Union Township
Set off as an independent township by the State Legislature on March
11, 1837. The first township meeting and election were held at the house of Chester
Hammond on April 3, 1837 in conformity with the law. Chester Hammond was appointed
Moderator; Briant Bartlett, Clerk; and Lewis Hawley, Isaiah W. Bennett and Alpheus
Saunders, Inspectors of the election. The first act of the newly elected township board
was voting to raise $100.00 to improve the roads; it was also decreed that a "legal" fence
must be no less than 4 1/2 feet high, with no space larger than four inches wide within two
feet of the ground.
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