BlockGerman Township
The complete chapter on this township from McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881. 366 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bremen | - | 24 | - | - |
| Lake of the Woods | - | 4 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
366 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
German Township
the boundary lines as follows: " Ordered, that all the territory lying and being in he northeast corner of said county, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the northeast corner of said county, thence west on the county line dividing the counties of St. Joseph and Marshall to the center of Township 33 north, of Range No. 3 east; thence south on a straight line dividing Marshall and Kos ciusko Counties, thenee north on said line to the place of beginning, shall form a civil township for judicial purposes; and be it further ordered, that said township be known by the name of German Township."
March 9, 1853, Franklin Township was organized by dividing to southward by the range line, dividing Ranges 3 and 4, and embracing all that part of German Township lying east of said range line. January 7, 1855, the name of Franklin Township was
Clayton
Clayton was the name of the first town site located in German Township. This was August 21, 1837. The proprietors were Lathrop M. Taylor and Henry Augustine, of South Bend. Mr. Taylor was at that time Clerk of St. Joseph County. The location was about three miles east of the present town of Bremen. Its form was a diagonal, cut up into gorgeous streets and avenues. But the center of gravity did not seem to be in that region, and the project of building a town there was abandoned.
The town of Bremen, the present seat of justice of German Township, was platted and laid out by George Beiler October 21, 1851. The original plat contained forty-eight lots. Since that time, the following additions have been made to the original plat: Deitrick's, Heim's, Ringle's, Bauer's first and second, Foltz's continued, Mast's, L. R. Martin's, D. Ringle's, Koontz's, Vanner's and J. P. Huff's. The town was organized under the law authorizing the corporation of towns, at the March term, 1871, of the Board of Commissioners. It was divided into six districts. The officers first elected were: Lewis Theobold, Clerk and Treasurer; David Guyer, Marshal; Chris Seiler, Assessor; John Heckaman, Charles Lehr, Chris Hans, John Koontz, Jacob Walter and Chris Schilt, Trustees. In 1572, the town was re-districted, and the
Provenance
Text from McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.