Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

BUNKERIIILL TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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COUNTY OFFICERS.
Of the county officers elected from this town, the first was Ferris
Fitch, Democrat, elected to the Legislature in 1852, when the
county was all one representative district. After the county was
divided, the east district elected Dorman Felt, Republican, of this
town, to the Legislature in 1858.
In 1869 Elliott H. Angell, Republican, was elected drain commissioner at the spring election and re-elected in 1871. The Legislature of 1872 changed the laws so that county drain commissioners were elected by the board of supervisors, and Mr. Angell was
elected to a third term by a Democratic board of supervisors.
John W. Whallon was elected county clerk by a fusion of the
Democrats and Greenbacks, in 1882, re-elected in 1884, and again
in 1886.
Daniel Markey, Republican, was elected to the Legislature from
Ogemaw county in 1884, and re-elected in 1886; was elected
speaker of the house of sessions following his second election. He
was born in Bunkerhill and lived here until quite a boy, the family
being the strongest kind of Democrats in those days. His father
was James Markey, Jr., and lived on section 10.
Milo Dakin, member of the Legislature of 1885, and elected
from the first district of Saginaw county, was raised and educated
in this town. Charles C. Fitch, elected register of deeds in 1884
and re-elected in 1886 and elected to the Legislature in 1888 and
again in 1890 from the city of Mason, was a son of Ferris S. Fitch
of this town, as was also Ferris S. Fitch, Jr., who was elected
Superintendent of Public Instruction from Pontiac in 1890.
Prominent among the early settlers of this town, and who did
much to develop its resources and its institutions, besides those
already named are:
James Vicary, George W. M. Shearer, Zachariah Makeley, Parley P. Moore, Stoddard Culver, Bezaleel Archer, Bazaleel Hodge,
Lewis Case, Calvin P. Eaton, Patrick Markey, Thomas Markey,
Orson O. Janes, Joseph C. Ewers, Timothy Birney, Abram A.
Wilcox, Lucius Lord, William B. Dean, John B. McCreery, Hubbard McCreery, Philander Peak, Peter M. Peak, Danforth Parmalee, Henry B. Hawley, Jonathan Wood, Charles Wood, John
DeCamp and Silas Holt.
The first roads were laid out from one settlement to another