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BRADY TOWNSHIP.

The first township meeting after the organization was held in
April of the same year. when John Card was elected Supervisor,
John Curless, Clerk, and Richard Walsh, Treasurer.
Philip Mickle, in 1847, was the first white man'to settle in this
township permanently. His location was on section 36, on land
owned by Isaac S. Bockee. Mr. Mickle also built the first house,
a frame 14x16, which he kept as a tavern. This was within the
limits of what is now the village of Oakley. Other parties soon
began to settle in the township, among whom were Josiah F. Coy,
Richard Walsh, Frank O'Connor, John Haley, Michael Keyes and
Sam. Whitney.
Brady township embraces 37J sections of land. The surface is
somewhat broken, and heavily timbered with black walnut, oak,
beech, maple, elm, ash and basswood, and in the north part some
pine. Maple sugar grounds are somewhat extensive. The soil is
various, sandy, gravelly and clayey in different places. It is drained
by numerous small streams —the western half by the south branch
of Mad river.
The first school-house was erected in 1855, on the northwest
quarter of sec. 32, Frank O'Connor's name being the first on
the petition for this building. Mary Dodge was the first teacher.
The first postoffice was established in 1863, on sec. 32, when Josiah
F. Coy was appointed the postmaster.
ORGANIC.
The following is a transcript from the records of the Board,
in session Jan. 10, 1856:
WHEREAS, The application of fourteen freeholders, residents of the following unorganized territory, to-wit: Township No. nine (9) north, of range No. two (2)
*east, and township No. nine (9) north, of range No. one (1) east, has been duly
made to organize said territory'into a new township, and a map thereof having been
furnished the Board of Supervisors of Saginaw county; and, whereas, a notice in
writing of such application, subscribed to by not less than twelve of said freeholders,
has been duly published and posted according to the statute in such case made and
provided.
Therefore, be it orderel, That the above described territory be, and the same is
hereby duly organized into a township, to be known and designated by the name of
Brady, which said township is described as being within the limits and under the
jurisdiction of the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan: and be it further
ordered that the first annual meeting for the election of township officers in said
township, be held at the hou.e of J. F. Coy, in said township of Brady, on the first
Monday in April next, and that the following named persons, Daniel Burrows,
Richard Walsh and Josiah F. Coy, be, and they are hereby designated and appointed
to preside at such election, and to perform all the duties required by the statute in
such case made and provided.
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