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Portrait and Biographical Album of Huron County
Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1884

 [page 441]

                           HUME TOWNSHIP
                           
      HUME Township forms part of the northern boundary of the Penin-
    sula, and is numbered 18 north, of range 12 east.  It is bounded
    on the north by Saginaw Bay, on the east by Dwight, south by Meade,
    and on the west by Lake Township.  Its organization was completed
    in 1860, the election for this purpose being held at WALTER HUME'S
    store.  WESLEY ARMSTRONG was chosen Supervisor, WALTER HUME, Treas-
    urer, and ARCHIBALD THOMPSON, Clerk.
      WALTER HUME and family, who came in 1850, are credited with being
    the first settlers.
      This township was heavily timbered with pine, hemlock, cedar,
    beech and maple.  The soil is clay loam, except that bordering on
    the Bay.  It is drained by the Pinnebog River, which was for many
    years the principal means of transporting logs to the saw-mills at
    Port Crescent.  These mills have dismantled the forests, together
    with the fires of 1871 and 1881, so that now timber is regarded as
    being rather scarce.  About three-fourths of the land is under cul-
    tivation.  The soil is good for raising all kinds of cereals, and
    the location is well adapted to the cultivation of fruit.  The
    water is good and can be easily obtained.
    
    
 [page 442]                 HUME TOWNSHIP 
    
    The nearest port is Port Crescent; and the nearest railroad station
    is four miles away.
      The township has been represented by the following named gentle-
    men as
    
                             SUPERVISORS
                             
                 WESLEY ARMSTRONG-------1860-1
                 JAMES ARMSTRONG--------1862-5
                 CHARLES F. HAZEN-------1866
                 J. B. JOHNSON----------1867
                 JAMES B. ARMSTRONG-----1868
                 J. B. JOHNSON----------1869
                 W. D. KELLEY-----------1870
                 JOHN SHINE-------------1871-6
                 WM. C. WILLIAMSON------1877-83
                 JOHN SHINE-------------1884
                 
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