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The Kalamazoo Valley Family Vol. 2, No. 1 September 1972 Page 46 & Bottom of Page 56 |
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MARTIN TOWNSHIP & MARTIN VILLAGE
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Showing location of the VILLAGE OF MARTIN  Click on image to enlarge |
MARTIN TOWNSHIP. The township lines were surveyed in 1825; the first land was purchased and settlers began ariving in 1836, with first road survey following the next year. The township of Martin was organized in 1839, and named in honor of President Martin Van Buren. Previous to that time it had been a part of Plainfield Township. In 1843 the township of Wayland was set off from Martin Township. The Mar tin postoffice was established during the administration of President Van Buren and other early settlements were the Monteith Settlement and Shelbyville A small band of Pottawattamie and Ottawa Indians occupied an Opening of approximately 30 acres in Martin township in the 30's but after some persuasion, moved to a location in Wayland township. The village of Martin was incorporated in 1947. |
| Martin Township | Martin Village |
| Supervisor | Clerk | Treasurer |
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| George T. Barnes (1840) | T. Gregg (1840) | Peter Hanmer (1840) |
| Joel Brownson (1841-42) | D. P. Fenner (1841) | J. H. Adams (1841) |
| D. A. McMartin (1843) | J. H. Adams (1842-3) | J. Heydenberk (1842) |
| A. Shellman (1844) | H. Sornbury (1844) | R. H. Warn (1843) |
| C. M. Kimball (1845) | L. Monteith (1845) | Orrin Hart (1844) |
| W. T. Monteith (1846) | C. M. Kimball (1846) | R. H. Warn (1845-50) |
| O. A. Porter (1847) | W. S. Wheeler (1847) | Horace Sornbury (1851) |
| W. T. Monteith (1848-9) | Chester Bovie (1848) | E. Wilder (1852) |
| W. S. Wheeler (1850) | W. S. Wheeler (1849) | John W. Cook (1853) |
| R. H. Warn (1851) | Chester Bovie (1850) | J. B. Nichlonson (1854-6) |
| Eli H. Chase (1852) | David Wylie (1851) | John W. Cook (1857-8) |
| W. S. Wheeler (1853-57) | L. Monteith (1852) | H. Sornbury (1859) |
| L, R. Delano (1858) | Silas Stafford (1853) | H. A. Sweetland (1860-1) |
| Orrin Brown (1859) | W. T. Monteith (1854) | H. Sornbury (1862) |
| Thomas Shepherd (1860-1) | G. G. Tuthill (1855) | E. Wilder (1863) |
| Orrin Brown (1862) | David Wylie (1856-8) | G. T. Bruen (1864) |
| Thomas Shepherd (1863) | G. B. Nichols (1859-60) | C. H. Howe (1865) |
| W. F. Harden (1864-5) | William Mathews (1861-5) | F. Failing (1866-7) |
| Orrin Brown (1866-7) | William T. Allen (1866) | A. Templeton (1868) |
| William F. Harden (1868-9) | William Mathews (1867-73) | W. H. Southwick (1869-73) |
| Thomas Shepherd (1870) | A. Patterson (1874-5) | G. F. Patterson (1874) |
| Henry Shultes (1871) | James R. Wyle (1876) | M. Van Gelder (1875-6) |
| William F. Harden (1872-83) | T. H. Shepherd (1877-9) | R. A. Patterson (1877-8) |
| Arthur Anderson (1884-5) | Thomas D. Shepherd (1880) | A. Anderson (1879) |
| W. H. Southwick (1886-9) | Alexander C. Monteith (1881-1884) | Arthur Anderson (1880) |
| Daniel F. Laraway (1890-1901) | Artimas Dunton (1885) | William H. Southwick (1881-2) |
| Daniel D. Harris (1902-1906) | Neil A. Campbell (1886-7) | Thomas H. Shepherd (1883-4) |
| George B. Nichols (1888) | William H. Southwick (1885) | |
| Frank D. Warren (1889) | Peter D. Campbell (1886-7) | |
| Colin C. Murray (1890-3) | Neil A. Campbell (1888) | |
| John H. Wicks (1894-6) | Peter D. Campbell (1889-90) | |
| William C. Russell (1897) (1906) | John Blair, Jr. (1891) | |
| Peter D. Campbell (1892-3) | ||
| Neil A. Campbell (1894) | ||
| Peter D. Campbell (1895-6) | ||
| Colin C. Murray (1897-8) | ||
| Ernest W. Fenner (1899-1900) | ||
| Colin C. Murray (1901) | ||
| James A. Middleton (1902-3) | ||
| Ernest W. Fenner (1904) | ||
| William Shepherd (1905) | ||
| Lee W. Shepherd (1906) |
| Melville Shook, President | Anthony Geib, Commissioner |
| Lois Boss, Clerk | William Nausieda, Assessor |
| Lois Boss, Treasurer | David Holley, Police Chief |
| Willard Evers, Commissioner | Edward Barton, Attorney |
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