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EARLY MICHIGAN MICHIGAN TERRITORY IN 1820
part that it would seem was then about the most prominent in the county. At that town meeting others were elected to office whose names are very familiar to us, who still survive, beloved and honored: William H. Cross, treasurer; Allen Tibbits, commissioner of schools and assessor; and Harvey Warner, overseer of highways for Coldwater Prairie. It was voted at this meeting that The next town meeting should be held at the house of John Morse, which is the present old Phoenix House in Coldwater.
The life of the town of Green was as brief as brilliant. Measured by the importance of historical facts connected with it, some might compute its life as lengthy, but its years, as measured by the sun struggling through our then miasmatic atmosphere, was only about three. In 1832, on the re-organization of townships, the name of Green was dropped; the west half of Branch county being named Prairie River, from a stream in the southwestern part now called Hog Creek, while the east part of the county was called Coldwater. But though the legislative council, in 1832, crowded the name of Green oft the atlas, yet some one still clung to the ancient name. Here is a ringing section that is given with an emphasis by an act of the legislative council, April 23, 1833:
"Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the legislative council of the territory of Michigan, that the township of Prairie River, in the county of Branch, shall be called Green, and by this name of Green shall hereafter be known and distinguished, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. "
The italics are mine, and seem necessary to give the spirit of the one who drafted the section. It is written as though it. closed a dispute and settles the fact that Green was to be remembered.
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