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MERIDEN TOWNSHIP
This township, entirely of prairie land, was organized in 1850, and in its area included the present Mendota Township
until the erection of the latter, in 1856. Near Four Miles Grove, representing the only timbered tract in the township,
a few families settled in 1836, including those of John Haight, David Heck and Lyman Alger, Benjamin Furman and
George Wilkinson having come in the following year, and Benjamin Birdsall had here established a home in 1839.
Other pioneers were E. R. Wicks, Ira Bailey, David Holden, John Rose, James Cunningham, Hiram Cristler, John Wisner
and Thomas Eager. The official.s elected in 1850 were as follows: Supervisor, Obed W. Bfyant; clerk, John Rose;
assessor, James Wisner; collector, Lyman Cook, who declined to qualify, whereupon Corran Doane was selected for
the office; justices of the peace, Nathaniel Cook, Edward Cook, John L. Farrer; constables, Lyman Cook, Adoniram
Smith, both of whom declined office and gave place to Thaddeus S. George and Corran Doane;. overseer of the poor,
Frederick M. Baldwin; road commissioners, Joseph F. Worsley, Sylvester Cook, James Barton.
In this township the Village of Meriden is a station on the line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
The census of 1910 records for Meriden Township a. population of 602, and that of 1920 shows an. increase to 647.
FROM:
History of LaSalle County, Illinois
By: Michael Cyprian O'Byron
The Lewis Pullishing Company
Chicago and New York
1924
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