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The Kalamazoo Valley Family
News Letter

Vol. 2, No. 1         September 1972

Page 32

LEE TOWNSHIP


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  1971 Officials
Harold Hambley, Supervisor; Melvin W. Riston, Clerk
George Hurlbut, Treasurer; Nelson Hodgman, Trustee
John DeWeerd, Trustee

Unincorporated village of PULLMAN

LEE TOWNSHIP

First settlers arrived in 1844, with lumbermen following in 1856.
The township was a portion of Pine Plains township until 1859,
when the board of supervisors set it off as a separate township.
It is believed to have been named for the town of Lee, Massachusetts.
Early settlements were Hoppertown In 1870 and
Black River Station in 1871

 

SupervisorClerk Treasurer
Thomas Raplee (1859-60) E. H. Heath (1859) H. B. Rice (1859-60)
G. B. Rust (1861-2) J. W. Joslyn (1860) J. H. Thistle (1861)
J. A, Thistle (1863) Henry Spencer (1861-3) S. W. Bennett (1862-3)
J. S. Wagoner (1864) A. B. Crawford (1864-8) John Orr (1864-67)
R. Griswold (1865) O. Hodgman (1869-70) E. Deming (1868-70)
J. R. Griswold (1866) William Fritz (1871) A. Dunn (1871)
J. E. Babbitt (1867) G. F. Heath (1872-3) A. Borden (1872)
A. D. Parker (1868-70) G. W. Baughman (1874-9) A. Rodarmel (1873)
G. F. Heath (1871) James H. Martin (1880-5) B. Cook (1874-6)
Thomas Raplee (1872-6) Hiram W. Nostrand (1886) E. Deming (1877-8)
A. D. Parker (1877-85) George W. Baughman (1887) (1892) G. F. Heath (1879)
James H. Martin (1886) James H. Martin (1893-1901) George F. Heath (1880)
A. D. Parker (1887-94) A. D. Young (1902-) C. H. Litts (1881)
Isaac E. Evans (1895-1903) Selden E. Phillips (-1902) Albert D. Hurlbut (1882)
Alton S. Deming (1904- G. C. Hanson (1903) Emerson Deming (1883-4)
  J. N. Gilpin (1904-5) Elias T. Snover (1885-6)
  A. B. McDonald (1906) Emerson Deming (1887-8)
    William H. Evans (1889) (1890)
    George F. Heath (1891-2)
    Isaac E. Evans (1893-4)
    Alton Deming (1895-6)
    George F. Heath (1897-8)
    Seldon E. Phillips (1899-1900)
    Grant C. Harrison (1901) (1902)
    Seldon E. Phillips (1903-1904)
    Grant C. Harrison (1905-6)

Captain Wilson Kettle of Port aux Basques, Nfld. had a record number of descendants upon his death.
When he died in 1962 at the age of 102, he left 582: 11 children (by two wives), 65 grandchildren,
201 great-grandchildren and 305 great-great-grandchildren.

INDEX
Allegan City Douglas Village Just so you know Pioneer Society
Allegan County History Drinkwine Bible Record Kalamazoo Library Plainwell City
Allegan County Officials Early Marriages Laketown Township Presbyterians
Allegan Township Editorial Lee Township President Message
Allegan Vacations Family Names, and how they came about -"The Dutch" Leighton Township Salem Township
Allegan's Oldest Living Graduate Fennville City Library References Saugatuck Township
Biographical Historians Fillmore Township Manlius Township Saugatuck Village
Casco Township Ganges Township Martin Township Smile, you've been in Allegan County
Cheshire Township Gravestone of a Genealogist? Martin Village Source of the Quarter
Clyde Township Gun Plain Township Monterey Township Trowbridge Township
County Clerk's Letter Hamilton High School Band Photo News Clippings Valley Township
County Commissioners 1971 Heath Township Nostalgia Anyone Watson Township
Credits and Dedication Help!! Old Fashioned Wayland City
Daniel Like Record Hopkins Township Otsego City Wayland Township
Dann Family Hopkins Village Otsego Township  
Dorr Township Hyder Family History Overisel Township  


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