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Subject: [MINEWAYG] Mi-Newaygo Co. History (Brooks Township)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:39:30 -0500


Newaygo County MI Archives History - Books .....Brooks Township 1884
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Book Title: Newaygo County Portrait & Biographical Album

According to the Congressional survey, Brooks Township is 12 west, 12 north,
and is bounded on the north by Everett,

on the east by Croton, on the south by Grant, on the west by Garfield. It at
first contained the entire western half

of the county, and was one of the two first townships organized before the
county itself. For many years it

contained the west halp of township 12 north, 12 west, and the east half of 12
north, 13 west. In 1880, the latter

tract was used in making the new township of Garfield, and half a township was
taken from Croton, by way of

compensation. By this arrangement, the village of Newaygo is thrown on the
line between Garfield and Brooks. The

Muskegon winds through the township from east to west, crossing sections 24,
13, 15, 23, 26, 27, 22, 21, 20 and 19.

The Newaygo division of the Chicago & West Michigan railroad runs through the
northwestern quarter of the township,

crossing sections 5, 4, 9, 17 and 18. In the southwestern corner lie Big
Brooks (or Hess) Lake and Little Brooks

Lake. the former is about two miles long, and one of the largest bodies of
water in the county. In the northwestern

corner is Great Marl Lake, and portions of Little Marl and Pickerel Lakes.

Brooks was one of the two townships organized in 1851, before the county was
organized. Isaac D. Merrill was the

first Supervisor. At the last election, held April 2, 1883, the following
officers were elected: Sanford Brown,

Supervisor; Frank Twons, Clerk; James Herron, Treasurer; Otis Freeman, Highway
Commissioner; Henry Hyde, Drain

Commissioner; Samuel D. Bonner, School Inspector; Sanford Brown and John A.
Brooks, Justices of the Peace; Aaron

Courtwright, George King, John T. Thompson and Anselm Miller, Constables.

The population of the township of Brooks in 1880 (then containing all of
Newaygo village) was 1,497.

There are now four school districts in Brooks Township. For the year ending
Sept. 3, 1883, the number of children

between the ages of 5 and 15 was 502; the number of children that attended
school, 295; number of non-resident

pupils, 9; number of days of school taught, 498; number of frame school-
houses, 3; number of log school-houses, 1;

number of pupils that can be seated, 384; value of school property, $5,500;
number of male teachers employed, 3;

number of female teachers employed 5; wages paid male teachers, $1,372; wages
paid to females, $956.

The valuation of property in this township has increased from $44,613.33 in
1853 to $127,775 in 1883, and the

taxation from $189.79 in 1852 to $2,242 in 1883.

SUPERVISORS.

Isaac D. Merrill1851
Ephraim H. Utley1852
John A. Brooks1853
Sullivan Armstrong1854
Ashley B. Furman1855
Alfred A. Maguire1856
Hiram Baker1857
Theodore Wilson1858
Justus C. Hubbbard1859
Amasa B. Watson1860-1
Warren P. Adams1862
Dexter P. Glazier1863
Amasa B. Watson1864-5
William T. Howell1866
E.S. Gray1866
William D. Fuller1867
Augustus Paddock1868
Wm. D. Fuller1869
Wilkes D. Stewart1870
William D. Fuller1871
Sanford Brown1872
John A. Brooks1873
Timothy Edwards1873
Sanford Brown1874
James Herron1875
Sanford Brown1876-8
George W. Fry1879
Sanford Brown1880-1
C.K. Carter1882
Frank Hoag1883
Sanford Brown1883
Wm. Glanville1883

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