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Convis Township

19500 15 Mile Road
269-789-0654

The first annual town-meeting in Convis was held on April 3, 1837, at the house of James Lane. The number of voters is unknown, but a full ticket was chosen as follows: Supervisor, Elisha Brace; Town Clerk, Thomas L. VanGeisen; Assessors, Asahel Hawkins, Daniel Beers, and Ira H. Ellsworth; Highway Commissioners, Hiram Brace, George W. Bentley, and O. B. Austin; Justices, Elisha Brace, Daniel Beers, S. D. Bardon, and Asahel Hawkins; Directors of the Poor, Harvey Parkhurst and E. N. Naramore: Collector and Treasurer, Levi Rowley; and Constables, Levi Rowley and Harvey Parkhurst. Among present town officers are--Supervisor, Alvin L. Ford: Town Clerk, Thomas Templeton; Treasurer, Robert E. Cornhurst: Superintendent of Schools, Charles P. Chidster; School Inspector, Ira O. Eaton; and Justices, James Haggett, Thomas Moor, B. M. Templeton, and Alvin L. Ford.

Fifty-five votes were cast in 1840. The highest number cast at a town election was two hundred and twenty-one. At the general election of 1876 the vote was two hundred and fifty-five.

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