Daviess County

Marion township was first organized in 1869. The first officers were: William E. Black, clerk; Harvey Reynolds, assessor; Daniel Gentis, collector; John Haver, supervisor; David E. Henderson, trustee; S. S. Ryan and John W. Ambrose, justices of the peace. The first official meetings of the board of trustees were held at the residence of William E. Black. Township Officers Since its organization the township has had the following officers during the years named: 1870 Havey Reynolds, supervisor; William E. Black, clerk; Harvey Reynolds, assessor; Thomas Pruitt, collector; Peter Nance, constable; S. S. Ryan and John Ambrose, justices of the peace.

Grand River washes the border of this township for a considerable distance on the north and east, while Grindstone Creek, Little and Big Muddy, ‘Cottonwood, Big Run, and other streams flow through the township in a northerly direction, all emptying into Grand River. The territory now embraced in Marion was originally included in Grindstone township, .one of the original townships, which took its name from the stream of that ,name, on which were made some of the first settlements in the county. The township is about equally divided between timber and prairie, the timber skirting its entire eastern and northern

This township, with respect to the position of the other townships of the county, is bounded on the north by Benton and Grand River; on the east by Grand River; on the south by Jefferson, Liberty, and Union; on the west by DeKalb county. It lies principally in ranges twenty-eight and twenty-nine, in township sixty, and contains twenty-nine thousand two hundred and ninety-five and forty-one one-hundredths acres. In the spring of 1878 the township contained thirty-three thousand one hundred and thirty-five and forty-one one-hundredths acres, but six sections of 640 acres ,each were taken off of the northern part and.