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Its first, and possibly its only president was Sidney Ketchum. Although this, like most other banks incorporated at that time, succumbed to the stringency of the times incident to and inseparable from the subsidence of the spirit of speculation which prevailed all over the United States. It had been of great value to the business men of the town and country, in enabling them to complete many valuable enterprises, and its ultimate failure was very much deplored. Bills of this bank, I am'told, passed currently "down south" during the rebellion.
There are twenty towns and two cities in the county, and their names and date of organization are as follows :
Marshall, extending over the entire county in 1832
Battle Creek, (formerly Milton),.....1833
Marengo, - -.......1833
Homer,.........1834
Athens, - - .......18S5
Sheridan,.........1836
Eckford, --------- 1836
Tekonsha, - 1836
Burlington,.....- 1837
Convis,..........1837
Fredonia,.........1838
Clarendon,......... 1838
LeRoy,......... 1838
Newton, - - -.......1838
Penfield,.........1838
Emmett,.........1838
Lee, - ------ 1840
Clarence, - - ...... 1840
Bedford, -........1838
City of Battle Creek, four wards. City of Marshall, four wards.
Albion, in the towns of Albion and Sheridan, and Homer,in the town of Homer, are incorporated villages.
October 17th, 1831, Calhoun county was declared a township of the name of Marshall, and the first township meeting was ordered held at the school-house in the village of Marshall on the first Tuesday in September, 1832, agreeably to act, approved June 29th, 1832. The record of that meeting cannot be found. The presumption is that no meeting was held, or if held, its proceedings were deemed of too little importance to be made a matter of record in any documentary form. On the first day of April, 1833, the " annual meeting of the electors of the town of Marshall was held in the school-house of the village of Marshall." Andrew L. Hays was chosen moderator, and Ellsworth Burnet clerk. As being historically interesting to the people of the county, the names of the first office-holders in the town of Marshall,
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