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GREENE COUNTY COURT HOUSE, XENIA.
HISTORY
OF
GREENE COUNTY OHIO
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
HON. M. A. BROADSTONE Editor-in-Chief
VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
1918 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana
Gc 977.101 G83h V.I
DEDICATION. This work is respectfully dedicated to THE PIONEERS, long since departed. May the memory of those who laid down their burdens by the wayside ever be fragrant as the breath of summer flowers, for their toils and sacrifices have made Greene County a garden of sun- shine and delights.
1324581 PUBLISHERS' PREFACE
History is a systematic record of past events; especially the record of events in which man has taken part. "The perfect historian," says Mac- aulay, "is he in whose work the character and spirit of the age is exhibited in miniature." A glance at the Table of Contents of this present "History of Greene County" will disclose a design on the part of the publishers of this work to set out here a systematic record of the events which have led up to the present state of development of this favored region, beginning with the time when white men first set foot on this territory, and in carrying out this design the historian has sincerely sought to preserve something of "the character and spirit of the age," so that there shall here be perpetuated a faithful chronicle of the aspirations and the efforts of the pioneers, at the same time tracing and recording the social, religious, educational, political and industrial progress of the community from its inception. The context will reveal the sincerity of purpose upon which the motive for the present publication is based; a purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of perpetuation for the information of coming generations and which will serve as links uniting the present to the past. To those who have so faithfully labored to this end, the publishers desire to extend their thanks. An expression of obligation also is due to the people of Greene county for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this under- taking, and for their many services rendered in behalf of the historiographer. It is believed that it will be found that this unselfish collaboration has secured to Greene county a history that will stand as a standard in this field for the next generation and as an authentic guide to future generations.
In passing, it is believed that it will not be regarded as out of place for the publishers conscientiously to claim that in placing this work before the people of Greene county they faithfully have carried out the plan as out- lined in the prospectus upon which the work is based. Every biographical sketch in the work has been submitted to the party interested, for correc- tion, and therefore any error of fact, if there be any, is due solely to the person for whom the sketch was prepared. Confident that our effort to please will meet the approbation of the public, we are,
Respectfully,
THE PUBLISHERS.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I-RELATED STATE HISTORY.
33 In This Chapter There is Set Out Something of the General History of Ohio From the Days the First White Man Set Foot Upon the Northwest Territory Down to the Present Day, All Briefly Summarized With a View to an Intro- duction to the Story of the Opening to Settlement of the Region - Now Com- prised Within the Bounds of Greene County.
CHAPTER II-TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF GREEN COUNTY . . . Location and Boundaries of Greene County-Valleys of the Little Miami River and of Beaver Creek-Presence of Cliff Limestone-Elevation-Geological Series -The Gorge of the Little Miami-Glacial Drift-Water Supply-Source of the Famous Yellow Spring-A Word Concerning the Scenic Beauties of This Region.
59
CHAPTER III-THE MOUND BUILDERS OF GREENE COUNTY
72
Evidences of the Former Presence Here of a Race That Left Enduring Trace of Its Existence-Probable Methods of Mound Builders-Seventy-six Material Remains of the Operations of This Prehistoric People in This County-Review of These Evidences by Prof. Warren K. Moorhead, a Former Greene County Man and a Pioneer in the Movement to Preserve From Obliteration the Last Evidences of This Departed Race.
CHAPTER IV-THE INDIANS AND OLD CHILLICOTHE.
80
Here is Found the Story of the Wresting From an Arrested and Non-progressive Race the Fair Lands Contained Within Greene County, With Particular Refer- ence to the Various Campaigns Against the Indians That Centered Around the Indian Village or Chillicothe, Now Marked by the Presence of the Hamlet Known as Oldtown, Together With a Brief History of the Shawnees and Special Refer- ence to Tecumseh, the Last Great Leader of His Tribe-Daniel Boone-Dar- nell's Leap for Life-The Story of Jennie Cowan, and Other Incidents of the Days of Indian Occupancy.
CHAPTER V-COUNTY ORGANIZATION
96
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Act Erecting Greene County a Civic Unit of the New State of Ohio Was En- acted on March 24, 1803, But Did Not Become Operative Until May I Following, Which Date Therefore May Be Regarded as the Birthday of Greene County- Boundaries of the New County When Set Off, the Same Extending to the State Line on the North-Further Boundary Limitations-Organization of County Gov- ernment-Location of the County Seat and How the Same Came to Get Its Greek Name-Establishment of County Government and Early Acts of the Court- First Meeting of the Board of Commissioners-Simple Needs of the Early Set- tlers and a Contrast of Conditions Then and Now-Population Statistics.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI-PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF GREENE COUNTY.
I22 Building In Which the First Business Connected With the Establishment of Gov- ernment In Greene County Was Transacted Was a Little Log Cabin In the Woods -Business Later Carried On In Pioneer Tavern In Xenia Until In Due Time a Regular "Temple of Justice" Was Erected, This Being Succeeded After Nearly Forty Years By a Second and That, in Turn, by the Present Handsome Court House a Half Century Later-Jail, Infirmary and Children's Home.
CHAPTER VII-ROSTER OF COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS. 157
In This Chapter Will Be Found the Names of All Who Have Served Greene County In an Official Capacity Since the Days of the Beginning of the County Government, Together With Personal Reference to Many of Them, This List Including Also Those Who Have Represented the County in the State House of Representatives and In the State Senate, Concluding With the Roster of the Present County Officials and the Salaries Attaching to Each Office.
CHAPTER VIII-OLD SETTLERS AND PIONEER LIFE. 169 Coming of the First White Men to This Region and the Gradual Settlement of the Country Hereabout With Permanent Settlers-Stories of Pioneer Life and of Conditions of Pioneer Living, With Personal References to Many of the Original Settlers of the County and a Recountal of Typical Experiences Undergone By Those Who Made This Region a Fit Habitation and Abiding Place for Those Who Should Come After.
CHAPTER IX-TOWNSHIPS OF GREENE COUNTY I89
Territory That Composed This County in 1803 Was Divided Into Four Townships, Which, In Good Time, As the Country Became More Populous, Became Divided and Subdivided Until Now There are Twelve Townships, the Last of Which Was Set Off as a Separate Entity In 1858-Something Relating to Township Govern- ment and the Multiplicity of Officials Required to Carry on the Affairs of the Same, Together With a Roster of the Present Officials of the Various Townships of the County.
CHAPTER X-MAD RIVER AND VANCE TOWNSHIPS. 193 Two of the Townships That Many Years Ago Were Lost to Greene County, the First-Named Having Originally Carried the Limits of This County Northward to the Lake-Mad River Became a Part of Champaign County When That County Was Organized in 1805 and Vance Township Was Lost to Clark County When the Latter Came Into Being in 1817.
CHAPTER XI-BEAVERCREEK TOWNSHIP 204 This Is the Township That May Be Referred to As the Cradle of Greene County, For It Was In the Log Cabin of Owen Davis, Then Occupied by Peter Borders, In This Township, That the Official Meeting Was Held Which Set Up a Form of Government for the New County in 1803-Changes in Boundaries-Topography and Drainage-Early Settlement and Tales of the Pioneers-Agricultural Inter- ests, Towns and Villages and Other Notes.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XII-CAESARSCREEK TOWNSHIP 224 One of the Original Four Townships Erected at the Time Greene County Set Up In Business-Boundary Changes-Topography and Drainage-Early Settlers- First Election-Growth and Development-Agricultural Interests-the Village of Paintersville.
CHAPTER XIII-SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP 238 Also One of Greene County's Original Townships, Its Present Boundaries Were Not Finally Established Until 1856-Topography and Drainage-Early Settlers- First Election-Sugar-Making In the Old Days-Agricultural Interests-Village of Bellbrook and the Famous "Magnetic" Springs.
CHAPTER-XIV -- XENIA TOWNSHIP 27I
Central Township In the County and the Seat of the County Seat, This Town- ship Did Not Come Into Being Until More Than Two Years After the Four Original Townships Had Been Erected-Confusion Regarding Original Limits- Present Boundaries-Topography and Drainage-First Election and Early Enu- meration of "Freemen Over the Age of Twenty-one"-the Village of Oldtown.
CHAPTER XV-BATH TOWNSHIP 282 Pursuant to an Order of the Commissioners Under Date of March 3, 1807, This Township Was Organized at an Election Held on the Following April 29, and Retained Its Original Boundaries Until Miami Township Was Cut Off From It In the Summer of 1808, Also Losing Further Territory When Clark County Was Created in 1817-Topographical Features-Early Settlers-Some Sidelights On the History of the Township-the Village of Byron-Miami Conservancy Dis- trict and What the Creation of the Huffman Retarding Basin May Mean for the Apparently Doomed Village of Osborn-Fairfield and the Wright Aviation Field.
CHAPTER XVI-MIAMI TOWNSHIP 296
Organized in 1808, This Township Lost Some Territory When Ross Township Was Created In 1811, and a Further Stretch of Territory When Clark County Came Into Being-Boundaries and Topographical Features-Early Settlers and Tales of the Pioneers-A Communist Settlement-Agricultural Conditions-The Village of Clifton, the Antioch Bone Cave and Other Notes.
CHAPTER XVII-ROSS TOWNSHIP 309
Since the Date of Its Organization In 1811 This Township Has Undergone Three Changes of Boundary Line, Its Present Delimitation Having Been Established In 1853 When New Jasper Township Became a Separate Organization-Geographical Features-Early Settlers-Agricultural Conditions-Grape Grove and Gladstone.
CHAPTER XVIII-SILVERCREEK TOWNSHIP 317 Since Its Organization In 1811 This Township Has Twice Suffered a Loss of Ter- ritory, a Slice Having Been Sacrificed to New Jasper Township In 1853, and Another Portion to Jefferson Township In 1858-Topographical Features-Early Settlers-Pioneer 'Reminiscences-Transportation-Early Industries-Schools and Churches and Other Notes.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XIX-CEDARVILLE TOWNSHIP 324
First Effort On the Part of the People of This Part of the County to Erect a New Township in 1848 Was Met With Such Determined Resistance That It Was Not Until Two Years Later, In 1850, That the Continued Effort Was Successful and the Boundaries Then Established Have Remained Unchanged-Topographical Features-Early Settlers-Agricultural Conditions and Other Notes-Mt. Ida, a "Paper" Village.
CHAPTER XX-NEW JASPER TOWNSHIP 334 Formerly a Part of Five Different Townships, This Township Came Into Being in 1858 In Response to a Petition of One Hundred and Twenty-eight Residents, Whose Petition Set Out In a Curious Roundabout Way the Boundaries They Wished Established for Their New Township-Topographical Features-Early Settlers-Agricultural Conditions-the Village of New Jasper and Stringtown.
CHAPTER XXI-SPRING VALLEY TOWNSHIP 340 Prior to Its Creation In 1856, This Township Had Been a Part of three Other Townships-Original Boundaries Unchanged-Topography and Drainage-Early Settlers-Agricultural Conditions-the Village of Spring Valley-Other Efforts at Town Making That Did Not Prove Quite So Successful.
CHAPTER XXII-JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP 351
.. Last Township In the County to Be Organized Was Set Off In the Summer of 1858 on Petition of Some of the Leading Citizens of Bowersville and a Majority of the Householders In the Territory Described In the Petition-Topography and Agricultural Conditions-Early Settlers-the Village of Bowersville.
CHAPTER XXIII-THE TOWN OF CEDARVILLE 362
As the "Village of Milford," Cedarville Became an Officially Recognized Social and Commercial Center in the Summer of 1816 and Has Thus Had More Than a Century of Development-Early Commercial Enterprises and Industrial Develop- ment-Business Interests In 1874-the Town In 1881-Development of the Lime Industry-Schools, Lodges, Churches and Banks-Famous Old Fire Department -Municipal Development, Public Library and Commercial Directory for 1818.
CHAPTER XXIV-THE CITY OF YELLOW SPRINGS 376 Seat of Antioch College and of the Famous Spring Which Gave It the Name It Bears, This Center Dates From the Establishment of a Settlement There By a Son of Owen Davis the Pioneer Miller and the Postoffice at That Point Has an Unbroken Record From May 10, 1805-Tavern Licensed to Do Business There In That Year-the Coming of the Railroad and the Story of the Town During the Days When the Yellow Spring Attracted Health Seekers From Far Distant Points-Commercial Directory of Today.
CHAPTER XXV-THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN. 387
Second Largest City In Greene County Received Its First Official Recognition With the Filing of a Plat of the Town on May 31, 1816-Additions to Town Since Then-Jamestown In 1831-Summary of Business Interests -- Reminiscences of W. A. Paxon-Cyclone of 1884-Destructive Fires-Municipal Development and Commercial Directory.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXVI-THE DOOMED TOWN OF OSBORN 398 Beginning of the End of a Town Which Has Had a Period of Development Covering a Period of Nearly Seventy Years-Osborn Platted on May 20, 1851, Enjoyed Normal Development Until the Creation of the Huffman Retarding Basin as a Part of the Conservancy Board's Flood Prevention Plans Made It Clear That the Town Would Be Doomed to Inundation During Flood Periods, Since Which Time Property Is Being Taken Over With a View to the Abandon- ment of the Village.
CHAPTER XXVII-AGRICULTURE 404 In This Chapter There Is Set Out Something of the Conditions That Confronted the Pioneer Who Settled Here With a View to Carving a Farm Out of the Forests and How Those Conditions Were Met and Overcome-Changes Time Has Wrought-Statistics Relating to Crop and Live-Stock Production In Greene County.
CHAPTER XXVIII-SCHOOLS OF GREENE COUNTY 425 From the Days of the Little Log School House at the Cross Roads to the Pres- ent Time of the Highly Organized High Schools and Consolidated Rural Schools There Have Been Many Changes In Conditions and Methods and These Are Briefly Set Out Here-Qualifications of Teachers-Summary of School Sta- tistics by Towns and Townships-Miscellaneous Statistics and Some Tales of Pioneer Schools-Xenia City Schools.
CHAPTER XXIX-HIGHER INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING IN GREENE COUNTY
452 Almost From the Day of the Beginning of a Social Order Here Greene County People Have Been Properly Mindful of Its Institutions of Higher Learning, a Seminary Having Been Established at Xenia as Early as 1805-Bellbrook Academy -Xenia Female Academy-Xenia Female Seminary and Collegiate Institute -- Xenia Female College-Xenia College-Antioch College-Cedarville College- Xenia Theological Seminary-Wilberforce University.
CHAPTER XXX-CHURCHES OF GREENE COUNTY 484 Not Long After the Beginning of Settlement In This Valley of the Little Miami Pioneer Churches Came to Be Organized and In Many Instances These Pioneer Organizations Have Been Maintained to the Present Day-Of the More Than One Hundred Churches Organized In Greene County at Least Twenty-five Have Been Abandoned With the Passing of the Years and the Changing Conditions of Living-History of Most of the Churches of the County That Still Maintain an Effective Organization.
CHAPTER XXXI-THE PRESS FOR A HUNDRED YEARS 544 First Newspaper In Greene County Was The Ohio Vehicle, Established In January, 1814, Since Which Time There Have Been Many Papers, Some of Which Have Long Been Forgotten-History of Greene County Journalism Replete With Interesting Stories, Some of Which Have Been Preserved by the Historian In This Chapter.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXXII-THE BENCH AND BAR OF GREENE COUNTY 565
Fruitless Task to Attempt to Classify the Lawyers of the County on the Basis of Their Respective Abilities and Any Discussion of the Early Lawyers of the County Would Be Incomplete That Did Not Make Mention of the Conditions Under Which They Practiced-Associate Judges of the Day Long Gone-Lead- ing Lawyers of the Past Generation-Judicial System Prior to 1851-First Court of Greene County-Common Pleas Court-the Probate Court-Prosecuting At- torneys-Roster of Greene County Lawyers-County Law Library.
CHAPTER XXXIII-THE MEDICAL PROFESSION 588 Back in 1830 Physicians Were Subjected to a Special Tax and From an Ancient Document of That Period There is Obtained a Roster of the Physicians Then Practicing In Greene ounty, Including Some Others That Were Listed as "Steam Doctors"-Something Regarding the Amazing Prevalence of the "Patent Medicine" Habit Back In the Old Days-Some of the Early Physicians of This County, With Brief Biographies of Many of Them, and a List of the Physicians That Have Practiced In This County From the Days of the Beginning-Medical Officers' Reserve Corps-Greene County Medical Society.
CHAPTER XXXIV-FRATERNAL AND BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS .... 608 Here Are Found the Names and Something Regarding the Organization of the Various Fraternal and Benevolent Organizations Carrying on Their Work In This County, Including the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Junior Order of United American Mecha- nics, the Daughters of America, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
CHAPTER XXXV-LITERARY, SOCIAL, TEMPERANCE AND PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS 631 Woman's Club, Organized in Xenia In the Spring of 1867, Claims Precedence as the First Woman's Club Organized In the United States-Something Relating to Other Social and Kindred Organizations In Greene County, Including the Junior Woman's Club, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Sons of Veterans.
CHAPTER XXXVI-MILITARY HISTORY 646 Going Back to the Days of the American Revolution, Greene County Has Had Par- ticipants In Every War Waged by the United States Since That Period and This Chapter Sets Out at Some Length Something of the Details of That Service, With Particular Reference to the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the Present World War, With a Roster of Those Who Had Entered the Latter Service Up to April 1, 1918.
CHAPTER XXXVII-BANKS AND BANKING. 676 Herein Is Set Out Something of the History of Banking In This County, With Reference to the Days of the Old "Wild Cat" Money and a Brief History of the Several Banking Institutions Now Doing Business In the County.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXXVIII-TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAYS AND RAILWAYS ... 687 One of the First Problems That Confronted the Pioneer Was the Building of Roads Through the Wilderness and the Question of Transportation Ever Since Has Been an Important One-Mileage of Roads by Townships-Toll Roads of Another Day-Something About Road Laws-the Coming of the Railroads and the Later Coming of the Electric Railways.
CHAPTER XXXIX-THE CITY OF XENIA 701 County Seat of Greene County Was Laid Out as the Seat of Local Justice In the Fall of 1803 and Has Ever Since Had a Steady and Substantial Growth- Review of Conditions In 1811 as Recalled by an Old Settler-Early Commercial Enterprises-Incorporation of the Village In 1817-Later Development, With a Review of Industrial and Commercial Conditions and Municipal Development, Together With a Commercial Directory for the Year 1918.
CHAPTER XL-SOME GREENE COUNTY CITIZENS OF A PAST GEN- ERATION 755
Herein Are Set Out Brief Biographies of Some of the Men Who Have in Days Past Helped to Add to the Fame of the Name of Greene County, Including the names of Whitelaw Reid, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Coates Kinney, Thomas Barlow Walker, John Little, Benjamin Whiteman, William Maxwell and John Paul.
CHAPTER XLI-SIDELIGHTS ON THE HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY ..... 763 Miscellaneous Facts Relating to the History of the County, Including an In- teresting Letter of 1800, the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, the First and Last Hanging In the County, the Inspiration of "Sheridan's Ride," a Heretofore Unpublished Poem of T. Buchanan Read, the Story of the First Piano Manufactured In the County, the Tale of the Opening of Greene Street, Some Legislative Acts of Importance to the County, Some Facts Relating to the Saloons of the County, Old Marriage Permits, Lincoln in Xenia In 1861, an Old-Time Fiddler, "The Rented Farm," a Poem, and Lastly, the Study of Biography.
HISTORICAL INDEX
A
"A Century of Service"
511
Adams, Zina B 389
Agriculture
404-424
Agricultural Statistics.
.215, 234,
256, 304, 315, 337, 344, 355, 404
Alexander, John
580, 703
Alexander, William
111, 567, 580
Alpha, Village of
218
Amusements of the Pioneers.
187
Antioch College
459
Armstrong, Rev. Robert ___ 104, 178,
243, 329, 485, 771
Associate Judges
566
Aviation Field Near Fairfield
294
B
Ball, Dr. Ewlass
594
Banks and Banking
676-686
Baptist Churches
529-532
Bath Township-
Boundaries of
282
Byron, Village of 287
Early Settlement
283
Enumeration of Voters
283
Fairfield, Village of.
291
Flood-Prevention Plans
288
Osborn's Pending Doom
290
Population of
120
Schools
429
Topography and Drainage 282
Transportation
287
When Organized
282
Wright Aviation Field.
294
Battle of Tippecanoe
34
Beatty, William A. 107, 110, 124, . 135, 143, 159, 276, 647, 701, 705
Beavercreek Township-
Agricultural Interests
215
Changes in Boundaries
205
Early. Settlement
208
Population of
120
Railroads
213
Residents of in 1803
212
Schools
429
Topography and Drainage
207
Trebeins
222
Village of Alpha
218
When Organized
204
Zimmermanville
222
Bell, Dr. William
593
Bellbrook Academy
454
Bellbrook, Village of
258
Bench and Bar, The
565-587
Beveridge, Rev. Thomas, D. D .__ 470,
472, 473, 494
Big Four Railroad
696
"Binding Out" of Paupers.
149
Biography, the Value of.
788
Bone Cave Near Clifton
306
Bonner, Frederick
179, 511
Boone, Daniel
85, 87, 169, 177
Boundaries of County
96
Bowersville, Village of.
356
Breeders of Note in Greene County 416
Bridges of County.
692, 725
Bullitt, Capt. Thomas
85
Byron, Village of
287
C
Cabins of the Pioneers
183
Caesarscreek Township-
Agricultural Interests
234
Boundaries of
224
Enumeration in 1804
230
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Caesarscreek Township-
First Settlers 227
Population of
120
Schools
431
Topography and Drainage
227
Village of Paintersville
232
Voters of in 1804.
229
Winchester, Plat of
234
When Organized
224
Caesarsville
101
Campaign Incident of 1840
254
Capitals of Ohio 46
Carson, Rev. James G., D. D .__ 166,
473, 496
Catholic Churches
541
Cattle
419
Cedarville College
466, 505
Cedarville, Town of.
362-375
Cedarville Township-
Agricultural Interests
332
Boundaries of
325
Cedarville, Village of.
332
Early Settlers
328
First Election
327
Mt. Ida, a Memory Only
333
Population of
120
Schools
431
Topography and Drainage
327
Transportation
327
When Organized
324
Champion Fire Company
370
Children's Home, The
153
Cholera Scourge of 1848
712, 727
Christian Churches
537
Churches of Greene County
484-543
Civil War, The
49, 649
Clark, Gen. George Rogers
36, 177
Claysville (Roxanna)
346
Clifton, Village of
306
Clothing of the Pioneers
186
Colleges and Seminaries
452-483
Collier, James. 246, 271, 703 Colored Churches in Greene County 543 Colored Families Effect Settlement_ 339 Commission Government for Xenia 742 Commissioned Officers in Civil War 657 Common Pleas Court 572, 578
Communist Settlement
302
Congress Lands.
53, 206, 238, 279
Connecticut Reserve, The
51
Consolidation of Schools.
433
Constitutional History of Ohio 47
Contrast in Fiscal Affairs 113
Corn Statistics
407
County Auditors
162
County Board of Education 428
County Clerks
161
County Commissioners
159
County Coroners
161
County Draft Board
674
County Finances
112
County Infirmary
149
fourty Officials, Roster of.
157-168
County Organization
96-121
County Poor Fund
153
County Recorders
162
County Seat, Location of.
101
County Superintendent of Schools
425
County Surveyors
158
County Treasurers
161
County's Contribution to War
072
County's Original Boundaries
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