Forest, Indiana

Forest is the youngest township in the conntj. Many of the citizens of Warren and Johnson townships being located at an inconvenient distance from the respective polling places, presented a petition to the county commissioners for the formation of a new township and the board issued the following order, January 2, 1882: "The board having duly considered the matter and being sufficiently advised in the premises, do find that for the convenience of many citizens it is necessary that a new township be formed and established from a portion of Johnson and Warren townships, in Clinton County, Indiana, and the board do order that a new township be formed and established in said Clinton County to be known as Forest Township, the boundary lines of which are as follows, to wit: Beginning at the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section nineteen (19), in township twenty-two (22) north, of range two (2) east, in Clinton County, Indiana, and running thence east on the half (i) section line, six (6) miles to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-four (24) in said township and range; thence north on the section line two and onehalf (2^) miles to the northeast corner of section twelve (12) in said township and range; thence on the section line west two (2) miles to the southeast corner of section thi-ee (3) in said township and range; thence on the section line one (1) mile to the northeast corner of said section three (3) in said township and range; thence on the section line west one and one-half (H) miles to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section thirty-three (33), in township twenty-three (23) north, of range two

Passage source: History of Clinton County, Indiana. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886.

Forest Township lies in the extreme northeastern part of the county and is bounded on the north by Howard County, on the east by Howard and Tipton counties, on the south by Johnson Township and on the west by "Warren Township. It is six and one-half miles from north to south and will average about four and one-half miles from east to west. It contains 16,900 acres, about one-quarter of which is timber land. The soil is a dark loam and very productive of corn, wheat and the other small grains. Much attention has been given to the draining of the wet lands in this township, consequently there is but very little cleared land that is not under a high state of cultivation.

Passage source: History of Clinton County, Indiana. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886.

The early settlement of Forest will necessarily be included in the histories of Johnson and Warren townships. Probably the first settlement made in/what is now Forest was on the southeast quarter of section 18, by a man by the name of Nutter and his son. Page. Sims built the first log cabin on the Miami Reserve in the locality where he now resides (1886).

Passage source: History of Clinton County, Indiana. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886.

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