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HISTORY
OF
SENECA COUNTY,
OHIO
.A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress,
Its People, and its Principal Interests.
BY
A. J. BAUGHMAN
ASSISTED BY A LOCAL CORPS OF ABLE CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. I.
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO-NEW YORK
1911
21
1550958
PREFACE
In the capacity of author and compiler of a history of Seneca county, I undertook the preparation of the work in the hope that my efforts, coupled with the generous co-operation of the citizens, might be productive of a history of dignified proportions, com- prehensive, impartial and useful. How far my efforts have been successful, the public must judge.
Mansfield, Ohio,
July 1, 1911.
A. J. BAUGHMAN.
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To the American Soldiers, especially to those with whom I "touched elbows," in the War of the Rebellion, this work is respectfully inscribed by the author.
A. J. BAUGHMAN.
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ILLUSTRATIONS.
Source of the Sandusky River (Summit of the Ohio Divide) 3
Old Fort Seneca
21
Execution of Seneca John in 1828
29
Stockade, War of 1812
38
The Lines in Dispute
41
Pioneer Engine and Passenger Car
55
Jr. O. U. A. M. National Orphans' Home, Tiffin
59
The Present Court House
61
Seneca County Infirmary
64
Freight Wagon on Old-Time Road
86
Scene of General Gibson's Great Speech, Melmore
102
Johnny Appleseed
161
Rev. D. D. Bigger, D. D.
265
William Harvey Gibson Monument, Tiffin, Ohio
263
Columbian High School, Tiffin
351
Washington Street, Looking North, Tiffin, Ohio
352
Third Ward School, Tiffin
356
German Inn, Tiffin
360
New Opera House, Tiffin
362
Riverview Park, Tiffin
366
Seneca Driving Park, Tiffin
374
Fourth Ward School, Tiffin
383
Main Building, Heidelberg College, Tiffin
390
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Tiffin
407
Father Martin Puetz
409
Oldest House in Fostoria
423
Fostoria High School Building
429
Bloomville High School
434
Greenspring Public School
434
Main Street, Bloomville
439
Greensprings Grist Mill
441
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I
NATURAL FEATURES
GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY-THE SOIL-NATURAL DRAINAGE-GEOLOGY IN DETAIL-THE DRIFT-BUILDING STONE- LIME-CLAY-BOG ORE-OIL AND GAS-CLIMATE AND EARLY TIMES. 1-14
CHAPTER II
THE ABORIGINES
MOUND BUILDERS OF SENECA COUNTY -- SACRED TO THE DEAD -- HONEY CREEK AND PLEASANT TOWNSHIP-ABORIGINAL RELICS ELSEWHERE-INDIAN RESERVATIONS AND TREATIES-PROMINENT SENECA CHIEFS-SENECA JOHN -- SQUAWS EXECUTED AS WITCHES BLUE JACKET-BLACKFOOT-ROUNDHEAD-LOGAN-EXECUTION OF SENECA JOHN-WHITE CAPTIVES-BRITISH BOUGHT SCALPS. 15-35
CHAPTER III GENERAL RELATED HISTORY
ORDINANCE OF 1787-GRAND WATERWAYS TO BE FREE-COUNTY OF HAMILTON-FIRST NORTHWESTERN CONGRESSMAN-PRINCIPAL THEATERS OF 1812 WAR-THE OHIO MICHIGAN CONTROVERSY- NORTHERN OHIO BOUNDARY-OHIO EXTENDS HER BOUNDARY- MICHIGAN GETS INTO ACTION-OHIO HOLDS HER COURTS-HARRIS LINE, THE STATE BOUNDARY -- COX ON THE WOLVERINE WAR. 36-46
CHAPTER IV
COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND SURVEY
SURVEY OF "NEW PURCHASE"-DETAILS OF THE SURVEY-IN-
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CONTENTS
MAN RESERVATION NOT SURVEYED-SANDUSKY RIVER NOT INCLUDED -THE TWO HAND DISTRICTS-COUNTY ORGANIZED-CONDITION OF THE COUNTY -- STREAMS AND WATER POWERS-STATUS OF THE PEOPLE-SENECA COUNTY SEAT-PUBLIC BUILDINGS-COURT HOUSES AND JAILS-COUNTY INFIRMARY -- COUNTY OFFICIALS- PROPERTY VALUATIONS AND TAX RATE-TAX LIMIT LAW-POPU- LATION UNDER TWENTY-ONE-TELEPHONE VALUATION-SENECA COUNTY'S FERTILITY. 47-71
CHAPTER V
SWEEPING PIONEER PICTURES
"IN PIONEER TIMES, " BY THE AUTHOR-THE IMPROVED LOG CABIN -- THE FARMER'S BOY-AMUSEMENTS OF THE PIONEER BOY- PIONEER GATHERINGS-THE INDUSTRIES-RELIGIOUS SERVICES- JOHNNY CAKE AND HOMINY-PIONEERS AND THEIR TROUBLES-THE SCARCITY OF MONEY-MALARIAL DISEASES-TROUBLES MADE THEM NEIGHBORLY-WELCOME TO EMIGRANTS-"SENECA COUNTY NEAR- ING HER CENTENNIAL," BY SADE E. BAUGHMAN-"TALES OF PIONEER DAYS," BY JESSE E. BOGART -- "REMINISCENCES OF PIONEER LIFE" BY A SENECA COUNTY PIONEER. 72-100
CHAPTER VI
GENERAL GIBSON AND HIS ADDRESSES
GREAT SPEECH AT MELMORE-NOTABLE PIONEER ADDRESS- How HE STARTED IN LIFE-THE HEROES OF EARTH-NOT ALL GRAVE-YARD BUSINESS-EIGHTEEN-KNOT BELLE-PIONEER COOK- ING-TRIAL OF CHRISTIAN SPIRIT-WHISKEY OR WATER ?- FIRST BUGGY BROUGHT TO THE COUNTY-THEY CLEARED THE LAND -- OLD AND NEW LAND HUNTERS -- RELIGIOUS "QUARRELS"-DOMESTIC LIFE AND RELIGION -- EDUCATION AND MUSIC-ONE CHANGE FOR THE WORSE-INCREASE IN POPULATION-FARM LABOR NEVER MORE AGREEABLE -- GOD'S TRUE NOBILITY-GIBSON AND THE SISTERS OF MERCY -- THE BLACK HORSE TAVERN. 101-123
CHAPTER VII PIONEER DETAILS
FIRST BRIDGES AND ROADS-FIRST MILLS-FIRST OHIO BREWERY-PIONEER OHIO CARRIAGE BUILDER-FIRST TAVERN-
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CONTENTS
FIRST WHITE AMERICAN SETTLERS-MERE MENTIONS -- MRS. TABITHA STANLEY'S RECOLLECTIONS-HARRIS REMINISCENCES-THE BLACK SWAMP-HUNTING IN THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY- WOLVES IN SENECA COUNTY-SUGAR MAKING-A RAIN OF FIRE- CHOLERA IN SENECA COUNTY-OLIVER COWDERY AND THE MOR- MONS-TRI-COUNTY PIONEER ASSOCIATION. 124-155
CHAPTER VIII
FARM AND ORCHARD
RISE OF WESTERN AGRICULTURE-LIVE STOCK INTRODUCED TO OHIO-THE SHEEP INDUSTRY-FIRST IMPORTED HOGS-PLANTING OF FIRST ORCHARDS-ISRAEL PUTNAM, THE HORTICULTURIST- JOHNNY APPLESEED-THE KIRTLANDS-LONGWORTH, FATHER OF WESTERN VINEYARDS-CEREAL CULTIVATION-COMING OF THE POTATO-FARMING IMPLEMENTS-FIRST OHIO THRESHERS- PIONEER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES-POMOLOGY AND HORTICULTURE -- COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY-ORIGIN OF THE GRANGE- SENECA COUNTY GRANGES-JOHNNY APPLESEED AGAIN-THE JOHNNY APPLESEED MONUMENT. 156-188
CHAPTER IX
PATRIOTISM OF SENECA COUNTY
"REMEMBER THE ALAMO"-FREMONT'S FAMOUS CHARGE- "SENECA COUNTY IN THE WARS," BY CAPTAIN FRANK R. STEWART -THE MEXICAN WAR -- THE . CONFLICT OVER SLAVERY-THE CIVIL WAR'S FIRST CALL FOR TROOPS-THE COUNTY'S FIRST SOLDIER AND COMPANY-GENERAL GIBSONS'S APPEAL-OFFICERS OF THE FIFTY- NINTH INFANTRY-GREAT RECORD OF THE FORTY-NINTH-THE
FIFTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT-THE SEVENTY-SECOND AND
THE TWENTY-FIFTH-THE FIFTY-FIFTH INFANTRY-THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST (1862)-THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD -- NINETY-DAY VOLUNTEERS-SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 189-203
CHAPTER X
ANTI-BRITISH AND INDIAN CAMPAIGNS
THE COLONEL CRAWFORD EXPEDITION-CAUSES OF THE WAR OF 1812-BATTLE OF THE RIVER RAISIN -- MASSACRE OF THE RIVER RAISIN-HAS THE "LOST GRAVE-YARD" BEEN FOUND ?- OLD FORT
CONTENTS
SENECA-LATE VISIT TO SITE OF FORT-HARRISON AT FORT SENECA -DETAILS OF CROGHAN'S HEROISM-OLD FORT BALL AND SETTLERS. 204-222
CHAPTER XI
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
SENECA SOLDIERS IN THE . WAR OF 1861-5-SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT DEDICATED -- "HISTORY OF THE GIBSON MONU- MENT," BY A. J. BAUGHMAN-"OUR UNKNOWN HEROES," BY REV. E. J. CRAFT-SENECA COUNTY SOLDIERS IN THE "SULTANA" DIS- ASTER-TRUMAN SMITH'S EXPERIENCES-PURSUED BY CAVALRY- CAPTURED-DRIVEN TO CAHABA (MISS. ) PRISON-WOULD NOT BE- TRAY THE BOYS-SWAM TO THE OLD FLAG-NEWS OF LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION -- THE SULTANA HORROR, BY PARTICIPANT. 223-277
CHAPTER XII
SCHOOLS AND 'CHURCHES
EARLY PREACHERS OF SENECA COUNTY-PIONEER METHODIST SOCIETIES-FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES-UNITED BRETHREN AND EVANGELICAL ORGANIZATIONS-ST. MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH -- REFORMED CHURCHES-ATTICA BAPTIST CHURCH- ATTICA SS. PETER AND PAUL CHURCH-OTHER RELIGIOUS ORGANI- ZATIONS-EARLY SCHOOL LAWS-PRESENT SCHOOL LAW AND SYS- TEM-FIRST SCHOOL IN OHIO-EARLY SCHOOLS IN SENECA-POPU- LATION OF SCHOOL AGE. 278-289
CHAPTER XIII
POLITICAL RECORD
FIRST ELECTIONS-COUNTY OFFICERS, 1821-31-DAWN OF POLITICAL ENTHUSIASM-ELECTIONS 1832-40-OFFICIALS 1840-50- LAST ASSOCIATE JUDGE-ELECTIONS 1850-60-POLITICS AND ELEC- TIONS 1860-80-VOTE ON PIKE ROADS-COUNTY OFFICERS, 1881-6- COMMON PLEAS JUDGES 1888-1910-PROBATE JUDGES 1886-1910- COUNTY OFFICERS 1801-1910-STATE SENATORS AND REPRESENTA- TIVES 1902-10. 290-299
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER XIV
LEGAL AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONS
OBJECTS OF LAW AND LAWYERS-COUNTY'S EARLY BENCH AND BAR-FIRST LAW CASE-PIONEER CASES, LAWYERS AND JUDGES- ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF SENECA COUNTY-HON. JAMES PURDY'S REMINISCENCES-THE TIFFIN BAR IN POETRY-LAWYERS WHO TRAVELED THE CIRCUIT-EARLY PHYSICIANS OF THE COUNTY- FOSTORIA MEDICAL SOCIETY-SENECA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
300-320
CHAPTER XV
PROMINENT PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY
HON. WILLIAM H. GIBSON-C. W. BUTTERFIELD, THE HISTOR- IAN-DR. D. D. BIGGER, FAMOUS DIVINE-JUDGE WILLIAM LANG --- HON. J. A. NORTON, VERSATILE AND SOLID-AN AMERICAN GOLD- SMITH -- HALF-BROTHER OF NASBY-TOM CORWIN IN SENECA COUN- TY-GENERAL SIDNEY SEA-GOOD ADVERTISER-NAME CHANGED . FROM SMITH TO SEA-THE "OSCEOLAS," A FIREBRAND -- EATING GINGERBREAD IN THE RANKS-TRIED TO OUST GENERAL BELL-WHY HE WENT TO JAIL-A LOSS TO GOOD SOCIETY-JOHN GOODIN- DAVID EVAN OWEN-ANDREW LUGENBEEL-THIE PITTENGER BROTHERS-LAST AND FIRST INDIAN AGENT-COLONEL BALL- JUDGE HUGH WELCH-GEORGE E. SENEY-MRS. SAMUEL B. SNEATH -- MRS. SNEATH ON CONSERVATION-OTHER PROMINENT WOMEN-CORONER LEPPER AS AN ARTIST-ANDREW COFFINBERRY . POET -- "FOREST RANGERS," BY JUDGE COFFINBERRY-PIONEER POET AND PREACHER. 321-349
CHAPTER XVI THE CITY OF TIFFIN
GENERAL DESCRIPTION-CITY OFFICERS-WARD BOUNDARIES- OTHER GENERAL FACTS-ORIGINAL SURVEYS AND ADDITIONS- GOVERNOR TIFFIN, FOR WHOM THE CITY WAS NAMED-PIONEER HOTELS OF TIFFIN-"GERMAN INN" AND THE NEW THEATER- EARLY BRIDGES OF TIFFIN-STREET RAILWAYS -- PUBLIC LIBRARY- FIRE DEPARTMENT-BIG FIRE OF 1872 -- WATER WORKS-BANKS OF TIFFIN-SUICIDE OF A TIFFIN BANKER-INDUSTRIES OF TIFFIN-
.
£
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CONTENTS
FIRST SAW MILLS AND GRIST MILLS-NATIONAL MACHINERY COM- PANY-STERLING EMERY WHEEL COMPANY-TIFFIN MANUFACTUR- ING COMPANY-STERLING LUMBER AND SUPPLY COMPANY-TIFFIN LIME AND STONE COMPANY-THE SENECA COMPANY-TIFFIN BOILER WORKS-HOPPLE'S HANDLE FACTORY-TIFFIN ELECTRIC COMPANY -SNEATH & CUNNINGHAM COMPANY-LEASE & COLLIER-TIFFIN MALLEABLE IRON & CHAIN COMPANY-OHIO LANTERN COMPANY- WEBSTER ELECTRIC COMPANY-FLOUR MILLS, ETC. 350-380
CHAPTER XVII
TIFFIN'S EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES
PUBLIC SCHOOLS-FIRST SCHOOL BOARD AND TEACHERS- STATUS OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS-HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY- WILLIARD HALL-"FOUNDING OF HEIDELBERG," BY DR. J. B. RUST -THE COLUMBUS COLLEGE-TARLTON LOCATION BUT TEMPORARY -LOCATED PERMANENTLY AT TIFFIN-CAUSE OF THE REMOVAL- FIRST TEACHERS AT TIFFIN-ERECTION OF COLLEGE BUILDINGS-OLD COLLEGE HILL-EARLY DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN -- HISTORIC HOUSES -BECOMES A UNIVERSITY-CENTRAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY- URSULINE COLLEGE-THE PRESS-JOHN P. LOCKE-SENECA COUN- TY'S GREAT EDITOR (W. W. ARMSTRONG)-SENECA COUNTY POETRY. 381-400
CHAPTER XVIII
RELIGIOUS AND BENEVOLENT
METHODIST EPISCOPAL AND METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCHES -- PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-EBENEZER EVANGELICAL AND GRACE RE- FORMED-GERMAN EVANGELICAL ST. JOHN'S CHURCH-FIRST AND SECOND REFORMED-UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH-BAPTIST CHURCH-DISCIPLES OF CHRIST-ENGLISH LUTHERAN -- PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL-FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST -- UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH-SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH-FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCHES-ST. MARY'S -- GERMAN CATHOLICS ORGANIZE-ST. JOSEPH'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOL-URSULINE ACADEMY AND CITIZENS' ORPHAN ASYLUM -- ST. FRANCIS ORPHAN ASYLUM AND HOME FOR THE AGED --- NATIONAL ORPHAN'S HOME - SECRET ORDERS -- MILITARY AND MISCELLANEOUS BODIES -- EARLY LODGES AND SOCIETIES -- DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
401-416
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER XIX
FOSTORIA
1
VILLAGE OF ROME-RISDON ANNEXED TO ROME-EARLY BUSI- NESS AND INDUSTRIES-ROME'S ROAD KEPT OPEN-HOUSES OF 1836-7-POST OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS-PHYSICIANS OF FOSTORIA -EARLY MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES-RISDON VILLAGE-BEGIN- NING OF THE BRICK BUILDING ERA-FOSTORIA'S TWO POST OFFICES -THE OLD FOSTORIA ACADEMY-THE FOSTORIA OF THE PRESENT -- WATER AND SEWAGE SYSTEMS-THE FIRE DEPARTMENT-AS A RAILROAD CENTER-ITS NEWSPAPERS-PUBLIC SCHOOLS-CHURCHES OF FOSTORIA-G. A. R. POST. 417-432
CHAPTER XX
VILLAGES OF THE COUNTY
ATTICA -- HOW IT WAS NAMED -- ORIGINAL PLAT AND ADDITIONS -ATTICA STATION-THEODORE BAUGHMAN, THE SCOUT-ADRIAN- BASCOM-BETTSVILLE-BLOOMVILLE-PLATS AND INCORPORATION- GREEN SPRINGS-OLD GREEN SPRINGS ACADEMY-MELMORE-NEW RIEGEL-REPUBLIC-CHURCHES OF REPUBLIC AND SCIPIO TOWNSHIP -G. A. R. POST, REPUBLIC. 433-445
CHAPTER XXI
TOWNSHIP HISTORIES
ADAMS TOWNSHIP-BIG SPRING AND VILLAGES OF NEW REIGEL, SPRINGVILLE, ETC .- BLOOM TOWNSHIP, ST. STEPHENS AND ELIZA- BETHTOWN-LEWIS LEITZ'S REMINISCENCES-CLINTON TOWNSHIP- REV. JOHN SOUDER'S PIONEER INCIDENTS-SWANDER AND VIONA- EDEN TOWNSHIP-STORY OF JOHN VAN METER-REV. JOSEPH BEVER'S RECOLLECTIONS-HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP-JOSEPH OGLE AND HIS WORKS-VANISHED VILLAGES-JACKSON TOWNSHIP-INDIAN SCARE AT NESTLERODE'S. 446-467
CHAPTER XXII
TOWNSHIP ANNALS
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- KANSAS VILLAGE AND OTHER TOWNS- LOUDON AND PLEASANT TOWNSHIPS --- REED TOWNSHIP-T. M. KEL-
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CONTENTS
LEY'S RECOLLECTIONS-LODI. OMER . AND REEDTOWN-SCIPIO TOWN- SHIP -- SENECA TOWNSHIP-THE JACOB STRAIB SKETCH-MCCUTCH- ENVILLE AND BERWICK-THOMPSON TOWNSHIP-VILLAGES, PAST AND PRESENT-VENICE TOWNSHIP-FORD'S HISTORICAL ADDRESS- ATTICA VILLAGE INCORPORATED-CARROTHERS AND CAROLINE.
468-488
INDEX.
Abbott, A., 281
Abbott, Albert, 899
Abbott, Mrs. J. C., 175
Abbott, Sarah, 623 Abbott, Urn S., 397
Acher, George D., 198
Ackerman, Thomas, 282
Adams, Mrs. D. W., 175
Adams, Setlı, 159 Adams township, 446 Adamsville, 447
Addams, Jane, 385 Adrian, 437
Agricultural implements, 167
Agricultural societies-in Ohio, 170; in Seneca county, 172; Patrons of Husbandry, 174; in Ohio and Sene- ca county, 176 Alleut, David, 763
Allen, Eugene W., 566
Allgyre, Ernest G., 868
Amusements (pioneer), 75
Anders, Charles I., 502
Anderson, Carl C., 590
Anderson, James, 430
Angus, 469
Anway, John, 125
Anway, Joseph L., 870
Anway, William, 476
Apples introduced, 160
Armstrong reservation, 21
Armstrong, Robert, 32, 51, 129
Armstrong, W. W., 55, 219, 323, 391, 396, 398
Arnold, Joseph C., 352, 594
Arnold, Sylvanus, 373
Ash, Charles, 299, 892
Ashcraft, W. E., 426
Asire, Judd D., 646
Attica, 433, 436, 486 Auble, David J., 549
Bachman, George W., 304 Bacon, Frank W., 690
Bagby, Truman H., 294
Baird, George W., 292
Baker, Andrew S., 530
Baker, Eber, 291 Baker, Ezra, 96
Baker, G. H .. , 372, 373, 376
Baker, John W., 954
Baker, Levina, 670
Baker, Martha E., 531
Baker, Samuel, 670 Baker, Silas W., 579
Baker, William M., 177, 768
Baldwin, Frank A., 297, 298
Ball, Colonel, 334
Baltimore & Ohio R. R., 56, 94
Baltzell, Lewis, 390
Baltzell, Louis, 173
Bank of Tiffin, 372
Bare, George E., 638
Barkley, Emanuel L., 959
Baron, Charles S., 378, 811
Baron Manufacturing Company, Tif- fin, 378 Barnes, Newcomb M., 198
Barney, Benjamin, 97, 136, 137, 139, 301
Barrack, J. W., 176
Barter and Trade, 83
Bartlett, Joseph R, 195
Bascom, 437
Bass, A. W., 378
Baughman, A. J., 72, 182, 262
Baughman, Sade E., 89
Baughman, Theodore, 436
Baumgardner, Martin L., 698
Baylor, C., 279
Beam, Samuel Z., 393
Beaver Creek, 447
Beck, Amos M., 649
Beckley, John M., 263
Beckley Mill, Tiffin, 379
Beer, Thomas, 296
Beilharz, John, 405 Bell, John, 329
Bement, A. S., 197
Bement, Edwin, 423
Bement, R. R., 382
Bench and Bar (see Courts and Law- yers) Bennehoff, John H., 964
Berlekamp,, Charles H., 643
Berlekamp, Frank W., 506
Berlekamp, H. Bernard, 501
Berlekamp, Oscar H., 652
Bernard, Phoebe, 393
Berry, Curtis,, 295
Berwick, 480
Betts, Isaac F.,, 780 Bettsville, 438
"Bettsville Vidette," 438
Bever, Joseph, 461
Bigelow, Russel, 278, 401
Bigger, David Dwight, 262, 264, 265, 266, 323, 402, 444 Big Spring township, 448 Bihu, Joseph L., 408, 409
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INDEX
Billiard. Arthur 788 Billiard, John W., 875 Bimer, George, 812 Bishop, David. 291 Bissel, Daniel, 140 Black, Albert F., 547 Black, Harry P., 603
"Black Horse Tavern," 118 Blackhoof (Cul-the-we-ka-saw), 25 Blackman, A. M., 193, 193, 420
Black swamp, 142
Blaine, N .. G., 317
Blaine, James G., 269
Blair, J. A., 372 Blair, Thomas, 95 Blooded horses introduced, 157 Bloom township, +49 Bloomville, 438 Mu· Jacket, 24
Blymer, W. G., 397
Bod!t. ( harles L., 302
Haard of County Commissioners -- First meetings, 60
Bogenwright, William H., 372
Ingart, Jacob, 92, 95
Bogart, Jesse E. 92, 96
10.x 0te. 12
Dopl. William, 282
Ruhe. Thomas F., 789
Bonneli, John G., 794
Har, Romanus R., 299, 775 Bowe. Erastus, 124 129, 142, 221, 358 IT! Bowen, Ozias, 302
Boyd, James, 119
Boyd, Thomas, 52, 291, 450
Braden & Yunker, 421
Bradfield, G. Edward, 266
Bradley, Calvin, 359 Bradley, Leverett, 52
Bradner, John A., 582 Bradner, Jolm R., 581
Brady, William O., 201
Breckinridge, G. W., 279
Breslin, John G., 293, 396
Bretz, Philip, 280
Brewer, N. L., 62, 304, 390 Breweries, 128 Bricker, Simmon, 316
Bricker, T. J., 419 Bridges (first), 124 Bridinger, Jacob, 701
Bright, J. C., 282 Brinkley, R. C., 379 Brinkman, John H., 619
Brish. Henry C., 40, 307, 333 Brown. W., 279
Brooks, Elijah, 95 Brooks, James. 95 Brown. Alexander, 306
Brown, A. C., 277
Brown. Case, 124, 291, 443
. Brown, Daniel, 293 Browa, Ezra, 124, 473 Brown, J. H .. 396 Brown, Jeremiah, 437 Prunter, Sales, 2-0 Bruch Charles, 746
Brush, Platt, 139 Buckingham, J. R .. 317 Buckland, R. P .. 303
Buckland, Ralph P., 196 Bulger, William O., 201 Bını, Jacob F., 306 Bunn, Mrs. Laura G., 371 Burger, James A., 263 Burlingame, Anson, 323 Burnett, Jacob, 312 Bush, E. Il., 195 Butler, Paul D., 126, 222 Butterfield, Amroy, 279, 443 Butterfield, Consul Wilshire, 322
Calihan, William, 195
Camp meetings (pioneer), 79
Campbell, Alice W., 697
Campbell, David, 291
Campbell, D. Proctor, 696
Caples, R. C., 419
Carey, Robert C. J., 314
Carey, S. F., 390
Card, T. J., 281
Carle, Roscoe L., 202. 299, 428
Carlin, 469
Carnahan, D. F., 403
Caroline, +88
Carpenter, Benjamin, 292
Carpenter, John, 30 Carrington Guards (Sixteenth Ohio Infantry), 224 Carrington, Heury B., 224
Carrothers, 488
Carter, Ezra, 299
Cary, Vern, 863
Cattle raising, 158
Cave in Thompson township, 451
Cayugas, 97, 98
Cereals, 163 Chamberlain, J. W., 371
Chamberlain, Oscar, 260
Chamberlin, W. R., 126
Chance, M. H., 193
Chandler, H. M., 435
Chapin, Joel, 97
Chapman, John, 161
Chapman, John (see "Johnny Apple seed '') Chapman, Nathaniel, 178
Charles, Xenophen F., 562
Charlieu,, 132 Chatfield, Frank A., 439
Chidester, Hannah, 391 Cholera epidemics, 147
Church, Earl, 95
Churches-Early preachers, 278: first church in county, 279; denomina. tial history, 279-84
Churches-Tiffin churches and pas- tors, 401-9: see also village -. 417-5 City National Bank, Tithin. 372-3 Citizens' Hospital and Orphan Asy. lum, 408, 400 Civil war --- Seneca county in. 193; alphabetical ro-ter, 225.59 Clara, Mother M., 410
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INDEX
Clark, Matthew, 52, 301, 306 Clark, William, 291 Clay products, 12 Clinger, G. N., 277 Clinton township, 454 Close, Newel J., 282
Cludy, John S., 584 Coby, O. J., 401 Cockayne, Benjamin F., 702 Coninberry, Andrew, 338
Cole, Ann M., 498
Cole, Heath K., 605
Cole, John L., 497
College Hill, 391
Collecting pioneer material, 88 Collier, Earl J., 377 Collier, George W., 279
Columbian High School, Tiffin, 382 Columbus College, 386 Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo R. R., 56 Commercial National Bank, Titfin, 372
Conlon, Thomas F., 595
Connor, Thomas, 265
Conrad, Adam A., 403-4
Conradt, Frederick W., 506
Cook, Fred J., 855
Cook, John W., 858
Cooke, Eleutheros, 303
Cooley, Edward, 333
Cooley, J. B., 99
Corfman, Jacob, 233
Corn introduced, 163
Cornell, William, 52, 301, 306
Corwin, Thomas, 325
Cory, O. J., 299 County officers (1321-1911), 290-9 Court house, 60, 61
Courts-Circuit court opened (1824), 301; first cases, 302; early asso- ciate judges, 306 Cowdery, Oliver, 148, 304, 331
Cowgill. Milton, 263
Craft, E. J., 269
Craighill, W. B., 293
Cramer, C. H., 371
Cramer, Charles W., 941
Cramer, George R., 889
Cramer, Upton F., 295
Craun, Silas, 914 / Crawford expedition (1782), 204
Crawford, James, 260
Creesy, Henri, 222 Creesy, Levi, 222 Crippen, J. Q., 263 Crissel, Dan B., 843
Crobaugh, Burton W., 516
Crocker & Foster, 418, 419
Crocker, Roswell, 417. 418, 420
Crockett, Eliza B., 809 Croghan,, Michael G., 219 Cromers, 469 Cronise, Florence, 305, 337, 371 Cronise, Henry, 293 Cronise, H. G. W., 55 Cronise, Nettie, 305, 337, 391 Crop destroyers, 133
Crouse, Isaac, 425 Crowley, John, 405 Crum, Roland H., 661
Culp, F. P., 201 Culver Benjamin. 136, 139 Culver, George W., 195
Culver, William J., 317
Cunningham, Arthur A., 372, 947
Cunningham, Earl K., 705 Cunningham, George W., 126, 127, 591 Cunningham, Levi,, 279
Currigan, Edward W., 673 Cutler, Ephraim, 284
"Daily and Weekly Advertiser," 397
"Daily Tribune and Herald," 397 Daily, William. 93
Dana, Daniel II., 442
Dana, Marcus, 420
Daprel, Herman G., 193
Davidson, Ira. 173
Davidson, James H., 438
Day, Elam, 430 Dearsman Adolph W .. 792
Decker, Amos, 296
Decker, Jacob, 293
Dellinger, David A., 742
Deppen, Charles, 706
DeRau, R. L., 352
Derr, Dennis F., 338
Detterman. Charles, 804
Detterman Family, The, 667
Detterman, George, 93, 761
Detterman, Harrison, 688
Detterman, John H., 667
Detterman, Samuel E., 668
Detterman, Samuel W., 668
DeWolfe, J. P., 429
Dickenson, Edward F., 295
Dickinson, Rudolphus, 52, 125, 130, 301, 302, 305 Diemer, Jolm E., 352
Dildine, A. M., 201
Dildine, Daniel, 126, 292
Dildine, D. D., 372
Dildine, Frank, 306
Dildine, W. O., 620
Dodge, Henry H., 296, 297
Dore, Frank, 299 Dorsey, Evan, 172, 372
Dougherty, George, 596
Douglas, Stephen A., 294
Downey, Henry, 283 Doyle, William, 302
Drake, Levi, 195 Dresbach, Eli, 93, 125, 314
Drown, Charles C., 574
Drown, Henry H., 805 Drown, Joseph R., 373
Dryfuse, Henry, 649 Dudrow, William, 675
Dudrow, William, Jr., 804
Duncan, William, 297, 298 Dunn, A., 373 Dunn, Arlington, 263 Dunton, A. S., 290
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Dysinger, Reuben S., 69.1
Earhart, George W., 968
Eaton, John, 136
First Tannery, 127 First Tavern. 129
First Tiffin School House. 128
First Township Election, 124
First Village Election, 125
Egbert, Dan., 177
Fisher, Alice, 323
Fisher, Frank, 320
Egbert. Norman D., 966
Fisher, James, 55, 314
Egbert, Urialı, 92
Egbert, William H., 752
Elizabethtown, 451
Emerine, Andrew, 423
Emery, Elmer E., 580
Emery, Mrs. Horace, 95
Enterprise Manufacturing Company, Tiffin, 379
Epley, H. E., 378
Ernst, Andrew H., 162
Escher, J. J., 283
Evans, William J., 403
"Evening Herald," 398
Evert, Henry, 774
Everett, Jeremiah, 291
Fanning, J. F. E., 316
Farming, 107, 155, 172
Farquson, Elijah, 60
Farrel, Lyman, 290
Fast, Louise, 371
Faulhaber, Philip, 196 Feasel, Charles E., 916
Feasel, Elmer E., 925
Feindel, Charles N., 937
Felsted, Leo F., 839
Felsted, Samuel O., 837
Fenneman, W. H., 283
Ferrier, David, 418, 420
Feseler, J. M., 271 Fetzer, Fred, 544
Fiege, John, 333
Fields, Elijah H., 401
Fies, William, 277
Fike, Henry, 845
Finch, J. T., 266
First Agricultural Society, 125
First Bank, 128
First Brass Band, 133
First Civil War Volunteer in county, 193
First Coal Yard, 128
First Frame House, 125
First Grist Mill, 53
First Land Patent, 125
First Law Case in County, 301
First Live Stock in Ohio. 157
First Manufactory, 126
First Merinos in Ohio, 159
First National Bank of Tiffin. 373
First National Grange Meeting. 175 First Newspaper, 125 First Pottery, 127
First Public Building, 128
First Regular Passenger Train, 131 First Roads, 52 First robbery in county, 301
First Settler, 129
First School in Ohio, 286
First State Grange, 175
Ebbert, Henry, 307 Eborg, Henry, 777
Eckelberry, Eber K., 610
Edeu Township, 459
Egbert, N. D., 263
Fitch, Florence, 385
Flat Rock, 482, 483
Ford, H. J., 483
Ford, Johnson, 435
"Forest Rangers." by Judge Coffin- berry, 339 Fort Ball, 221
Fort Seneca, 471, 4:3
Fort Seneca, (old) 218, 472
Foster, Charles, W., 259. 286. 418 420, 423, 425, 470
Foster, Jonas, 193
Fostoria, 417, 426, (of the present)
Fostoria-Rome and Risdon, 417; Old Fostoria Academy, 424; pre- sent village, 426; newspapers. 428; schools, 429; churches, 430 Fostoria Academy, (old), 424
"Fostoria Daily Review-Dispatch," 428 "Fostoria Daily Times," 428
Fostoria Medical Society. 319
France, Nathan R., 651
Frances, Mother M., 409
Frankenfield, Andrew, 727
Franklin, Benjamin, 34
Franklin, Clarence E., :28
Franklin, Lou R .. 728
Frazier, Harry H., 691
Frederici, Frank, 261
Frederick, W. H., 266
Free, Jacob Newman, 479
Freeman, James S., 403
Freese, A. P., 386 Fremont's Famous Charge, 190 French, John, 281 French, Reuben, 431
French Town, 449
Fries, E. M., 297, 298
Frintchey, Andrew. 127 Fritcher, John, 421
Frontz, Leroy M., 797
Frost, E. R., 375 Frost, M., 365, 375
Fruth, Conrad, 935 Fruth, John, 931
Fry, Clarence, 794
Fry, John M., 909
Fry, Herbert S., 543
Fry, Howard, J .. 909 Fulton Line, 42
Galloway, Samuel, 285 Gassen, Lorenzo D., 202 Gerhart, E. N., 283 Gerhart, E. V., 390. 393 German Inn, 359
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German, John, 281 Geyer, George, A., 907 Ghaster, S. LeRoy, 717 Gibbs, A. A., 263 Gibson Monument, 262 Gibson, Win. H., 55, 62. 101, 118, 194, 195, 259, 262, 303, 321, 382, 390 Gilcher, Frederick C., 499 Gilbert, Ezra, 433, 435, 484 Gilbert, I. T., 315 Girty, Simon ( Katepa-Comen), 28, 205, 212 Glenn, Frank, 173 Goit, Edson, 303 Good, Emanuel, 759 Good, Jeremiah H., 283, 386, 387, 388, 393 Good, Mrs. M. J., 394 Good, Reuben, 282, 389, 393
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