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HISTORY 11
OF
LOGAN COUNTY
AND
OHIO.
Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time. embracing its topography, geological, physical and climatice features; its agricultural, stock-growing, mil- road interests, etc. ; a History of Logan County, giving an account of its aborigi- uat inhabitants, early settlement by the whites, pioneer incidents, is growth, its improvements, organization of the county, its judicial and political history, its business and industries, church- es, schools, etc. ; Biographical Sketches ; Portraits of some of the Early Settlers and Prom- inent Men, etc.
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CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS, 186 DEARBORN STREET. 1880.
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PREFACE.
HE WORK that has engaged our historians, W. H. Perrin and J. H. Battle, for the past three months, is now closed. On these pages they have traced the tedious journey of the pioneer from homes of comfort and refinement to the untouched wilds of the West ; they have noted the rising cabin, the clearing of the forests, the pri- vations of the early settlements, the heroic fortitude with which the pioneer surmounted these obstacles, and the patient toil that has " made the wilderness to blossom like the rose;" they have marked the coming of the school-master, and that greater teacher -- the preacher-the rise of the schoolhouse and church, and their influence in mokling society. This work we have undertaken, in the belief that there is a proper demand that the events which relate to the early times should find a permanent record, and with what fidelity to facts, and with what patience of research this has been accomplished, we shall leave to the judgment of our patrons, in whose keeping the traditions of that day remain, and for whom the work was undertaken.
Advantage has been taken of such historical works as were found; but the chief resource for information has been the traditions which have been handed down from one generation to another. These have generally been verified from other sources; but in some not essential particulars, our writers have been obliged to depend upon tradit'on alone, and may thus have sanctioned some errors. These, we trust, will be found of trifling importance; and we ground our hope of the favorable judgment of the public upon the essential correctness and completeness of this volume as a history of Logan County.
We desire, also, to thank the citizens everywhere in the county, who have so cordially aided our writers in gathering the materials for this volume, and to acknowl- edge our special indebtedness to the gentlemen who have been associated with the various parts of the work; to Hon. JAMES WALKER, of Bellefontaine; Dr. T. L. WRIGHT, of Bellefontaine; J. H. SE CHEVERELL, of Jefferson; and others whose names appear in the body of this work.
October, 1880.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE.
PART I.
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO.
PAGE.
CHAPTER I .- INTRODUCTORY, Topography, theology. Primitive Races, Antiquities, Indian Tribes .. Il
CHAPTER II .- EXPLORATIONS IN THE WEST .. 19
CHAPTER III .- ENGLISH EXPLORATIONS, Traders, French and Indian War in the West, English Possession ........ 37 CHAPTER IV .- PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY, Its Failure, Bou- quef's Expedition. Occupation by the English ... 48
CHAPTER V .- AMERICAN EXPLORATION, Dunmore's War, Campaign of George Rogers Clarke. Land Troubles, spain in the Rovolution, Murder of the Moravian In- dians .. 5º
CHAPTER VI .- AMERICAN OCCUPATION, Indian Claims, Early Land Companies, Compact of 1757. Organization of the Territory. Early American Settlements in the Ohio Valley, First Territorial Officers, Organization of Counties. GO
CHAPTER VIL .- ENDIAN WAR OF 1795, Harmar's Cam- paign, st. Clair's Campaign, Wayne's Campaign. Close of the War. 73
CHAPTER VHI-JAY'S TREATY, The Question of state Rights and National Supremacy, Extension of Ohio Settlements. Land Claims, Spanish Boundary Ques- tion 79
CHAPTER IX .- FIRST TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATIVES in Congress, Division of the Territory, Formation of States, Marietta Settlement, other Settlements, settle- ments in the Western Reserve. Settlement of the C'en- tral Valleys, Further Settlements in the Reserve and elsewhere 5
CHAPTER X .- FORMATION OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT. Ohio a State, the State Capitals, Legislation, the " Sweeping " Resolutions 121
CHAPTER XI .- THE WAR OF 1\12, Growth of the state, Canal, Railroads and other Improvements, Develop- ment of State Resources. 1:27
CHAPTER XII .- MEXICAN WAR, Continued Growth of the State. War of the Rebellion, Ohio's Part in the Conflict. 192
CHAPTER XIII .- OHIO IN THE CENTENNIAL, Address of Edward D. Mansfield. L.L. D., Philadelphia. August 9, 1876 .. 138
CHAPTER XIV -EDUCATION, Early School Laws, Notes, Institutions and Educational Journals, School System, School Funds, Colleges and Universities. 14S
CIIAPTER XV .- AGRICULTURE, Area of the State, Eariy Agrieniture in the West, Markets, Live Stock, Nur- series, Fruits, Ete .; Cereals, Root and Cucurbitaceous Crops. Agricultural Implements, Agricultural Socie- ties, l'omologieal and Horticultural Societies ........ 151
CHAPTER XVI .- CLIMATOLOGY, Outline, Variation in Ohio, Estimate in Degrees, Amount of Variability ..... 163
PART II.
HISTORY OF LOGAN COUNTY.
CHAPTER I .- INTRODUCTORY, Topography, Geological Survey, Early Beginnings and Growth of the Agri- cultural System, Physical and Material Resources of the County 165
CHAPTER IE .- PREHISTORIC RACES, The Monnd Builders, Indian Tribes, Early Wars with the Whites, Lewis- town Reservation, Prominent Characters during the Indian Domination ... 185
CHAPTER III .- THE MIAMI AND MAD RIVER VALLEYS, Incentives to Immigration, The Course of Empire, Set- flements within the Limits of Logan County, Organi zation of Civil Divisions, Institution of Governmental Functions, Public Buildings, Political.
CHAPTER IV .- THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, the Legal Profession
CHAPTER V .- RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Pioneer Preachers, Schools, Statistics, The Newspapers, their Advantages, Railroads 273
CHAPTER VI .- WAR HISTORY, The Early Conflicts, Mexican War, The Late Rebellion, Sketches of the Different Regiments. 291
CHAPTER VII .- LAKE TOWNSHIP, Descriptive, Its Organi- zation, Settlement, Pioneer Industries, Early Priva- tions, Schools, etc. 321
CHAPTER VIII .- BELLEFONTAINE, Beginnings of the Village, Advance of Civilization, Business Prosperity, Growth of Internal Improvements, Schools, Benevo- lent Societies, Churches. 33S
CHAPTER IX .- MIAMI TOWNSHIP, Organization, Terri- torial Changes, Pioneer Civilization, Prominent Char- acters of the Early Community, Churches and Schools. 357 CHAPTER X. - MCARTHUR TOWNSHIP, Introduction, Settlement, Villages, Churches, Geneva College ......... 378
CHAPTER XI .- JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, Topography, Organization as a Civil Division of the County. Promi- nent Citizens, Churches and Schools .. $89
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CHAPTER KHI .- RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, General Char- arteristies, settlement, Villages, Churches, Casualties 432
CHAPTER XJUL .- KUSHI CREEK TOWNSHIP, Boundaries and Topography, The Coming of the Whites, Churches, Pioneer Preachers, Schools, etc ......... ... 444
CHAPTER XIV .- PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, The Early Settle- ment, Social Life in the Backwoods, Industries, Ke- ligions, etc. 156
CHAPTER XV. - ZANE TOWNSHIP, Early Settlement. 1.ifr in the Woods, Pioncer Industries, Growth of Society, Churches and Schools 464
CHAPTER XVI. - HARBISON TOWNSHIP, Indians, Settle- ment. Pioneer schools. Churches, etc. 485
CHAPTER XVII .- MONROE TOWNSHIP, Descriptive and Topographical. Pioneer History, Early Industries. Sehools, Churches, Villages, etc ... 491
CHAPTER XVIII .- BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Incidents, Settlement, Pioneer Hardships, Churches, etc., the Lost Childl.
CHAPTER XIX .- BOKES' CREEK TOWNSHIP, Descriptive. the Whites, Schools and Churches, Villages, etc ......... 506
CHAPTER XX .- UNION TOWNSHIP, Physical Features. Early Settlement, Incidents of Prominent Pioneers. Churches and Schools 519
CHAPTER XXL. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Introduction. the Lewistown Reservation, Settlement, Schools, Churches, etc ... 527
CHAPTER XXII .- PERRY TOWNSHIP, Topography and Description, Settlement, Early Improvements, Re- ligion -. Educational, Towns, cte .. ...... 5:55
CHAPTER XXIII-STOKES TOWNSHIP, The Lewistown Reservoir, Pioneer Settlement, the Warwick Colony. etc.
CHAPTER XXIV. - LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. Topography. Pioneer Schools and Preachers. Geological. West Liberty . . 515
PART III.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
PAGE. Biographies Too Late for Alphabetical Insertion. 553
Bloomfield Township 729
Bokes Creek Township 659
Harrison Township ... 619
Jefferson Township. 739
Lake Township ....
587
Liberty Township
MrArthur Township
Miami Township ..
773
Monroe Township ..
Perry Township
615
Plensant Township.
Richland Township.
797
Rush Creek Township.
Stokes Towaship. 627
Union Township ...
Washington Townshij
Zane Township
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PORTRAITS.
· Boggs, William
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.Easton. JJohn ..
333
- Easton, Charlotte
· Folsom, George
-Hoge. .. ( ....
·Inskeep, John
VIEWS
Logan County Court House.
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HISTORY OF OHIO.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY -TOPOGRAPHY - GEOLOGY -PRIMITIVE-RACES -ANTIQUITIES -INDIAN TRIBES.
THE present State of Ohio, comprising an extent of country 210 miles north and south, 220 miles east and west. in length and breadth- 25,576,969 acres-is a part of the Old Northwest Territory. This Territory embraced all of the present States of Ohio, Indiana. Ilinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and so much of Minnesota as lies east of the Mississippi River. It became a corporate existence soon after the formation of the Virginia Colony, and when that colony took on the dignity of State government it became a county thereof; whose exact outline was unknown. The county embraced in its limits more territory than is com- prised in all the New England and Middle States, and was the largest county ever known in the United States. It is watered by the finest system of rivers on the globe; while its inland seas are without a parallel. Its entire southern boundary is traversed by the beautiful Ohio, its western by the majestic Mississippi, and its northern and a part of its eastern are bounded by the fresh-water lakes, whose clear waters preserve an even temper- ature over its entire surface. Into these reservoirs of commerce flow innumerable streams of limpid water, which come from glen and dale, from : mountain and valley, from forest and prairie-all avennes of health commerce and prosperity. Ohio is in the best part of this territory-south of its river are tropical heats; north of Lake Erie are polar snow's and a polar climate.
The territory comprised in Ohio has always re- mained the same. Ohio's history differs somewhat from other States, in that it was never under Tor- ritorial government. When it was created, it was made a State, and did not pass through the stage incident to the most of other States, i. e., exist as a Territory before being advanced to the powers of
a State. Such was not the case with the other States of the West ; all were Territories, with Terri- torial forms of government, ere they became States.
thio's boundaries are, on the north, Lakes Erie and Michigan ; on the west, Indiana; on the south, the Ohio River, separating it from Kentucky; and, on the cast. Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It is situated between 38º 25' and 42º north latitude; and 80° 30' and 84' 50' west longitude from Greenwich, or 3º 30' and 7º 50' west from Washington. Its greatest length, from north to south, is 210 miles; the extreme width, from east to west, 220 miles. Were this an exact out- line, the area of the State would be 46,200 square miles, or 29,568,000 acres; as the outlines of the State are, however, rather irregular. the area is estimated at 39,001 square miles, or 25,576,960 acres. In the last consus-1870-the total mim- ber of acres in Ohio is given as 21,712,420, of which 11, 169,132 acres are improved, and 6,883,- 575 arres are woodland. By the last statistical report of the State Anditor, 20,965,3712 acres are reported as taxable lands. This omits many acres untaxable for various reasons, which would make the estimate, 25,576,960, nearly correct.
The face of the country. in Ohio, taken as a whole, presents the appearance of an extensive monotonous plain. It is moderately undulating but not mountainons, and is excavated in places by the streams coursing over its surface, whose waters have forced a way for themselves through cliffs of sandstone rock, leaving abutments of this material in bold ontline. There are no mountain ranges, geological uplifts or peaks. A low ridge enters the State, near the northeast corner, and crosses it in a southwesterly direction, emerging near the inter- section of the 40th degree of north latitude with
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the western boundary of the State. This " divide " separates the lake and Ohio River waters, and main- tains an elevation of a little more than thirteen hundred feet above the level of the ocean. The highest part is in Richland County, at the south- cast corner, where the elevation is 1,390 feet.
North of this ridge the surface is generally level, with a gentle inclination toward the lake, the ine- qualities of the surface being caused by the streams which empty into the lake. The central part of Ohio is almost, in general, a level plain, about one thousand feet above the level of the sea, slightly inelining southward. The Southern part of the State is rather hilly, the valleys growing deeper as they incline toward the great valley of the Ohio, which is several hundred feet below the general level of the State. In the southern counties, the surface is generally diversified by the inequalities produced by the excavating power of the Ohio River and its tributaries, exercised through long periods of time. There are a few prairies, or plains, in the central and northwestern parts of the State, but over its greater portion originally existed im- mense growths of timber.
The " divide," or water-shed, referred to, between the waters of Lake Erie and the Ohio River, is less elevated in Ohio than in New York and Penn- sylvania, though the difference is small. To a per- son passing over the State in a balloon, its surface presents an unvarying plain, while, to one sailing down the Ohio River, it appears mountainous. On this river are bluffs ranging from two hundred and fifty to six hundred feet in height. As one ascends the tributaries of the river, these bluff's diminish in height until they become gentle undu- lations, while toward the sources of the streams, in the central part of the State, the banks often become low and marshy.
The principal rivers are the Ohio, Muskingm, Seinto ane Miami, on the southern slope, emptying into the Ohio; on the northern, the Mannice, Sandusky, Huron and Cuyahoga, emptying into Lake Erie, and, all but the first named, entirely in this.
unite at Pittsburgh. The entire length of the river, from its source to its month, is 950 miles, though by a straight line from Pittsburgh to Cairo, it is only 615 miles. Its current is very gentle, hardly three miles per hour, the descent being only five inches per mile. At high stages, the rate of the current increases, and at low stages decreases. Sometimes it is barely two miles per hour. The average range between high and low water mark is fifty feet. although several times the river has risen more than sixty feet above low water mark. At the lowest stage of the river, it is fordable many places between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. The river abounds in islands, some of which are exceed- iugly fertile, and noted in the history of the West. Others, known as " tow-heads," are simply deposits of sand.
The Scioto is one of the largest inland streams in the State, and is one of the most beautiful riv- ers. It rises in Hardin County, flows southeast- erly to Columbus, where it receives its largest affluent, the Olentangy or Whetstone, after which its direction is southerly until it enters the thio at Portsmouth. It flows through one of the rich- est valleys in the State, and has for its compan- ion the Ohio and Erie Canal, for a distance of ninety miles. Its tributaries are, besides the Whet- stone, the Darby, Walnut and Paint Creeks.
The Muskingum River is formed by the june- tion of the Tuscarawas and Waldhoning Rivers, which rise in the northern part of the State and unite at Coshocton. From the junction, the river flows in a southeastern course about one hundred miles, through a rich and populous valley, to the Ohio, at Marietta, the oklest settlement in the State, At its outlet, the Muskingum is over two hundred yards wide. By improvements, it has been made navigalde ninety-five miles above Mari- etta, as far as Dresden, where a side ent, three miles long, unites its waters with those of the Ohio Canal. All along this stream exist, in abundant profusion, the remains of an ancient civiliza- tion, whose history is lost in the twilight of antiq- nity. Extensive mounds, earthworks and various fortifications, are everywhere to be found. inclosing a monte history as silent as the race that dwelt here and left these traces of their existence. The same may be said of all the other valleys in Ohio.
The Ohio, the chief river of the State, and from which it derives its name, with its tributaries, rains a country whose area is over two hundred thousand square miles in extent, and extending from the water-shed to Alabama. The river was first dis- The Miami River-the scenes of many exploits in pioneer days rises in Hamlin County, near the headwaters of the Scioto, and runs southwesterly, to the Ohio, passing Tres, Dayton and Hamilton. covered by La Salle in 199, and was by him nav- igated as far as the Falls, at Lamisville, Ky. It is formed by the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers, in Pennsylvania, whose waters ) It is a beautiful and rapid stream, flowing through
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a highly productive and populous valley, in which limestone and hard timber are abundant. Its total length is abont one hundred and fifty miles.
The Maumee is the largest river in the northern part of Ohio. It rises in Indiana and flows north- easterly, into Lake Erie. About eighty miles of its course are in Ohio. It is navigable as far as Perrysburg, eighteen miles from its mouth. The other rivers north of the divide are all small. rapid-running streams, affording a large amount of good water-power, much utilized by mills and mau- ufactories.
A remarkable feature of the topography of Ohio is its almost total absence of natural lakes or ponds. A few very small ones are found near the water-shed, but all too small to be of any practical value save as watering-places for stock.
Lake Erie, which forms nearly all the northern boundary of the State, is next to the last or lowest of America's "inland seas." It is 290 miles long. and 57 miles wide at its greatest part. There are no islands, except in the shallow water at the west end, and very few bays. The greatest depth of the lake is off Long Point, where the water is 312 feet deep. The shores are principally drift-clay or hard-pan, upon which the waves are continually encroaching. At Cleveland, from the first sur- vey, in 1796, to 1842, the eneroachment was 218 feet along the entire city front. The entire coast is low, seldom rising above fifty feet at the water's edge.
Lake Erie, like the others, has a variable sur- face, rising and falling with the seasons, like great rivers, called the " annual fluctuation," and a gen- eral one, embracing a series of years, due to mete- orological causes, known as the "secular fluctua- tion." Its lowest known level was in February. 1819, rising more or less each year, until June, 1838, in the extreme, to six feet eight inches.
Lake Erie has several excellent harbors in thio, among which are Cleveland, Toledo, Sandusky, Port Clinton and Ashtabula. Valuable improve- ments have been made in some of these, at the expense of the tieneral Goverment, 'In 1818, the first steamboat was launched on the lake. Owing to the Falls of Niagara, it could go no farther east than the outlet of Niagara River. Since then, however, the opening of the Welland Canal, in Canada, allows vessels drawing not more than ten feet of water to pass from one lake to the other, greatly facilitating navigation.
As early as 1836, Dr. S. P. Hildreth, Dr. John Locke, Prof. J. Il. Riddle and Mr. I. A. Lapham,
were appointed a committee by the Legislature of Ohio to report the "best method of obtaining a complete geological survey of the State, and an estimate of the probable cost of the same." In the preparation of their report, Dr. Hildreth examined the coal-measures in the southeastern part of the State, Prof. Riddle and Mr. Lapham made exam- inations in the western and northern counties, while Dr. Locke devoted bis attention to chemical analyses. These investigations resulted in the presentation of much valuable information con- cerning the mineral resources of the State and in a plan for a geological survey. In accordance with the recommendation of this Counnittee, the Legislature, in 1837, passed a bill appropriating $12,000 for the prosecution of the work during the next year. The Geological Corps appointed consisted of W. W. Mather, State Geologist, with Dr. Hildreth, Dr. Locke, Prof. J. P. Kirtland. .. W. Foster, Charles Whittlesey and Charles Briggs. fr .. Assistants. The results of the first year's work appeared in 1838, in an octavo volume of 134 pages, with contributions from Mather, Hildreth, Briggs, Kirtland and Whittlesey. In 1838, the Legislature ordered the continuance of the work, and, at the close of the year, a second report, of 286 pages, octavo, was issued, containing contribu- tions from all the members of the survey.
Succeeding Legislatures failed to provide for a continuance of the work, and, save that done by private means, nothing was accomplished till 1869, when the Legislature again took up the work. In the interim, individual enterprise had done much. In 1841, Prof. James Hall passed through the State, and, by his indentification of several of the formations with those of New York, for the first time fixed their geological age. The next year, he issued the first map of the geology of the State, in common with the geological maps of all the region between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi. Similar maps were published by Sir Charles Lyell, in 1845; Prof. Edward Hitchcock, in 1853, and by J. Mareon, in 1856. The first individual map of the geology of Ohio was a very small one, published by Col. Whittlesey, in 1848, in Howe's History. In 1856, he published a larger map, and, in 1865, another was issued by Prof. Nelson Sayler. In 1867, Dr. J. S. Newberry published a geological map and sketch of t)hio in the Atlas of the State issued by H. S. Stebbins. Up to this time, the geological knowledge was very general in its character, and, consequently, errone- ous in many of its details. Other States had been
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accurately surveyed, yet Ohio remained a kind of terra incognita, of which the geology was less known than any part of the surrounding area.
In 1869, the Legislature appropriated, for a new survey, 813,900 for its support during one year, and appointed Dr. Newberry Chief Geologist ; E. B. Andrews, Edward Orton and J. H. Klippdart were appointed Assistants, and T. G. Wormley. Chemist. The result of the first year's work was a volume of 164 pages, octavo, published in 1870.
This report, accompanied by maps and charts, for the first time accurately defined the geological formations as to age and area. Evidence was given which set at rest questions of nearly thirty years' standing, and established the fact that Ohio in- cludes nearly double the number of formations be- fore supposed to exist. Since that date, the sur- veys have been regularly made. Each county is being surveyed by itself, and its formation ac- curately determined. Elsewhere in these pages, these results are given, and to them the reader is referred for the specifie geology of the county. Only general results can be noted here.
On the general geological map of the State, are two sections of the State, taken at each northern and southern extremity. These show, with the map, the general outline of the geological features of Ohio, and are all that can be given here. Both sections show the general arrangements of the formation, and prove that they lie in sheets resting one upon another, but not horizontally, as a great arch traverses the State from Cincinnati to the lake shore, between Toledo and Sandusky. Along this hne, which extends southward to Nashville, Tenn., all the rocks are raised in a ridge or fold, once a low mountain chain. In the lapse of ages, it has, however, been extensively worn away, and now, along a large part of its course, the strata which once arched over it are re- moved from its summit, and are found resting in regular order on either side, dipping away from its axis. Where the ridge was highest, the erosion has been greatest, that bring the reason why the oddest rocks are exposed in the region about ('in- cinnati. By following the line of this great arch from Cincinnati northward, it will be seen that the Helderberg Bmestone ( No. 1), midway of the State. is still unbroken, and stretches from side to side ; while the Oriskany, the Corniferous, the Hamilton and the luron formations, though generally re- moved from the crown of the arch, still remain over a limited area near Bellefontaine, where they
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