A standard history of Allen county, Ohio : an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, educational, civic and social development, Part 1

Author: Rusler, William, 1851-; American Historical Society (New York)
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago ; New York : The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 598


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A STANDARD HISTORY


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ALLEN COUNTY, OHIO


An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational Civic and Social Development


Prepared under the Editorial Supervision of WM. RUSLER


ASSISTED BY A BOARD OF ADVISORY EDITORS


VOLUME I


ILLUSTRATED


THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1921


FOREWORD


When in the course of human events it becomes the privilege and duty of a community to tabulate its centennial record, the matter of co-operation is a prime necessity.


Just as Allen County is passing its first centenary the spirit of co-op- eration and reconstruction is claiming the attention of the whole word. Never before in the history of the world has it been in such unsettled, chaotic condition.


While the Ft. Amanda episode connected with the War of 1812 was in advance of the organization of Allen County, and while some would say there is no local history aside from the traditions clustering about it, their attention is hereby called to some of the phenomenal advances in local civilization.


There have been rapid strides in agriculture, manufacturing and com- mercial developments within the 100 years since Allen County has had its name and outline; it passed its centenary February 12, 1920, and the record of the last fifty years is an easier matter than tabulating the events of the first half century. The pioneers were not addicted to the habit of writing down the news of the community.


In his editorial announcement concerning "A Standard History of Allen County," the Hon. William Rusler as supervising editor, says : "As editor, my task will be to direct the collection of all historical mate- rial that should find a permanent place in the records of Allen County and to insure as far as possible an impartial and accurate treatment of this material, according to the outline herein proposed," the foregoing statement appearing in the prospectus shown subscribers to the Allen County History.


In order that the local editorship might be of the most representative character, the following named persons were invited to act in the capac- ity of advisory editors : Senator Stephen D. Crites, Elida ; Mayor Frank A. Burkhardt, Harold Cunningham and Mrs. James Pillars, Lima ; N. W. Cunningham, Bluffton; Judge John F. Lindemann, Delphos; Paul W. Cochrun, Spencerville, and B. F. Cotner, Lafayette.


The introductory chapters dealing with general conditions in the early history of Northwestern Ohio are written by Nevin O. Winter, Allen County proper beginning with the chapter: In the Lap of a Cen- tury. The preliminary chapters are the foundation for it.


Mr. Rusler is frequently designated as "The Sage of Shawnee" because of his familiarity with Allen County development ; the board of advisory editors have all responded with information relative to inquiries and the publisher's representative, in assembling historical data, also begs to acknowledge unfailing courtesies shown him by Lehr E. Miller, E. C. Ackerman, D. H. Tolan, Elmer McClain, Ezekiel Owen, H. E. Simonton, John C. Mack, F. E. Harmon and Dr. George Hall. When they have not had definite knowledge about a matter they have all put into operation processes that speedily developed the desired information.


Mr. Rusler has been "instant in season and out of season" in his response to telephone inquiry and, since Suburban 3213 is a party line, other patrons sometimes demanded the wire in the midst of an inter- view ; when some new question presented itself, Mr. Rusler was always asked for his version and usually he knew the whole story.


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The gleaner in the fields of Allen County history-the waysides flanked with much firsthand information-had access to all previous publications elsewhere listed; to the D. D. Nicholas Welsh Settlement manuscript ; to the many papers written for and read before the Allen County Historical and Archaelogical Society, and to scrap books, year books and newspapers. They are all reliable sources of information.


For a dozen years the Allen County Historical Society has been taking note of passing events from which the gleaner has profited, the data thus gained having been filed by men and women having a life-long acquaintance, many of the observations coming under their personal knowledge. However, facts have been obtained from so many sources that to pin-tag all of them, to credit every whit of tabulated information would be an utter impossibility.


Like the statistician, an historian does not need to possess an imagi- nation since he must deal with facts as he finds them; however, papers prepared and read before the Historical Society have furnished most of the information. While folklore may not be accepted as history, one who knows local conditions always has an inner knowledge of things.


The folklorist is able to associate events and deduct further facts, but these words from one of the Historical Society writers: "So let us here in this beautiful memorial hall-so lasting a tribute to soldier and pioneer on the very heart of the old life-set down what we can of the story ; let us pile up our array of facts and relics for reference when that man comes who shall have skill and soul to properly gather it all up; for one who adds to the lessons of life is like one who plants a tree that will be blooming when he is sleeping," and the suggestion is like a fragrant wayside blossom for the gleaner in the Allen County fields of general information.


While some who have aided materially in assembling historic data are not Methuselahs by a few hundred years, they have been men and women with a comprehensive understanding of things; in most instances facts have been verified with little difficulty.


The present day event-something that has just happened-is much easier tabulated than hazy facts already shrouded in uncertainty ; where definite conclusions have not been reached-where facts have not been substantiated beyond the shadow of a doubt, corroborated statements have been used; where two or three have been agreed as to major ques- tions, minor differences have been allowed to adjust themselves.


Some one has remarked that when an aged man with an unimpaired memory dies, it is like burning a book from the library, and while many unwritten chapters in Allen County history already have been consigned to oblivion-buried with the pioneers who developed the country-one is often surprised at the stored-up fund of information possessed by the succeeding generations. Folklore-word of mouth from father to son, mother to daughter-traditions of the family, are a reliable source of information.


While it is not a life of entire self-abnegation-this habit of chron- icling the events of the past, sometimes in the waking hours of darkness one asks himself the question "Is it worth the candle?" One whose whole life has been spent in any given community cannot be cosmo- politan in his conception of things-is always somewhat circumscribed by his "two by twice" experiences, but not every missionary goes abroad to serve his day and generation. "In the multitude of counsellors there is safety" and one need not dwell in the long ago in order to write about the past in any community.


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There is always someone who knows, or who has laid away a news- paper, and the gleaner in quest of information seems unerringly guided ; while sometimes middle-aged persons have forgotten half of the things they once knew, they defer to those older than themselves who seem- ingly have forgotten all-no, many times no, their minds are clear about the things of yesterday, although some of them take little note of the happenings of today; frequently they have such floods of memories that one hears things about which he had not sought information.


Thomas Bailey Aldrich says: "My mind lets go a thousand things Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour --- "


and the difficulty in this summary of the affairs of Allen County is to marshal one's mental battalions in such precision that they may bear at once on all quarters of the field, but since "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" there are always venturesome spirits who undertake such tasks. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe says:


"He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat ; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat,"


and in these stirring twentieth century days the second century citizen of Allen County understands all about it.


Lord Byron once said: "'Tis strange but true; truth is always strange; stranger than fiction," and while a great deal of fiction may be written about one single fact, where there is a local historical society interested in assembling them, facts are not such elusive characters after all. History is an array of facts-not sentiment; and the conscientious historian handles conditions as he finds them.


A forecast of the future depends upon a knowledge of the past. The reason aged people talk of the grand characters of the long ago is because good men and women lived in the past ; they were not acquainted with the lures and pitfalls of modern society :


"Yes, it is a trait of Aged Men To talk about 'Away Back When,'"


and the gleaner in the fields of local information appreciates them.


While fiction may be a rivulet of text leading from the noisy haunts of the world, "far from the madding crowd," winding along through pleasant old literary gardens redolent with the choicest of intellectual blossoms, history may at least be the log across the stream that catches some of the drift of the ages; it has been the province of all concerned to dislodge some of the accumulated debris, and send it adrift again down the river-the River of Time.


-THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.


CONTENTS


CHAPTER I UNDER FRENCH AND BRITISH RULE 1


CHAPTER II


THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC.


11


CHAPTER III


THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD


24


CHAPTER IV


SIMON GIRTY AND HIS BROTHERS


35


CHAPTER V


THE HARMAR AND ST. CLAIR CAMPAIGNS.


44


CHAPTER VI


THE CAMPAIGN OF "MAD ANTHONY" WAYNE.


57


CHAPTER VII


FALLEN TIMBERS AND THE GREENVILLE TREATY


70


CHAPTER VIII


OHIO BECOMES A STATE


84


CHAPTER IX


A YEAR OF DISASTERS


93


CHAPTER X


A YEAR OF VICTORIES


.106


CHAPTER XI


OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE.


122


CHAPTER XII


THE PASSING OF THE RED MAN


.136


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CONTENTS CHAPTER XIII


THE PREHISTORIC AGE 161


CHAPTER XIV 1


IN THE LAP OF A CENTURY


166


CHAPTER XV


FROM SAVAGERY TO CIVILIZATION


173


CHAPTER XVI


EXIT SHAWNEE-ENTER SETTLER.


181


CHAPTER XVII


WHEN ALLEN BECAME AN ORGANIZED COUNTY.


.189


CHAPTER XVIII


THE WHOLE WORLD KIN


213


CHAPTER XIX


AGRICULTURE IN ALLEN COUNTY


224


CHAPTER XX


SOME ADJUNCTS OF AGRICULTURE.


..


.236


CHAPTER XXI


THE TEMPLE OF JUSTICE-ALLEN COUNTY OFFICIAL ROSTER. 247


CHAPTER XXII


THE URBAN SIDE OF ALLEN COUNTY


261


CHAPTER XXIII


A RESUME-TOWN AND COUNTRY.


270


CHAPTER XXIV


MARKING THE TRAIL-THE MILESTONES.


.275


CHAPTER XXV


THE HOUSE OF THE LORD IN ALLEN COUNTY 281


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CHAPTER XXVI


CATHOLICITY IN ALLEN COUNTY. .291


CHAPTER XXVII


THE SUNDAY SCHOOL IN ALLEN COUNTY


.293


CHAPTER XXVIII


EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES-THE SCHOOLS OF ALLEN COUNTY ..... 298


CHAPTER XXIX


THE NEWSPAPER IN ALLEN COUNTY.


314


CHAPTER XXX


THE ALLEN COUNTY HIGHWAYS-GOOD ROADS.


.321


CHAPTER XXXI


TRANSPORTATION-ITS RELATION TO COMMERCE AND


MANUFACTURING


331


CHAPTER XXXII


THE DISCOVERY OF OIL IN ALLEN COUNTY


341


CHAPTER XXXIII


THE POSTAL SYSTEM-ALLEN COUNTY POSTOFFICES


349


CHAPTER XXXIV


THE BENCH AND BAR IN ALLEN COUNTY


353


CHAPTER XXXV


MATERIA MEDICA IN ALLEN COUNTY


362


CHAPTER XXXVI


EARLY SOCIAL LIFE IN ALLEN COUNTY


371


CHAPTER XXXVII


TEMPERANCE-ITS RELATION TO ALLEN COUNTY.


.376


CHAPTER XXXVIII


PUBLIC UTILITIES


.386


CONTENTS ix CHAPTER XXXIX CIVIC CLUBS, CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS AND SECRET ORDERS 402


CHAPTER XL


MUSIC AND THE COMMUNITY. .412


CHAPTER XLI


THE OPEN DOOR OF THE COMMUNITY-THE HOTEL


421


CHAPTER XLII


ORGANIZED LABOR IN ALLEN COUNTY


424


CHAPTER XLIII


THEATERS-MOVING PICTURES


428


CHAPTER XLIV


ALLEN COUNTY IN THE WARS


. .


.432


CHAPTER XLV


FINANCE-WEALTH OF ALLEN COUNTY


.482


CHAPTER XLVI


HOSPITALS IN ALLEN COUNTY.


. 496


CHAPTER XLVII


WELFARE WORK IN ALLEN COUNTY.


504


CHAPTER XLVIII


LIBRARIES, CLUBS-INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF ALLEN COUNTY.


.511


CHAPTER XLIX


LEFTOVER STORIES-THE OMNIBUS CHAPTER


528


CHAPTER L


YESTERDAY AND TODAY IN ALLEN COUNTY.


.540


CHAPTER LI


GOD'S ACRE-ALLEN COUNTY CEMETERIES


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INDEX


Ackerman, C. L., II, 175


Adgate, Charles B., II, 18


Adgate, Gouverneur H., II, 18


Adgate, Henry C., II, 18 Adgate, Seth B., 1I, 192


Agerter, William T., II, 181


Agriculture, I, 224; adjuncts of, I, 236; unusual season in, I, 237


Akerman, Edwin C., II, 34 Akins, A. D., II, 326


Alexander, James M., II, 116


Allemeier, George H., II, 168


Allen, Ethan, I, 169, 432


Allen County ; under French and British


rule, I, 1; organized, I, 170, 189, 213, 270; boundaries, I, 171; townships, I, 171; distinguishing physical charac- teristic, I, 192; population, I, 203; in- corporated places, I, 212; climate, I, 216; highest point in, I, 225; first fair, I. 238; official roster, I, 247; prior to 1850, I, 271; in the Wars, I, 432; wealth of, I, 482; banks, I, 485; wealth, I, 492; authors, I, 516; direc- tories, I, 519


Allen County Agricultural Society, 1, 238


Allen County bar, personnel of, I, 358 Allen County Chapter American Red Cross, I, 458


Allen County Child Welfare Associa- tion, I, 509 Allen County Children's Home, I, 209, 507; (ilustration) I, 508 Allen County Chiropractic Association, I, 368


Allen County Council of Defense, I, 244 Allen County Courthouse, 1882; (illus- tration) I, 252 Allen County Fair Grounds, I, 238


Allen County Farm Bureau, I, 243, 244 Allen County Firefighters, I, 395 Allen County Historical and Archae- ological Society, I, 275, 402, 521 Allen County Histories, I, 517 Allen County Home, I, 507


Allen County Institute, I, 311 Allen County Juvenile Court, I, 254


Allen County Law Library, I, 511 Allen County Medical Society, I, 362, 498


Allen County Memorial Building, I, 402 Allen County Memorial Hall, I, 277 Allen County Reorganized Sunday School Association, I, 296


Allen County Sunday School Associa- tion, I, 294 Allen County Welfare Society, I, 303 Allen County Women's Christian Tem- perance Union, I, 381 Allen Grange, I, 242 Allentown, I, 191, 261 Allgire, John H, II, 67


Altrurian Club, I, 523 Altstaetter, Philip J., II, 302 Amanda township, I, 189 Amanda trail, I, 327 American College of Surgeons, I, 500 American House, I, 422


American Legion, I, 455


American Red Cross, Lima Chapter, I, 500 American (German) township, I, 190 Amstutz, Peter B., II, 305


An Old House in Allen County (illus- tration), I, 192


Ancient Order United Workmen, I, 411 Anderson, J. A., I, 360


Anderson, William P., II, 152


Appleseed, Johnny, I, 187, 532


Arbor Day, I, 236


Arbutus Club, I, 523


Argonne Hotel, I, 421


Argus, The, I, 314


Armory, Spencerville (illustration),


I, 455


Armstrong, Herbert L., II, 93


Armstrong, Ralph F., II, 169


Arnold, Cary C., II, 339


Arters, George L., II, 16


Ashery, I, 528


Askins, Harold W., II, 227


Atkinson, John C., II, 182


Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, I, 387 Atmur, Marshall, II, 133


Attorneys, present, I, 360 Anglaize Township, I, 191 Authors, Allen county, I, 516


Automanual system, I, 389


Baber, Albert J., II, 338 Baber, Clarence F., II, 199


Baber, Henry F., II, 262 Baber, Ira E., II, 331


Baber, Mary A., II, 331


Baechler, Albert L., II, 64


Baechler, Christian, II, 140 Bailey, J. N., I, 360


Baker, Frank E., II, 242 Baldwin, Arthur T., II, 158 Baldwin, Harry D., II, 107 Banks, I, 485 Bank robbery, I, 489 Bannister, John K., II, 173 Baptists, I, 281, 286 Bar, personnel of, I, 358


Barnt, Henry O., II, 275 Barr, Samuel, I, 360 Barr Hotel, I, 421 Barron, James E., II, 319 Barron, Joseph S., II, 319 Barron Brothers, II, 319 Barton, Clara, I, 496 Baseball club, I, 533


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Basinger, David P., II, 285 Basinger, Enoch P., II, 292 Basinger, Ira W., II, 231 Basinger, Noah, II, 191 Bath Township, I, 193


Battle of Fallen Timbers, I, 76 Battle of Lake Erie, I, 119 Battles of the Maumee (plan illustra- tion), I, 72 Baughn, Evelyn B., I, 509


Baxter, Carl W., II, 272


Baxter, Charles W., II, 31


Baxter Clyde M., II, 272


Baxter, Frank E., II, 174


Baxter, James, II, 246


Baxter, Lester C., II, 61


Baxter, Richard R., II, 158


Baxter, Samuel, I, 189


Baxter, Samuel A., I, 337, 365, 398, 516; II, 16 Baxter, Mrs. Samuel A., I, 375


Baxter, William E., II, 316


Bayly, George E., II, 39


Bayview Club, I, 523


Beach, Bernard J., II, 229


Beade, Fred S., II, 151


Beaver Dam, I, 207, 212


Becker, Fred C., I, 359; II, 244


Becker, M. L., I, 359


Beckman, Leo V., II, 254


Bedford, Zela L., II, 230


Beeler, Amanda M., II, 96


Beeler, Ferdinand, II, 96


Beeler, William H., II, 27


Beerman, John A., II, 15


Beery, William H., II, 82


Bench and Bar, I, 353


Benedum, Alva E., II, 227


Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lima, I, 411


Bentley, Harry O., II, 136


Bernhard, Arthur B., II, 209


Berryhill, William C., II, 40


Berryman, David E., II, 70


Bible the Settler's Daily Portion (illus- tration), I, 217 Big Buckeye, I, 544


Biner, John M., II, 332


Binkley, John H., II, 318


Bixel, Samuel S., 11, 298 Black, Curtis C., II, 119


"Black Swamp" country, I, 90


Black Swamp, Reclamation of (illustra- tion), I, 226


Blackburn, Thomas W., II, 238


Blackburn, William, I, 191, 261, 438 Blank, Edwin, II, 212 Blattenberg, John H., II, 282 Bliss, Lester, I, 359


Blockhouse at Fort Amanda (illustra- tion), I, 173 Bloom, Walter P., II, 325 Bluffton, I, 205, 212 Bluffton ; street scenes (illustrations), I, 204 Bluffton College, I, 312; II, 192 Bluffton College Conservatory, I, 420 Bluffton News, I, 317 Bluffton Travel Club, I, 525 Board of Commissioners, I, 254


Bogardus, Chauncey, I, 516 Boone, Daniel, I, 28 Boop, James N., II, 309 Boose, Charles R., II, 203


Boose, John M., II, 104


Border warfare, I, 67


Botkin, Ernest M., II, 154


Botkin, Lewis M., II, 317


Botkins, Harry E., II, 229


Boulders, I, 162 Boundary Stone (illustration), I, 440


Bowdle, Carl A., II, 137


Bowdle, Thomas H., II, 169


Bowers, Harvey S., II, 289


Bowersock, Alta, II, 277


Bowersock, Ora M., II, 277


Bowersock, Timothy B., II, 45


Bowsher, Daniel A., II, 272


Bowsher, Elias, II, 274


Bowsher, Jasper W., II, 205


Bowsher, Mr. and Mrs. (illustration), I, 218 Boyd, Andrew J., II, 91


Branson, William G., II, 123


Bredeick, John O., I, 194, 291, 331,. 515


Breese, Clarence N., II, 139


Breese, George L., II, 63


Breese, Griffith A., II, 206


Breese, Iva J., II, 206


Breese, John O., II, 198 Breese, William H., II, 128


Brennan, Edward, II, 122


Brenneman, Daniel L., II, 66


Brenneman, Samuel S., II, 260


Brice, Calvin S., I, 337, 355, 398, 491; (illustration) I, 339 Brice, Mrs. Calvin S., I, 375 Brooks, Robert H., II, 263 Brotherton, Theodore, I, 360 Brown, Ellis C., II, 252


Brown, Elmer A., II, 184


Brown, Gladys I., II, 184


Brown, Herbert H., I, 516


Brower, Lon S., II, 66


Brunk, Perry E., II, 316


Brush, Henry, I, 96 Buchanan, Robert A., II, 82


Buchholtz, Emma C., II, 54


Buckeye Island, I, 264


Bundy, Frank A., II, 148


Burget, John A., II, 262


Burkhardt, Franklin A., I, 517; II, 238


Burnett, Judge, I, 86 Burnett Hotel, I, 422 Burtchin, William, II, 264


Business Woman's Club, I, 408


Bussert, Harmon T., II, 261


Butler, Luah M., II, 220


Butturff, Clarence F., II, 94


Bybee, C. A., II, 31


Cable, Davis J., I, 390; II, 43 Callahan, Julius H., II, 161 Camp Lima, Civil War (illustration), I, 442


Canal Packet, Before the Days of Rapid Transit (illustration), I, 332 Canal surveys, I, 331 Cantwell, Aldous W., II, 85 Capture of Fort Meigs, I, 115


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Capture of Major Andre (illustration), I, 433


Car Line on North Main Street (illus- tration), I, 338 Cardosi, Victor, II, 99


Carnegie Library in Lima (illustration), I, 513


Carnes, John R., II, 62


Carpenter, G. H., II, 338


Carpenter, J. A., II, 254


Carter, Lawrence E., II, 182


Cass, Lewis, I, 93, 95, 122


Catholics, I, 286, 291


Cemeteries, I, 552; first in Allen county, I, 553


Census, first, I, 270; 1920, I, 270


Centennial Log Cabin, Lima Public Square, I, 186; (illustration) I, 187


Central High School, Lima (illustra- tion), I, 304


Central High School, Auditorium and Cafeteria (illustrations), I, 306


Central High School, Night School (il- lustration), I, 307; Newspaper work (illustration), I, 308


Century Circle, I, 525


Chamber of Commerce, 1, 403; state- ment, I, 487


Chapman, John, I, 187, 532


Chapman, John H., II, 297


Chautauqua Club, I, 523


Chautauqua movement, I, 512


Chenoweth, A. Stanley, II, 218


Chenowith, William, I, 434


Chief Nicholas, I, 12


Child Welfare Club, I, 524


Christian Associations, I, 402


Christian Church, I, 282


Christian Science, I, 368


Churches, I, 281


Circus Day in Lima (illustration), I, 530


City Hospital Operating Room (illus- tration), I, 497


City mail service, Delphos, I, 350


Civic Clubs, I, 402


Civil Government, I, 251


Civil war, I, 440


Clapper, Elliott E., II, 85


Clark, George R., I, 28


Clark, Walton E., II, 130


Clay, Green, I, 111 Clerks of the Court, I, 254


Clevenger, Roy J., II, 315


Climate of Allen County, I, 216 Clio Club, I, 526 Clionian Club, I, 524 Clubs, I, 511


Clum, Charles N., II, 308


Cochran, Jesse E., II, 93


Cochran, Ulysses M., II, 315


Cochrun, Jasper L., II, 42 Cochrun, Paul W., II, 42 Coffinberry, Count, I, 317 Coldest year, 1843, I, 213


Cole, Edward C., II, 72


Coleman, Samuel F., II, 185


College Women's Club, I, 524 Colucci, Frank, II, 31 Commission form of government, I, 267


Common Pleas Court, I, 253 Community Fund Campaign poster (il- lustration) I, 506


Conestoga Mode of Travel (illustra- tion), I, 324


Congregationalists, I, 286


Conner, George P., II, 185


Conspiracy of Pontiac, I, 11


Contris, Charles M., II, 307


Contris, William W., II, 342 .


Convoy of Liberty Trucks, in Public Square, Lima, Before Leaving for Washington (illustration), I, 456


Cook, Robert E., II, 110


Coon, Albert O., II, 26


Coon, Ira E., II, 149


Coon, Joshua B., II, 121


Coon, Nathan I., II, 77


Cooper, Harvey M., II, 211


Corderman, Joseph B., II, 145


Corduroy road, I, 326


Corwin, Bert M., II, 194


Cory, Charles H., II, 147


Cotner, Frank B., II, 348


Cotner, John W., II, 243


Council House of Shawnees, Hog Creek Tribe (illustration), I, 184


Counseller, Duane H., II, 142


County Auditors, I, 257


County Board of Institution Visitors, Report of, I, 508


County Commissioners, I, 258


County Coroners, I, 259


County Fairs, I, 238


County of Illinois, I, 28


County Recorders, I, 257


County School Superintendents, I, 259


County Sheriffs, I, 255


County Surveyors, I, 259


County Treasurers, I, 258


Coureurs des bois, I, 4, (illustration),


1, 5


Courtad, Sidney R., II, 240


Courtad, Waldo E., II, 206


Courthouses, I, 247; first, I, 247


Courts, I, 247, 251


Court of Appeals, I, 253


Cows in Pasture (illustration), I, 231


Crane, The (Tarhe), I, 21, 137


Crawford, Harry M., II, 232


Crawford, William, Burning of, I, 30


Crawford, William, Torture and Death of (illustration), I, 33 Crawford Expedition, I, 30


Cremean, G. Dale, II, 100


Crepp's Tavern, I, 423


Creps, Alexander, II, 188


Creps, Frank H., II, 146


Creps, Rebecca, II, 188


Creps, William H., II, 318


Crider, Orvin M., II, 197


Crites, Ora B., II, 261


Crites (S. D.) curio collection, I, 532


Crites, S. D., II, 329 Croft, William, II, 55


Croghan, George, I, 13, 117


Croushorn, Samuel E., II, 95


Crumrine, John, II, 219


Crumrine, Leonard, II, 223


Culp, Jacob J., II, 55


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Cunningham, Harold, II, 169


Cunningham, N. W., I, 516; II, 291 Cunningham, Theodore E., I, 359 Cunningham, William, I, 364 Cunningham, William H., I, 358 Cupp, Henry, II, 295 Cupp, John O., II, 288 Curio collection of S. D. Crites, I, 532 Custer, Guy, II, 213


Dabold, Harry J., II, 48 Dailey, Earl C., II, 233


Daily Herald, I, 317


Dalzell, Carson L., II, 118


Daniels, James, Sr., I, 200


Danner, George, II, 188


Dauch, William, II, 300


Daughter of Allen County, I, 186, 201, 217


Daughters of the Crusade, I, 381


Davis, Albert L., II, 282


Davis, John C., II, 60


Davis, Otis E., II, 142


Davis, Robert B., II, 128


Davis, Robert E., II, 161


Davison, John, II, 10


Day Nursery Association, I, 524


Dean, Edward A., II, 120


de Celeron, Bienville, I, 13


de Champlain, Samuel, I, 3 Decker, John M., II, 296


Decoration Day, I, 449 Defiance,Moraine, I, 163 DeKalb, Walt M., II, 134 de la Salle, 1, 3


DeLong, Elmer E., II, 274


Delphian Club, I, 524


Delphos, I, 194; misfortunes, I, 198; population, I, 212; government of, I, 265; city mail service, I, 350


Delphos High School (illustration), I, 195 Delphos Home Telephone Company, I, 388 Delphos Library, I, 515


Delphos Public Hall (illustration), I, 198 Delphos Public Library, I, 269


Delphos Tourists' Club, I, 525 Delphos Waterworks Park (illustra- tion), I, 196 Deming, Cliffe, II, 153


Deming, Okla R., II, 153 Democratic Times, I, 316 Deuchoquette, Francis, I, 184 Devil's Backbone, I, 192, 327


De Weese, Oliver L., II, 205 De Weese, Walter G., II, 219 DeWitt, Harry L., II, 220 Dexter, James E., II, 61 Dickason, Oren, II, 237 Dickson, Harry L., II, 62 Diller, William, II, 311 Dillon, Frank E., II, 184 Diltz, Peter, I, 185 Directories, Allen County, I, 519




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