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The Kalamazoo Valley Family News Letter Vol. 2, No. 1 September 1972 Pages 16 & part 2 or page 32 |
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First explorations
were made by persons during the winter of 1829-1830, who returned and
settled with their families in the fall of 1830. On April 6, 1833, the first election in Allegan County was held in Otsego township, with 22 votes being cast, electing officers of Allegan Township, which included all the territory in the present County of Allegan. By act of Legislature in 1836, Otsego township was made to include the present boundaries of Dorr, Hopkins, Watson and Otsego. The three former townships were legally separated in 1842. Early settlements were made at Pine Creek and at the rapids of the Kalamazoo Ricer(now Otsego). A postoffice was established at Otsego soon after 1831 or 1832, and was named for Otsego County, New York. Otsego Village was incorporated in 1865, and as a city in 1918. |
| Supervisor | Clerk | Treasurer |
| Hull Sherwood, Jr. (1836) | L. B. Coats (1836-7) | Eber Sherwood (1839-42) |
| Oka Town (1837) | O. Eaton (1838) | Henry Sheldon (1843) |
| Hull Sherwood (1838) | C. D. Parkhurst (1839) | Leland Lane (1844-6) |
| Oka Town (1839-40) | L. C. Anderson (1840) | R. C. Dennison (1847) |
| Hull Sherwood (1841) | Henry Sheldon (1841) | Abram Hoag (1848) |
| L. B. Coats (1842) | James Fitch (1842-3) | James B. Porter (1849-52) |
| Osmond Smith (1843) | W. G. Eaton (1844) | Willard Higgins (1853) |
| Henry Sheldon (1844) | Daniel M. Hall (1845) | Darwin A. Drew (1854-8) |
| Hull Sherwood (1845-6) | R. C. Dennison (1846) | Joel S. Pratt (1859-60) |
| Leland Lane (1847) | Abram Hoag (1847) | Turner S. Day (1861-2) |
| Oka Town (1848-9) | James Fitch (1848) | Alfred Reid (1863) |
| Willard G. Eaton (1850) | O. Eaton (1849) | Nahum Gilbert (1864-9) |
| R. F. Kellogg (1851-2) | Abram Hoag (1850) | Henry M. Pratt (1870) |
| Abram Hoag (1853-7) | Willard Higgins (1851) | Byron Ballou (1871) |
| Ira Chichester (1858-9) | Clark D. Fox (1852-5) | Abram Hoag (1872) |
| Philip Burlingham (1860) | James Monteith (1856) | James Franklin (1873-5) |
| Ira Chichester (1861-6) | C. N. White (1857) | Abram Hoag (1876) |
| M. G. Higgins (1867) | Clark D. Fox (1858-60) | Albert T. Palmer (1877-8) |
| Edwin M. Allen (1868) | I. T. Clapp (1861) | Stephen B. Hoag (1879-80) |
| James Franklin (1869) | James Smith (1862-4) | Adison M. Buck (1881-2) |
| Wilson C. Edsell (1870) | Alvah D. Botsford (1865) | Cornelius Engles (1883-4) |
| Alva D. Botsford (1871-2) | James Smith (1866-72) | Stephen B. Hoag (1885-6) |
| A. J. Van Wyck (1873) | Stacey K. Potter (1873-4) | Andrew Thornton (1887-8) |
| Alva D. Botsford (1874-6) | James Smith (1875-8) | Charles F. Ruthrauff (1889) |
| Abram Hoag (1877) | A. J. Van Wyck (1879) | Andrew Thornton (1890) |
| John F. Hale (1878) | Abram J. Van Wyck (1880) | Charles F. Ruthrauff (1889) |
| Alvah D. Botsford (1879) | A. T. B. Palmer (1881-6) | Andrew Thornton (1890) |
| Theodore Hart (1880-2) | C. A. Barnes (1887-90) | Charles H. Prentiss (1891-2) |
| James Franklin (1883) | E. J. Rose (1891-3) | C. M. Edmonds (1893-4) |
| D. S. Gardner (1884) | H. D. Mills (1894-5) | G. S. Sherwood (1895-6) |
| James Franklin (1885) | Irving Temple (1896-7) | Fred Tubbs (1897-8) |
| Daniel S. Gardner (1886-90) | George R. Brown (1898-1906) | W. W. Hains (1899-1900) |
| Thomas E. French (1891-5) | C. F. Stuck (1901-02) | |
| C. M. Edmonds (1896-1903) | George Gilbert (1903-04) | |
| A. B. Tucker (1904-05) | W. H. Walcott (1904-06) | |
| Frank Fairfield (1906) |
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