History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its people, industries and institutions ..with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . and entr\ in the territor)- comprising thetownship was maile by Joshua l\ee\e, April 13, i8j_. and consisted of thenorth fraction of section 23, township i, range 5. The next eiury wasmade by Trice Stafford in 1814; two others in 1815, by Jacob Iveeder andWilliam Ballow, respectively. The f(jllowing year entries were made by|(K(.iih llaNs, Isaac 1 tolling>\vorib, [.dward .\ilains. (aleb Urock and Henrylo^l
History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its people, industries and institutions ..with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . and entr\ in the territor)- comprising thetownship was maile by Joshua l\ee\e, April 13, i8j_. and consisted of thenorth fraction of section 23, township i, range 5. The next eiury wasmade by Trice Stafford in 1814; two others in 1815, by Jacob Iveeder andWilliam Ballow, respectively. The f(jllowing year entries were made by|(K(.iih llaNs, Isaac 1 tolling>\vorib, [.dward .\ilains. (aleb Urock and Henrylo^lei\ broui ilii> time oil, the sfttUincnt increased Iapidly ami land entrieswere UKjre fre(|uent. The township has since kept ])ace with the rest of thecounty in the general march of progress. Ree\e township had a poi>ulation of one thousand five hundred andseventy-six in 1910. David S. Jacknian, at Alfordsville. is the pre>ent town-ship trustee. BARR TOWNSHIP. Barr township was organized on August 4, i8i(). the territory beingtaken from the ea^t jiart of Washington townshi]). .iong the early set-tlers of tliis township were Idngh Barr, alter whom the town^hip was COUNTY, INDIANA. 275 Otlier early settlers were James Miint,L;<iiiiery, William Dant, Nicholas Kid-well, J^,^,c?l)ll Miller, JmIhi , John Allison, John U. Kendall and Will-iam Williams. These, and most of the first settlers, came from prairie was named after William Williams, the first settler in thatsection, ahunt two miles west of Barr township is the largestin the county, CdUtaining seventy-two sections, and the largest numher ofearl)- Land entries were made in this tiiwnshi|j. The splendid farming landsof Barr township have l^een developed hy the industry and energy of theearly settlers and those who have succeetled them. Tiie township is not onlyendowed with a wealth of agricultural resources, hut is underlaid with Ijed of the f
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