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M James Day

Casamientos e hijos

Notas

Nota individual

History of Ionia County, Michigan: her people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representaive citizens, and genealogical records of many of the old families, by Rev. Elam E. Branch, 1916. Transcription from University of Michigan (on-line):
Chaper IX, pg. 115-117:
...The first meeting in Keene township was held at the house of Nathaniel Beattie, April 4, 1842. John L. Covert was chosen moderator, Edward Butterfield, Nathaniel Beattie, Ephraim Abbott and Aaron Hardenburgh, inspectors, and Simon Heath, clerk. After organizing and choosing pathmasters the meeting adjourned to Allen Day's house, where the election was held. Thirty-nine votes were cast and the following officials chosen: Supervisor, Asaph C. Smith; clerk, Cyrenus Day; treasurer, Samuel Wells; justices of the peace, John L. Covert, Joseph W. Sprague, Aaron Hardenburg and Z. H. Brower; highway commissioners, Henry V. N. Covert, George W. White and Asa K. Phipps; school inspectors, Simon Heath, James Chrysler, Asaph C. Smith and James Baird; overseers of the poor, Granson L. Hall and John L. Covert; associate assessor, Elijah Sprague; constables, Prindle Hubbell, Loren Sprague and George W. White; highway overseers, John Covert, W. Sprague, E. Butterfield, H. V. N. Covert, E. Abbott, E. Sprague and John Devine.
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... In 1838 James Monk came in from Canada and in March of that year located on section 26, founding what was known as the Canadian settlement...
Elijah Sprague was a prominent member of the Canadian settlement in Keene. He came in the summer of 1839 with his family and was followed closely by Philip Monk and James Baird...
...James Day, a settler in Oakland county in 1825, moved to Keene in June, 1841, accompanied by his sons, Cyrenus and Allen. The father took out a tract in section 28 and the sons in section 27.
James Baird and Prindle Hubbell lived on section 26. Zaccheus H. Bower came to the township in 1840 from New York and made a settlement on an eighty-acre lot in section 13...