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WHEATLAND TOWNSHIP |
| This is from the Mecosta County Portrait and Biographical Album by Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1883. |
| Wheatland township is township fourteen north, range seven west, Congressional survey, and is in the eastern tier of townships of Meocsta County. It is bounded on the north by sheridan Township, on the east by Isabella County, on the south by Millbrook Township, and on the west by Morton Township. It is on the divide between the watershed tributary to Lake Michigan, and that tributary to Lake Huron, and its land is accordingly higher than that of surrounding counties. Pointer and other creeks tributary to the Little Muskegon drain the northwestern part, while the greater part of the township is drained by Pine River and its branches (of which the most important is Pony Creek), which flow eastward into the Tittabawassee. Wheatland Township has a number of lakes, -- Lake No.1, Pine Lake, Pickett;s Lake, Gay Lake, Mud Lake, Lake No. 6, and others, which form the head-waters of the Little Muskegon and Pine Rivers. The township is crossed by a railroad recently constructed, the Detroit, Lansing & Northern, - which runs through the southwestern part. Wheatland contains no villages, although Millbrook lies just on its borders. The township of Wheatland was organized in October, 1862; and its first Supervisor was Jacob Schiedel. The first white settler was William Schiedel, who located on section 24, in September, 1860. Solon Hall located on section 36, the same year. The first birth was that of Ellen Hall, daughter of Solon and Mary Hall, in the summer of 1861. the first death was that of John Norman September 28, 1864. Catharine Robitzsch died about the same time. The first marriage, that of Thomas Ariss and Catharine McCloud, was solemnized by Solon Hall, a Justice of the Peace, in 1866. Others say that Isaac Harvey and Marisa Blood were the first couple married. The first frame building was a dwelling erected by John D. Clement, in September, 1865. the first mill was a water-power saw-mill erected by Frederick D. Miller, in June, 1875. The first school-house was a log building erected on section 26, in Decmeber, 1864. The first school was taught by Lydia Allen, in the winter of 1864-5. Others say that Adaline Aldrich taught the first school in the winter of 1865. The population of the township in 1864 was 120. This increased to 400 in 1870; to 632 in 1874; and to 1,170 in 1880. The township had 3,534 acres of improved land in 1878 and 4,320 acres in 1881. Its assessed valuation in 1868 was $44,313; and its present valuation is $424,214. Its total vote in November, 1882, was 200. |
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