![]() ![]() Cottonwood, soft maple, and elm are the principal varieties. No large areas of forest trees have been planted, but increased attention is being paid to that branch of husbandry. Varieties: white oak, walnut, hickory, black oak, cottonwood, elm, hackberry, and sycamore. Average width of timber belts, one-half mile. average width of bottoms, 1 mile general surface of the country, undulating. POPULATION of 1878, by Townships and Cities.įace of the Country. Rural population, 6,740 city or town population, 1,190 per cent. Whiting township was a part of the Kickapoo Reserve until 1866, when, with the remainder of the Reserve, it was purchased by the Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company, and opened to settlement. ![]() Wilcox and Lucretia Green, February, 1858 Washington township, Timothy Vaughn and Alice O'Brien, January 15th, 1869. ![]() First business established: country store, 1856, Phineas Skinner, place not stated. Stalker and four other settlers, without district aid. 38 Soldier township, 1861, by private enterprise, on the site of the present district school house Cedar township, about 1860, by settlers on southeast quarter Section 33, Township 7, Range 16 Washington township, 1870, E. First school houses: Liberty township, 1861, by school district No. ![]() First church buildings: Franklin township, City of Holton, Presbyterian Cedar township, 1870, Reformed Presbyterian. Pasley and others Washington township, June, 1868, Edward McNeme. First settlements: Liberty township, by emigrants from Missouri, date not given Whiting township, June, 1867, Henry Haub Soldier township, May, 1856, Henry Rancier Cedar township, 1857, S. ![]()
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