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Subject: Irving Twp.
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:46:27 EST

This data is extracted from page 446 of "The History of Allegan and Barry
Counties, Michigan", D. W. Ensign & Co., Philadelphia, 1880. Please note: I
do NOT own this book. I have photocopies of only two pages, so I regret I
can't do lookups. -- Lynn Kenney

1879 school directors:
C. T. Barton, I. M. Cunningham, R. Billingsley, John Fighter, T. C. Alverson,
M. Yearington, J. Teeple, Farrel Burns, Emanuel Bergy, William Mugridge, H.
Wilcox, W. Calkins.
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Irving Township Post Offices and their Postmasters up to 1880
"The first post-office established in Irving was one of the results of the
opening of the stage-route between Battle Creek and Grand Rapids via
Hastings, July 1, 1846."

Irving Post Office, founded 1846:
1846 A. E. Bull
1847 R. N. Hanna
1848 G. K. Beamer
1855 L. K. Powers
1865 Asahel Hubbard
1869 F. L. Blake

North Irving Post Office, founded 1858:
1858 Peter Cobb

Fillmore Post Office, founded 1867
1867 D. D. Darling

Freeport Post Office, founded 1878
1878 Samuel Roush
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Irving Village Doctors
1 - E. M. Rosencrans; stayed a year
2 - S. Robinson
3 - L. E. Haskins; stayed a short time then moved to Freeport
4 - J. Lamoreux arrived 1878

Freeport Doctors
H. C. Peckham, 1878-79
L. E. Haskins, 1879

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