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HISTORY
OF
CLINTON COUNTY OHIO
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
ALBERT J. BROWN, A.M. Supervising Editor
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
ILLUSTRATED
1915 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana
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DEDICATION.
To the dear, departed ones, whose busy hands changed the giant for- ests into fertile fields; whose love of home established the hearthstones, the tender ties of which yet bind together the heartstrings of the native born; whose patriotism gave the best of their lives and substance for the defense of their country ; whose graves make sacred the soil their feet so often trod.
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FOREWORD
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All life and achievement is evolution; present wisdom comes from past experience, and present commercial prosperity has come only from past exer- tion and suffering. The deeds and motives of the men who have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privi- lege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the pres- ent conditions of the people of Clinton county, Ohio, with what they were one hundred years ago. From a trackless wilderness and virgin land, it has come to be a center of prosperity and civilization, with millions of wealth, systems of railways, grand educational institutions, splendid indus- * tries and immense agricultural and mineral productions. Can any think- ing person be insensible to the fascination of the study which discloses the aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so strongly laid the founda- tion upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace and record the social, political and industrial progress of the community from its first inception, is the function of the local historian. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of perpetuation, and which unite the present to the past, is the motive for the present publication. A specially valuable and interesting department is that one devoted to the sketches of representative citizens of these counties whose records deserve preservation because of their worth, effort and accomplishment. The publishers desire to extend their thanks to the gentlemen who have so faithfully labored to this end. Thanks are also due to the citizens of Clinton county for the uni- form kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking, and for their many services rendered in the gaining of necessary information.
In placing the "History of Clinton county. Ohio," before the citizens, the publishers can conscientiously claim that they have carried out the plan as outlined in the prospectus. Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party interested, for correction, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is solely due to the person for whom the sketch was prepared. Confident that our effort to please will fully meet the appro- bation of the public, we are,
Respectfully, THE PUBLISHERS.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI-HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION 89 Indian Trails-Laying Out of the First Roads-Early Commissioners' Rec- ords-History of Some of the Well-known Early Roads-Turnpikes, Plank Roads and Early Improvements -- Plank Road Companies-Abolition of Tolls-Railroads -- Public Aid in Building of the First Railroads-Proposed Roads-Highway Statistics-Bridges-Macadamized Roads-County High- way Superintendent-Limestone for Road Construction.
CHAPTER VII-MILITARY HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY 101 Residents of Clinton County Who Served in the War of the Revolution -- The War of 1812-Clinton County Men in the Mexican War-The Civil War-Clinton County's Magnificent Record in Enlistments-Relief of Sol- diers' Families-Soldiers' Aid Society -- Military Committee for Clinton County-Warp and Woof-The First Draft-Cincinnati Threatened-The Second Draft-The Second Morgan Scare-The Third Draft-The Various Commands in Which Clinton County Men Served.
CHAPTER VIII-COURTS AND LAWYERS OF CLINTON COUNTY .... 126 Constitutional Provisions for Judicial Establishment-Provisions of the Constitution of 1851-Changes by the Constitution of 1912-First Court of Common Pleas-First Grand Jury-Interesting Items from the Early Court Records-First Session of the Supreme Court in Clinton County-Story of a Murder-The Early Judges-Early Members of the Bar-President. Asso- ciate and Common Pleas Judges-Probate Judges-Prosecuting Attorneys -Clerks of the Court.
CHAPTER IX-EDUCATION 1.39
First Schools in the State-Primitive Equipment and Methods-Improve- ment Under the Constitution of 1851-Splendid Progress Through the Years-Present School System-County Superintendent-District Superin- tendents-District Statistics-Normal School-Wilmington College-A Splendid Record-Endowment Funds-Buildings-Library-Museum-The Schools of Wilmington-High School Principals-Boards of Education- Interesting Items-Colored Schools-High School Graduates.
CHAPTER X-CHURCHES OF CLINTON COUNTY 1.52
Friends Churches-Schools-Ministers-Methodist Episcopal Churches- Centennial of the Wilmington Church-African Methodist Episcopal Churches -- Methodist Protestant Churches-Baptist Churches -- Primitive Baptists-Colored Baptists-Christian Churches-Wilmington Presbyterian Church-Universalist Church-Episcopal Church-Mennonite Church- Seventh-Day Adventists-Catholic Churches.
CHAPTER XI-CLINTON COUNTY NEWSPAPERS 187 One Hundred Years of Newspaper History-List of All Papers Published in the County-History of the Present Papers and Record of Those Which Have Passed Out of Existence.
CHAPTER XII-THE MEDICAL PROFESSION 195 Prevalence of Disease in Early Days-Loammi Rigdon, the First Physician
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in Clinton County-Other Pioneer Doctors-Hardships and Privations of the Early Practitioners-Brief Personal Mention of Many of the Physicians Who Have Practiced in this County-Present Physicians of Clinton County -Clinton County Medical Society-Veterinary Surgeons.
CHAPTER XII-SECRET SOCIETIES 205 Free and Accepted Masons-Royal Arch Masons-Independent Order of Odd Fellows-Knights of Pythias-Grand United Order of Odd Fellows- Modern Woodmen of America-Royal Arcanum-Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks-Junior Order of United American Mechanics-Daugh- ters of America-Knights of the Maccabees-Grand Army of the Republic.
CHAPTER XIV-BANKS AND BANKING 221 First Bank in Ohio-Banks in Wilmington-Blanchester Banks-Banks at Sabina, Port William, Martinsville, Clarksville and New Vienna-Clinton Mutual Insurance Association.
CHAPTER XV-WOMEN'S CLUBS AND FRATERNITIES 229 The Six-and-Twenty Club-The Wilmington Woman's Civic League-The Progress Club-The Yani Club-Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- Woman's Relief Corps-Daughters of the American Revolution-The Con- versation Club.
CHAPTER XVI-FARMERS' ORGANIZATIONS 238 Clinton County Agricultural Society-The Sabina Fair-Patrons of Hus- bandry-Beech Grove Grange, and Those at Blanchester, New Vienna, Westboro and Clarksville.
CHAPTER XVII-ADAMS TOWNSHIP 244 Boundaries-Water Courses-Timber-Formation of the Township-Sur- vey of Adams Township-Mills-School Houses-The Pioneers-Present Township Officers-Sligo-Ogden.
CHAPTER XVIII-CHESTER TOWNSHIP 2,5Z Location-Boundaries-Organization-Township Records-Streams-Mills- Roads-Burial Grounds-Pioneers-Present Township Officers-New Bur- lington-Oakland-Kingman.
CHAPTER XIX-CLARK TOWNSHIP 263 Boundaries-Irregular Shape-Area-Natural Features-Settlement-Mills- Present Township Officers-Martinsville-Business Interests-Farmer's Station-Jonesboro.
CHAPTER XX-GREEN TOWNSHIP 269 Organization-Early Official Record-Location and Boundaries-Topog- raphy-Settlement-First School-Present Township Officers-New Vienna -New Antioch
CHAPTER XXI-JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP 275 Organization-Boundaries-Area-Natural Features - Storm - Soil - Early
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HISTORICAL INDEX
A
Abolition in Clinton County
351
Ada Chapel
154
Adams Township-
Area
244
Boundaries
244
Drafts
10Z
Enlistments
109
Erection of
66
Formation of
245
Mills
247
Officers, Present
255
Petition for
245
Pioneers
248
Schools
140, 248
Settlement
88
Streams
244
Survey of
246
Timber
244
Admission of Ohio as a State
46
African Methodist Church 163
Anti-slavery Agitation 351
Area of the County
5
Armenia
327
Assessment Valuations
358
Assessor, District
24
Assessors' Returns
25
Associate Judges
13.8
Auditors, County
72
B
Banks and Banking
221
Baptist Churches
169
Bar. Early Members of the
136
School
321
Battle of Fallen Timbers
34, 44
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks
217
Big Onion
279
Blanchester --
Bank
22,5
Business Interests
289
Blanchester-
Churches
165, 169, 172, 183, 186
Early Industries
28Z
Fire, Great
28Z
Grange
243
Incorporation
28Z
Location
287
Lodges
207, 210, 214,
218
Newspapers
187
Officers
290
Physicians
200, 203
Platted
287
Bloomington
184, 199,
326
Board of Soldiers' Relief 76
Bones of a Former Race. 58
Boulders
52
Boundaries of County
51,
61
Boundary Lines, State 50
Bridges
100
Burtonville
315
Buzzard's Glory
271
C
Capitals of Northwest Territory and
of Ohio
47
Canal Grants
56
Catholic Churches 184
Census of 1800
41
Center Friends Church
158
Centerville-
Business Interests
321
Lodges
21.5
Physicians
202,
203
Platting of
321
Centralization of Schools
140
Chester
158
Chester Township-
Anti-slavery Agitation 352
Area
2,57
Boundaries
257
Cemeteries
258
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HISTORICAL INDEX.
K
Kenton Trace, the
89
Kingman
262
Kluck's Crossing
279
Knights of Pythias
213
Knights of the Maccabees
219
L
Land Grants
Land Grants of Ohio 52
Land Office Opened. 81
Lawyers, Early
136
Lawyers of Clinton County
126
Lee's Creek
3.21
Legislature, First Northwest Terri-
torial
40
Lewisville
326
Liberty Township-
Anti-slavery Agitation 352
Churches
282
Creation of
66
Drafts
1OZ
Early History
280
Enlistments
108
Officers, Present
283
282
Settlement of
87
Soil
280
Streams
280
Valuations
28.3
Library Aid Society
345
Linden
250
Little Center
315
Location of County
51
Location of County Seat 64
Lodges
205
Lumberton
202, 215, 283
M
Macadamized Roads
100
Macedonia
319
Marion Township-
Drafts
107,
110
Election, First 286
Enlistments
100
Erection of
.66.
286
Location
285
Marion Township-
Officers, Present 28Z
Schools, Early
286
Settlement
88
285
Soil
285
Mckay's Station
284
Martinsville-
Banks
266
Business Interests
266
Churches
175. 26Z
Fire Department
266
Location
265
Lodges
206. 216, 218
Officers
265
Physicians
203
Platting of
265
Population
265
Postmasters
265
Schools
266
Valuation
265
Masonic Order
205
Medical History
195
Medical Society
203
Melvin
169.
3.01
Memphis
321
Mennonite Church 18.3
Methodist Episcopal Churches. 162
Methodist Protestant Churches 168
Mexican War
102
Midland City
203.
278
Military Committee 1862. 106
Military History
101
Military Record, State 50
Military Warrants
.79,
292
Mills
247, 258. 264, 277, 309
318
Ministerial Lands
56
Missionaries, Early 3.3
Modern Woodmen of America 215
Moravian Grant
5.5
Morgan Scare
109
Morgantown
274
Morrisville
319
Mt. Pleasant
284,
327
Murder Story
130
Mutual Insurance Association
228
N
Natural Features of the County
51
New Antioch-
Churches
173, 184
Early Industries
273
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Pioneers
280
Schools
143.
Timber
280
HISTORICAL INDEX.
New Antioch-
Location
273
Lodges
212
Physicians
201.
203
New Burlington-
Beginning of 200
Business Interests 261
Churches
156
Growth
200
Location
260
Lodges
208
Physicians
201, 203
Population
262
L'nderground Railroad
201
New Vienna-
Bank
3.27
Churches
166. 177,
186
272
Grange
243
Improvements
273
Location
221
Lodges
2019
211
Newspapers
187
Officers
273
Physicians
199. 20.3
Population
273
Schools
143.
272
Settlement
271
Newspapers
187
Normal School
143
Northwest Territorial Legislature.
First
40
Northwest Territory
33. 30
O
Oakland
203, 262
Odd Fellows
20
Ogden
160, 161
250
Ohio Admitted as a State
46
Ohio Land Company Purchase
52
Ohio, Natural Features 00
Ohio Politics
57
Ohio, Situation of 00
Ohio. Streams and Lakes
Order of the Eastern Star 207
Ordinance of 1787
37
Organization of Counties.
Organization of the County
61
P
Pansy
314
Patrons of Husbandry
242
Peyton Murder Case
130
Physicians of Clinton County 195
Pioneer Schools
1.39
Plank Roads
92
Politics in Ohio. 57
Pontiac's Conspiracy 36
Population in 1800
Port William ---
Bank
226
Beginning of
283
Business Interests 283
Churches
168
Early Industries 283
Lodges
.212, 214, 212
20.3
Physicians
201,
Presbyterian Church
176
Present School System 140
President Judges
138
Press, the
187
Probate Court
127
Probate Judges
1.3.8
Progress Club
231
Proposed Railroads
97
Prosecuting Attorneys
138
Public Utilities, Valuation of.
358
Q
Quebec Act
3.6
R
Railroads
21
Railroads, Proposed
97
Recorders, County
Reesville-
Churches
169, 300
Early Business Interests
3.0.0
Location
3.000
Lodges
300
Physicians
201
Platting of
3010
School
300
Refugee Tract
54
Related State History
3.3
Representative Government 39
Representatives
Revolutionary Period
36
Revolutionary War
101
Richland Township --
Paris
318
Area. Changes in
201
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Wilmington-
Industries
340
Laying Out of. .65.
3.27
Library, 1816
343
Wilson Township-
Churches
100
Drafts
107, 110
Election, First 325
Enlistments
109
3.23
Location
3.25
Natural Features
3,25
Manufacturing Interests 340
Memorial Building 3.30
Military Band
340
Name
65
Newspapers
18Z
Official Roster
3.28
Official Salaries 328
Officials, Present 3.28
Physicians
195.
203
Plat of
3.27
Postoffice
3.43
Reading Room, 1866 344
Roster of Officials 3.28
Schools
148
Shadagce Square
354
Street Paving
339
Walker Memorial Building 339
Waterworks
3.33
Wilson Flag Tower
340
Wilmington College
143
Wilmington Woman's Civic League
230
Wilson Family 85
Library, 1899
3-15
Library Association
344
Light Arches
3.3.8
Lighting Plants
335
Location as County Seat
64, 327
Lodges
205, 209, 216, 219
Lot Sales
Officers, Present 3.25
Petition for
323
Pioneers
322
Settlement
322
Streams
325
Woman's Christian Temperance
L'nion
232
Woman's Relief Corps.
233
Women's Clubs
2.20)
Y
Yani Club 232
.
Z
Zane Sections
50
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Erection of
.66.
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
A
Alexander, Isaac
958
Allen, Charles F.
508
Allison, Frank O.
283
Allison, Jesse
701
Antram, Arthur D
429
Antram, Frank W
677
Antram, John S.
452
Atley. C. Allen.
801
Austin, George M., M. D.
395
B
Babb, James W
20%
Bailey, Albert 1
564
Bailey, Clifton D. 368
Bailey, Frank R
890
Bailey, Luther G.
794
Baldwin, Frank M., M. D.
596
Baldwin, Marion
491
Bales, Emery R
371
Bales. Thomas M
542
Ballard. Joseph F
671
Barns. George C
5.21
Barns, Howard
5.21
Batson, Jesse G.
765
Baugh. Carleton L
251
Baughman, James W
Benlehr, Earl W 629
Benlehr. George H. 877
Bennett, James F.
752
Berlin. William
531
Bernard, Christopher
C
Bernard, Elijah Q
Bernard. Evert
862
Bernard. George W
215
Bernard. James E
478
Bernard. James K
776
Bernard. John W
755
Bernard, Milton 821
Bernard, Thomas F
8.04
Black, P. B.
775
Blackburn. Thomas H
819
Bloom, Ethelbert
691
Bobbitt. George
A
749
Bond. Dana C
746
Boring. Absalom
590
Boring, John C.
902
Boring, William M
773
Bosworth, Charles M 608
Botts, Charles
410
Boulware, Ray O 209
Bowman. Aaron 676
Boyland, Cary W
Brackney. John
271
Brady, Amos W
530
Brandenburg. Frank
871
Brandenburg. Lawrence
W
898
Brennan. John
674
Briggs, Prof. Abel C. 808
Briggs, Eldorado, M. D. 436
Bright, William M. 539
Brindle. Ora M.
779
Brown. Henry M., M. D. 221
Brown, Otto G.
417
Brown, Stephen C
223
Buckley. Stephen P 501
Buckley, William M
580
Burk. William W.
780
C
Cammack, Charles H
824
Carey, Enoch
712
Carey. James E.
695
Carey, William
557
Carey. Zimri H.
754
Carnahan, William H
169
Carpenter, Samuel
528
Carroll. George F
5.45
Carter, Elmer
638
Cartwright. Frank B
907
Cartwright, Henry G.
486
Cashman, James W
421
Cashman, John C.
626
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX:
Jay, David H 866
Jenkins, Charles E
856
Johnson, Alfred 498
Johnson, Charles
913
Johnson, Edward 802
Johnson, Flavius J 923
Johnson, John W 21Z
Johnson, Lemuel A. 858
Johnson, Otho
565
Joiner, Andrew J 848
Jones, Henry De Bolt
140
K
Katzenmeyer, Harold E
Kaufman, Isidor 589
Kester. C. D.
639
Kester, Daniel O. 857
King, George S 566
King, Leo F
823
Kline. Willard
Kuchler, Joseph
200
L
Lacy, Robert J 467
Lair, Isaac N. 397
Lamb, W. H.
253
Langdon, John P.
45.3
Lawhead, Robert C.
893
Lazenby, Rezin J.
446
Leaming, Peter D.
224
Leininger, John
426
Leonard, Arth
96]
Lewellen, Henry L
509
Miller, Frank L 390
Miller, Isaac C. 84Z
Miller. Thurman 401
Mills, Albert H 50%,
Mills, Warren W
932
Lieurance, James
907
1.inkhart. Charles
Linton, Edwin C 5.24
Linton, Fred W 020
5.00
Lorish, Logan S. 846
Lundy, Homer J 669
Mc
McCoy, Hugh 859
McCoy. Margaret E 242
McC'une, Howard
830
McDonald, Frank 6:45
McFadden, John C.
Mckay, Clarence H 203
Mckay, Edwin F 678
Mckay. Howard F 795
Mckay, Tilghman 616
Mckay. Welden N. Z10
Mckenzie, John B., M. D. 728
Mckenzie, Stanley T 872
Mckibben. W. Jeff 644
McMillan, Horace G ..
Mc Millan. Thomas H.
208
McMillan, Walter T.
McPherson, Elmer T. 870
McQuillan. William 81.3
McVey. Alfred I
474
M
Madden, Clinton 792
Madden, Moses G. 852
Madden, Rachel 85,2
Madden, Solomon 852
Manmeisel, George 518
Martin, Frank J 933
Martin, Grant
051
Mathew, John
823
Matthews, John 227
Matthews, ()scar I 809
Miars. Henry B 935
Miller, Claud B. 963
Miller, Darius
J.
432
Miller. Ephraim K
85.3
Lewis, Ellis A. 5:04
Licurance, Amos 11 415
Lieurance, David 546
Lieurance. Frank W 479
Mitchell. Frederick D).
Mock. J. Willard.
Monfort, Rutherford B
375
Moon, Burgess J ._
503
Moon, Darius H
5032
Moon. Lindley M
413
Moon, Rolla E 2
Moon, Walter I
Moore, John B.
Moore, N. Huston 320
Moore, Orville B
Moore, William ( 831
Moorman, William D
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Littleton, Harry L.
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Morgan, Ulysses M 576
Morris, Frank H 692
Morris, Iemeil B. 570
Morris, Seymour C 71Z
Mulford. Francis D.
928
Mulvihill, Patrick 869
Murphy. David A. 931
Murphy, David F.
Murphy, Frank 586
Murphy, Seneca
Murphy, Timothy M.
8AZ
Murrell, U'lysses G., M. D. 464
Myers, John T.
864
Myers, Sidney D., V. S.
380
N
Nible. William D 954
Nickerson, Harry 807
Noftsger, C. M.
419
Noftiger, Gerard B.
458
Norman, John H., M. D. 507
Noscar, Benjamin D. A
412
O
Ogleshee, Albert
607
Oglesbee, Alonzo 285
Oglesbee, Arthur
274
Oglesbee, Granville M. 812
Oglesbee. Woodson
282
Oren, A.
820
Oren. Jesse X
936
Osborn, Walter S. 766
Owens, Robert Livingston
3.8.6
Owsley. John J.
571
P
Page, Elmer E
916
l'agett. Philip E. 65Z
Parlett. William C 650
Parr. Charles
833
Pate, Andrew J.
602
Patterson, H. B.
593
Pavey, Charles T
548
Pavey, Gilbert A
518
Pavey, William M., Sr
516
Peelle, Edward
937
Peelle, Reuben B
Z58
Penn, Burch T.
699
Pennington, Harley D.
950
Penquite, Alfred S. 44.3
Pidgeon, Henry H. 256
Plummer, G. H. 254
Polk, David K. 944
Polk, John J. 957
Pond. Frank B 623
Pond. William A Z63
Powell. Elisha
918
Price, Henry ( 57Z
Price. Moody H. 652
Pyle, Francis H
788
R
Rankin, William T. 850
Rannells, Charles A.
5.49
Rannells, John L
235
Reardon, John C.
299
Record, Lafe
6.56
Regan, Patrick
881
Regan, Thomas 831
Renner. F. Marshall 6.87
Reynolds, William N 899
Rhonemus, Frank
619
Rice, George M
399
Richards, J. M. 947
Richardson, Charles P. 384
Richardson, Jonathan M 481
Richardson, Walter G. ZOZ
Riley, Lewis M.
779
Roads, Thomas H.
915
Roberts, Nathan
864
Robinson, Daniel A. J 501
Robinson, Joseph W. 895
Rolston, James A.
920
Rolston, John R.
928
Rombach, Matthew
496
Ross, John R.
843
Ruble, William K., M. D.
558
Rude, Felix
821
Rude, Peter
815
Runk, W. P.
243
Runyan, Charles S
965
Russell, Addison P., Lit. D.
S
Saville, Frank D.
851
Scott, William T., M. D.
560
Seitz, John I ..
595
Sewell, Charles W
144
Shank, Edwin R.
5.37
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Shank, Lucius D.
875
Swingley. Henry I
963
Sharp, Elmer W 5,23
Shidaker, Andrew R 690
Shrieves, Elizabeth, M. D. Z32
Skimming, Charles W
641
Skimming, Samuel H.
959
Tedrick, Isaiah
818
Tedrick, William T
818
Telfair, Clarence T
892
Telfair, John B
816
Terrell. Charles E
6.82
Terrell, Edward E
515
Smith, Simeon G
420
Terrell, Hugh E 296
Smith, William E 381
Smithson, Charles I.
218
Thatcher, Hon. Oliver J
896
Snider. J. M
887
Thompson, Clayton A
952
Snowden, Alton I.
800
Snowden, Seth R 65J
Snyder, Philip
465
Thorpe, Rodney T 927
South, Thomas
377
Tilton, John
817
Toohey, Michael 863
Sparks, Josiah W
376
Townsend. Oliver J. 693
Speer, John
686
Spence, Friend P
628
Spickard, Lewis J., M. D. 850
Spinks, Martin J
46.3
Sprague, Alfred
556
Stanfield, Robert T 70.3
Starbuck, Arthur W. 382
Starbuck, Asa
696
Starbuck, Marion R 572
Starbuck. William A 573
Steele, Harry D
922
Steele, William B
884
Stephens, Dennis
805
Stephens, John
435
85.5
Stewart, William
734
Stieritz, Henry
238
Stieritz, Jacob
739
Stieritz, Godfrey
739
Stieritz, David
739
Stingley, Alvin
658
Stingley, Calvin
659
Stingley, J. Albert
670
Stingley, William A.
772
Stoltz, Fred
431
Stoltz, Jacob
956
Stotler, Elijah P.
6.00
Stroup, John H
698
Stuntz, Harry, M. D. 514
Summers, David E.
713
Summers, Isaac R
726
U
Underwod, Zephaniah
920
U'rton, Ephraim H.
926
V
Vandervort, John W.
587
Vandervort, Lorin A
433
Vandervort, Nicholas W 372
Van Pelt, Charles W
6.88
Van Pelt, Elijah
Van Pelt, Milner 210
Venneman. Henry 455
Villars, J. Oscar
789
Villars. James
385
W
Wade, Charles
955
Walker, Mrs. Mary 500
Wall, Robert D. 744
Ward, Charles A
4.62
Warnock, Henry
90G
T
Smith, Arthur T.
570
Smith, Dr. Frank R.
374
Smith, Harley H.
685
Smith, James E
720
Smith, John Q.
Terrell. James H. 200
Thompson. William F
680
Thorpe, G. P.
378
6.34
Tribbet, L. H. 562
Trickey, Eberle D. 584
Truitt, John F.
602
Turner, Michael
839
Spahr. J. Lester
391
Townsend, Orland Tribbet, Clayton A., M. D.
931
Stewart, Philip A.
939
Symons, John
829
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BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Watkins, Raymond, M. D. 493
Williams, Francis R 683
Webb, James C.
716
Williams, Fred' G., D. D. S. 546
Weltz, Leo 747
Williams, Joseph W. 904
West, Allen M. 442
Wilson, Andrew J
484
West, Judge Edward J 672
Wilson, Lewis C. 876
West, Prof. Edwin P 404
Wilson. Samuel 934
West, Emerson B 881
Wire. George W., M. D. 454
West, J. Frank 635
Wishcy. Henry C. 706
West, Col. Owen 632
Wood, Will B 598
West, Owen A., M. D.
520
Woodmansee, Hoy M
450
Whinery, Allen
529
Woods, Henry A. 828
Whinery, Lewis 499
Woods, Robert E 786
Whinery, Lewis P 447
Worrell, George P
633
Whitacre, Emmett B. 873
Worrell, James G.
604
White, Robert W 617
Wright, Miss Ellen C
480
Wical, John B
806
Wright, H. Doyle
814
Wielert, George
845
Wright, Prof. Hugh J 746
Williams, Alfred J
440
Wright, Laurence G. 806
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CHAPTER I.
RELATED STATE HISTORY.
The first white men to set foot upon the Northwest Territory were French traders and missionaries under the leadership of La Salle. This was about the year 1670, and subsequent discoveries and explorations in this region by the French gave that nation practically undisputed possession of all the territory organized in 1787 as the Northwest Territory. It is true that the English colonies of Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts claimed that their charters extended their grants westward to the Mississippi river. However, France claimed this territory and successfully maintained possession of it until the close of the French and Indian War in 1763. At that time the treaty of Paris trans- ferred all of the French claims east of the Mississippi river to England as well as all claims of France to territory on the mainland of North America. For the next twenty years the Northwest Territory was under the undisputed control of England, but became a part of the United States by the treaty which terminated the Revolutionary War in 1783. Thus the flags of three nations have floated over the territory now comprehended within the present state of Ohlo-the tri-color of France, the union jack of England and the stars and stripes of the United States,
History will record the fact that there was another nation, however, which claimed possession of this territory and, while the Indians can hardly be called a nation. yet they made a gallant fight to retain their hunting grounds. The real owners of this territory struggled against heavy odds to maintain their supremacy and it was not until the battle of Tippecanoe, in the fall of 1811, that the Indians gave up the unequal struggle. Tecumseh, the Washington of his race, fought fiercely to save this territory for his people, but the white man finally overwhelmed him, and "Lo, the poor Indian" was pushed westward across the Mississippi. The history of the Northwest Territory is full of the bitter fights which the Indian waged in trying to drive the white man out. and the defeat which the Indians inflicted on General St. Clair on November 4, 1792, will go down in the annals of American history as the worst defeat which an American army ever suffered at the hands of the Indians. The greatest battle which has ever been fought in the United States against the Indians occurred in the state of Oblo. This was the battle of Fallen Timbers, and occurred August 20, 1704, the scene of the battle being within the present county of Defiance. After the close of the Revolutionary War the Indians, urged on by the British, caused the settlers in the Northwest Territory continua) trouble and defeated every detachment sent against them previous to their defeat by Gen. Anthony Wayne at the battle of Fallen Timbers In 1794. Although there was some trouble with the Indians after this time, they never offered serious resistance after this memorable defeat until the fall of 1811, when Gen. William Henry Harrison completely routed them at the battle of Tippecanoe.
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