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WILLIAM WARREN is a native of Randolph County, N. C. IIc was born March 3, 1811. In the year 1825, he left his untive State, and accompanied
his parents to the West. They settled at Richmond, Ind., and in 1833 they made another change, and this time selected Randolph County as a desirable place to locate. Ile was educated in the common schools of the rural districts in this and his native State. On January 12, 1832, Miss Elizabeth Newton be- came his wife. The following children blessed this nnion : Mary, born Sep- tember 6, 1833; Naney A., April 11, 1835 (she died October 4, 1837) : New- ton H. was born May 4, 1837 (deceased same year) ; William was born October 4, 1838 : Rachel, March 24, 1811 : Jobn, January 29, 1814 : Eli, Jannary 1, 1847; Lousetta, July 9, 1850, and Newton, May 17, 1854. Mrs. Warren died April 6, 1866. Wr. Warren ngain married. Miss Mary A. Dixon united in marriage with him on August 16, 1866. She was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, January 8, 1822. - James Warren, the father of William, was a native of North Carolina, and was born November 16, 1787, and died June 27, 1876. Elizabeth Caviness, the mother of Mr. Warren, was also a native of North Caro- lina, and boru January 9, 1790. She died August 28, 1865. Mr. Warren owns a valuable farm of 123 acres, and is one of the substantial citizens of the community.
GEORGE WARNER, farmer, P. O. Union City. This industrions citizen is a native of Carroll County, Md., horn March 13, 1842. He came to Darke County, Ohio, in the year 1864, and from thence settled here in the spring of 1878. Ile was nnited in marriage, August 28, 1870, to Albina Skidmore, horn in Darke Couoty, Ohio, April 3, 1851. They had four children, of which num- ber three are living-Effie (born Angust 16, 1871), Elvin (December 4, 1874), Earl (July 28, 1876, deceased Angust 2 same year) and Maggie (July 16, 1878). Mr. W. served in Company B, Forty-seventh Ohio Infuotry, in the wn- for the Union. He was in several lively skirmishes, and was at the assault of Fort McAllister. He is Republican in politics, and he and wife are worthy members of the Disciple Church. The father of Mr. Warner is Elins Warner. lle was a native of the State of Maryland ; settled in Darke County, Ohio, in 1864. and is still living. llis wife, originally Mary A. Morningstar, was nlso n native of Maryland, born about the year 1812, deceased October 16, 1873. The father of Mrs. Warner is Samuel C. Skidmore, a native of New Jersey, born July 18, 1817. He was married to Susannah Rarick, who was born Oc- tober 29, 1829, in Darke County, Ohio, where she now resides.
D. WARREN. This substantial farmer is one of the leading ugrieultur- ists of Randolph County, coming to this county many years ago, and settling in the new and unimproved township of Jackson ; he has, perhaps, done ns much as any one citizen of the township in transforming a wilderness into a beautiful and productive farming district. Jackson Township stands second to none of the good townships found in the county, and its many broad and fertile nores amply testify, for the untiring energy of her citizens. The subject of this sketch was born in Guilford County, N. C., February 5, 1815. Hle came to Wayne County, Ind., in the year 1821, thence settled in this county thirty-three years ago (1849). Miss Nancy Taylor, a native of Kentucky, born June 20, 1821, became his wife April 11, 1836. The following children blessed this nnion : James M., born May 18, 1840; Sarah .A., October 11, 1842; Elihn, February 17, 1845 ; Margaret M., February 14, 1849 : John T., February 12, 1852 ; Elizabeth (., September 11, 1954; William 11., January 1, 1857 : Isaac W., February 22, 1859 ; Mary E., September 4, 1861, and Naocy L., August 28, 1864. Mr. Warren and family are earnest members of the Disciple Church, and are universally esteemed by their neighbors. He owns n large farm, all of which is susceptible of cultivation. The truct contains 837 acres, and ns Mr. Warren engages extensively in stock-raising, quite a portion of his farm is pasture land. Mr. Warren is n man of strict honesty and integrity, a kind and indulgent parent, un affectionate husband, and a genial companion. He lias the respect and confidence of the community among whom he has lived for nearly half u century. He is Republican in principle und practice, and has unlimited faith in the intelligence of the people of our country. Still in his strength and vigor, may this substantial farmer continue to enjoy the comforts of a pleasant home, and the esteem of his large circle of Requaintances,
JOHN M. WIMER, farmer, P. O. Union City, born June 7, 1830, in Ohio; came to this county in March, 1857. Ile attended school in his native State. and was married December 28, 1850, to Cutharine Miers, u native of Mont- gomery County, Ohio, born October 9, 1831. The following children were born to them : Levina, January 7, 1852; Andrew J., March 11, 1853; de- ceased February 23, 1865: Franklin, Jannary 28, 1855, died April 8, 1860; Mahala, September 20, 1857, died December 7, 1861 ; Sophia, December 18, 1859 ; Adam, April 9, 1861; Valentine, June 20, 1863; Amos, January 7, 1866: Henry, June 27, 1868 ; Eve A., April 21, 1871, and Susanah, March 3, 1874. Mr. W. and wife are members of the German Baptist Church, and they are generally estecmed. Michael Wimer, his father, was a native of Pennsylvania; settled in Preble County, Ohio, died about the year 1831 ; his wife was Catharine Studebaker. They were worthy people and generally loved.
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HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY.
GREEN TOWNSHIP.
Green Township is in the northwestern corner of the county, | Woolverton, S. E. S. E. 4, 21, 12, 40, March 2, 1835; Jacob being the westernmost of the northern tier of townships-Jack- son, Ward. Franklin and Green.' It lies, like the others men- tioned, in the valley of the Mississinewa River, and on both sides of that stream, the larger half of the township being on the south side.
Two principal creeks flow northward, Elkhorn and Mud Creeks, and one southwestward, Dinner Creek, from Jay County. The township is narrower than the other three northern town- ships by a mile and a half, that width being taken to form a part of Monroe, located directly south of Green and north of Stony Creek. The region, though lying away from the prior settlements established in the county, and neglected almost till the last, has proved to be good and fertile. and the citizens of that part of the county are proud of their location, thinking it in natural advantages not a whit behind the other townships of old Randolph.
The surface of the region is for the most part moderately rolling, though some portions are tolerably level. The country was originally burdened with a heavy growth of timber, a large amount of which still remains. The settlement of Green Township, as already stated, was not till long after the first oc- cupation of the region. One might have supposed that, since the upper portions of the valley were taken up between 1816 and 1820. that pioneers would have passed down the river and planted their stakes along its lower course. Not so. The first entry in the bounds of Green Township was made August 18, 1932, sixteen years after the first entry in the upper valley, and by the close of 1835 only fifteen quarter sections had been pur- chased of the United States, or only about one-eighth of the whole. But, during the years 1836, 1837 and 1838, the rush for entries was great, and by the close of the latter year all the land in the county except the school sections and scattering pieces here and there that had escaped the notice of the general public, had passed into the hands of private owners, though not very much was yet occupied by bona fide settlers. The entries in Green Township up to November 11, 1835, are sat down be- low:
ENTRIES.
John Michael. N. W. 8. 21. 12, 160, August 18, 1832; Mar- tin Boets, N. E. 9. 21, 12, 160, August 18, 1832; Alexander Gar- ringer, E. N. W. 9, 21. 12. 80, October 5, 1832: Alexander Garrin- ger, N. W. N. W. 9. 21, 12, 40, October 5, 1832; Thomas Brown, N. W. S. E. 11, 21. 12. 40, November 24, 1832; David Brown, S. E. S. E. 11, 21, 12, 40, December 1, 1832; John Garringer, N. N. E. 8, 21. 12, 80. March 30. 1833; Alexander Garringer. N. N. W. 10, 21, 12, 80. April 13, 1833; Jacob Winegartner. E. S. E. 8, 21, 13, 80, May 18, 1833; Isaac Garringer, N. E. N. W. 10. 21. 12, 40. Angust 24. 1833; William R. Marine. W. N. W. 17. 21. 13, 80. September 7, 1833; Alexander Garringer, S. E. S. W. 4. 21, 12. 40, September 7, 1833; Stephen Venard, N. W. S. E. 5, 21, 12, 40, October 4, 1833: James Brown, N. E. N. W. 13. 21, 12, 40, October 12, 1833; William Venard. E. S. E. 5. 21, 12, 80, October 26, 1833; John Garringer, W. S. W. 3, 21, 12, 80, November 9, 1833; Reuben Strong, N. E. 10, 21, 21, 12, 40, November 24, 1833: James Bryan, E. N. E. 8. 21. 12. 80, December 28, 1833 ;. Charles Perry, S. E. N. W. 10, 21, 12, 40, March 4, 1834; John Bone, W. S. W. 4, 21, 12, 80, June 10, 1834: Alexander Stephens, W. N. E. 8, 21, 13, 80, June 10. 1834; William P. Gray, N. E. N. W. 24, 21. 12, 40, July 7, 1834: Reuben Strong, N. W. 11, 21. 12, 160, August. 1834; Elijah Harbour, S. E. S. W. 2, 21, 12, 40, December 29, 1834; Elijah Harbour, S. E. 2, 21, 12, 160, December 29, 1834: Abner
Clouse, part of 5, 21, 12, March 2, 1835; Ubery Sleener, S. E. S. W. and S. W. S. E. 7, 21, 13, 80, April 4, 1835; Isaac Garringer, S. W. S. E. 4, 21, 12, 40; Tunis Brooks, N. N. E. 20. 21, 12, 80, April 20, 1835; William McCammish, S. E. N. W. 24, 21, 12, 40, April 15, 1835; John Gray, N. E. S. W. 24, 21, 12, 40, August 3, 1835; Joseph Cross, S. W. N. W. 13, 21, 12. 40, November 11, 1835.
By examination it appears that every one of the forty-two en- tries above given except one way upon Mississinewa River, or near that stream or upon Elkhorn. Nearly the whole of the river across the entire township had been entered, and most of Elk- horn for two miles up that stream. The solitary outside entry had been made in Section 20, 21, 12, near Delaware line, some three miles south of the river.
A large part of these entries had been made in advance of settlement in Monroe Township. Only eight entries or 440 acres had been made, as stated in the history of Monroe Township, up to June, 1835, while forty-four entries to 2,560 acres had been effected in Green Township.
In 1832, six entries, 520 acres; in 1833, thirteen entries, 920 acres: in 1834, seven entries, 560 acres; in 1835, eight entries, about four hundred acres.
It is true, indeed, that the whole northern tier of townships and Wayne as well had remained mostly unoccupied up to 1834, or thirty years after the first emigration to the county. But the time had then come for the rush of entry and emigration. and in three years from 1835 nearly every acre of available land had been purchased. How much had been settled up to the close of 1838 we are not able to state.
Green Township is six and five-eighths miles long from east to west and four and one-half miles wide north and south, with Jay County north, Franklin Township east, Monroe Township south and Delaware County west, containing twenty-nine and three-fourths square miles, or about nineteen thousand and forty acres. It comprises the following sections:
Township 21, Range 12, parts of Sections 8, 17. 20, 25, 26. 27, 28 and 29; whole of Sections 1 to 4, 9 to 16 and 21 to 24.
Township 21, Range 13, Sections 5 to 8, 11 to 14, 17 to 20 and parts of Sections 29 and 30.
SETTLEMENT.
The first actual settlers in Green Township are supposed to have been Alexander Garringer and Martin Boots, opposite Fair- view. They entered their land in August and October, 1832, and were living there in March, 1833, and probably in 1832. When the Greens and Browns came from Tennessee in March, 1833, Garringer and Boots were the only families in the town. ship. In the spring of 1833, a company from Tennessee (see biography of Thomas Brown and Jonathan Green) settled not far from Steubenville, on both sides of the river, which colony made a brave beginning for that township of at least nine and perhaps more families in one group.
Philip Berger, who came in 1838, says: "The country was all woods. A few settlers were scattered here and there, but they had only cabins with small clearings like deep caves sunk far
12, 160, November 23, 1833: Jonathan Green, N. W. N. W. 13, i below the tops of the thick, almost unbroken forest. These lit- tle clearings made hardly a perceptible break in the vast, untrod- den wilderness." When he came he says the residents were as follows: Alexander Garringer, across the river from Fairview; Martin Boots, across the river from Fairview; Mr. Porter, on the present site of Fairview-did not stay; Daniel Culver had bought out Mr. Porter, and was there at the time of Mr. Ber. ger's arrival; Naselrod had been on Thomas Hubbard's place; Hubbard bought ont Naselrod in 1837; Alexander Stevens had
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settled in the east part about 1830, perhaps the first in the town . ship; John Bone lived below Fairview, and now resides in the town; Anthony Wayne Mckinney came in 1837, and his son. John B. Mckinney, lives now opposite Fairview in a splendid and costly mansion, being the owner of fourteen or fifteen hun- dred acres of land and of great herds of cattle and stock; Nathan Godwin came in 1837, and his son, Thomas Godwin, is a resi- dent of Fairview; John Garringer came in 1836, and resided where Baldwin now lives; Martin Smith bought out Garringer in the fall of 1836; Bennet King, father of William O. King, residing near Deerfield, lived in the northwest corner of the county, northwest of Fairview; Bennet King went to Missouri and lives there yet; Elijah Harbour was west of Samuel Cay- lor's, in the fall of 1835; The Browns (Thomas and his three sons) had settled south of the river, perhaps in 1833 or 1834. They sold to Zebulon Cantrell in 1839, and left for Iowa; Israel Wirt entered south of Brown's in 1836, and moved there in the fall of 1837; he died in the summer of 1880, eighty-four years old; Tunis Brooks lived on Brook's Prairie. He had been there two or three years. Benjamin Mann was on the south side of the river, one mile west of Fairview. William Vineyard lived above Fairview. He was uncle to Edward Starbuck's first wife, her father being John Vineyard, brother to William, and a very nice and estimable gentleman, and much less backwoodsish than some others of the connection. James McProud was a very early ret- tler, and is still living, having been a prominent citizen. Elijah Harbour came in 1834, settling north of Mississinewa and east of Fairview. He was buried in Fairview. having the largest country funeral ever known in that region. His death took place in 1869 or 1870. Nathan Davis, on the John Life farm; Ulrich Keener was on the Nancy Boots farm: David Milburn was on the north side, two miles east of Fairview; Jonathan. Joel and Julian Green lived near Steubenville; the Browns were north of Christian Life's, south of the river; Martin Boots was south of the river, near Fairview; Samuel Caylor came in 1837; John Life came in the spring or sumuler bf 1838.
The first mail route was from Deerfield to Granville. Dela- ware County, onde in two weeks, out and back on horseback, in 1843. The first mill was built by Anthony Mckinney ou the river below Fairview, where Woolverton's Mill now is. He had first a saw-mill, then a corn cracker. afterward a grist mill. He was making the dam in 1838. The saw mill began work in 1839. the corn mill in the fall, and the wheat mill in 1841 or 1842. The first school was in the winter of 1837 in a little round log cabin near Fairview, on the river bank. The first meeting was held in that same log cabin. The first church was built of logs for the Methodists abont 1839 in Fairview. About 1844, a quarterly meeting was held at Thomas Hubbard's. Their house had just been built, and had no floor, and the sleepers served very well for seats. Methodist meetings used v) be held at Nathan Godwin's. Christian (New Light) meetings were held at Martin Smith's. The schoolhouse now standing is the third; the first was log, the second frame, the third brick. The first brick house was either Samuel Caylor's or William Ore's. The first brick kiln was a small one of thirty or forty thousand for chimneys, burnt by Thomas Hubbard. Samgel Caylor burnt his own brick. The first reapers in the townsh:p were J. B. Mckinney's and Philip Berger's. Mr. Berger's started first. They were the Kirby reaper, and the time was 1855 or 1856. The first threshing machine was run by Philip Stover, of Delaware County. It was a " falling beater " and " chaff-piler." He threshed first for old Elijah Harbour and then for Philip Berger.
The first Justice was John Garringer in 1838. People say that he kept his docket on slips of paper and stuck them in cracks in the logs of his cabin, and that nobody but himself could read them. The first burial in Fairview graveyard was that of an old lady, Mrs. Shirley, mother-in-law of Rouben Eppart. Mr. God- win laid off the graveyard. Thomas Powell was buried in what is now J. B. Mckinney's pasture before 1838. The spot is unknown. The first wheat in the settlement was raised by Thomas Hubbard, three acres, producing sixty bushels. Flat-boats and pirogues used to float down the river with apples, pork, flour and what
not. One spring five boats came down loaded with charcoal. They were stove in, and the coal was lost. One broke in pieces going over MeKinney's dam. Mr. Hubbard set out an orchard in 1840. getting the trees of Joab Ward, at Ridgeville. There were 120 trees, and he gave $9 a hundred, bringing them down the river in a canoe. The brick kiln of Thomas Hubbard was the first. William Ore, Samuel Caylor and J. B. MeKinney each, burned his own bricks for his house. There are no brick fac- tories in the township, neither are there any tile factories, though much ditching has been done. However, there are no long company ditches made under authority of law. No pikes had been made in Green Township, strange as the fact may seem, till the summer of 1850. The people there made a beginning upon the east and west road leading from Ridgeville to Fair- view, an old throughfare laid out some fifty or more years ago.
There are no railroads through the township. Three roads run near, but none touch its soil. Fairview, the chief town, is but a short distance from several railroad points, but is itself cut off from all. Several bridges have been erected in Green Township, one iron bridge at Fairview, one bridge north of Steubenville, one south of Emmetsville and perhaps others, all across the Mississinewa River. Although the settlement of this regiou was so late that much of the forest still remains standing, yet many of the residents have acquired comfortable fortunes and substantial and even elegant homes. In Green Township may be found, in fact, perhaps the most costly dwelling in Ran. dolph County, that of John B. Mckinney, Esq .. opposite Fair- view, of a peculiar style, unique but elegant, and very expensive. said to contain forty rooms. The people of Green Township are mostly moral, upright, industrious, frugal and thriving in their disposition, character atid habits.
| For further details see mills, churches, schools, remin- iscences, etc. |
The boundaries of Green may be stated this: North by Jay County, east by Franklin, south by Monroe. west by Delaware County.
ENTRIES BY SECTIONS.
Township 21, Range 12-Sections 1, 5, 12, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, entered in 1836-37; Section 2. 1834-37; Sections 3, 4, 20. 1833-36; Section 8, 1832-36: Sections 9, 13, 1832-37; Sec- tion 10, 1833-37; Section 11, 1832-34; Sections 14, 15, 17, 29, 1836; Section 16, school land; Section 24, 1835-37.
Township 21, Range 13-Sections 5, 6, 28. 1836-37; Sec- tions 8, 17, 1833-37; Sections 19. 20. 29. 30, 1837; Section 7, 1835-37. Whole township entered between 1832 and 1837.
TOWNS.
Berlin .- Location, on south side of Mississinewa River, Section 4, Town 21, Range 12, opposite Fairview. Streets: North and south. Main; east and west, Water, Ash; thirty-one lots; B. Mann, proprietor; Moorman Way, surveyor; recorded December 13. 1533. Town extinct. "Died borning." It seems that the proprietors of Fairview and Berlin played at " cross pur- poses," and Fairview won for the time. Both towns could not live unless they had become doubly strong like Pittsburgh and Alleghany, or New York and Brooklyn. Berlin had. in truth, two years the start, and still she " lost."
Emmettstille-Was laid out some years ago. but no record has been made of the plat. It is located upon Sections 5. 6. 7 and 8, Town 21, Range 13, a little north of Mississinewa River, upon the Deerfield & Fairview State road, leading from Green- ville, Ohio. northwestward. The surrounding country seems fer- tite aud prosperons. In 1857. there were two wagon shops. Mercer and Hastings; two smith shops, Cool and Jenkins; one grocery, William Ore; one cabinet shop, Esquire Gordon: one saw mill (with corn-cracker), H. Jenkins; one post office, D. Thornburg: one schoolhouse; one hotel, Gough: one physician, Felix Ore. The business men since that time have been as fol- lows: Merchants, D. Ore, Jones, Wilson, Merriele, Bretch, Bick- ner, S. Ore, Webb, S. Ore (second); cabinet shops, Gordon, Sackman, Richardson; physicians, Ore, Bailey, Capron; smith shops, Cool, Jenkins, Reeves. The town is now nearly dead for basiness. Two churches are here-United Brethren and Ger-
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man Evangelical. There is a schoolhouse and a post office. The town has no railroad and no pike except that the first pike in the township is now (1880) in progress upon the old Deerfield State road, directly through the town, coming too late. however, to renew the life of the dead. The town, so far as business is concerned, is wholly dead. Not even a smith shop enlivens the street by its noisy din. The houses, several of them, stand va- cant, dilapidated and ready to tumble down, and Emmettsville is altogether desolate and wo-begone.
Fairrien. - Location, Section 4, Town 21. Range 12. north- west corner of township; Thomas Hubbard. Samuel Boots, Na- than Goodwin, Daniel Culver, proprietors; forty-eight lots. Recorded March 26, 1838. Streets: North and south, Main; east and west, North, Summit, Water. On the Mississinewa River, north side. Deerfield, twelve miles; Ridgeville, nine miles; Emmettsville, four miles: Farmland, eight miles.
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