History of Seneca County, Ohio; a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests, Vo. I, Part 1

Author: Baughman, A. J. (Abraham J.), 1838-1913
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, New York, Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1046


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HISTORY


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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


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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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