Clinton County Trails
Volumes 1 & 2 (1986-1987)

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Issues [size of file; pages included]

Volume 1 Number 1 (1986) [.7 meg; pages 2, 7-8] 

• Vital records gleaned from letters of Riley Township pioneers (pages 2, 7-8)

• Administrator's Sales, Chancery Sales and Probate Orders from the Clinton Republican 1863-1866 (pages 3-6, 9)

• Baptist Church pew sale and leasing 1853-1854 (page 9)

Volume 1 Number 2 (1986) [.9 meg; pages 2-5]

• Maple Rapids graduating class of 1909 (page 1)

• Addison Cook biography (pages 2-3)

• Sylvanus Bachelder letter from 1859 (page 4)

• Jesse Monroe obituary (page 5)

• DeWitt Township Board meeting minutes from 1841 (page 5)

• DeWitt Township animal marks from 1837 (page 6)

• Annual Report of the Board of Supervisors of Clinton County (extracts) for 1853 (pages 7-9)

Volume 2 Number 1 (1987) [.4 meg; pages 2-3]

• William H. Norris & Elmer E. Emmons obituaries (page 1)

• Maple Rapids Dispatch business people in 1882 (pages 2-3)

• Clinton County Archives newspapers on microfilm (pages 4-6)

• Men registered in Victor Township in 1918 (page 8)

• Simmons School class list for 1898-1899 (page 9)

• Maple Rapids park subscription paper in 1928 (page 10)

 Volume 2 Number 2 (1987) [2 meg; pages 14-19]

• DeWitt Township minutes from 1860 regarding cemeteries (page 11)

• Clinton County map from 1873 (page 12)

• Dates of township and county organization (page 13) 

• Township and county organization with brief histories of each governmental unit - Part 1 (pages 14-17)

• Stoll, Caruss, Warren, Pratt and Oppenlander families (pages 18-19)

 Volume 2 Number 3 (1987) [1.9 meg; pages 22-27]

• Township and County Organization with brief histories of each governmental unit - Part 2 (pages 23-27)

• Westphalia births for 1907 (page 22)

• Jesse Monroe, Walter Mundell and Norman S. Whitford obituaries (page 22, 27)

• Unclaimed letters at the DeWitt post office for September 30, 1863 (page 28)

 Volume 2 Number 4 (1987) 

• Index to the first two volumes [See online index]

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Updated 1/8/2004