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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Co.,
Springfield, Ill: 1884


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                             CHAPTER VIII
                        OTHER OFFICIAL MATTERS

                            CIVIL TOWNSHIPS

        The sixteen civil townships of Cass county were constituted and
     organized upon the following dates:
        Cass in the fall of 1851, as a township of Pottawattamie county.
        Pymosa, prior to 1856; the first time it is mentioned being in that
     year.
        Turkey Grove, during the year 1856.
        Edna, prior to 1857.
        Breckenridge, constituted September 6th, and organized October,
     1858.
        Lura, constituted March, 1858, and organized April 5, 1858.
        Brighton, constituted in March, and organized April 5, 1858.
        These were the original seven, but in 1870 this was changed and the
     whole county reorganized into its present form of sixteen civil
     townships, each co-extensive with the Congressional township. The
     following gives the townships as created and named. The act consti-
     tuting them was passed June 11th, and the organization effected in
     October, 1870:
        Victoria, embracing township 74, range 34.
        Massena, embracing township 75, range 34.
        Lincoln, embracing township 76, range 34.
        Grant, embracing township 77, range 34.
        Benton, embracing township 77, range 35.
        Franklin, embracing township 76, range 35.
        Union, embracing township 75, range 35.
        Edna, embracing township 74, range 35.
        Noble, embracing township 74, range 36.
        Bear Grove, embracing township 75, range 36.
        Atlantic, embracing township 76, range 36.
        Pymosa, embracing township 77, range 36.
        Brighton, embracing township 77, range 37.
        Washington, embracing township 76, range 37.
        Cass, embracing township 75, range 37.
        Pleasant, embracing township 74, range 37.
        Bear Grove had been organized as now constituted, at the previous
     October elections.

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