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PIONEER HISTORY OF HURON COUNTY, MICHIGAN
by Florence McKinnon Gwinn
Huron County Pioneer & Historical Society, 1922

[page 82]

CHAPTER III
EARLY TOWNSHIP HISTORY
OLIVER TOWNSHIP

      In 1879 Oliver township seceded from Lake and the
  first election was held in April of that year.  FRANK BLACK
  was chosen supervisor.  The township did not suffer
  as much from the great fires as did the others.  It is
  drained by the Pinnebog river.  Among its early settlers
  were S. D. GRIMMEY and JOHN OLIVER, after whom the
  township is named.  PATRICK BLISS, who located here
  in early days carried in the first cook stove for his own
  use, on his back, making four trips to bring the various
  pieces from Caseville.  The roads in this section were
  mere trails through the forest at this period.  The first
  school in the township was taught by Miss AGNES Mc-
  AULAY, of Caseville.  Among her pupils were the children
  of Mr. McGILLIVRAY, who built the first house in Elkton.
  His family were the first to settle there.  Mr. McGILLIVRAY
  was a blacksmith by trade and is still a resident of the
  village.  It is said that the village got its name from
  the fact of an elk being killed in a marsh nearby that
  weighed a ton.  Mr. DENNIS F. SMITH tells of cutting
  hay in this same marsh in 1859.  He worked for HANKS,
  THOMPSON and BUTTARS, the father of JOHN BUTTARS, who
  
  
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  were engaged in lumbering.  Also worked for FRANCIS
  CRAWFORD on the Pigeon river at the Burrit Shanties in
  1860 and 1861.
  
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