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CHAPTER VI -- PIONEERS (CONT'D)SHELBY.Undoubtedly the first settler of Shelby township was James Hawkins, whose settlement there dates from 1865, although he entered land there in 1855. Probably the next earliest settlers in the township were C. J. McLaughlin, D. B. Pierce, William Halloran, and Nathaniel Lawson, who came into the north part of the township in 1869. About 1870 came J. P. McEwen, W. E. Edwards, David E. Edwards, Andrew Miller, F. A. Miller, and others. During the seventies, there came the Pomeroy brothers, George Rink, George W. Ickes, W. H. Brown, D. E. Morris, L. Morris, Andrew Marshall, A. J. Savage, J. C. Mansfield, Rush C. Benedict, Mr. Tucker, E. C. Clapp, Alex Adams, George F. Colby, J. W. Garmong, E. A. Collins, W. F. Cleveland, D. C. Cooper, Jacob B. Linn, Harrison Smith, John R. Mansfield, H. S. McEwen, William M. Leigh, J. E. Bomberger, W. M. Bomberger, W. J. Long, H. O. Mattox, John Sandham, Nels Sallman, M. T. Keeney, Dr. Campbell, Dr. N. Jasper Jones, George D. Pierce, C. J. Byam, M. V. Best, Joseph Penn, William G. Barrett, Joseph Tatman, S. D. Abbott, Thomas Chatburn, Dr. DeMott, J. W. Green, J. A. Green, the Means brothers, John S. Potter, John Davis, H. M. Fagan, J. D. Caughran, J. M. Wood, Hugh Harrod, John W. Harrod, Dr. L. Benham, John Burwell, W. F. Christopher, J. S. Dee, E. Heilig, Dr. P. K. Watters, W. M. McCown, and others. Reference is made elsewhere in this work to the names of the early German settlers of the east part of the township.
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