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At the second township meeting Horace Brace was elected supervisor and Loren Maynard town clerk. Repealed the wolf bounty this year, but renewed it in 1836, increasing the bounty to $5 a head or scalp. The town ceased to offer this bounty in 1839. At the fifth town meeting 91 votes were polled.
Seeley Neale settled in 1832 upon the lands which he had entered in this town, where he continued to reside until the close of his life. He was one of the chain-bearers of the government surveying party which laid the route of the Territorial Road, and was one of the commissioners for establishing the same. As the party crossed the Marengo plains, then in all its virgin beauty and richness, Mr. Neale was so thoroughly enamored that he lost no time in entering all of these plains that his means enabled him to do. His judgment in that, as in most other matters, was not at fault. These lands are to-day the envy of agriculturists, and the admiration of all beholders. Mr. Neale served his town with great acceptance as supervisor, justice of the peace, and in many minor offices. He was industrious, temperate and economical-a man of honor and of good judgment.
Col. Loren Maynard settled in this town in 1833, and soon became widely and favorably known. For many years he kept a tavern, which, in those days, was a particularly prominent and necessary institution. He also carried on farming operations with entire success. He filled nearly every office in the town, and was post-master and sheriff of the county.
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