CURRAN
- The township of Curran embraces all of government township 15 north, range 6 west. It was organized in 1861 and is situated in the second tier of townships from the west and the third from the south. It is bounded on the north by Gardner, on the east by Woodside, on the south by Chatham and on the west by New Berlin and Island Grove. The land is mostly level prairie and is watered by Lick creek on the southeast and Spring creek on the northwest. The township is traversed by the old Wabash railroad and by what is popularly known as the "Bluff Line" of railroad. This makes transportation easy for the large amount of live stock annually
raised an shipped from here. The local trading and shipping points are Curran village and Sanger station. Population - 1,023.
The first settlement within the limits of this township was made in 1819 by immigrants from the south. In that year came Joshua Brown, Jacob Earnest and Thomas Earnest, and in 1820 William Archer.