 John Blackmore and son Henry came here in 1849, having previously lived in Danville and Ottawa, Illinois.Asa Blakeslee, Thomas F. Norton, B. F. Norton, Isaac Ames, J. O Corey, Erastus Corey, Ansel Gammon, M. W. Gammon and C. D. Gammon were among the settlers in the years 1852-53.Blakeslee took up a claim on the prairie in the central part of the township where there were no other settlers.