-34) |
| Thor Schreiber (1926-38) | Victor Egelkraut (1920) | Roscoe Funk (1935-36) |
| Jos. P. Zwemer (1929) | Frank W. Wade (1921) | Ethel Coxford (1937-38) |
| Edwin H. House (1929-41) | William R. Gardner (1922) | George Drought (1939-40) |
| Victor Egelkraut (1932-44) | Victor Egelkraut (1923-5) | E. L. Leland (1941-42-?) |
| J. W. Prentice (1936) | Frank W. Wade (1926-29) | George Drought (-1971-72) |
| Louis Schultz (1930) | ||
| Health Officer | Frank W. Wade (1931-33) | Road Overseer |
| D. G. Simplains (1918) | Louis Schultz (1934) | Ed. Scales (1918) |
| W. B. House (1918-21) | Frank W. Wade (1935-42-?) | John Sailor (1919-21) |
| Horace G. Welch (1922-9) | Victor Egelkraut (1922) | |
| Drain Commissoner | A. J. Koning (1923-7) | |
| Constable | Martin Van Leeuwen (1918) | H. W. McIntosh (1928) |
| Charles Richards (1918) | Frank W. Wade (1918) | L. Z. Arndt (1929-30) |
| Ancil W. Walker (1918-24) | Charles H. Purdy (1921) | Herman H. Lundgren (1931-9) |
| Robert W. Hoy (1920) | H. G. Welch (1923) | Arthur Welch (1940) |
| Thomas W. Carey (1921) | Horace G. Welch (1928) | Fred Scales (1941) |
| Robert Ellis (1921) | Bert Cartwright (1942-?) | |
| Robert G. Olsen (1922-3) | ||
| Willard J. Kirby (1922) | Board of Review | |
| Horace P. Dekker (1922) | George H. Plummer (1919-25) | |
| John St.Pear (1924) | George W. Goshorn (1920) | |
| Arthur H. Welch (1924) | J. W. Prentice (1921-34) | |
| John D. Campbell, Jr. (1925) | Stephen L. Newnham (1922) | |
| Harry A. Jackson (1925-8) | H. C. Simonson (1924-41) | |
| James Dempster (1926) | Henry J. Jager (1936-42) | |
| Raymond W. Schilla (1927) | ||
| Robert N. Annesley (1927) | Current Trustees | |
| J. O. McFarland (1929-30) | Walter Bray (-1971-?) | |
| Otto Taylor (1931) | Marcus O. Waugh (-1971-?) | |
| George H. Baker (1933) | ||
| Robert G. Olsen (1934) | ||
| J. W. Schreckengust (1934-42) | ||
| Robert N. Annesley (1936) | ||
| Burt Lockhart (1937-42) | ||
| Alfred E. Bruce (1939) | ||
| Byron Sovea (1942) |
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