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ItISTORY OF SAGINAW COUNTY.

Registration, and are required to take tile constitutional oath before entering
upon the duties of Board of Registration, and upon the election of the officers of
said township; the said oath so taken shall be filed with the Township Clerk
of Marion.
This report was unanimously adopted.
THE FIRST TOWNSHIP MEETING
was lheld April 5, 1880, at the house of Daniel Paul, section
1, with Daniel Paul, Moderator; Thomas Kernohan, Clerk, and
Donald Welsh and Finlay McInnis, Inspectors of election.
The following officers were elected: Daniel Paul, Supervisor;
Thomas Kernohan, Clerk; Finlay McInnis, Treasurer; Win.
Crittes, Win. Irwin, and Donald Welsh, Justices of Peace; John
B. Stewart, Road Commissioner; Isaac Hodson, Drain Commissioner; Cyrus Fauble, School Superintendent; John B. Stewart,
School Inspector; Van Patten, Albert Northrop, Lorin Paul, Constables.
The second annual meeting was held at the house of William
Crittes, April 3, 1881; Mr. Paul presided. Thomas Kernohan
was Clerk, and Henry Tolgate and Win. Crittes were Inspectors of
election. Daniel Paul was elected Supervisor; Henry Tolgate,
Clerk; Thomas Kernohan, Treasurer; Dr. Gray, Justice of Peace;
Gilbert Rhodes, Drain Commissioner; Van Patten, Road Conmmissioner; William Crittes, School Superintendent; Charles Rector,
Inspector; Rufus Himbley and Lorin A. Paul, Constables.
There is only one school-house in tlle township. The school is
taught by Miss Jen.ny Fauble. This school was started Nov. 22,
1880, in a log lumber shantv on thle southeast quarter of section
26. The people purpose erecting a large frame building for school
purposes on the northeast quarter of section 35. Tlhe children
attending school at the beginning of 1881 were: Molly Fauble, John
Fauble, Minnie Fauble, Edith and James Stewart, George, John,
and Arthur Crittes, Frederick Kernohan, Mary, Charles, Eva and
Bertie Irwin, Cora Hodson, Joseph and Ira Osborne, Miss Rector,
Rolland Scllneider, and Martha Snyder. The total number enrolled was 26.
The principal manufacturing industry was projected in 1879, by
Joihn B. Stewart. as a steam saw-mill. The concern is now operated
by Messrs. Barnum and Whitmore. It is located on section 24.
There is also a portable saw-mill operated by Daniel Paul.
Tlhere are no churches, nor is there an immediate prospect of
erecting a building specially for worship; the new school-house will
probably be utilized as a house of worship.
Tlhe settlers of Marion, still perpetuate in a great measure the
manners and customs of pioneer days. Their mnotto is evidently,
" Eacll for each, and all for all." They live in an atmosphere of
contentmlent and happiness, leading the thinker to conclude that
these enviable boons are conferred only on the wlJite mlen of the
wilderness, tlhe builders of the public good.