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THE FIRST FAMILIES.
Among the early settlers of the township were the Dicks, the Lambs, the Crums, the Burches, the Morgans, the Walkers, the Wrights, the Mays, the Joneses, the Easts, the Clarks, the Adamses, the Carpenters, the Tatums, the Oliphants, the Carmichaels, the Brosfields, the Penningtons, the Phillips, the Teagues, the Graves, the Smiths, the Gwinns, the Tread- ways, the Turners, and many others. It is probable that Lamb was the first permanent settler, though the Walkers were in early and also the Easts, the Wrights, the Burches and others whose names have escaped the recol- lection of the old settlers. The first settlers were scattered over the township in rude log cabins surrounded by small open tracts of cultivated land which were inclosed by rail fences made by the settlers. Neighbors lived miles apart, but intercourse was begun and kept up.
MILLING ENTERPRISES.
Owing to the fact that Indian Creek Township had no streams of suf- ficient size, there were no early mills or other industries operated by water-power in early years. Two or three hand mills and horse mills were operated in several neighborhoods at times, but no mills of wide popularity and patronage were built within the limits of the township, unless the old mill in the southwestern part can be considered as such. The old Hamilton Mill in Van Buren Township and the Ketchum Mill in the northwest corner of Clear Creek Township, were the sources whence were obtained the supplies of flour and meal. These were the earliest mills which supplied Indian Creek Township. Two or three other mills . were built on Clear Creek, and south in Greene County on Indian Creek, at a later date, which received some of the later patronage, though the Ketchum's mill and the Hamilton's mill were the stand-bys, even until a comparatively recent date. A saw mill was started in the southern part at a very early day, and it is said that the first whisky shop in the county was opened in this township.
THE VIRGINIA IRON WORKS.
The most notable industry ever in the township was the iron furnace established in about 1839, in the northwestern part, by Randolph Ross, a Virginian, who had been engaged in the same business in his native State, and was familiar with the details of iron manufacture. In about the year above mentioned, he erected the necessary buildings on the north-
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east quarter of Section 7, employed a few experienced men, whom he brought from Virginia, and began mining from the side of the hill there, crude iron ore contained about twenty per cent of good iron. His tax in 1841 was $52.25, more than that of any other man in the county. His tax in 1842 was $100.49, more than any other man's. He owned 156 acres, the land being valued at $468, and the improvements at $6,360, and his personal property was worth $1,600, making his total taxables worth $8,428. The father and his son, Randolph Ross, Jr., under the name Randolph Ross & Son's Virginia Iron Works, within a year after starting had in their employ about twenty men engaged in mining the ore from the hill, carting it to the furnace, where it was melted and the iron run off into bars to be shipped by wagon to Louisville or Vin- cennes. The company was incorporated under the laws of the State with a capital, if necessary, of $20,000, and was to continue for a period of ten years with power to renew the continuance an additional ten years, at the option of the incorporators. If any others had an interest in the works such fact is not now known. It is stated by some that a portion of the capital was furnished by several Eastern parties, who were members of the incorporation. The facts cannot be stated. Besides manufactur- ing pig or bar iron for shipment, the company began the general manu- facture for the local trade of all kinds of cast-iron ware needed in the new country, such as kettles, spiders, andirons, pots and machinery cast- ings as rude hoes, and a few mold-boards for plows. The most of the iron was thus manufactured into articles for farm and domestic use. After running successfully for about five years, the company became in- volved in some manner, and was forced to suspend operations. The en- terprise had been highly successful, but the incorporators were forced to suspend by reason of having lost heavily in speculations elsewhere, and not by reason of the failure of the iron furnace in Indian Creek Township.
POLL TAX PAYERS OF 1841.
George Adams, Levin Adams, John Burch, Henry Burch, Charles Burch, Achilles Burch, William Brasfield, James Brasfield, Andrew Bras- field, William Burch, Joel Burch, Jackson Burton, David Carpenter, John M. Crum, William Cannan, Charles Cambs, John Crain, James Carmichael, William Caw, Martin Cambs, Peter Carmichael, G. Cander, John Carter, Thomas Carr, Jacob Carpenter, Thomas Carter, Zachariah Dicks, Abel Edwards, William East, Thomas P. East, Benjamin Evans, John Evans, Jesse East, Isom Edington, John Fassette, Spencer Griffin, James Gillam, Richard Griffin, John Gardner, William Graves, Hugh Hill, Hiram Hazle, R. Johnson, John Johnson, William Jones, Sanford Jones, Lewis Jones, Alfred Jones, Elijah Hinkman, Daniel Hinkman, James Kirk, John Kirk, Alexander Lamb, Thomas Lincycomb, Elijah Morgan, William May, John Mathers, Solomon Morgan, Absalom Mor- gan, Abraham May, John May, Perminter Morgan, Peter Minks, Jack- son McGee, Jacob Myers, Henry Minks, Solomon May, James McLaclan. Thomas Oliphant, Allen Price, John Pedigo, Joseph Pennington, Allen Parkham, William Ray, Henry Sipes, Thomas Shipman, Benjamin San- ders, Thomas Sanders, William Stephenson, Benjamin Sullivan, Ashbury Sears, Michael Teague, Jacob Teague, Samuel Turner, William Treadway,
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Elijah Tarkington, E. W. Tarkington, Abraham Young, Peter Wright, Silas Woodward, John White, Elijah Wright, Thomas Walker, Andrew Walls, William Weaver, Sr., Isaac Weaver, James Wooter, David Wright, Elmore Walker, Joseph Walker and Jacob Zikes. The total number of polls was 174 ; acres of land, 10,394; value of lands and improvements, $52,307; other taxables, $27,117; State tax, $448.01; county tax, $250.08; total tax, $698.09. The heaviest tax-payers were: George Adams, $10.52; Charles Burch, $7.58; Isaac Brown, $11.95; Byrd Cambs, $7.53; Richard Carmichael, $8.25; Zachariah Dicks, $7.60 ; John Evans, $17.72; Spencer Griffin, $5.18; James Gillam, $7.25 ; Hugh Hill, $5.35; William Jones, $11.40; Lewis Jones, $7.70; Alexander Lamb, $9.65; Elijah Morgan, $6.19; Solomon Morgan, $8.87; Absalom Morgan, $9.20; Abraham May, $7.70; Jacob Myers, $6.12; Solomon May, $7; Randolph Ross, Sr. (iron works), $52.25. His land, the north- east quarter of Section 7 was valued at $6,000, and his improvements at $3,800. He owned 156 acres. Nicholas Shipman, $8.10; John Sadler, $8.29; John White, $7; James Wright, $11.55; William Weaver, $7.15; David Wright, $8.10; Joseph Walker, $5.63.
SCHOOLS.
It is said that the first school in the township was taught near the cabin of Elmore Walker, in about the year 1824, but it is quite certain that another was taught not far from the same time in the Burch neigh- borhood, and probably one in the Dicks neighborhood. Each of these schools was taught in a log cabin; two of them, at least, in cabins that had been erected for residences, and had been vacated by the builders, who had left the township or neighborhood. After this early date, sessions were usually held in the three localities named during the winter months, first in one house and then in another, shifting the location to suit the majority of children. The Burches were among the early teachers, and the younger members of the Walker family also instructed the pioneer children. In the year 1836, there were three log schoolhouses, and one or two neighborhoods where school was taught semi-occasionally, as the wants of the children demanded. In 1846, the number of schoolhouses had been increased to five; in 1856, there were eight, and possibly nine. The eight country houses were located on Sections 2, 8, 9, 14, 20, 26, 28 and 30. All were log houses except two. The families that attended the house on Section 2 were the Morgans, Wrights, Gwinns, Koons, Turners, Treadways, Perrys, Ballingers, Thrashers, et al .; Section 8, the Burches, Sadlers, Carpenters, Adamses, et al .; Section 14, the Walkers, Whites, Carmichaels, Chipmans, Mays, Kirks, et al .; Section 20, the children of Buena Vista, the Lambs, Carmichaels, Carters, Carvers, Phillips, Tatums, Gordons, Mays, et al .; Section 26, the Stevensons, Lowes, Joneses, Easts, Sares, Hazels, Teagues, Smiths, Couders, Gilhams, Wrights, Millers, Morgans, et al .; Section 28, the Waterfords, Graveses, Dicks, Joneses, Teagues, Stones, Easts and Nances ; Section 30, the Simpsons, Oliphants, Hardens, Graveses, Pedigos, Brasfields, Penningtons, et al. At this time the schools were in comparatively good shape. The following table is the later condition of the schools :
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TEACHERS OF 1880-81.
Number of District.
Actual Enumeration
Kind and Size of Houses.
John B. Hazel
1
49
Frame, 20x24 feet.
Michael Buskirk
2
28
Frame, 20x24 feet.
Miss Lou Bennett.
3
37
Frame, 22x28 feet.
J. W. Carter
4
45
Frame, 24x30 feet.
John F. Woodward.
5
48
Frame, 22x28 feet.
W. C. Burch
6
38
Frame, 20x26 feet.
Speed Rainbolt
7
38
Frame, 20x26 feet.
W. S. Wells.
8
40
Frame, 20x26 feet.
Scott Rainbolt
9
40
Frame, 18x20 feet.
VILLAGES.
Two or three small villages have flourished in this township. In March, 1849, Jesse W. East, proprietor, assisted by Henry Farmer, sur- veyor, laid out ten lots on the south part of the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 20, and named the village thus started Buena Vista, a name then peculiarly fresh and distinct in the minds of all Hoosiers. About the same time, Mr. East started the first store, and soon a black- smith and a few families located there. Since then there have usually been a store, a blacksmith and about a dozen families at the village. John Evans sold goods there, as did Henry Oliphant, Woodward & Clay and others. The present merchants are King & Woodward. Another early town, now deserted, was Palestine, founded by Alexander Suther- land, during the thirties. He was the first storekeeper there, and con- tinued several years, going then to Harrodsburg. Thomas Shipman probably succeeded him as the merchant. One of the Koons also sold goods there. Kirkville is a recent village named in honor of the Kirk family. Lane & Carmichael started the store, but sold out to Mr. Kirk, who yet continues.
CHURCHES.
The first religious class organized in this township was the Methodist Church, founded in the Walker neighborhood, about 1825. For several years, meetings were held at the houses of Thomas Hill, Elmore Walker, and elsewhere in the same portion of the township. Among the earliest members were the families of Thomas Hill, Elmore Walker, David Wells, George Oxsheer, Michael Teague, Burrell Reeves, Joseph S. Walker, Pleasant O'Brien, Rev. Isaac McElroy, Farris Howard, Rev. Lewis Dale and others. This was called Mt. Salem Church, and was famous in early years for the number of its revivals and the amount of good done in the neighborhood. As the years passed it gradually split up, several of the prominent members joining the Methodist Class at Stanford, and several others the class at Harrodsburg, though a few of the old members still remained faithful to the parent organization, which continued to meet in the residences and schoolhouses in the vicinity where it was first founded. The legitimate descendant of the old class is still in existence. The old Hebron Baptist Church, organized in the southern part of the township during the forties, was another class that produced marked ef- fect upon the morals of the younger generations. The Oliphants, Abel Edwards and family, and Joseph Pennington and family were early mem-
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bers. This class met for many years in schoolhouses and residences, and is still in existence under different hearts and hands. Later religious organizations have sprung up, but none have produced more extended and lasting benefit than the two old ones mentioned above.
CLEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP.
GEOLOGICAL FORMATION.
T HIS township is one of the best in the county for agricultural pur- poses. It has an abundance of low land, as it lies principally in the forks of Clear Creek and Salt Creek, the two principal streams of the southern half of the county. Between the forks the land is gently un- dulating as a general rule, and the surface soil contains an abundance of food for almost all farm productions. Along the two streams are rather precipitous bluffs, which, back some distance, gradually blend with the general undulating surface of the country. Immediately adjoining the streams are narrow valleys very rich and productive. The geological formation is revealed in many places-at quarries and along the New Albany Railroad principally. In places where the storms have washed away the surface soil, hundreds of geodes, comprising crystalline and butryoidal, are found. The railroad track at Harrodsburg is 509 feet above the level of the sea, and at Smithville is 710 feet. This shows a railroad grade of 201 feet between those two places. distant about four miles and a half. The altitude at Bloomington is 745, and northwest of Bloomington at the highest point of the grade is 883 feet. The track at Ellettsville is 685 feet above the sea. In the vicinity of Smithville, covering about a section of land, the Keokuk limestone makes its appear- ance at the surface. A little distance west, extending a little east of north, is the general overlying edge of the Keokuk group, lapping upon the knobstone. A short distance further west is the St. Louis limestone. On Section 2, about a mile northeast of Smithville, the geological forma- tion is as follows :
Argillaceous layers. 12 feet.
Keokuk limestone, dark blue, with partings ..
12 feet.
Keokuk limestone, light gray, without fossils, save in a fragmentary condition.
4 feet.
Keokuk limestone, buff colored, with seams of chert and geodes 8 feet.
Knob sandstone irregularly bedded. 30 feet.
Knob shale. 70 feet.
Total. 136 feet.
The argillaceous layers contained crystalline and butryoidal geodes, many of great size and beauty, and the following fossils: Spirifer tenuistriatus, S. Keokuki, S. fastigatus, S. psendolineatus, Zophrentis Daili, Z. cornucopia, Productus punctatus, P. cora, P. altonensis, Actinocrinus lowei, A. legun culus, A. pernodosus, plates of A. hum- boldti and fragments of Agaricocrinus tuberosus, stems and plates of
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Platycrinus, also stems of Scophoicrinus and good specimens of Geodo crinus indeanensis. The geological formation on Section 10 (Fee's farm) is as follows :
Argillaceous and cherty layers. 10 feet. Limestone (Warsaw Division of the Lower St. Louis Group) 25 feet.
Limestone, Keokuk, light gray, with partings. 15 feet.
Total 50 feet.
A strip along the western side of the township is thus covered with the Warsaw Division of the Lower St. Louis limestone. In the last table above the cherty layers contain the following fossils : Lithostratim mammillare, L. proliferum, Dichocrinus simplex, D. constrictus, plates of Platy crinus saffordi, Pentremitis conoidens, P. koninokiana, plates of P. obligatus, plates of P. varsouviensis, Spirifer lateralis, S. setigerus, S. rostellatus, Orthis dubia, Athyris hirsuta, A. lemellosa, A. trinuclea, A. royisii, Productus altonensis, P. punctatus, Rhynchonella mutata, R. grosvenori, R. subcuneata, R. recunula, R. macra, Terebratula boyidens, T. turigida, T. formosa, Sphenophoterium cuneata, Syringopora ram- ulora, S. multattanuata and Eumetria verneuilliana. The geoglogical formation at Harrodsburg is as follows :
Ferruginous clay soil, suitable for bricks. 4 feet.
Chert and earthy layers .. 6 feet.
Limestone (Warsaw Division Lower St. Louis Group). 15 feet.
Limestone (Keokuk), dark blue .. 10 feet.
Limestone (Keokuk), light gray. 12 feet.
Knobstone Group. 120 feet.
Total 167 feet. The formation at the Harrodsburg depot, east side, is as follows :
Argillaceous and cherty layers. 6 feet.
Limestone (Warsaw Division), with partings 17 feet.
Limestone (Keokuk), dark and light blue. 38 feet.
Limestone (Keokuk), light gray, containing Spirifer Keokuk, S. fastigatus and Actinocrinus lagunculus .. 6 feet.
Limestone (Keokuk), buff-colored with bands of chert and geodes, the cavities of which are lined with beautiful crystals of quartz and calcareous spar. This stratum contains plates and stems of cri- noids ; also fragments of shells, too imperfect, however, for accu- rate identification 8 feet.
Knobstone Group.
60 feet.
Total 135 fee .
At the quarry one-half mile south of Fairfax, the formation is as follows :
Bluish clay soil. 6 feet.
Knob sandstone, with partings. 16 feet.
Knob shale. 6 feet.
Total 28 feet.
Entering the township from the east, it will be seen from the above tables that the first stone found would be the Knob sandstone ; then a trifle west of the center the Keokuk limestone would be found lapping upon the Knob sandstone, and a short distance further west the Warsaw Division of the Lower St. Louis limestone would be found lapping upon the Keokuk limestone. This gives the township both sandstone and limestone of the first quality at the surface.
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THE FIRST LAND HOLDERS.
The following entries of land were made in Clear Creek Township in the year 1816: Henry Burkhart, Thomas Grimes, William Anderson and Bartlett Woodward on Section 3; Adam Darling on Section 4; Robert Fields on Section 5; William Bigger and Routt & Brenton on 6; Fetters & Hughes on 7; Bartlett Woodward 160 acres on Section 10 ; George Paul, Thomas Grimes and John Musser on 15; Michael Bus- kirk on 17; John Vanderoot and Fetters & Hughes on 19, also Michael Harvey on the same section ; Jacob Mumma and Jonathan Lindley on 20; George Paul on 21; John Durham and William Chambers on 28; Samuel Caldwell, Jonathan Lindley 320 acres, and George Paul 160 acres on 29; John White all of Section 30; Jonathan Lindley and Fetters & Hughes on 31; William Carl on 32; William Craig on 33. The following entries were made in 1817 : Solomon Lucas on Section 2; Thomas Hancock, James Cully on 5; John Scott on 9; Bartlett Woodward 160 acres on 10; Silas Woodward on 11; Jacob Beals on 18; Joseph Strean 320 acres on 20; William Chambers on 21 and 28; Samuel Allen and John Farley on 32; Conrad Hanson on 33. In 1818 the following intries were made: James Mitchell on Section 5; John Storm on 8; George Buskirk and Thomas Grimes on 10; William Waymore and John Storm on 17; Thomas Duffield on 18; Samuel Smith on 19 ; John Smith on 32; William Shields on 33; Elias Bruner on 34. Andrew McKean bought on Section 22 in 1819; Michael Myers on 2 in 1825; John H. Anderson on 4 in 1824, and again in 1827 ; David Scott on 8 in 1828; John Deckard on 11 in 1824; George Kimberlin on 14 in 1828; Edmund Phillips on 18 in 1824; Anthony Chambers and William Chambers on 21 in 1829; George Paul on 21 in 1829; Michael Deckard on 22 in 1824; John Scott on 26 in 1819; George Reddick on 28 in 1821; Elijah Elliott on 32 in 1827, and William Lemon on 33 in 1829. These were all the entries prior to 1830. Many settlers came in and bought of other settlers. Many others owned no land for ten or twenty years, and several lived in the township several years, owning no land, and leaving finally for some other locality.
THE FIRST SETTLER OF MONROE COUNTY.
The first settler in this township and in Monroe County, accord- ing to old Col. Ketchum, who settle in the northwest corner of Clear Creek Township in 1817, was David McHolland. This man whose wife is either now living or was a few years ago, at a very advanced age, came to the township for permanent residence when the State was yet a Terri- tory, or in 1815. Col. Ketchum. who came in two years later, and was well acquainted with Mr. McHolland, often stated that the latter was, no doubt, the first settler in Monroe County. Of course the Territory now comprising the county, had previously been invaded by white hunters and trappers, but, so far as known, no white family, including wife and children, became actual residents until Mr. McHolland arrived. He was a famous hunter and supported his family mainly with his rifle. He killed numerous bears in various portions of the county, often under cir- cumstances of great personal peril. His wife always boasted of having baked the first corn pone in Monroe County, and was, no doubt, justified
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by facts in doing so. The McHollands cultivated an acre or two of ground, upon which they squatted, and after a few years went to the northwestern part of the county, where they continued to reside many years. The name of the second settler in this township cannot be in- dicated. Bartlett Woodward came to the township in 1816, and entered considerable land upon which he erected a rude log cabin for his family, which either came out the same fall or the next spring. Several families were residing in the township at this time. Mr. Woodward became a prominent citizen, and was elected one of the first County Commissioners of the county in 1818. Col. Ketchum built a grist mill on Clear Creek as early as 1818, which for many years was famous in all the surrounding country. Green's mill was another one; Chambers and Shirley each owned early water mills. The Taylors probably sent the first flat-boat loaded with pork, grain, etc., down either Clear or Salt Creeks from Monroe County. They built their own boats, and knew how to manage them on their way to Southern markets. The Chambers brothers also sent early boats of pork and grain down the creeks. Col. Ketchum was about as early in shipping pork, grain, flour, etc., as any one in the township or county. He also shipped lumber. Later, Elias Bruner shipped cherry and other finer varieties of lumber down the creeks. These were some of the early enterprises in Clear Creek Town- ship.
POLL-TAX PAYERS OF 1841 .*
George Anderson, Section 18; Wesley Anderson, John Baugh, Henry Baugh, 32; Joseph Baugh, 14; Augustus Bowles, David Butcher, 17; Elias Bruner. 34; Samuel Baugh, Henry Burkey, Alexander Buchanan, 21; Perry Bowles, John Cully, William Cook, Anthony Chambers, 21, 22, 27; David Chambers, Jr., Jacob Cannon, Oziah Chambers, Hezekiah Cham- bers, Henry Deckard, 12; Jesse Deckard, 36; Jacob Etter, David Etter, Rufus Finley, John Fitzpatrick, Matthew Flory, 18; John Gen, 15; James Galloway, 7; William Harvey, Basil Hill, 16; John Horton, Francis Haines, William Haines, 27; Nelson Holmes, 20; Ferris Haward, 7; Charles Johnson, John G. Johnson, 31; Stanford Jacobs, George Kim- berlin, 7; Daniel Kimberlin, Joseph Kimberlin, Henry Kimberlin, Daniel Ketchum, 8; Hezekiah Kinser, 7; Leonard Litz, Jacob Leonard, William Leonard, William Lehman, 33; Henry Lehman, 33; John Lehman, 31; Thomas Lucas, Jr., Davis Meek, 9 and 16; John Merser, 15; Christian Miller, 22; Henry Merser, James Manis, Sidney Meadows, Frederick Merser, Joseph Miller, David Miller, 29; Thomas Owsley, Samuel Pen- nington, Andrew Pickel, 29; Gabriel Ragsdale, Jonas Rhorer, 20; W. W. Roady, G. W. Reddick, Enoch Smallwood, John Shaw, L. O. Shugart, 29; Nicholas Shipman, Thomas Scott, 9; John Scott, Peter Sutphin, Elijah Scarborough, R. Sawes, 10; James Scarborough, Milton Stuart, William Stuart, Joseph Stilson, Joseph Strain, 20; William Smith, 19; W. D. Shields, David Tresler, 14; George Thrasher, 16; Samuel Taylor, John Taylor, 33; Robert Taylor, 28; William Tilford, Solomon Wooden, 17; George Whisenand, John Whisenand, Riley Wilson, Nicholas Whis- enand, 25 ; Jesse Wright, 14 ; Silas Woodward, 11; James Woodward, An- drew Whisenand, 1. The total number of polls was 104; total acres of
* The figures indicate the sections upon which the men lived.
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land, 9,530} ; value of lands and improvements, $66,560; value of lots, $5,438 ; other taxable property. $25,454; aggregate value of taxables, $97,452; State tax, $467.61; county tax, $226.98 ; total tax, $694.59. The highest tax payers were as follows : Daniel Butcher, $9.75; Alex- ander Buchanan, $21.30; Anthony Chambers, $13.18; William Cham- bers, Sr. (non-resident), $29.15 ; David Chambers, Sr. (non-resident), $10.72; Christian Deckard, $9.35; John Fitzpatrick, $19.10 ; Hezekiah Kinser, $12.50 ; John Kutch, $15.18; William Lehman, $11.40; John A. M. Lehman, $12.50; Davis Meek, $13.60; Andrew Roady, $13.66; Elijah Scarborough, $8.90; George Thrasher, $8.65; John Taylor, $16.90; Solomon Wooden, $8.74; Nicholas Whisenand, $9.75; Silas Woodward, $8.65.
VILLAGES.
The village of Harrodsburg, now third in population and importance in the county, was laid out by Alexander Buchanan, proprietor, and John Sedwick, surveyor, in December, 1836, on the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of Section 29, Township 7 north, Range 1 west. Twenty-four lots were laid out, and the village was named Newgene. In May, 1837, Levi Sugart laid out an addition of three lots, and at this time, for some reason unknown, the name of the village was ¿changed to Harrodsburg. It is said that the first store was started by Berkey & Isominger, who took out a license in 1836. Jacob Corman took out a liquor license in 1839, paying therefor $25. Tilford & Glass early established a store in the village. It is said that A. & P. Carmichael, who were in the mercantile business at Stanford, were also in Harrods- burg. Mr. Berkey bought a lot conditionally in the town before it was laid out. The early families of the village were those of Henry Berkey, Joseph Cranshaw, Job Horton, Samuel Baugh, Richard Empson, Alexan- der Buchanan, the Widow Cully and others. This was about the condi- tion in 1844, at which time no store had been in the town for a year or two. In 1844, S. W. & J. D. Urmey opened a store of general merchan- dise, worth about $450, and the following year Paris Vestal also estab- lished a store. James Beatley was the first resident physician ; he was also a pedagogue of considerable repute. Baugh & Empson were tanners. Rufus Finley erected a tannery about forty rods down the little creek at the village .* Vestal continued about two years, then sold to Moore & Baugh. Greason was Vestal's partner for a short time, as was also McCrea. In 1848, Vestal and Sutherland were partners, but after a short time each continued separate. James W. Carter was in business about 1849. Sutherland & Graham were together for a short time about 1850. The Urmeys still continued, with increasing business. Odell & Walker were in business about this time. Sutherland & Baugh were partners for a short time, closing in July, 1853. In April, 1852, Alex- ander Sutherland and Dugan Jones formed a partnership for the general business of merchandising, packing pork, buying and shipping grain and provisions and buying and selling real estate. Sutherland furnished $4,000 capital and Jones $2,000, and two-thirds the profits and losses
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