A Twentieth Century Hstory of Allegan
Co., Michigan was published in
1907 by the Lewis Publishing Company. The copy I used is located
at the Herrick Public Library in Holland, Michigan.
The first paragraph in the Salem Township
Section states: " The settlement of Salem township dates
from 1851, and by 1860 the township had only 430 inhabitants.
Already by that time a considerable number of these were grouped
around the center of the township, known as Salem Center, where
Timothy Bliss had entered land in 1858. Among those who
settled at that point was James Burnip, who opened a store
in the sixties and took such a leading part in affairs that the
locality came to be known as Burnip's Corners. Other early mrchants
there were J.S. Warner, Wells, and Dibble, James Briggs, Dr.
C.C. Lindsley, Theodore Castor, W.H. Goodwin. A sawmill was
built here about 1859, and for the past forty years the Heck
family have been prominent representatives of the milling industry
in this part of the county. George and William Heck
erected a sawmill and a gristmill on Little Rabbitt river, and
Mr. George Heck is still proprietor of the gristmill at the old
location.
Population has also centered about two
other points in this township, one in the northeast corner, known
as New Salem, and the other in the southwest corner, on Rabbittt
river known as Diamond Springs."
Biographical Sketches
George
Heck
Silas
Loew
Charles
Wesley Loew
Chrsitian
Sutter
Henry
Weber
Francis
John Buege
Jeremiah
V. Leeder
Aaron
Heasley
School Graduates- Those graduating
from Burnip's Corners district school between the years 1890
and 1906.
