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

[page 87]

CHAPTER III
EARLY TOWNSHIP HISTORY
LINCOLN TOWNSHIP

      Another township named after a president is that of
  Lincoln, organized in 1877.  The first election held at
  the home of GEORGE COLLINS resulted in the election of
  DESIRE FILION as supervisor.  The first settler was JOHN
  H. PREVORSE, who came in 1865 and endured all the
  labors and hardships of pioneer life.  We can imagine
  how great these trials were when we read the records in
  the register's office that the first mortgage foreclosed
  in the county was when the JOHN H. PREVORSE farm was
  sold on foreclosure to ROBERT W. IRWIN, August 2, 1875.
  RICHARD WINSOR was the attorney in the proceeding and
  HUGH M. ROSS, deputy sheriff, carried on the sale.  In
  fact Mr. ROSS handled most of the sales on foreclosures
  for a number of years.  In the year 1885 we find 25 such
  sales.  Among the early settlers in this township we
  find the names of LEON FILION, B. C. CHURCH, W. H. PARK-
  
  
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  ER, RONALD McDONALD, JOHN D. PARENT and later ANTHONY
  TETREAU who purchased and established the farms after-
  wards called TETREAU'S Corner.  The whole township
  was burned over in the fire of '71 and the eastern side in
  '81.  It is drained by Willow Creek, which empties into
  Lake Huron.  Here as in other parts of the county broad
  fields and comfortable homes now occupy the ground
  where once the wolf and wild deer trod.
  
      Many of the sturdy, hardy pioneers who viewed these
  scenese of early days have passed away and the story of
  their adventures sounds like some fairy tale of old.
  
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