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The original church building, poetically described and pictorially illustrated in Mont- gomery's History of Jay Connty, was erected in 1841, the first church in the county. It was burned down in 1862 or '63, but a neat little cemetery still marks the site! The present church building is a mile west, at Westchester, is a frame, erected in 1862, and will seat 200 persons.
Rev. Isaac N. Taylor, the founder of the above church, as well as of Liber College, referred to elsewhere, afterward, in 1859 or '60, moved to southwestern Illinois, obtained a divorce from his wife, moved to Nebraska, married again, and was living in that State when last heard from. His first wife resides in Fort Wayne, as does also his son, R. S., who is a prominent lawyer of that place.
The Westchester Preparative Meeting of Friends was organized September 10, 1874. Present membership, eighty-fonr, including the children; minister, J. G. Ross, who joined the society in 1876. From the date of or- ganization to February, 1887, Cyrus Stanley was the minister, at the last date he moved
West. The society belongs to the Portland Monthly. Sunday-school, with an average at- tendance the year round, is superintended by William R. Haffner. The meeting-house, sit- uated a mile west and a mile north of West- chester, is a frame, 28 x 38 feet, built in 1875.
Antiville is the name of a point two and a miles south of Briant and fonr and a half miles north of Portland.
The Burr Oak Erangelical Association have a frame church on the road between Bloomfield and Briant, erected in 1876, on a lot donated by Levi Sager. The congregation is in a flourishing condition, having religious services every two weeks, and a Sunday-school every Sabbatlı.
BRIANT.
Even this village must have a postoffice of a different name, varying, however, in but one letter, the postoffice being Bryant. The village is a creature of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, on which it is situated, and was laid out December 8, 1871, by William McClellen, William R. Gillum, W. K. San- ders and William Carson. North Briant was laid out October 6, 1873, by Ezekiel Rowlett. The two plats constitute one village, the pop- ulation of which is estimated at about 300.
The business of Briant is carried on by the following gentlemen: A. T. Lynch, S. Dixon, and Cartwright & Headington (branch of Portland store), general stores; G. S. Lewis, J. S. Miles and J. S. Robinson, grocers ; J. T. Miles and Olney Whipple (the latter the post- master), drugs and notions; Oliver Karns, shoe shop; Kendricks & Williams, blacksmiths and wagon makers; J. T. Hanlin, Briant Honse; William J. Townsend, warehouse; Drs. M. A. Glentzer, J. T. Miles, O. S. Abel and James G. Wicks,-all regnlar except Dr. Glentzer, who is eclectic; and the manufac- turers mentioned presently.
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In the past, Dr. James C. Jay was a promi- nent physician here from 1844 to April 9, 1881, when he died from disease contracted in the army, leaving a wife and four children. He was assistant surgeon of the One Hundredth Indiana Infantry. T. G. ,McDonald, Poling, and Joseph Adams, all eclectic, have also practiced here, as well as J. L. Munsell, regular, some three or four years.
Meinhart & Sons are running a large saw- mill in the northern part of town, which they bought on coming here in the fall of 1873, of Mr. Rowlett, who had erected it a short time previously. The main building is 20 x 80, and the engine thirty-five horse-power. They employ five men, and manufacture lumber and shingles.
Winch & Sons, of Fort Wayne, built at Briant, in 1880, and still run, a good hub and spoke factory, where they employ ten to twenty-five hands, eight months a year, with a thirty-five-horse power engine, and turn out about $50,000 worth of their products per annum.
Henry Huckeriede is the proprietor of the brick and tile factory, which he built in 1882, and where he employs three hands besides himself, manufacturing about 9,000 rods of tile per year.
The public school-house is a large, two- story brick structure, in the western part of town, erected in 1883-'84, at a cost of about $2,000. Each story is a single room. Two teachers are employed. Enrollment sixty- eight; average attendance, forty-five.
James C. Jay Post, No. 488, G. A. R., was mustered February 26, 1887, by Mus- tering Officer, J. J. M. La Follette, of Port- land, with sixteen members. J. T. Miles, Post Commander; Benjamin Fifer, Senior Vice Commander; Joseph Finney, Junior Vice Commander; Oliver Karns, Officer of the Day; J. M. Long, Officer of the Guard; W. R. Pingry,
Adjutant; A. B. Woodward, Quartermaster; Alex. Miles, Chaplain.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church at Briant was organized about 1874, with four- teen members, under the ministration of Rev. John W. Miller, of Buena Vista, Indiana, who mnoved here the same year. He was succeeded by C. S. Finley, Nathaniel Frasier and Herrald. They have no pastor at present. The membership comprises only ten or twelve voting members. Elders, S. P. and Michael Meinhart; deacons, W. L. Wickizer and Will- iam Honser. The Sunday-school, superin- tended by S. P. Meinhart, averages about forty-five in attendance. The church building, 31 x 60 feet, frame, was erected in 1876, at'a cost of about $2,000, and was dedicated May 12, 1878, by Rev. J. B. Helwigg, D. D., and Mr. Delow, both of Springfield, Ohio.
. The Weslegan Methodist Church at Briant was organized in 1885, under the ministrations of Rev. Aaron Worth, Presiding Elder, and Rev. R. M. S. Hutchins, pastor, a resident of Briant at the time. The present pastor is Mr. Barnum, of Indianapolis, who preaches here twice a month. Class-leader, Esther Callahan. Sunday-school all the year, with an average attendance of about forty, superin- tended by John Hart. The house of worship was originally built as a school-house, in the vicinity, at a cost of $600, and was purchased of the district by the Methodists, and moved upon its present lot at the west end of town.
PIKE TOWNSHIP.
In the fall of 1829, John J. Hawkins built a small camp or cabin, on the northeast quar- ter of section 11, and on the 8th of March, 1830, he moved into it with his family, con- sisting of his wife Nancy and six children- four boys and two girls. Mr. Hawkins was followed by Thomas J. Shaylor in 1830, and Mrs. Sarah Ridley, in 1831. She had been
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the wife of six husbands, and after a time married the seventh husband and settled in Randolph County. John S. Mays, George Bickel and Henry Welsh came in 1833; George Hardy, Wmn. Bunch and Eli Long- necker in 1834, and William Clark in 1835. J. A. Ware, John Kidder, and George and Henry Harford in 1837. Mr. Hawkins died March 15, 1832.
Mays lived in this township until his death, about 1879. Longnecker also passed the remainder of his life here, as also Clark and Ware,-the latter about twenty years ago, perhaps.
Jacob Sutton, an early settler who died liere in 1886, used to relate that one night soon after he came here his dog became alarnied. He saw in front of the house some animal, and shot it while in the house. It proved to be a wolf, and the shot had broken its back. The excited dog caught it and would not let go nntil he dragged it into the house, where it was killed.
Mr. Sutton's father, Samuel Sutton, is still living in this township, nearly ninety years of age, making his home among his children. Abraham C. is a brother of the latter.
Pike Township was named and organized in 1837, and the next year the trustees were John S. Mays, John West and Whipple Cook. Henry Welsh was the first justice of the peace. The first school-house was built on John Kidder's farm, and Miss Lucetta Kidder (afterward Mrs. Waldo) taught the first school, commencing July 1, 1840. The first tavern was kept by Abraham C. Sutton, on his farm near Bluff Point. The first sermon ever preached in Jay County was delivered by Rev. Robert Burns, a Methodist, at the Hawkins cabin, in the fall of 1832.
Antioch, on the west side of sections 11 and 14, was surveyed for a village by Amos Hall, David Frazee and C. H. Clark. Mr.
Clark named it after Antioch College, in Ohio. Peter Coldren kept the first store. There are now in the place Harkins & Ashley's saw- mill, Nathaniel Skinner's grocery, and eleven residences. Near by, on section 15, is a Methodist Episcopal church building, erected in 1884, 30 x 42 feet in dimensions, and dedi- cated by Presiding Elder Birch. The society was organized in 1883, with only six members, which have since been increased to twenty- two, in full connection. Class-leader, Lyman Beebe ; stewards, Lyman Beebe, F. M. Bickel . and Ulysses Hall. Sunday-school is kept np all the year, with Mr. Beebe as superintendent. Present pastor, Rev. S. J. Mellinger, who resides in Portland.
Formerly there was a postoffice at Antioch, namned Hawkins.
Boundary City, near the center of the township, was laid out January 4, 1854, by Daniel Hiester and John Langel. The post- office had been established there May 11, 1852, with Daniel Hiester as postmaster, which office he still holds. He is still also the principal business man of the place. The great two-story brick store and warehouse is kept by D. Hiester & Son; formerly, Daniel G. was the " son," and since 1883 Henry has been the partner. The senior Hiester also owns the Boundary City Flouring Mills, which was built in 1878, and commenced running the following spring. Its cost was about $9,000. There are two run of burrs for wheat, one for middlings and one for corn, besides a set of rollers, which were put in during the year 1886. The capacity of the mills is about forty barrels of flour per day.
W. H. Whipple owns the saw-inill, which was built in 1879, by H. Losch. James Bird owns the tile factory. Dr. Philip Dicks is the physician. Vynul Arnett, who moved here from Jay City last spring, keeps an hostelry.
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The Reformed Church of Boundary City was organized at the residence of Daniel Hiester May 10, 1846, by Rev. Reuben Good, a missionary from Tiffin, Ohio, with about eighteen members; and the name was “St. Paul's German Reformed Church." The first elders were Daniel Hiester . and Coonrod Frickel, and the deacons, Isaac Decker and John Langel. For the first two years they met in private houses, and then erected a log church, which is still used; it is now covered with siding, making it appear like a frame structure. The present membership numbers fifty-six. Present elders, Daniel Hiester and David K. Knoll; deacons, Henry Hiester and Archibald McFarland; Rev. L. B. Clayton, of Salamonia, pastor. Sunday-school is sustained throughout the year, with an attendance of fifty in the winter and more in the summer: Henry Hiester, superintendent. The pastors of the past have been Revs. Thomas Winters, Jacob Weaver, J. C. Colliflower, D. R. Taylor and J. Stuck.
Bluff Point, on sections 20 and 21, was laid out in 1854, by L. J. Bell, I. N. Taylor and W. H. Montgomery. It was at first called Iowa. December 17, 1840, a postoffice was established here, named Van, and David Gar- ringer was the first postinaster. In 1853 the name of the office was changed to Bluff Point. The present postmaster is A. F. Clapp, who also keeps a general store; has had the office since the spring of 1886. C. A. Bochoven also keeps a general store. Dr. I. N. Rarick, who formerly practiced his profession about two miles south of this place, has for the past eight years been a resident here, practicing medicine.
There is a new brick school-house at Bluff Point, erected in the fall of 1886, at a cost of something over a thousand dollars. About seventy-five pupils attend school there.
Collett is a small railroad village laid out
on section 7, February 13, 1872, by John Collett, now deceased. Thomas J. Finch has been the postmaster since 1885. A. H. Finch keeps a general store, erecting, during the spring of 1887, the largest building in the place for his business; it is a frame, 22 x 80 feet in dimensions. S. T. Michael is the grocer. Isaac P. Finch, since 1883, has been the proprietor of the saw-mill, employing three lands most of the time. Jolın Bech- dolt, since 1884, has run the tile factory by steam power. There are about fifteen resi- dences in Collett at present.
Zion Chapel, of the United Brethren church (at first called Pleasant Hill Churchi), at Col- lett, was organized possibly as early as 1850. At present there are about 126 members. Class-leader, A. J. Ashley. Sunday-school all the year, with about seventy-five attend- ants, and Marion Jack, superintendent. Pastor, P. C. Bechdolt. Their house of wor- ship is a frame, 32 x 40 feet, costing $1,000, and dedicated March 24, 1878, by Bishop Dixon.
Zoar Methodist Episcopal Church, on sec- tion 18. is a frame structure, 32 x 40 feet, erected in 1868, at a cost of $1,600. It suc- ceeds a log church, which was built in 1852, and in 1868 moved upon Mr. Bickel's place for a cooper shop, where it still stands. At one period the congregation worshiping at this place was the most flourishing Methodist society in the county, and the Sunday-school the largest. The present membership is forty- two, in full connection. Class-leader, Syl- vester Ross. Stewards, Thomas Hudson and Parley Glenn. Pastor, Rev. Forkner, of Redkey. Sunday-school half the year, with an attendance of about sixty, superintended by Orange Pierce.
The Friends' Church, near Bluff Point, was organized in 1876, with about thirty converts: there are now sixty. Overseers,
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John Collins, Sarah Collins and Zeno C. Tharpe. Sunday-school about five months in the year, with thirty-five to forty pupils. They meet in a log liouse called " The Cabin," originally a dwelling-house, a half mile south and three-fourths of a mile west of Bluff Point.
Otterbein United Brethren Church, on section 28, is built on a lot donated by Aaron Bisell, and was dedicated in 1873. It is a frame, and will seat 250. There are now about forty members. Class-leader, William Whitenack, who is also superintendent of the Sunday-school, which averages about forty in attendance, during the summer. Pastor, Rev. George H. Bonnell, of Collett.
Mr. Bonnell has resided in this township ever since he was a few months old. His father, William Bonnell, immigrated to Pike Township in the fall of 1838, settling upon a farin southeast of Collett, and dying in August, 1879.
Day's Creek Free-Will Baptist church in the southern part of Pike Township, was or- ganized April 17, 1873, by Rev. Asa Pierce, with a membership of about twelve. The present pastor is Rev. O. E. Dickinson, Pres- ident of Ridgeville College. Elihu Hodge is the class-leader. The congregation has a very fine brick church, 32 x 44 feet in size, on the southwest corner of section 29, on land donated by Norman Lynch. The cost was $1,400, besides much labor not charged for. It is one of the best furnished church edifices in the county.
New Pittsburgh is an old point at the southwestern corner of Pike township.
SALAMONIA.
This neat, enterprising little village of 180 in habitantsis situated neat the middle northern portion of Madison Township, in the southeastern part of the connty. It was laid
out January 6, 1839, as Lancaster, by Henry Abel and Benjamin Goldsmith, and surveyed by Daniel W. McNcal; bnt October 6, 1876, when the citizens voted in favor of incorpora- tion, the name was changed to Salamonia, to conform to the name of the postoffice. James White and George Stamps laid out the East Addition August 30, 1854.
The first board of trustees were John B. A. Rants, president; Benjamin F. Harter and Christian Messner; clerk, G. W. Brake; treasurer, Lewis Beard. The present trustees are: D. T. Skinner, president; Samuel Benn and A. C. Warnock; clerk, W. P. Beard; treasurer, Frederick Messner; marshal, J. T. Ehrhart. They have a very nice town hall seated for 300 people.
Salamonia postoffice was established in 1852, and G. W. Abel was the postmaster for many years.
Business Men .- Brake & Beard, general store, which is indeed a magnificent one; Dr. David T. Skinner, drugs, groceries, and notions; G. F. Messner, shoe store and shop; W. J. Kraner, harness; Wehrly & Ehrhart, undertakers; William Gimbel and Matthias Bishop, blacksmiths; George A. Kraner, tanner, bought his tannery eighteen years ago of Matthew Atkinson, who now lives in Red- key; W. P. Welirly, saw-mill; George Theu- rer, the obliging postmaster; Drs. D. T. Skinner, eclectic, and James A, Hutchison, regular, physicians; Elihu Richards, National Hotel; no saloon.
The School-house was built in 1877, frame, 24 x 36 feet, two stories high, at a cost of $1,000, where the average attendance last year was nearly fifty, enrollment, sixty. The first school board of trustees was appointed June 1, 1877, and organized three days afterward by alloting a three-year term to W. P. Beard, two years to George A. Kraner and one year to John G. Myers, and electing
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them president, treasurer and secretary in the order named. The present board comprises A. J. Brake, president; B. F. Harter, secre- tary; and Elihu Richard, treasurer.
The Reformed Church at Salamonia was organized in 1883, with about twenty-six mem- bers, which have been increased to ninety-five. The elders at the time of organization were Christopher Shawver and Josiah Corle; dea- ons, Jacob Shawver and John S. Long. Present elders, William Fickle and William Stone; deacons, Noah Bibler and Simon Rains. Sunday-school is maintained during the summer, with an average attendance of about eighty-five, of whom the present super- intendent is William Fickle. The church building was erected in 1886, frame, 34 x 60, at a cost of $1,600, in the northeastern part of town. The Reformed church was first introduced into Jay County in 1844, at which the church at Boundary-see Pike Towuship-was organized.
Rev. L. B. Clayton, who organized the church at Salamonia and has ever since been its faithful pastor, was born in Shelby Coun- ty, Ohio, in 1830, where he grew up to man- hood. At the age of twenty-five years he went to Miami County, and subsequently to other places, in that State, and then to Farmland and Union City, Randolph County, Indiana, and since the spring of 1886 he lias been a resident of Salamonia. He is also pastor of the Reformed church at Boundary.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in 1858 or '59, with about fifteen or sixteen members, under the ministry of Rev. Philip Lockel. Ministers serving since that time have been Revs. Kreider, Benzen, F. W. Franke, Feger, and Joseph Wolf, the present pastor, who has just changed his resi- dence from Stone Ridge to Fort Recovery, Ohio. Revs. Lockel, Kreider, Benzen and Franke resided at Salamonia. The present
membership of the church is over 200. Elders-Jacob Kull and Andrew Dietz; trustees-Philip Leonhart, Asa Kantner and Henry Yager. Sunday-school of about forty pupils is maintained during the summer, with Frederick Wagner as superintendent most of the time. Secretary of the church, William Heuss. The house of worship, 26 x 40 feet, frame, was built in 1868, but was not completed for several years. Meetings were held in it for nearly two years before it was plastered, and nearly four years before it was seated. It is just south of the village. They have a nice parsonage in Salamonia.
The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized many years ago, built Wesley Chapel, a frame 35 x 40 feet, a inile east of town, about 1865, and their present church, a beautiful frame structure in the southern part of Salamonia, in 1878, at a cost of $2,200. Across the road east of it is a beautiful ceme- tery of about an acre and a half, nearly cover- ed with graceful tombstones. The present church membership is fifty-two, with L. W. Lemasters, Jr., class-leader; stewards, Daniel Helms, C. Cope and - Harroff. Sunday- school with an average attendance of seventy or. more, is superintended by L. W. Lemasters, Jr. Local preachers, L. W. Lemasters, Sr. and Isaac N. Castle. Wesley Chapel was built on a lot donated by Isaac Rants, and shortly after the new church was built it, the chapel, was sold and removed.
The Church of Christ was organized about 1851, by Rev. Thomas Wiley; and ministers serving since his day have chiefly been- Elders Joshua D. Wright, T. M. Bernan, Barnhill Polly, Aaron Adams, Dr. Richard Harter, William Smith and Joseph G. Harter, The last named has preached for the church here at times along for the last sixteen years. Messrs. Smith and Harter are residents. Dr. Richard Harter, father of Joseph G.,
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resided on the old homestead two miles northeast of Salamonia until his death in 1873. The present membership is about seventy-five. Local elders-Joseph G. Harter and Judson Bailey; deacons-B. F. Harter, Amos Mitchell and Jacob Bibler, Sr. Sunday- school is sustained during the summer, with an attendance of about a hundred. II. H. Atkinson is superintendent. Revs. J. G. Harter and William Smith devote each every fonrth Sunday to this congregation. Their house of worship, frame, 30 x 40 feet, was built in 1861, at a cost of about $800. Pre- vious to that date they held their meetings in school-houses.
THIE TOWNSHIP.
The township in which Salamonia is situ- ated is called Madison. The first settlers were William F. Denney and John Eblin, in November, 1831. The former lived upon the land he entered for a quarter of a century or more, when he died, having done his part toward the development of the county by opening a large farm. Eblin also cleared a fine farmn, then moved into the Osage country, in Missouri, where he lost his pro- perty on account of being a Union man. He fled to Iowa, where he died in 1863.
In 1832 came Williamn Isenhart, who three or four years ago moved to Union City, In- diana, and Abraham Lotz, who became a prominent citizen of the county; but during the war he sold out and moved to Fort Re- covery, where he remained until his death. His son, Jacob E., is the oldest resident of Jay County now living in Wayne Township. In 1833 John Fox, John Haynes, Henry Crowell and Edward Bell Wotten settled in this township. The year 1834 added William Money and Benjamin Goldsınitlı to the set- tlement. About a year ago Money moved to Kansas, but he still owns his farm liere. Goldsmith moved away many years ago.
Conaway Stone settled here for a short time, about 1832 perliaps, but soon moved across into Noble Township. During the year 1835 there came Jonathan Hugh, who still lives here, John Wotten, who soon mnoved into Noble Township and finally to Iowa, and Thomas White, who remained herc until his death in 1855.
Later settlers were, John McLanghlin, who died in Salamonia in 1860, at the age of sixty years; William McLaughlin and Henry Glassford, who moved into Noble Township, where they died; Hngh Mclaughlin, who died in 1885; Thomas Atkinson, who died in October, 1885, over ninety years of age; Paul Beard, who died in Greenville, Ohio, over ninety-three years of age; and Henry Abel, who arrived September 20, 1838, and died here in September, 1858. He entered the land where Salamonia now stands.
Ed. Bell Wotten, mentioned above, taught in 1835, in his own house in this town- ship, on the farm of James Rines, a subscrip- tion school, the first in the county; and Abrahamı Lotz established the first Sunday- school in the county, in this township. He was also the first justice of the peace. John Fox was the first constable. The first election in the township after its permanent organi- zation, was held at the house of Benjamin Goldsmith, in 1838. William Martin opened a store in 1835-'36, and Abraham Lotz built a grist-mill in 1837, both near the site of the present Salamonia.
The first road opened in the township led from Mr. Lotz's to Fort Recovery.
Salem (Jordan P. O.,) on the south line of the township, where sections 33 and 34 join, was laid out June 4, 1837, by E. G. and J. G. Campbell. A store, a shop or two and a church are all there are in the place now.
The church is Free-Will Baptist, a frame, built in 1880, that will seat about 500, and
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cost in the neighborhood of $2,200. It supersedes an older frame structure, probably the first frame church in the county; it is now used for a barn. The present edifice is 38 x 50 feet, finished in modern style, and was dedicated in March, 1881. The congre- gation has been in existence ever since February 27, 1836. At present it comprises about fifty substantial members. Ezekiel Clough, Richard Matchett and Caleb Collett are licentiate ministers. Sunday-school all the year, with an attendance of 75 to 150, according to the season. James Matchett, superintendent.
Poplar Grove Christian Church is not flourishing as formerly. It was organized May 19, 1867, by Elder William Money. The house of worship, a frame 36 x 40 feet, was built in 1870, on a lot donated by him.
Prospect Chapel, United Brethren, east of Pittsburg, is a frame church. The present membership of the society is forty in number. Class-leader, Harrison Roe. Sunday-school most of the year; superintendent, C. L. Cul- bertson. Pastor, Rev. George H. Bonnell, of Collett.
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