. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . irschemes met with an invariable defeat. Through themanagement of I. A. Fancher, then the Senator ofthis district in the State Legislature, in 1876, the sumof $10,, due thiscounty from some error on thepart of the State Auditor on the detaching of ClareCounty, was recovered by special act. This fundbeing thus secured, the Supervisors appropriated$10,000 of the amount for the purpose of building acourt-house; $2,000 more was added by the citizens,and $1,000 raised by taxation. The contract was letto Hemmeter lS: Kaiser, in May,

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. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . irschemes met with an invariable defeat. Through themanagement of I. A. Fancher, then the Senator ofthis district in the State Legislature, in 1876, the sumof $10,, due thiscounty from some error on thepart of the State Auditor on the detaching of ClareCounty, was recovered by special act. This fundbeing thus secured, the Supervisors appropriated$10,000 of the amount for the purpose of building acourt-house; $2,000 more was added by the citizens,and $1,000 raised by taxation. The contract was letto Hemmeter lS: Kaiser, in May, 1876. The corner-stone was laid by the Masonic fraternity, assisted byother secret organizations, July 28, of that building committee was I. E. Arnold, Wm. , AVm. M. Peterson, Samuel Kennedy and Graves. The building was completed Oct. 26,1877, whicli with the furniture cost the county $16,,—every dollar of which was paid the day itwas ready for occupancy. ^. *t/ ^ ;^>r@))^#- rJ^K CS\ ISABELLA COUNTY. S4I. %

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