Beaver Township History
Clark County, Wisconsin
First Owners of Beaver Township
(T27N- R1W)
1853
Original Land Entries
Beaver Township, Clark
Co., WI
Transcribed from the 1918 History of
Clark Co., WI by Janet Schwarze.
Township 27, Range I West (Beaver).
Land in this town was first taken on Dec. 28, 1853, when Cyrus Woodman made a selection
in Sections 7 and 30. Samuel P. Weston, May 2, 1854, in Sections 29, 30, 31 and
32. The next entries were in 1855, by Levi D. Brown, in Section 4. On April 5 Hiram
S. Rountree took land in November 2, in Sections 6, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 17. September
11, Jacob M. Hackett, in Section 6. December 21, Charles W. Marshall located in
Sections 7, 17, 19 and 20. June 28, Nathan H. Ambler secured land in Section 15.
April 5, Burt Brett, in Section 16. On June 25, Elias K. Whitcomb secured land in
Sections 19, 27, 28 and 30. John French, September 24, located land in Sections
19, 20 and 27; October I I 30, in Section 34. Andrew Shepperd and John Valentine
located in Sections 21, 28, 32 and 33, September 24. September 13, James Hathaway
made a selection in Section 29; October 31, in Sections 30, 32 and 33. June 8, William
H. Lockwood, in Section 30. Charles Chase, June 5, in Section 30. June 5, Lucius
G. Fisher located in Section 33. J. A. Butrick and Allen B. Butrick took land in
Sections 34 and 35, on September 5. In 1873 the Wisconsin Central Railway selected
land in Sections 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 25, 27 and 35. Survey was made in 1848.
Beaver
Township, Baseball
1890
"Clark County Illustrated" History of Beaver Township, Clark Co., WI; by Saterlee, Tifft &
Marsh.
1905
Beaver
Township Improvements (1905)
Historical
Publications
1918 History of Clark Co.,
WI--Coxie, Shilling
1920
Beaver Township, May 13,
1920
Coxie
Schilling--was
a railroad station on the Fairchild and Northeastern Railroad, and was located
on the border between Sections 19 and 30 of the Town of Beaver. The
railroad operated here from about 1906 - 1926. We do know Shilling had a
cheese factory, but are in need of additional information concerning it.
Please contact Helen Blaha if you have more details. Notes:
#1, #2
Terro--Terro had a post office from
1884-1886.
West Beaver--May 12, 1906
Beaver Township
Changing Times
Clark County, Wisconsin
First Airplane to fly over Beaver Township (May 13, 1920)
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