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of persons who have at any time owned land within the 

 township, and classifies them in two ways: first, according 

 to their present status whether they have sold or still own; 

 and second, according to residence whether they now reside 

 upon the land, or have never resided upon it, or have 

 formerly resided upon it but are at present non-resident. 

 We see that there have been one hundred and ninety owners 

 in all who have at one time or another resided in the town- 

 ship, of whom seventy-four are still resident; and that the 

 total number of owners of land in the township at present 

 is one hundred and thirty-five. Table IX. still further 

 subdivides the owners, first classified as to residence, into 

 those who took government land, those who purchased from 

 the railroad company, and those who purchased from other 

 owners. Next the present owners of farms are classified 

 according as they reside in the township, in the county but 

 outside the township, 1 or outside the county. We see that 

 about fifty-five per cent of the present owners reside upon 

 their own farms. 2 



Of the resident owners twenty-seven per cent, as has been 

 seen, are Germans, the remainder being mainly Americans, 

 with some few Irish and others. The states which have con- 

 tributed the most settlers are Iowa and Ohio, though nearly 

 all the states in a due easterly direction have furnished their 

 shares. 



tract of land of which the real farming was, during all that period, 

 carried on by the same person, the title of the land has been con- 

 sidered as remaining continuously in the name of the head of the 

 family; for our unit here is the family rather than the individual. 

 Nineteen names have been omitted under these conditions. 



1 It may be interesting to show the character of those owners 

 who reside outside of Harrison township but within Hall county. 

 Of the thirty-four so classified, seventeen have never been engaged 

 in farming, five moved from the township to enter upon other 

 occupations than farming, four are owners each of several farms 

 which they oversee, though they do not personally engage in farm- 

 ing, and the remaining eight are farmers living upon farms which 

 they own in other parts of the county. 



2 Attention is called to the fact, shown in Part I., that the numbers 

 of this class have greatly declined in recent years. 



