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JONESFIELD TOWNSHIP.
This district is watered by the middle branch of Swan creek.
The Saginaw Valley & St. Louis railroad runs through sections
25, 26, 27 and 28. The public highway, the only good road inl
the township, runs almost parallel with the iron road. West's mill
and Green's mill form the manufacturing industries of the district.
Tlhe northern portion of Jonesfield may be considered as unsettled.
The County Board, at a meeting held March 19, 1873, ordered
" that town 12 north, of range 1 east, be and the same is erected
into a township, to be called and known by the name of the township of Jonesfield. lThe first annual township meeting thereof
shall be held at the s'tool-house of school district number 2, in
section 28, on the first Monday in April, 1873, at 9 o'clock A. M.,
and at said meeting Joel Nevins, Alexander Fales, and Arnold J.
West, three electors of said township, shall be the persons wlhose
duty it shall be to preside at such meeting."
The list of the principal officials of Jonesfield, from date of
organization, is thus given:
SU PERVISORS.

John Clune..........1873
Joel S. Nevins................. 1874
Joel S. Nevins...................1875
E. C. H ill.......................1876
E. C. H ill.....................1877

John McLean...................1878
J. W. Robinson..................1879
John McLean....................1880
Joel S. Nevins............... 1881

CL1ERKS.

A. J. W est.................... 1873
Patrick J. O'Driscoll............. 1874
James W. Robinson.............. 1875
W. P. Stacy.....................1876
A. B. Bloomer................... 1877

Augustus C. Melze...............1878
A. C. M elze....................1879
A. C. Melze..............1880
A. C. M elze..................... 1881

TREASURERS.

Joel S. Nevins.............. 1873
A. J. W est....................... 1874
Jacob Lewis................... 1875
John McLean..................1876
John McLean.................. 1877

Thomas Fleming................1878
Thomas Fleming................ 1879
George Moulton................. 1880
John McLean.................. 1881

J USTICES.

Patrick Madden, Thos Sweeney, 187w
Wm. Jones, M. B. Richardson. i187
William Hogan, George Dockett, } 1874
Edward Jones...............
Thos. Sweeney, Patrick Madden...1875
Thos. Sweeney, A. B. Bloomer.... 1876

Patrick Madden, Thos. Sweeney, 1 lS77
A.J. W est...................
Patrick Madden, Thos. Sweeney..1878
Rowland Frost, Jas. U. Wilson.... 179
Eugene H. Hillier............... 18SO
John McLean...................188

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