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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
On the first Monday of April, in that year, Ridgeway was first organized as a separate township—the whole number of votes then cast being eighty, which were all given for Augustus W. Montgomery as supervisor. For the first ten years after the organization of the township, he and F. A. Kennedy, another prominent citizen and early settler, seemed to be elected alternately every year or two, to the office of supervisor, except in 1850, when Mr. Kennedy was a member of the house of representatives, for Lenawee county. The present town clerk of Ridgeway, Mr. Jay A. Santus, writes me that of all elected to office at the first town meeting or then holding office, Mr. Montgomery, Sanford House and Joshua Waring alone remain, "all others having since died or removed." Jonathan Hall may be considered as one of the very first settlers of the town, as he commenced in the spring of 1828 to clear up the farm where he still lives, and has resided for nearly fifty years. About the same time or a little earlier, a Mr. Martin settled on the prairie part of the town, but his house was burned down the ensuing fall, and was not rebuilt. The town was but little settled until 1833, when a company from Seneca county, New York, and another from Yorkshire, England,
came in.
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