LIST OF NEVADA POSTMASTERS.
| T. E. Alderman, first P. M. 1853. | Otis Briggs, |
| Austin Prouty. | E. D. Fenn. |
| W. E. Aldredge. | L. Irwin. |
| James Hawthorn. | John Beatty. |
| W. G. ALLEN. | T. J. Ross. |
| J. S. Blickensderfer. | E. D. Fenn, January, 1887. |
GRANT TOWNSHIP.
A HISTORY OF GRANT TOWNSHIP FROM ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT,
ORANIZATION, ETC., TO MARCH 1887-CONTAINING ALSO A
NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS.
POPULATION OF GRANT TOWNSHIP 622.
This Township was named in honor of General Ulyssus Simpson Grant, one of the great military chieftains of the world. It was organized in 1867-comprising township 83 north and range 23 west of 5th P. M.
Grant Township is a fair average of soil and its citizens seem to be enterprising people generally. Among its first settlers may be named Jerry Marks, James Mathews, - Rynard, W. B. Womack, George C. Harrison, Joshua Harrison, W. W. Spring, Jeremiah Pressnall, George Green, A. P. Fitch, Nathaniel Appelgate, N. C. Minre, William Tichenor, Lewis Mercer, Noah Berry, George Wheeler, Hymen Halleck and W. C. Shockly.
This township has some flat lands, but most of them are along Skunk River and not quite so easily drained as some other flat lands. There is a great deal of tile draining being done and it of course is making the lands more productive and more valuable. There are two principal streams and some smaller ones touching and running through the township.
Skunk River comes in on the west line of the northwest quarter of section 19; then passing down through the west half of the southwest quarter of section 19, passing on and near the township line for nearly three-fourths of a mile till it reaches the west quarter section corner of section 30. Here it takes a southeasterly