Lake Township (Mich.) Stray Book, 1846-1885

Summary

Creator:

Lake Charter Township (Berrien County, Mich.)

Abstract:

The Lake Township (Mich.) Stray Book contains descriptions of marks used by the township's farmers to identify their livestock.

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Meg Hixon, March 2013

Background

Scope and Content:

The Lake Township (Mich.) Stray Book has 17 pages of descriptions of marks that farmers in Lake Township used to identify their livestock. The entries are dated April 10, 1846-October 2, 1880, and describe cuts made to animals' ears. The township clerks who recorded the descriptions were Comfort Pennell, Ebenezer P. Morley, Joel W. Blakeman, Henry Lemon, John H. Nixon, R. L. Dudley, H. W. Hawley, Milton J. Morley, Solomon Maudlin, John Loop, Marshall C. Travor, Oliver P. Miller, William Williams, and Wesley W. Beattie. The final page has a note about stray sheep who wandered onto W. H. Whipple's farm on December 14, 1885. The volume has the bookplate of Louis P. Neck and a brief note about Oliver P. Miller.

Biographical / Historical:

The township clerks of Lake Township in Berrien County, Michigan, recorded descriptions of the marks that local farmers used to identify their livestock in the mid- to late 19th century.

Acquisition Information:

M-4972 .

Processing information:

Cataloging funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). This collection has been processed according to minimal processing procedures and may be revised, expanded, or updated in the future.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Related Materials

The Oliver P. Miller Account and Copy Book pertains to Oliver P. Miller and to legal cases in Lake Township, Michigan, in the early 1870s.

Bibliography

History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan. With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: D.W. Ensign & Co., 1880.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Livestock brands.

Formats:

Registers (lists)

Names:

Beattie, Wesley W.
Blakeman, Joel W.
Dudley, R. L.
Hawley, H. W.
Lemon, Henry.
Loop, John.
Maudlin, Solomon.
Miller, Oliver P., 1832-1919.
Morley, Ebenezer P.
Morley, Milton J.
Nixon, John H.
Pennell, Comfort.
Travor, Marshall C.
Whipple, W. H.
Williams, William.

Places:

Lake Charter Township (Berrien County, Mich.)