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The Kalamazoo Valley Family Vol. 2, No. 1 September 1972 Page 56 |
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LAKETOWN TOWNSHIP
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Showing part of the CITY OF
HOLLAND which is largely in Ottawa County.  Click on image to enlarge |
REFERENCE: COUNTY CLERK LAKETOWN TOWNSHIP. The township was a part of Newark township until 1859, when it was set off with a jurisdiction of its own, named because of its proximity to Lake Michigan. It was first settled by several members of a Dutch colony in 1847. Graafschap Village, located on line between Fillmore and Laketown townships, was named in recognition of systems prevalent in Netherlands of giving small principalities to the rulerships of graafs (or counts) whose districts were known as graafschaps. A postoffice was established there in 1867, but later discontinued, with the advent of rural free delivery service Effective June 2, 1961, a portion of the township was annexed to the city of Holland. |
| Supervisor | Clerk | Treasurer |
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| John Rouse (1859) | Gerrit Rutgers (1859-1881) | A. J. Neerken (1859) |
| John Bonros (1860-1) | Luke Lugers (1882) | John Rutgers (1860-1877) |
| A. J. Neerken (1862-1874) | Irvine Bell (1883) | H. Brinkman (1878-9) |
| Benjamin Neerken (1875-82) | Benjamin Neerken (1884-1901) | Henry Brinkman (1880) |
| Luke Lugers (1883-8) | Gerrit Heneveld (1902-05) | John Rutgers (1881-2) |
| Henry Brinkman (1889-1901) | L. B. Scholten (1906) | Henry Brinkman (1883-4) |
| L. B. Scholten (1902-1905) | D. A. Klomparens (1885) | |
| Gerrit Heneveld (1906) | 1971 Officials | H. J. Klomparens (1886-7) |
| Gerald Rutgers, Supervisor | J. B. Van Tubergen (1888-1889) | |
| Donald Blaauw, Clerk | H. J. Klomparens (1890) | |
| Fred Alferink, Treasurer | J. J. Slenk (1891-2) | |
| Earl Nyland, Trustee | H. J. Klomparens (1893-4) | |
| Nathan Becksvoort, Trustee | John J. Slenk (1895) | |
| Harm Bonros (1896-7) | ||
| Bert Brenker (1898-9) | ||
| Gerrit Heneveld (1900-1) | ||
| Bert Brenker (1902-3) | ||
| P. H. Boven (1904) | ||
| Bert Brenker (1905- |
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