This record group consists of various records of the Berrien County Clerk for the years 1836-1961. The record group includes: census of Berrien County (1880), offering information on inhabitants; list of county officers (1836-39, 1927-30); record of justices of peace and notaries (1837-69, 1865-88); record of soldiers discharged from service (1866-99); report of burial of indigent soldiers, sailors and marines honorably discharged from Union Army (1885-93, 1910-21); record of docked horses (1901-02, 1907-14); statement of medical practitioners (1898-99); list of petit jury (1905, 1909-40); election returns for all villages and township officers (1912-54); reports of jail inspection (1897-1918); proceedings of the Board of Supervisors (1937-38, 1948-57, 1960-65); comprehensive area plan of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph for June 1955 (1955); audit of Berrien County Emergency Relief Administration (1939); and Health services of Berrien County by Vlado A. Getting (1961).
