THIS political subdivision lies in the northern range of townships, and was erected Mar. 4, 1833.  It then embraced the whole of Township 2, north, Range 11, the four eastern tiers of sections being taken from Marion, and the two western tiers from Findlay Township, the latter subdivision, previous to the erection of Cass and Portage, embracing all what is now Allen Township.  The first election for township officers was held the first Monday in April, 1833, at which time less than a dozen votes ..............MORE TO COME

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     First Land Entries and Pioneers - The first settlements in this township were made upon the ridge, the earliest entries being made in the north part of the township.  In March, 1832, David P. Day entered the northeast the northeast quarter of Section 11, and John Franks, the north half of Section 10 and  the southwest quarter of Section 1.  The following May Rev. Elam Day entered the east of of the northwest quarter of Section 12, and the same month Eleazer C. Fairchild took up the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 2, and the west half of the northwest quarter of Section 12.

     The Days and Fairchilds were the first families to settle in the township.  David P. and Elam Day came here respectively from Wayne and Wood Counties, Ohio, in the summer of 1832, the former settling in Section 11 and the latter in Section 12.  Elam was a regular minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and David P., a local preacher of the same denomination.  Both families went to Iowa many years ago.  Daniel and Eleazer C. Fairchild, of Trumbull County, Ohio, and settled in Sections 1 and 12 respectively, in the fall of 1832.  Daniel was the second justice of Cass Township, served one term as county commissioner, and resided on his farm till death.  Eleazer C., better known as Curtis, removed to Iowa.  None of their descendants are now living in the county.

     During the fall of 1832 Gibson McDaniels, Hiram Hulbert, James Wood, Charles W. Goldsborough and Nicholas Helmick all came into the township.  McDaniels soon after arriving here married a daughter of Eleazer C. Fairchild, and settled in Section 15, whence he removed to the West.  Hiram Hulbert and family located in Section 11, where he carried on a small ashery.  He sold out to James Vickers, and moved away at an early day.  James Wood and family came from Wayne County, Ohio, and also settled in Section 11.  He afterward removed into Marion Township, and there died.  Charles W. Goldsborough and family settled in the southeast quarter of Section 1, and in October, 1832, sold fifty acres off his farm to Francis Redfern.  In a few years the Goldsboroughs left the county.  They were Methodists, and among the organizers of the first Methodist Episcopal class in the township.  Nicholas Helmick was a native of Virginia, who had served in the Revolutionary war.  He first settled in Section 14, but soon afterward removed to Section 10.  He sold his land in Section 14 to Moses Hudson in 1837, and removed to Portage Township, where he spent the remaining years of his life.

     It is not easy to determine the year when JASPER AND JOHN FRANKS, JR.     It is not easy to determine the year when Jasper and John Franks, Jr., came into this township   MORE TO COME....

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     JAMES AND SARAH (MADISON) VICKERS

     JOHN HARDY

     Other Settlers of 1833 were John Payne, Charles Eckels, John Welch, Frederick Wagner and George and Thomas Elliott.  MORE TO COME

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     In 1834 GEORGE ALBERTSON, JOHN CHAFFIN and GEORGE RHAMY joined the settlement.   MORE TO COME

     The BRANDEBERRYS located in Section 9, in 1835.  The father Rudolph, sons Andrew, Jacob, Isaac and John, and six daughters, came from Ashland County, Ohio.  Each son had a farm of eighty acres given to him by the father, who took up a large tract of land.  The latter died here, and none of hte children are living in this part of the State.

     JACOB SHAFFER

     JOHN ECKELS

     VALENTINE AND ELIZABETH KARNS

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     L. D. SHIPPY and family, of Seneca County, located in Section 13, about 1836, and the parents died here.  Mrs. David Fowler, one of his daughters resides in Findlay.

     MOSES AND LYDIA HUDSON......

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     Cass was the first postoffice the township possessed.  It was established in 1837, at the house of Daniel Fairchild, who was succeeded as postmaster by James Vickers, Sr., upon whose death, in 1866, the office was discontinued, having existed for nearly thirty years.

     Windland, the only postoffice in the township was established Jan. 2, 1883, at the hosue of Cyrus Stacy, in the northeast corner of Section 28.  Mr. Stacy was appointed postmaster, and still holds that office.

     The township has never contained a village or hamlet, but July 10, 1833, John Franks, Sr., laid out a town of seventy-two lots, on the northwest quarter of Section 10, which he named Frankford.  No lots were sold or buildings erected in the proposed village, and nothing but the recorded plat remains to show that such a place was ever contemplated.