TOWNSHIP OF AKRON, Akron Township, Tuscola County, Michigan

Copyright © 1998 by Sherrye L. Woodworth. This copy contributed for use in 
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TOWNSHIP OF AKRON

Contributed by Sherrye L. Woodworth. Extracted from History of Tuscola and 
Bay Counties, Mich., H.R. Page and Co., Chicago, 1883, page 129. 


Township 14 north, of range 8 east was organized by the board of supervisors 
at a meeting held December 31, 1855, and designated by the name of Akron. 
The first township meeting was held on the first Monday in April, 1856, at 
the house of Alvin Waldo; and Charles H. Beach, Lucius H. Waldo and Edward 
VanDemark were inspectors of election. 

The signers to the petition for the organization of Akron were: John G. Beck,
 Ransom Briggs, Josiah H. Trusdell, Alvin Waldo, Lucius H. Waldo, Edward 
VanDemark, Daniel Summer, James Demarest, Andrew J. Tobias, John Nicholson, 
Thomas Nicholson, Richard Stark. As now organized the town of Akron comprises
 most of the former town of Geneva. 

The town of Geneva was organized by the board of supervisors at a meeting 
held January 11, 1860, and comprised the territory of fractional township 
15 north, of range 8 east. In 1879 the legislature of Michigan passed an act 
to disorganize the township of Geneva and to change the boundaries of the 
township of Akron, and attach the territory comprised therein to Columbia 
and Akron. This act provided that section 36, of the township of Geneva, and 
section 1, of the township of Akron, be detached from their respective towns 
and attached to the township of Columbia; and all of the township of Geneva, 
except section 36, be attached to the township of Akron. 

 
 

Sherrye L. Woodworth
Copyright February 1998



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