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MARTINY TOWNSHIP HISTORY |
| This is from the Mecosta County Portrait and Biographical Album by Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1883. |
| This is township 15 north, range 8 west, Congressional survey, and is bounded on the north by Chippewa Township, on the east by Sheridan Township, on the south by Morton Township, and on the west by Colfax Township. It is drained in the northeastern part by the South Branch of the Chippewa, including its tributaries, Upper and Lower Evans Lakes, Bloom Lake, Dimon Lake, Tubb's Lake and others: but the greater part of the township is drained by the WEst Branch of the Little Muskegon River, which is the outlet for Horsehead Lake, Martiny or Johnson Lake and Pretty Lake. Horsehead Lake is the second body of water in the county, in point of size. In the southeast part is the east branch of the Little Muskegon River. Through the southwestern part of the Township runs the recently constructed Detroit, Lansing & Northern railroad, and through the northwestern part runs the Chippewa Branch of the same road. Martiny was organized as a civil township in January, 1875, and elected its first supervisor, Nicholas Thieson. the first white settler was John Martiny, who located on section four in 1868. The first birth was that of Helen Albert, daughter of Christopher and Ann Albert, in 1870. The first death was that of John Johnson, in 1873. The first marriage was that of Noah Eaton and Mary Kent, solemnized by George Shields, Justice of the Peace, June 7, 1875. The first school-house was a log building erected on section four in 1873. The first school was taught by Nellie Sheir, in 1873. the first post-office - Martiny - was established in November, 1875. The census of 1880, the only one taken since Martiny wa organized, gives it 192 inhabitants. It had 287 acres of improved land in 1879, and 642 in 1881. Its equalized valuation when organized, in 1875, was $102,470.05; and its present valuation is $424,478. Its total vote in November, 1882, was 25. |
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