. Our county; its history and early settlement by townships. ad on everysection line surrounding section 22, and has been for morethan forty years. Section 23 was all taken up in 1836, except a forty acretract, which was entered as late as October 6, 1838, by IsaacSpence (father of our townsman, Spence), the bal-ance of the section having been purchased by Thomas Berry,Ezra Porter, Daniel Bosnian, William Scott and Ira Ingra-ham. The present landlords of 23 are Adam Shirk, A. andE. Wilson, J. B. Bosman, J. Mendenhall, W. Foorman,W. Campbell, C. P. Cole, C. W. Andrews, and P. Archi-bald. S
. Our county; its history and early settlement by townships. ad on everysection line surrounding section 22, and has been for morethan forty years. Section 23 was all taken up in 1836, except a forty acretract, which was entered as late as October 6, 1838, by IsaacSpence (father of our townsman, Spence), the bal-ance of the section having been purchased by Thomas Berry,Ezra Porter, Daniel Bosnian, William Scott and Ira Ingra-ham. The present landlords of 23 are Adam Shirk, A. andE. Wilson, J. B. Bosman, J. Mendenhall, W. Foorman,W. Campbell, C. P. Cole, C. W. Andrews, and P. Archi-bald. Section 23 is also surrounded by open roads of manyyears location. The public land in section 24 was purchased of the gov-ernment between the first of April and last of December,1S36, the original purchasers being Amos Wooster, Nathan-iel Dickson, Adam Michael, and Isaac Mailten. Twenty-fouris the most eastern section of the middle tier and joins Jaycounty. The section is now owned by H. and M. Miller,M. Shatto, W. H. Maitlen, Adam Shirk, W. Harrison et RESIDENCE AND FARM BUILDINGS OF R. WINGATE,An old citizen and farmer of Delawaie township, 7 miles northeast of Muncie. on the Granville pike. ^^J^^fiv Spv^^^^^mnJ^^p^B^h rafecj^^Jol BffiiE LI I^HIL , 1:1 *£c33K wdH M^J Jt. 1 ?—r ^^t CH 1 Ififf? ^^^^^^^ RESIDENCE OF R. S. GREGORY,East Washington Street, Muncie. NILES TOWNSHIP 65 Twenty-four has roads on the north, south and west, also theAlbany and Dunkirk road crossing it north and south. Public land in section 25, Niles township, was entered asearly as 1833. The natural drainage furnished by Halfwaycreek, which passes through this section and section 36, southof it, was possibly some inducement to the prospector, asmost of the public land being level, was considered wet landprior to the clearing up and draining. The first purchasersin section 25 were Samuel Kyle, John Dinsmore, DanielDean, Jr., John Wilson and William H. Houston. The firstof these entries was ma
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