Jonesfield Township

This district is watered by the middle branch of Swan creek. The Saginaw Valley & St. Louis railroad runs through sections 25, 26, 27 and 28. The public highway, the only good road in the township, runs almost parallel with the iron road. West's mill and Green's mill form the manufacturing industries of the district. The northern portion of Jonesfield may be considered as unsettled.

The County Board, at a meeting held March 19, 1873, ordered "that town 12 north, of range 1 east, be and the same is erected into a township, to be called and known by the name of the township of Jonesfield. The first annual township meeting thereof shall be held at the school-house of school district number 2, in section 28, on the first Monday in April, 1873, at 9 o'clock A. M., and at said meeting Joel Nevins, Alexander Pales, and Arnold J. West, three electors of said township, shall be the persons whose duty it shall be to preside at such meeting."

The list of the principal officials of Jonesfield, from date of organization, is thus given:

SUPERVISORS.

CLERKS.

TREASURERS.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

The other township officials elected in 1881 are: John Wall, Highway Commissioner; William Fleming, Drain Commissioner; Peter L. Perkins, Superintendent of Schools; Patrick Madden, School Inspector; George Frost, Constable. There were four constables elected, of whom Mr. Frost alone qualified.

SCHOOLS.

There are four district schools in the township, attended by 79 pupils. The entire number of children of school age in the four districts number 111. The amount paid teachers for services rendered during the year ending September, 1880, was 592. The four school buildings, together with school property, are valued at $2,150. The total sum expended for educational purposes during the year was $1,219.71, raised from direct taxation, with the exception of $48.40 received from the primary-school fund. The total indebtedness of the school districts in September, 1880, was estimated at $747.16. The township library contains 98 volumes.

BACK TO LIST OF TOWNSHIP HISTORY 1881

Source: History of Saginaw County Michigan, By Michael A. Leeson, Damon Clarke, Published 1881 Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Chicago pages 851-852.

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