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Silver Township History

Township Map
Was organized in 1870. Early settlers included "Doc" Simmons, E.B. Bailey, John Potter, Albert Lane, Anson Spencer and R.C. Hawn, Joseph Rankin, Joseph Rankin Jr., an un-named son-in-law of Joseph Rankin, Ed Bickford, Elisha Gleason, George Stephenson, and Thomas H. Hardin.

First Events
Residence: "Doc" Simmons; built from logs
School: Miss Martha Rogers, 1870
Birth: Mary A. Unger, August 2, 1869
Marriage: Joseph Dile and Miss Mary Lathrop
Religious services: Wesleyan Methodist in 1873
Water-run mill: owned by Henry Wise
Fatalities: an old lady with dementia wandered away from her home in a spring snow storm in 1870 and froze to death and a Bohemian working was killed by a falling building during a windstorm in 1885.
Cemetery: established in 1872

Churches
Methodist Episcopal established in 1881
Baptist

Cemeteries
Silver Cemetery

Geographical
Silver Township covers an area of 35.71 square miles (92.5 km2) and contains no incorporated settlements.
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SOURCES: The township history was excerpted from Biographical History of Cherokee County. W. S. Dunbar & Co., 1889. The township map is from Plat Book of Cherokee County, Iowa, W.W. Hixon & Co.,  Rockford, IL

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