J. P. Pool, W. M. Kelley, Micah French, Henry C. French, —— Hague, C. P. Page, W. C. Murphy, H. F. Murphy, Philo NICKERBOCKER, Wm. Handsacker, Geo. Hyden, C. Bryant, Samuel S. Hague, A. Snelling, John Snelling.
Those who raise cattle, hogs or horses and grain I will name also; and all farmers of energy and stir, and active men in any other legitimate business are cheerfully named; and yet even with care some may be forgotten not purposely: I. H. Mathews, James C. Lovell, W. R. Woodward, Cornelius Tway, W. M. Kelley, Wm. Pool. Watt C. Murphy, Absolem Smay, David Smay, C. P. Page, G. N. Kuhn, E. Kuhn, Wm. Handsacker, Geo. Hvden, E. M. Padelford, Freman Elliot, Ed. Elliott, J. Newhouse, J. W. Cook, W. C. Harris, E. Furnas, J. Sowers, J. Q. Adams, Henry Miller, N. R. Pool, Pat Ryan, S. M. McCall, G. Moore, J. Connahan, R. Siddall, J. Coon.
There are many who own land in Richland but are not residents of the township. Among them who are large landholders are E. J. Cessna, H. E. J. Boardman, J. D. Lahman, T. C. McCall, Jas. Dillon, H. Staley, J. H. Sinclair, H. E. J. Boardman, of Marshalltown owns near 1,400 acres, being the largest landholder in the township. T. C. McCall, of Nevada, is next, owning about 1,000 acres in the township; Jas. Dillon, 960 acres; E. Furnas, 740 acres; J. H. Sinclair. 705 acres; J. D. Lahman, 590 acres.
There are several streams passing through the township. Most of them are small. The main East Indian creek passes through it from near the north quarter section corner of section three, and leaving the township some fifty rods east of the south quarter section, corner of section thirty-five. This creek drains sections three, two, twelve, thirteen, twenty-four, twenty-six and thirty-five, touching a little on sections eleven, twenty-three and thirty-six. This creek enters the north end of Johnson's Grove at or near the interior center of section twelve. This grove of native timber is more fully described under " Groves" in the index. The main creek timber begins at- the north line of the northeast quarter section twenty-six and follows the creek southerly through the township. The timber belt is not wide, but did have in early times pretty good timber. There are smaller branches, but will notice only one. It commences in section six, then passes southeasterly through sections eight, nine, sixteen, fifteen, twenty-three, and empties into the main creek near the north quarter section corner of section twenty-six.
The school houses are fair and all in their proper places, nine of them, so as to make each school district two miles square.
There are two church buildings in the township. One is at or near the southwest corner of the east half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-four, and is a comfortable structure. It is an Evangelical Lutheran church, and religious services are conducted by the Rev. J. A. M. Ziegler, of Nevada. The other church is a Methodist Episcopal church, built in 1885. It is fifty by twenty-