Formation
Was
organized in 1870.
Early settlers
Included "Doc" Simmons, E.B. Bailey,
John Potter, Albert Lane, Anson Spencer and R.C. Hawn, Joseph Rankin,
Joseph Rankin Jr., an un-named son-in-law of Joseph Rankin, Ed
Bickford, Elisha Gleason, George Stephenson, and Thomas H. Hardin.
First Events
Residence: "Doc" Simmons; built from logs
School: Miss Martha Rogers, 1870
Birth: Mary A. Unger, August 2, 1869
Marriage: Joseph Dile and Miss Mary Lathrop
Religious services: Wesleyan Methodist in 1873
Water-run mill: owned by Henry Wise
Fatalities:
an old lady with dementia wandered away from her home in a spring snow
storm in 1870 and froze to death and a Bohemian working was killed by a
falling building during a windstorm in 1885.
Cemetery: established in 1872
Churches
Methodist Episcopal established in 1881
Baptist
Cemeteries
Silver Cemetery
Geographical
Silver Township covers an area of 35.71 square miles (92.5
km2) and contains no incorporated settlements.
Silver Twp - WikiPedia
SOURCES:
The township history was excerpted from Biographical History of
Cherokee County. W. S. Dunbar & Co., 1889. The township map is from
Plat Book of Cherokee County, Iowa, W.W. Hixon & Co.,
Rockford, IL
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