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The Kalamazoo Valley Family Vol. 2, No. 1 September 1972 Page 57 |
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LEIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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1971 Officials REFERENCE: COUNTY CLERK LEIGHTON TOWNSHIP. In 1833 or 1834, Louis Campau, noted Indian trader from Kent county, located a trading post in the northern part of the the township. Being successively a part of Plainfield, Martin and Wayland townships, Leighton was finally set off as an independent organization by an act of legislature in 1848. |
| Supervisor | Clerk | Treasurer |
|---|---|---|
| G. W. Lewis (1848-9) | S. B. Hooker (1848-50) | G. W. Lewis (1848) |
| C. Furber (1850) | I. M. Lester (1851) | S. B. Hooker (1849-50) |
| G. W. Lewis (1851-2) | C. Furber (1852) | John Woodward (1851-2) |
| Y. H. Lester (1853) | L. M. Lester (1853) | A. J. Cook (1853-5) |
| Francis Inglis (1854-56) | W. S. Hooker (1854-5) | W. S. Hooker (1856) |
| Franklin Peck (1857-8) | F. W. Collins (1856) | L. M. Lester (1857) |
| F. W. Collins (1859-60) | R. Clement (1857) | Francis Inglis (1858-61) |
| J. B. Haney (1861-3) | W. S. Hooker (1858-9) | F. W. Collins (1862-3) |
| V. N. Lester (1864-5) | V. N. Lester (1860-3) | W. S. Hooker (1864) |
| F. W. Collins (1866-7) | Sidney Jenkins (1864) | F. W. Collins (1865) |
| C. B. Manchester (1868-72) | G. B. Manchester (1865-7) | G. W. Lewis (1866-72) |
| A. C. Jones (1873-5) | Francis Inglis (1868-74) | J. A. Rogers (1873-7) |
| W. A. Chappell (1877-1879) | Andrew Brog (1875) | W. O. Vreeland (1878) |
| I. J. Cook (1877-79) | John T. Smith (1879) |
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