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THE HISTORICAL REVIEW
OF LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO.
By GEN. ROBERT P. KENNEDY.
TOGETHER WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
of Many of its Leading and Prominent Citizens and Illustrious Dead.
ILLUSTRATED.
"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote generations."-MACAULEY.
CHICAGO: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING CO. 1903.
INDEX.
HISTORICAL.
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Chapter I Logan county, Indians. Indian villages. etc. 9
II Ordinance of 1787, carly settlements, etc. 21
III Early settlers 3.4
IV First election, first court, etc. 43
.. First house and early residents of Bellefontaine 52
VI Early physicians and prevaling diseases 65
66 VTI Representatives of the legal profession 60
VIII Township organizations 75
: IX Congress, military lands, etc. 10?
100
XI Logan county soldiers
XII Early and modern times comparedl 120
XIII Stock-raising and crops 1.45
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XIV Railroads, banks and cement factories 155
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Bellefontaine industries
66 XVI County fairs, churches, schools, public institutions
XVII Murders in Logan county 175
XVIII Prominent men 199
XIX Poets and poetry 201
Xx Newspapers and rural mail delivery 208
XXI Congressmen, lieutenant-governors, etc. 216
XXII Storms and fires 22.1
XXIII State representatives and senators 227
XXIV Judges and other county officials 220
XXV Bridges, ditches and conclusion 233
SURNAME VILE
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X Railroads
6
Hill. H 4
SiMesmo, fortsette
Hinkle, Epinum 753
Hinkle. Urich .. 551
Hopkins Col. O. J.
Horn. John S. 641 MeCracken. J. F 1. 1
Horn, S 1. 741
Hubbard, Thomas 2\2 MeLaughlin, George F.
Huber. E. L.
Poling. I. A
Humphrey. Charles S 545
Haist. I. W. 451
Huston. A. B. 724
Huston. John H. 255
lasheep, D. F. SU.
Inskeen, Isaac
Inskeep, Capt. J. D. 164
Irwin, Jacob C. 742
Jackson William 4: 7
Jacobs. Robert 375
Jolanigen. Jos ph 52%
Johnson, F. N.
John-on. W. A.
Jones, W. S. . 034
Kall. 6 L
Kanffman J Y.
Kauffman. Bim R.
Seut! It S.
Phan, David
Kaylor. C. D. 613
Keylor D. M.
Kavior, J. F.
Keller. B. B. 130
Neer. John W
Neer, Noaks
Newell Lauply
Newell, 11 H 641
Shore. Grace M.
Kerr. John
413
Kerr, J. C.
274
Kerr, J. L.
276
Kerr. R. S.
416
King, H. J.
627
Kleinoehle, William
598
Outland. E. M. 693
Smith, George W.
551
Kreglow, James A. & Sons.
Krouse, Gabriel 366
Painter, R. M. 711
Patterson. Edward
Patterson. William T.
Pegg. O. R. 632
Spry, George
Stamm, A. H.
Stanfeld, Samuel
Stanley, H. C.
Stelizig. Edward T.
Stevenson, D. M.
531
Long, John R.
418
Piatt. Donn
477
Longbrake. Joseph
5.62
Plank. David
408
Longfellow, J. L.
634
Plum. W. S.
363
Loughman, Thaddeus 182
Love E. T. 781
Pool. Dr Frank A.
450
Swisher. Major Joseph
Lnkens. John F 110
Pool. Luther H
Powers, E-li
327
Taylor, Pev. F. M.
MacKinuon, J. W. 475
Powell, P. S. 300
Teets, James
Mr Adams, Martin H. 710 Powell, Samuel E. 735 Templeton, W. W.
MeWade. E. W.
Mark. H. J. .
Remis Se mioa L.
Malumson Cyrus
March. & J.
Renick MIA K.
May, Jo m
Miller, Abednego
Richard -. Bit 1:
Miller. A. J. .
Miller, A. . Ja.,
Miller. 1 C 4.75 713
Mitter. Martin
Milli. Sarad
7:2
ASH
Mobr. S. E -- 1
:15
Moore A B
Minore. A. T
Moan, H C 700
Seatt Abraham P
Naugle. G. C.
Needbam George W
Serr O C.
532
Sport C. J
776
Kennedy. Robert P. 296
Newell, John
774
Shinfelten. J. W.
Niven. John D. 743 Spiering r. John
Slicer. N. W.
Odell. O P. 692
Oder. Richard S. 772
Outiand. Dr. W. H 570
Smith, Nevin U.
Smith. W. E. ..
Smucker. D. D.
Snyder. W. T. G. 250
Speece. Dr. N. V.
Lamb, Robert 816
Lawrence, John M. 247
Lawrence, Hon, William 239
Leonard, Dr. B B. 517
Leonard, Nathaniel
696
Pettit, Lewis E. 277
Lineweaver, William 510
Philips. Dr. W. S. 505
Logan, A. H. 603
Piatt, Gen. A. Sanders 263 438
Stewart. W. E.
673
Strayer. W. M. 540
Surface. A. J.
Sutherland. Harvey
Swan. Dr. E .A. 551
Pool, Daniel S.
153
273
Smith. A.
Smith, D. F.
Kennedy, A. T. 730
Keanedy, John R. 751
Moon. U ]
Kautzman. Worthington
Musselman. John
Miller. WHBam 42%
T3:
Vol. Frederik
34 .
100
SicLaneblin Unat'es
257
Long, Marco W. 417
Piatt. K. B.
Pengelly, R. H. I. P.
Pennock. T. E. 360
Koogler, John H. 1×6
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INDEX.
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Thatcher, Dr. J. E.
540
www .. ma. N. J. . 347
Thomas, Foster
813
Wobb. Rex Charlton H 671
Wieen. Dr. O. C
Thompson, Smith R. .
620
Wort. W. H
Wortrole. Jacob J. 795
Timberman, M. J. 299
Wietersbam. W. O.
Worddird. C. W.
Waysht. Thomas H 400
William .. A. C. 627 Wright, Di. Thomas L. 390
Valentine, f. H.
Williams, 1-mah S.
676
Wyile. A. P. 654
Van Hyning, C. M.
810
Williams, Jeffrey 504
750
Yoder. S. E. 625
Young, H. D.
Walker. James
736
Williams. J. R.
Troyer, J. Y.
315
Wiegman, J. W.
Vaughn, Samuel
Williams. J. C.
Williams, J. Q.
476
HISTORICAL REVIEW
OF
LOGAN COUNTY, OHIO.
BY GENERAL R. P. KENNEDY.
CHAPTER I.
TWAN COUNTY-INDIANS- INDIAN VITE AGES -- TRLA1. IFS OF GREENVILLE AND MAUMLE RAPIDY -MACA. CHACK TOWNS-INDIAN CHIFFS-BLACK HOOF- BLUE JACKET-CORNSTALK -- TARHE. THE CRANI .- BUCKONGEHELAS - LITTLE TURILE -TORIIL. AND BLACK HOOF-WIW FLESPFA-LOGAN-KALOSITAH -TECUMSEHI.
Logan county is preeminently one of the banner counties of Ohio. It is the highest point from which to look down up- on the fertile valleys and the rich hillsides of the Miami and the Mad River. It is rich in Indian and early settlers' lore and le- gends, and contains within its boundaries some of the finest lands. the most product- ive plains, and the most prosperous people within the state. From the top of Hoge's Hill, the highest point in the state. 1540 feet above sea level, or from Leonard's Hill. just east of Bellefontaine. one can look down upon one of the most beautiful and charm- ing scenes possible to witness. Far away to
the westward lie the fertile valleys which follow the course of the Miami; to the south the valleys of the Madriver and the Maca- chack ; to the east the fertile fields which are included within the valleys of the Had- leys, the Marmons and the Zanes, while to the northward rise the hillsides which are ever rich in wheat and corn, and abundantly productive of fruits and grain : above them upon all sides and far beyond the blue ridges which unite the earth and sky bear witness to the fact that you are looking down from a lofty pinnacle upon one of the richest and most productive portions of the whole State of Ohio. It would be difficult in the whole world's travel to find within so small a com- pass so much of beauty, so magnificent a landscape, so rich and productive a country. so pleasing a prospect, as here presents itself to the beholder.
These hillsides are not bleak and des- late and unproductive, but rich to their very tops, and from their sides a golden glow of corn and sunshine, a silver sheen of wheat and grass are waving their bene-
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dictions to the fl wing streams and rich meadow lands below.
In this country. far back. before the white man's civilization came to change and chasten it. the Indians held it within their keeping, and the-e valleys were the homes of many tribes, and around their camp-fires gathered many generations of this most interesting and now almost forgotten people. Here the new settlers came from Kentucky. Virginia. the Carolinas, and New England, and from the colder and bleaker regions of the north, to make it at once a home and an abiding place. In their veins flowed sturdy and chivalric blood; they found a wilderness filled with game and environed with danger and id- venture: frem out of it all they brought a magnificent heritage to be transmitted to their children to the latest generations.
THE INDIANS.
In this Western Empire, for long years and perhaps centuries, the Indian had found in it the comforts of his frugal and health ful living. Ilis villages consisting of rudely- constructed leg huts and tepees. generally made of bark or the skins of wild animals, gave him a comfortable dwelling place, and the abundant game of the plains and the forest supplied himself and his family with all the necessaries of life. If he needed pas- turage for his pony or his domestic animals he burned the grass of the plains, thus at once clearing them of the forest growth, and at the same time furnishing him with green and fertile prairies, and left the country beautiful and charming even to the less practical beholder. His children were schooled in the hardships of his nomadic life; they were taught to hunt the game of the forests, to fish, to tell the courses by
the trees of the forests and the stars, and to excel in physical contests among them- solves. They were organized as nations and tribes, and their chiefs and head men were conspicuous for their valor. their leadership and their oratory.
The women in great measure were com- poled to hear the burdens of the camp, and to sustain the labors of the march, and the work necessary for the keeping of their homes and the rearing of their children.
Between the nations there often existed ferds, bitter contests and long continued warfare frequently decim ited their numbers. Among themselves they were always kind. domestic and considerate. The ties of fam- ils and kindred were always close and lasting: they were exceedingly alfec- tionate, and. no matter how gruff and surly they appeared. there was an under- lying tenderness and sympathy which man- ifeste itself in all of their relationships. The prisoners captured from the whites and adopted into their tribes and families have abundantly testified to their tenderness, and sympathy; it is a most remarkable tribute to their kindness and affectionate friendship that in nearly every instance these prisoners. tel:en from the whites and adopted by them. became so enamoured of the free and easy life of the plains and the forests, and so self-satisfied with their surroundings. that they refused to return to the civilization they had left behind: or. having returned. drifted back again to the frontier and to the Indian camps and villages in which they had experienced so much of life and hospitality. That these were not the coar-er and more uncultivated of the white captives is evi- denced by such instances as those of Frances Slocum of the Miamis. of . Willimun Boggs. of a distinguished family of Kentucky, of
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the Zanes, from the most cultured of the families of Virginia, of Colonel MePherson. one of the most distinguished and foremost of our early settlers, and of scores upon scores of those who found homes in the wilderness and among the Indian-, as cap- tives, only to make it in after years a per manent abiding place, and to assist in its up-building and development.
That these Indian people were war-like and cruel is unquestionable, and that they were not always merciful to their captives is equally certain. but we most recall the times and the conditions which surrounded them. The warfare in which they engaged was not one of civilization, and their school- ing among themselves and with the whites. in the arts of war, were of the coarser and more brutal nature. It is just, however, to the Indian to say that in many instances the whites equaled, if not excelled, in brutality. and that there are many dark and bloody spots left upon these fields of strife and con- flict which are dishonorable alike to both.
Among the Indian leaders there were none so fierce and brutal as the renegade whites, and McKee. Elliot and Girty have left memories behind that are still transcen- dent in infamy and crime. Upon the other hand we find some of the white leaders were as coarse, brutal and unforgiving as their Indian enemies.
The expedition of Williamson and his murder of the Moravian Missionaries re- mains without a parallel in Indian warfare. and is one of the most cruel. brutal and un- called-for of all the excesses and outrages of the whites. The expedition of Colonel Cressup which exterminated without dis- tinction as to age. sex. or condition. the Indians falling into his hands, called forth the vengeance of Logan, the Mingo chief
There is nothing more eloquent or pa- thetic than the speech of Logan recounting the wrongs and outrages suffered by his people at the hands of the whites and in justification of his own course, pursued for vengeance: but having glutted it, he again became the friend of the whites and remain- ed such until his untimely death. The In- dian tribes on this out-post, for many years Before the Revolution, were divided in their allegiance between the French and the English. The Miamiis, the Wyandottes, Ottawa- and other tribes sided with the French, while the Shawonoes, the Dela- wares and other tribes joined the English. They fought a great battle near the town of Piqua. in Clarke county, and the English forces were defeated ; soon after the Miamis and others adhering to the French abandon- ed the country and went to the valley of the Wabash. The Shawonoes, and their friends at once took possession of the country, but son found the English no better allies than the French had been.
The Wyandottes and Ottawas occupied the country south of Lake Erie, and west of the Cuyahoga: the Shawonoes occupied the country south of the Wyandots, and on the east side of the Mad River, some fifty miles wide, extending to the Ohio. They were the devoted friends and allies of the Wyandots and within their territory was the present county of Logan ; the nation was divided into several tribes, and had villages on the Maumee, the Scioto, the Mad river, and the Great Miami. The Dela- wares were another neighboring tribe still west of the Shawonces, while the Mingus and the Cherokees were in close alliance with, and in some respects subject to their fearless and more war-like brethren, the Shawonnes.
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INDIAN VILLAGES IN LOGAN COUNTY.
The Shawonoes had villages at Wapa- tomica and Macachack, and on the Mad river. The village of Wapatomica was near if not on the farm of Judge Hoge, near the State bridge: Macachack, on the farm formerly owned by John Nash, just east of West Liberty, and Pigeon Town was five or six miles northwest, on the farm for- merly owned by James Dunn and now own ed by Captain J. D. Emerson, in Union township. There were other small villages and Indian settlements in Logan county.
The Delawares having been driven from their homes on the Muskingum in 1781, had cast their lot with the Wyandots and Shaw- onoes, and had joined the villages on the Macachack: Buckongchelas. one of their head chiefs, having taken up his residence in one of these villages; Buckongchelas es- tablished his village about three miles north- west of the present city of Bellefontaine, on the waters of the creek which bears his name. The Wyandots had a village at the head waters of Mad river which was called Zanestown, named after Isaac Zane, who had been carried away by them many years before, with his brother Ebenezer, from Berkeley county. Virginia, when only nine years of age, and who had been adopted into their tribe. On the farm of Mr. A. C. Mc- Clure, in Richland township, was the Wyan- dot village of Solomontown. named after one of their chiefs, and over which the war- rior Chief Tarhe, the Crane, was chief. There was an Indian village at Lewistown also named after one of their chiefs, Col- onel Lewis. The Mingo chief Logan had a village on the Scioto. just east of the town of Kenton.
Hle was one of the most considerate and
friendly of all the Indimy Andi -. 08) was known as a friend of the gone Be at- lage was in a direct line : 81 Marvel to Upper Sandusky, the best oftheme and the Wyandots.
The Showonog established from hell village at Wapalometa and pra das point for many years conducted the afm - ni their tribe. On the sight of BBCfontaine was the Shawonde town of the celebrated chief, Blue Jacket.
Blue Jacket lived in a cabin on the lot now occupied by Mr. Robert Cohon. and the spring at the warehouse of Kerr Broth- ers, was the Blue Jacket spring. The creek which runs westward from Bellefontaine still bears the name of this celebrated war- rior. The Delaware moder Blue Jacket es- tablished a town at the junction of the Miami and the Auglaize rivers and it was to this point that General Wayne marched his army in 1704. and at the falls of the rapids of the Maumee defeated the Shawonoes, Delaware, Minns, Potowatomies. Otta- was and Senacas under Blue Jacket and Lit- tle Turtle. Blue Jacket being in chici com- mand. The Shaw onoes were the most war- like of the Indian tribes in this portion of the country; they took part in most of the contests, not only between the French and English, but between the Americans and the English, after they became the allies of the English armies. They were present and ma- terially aided the French in Braddock's de- icat in 1755. They took part with the Wyandotts and others in the defeat of Crawford in the year 1789 and were part of the forces of Little Turtle's command. which also destroyed the army of Gen- cral Sinclair in 1701. and were after- wards a part of the army which Gen- eral Wayne sos signally defeated in the battle
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of Fallen Timber- at the falls of the Man- mee: at this light Blue Jacket, who was in chief command, was determined to give bat- tle, while Little Turtle advised against a gen- eral engagement with the whites, but was overcome by the vehemence and eloquence of Blue Jacket. The battle was a most dis- astrous defeat to the Indians and resulted in the Treaty of Greenville. That Little Turtle was the most distinguished and able of all the Indian warriors is unquestionable. He was cumming, politic and of most con- summate ability. After the defeat of the Indians by General Wayne a permanent treaty of peace was concluded between the August 3rd, 1795.
whites and the Indians at Greenville on county and removed to Upper Sandusky; at
TREATIES OF GREENVILLE AND MAT MEE RAPIDS.
Among those present on behalf of the Indians were Tarhe ( the Crane ), Blackhoof. the principal chief of the Macachack towns. Blue Jacket. the great war chief of the Shawonoes, and Little Turtle, of the Miamis, the greatest of all the Indian war- riors, who has been likened to General Grant as the silent chieftain and the greatest of all the Indian fighters. The treaty of Greenville ended the long continued and bloody contest which had for nearly fifty years imbued the waters of our beautiful rivers with the blood of the white man and the blood of the red man until they literally ran red and crimson to the gulf.
By the Treaty of September 29th, 1817. at Maumee Rapids, the Shawonoes and Senecas had a reservation at Lewiston con- sisting of forty thousand and three hun- dred acres, in Washington township: and a reservation of ten miles square was set aside for them in Auglaize county.
where they had established their headquar- ters and lauit up then jalgopal town of Wapakonety; to this last reservation was afterwards added twenty-five square miles on Hog creek. In 1818, twelve thousand five hundred more acres were added to this reservation.
Black Hoof removed his tribes from the Macachack to these reservations and took up his own headquarters in the principal vil- lage of Wapakoneta, at which point all the business of the tribes was afterward con- ducted.
By the Treaty of Greenville the Wyan- dots surrendered all their lands in Logan this point the Wyandots had long had an established village with Half King as their chief, and it was near this place where Col- onel Crawford suffered his disastrous de- feat in 1780. when attempting the destruc- tion of the Wyandot and Shawonoe towns. With the conclusion of these treaties of peace and amity between the whites and In- dians a great immigration began, and a mighty stream of civilization came pouring into the western wilds and onto these wes- tern plains. The best of the homeseekers. and the most enterprising citizens came from Pennsylvania. Kentucky and New England, while Virginia sent thousands of her patriot sokliers to locate their bounty lands, and to find in this fruitful North- west a permanent home for themselves and their children. The Indians remained at peace with the whites, and became docile children of the Great Father, who had taken them into his care and keep- ing. and for many years they remained upon the reservations set aside for their exclusive use by these treaties. But the never-ending stream of civil zation was
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pouring its great flood tide interior west- codeto win solo Car That phone. ern wilds, and was crowding do indie- of Bo dom a steep forene I want the back from the frontiers, and corromper. berg his hunting grounds and closing of around Already TheMoody wind- and the slaan on- haws Have covered the m' his cabins and his tepees until at 10 00 1832. a treaty was made with the Shawendes and Senecas, and in 1844. a final treaty with the Wyandots, assigning lands and homes in the great prairies to the far westward, and In 1780 General Benjamin Logan, with a considerable force, left the Fal's of the Ohio for the purpose of destroying the In- dian towns on the Mad river. He was en- tirely successful, and so completely sur- prised the Indians that their towns were wipe out. In this expedition two names appear which are inseparably associated with Indian wars and adventures in the northwest; Colonel Daniel Boone com- manded the center and advance of the army of General Logan, and with han was Major Simon Kenton, afterward so distinguished a soldier, and who for many years was a citi- zen of Logan county. It has been claimed by some writers that Zanestown was de- stronyed by this expedition; i am clearly of the opinion that this is not correct. In 1785 the Wyandots. Chippewas and Delawares had concluded a treaty with the whites, and had kept the same faithfully: the Shawondes refused to join in this treat- ty, and it was against the Shawonoes that Logan's expedition was directed, and the towns destroyed by him were Shawnnoe towns ; there is no mention of the destruc- tion of Zanestown. by any of the whites fa- miliar with the Zanes and Zanestown. and there was no reason for its destruction, and to have wantonly destroyed it would have leen in violation of the treaty of the three tribes named, and in the worst of bad faith upon the part of the whites. they went. only to be again followed be that restless civilization, which never wearies of progress and halted not until it ste I on the shores of the Pacific and liftel it wistful gyes over the ocean to the womdrons fields beyond. There is something peculiarly sad in this driving out of a people whose ances- tors had occupied this country for so many centuries ; but the white man's civilization was destined to change and chasten it; the red man's days were numbered, and his tribe and his kindred must give way to the broader and better civilization which was to follow. He folded his tepees, and with his ponies, his dogs, his guns and his ar- rows led his patient and long-suffering tribes from the land of his fathers toward the set- ting of the sun. He has left behind him only the rhythmic flow of his language in the streams, the lakes, the prairies, and the cities which he could not carry away. The names of the Blue Jacket. the Buckongehelas, the Macachack, the Cherokee, the Miami and the Maumee flow onward forever. bearing upon their waters no lenger the blood and tears of the red man, but the wondrous civ- ilization which came to them over the monn- tains in the great tide of immigration. which was destined to make of this carlier and ruder frontier the home of the greatest of all this nation's richest and most produc- tive people. Before going away they leveled the graves of their dead, removed every In 1786 the Indian towns within the
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present bounds of Logan county were Wa- and cast a foul stain upon the expedition. patomica, Macachack, Pigeontown. Lewis- These towns on the Macachack were all re- luilt. excepting Wapatomica, which was never restored. town, McKeestown. Blue Jacket's Town and Reedstown. all being towns of the Sha- wouldes ; Zanestown and Solomonstown be- ing towns of the Wyandots, and Buckong- INDIAN CHIEFS. gehelas being the town of the Delaware chief of that name.
The Delawares. the Mingus and the Wyandots were on friendly terms with the Shawonoes, and as it were, subject to and under the control of this most warlike of all the Indian tribes.
The towns on the Macachack are fre- quently referred to as the Mingo towns, but they were in fact Shawonoe towns.
It is certain that Buckongehelas, the Delaware chief. had his headquarters in one of these towns on the Macachack, and remained with them until he had established his own town northwest of Bellefontaine.
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