Antrim Township
Shiawassee County, Michigan

Peter Cook And Alanson Alling were soon neighbors of the brother-in-laws. Other early pioneers include; Calvin Howard, Mortimore B. Martin, Almond Harmon and his brothers, Harvey, Chauncey and Daniel, Nathaniel Durfee, John Adams, Mortimore Martin, John Ward, Charles Locke, John Near and Horace Flint.

The Harvey brothers built a sawmill at the Glass River area. Other owners of the sawmill include Thomas Munger and later Issac and Walter Wright. The small village consisted of a school, blacksmith shop, sawmill store and church.

It was named Antrim, but later changed to Glass River. John Near was the first postmaster. Elected officials for the township were: Thomas B. Flint, Charles Locke, John Ward, Allen Beard., Henry Harmon, Lyman Melvin, Horace Flint, Hiram Van Natter, Peter Cook and Chauncey Harmon. The first election being held on April 2, 1838 at the home of Almond Harmon. Even some of the township drains are named after these pioneers: Peck, Morgan, Clay, Griffith, Scribner, Love and Neal.

Nicholson, now a ghost town, was located in Antrim Twp. Joeseph C. Nicholson became the postmaster on July 18, 1896 and it closed on Jan. 31, 1901. The town had a church and a general store.

At one time the township had ten country schools. Today, Antrim Township has three cemeteries.