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The Kalamazoo Valley Family Vol. 2, No. 1 September 1972 Page 39 & Bottom of Page 41 |
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GUN PLAIN TOWNSHIP
SHOWING LOCATION OF CITY OF PLAINWELL Click on image to enlarge |
GUNPLAIN TOWNSHIP. The township boundary lines were run in 1826, and in 1836 it became a part of Plainfield township. The township of Martin was set off in 1839. The name of Plainfield was changed in 1845 to Gunplain, being named for the river crossing the township. The first settlers arrived in 1831, and a postoffice was established in Plainwell in 1833. The Village of Plainwell was incorporated in 1869, and the City of Plainwell in 1934. Gunplain township was the site of a council of Ottawa and Pottawattamie Indians in 1832, at which time it was decided not to join the Black Hawk war, but to become friends of Michigan pioneers. The Plank Road from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids was built in 1852-54, with a branch extending from Plainwell to Allegan. |
| Supervisor | Clerk | Treasurer |
|---|---|---|
| John Murphy (1836) | William Forbes (1836-9) | William Still (1836) |
| Archibald Jameson (1837-9) | G. W. Kinnicutt (1840-1) | T. G. Crittenden (1839-41) |
| John Robinson (1840-1) | A. I. Dedrick (1842) | Joel Batchelor (1842-3) |
| Archibald Jameson (1842) | G. W. Kinnicutt (1843) | J. B. Sutherland (1844) |
| John Robinson (1843) | Clark Corey (1844-6) | Calvin C. White (1845) |
| Archibald Jameson (1844) | John Hawks (1847-9) | Noah E. Ives (1846) |
| Freeman Calkins (1845) | Clark Corey (1850) | William Still (1847) |
| J. H. Commins (1846) | D. A. McMartin (1851-2) | (GAP IN RECORDS) |
| J. Robinson (1847-8) | John Gray (1853) | B. S. Conrad (1864) |
| D. D. McMartin (1849) | Joel Batchelor (1854) | W. C. Pierson (1865) |
| A. T. Dedrick (1850) | William Bellingham (1855) | William Forbes (1866) |
| D. D. McMartin (1851) | Orson D. Dunham (1856-7) | William Hay (1867-72) |
| William Still (1852) | B. Bannister (1858) | John Crispe (1873-6) |
| D. A. McMartin (1853-4) | A. C. Roberts (1859) | Job C. Estes (1877-8) |
| Henry Jackson (1855) | John H. Lasher (1860) | William E. Forbes (1879-80) |
| D. A. McMartin (1856) | George B. Force (1861) | Eddy Sherman (1881-2) |
| George C. Mills (1857) | L. Bannister (1862) | Andrew Shutt (1883) |
| Archibald Jameson (1858-60) | Theron Cummings (1863) | Henry E. Buxton (1884-5) |
| Henry Jackson (1861) | John H. Lasher (1864-5) | William T. Finch (1886) |
| Archibald Jameson (1862-3) | Julius J. Howe (1866) | John M. Sternburg (1887) |
| Henry Jackson (1864) | Henry Keeler (1867-74) | I. N. Hitchcock (1888-) |
| Milo E. Gifford (1865) | Royal Adams (1875) | Fred Mesick (-1888) |
| Archibald Jameson (1866) | H. W. Chamberlain (1876) | W. E. Dwight (1889) |
| Walter C. Pierson (1867-8) | George Scales (1877) | Charles C. Rogers (1890) |
| Augustus H. Hill (1869) | Charles D. Hart (1878-80) | James A. Sherwood (1891-92) |
| George C. Mills (1870) | Edward K. Root (1881) | Frank P. Heath (1893-94) |
| Elezer C. Knapp (1871-86) | Peter Hatfield (1882-6) | John H. Madden(1895) |
| John Crispe (1887-91) | Harvey W. Chamberlain (1887-1889) | Albert L. Nichols (1896-97) |
| Charles A. Bush (1892-7) | R. Ahmendinger (1890) | Fred F. Patterson (1898) |
| Albert L. Nichols (1898-1906) | William H. Johnson (1891-6) | Charles Scott (1899-1900) |
| Frank C. Smith (1897-9) | Frank C. Smith (1901-02) | |
| William S. Forbes (1900-1) | Charles E. Spencer (1903) | |
| Albert J. Smith (1902-04) | Frank C. Smith (1904-1905) | |
| John Blair (1905-1906) | Charles W. Lasher (1906) | |
| 1971 Officials | ||
| Fritz Jager, Supervisor | ||
| Clare J. Fleming, Clerk | ||
| Margaret Hyder Family History, Treasurer | ||
| Roy Henson, Trustee | ||
| Bernard Warnement, Trustee |
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