 | Gratiot County Michigan
MIGenWeb Project
New Haven Township
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If you have any information about New Haven Township's History, organization, records, photos, or have a source relative to the township and you are willing to add data to this New Haven Township resource page, please email Township Historian:
Kevin Everingham
Besides the Chippewa Indians, who were here previously, the earliest families settled the area in 1854. Prior to that time, only Indians and passing trappers and land speculators passed the area. Pioneer families included; John & Richard Crispel, Henry Clark, Moses White, Charles Chick, W.S. Everest, Richard Houck, Tom Haynes, Alex Chapman, Jacob Snyder, Joseph Bennett, Proctor Campbell, Peter Pendell, Franz Manecke, Arad Lindsay and others who set up New Haven as it's own little community. New Haven was organized in 1863 under the name "New Haven Center". The first postmaster of New Haven was Pioneer Joseph Wiles. By the turn of the century, this very rural agricultural area of sprawling flatlands was chiefly a farming community that utilized the resources of the surrounding communities for supplies and entertainment. In 1904 it was reorganized as "New Haven" township.
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NEW HAVEN HISTORICAL INFORMATION;
1884 Biographies of some NEW HAVEN PIONEERS |
| scanned pages
from the 1884
Chapman Brothers
Historical book. |
Family Genealogy of Gratiot County;
- Upham family of New Haven, Gratiot, MI (Jacqueline U Oliver) ROOTSWEB SITE
- Patrick Rademaker site of the Descendants of Ralph Little of Gratiot Co, MI. ROOTSWEB SITE
- Ila Miller's research on Clarence Derby descendants. ROOTSWEB SITE
- Everingham Archives. Site containing the related families; Derby, Haas, Little, Newcomer, Sabin, Wiles and Zerba from Gratiot County and many others.
- Gordon Morris' Homepage. (Information on the Sabin's of Gratiot Co.)
- Templin Family Genealogy. Some familes of Gratiot Co.
Gratiot County Resources;
- Civil War Veteran's Burial Files
- Gratiot County Marriages Transcribed marriages for Gratiot Co., starting in 1855.
- Gratiot County Dibean Marriages Updated Monthly
- Gratiot County Deaths
- Gratiot County Clerk's Office. Ithaca, MI.
HISTORICAL SITES;
- Alma College Established 1887.
- The 1881 Jackson Weller House
- Lumberjack Park
- The Michigan Masonic Home Built in 1931, the former Alma Sanitarium.
- Saginaw and Gratiot County State Road & Saginaw Valley / St. Louis Railroad.
Gratiot County MAPS;
- 1889 Atlas of Gratiot County, Michigan - List of Patrons
- 1901 Imperial Atlas of Gratiot Co. - township landowners
- 1901 Imperial Atlas Map Image online
- 1913 Gratiot Co. Map
- Current Gratiot County Map
GEANEALOGISTS! Check Rootsweb's
"WORLDCONNECT" Files with the form provided here!
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