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

Beaver Township comprises township 15 north, 14 west, and the west half of 
township 15 north, 13 west.  It is bounded 

on the north by Troy Township, on the east by Monroe Township, on the south by 
Denver Township, and on the west by 

Oceana County.  Pere Marquette River rises in this township, principally in 
Crooked Lake, and is joined a little 

north of the center by Beaver River.  On sections 6 and 7, of township 13 
west, is Island Lake, a beautiful body of 

water about 40 acres in extent.  It is nearly oval in shape, and almost in its 
centr is an island, nearly 10 acres in 

area.  In the eastern portion is the greater part of Crooked Lake, a curiously 
shaped lake cmposed of four small 

bodies of water connected with each other by narrow, irregular channels.  On 
the south line of the township is Stony 

Lake and two or three ponds.  Beaver is hardly settled, and is mostly in a 
primitive and undeveloped state.  It has 

an abundance of valuable pine.

Beaver was organized by the Board of Supervisors Jan. 5, 1869.  It then 
comprised its present territory, and also 

what is now Troy Township (organized separately in 1880).  The first election 
was held the first MOnday in April, 

1869, Cyrus O. Cornish, Bradford Freeman and Addison Freeman acting as 
Inspectors.  Alonzo Yates was chosen the first 

Supervisor.  At the last election, held April 2, 1883, the following were 
elected: Benjamin Candee, Supervisor:  

Alburtus Andrus, Clerk; Edwin Gleason, Treasurer, Lyman S. Sweet, Highway 
Commissioner; Jesse P. De Long, Drain 

Commissioner; Alburtus Andrus and Andrew Mudge, School Inspectors; Hugh H. 
McKenzie, Justice of the Peace; Wallace W. 

Sutton, Burr Bettys, James North and Edwin Gleason, Constables.

The first settlers of Beaver Township were Barzillai and Wyman W. Giddings and 
Ira Knapp.  the first named settlement 

on section 20.  The village of Volney, recently laid out, is the only attempt 
yet made towards a village.  It has a 

postoffice, presided over by F.C. Selby.

The population of Beaver Township in 1880 was 197.  

there are now three school districts in Beaver Township.  For the yea rending 
Sept. 3, 1883, the number of children 

between the ages of 5 and 20 was 100; number who attended school, 92; number 
of non-resident pupils, 2; number of 

days of school taught, 380; number of school-houses (all frame), 3; number of 
pupils that can be seated, 184; value 

of school property, $2,900; number of male teachers employed, 1; number of 
female teachers employed, 5; amount paid 

male teachers, $160; amount paid female teachers, $374.

The value of taxable property in the township in 1869 was $87,400, and the 
amount of taxes $1,020, while for 1883 the 

valuation was $160,455, and taxex collected, $2,709.92.

SUPERVISORS.

Alonzo Yates		1869-71
Alburtus Andrus		1872-6
Benjamin Candee		1877

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