The following is an excerpt from “Remember Solon: a Community & Family History of Solon Township Area” compiled by Carol Drzewiecki.
Most farmers during the early settlement of the county were dedicated to their local governments and were intent upon making laws that would benefit their own community.
They felt that local government, being closest to the people, was by far the more important level of government. The ethnocentrism of each struggling community, with a church, school, railroad or store as a focal point, served to bond the people of the outlying areas into one loyal, enlarged village unit. Interest was not confined to the village proper but reached into the surrounding countryside to involve all the governmental policies and general welfare of the community.
