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

Ashland Township is one of the oldest and wealthiest in Newaygo County.  It is 
township 11 north, 13 west, 

Congressional survey, and lies in the southern tier of townships in the 
county.  It is bounded on the north by 

Garfield, on the east by Grant, on the south by Muskegon County, and on the 
west by Bridgeton.  The Muskegon River 

flows through sections, 4,5,6 and 7, in the northwestern corner.  The Newaygo 
division of the C.&W.M.R.R. runs almost 

due south through the eastern tier of sections 1,12,13,24,25 and 36.  Sand 
Lake is on the south half of section 19, 

Mud Lake in the southwest quarter of section 29, and the greater part of 
Blanche Lake is on section 13, in the 

eastern part of the township.

Ashland was the fith township organized in Newaygo County, and was the first 
one erected after the county machinery 

was fairly started.  It was organized by the Board of Supervisors Oct. 9, 
1854, and the first "town meeting" was held 

at the house of Sullivan Armstrong, the first MOnday in April, 1855.  Sullivan 
Armstrong was chosen the first 

Supervisor.  At the last election, april 2, 1883, the following township 
officers were chosen:  Orvin Headley, 

Supervisor; Nathaniel H. Brown, Clerk; Robert C. Wallace, Treasurer; Hiran L. 
Brace, Highway Commissioner; Henry 

Avery, School Inspector, Samuel W. Peterson and William N. Hutchinson, 
Justices of the Peace; Sylvester Peats, Henry 

J. Brown, JOhn Raymer and Wm. H. Soyer, Constables.

The population of Ashland Township in 1880 was 1,436.

There are now six school districts in the township.  For the year ending Sept. 
3, 1883, the number of children 

between the ages of five and twenty was 514; the number that attended school 
during the year, 392; number of 

non-resident pupils, 8; number of days of school taught, 1,059; number of 
volumes in district libraries, 186; number 

of brick school-houses, 1; number of frame school-houses, 6; number of pupils 
that can be seated, 496; value of 

school property, $6,580; number of male teachers employed, 5; number of female 
teachers employed, 9; amount paid to 

male teachers $950; amount paid to female teachers, $840.

The equalized valuation of the property of Ashland Township in 1855 amounted 
to $39,740.50, and the taxes collected 

to $198.70, while for 1883 the value of property was $181,615, and the taxes 
$2,176.70.  

The following is a complete list of the Supervisors of the township:

SUPERVISORS.

Sullivan Armstrong	1855-7
George Fuller		1858
Sullivan Armstrong	1859-60
Alfred F. Armstrong	1861-2
George Fuller		1863
Alfred F. Armstrong	1864
John L. McLain		1864
Milo White		1865-9
Sullivan Armstrong	1870-2
Alfred F. Armstrong	1873
Sullivan Armstrong	1874
S.W. Peterson		1874
Andrew T. Squier	1875-8
George Fuller		1879
Orvin T. Headley	1880
Sullivan Armstrong	1881
W. Seaman		1882
Orvin T. Headley	1883

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