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Township of Davison is a general law township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan consisting of the survey township of North 7 East 8〔 less the administratively autonomous city of Davison. The population was 17,722 at the 2000 census. Davison was named after Judge Norman Davison, a judge of Lapeer County and a delegate to state constitution convention of 1835. He resided in a nearby town formerly known as Davisonville, now known as Atlas.〔 ==History== The Township was originally in Lapeer County and split between Atlas and Richfield township. Andrew Jesse Seelye visiting his cousin in Waterford, Michigan in 1835 purchase 240 acres in the future Davison Township section 33 in May 1936. Andrew was joined by his brother and sister, Alson and Debby, which all three established permanent residents in 1837. On , Atlas Township highway commissioners Paul G. Davison and Asa Farrar laid out the first road in the Atlas side of the township along the eastern side of section 31 to the section corner of 17, 18, 19 & 20. Ira Porter permanently settled in section 1 in January 1838 in the Richfield Township uphalf. Goodenough Townsend and other residents of the survey township petitioned the legislature in 1839 to form a civil township government here under the name of Middlebury. With a Shiawassee County township already using that name existing, the township was ordered formed but under a different name, Davison, on . The first township meeting was held on at Townsend's home with Abel Seeley serving as moderator and Townsend elect by the 14 voters to be the first township supervisor. All but two voters held an office.〔 Davison Township was transferred from Lapeer County to Genesee County by act of the state legislature on . In 1849, the Davison Centre Post Office was established with Townsend serving as postmaster until 1853.〔 In January, 2010, it was announced that Davison, Michigan City Manager Dale Martin and Davison Township Supervisor Kurt Soper had begun preliminary meetings discussing the possibility of merging the two municipalities.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Davison Township, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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