McHenry County IL Archives History .....Burton Township History - 1877 
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BURTON, TOWNSHIP 46, RANGE 9.

   The first settlement in Burton was made on the Neversink Creek and English
Prairie by Jacob and Samuel Jackson, Robert and Francis Richardson, Thomas and
Richard Wray, and John Sanburn, in 1836 or '37, and they soon built a log school
house on the creek, where William Stearns taught the first school of fifteen
scholars. A church was soon after (in 1872) built by the Methodists, at Spring
Grove. At that time, the membership did not number more than ten, and the name
of the first pastor was Bundock.

   In 1845, Blivins, Stillson & Co. built a grist-mill, that is still in operation.

   The town has one cheese factory, that takes the milk of some two hundred cows.

   In 1845, John E. Mann opened a store at Spring Grove, the only village and
post office in the township.

   Burton is the smallest township in the county, consisting of the west third
of Range 9, and having but twelve sections. The reason for this appears to be
that, at the time of the adoption of township organization, it was left to the
qualified voters on the fraction, to say whether they would form part of
Richmond, and the majority were for having a town of their own.

   Small as it is, Burton has a creek of its own, crossing the south end in a
diagonal direction toward the Fox River, and it will have a railroad when the C.
& P., so long ago surveyed, shall be in running order.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS
OF
McHENRY COUNTY;

CONTAINING ALSO

A Map of the County; a Condensed History of the State of Illinois; an Historical
Sketch of the County, its Towns and Villages; an Abstract of Every-day Laws of
the State; a Business Directory; Officers of Societies, Lodges and Public
Officers; a Department of General Information for Farmers, Dairymen, Etc., Etc.

CHICAGO: C. WALKER & CO.
1877.


Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by
C. WALKER & CO.,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CULVER, PAGE, HOYNE & CO.,
PRINTERS, CHICAGO.


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