This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... in the list of counties of the State. Its boundaries, excepting aslight alteration, were the same as those ofthe Bangs act: Embracing the fractional Townships 35 and 36. Range 24, West: All of Range 25, from the bay shore to town, 4 inclusive; all of Range 26 and 27, to Town 4t, inclusive; all of the towns and fractional towns in Ranges 28, 29, 30, 3! to Town 41. inclusive. The name.leminee for the county had been decided upon by the people beforeI left home. At that time there were settlers in the county except those living at Meminee and up the-river, and those living at the mouth of the Big Cedar River, therefore the county was divided into two townships, viz.: The township ofCedarville, which embraced all the towns in the new county in ranges 24, 25 and 26 West, and the Township of Meminee, which embraced all of Range 27, and the towns and fractional towns in Ranges:8, 29, 30 and 31 West. So far as territory was concerned this furnished two pretty good sized towns. The town of Meminee is about as large as the State of Rhode Island. being sixty-one miles long and thirty miles wide at the rthern end, and tapering down to a point, at its southern extremity. By the provisions of the act, the county seat was to be located in town 31, North, Range 27, West. John Quimby, Sr., Nicholas Gewehr and E. S. Ingalls were appointed to locate the same. The Commissioners in the spring of 1863, located it on what is called Court House Square, in Meminee, opposite the Quimby Hotel (Kirby House) where a clerk's office and jail were afterwards erected. In 1874, the people havi: .g decided to build a Court House, the Board of Supervisors bought two acres of land on Ogden Avenue, and removed the county seat to that place. The old...