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LEBANON The town is situated south Bear Creek, and east of Little Wolf, claims for its first settlers Samuel Kerr, Jeremiah Eagan and the Smiths, who arrived in 1850. In 1854 the town was organized, with Myron Moore as Chairman of the Board and Samuel Kerr as Town Clerk. The first school was taught by Miss Sloane, in 1855. Rev. Father Herman had charge of the first church, built in 1860.
TOWN OF LEBANON
The Town of Lebanon was the first to be organized from old Embarrass, one of the six original townships of the county. It was organized in 1854, with Myron G. More as chairman of the board and Samuel Kerr, town clerk. Its first settlers, who arrived in 1850, were Samuel Kerr, Jeremiah Egan and the Smiths. Miss Sloan taught the first school in 1855, and Reverend Herman had charge of the first church, built in 1860. Lebanon is a purely agricultural section of the county, and its lands are valued as second among the different townships, Bear Creek being first. The Lebanon farm lands are held at $1,197,420, and the value of all property, real and personal, at $1,685,598. As a cattle country it also stands third to Bear Creek and Little Wolf; the assessor found within its borders 2,761 contented and productive bovines. The county superintendent of schools also enumerated therein 308 human beings between the ages of four and twenty-provender for the rural schools of the township, which now number six.
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