MILFORD TOWNSHIP.
A HISTORY OF MILFORD TOWNSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT,
ITS ORGANIZATION, ETC., TO MARCH, 1887.-CONTAINING,
ALSO, A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS.
POPULATION 773.
It probably received its name, "Milford,"; as a kind of favorite name. It was organized in 1858, comprising now only township eighty-four north, range twenty-three west.
The brief items were partly culled from our county papers.
Our schools are all progressing very nicely, except the one in No. Three, which has been closed for a while on account of the serious sickness of the teacher, Miss Frazier. Miss Baughman is teaching again in number Five with her usual good success, and is trying to make her school the most interesting in the township.—( Pleasant Grove, Dec. 27, 1882.)
Much credit should be given Mr. R. McClure for the erection of a number of good horse sheds at the Methodist church here for the protection of his and his neighbor's teams.-(Pleasant Grove, Dec. 27, 1882.)
We hear that Mrs. Ella Minkler has bought another one-hundred and twenty acre farm. This purchase plainly shows what ten years of good management coupled with energy like hers will do. It was only a few years ago that her eighty-acre farm was taken, almost in its native state; and now with this new accession, and her husband one of the successful stock buyers and shippers, may we not reasonably expect a greatly increased prosperity.—(Dec. 27, 1882.)
Our neighbor Brown's house was burned last Thursday evening. There was some insurance in the Cedar Rapids Company, but his loss on the contents was considerable for one in limited circumstances to bear.—(Pleasant Grove, Jan. 3, 1883.)
Everything quiet. That old reliable merchants mill of T. R. Soper has closed for the present; cause, no water.—(Milford, April 24, 1883.)
Omitted Milford improvements are as follows: L. J. Raymond, a new house; James Smith, G. E. Gilmore, I. OLSON and F. T. McLain, new barns.—(Milford, April 24, 1883.)