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SOURCE: Portrait and Biographical Album
        of Newaygo County, Mich.
        Chapman Brothers: 1884
        
        
                            MONROE TOWNSHIP
         
   Monroe comprises Congressional townships 15 and 16 north, 12 west,
 and the east half of townships 15 and 16 north, 13 west.  It is 
 bounded on the north by Lake County, on the east by Barton and
 Norwich, on the south by Wilcox and Denver, and on the west by
 Beaver and Troy.  The greater part of the township is drained by
 the Pere Marquette River, which flows to the north.  White River
 rises in the southeastern corner.  In the northwestern corner are
 Pettibone Lake, Pickerel Lake, and Twin Lakes; in the southern 
 part are Spring Lake and Blue Lake; and on the western border is
 Crooked Lake.  The township contains 108 square miles, and much 
 of it is covered with pine.  Its agricultural resources are but
 little developed.
   Monroe was the sixteenth township organized in Newaygo County,
 and was erected by the Board of Supervisors Oct. 15, 1872.  The
 first township meeting was held the first Monday in April, 1873,
 at the school-house in district number 5, with Elias Elwell,
 Roger Pettibone and Harry Monroe as Inspectors.  The last named
 was elected the first Supervisor.  At the last election, held
 April 2, 1883, the following township officers were elected:
 Hugh S. Swain, Supervisor; George J. Ambrose, Clerk; Edward C.
 Groesbeck, Treasurer; Samuel Hartt, Highway Commissioner; Edwin
 Dunbar and Thomas McDuffie, School Inspectors; Henry M. Carroll,
 Justice of the Peace; Henry Pillow, Americus V. Coney, James A.
 Richardson and George W. Chapman, Constables.
   The population of Monroe Township in 1880 was 362.  It is 
 much larger now.  
 
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