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Albion became an organized town in 1837, and its first town meeting of that year elected James Sheldon supervisor; Wm. Farley, town clerk; Warham Warner, Cyrus Robertson, Ashbell Howell, assessors; Chas. D. Holmes, Jas. Vandenburg, David Peabody, commissioners of highways ; George Boss, collector.
At the second town meeting, 153 votes were polled, and a bounty of $5.00 offered for the scalps of wolves killed in the town in the ensuing year. At the present time there are in the town thirteen doctors, seven lawyers, nine clergymen, six organized churches,------church edifices.
October 16th, 1830, Ephraim Harrison entered eighty acres of land in this town, described as E. | N. E. J S. 2.
No lands were entered in 1831. In 1832, 889 acres were entered. Tenney Peabody, Cyrus" Robertson, Campbell Waldo, and other well known citizens made their entries of land in 1833.
William Farley, an early settler in the town, lived and died (a few years ago) in South Albion, so-called. He was a remarkable man, and widely and favorably known. He, was a local preacher in the M. E. Church, and was ever ready to labor in that capacity; and he did so labor, to a greater extent, both at home and abroad, than any other local preacher in Calhoun county, unless it may have been Rev. Randall Hobart, of Marshall; he was zealous and sympathetic, and had the rare and happy faculty of infusing into his brethren all the warm emotions of his own spirit; he was not a profound theologian, but an earnest and hard worker, and accomplished much good. He had decided political convictions, which remained unchanged through his somewhat long and eventful life. It is said of him that he was fond of telling how often he had been elected supervisor of his town; indeed, it was creditable, alike to him and his constituents, for he was a very useful and reliable public officer. He was the fast friend of Albion Seminary, and was at one time its efficient traveling agent. He left his family a handsome property, and community the abiding memory of a life of usefulness and virtue.
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