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Michigan Jackson
John Gillespie and John Kane, constables; Fidus Livermore, township treasurer; Oliver Russ and Wm. P. Worden, directors of the poor; Norman Allen, agent for sale of Rowland's tonic mixture ; David F. Dwight and David Porter, in lime business, and Bunnell & Fish, shingles; Ring & Hibbard ran a daily line of stages to Adrian. In 1839 D. G. McClure and J. M. Terry were practicing physicians; E. D. Merriman became a resident; Childs, Houssel and Brown were carriage painters, paper hangers and dealers in cabinet ware, and Benjamin Hazle ton was running an ashery.
There 'was in Jackson in 1839 two banks, two printing offices (the " Jackson Sentinel" and " Michigan Democrat"), two semi-monthly publications (the "American Freeman " and " Michigan Temperance Herald") two drug stores, ten dry goods stores. Five religious denominations held services weekly (the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Close Communion Baptist and Free Will Baptist). The population of the village was, by the newspapers at that time, claimed to be one thousand, and the number of dwellings two hundred, with eighty additional in the course of completion.
ELECTIONS. Township Meeting, 1831.
Jackson
Section 2
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