1877 McHenry Directory-Burton Twp.

TOWNSHIP HISTORIES
Burton Township

BURTON, TOWNSHIP 46, RANGE 9.

The first settlement in Burton was made on the Neversink Creek and English Prairie by Jacob and Samuel Jackson, Robert and Francis Richardson, Thomas and Richard Wray, and John Sanburn, in 1836 or'37, and they soon built a log school house on the creek, where William Stearns taught the first school of fifteen scholars. A church was soon after ( in 1872 ) built by the Methodists, at Spring Grove. At that time, the membership did not number more than ten, and the name of the first pastor was Bundock. In 1845, Blivins, Stillson & Co. built a grist-mill, that is still in operation. The town has one cheese factory, that takes the milk of some two hundred cows. In 1845, John E. Mann opened a store at Spring Grove, the only village and post office in the township. Burton is the smallest township in the county, consisting of the west third of Range 9, having but twelve sections. The reason for this appears to be that, at the time of the adoption of township organization, it was left to the qualified voters on the fraction, to say whether they would form part of Richmond, and the majority were for having a town of their own. Small as it is, Burton has a creek of its own, crossing the south end in a diagonal direction toward the Fox River, and it will have a railroad when the C. & P., so long ago surveyed, shall be in running order.

BURTON TOWNSHIP 1877 Directory
[Transcribed for Illinois Genealogy Trails by Sandie Schwarz]

BAUTES,LEONARD, Farmer, Sec. 31; Spring Grove P. O.
BROADLEY, WM. H., Farmer, Sec 19; Spring Grove P. O.
BROADLEY, HENRY, Farmer, Sec 19; Spring Grove P. O.
BROADLEY, E., Mrs. Farmer, Sec 19; Spring Grove P. O.

CAREY, JOHN, Farmer, Sec 17; Spring Grove P. O.
CLAXTON, GEORGE, Farmer, Sec 29; Spring Grove P. O.
COLE, FRANKLIN, Farmer, Sec 30; Blivins' Mills P. O.; born in New Chester, Merrimack Co., N. H., in 1835; came to this town in 1840; owns 400 acres of land; has been Supervisor one year; is at present School Director. Married Emily M. Stevens, of N. Y., in 1860; had five children, four boys and one girl. Republican.
COOLEY, J. H., Farmer, Sec 19; Spring Grove P. O.
COULMAN, J. B., Lives on J. H. Cooley's farm, Sec 7; Spring Grove P. O.
COULMAN, G. H., Lives on farm of R. B. Colby, Sec 7; Spring Grove P. O.

EARING, SAMUEL, Farmer, Sec 18; Spring Grove P. O.

HALDEMAN, DENNIS, Mechanic; Spring Grove
HATCH, F. L., Farmer, Sec 29; Spring Grove P. O.
HEANEY, JOHN, Capitalist; Spring Grove
HENNING, FREDERICK, Lives on the farm of C. R. Wray, Sec 7; Spring Grove P. O.
HOFFMAN, PHILLIP, Farmer, Sec 30; Spring Grove P. O.
HOFFMAN, AARON, Farmer, Sec 31, Burton Township; Blivins' Mills P. O.; born in Somerset Co., Penn., October 1, 1824; came to Michigan in 1831, and to this State and present locality, June 6, 1836; owns 433 acres of land; value of property, $30,000 ; has held only local offices; was Captain in the Volunteer service in Colorado, for the suppression of Indian troubles. Married Isabella Cole, June 3, 1854; she was born in Somerset Co., Penn., September 16, 1826; has four children living: Senereta, born September 25, 1854; Mark F., born February 16, 1859; Phillip Gordon, born March 21, 1865, and William Dighton, born April 16, 1872.
HOFFMAN, ALBERT, Farmer Sec 31; Spring Grove P. O.
HOOPER, JOHN, Lives on M. H. Cole's farm, Sec 17; Spring Grove P. O.

JACKSON, ADAM, Farmer for L. Hatch, Sec 29; Spring Grove P. O.

KIMBALL, E. G., Farmer, Sec 29; Spring Grove P. O.

LANYEN, MICHAEL, Farmer, Sec 31; Spring Grove P. O.
LANYEN, JOHN, Farmer, Sec 31; Spring Grove P. O.
LAWSON, IRA and FRANK, Farmers, Sec 19; Spring Grove P. O.
LAWSON, STEPHEN, Farmer, Sec 19; Spring Grove P. O.
LICHTY, DANIEL, Mechanic; Spring Grove

McGUIRE, MARTIN, Farmer, Sec 5; Spring Grove P. O.
MEAD, CHARLES, Postmaster and Justice of the Peace; Spring Grove
MOTLEY, WILLIAM, Farmer, Sec 5; Spring Grove P. O.
MOWATT, T. C., Miller; Spring Grove

PEACOCK, JOSEPH, Farmer, Sec 5; Spring Grove P. O.
PEACOCK, WILLIAM, Renter, Sec 5; Spring Grove P. O.
PIERCE, WILLIAM, Mechanic, Sec 29; Spring Grove P. O.
PIERCE, MARVEL, Farmer, Sec 20; Spring Grove P. O.
PIERCE, S. W., Lives with father, Sec 20; Spring Grove P. O.

RICHARDSON, F. G., Farmer, Sec 5; Spring Grove P. O.
ROWEN, HUBERT, Farmer, Sec 31; Spring Grove P. O.

SANBORN, J. W., Farmer, Sec 17; Spring Grove P. O.
SANBORN, MEHITABLE, Farmer, Sec 17; Spring Grove P. O.
SHAFER, JOHN, Farmer, Sec 31; Spring Grove P. O.
SLATER, WILLIAM, Farmer and Town Clerk, Sec 29; Spring Grove P. O.
STEVENS, ORRIN, Farmer, Sec 29; Spring Grove P. O.
STEVENS, ESTHER, Farmer, Sec 20; Spring Grove P. O.
STEVENS, ANDREW, Lives with father, Sec 20; Spring Grove P. O.
STEVENS, MERRILL, Farmer, Sec 20; Spring Grove P. O.
STEVENS, WILLIAM, Lives with father, Sec 20; Spring Grove P. O.
STEVENS, B. A., Farmer, Sec 20; Spring Grove P. O.
SWEET, CHANCEY, Capitalist, Sec 30; Spring Grove P. O.
TAYLOR, H. H., Lives on Vokes farm, Sec 8; Spring Grove P. O.
THOMPSON, ROBERT, Farmer, Sec 32; Spring Grove P. O.
TWEED, ROBERT, General Merchant, Spring Grove

WARD, JOHN, Lives on farm of S. Lawson, Sec 8; Spring Grove P. O.
WATTS, WILLIAM, Farmer, Sec 31; Spring Grove P. O.
WESTPHAL, HENRY, Lives on J. Cary's farm, Sec 29; Spring Grove P. O.
WESTLAKE, JAMES, Cheese Manufacturer, Spring Grove
WEBER, JOHN, Farmer, Sec 31; Johnsburg P. O.; born in Prussia, Ger-many, 1822; came to America, 1849, and to this town the same year; owns 80 acres of land. Married Anna Mary Muhldor, of Germany, in 1850; has five children, two boys and three girls. Democrat; Catholic.
WILSON, WYMAN, General Merchant, Spring Grove.
WRIGHT, ALBERT, Lives on R. B. Cole's farm, Sec 7; Spring Grove P. O.

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