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The Kalamazoo Valley Family
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Vol. 2, No. 1         September 1972

Page 55

SALEM TOWNSHIP

 

Salem Township Map
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1971 Officials
Jacob Van Polen, Supervisor; Dorothy Shuck, Clerk
Doris Coats, Treasurer; Gerrit VerBeek, Trustee
Boyd Moomey, Trustee

 

REFERENCE: COUNTY CLERK

SALEM TOWNSHIP. Pioneers arrived in 1851; the township was part of Monterey
until separated by act of Legislature in 1855. Burnips Corners was named for an
early settler. Chippewa Indians at one time occupied village in section 11,
but departed in 1858
.


Supervisor Clerk Treasurer
L. P. Brown (1856-58) Henry Bear (1856) James Burnip (1856-9)
John N. York (1859) Isaiah Mannes (1857) Peter Castor (1860)
I. Mannes (1860) Henry Bear (1858) William Linden (1861-3)
John N. York (1861) Isaiah Mannes (1859) Peter Castor (1864)
Peter Castor (1862) Albert D. Rust (1860) Joseph Slagel (1865)
Francis Goodman (1863-4) Michael Hinton (1861-3) W. H. Gorden (1866)
Peter Castor (1865-6) Henry Bear (1864) Thomas Hinton (1867)
John Hendges (1867-8) Thedore Castor (1865) Peter Castor (1868)
Peter Castor (1869-70) John Hendges (1866) John Hendges (1869-70)
A. A. Goodman (1871) Edward Lutts (1867) Thomas Hinton (1871)
Peter Castor (1872) Wesley Moored (1868) Jesse H. Bond (1872)
Francis Goodman (1873-8) C. H. Long (1869-70) Thedore Castor (1875)
Theodore Castor (1879) Jesse H. Bond (1871) Elijah Gorden (1876-9)
Francis Goodman (1880-2) C. H. Long (1872) William Heck (1880)
John W. Sprau (1883) John P. Martiny (1873) Elijah Gorden (1881-2)
Peter Castor (1884-5) John Sprau (1875-76) Peter Castor (1883)
John W. Sprau (1886) John P. Martiny (1878-9) Elijah Gorden (1884-5)
Elijah Gorden (1887-92) Peter Marteney (1880) Joseph Slagel (1886)
A. A. Goodman (1893) John W. Sprau (1881-2) William H. Goodman (1887)
Jacob Fleser, Sr. (1894) Joseph M. Gorden (1883) Peter Castor (1888-9)
Joseph M. Gorden (1895) John W. Sprau (1884) John Shaffer (1890-1)
Jacob Fleser, Sr. (1896-1901) J. W. Bookwalter (1885) Silas Loew (1892-3)
Sherman Moored (1902-1906) Joseph M. Gorden (1886-92) Henry Goodman (1894-5)
  Adam Newell (1893-7) David J. Goodman (1896-7)
  John W. Sprau (1898-1901) Silas Loew (1898-99)
  Adam Newell (1902) Adam Newell (1900-01)
  Joseph M. Gorden (1903) Silas Loew (1902-03)
  Casper Ebmeyer (1904-06) Mathias Kreiser (1904-05)
    Adam Newell (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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