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1836–1907 in the works · the seats to 2026 in the government file
The township's officers as the histories name them — the town's own seats stand whole in the government file. The civil line begins at Earl's tavern: April 1836, all the voters present, thirty votes polled, John Henderson and Jacob Rector justices of the peace, one supervisor elected — "Previous to this they had gone to South Bend to vote." The works then name the township's officers as their sketches touch them: James Moon, treasurer and trustee some nine or ten years each; Charles J. Sweezey, trustee in 1880 and formerly postmaster; Alpheus O. VanLieu, trustee 1876–1880; A. Lindley, justice of the peace and the township's census enumerator in 1880; Jonathan Lineback, six years assessor on the Greenback ticket; a Mr. Nicar, five years assessor; Christopher Fuchs, elected trustee in 1904 "running forty-seven votes ahead of his opponent in a district with a Republican majority of sixty". One Union man reaches county office in the three works: Newton Jackson, "for a time… commissioner of St. Joseph county", the dates not given. The town's own government — the council and clerk-treasurer seats dug to their holders as of November 2026, the marshal's course, and the fire territory's provider-unit frame — stands whole in Pass 1's government file and is not re-dug here; this article is the histories' line that file's record succeeds.