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The principal watercourses in this township are Otter Creek and Wolfe Creek, and from the former the township
received its name. This township, originally a part of Bruce Township, was cut off and organized as an independent
township in the spring of 1868, and under the new regime its first officers, elected in that year, were as here
noted: Supervisor, Martin H. Crider; clerk, James L. Sherman; assessor, John S. Smith; collector, Orrin Clark;
highway commissioners, John Funk, Charles Gurney; justice of the peace, James J. McKernan; constable, James Tremary.
Census figures of 1910 indicate the population of Otter Creek Township as 1,167, and the 1920 census records 1,099.
Among the pioneers who settled within the present limits of the township in the decade between 1830 and 1840 were
Solomon and Hiram Brock (twin brothers), James McKernan, Benjamin Craig, Henry Pickens, James Pickens, Martin Dukes,
Robert Wade, and James Spencer. Three small villages are in this township, Otter, Bruceville and Otter Creek, each
of which formerly had a postoffice prior to the introduction of the rural free mail delivery.
FROM:
History of LaSalle County, Illinois
By: Michael Cyprian O'Byron
The Lewis Pullishing Company
Chicago and New York
1924
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