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Source:
The History of Delaware Co., IA
containing A History of the County, its Cities, towns, &c.,
A Biographical Directory of its Citizens, War Record of its
Volunteers
in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics,
Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men,
History of the Northwest, History of Iowa,
Map of Delaware County, Constitution of the
United States, Miscellaneous
Matters, &c
- illustrated -
Publ. Chicago: Western Historical Company
Successors to H. F. Kett & Co.
1878
COFFIN'S GROVE TOWNSHIP
p. 555 - 556
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This township is Congressional
Township 89 north, Range 6 west. It was organized in
1855, by a decree issued to Clement Coffin, who had
settled in a grove of timber in the south central portion of
the township, fifteen years before. The grove was
called Coffin's Grove by the early settlers and hence the
name of the township. The voters met according to the
provisions of the decree in the old school house in the
grove, and elected the following first township officers:
Henry Baker and Aaron Sullivan, Justices of
the Peace; W. J. Doolittle, Township Clerk.
SCHOOLS.
CONTINUE ON PAGE 556
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