From "The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties"
(Chicago: 1879), p. 557:
Somers
In Township 2, Range 22 east, with a population of nearly an hundred,
and supplied with schools, a Methodist Church at Kellogg's Corners,
another on Section 15, erected in 1863, and a Presbyterian Church at
Leet's Corners, built in 1847. The township also supports two Granges of
the Patrons of Husbandry, and is one of the most thrifty in Kenosha
County.
From "The City of Kenosha and Kenosha County Wisconsin" by Frank
H. Lyman, 1916, p. 320
Somers
This town commenced its settlement in the spring of 1835, chiefly at a
point designated at the head of Pike Grove and by the following
individuals: B. Flech, H. Longwell, Z. Montgomery, Griffin and William
Allen; the two last named sold their claims and were succeeded the
following year by Charles Leet and William Smith. In the southeast part
of town Cephus Weed started a farm and upon Pike River Thomas Parsons
built a sawmill, all in the year 1835.
The first school in the town was kept in the winter of 1836 on the farm
of hugh Longwell, and was taught by Miss Brizee, afterward the wife of
Doctor Munson.
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