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INTON COUNTY
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CLINTON COUNTY.
OHIO,
Volume 2
CONTAINING .
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY ; ITS TOWNSHIPS, CITIES, TOWNS, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, ETC. ; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN; HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY ; HISTORY OF OHIO; MAP OF CLINTON COUNTY ; CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, ETC., ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: W. H. BEERS & 00. 1882.
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TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.
WILMINGTON -- UNION TOWNSHIP.
THE town of Wilmington is situated a short distance northwest of the center of Clinton County, of which it is the soat of justice. Up to the year 1810, the sito of the place was covered with a dense growth of timber, but in that year it became necessary, the county having been organized, to locate a county seat. Consequently, land having been donated for the purpose, and James Mc- Manis having been appointed Director to act for the Commissioners, the town of Clinton was laid out on a part of T. Posey's Survey, No. 1057. The his- tory of the steps leading to the location of the county seat is fully given in Chapters 6 and 7 in this volume. The name Clinton was not found to be sat- isfactory, and, in September, 1810, an order was issued by the Court of Com- mon Pleas changing it to Arinenia. This gave as great dissatisfaction, and, on the 31st of December in the same year, the court, by request of the donors, ordered that the name be changed to Mt. Pleasant. Still the matter was not satisfactory, and, on the 20th of February, 1811, another order from the court changed the name to Wilmington, decreeing also that no further change should be made unless authorized by an act of the Legislature.
The original town as laid out consisted of sixteen squares of eight lots each, the lots numbered consecutively from 1 to 128. For the benefit of the readers the subjoined plat and description are inserted:
STATE OF OHIO, ¿
CLINTON COUNTY, SS.
[IL. S.] Be it remembered that before me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Clinton, personally appeared James McManis, Dircteor for Clinton County, and proprietor of the land contained within the bounds of the town of Clinton, as conveyed to said James McManis in trust for the use and behoof of said county, and produced the within plat, which he acknowledged to be an accurate plat of said town of Clinton, and that Nos. 58 and 73 (as marked on said plat), are particularly set apart for public grounds. The plat is on a scale of ten poles to an inch *; the streets are four poles wide, and the alleys one pole wide; the courses of the same are north eighty-nine degrees east, by south one degree east; the sizes of the lots five and a half poles in front, and ten and a half back, except those fronting South street, which are five and a quarter poles in front, and eleven poles back. All the other lots, as numbered on said plat, are for sale for the use and behoof of said county of Clinton, wherein said town lies, except two lots reserved by Joseph Doan (one of the donators). Said James McManis doth voluntarily acknowledge the land contained in said plat to be for public uses for the county of Clinton and town afore- said within said county, in trust to and for the uses and purposes herein named, ex- . pressed or intended, agreeable to said plat, and for no other use or purpose whatever. Given under my hand and seal, August 2, 1810.
ROBERT EACHUS, J. Peace.
[No. 22.] Received for record on the 2d day of August, 1810, and recorded on the 25th day of August, 1810, in Book A, pages 25 and 26. Examined by ROBERT EACHUS, R. C. C.
*Referring to the recorded plat ; the one here given is on a scale of 400 feet to an inch.
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TOWN OF CLINTON, PLATTED AUGUST 2, 1810
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65
8
9
24
25
40
41
63
66
0
7
10
23
26
39
42
61
68
LOCUST
STREET.
69
6
11
22
27
38
43
59
70
STREET.
101
108
117
124
B
MAIN
STREET.
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18
20
29
36
45
55
56
73
74
84
93
100
109
116
125
X
SOUTH
75
83
94
99
110
115
126
76
STREET.
77
82
95
98
111
114
127
78
79
81
96
97
112
113
128
49
80
X Public grounds.
O Joseph Doan's lots.
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The following is a list of those persons who were original purchasers of lots in the town plat of Clinton, afterward Wilmington, as shown by the reo- ords of the county:
No. of Lot.
To whom Sold.
Date.
Prico.
1 and 16 Thomas Thatcher
August 16, 1813 ..
$12
2 and 18 Francis Dunlavy
November 16 and 26, 1813
17
3
Aaron Carnahan
September 3, 1810
6 50
4
Isaac Garretson.
October 5, 1815
8 124
5
Daniel Dillon
September 3, 1810.
20
6 and 11 William Hobson
August 16, 1813.
16
7
John Hays.
December 5, 1810.
8 75
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8
Joseph Doan.
September 3, 1810.
13 25
9
William Venard.
December 5, 1810
9 62
10
Francis Dunlavy.
November 26, 1813
7
12
William Hobson.
December 5, 1810 ..
12
13
Timothy Bennet.
September 3, 1810.
80
14
Amos T. Sewell.
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8
14
19
80
35
46
53
SUGARTREE
52
2
15
18
31
84
47
51
1
16
17
32
33
.48
STREET.
86
91
102
107
118
123
STREET.
37
44
57
58
71
72
85
92
5
12
21
28 O
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X
88
89
104
105
120
121
62
67
87
90
10
106
119
122
60
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MULBERRY
54
WALNUT
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No. of Lot.
To whom Sold.
Date.
Price.
15 17 19
Joseph Doan.
September 3, 1810.
10 50
William Polk.
..
September 3, 1810.
6 75
William Haworth ..
September 3, 1810. ..
12 60
20
George Wissonnand.
July 20, 1813.
80
21
Jonathan McMillan.
September 3, 1810.
80 50 8
22 23
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Jacob Strickle.
February 11, 1824
15
26
William Venard.
December 6, 1810 ..
27
Joel Wright.
September 3, 1810.
28
Joseph Doan.
September 8, 1810
35
29
James Haworth ..
September 8, 1810.
86
30
Amos T. Sewell.
August 16, 1813.
15
31
Solomon Stanbrough
September 3, 1810.
81
82
William Polk.
December 5, 1810.
7
88 and 48 Thomas Thatcher.
August 16, 1818
15 -
84
Isaiah Morris.
June 7, 1814 ...
12
85 86 87
George Haworth, Jr.
September 3, 1810.
23 25 81 76 16
88
Joseph Haines
June 26, 1814
89
Dillon Haworth
September 3, 1810.
25 26
40 and 41 Isaiah Morris.
August 16, 1810.
12
42 43 44
Eli Harvey.
September 3, 1810.
Arthur Barrett
December 5, 1810.
45
John Harlan
September 3, 1810
Thomas Gaskill
August 6, 1813.
Henry Babb.
September 3, 1810.
Jesse Dillon.
September 3, 1810.
John Griffith
December 5, 1810.
Aaron Sewell.
October 2, 1810.
Loammi Rigdon.
April 6, 1816
Eli Gaskill
September 3, 1810.
Thomas Hale ..
May 10, 1812.
Jonathan Harlan.
September 3, 1810
William Ferguson.
May 10, 1812.
Benjamin Galloway
September 3, 1810.
86
John Cox
September 3, 1810.
84
Allen Wright.
December 5, 1810.
Mahlon Haworth
September 3, 1810.
Thomas D. Scott.
December 5,: 1810.
Benjamin Kirby.
September 3, 1810.
64
Thomas McMillan
December 5, 1810 ..
John Griffith
September 3, 1810.
Jonah Wright ..
December 5, 1810.
69
Jesse and David Hughes
September 3, 1810.
Allen Wright.
December 5, 1810.
William Ferguson
September 3, 1810.
William Ferguson.
December 5, 1810.
40
73
Public ground.
December 5, 1810.
37
Richard Haworth.
September 3, 1810
42 52
. Samuel T. Louden.
June 26, 1814.
15 374
Walter Dillon. Joel Wright.
December 5, 1810.
14 25
Absalom Haworth
September 3, 1810
13 75
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James Spencer
December 5, 1810.
11
81
Adin Clevenger
November 24, 1813
8
82
Isaiah Morris.
November 24, 1813
4 12}
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24 25
Joseph Doan.
September 8, 1810.
15 25 18 26
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Jacob Haines
September 3, 1810.
36 35 59 50
46 47 49 50 51 52
58 54 55 56 57 58
Public ground.
59 60 61 62 63
34 60 50 28 373 20
65 66 67 68
John Mcwhorter.
September 3, 1810.
Eaven Stanbrough ..
December 5, 1810.
8 124 22 75 14.62} 25 30 12} 70 45 100
70 71 72
Thomas Armstrong.
September 3, 1810.
21
74 75 76 77 78 79 80
George Haworth, Jr.
December 5, 1810
James Hollingsworth.
March 24, 1826
20
John McGregor.
December 5, 1810.
Uncertain
12 17 9 25
7 874 11 50 10 30 50 50 71 91
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No. of Lot.
To whom Sold.
Date.
Price.
83
Eli Gaskill
September 3, 1810
23
84
Samuel Louden
November 24, 1813.
10 884
85
Samuel Cox.
September 3, 1810.
68 50
86
Larkin Reynolds
August 16, 1813
15 17 7
88
Caleb Reynolds
December 5, 1810
89
William Walker.
September 8, 1810.
12 50 35 36
92
Solomon Stanbrough.
December 5, 1810.
98
Jacob Kelley
October 3, 1814.
30 25
94
Samuel Gaskill
February 8, 1815.
10 50
95
Thomas Armstrong.
September 3, 1810.
11
96
Thomas Gaskill
February 1, 1814.
8 25
97
Rebecca Sewell
August 16, 1813
10 50 12
99
Paul Way ..
September 3, 1810.
31 7 31 75
102
Thomas Babb, Sr
March 2, 1815.
21 50
103
Isaiah Morris
June 25, 1814
22 50 9 12 50
106
Isaiah Morris.
March 3, 1815.
7 50
107
John Haworth.
September 3, 1810.
16 17
108
Isaiah Morris
February 1, 1814.
109 110
Asa Holcomb
September 3, 1810.
111
Jonathan Hodgeon
September 3, 1810.
8 50
113
Elijah Burge
June 7, 1815.
10
114 & 128
Francis Dunlavy.
November 16, 1813
19 72
115
William R. Cole.
116
William R. Cole.
Previous to 1814.
117
Thomas Trump.
September 3, 1810.
28
119
Henry Babb.
September 3, 1810 ..
7 75
120
James Montgomery
December 5, 1810.
5 50
121
James Montgomery.
September 3, 1810.
7 30
122
Mary Williams
June 7, 1815.
10
123
William Hoblett.
September 3, 1810
11 50
124
Thomas Reese ..
February 7, 1816.
15 25 -
125
Paul Way.
September 3, 1810.
27
126
Arthur Barret.
November 24, 1813
7 50
127
Daniel Hodgeon
September 3, 1810.
5 75
100
Larkin Reynolds
August 16, 1813.
101
Samuel Haworth.
September 3, 1810.
104
Caleb Reynolds
December 5, 1810.
105
George Green
February 25, 1811
12 50 22 20 12 50
/112
James Sherman
November 4, 1813.
98
James Sherman
October 2, 1810
90
George Wissennand
March 2, 1813.
91
Azel Walker.
September 3, 1810.
87
John Cassada.
August 25, 1815 ..
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Paul Way ..
September 3, 1810.
118
Hannah Williams
Joseph Doan, one of the original proprietors of the land on which Wil- mington was platted, had made his purchase in the spring of 1805. He lived in a log house northwest of the then newly surveyed village, on land which is now inside the corporate limits of Wilmington. He could not at first see the cluster of houses forming the settlement from his place, but after a time the timber was cut away, and a view was afforded of the aspiring county seat. Mr. Doan appears to have been a man of genial presence and one who enjoyed life well.
William Hobson (or Hobsin) is said to have erected the first cabin in the limits of what is now Wilmington. He lived northeast from the present busi- ness center, and, on the 5th of December, 1810, purchased Lot No. 12, paying therefor the sum of $12 .* This lot is on the north side of Main street, west of Mulberry. Hobson was a gunsmith and worked here at his trade with some
*Hobson had lived in the neighborhood probably a year or two before that time.
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profit. According to the recollection of William Hale, Mr. Hobson died not long after he moved here, and the same gentleman says that when he and his father and John (son of Joseph) Doan were at work building the old court house, in 1812, they took their meals with the Widow Hobson and her daughter Debby, and roomed in the upper part of the jail building, furnishing their own bedding. The bricks for that court house were made on the lot where it was built, at the south end. Jacob Hale, the contractor for the work, was a brick and stone mason by trade, and the son (William) was then learning, his work at laying brick on the court house being about the first he had ever done in that line. William Hale says his father paid Mrs. Hobson about $1.50 per week for cooking for the men at the time named.
The first permanent settler in Wilmington, after the town was laid out, is generally admitted to have been Warren Sabin, who was a brother-in-law of William Hale. He was not one of the purchasers at the first sale of lots in the town, * but was here in 1810, and, in 1811, kept a tavern and liquor shop in a log building which stood on a lot next north of the one now occupied by the court house, extending to the alley .; His first license to keep tavern in the place was issued by the Court of Common Pleas October 10, 1811, his being the second establishment of the kind licensed in the place. Dr. Jones, in writing upon the subject, says: "In a part of this small hotel a bar was soon erected for the purpose of retailing whisky, which was then the only alcoholic drink used. * * Early in the spring months, in the year 1811, Mr. Sabin hoisted his sign, marked 'Warren Sabin, 1811.' This old sign swung to and fro for nearly forty years. Sabin's tavern became known from East to West, and was a common resting-place for the early survey hunter. The travel and the great number then seeking for new homes in this rich and productive val- ley made it necessary that Mr. Sabin should add more room to his hotel. Four or fivo one-story log houses were added to the main building, making it, in truth, a strange-looking hotel. Mr. Sabin, like many other business men, had the organ of hope very largely developed. Anxious to make money, he tried many ways and means and failed in all. In 1811, his hotel was the head- quartors for the military organizations of Clinton County. For a third of a century the officers presiding over the courts held in Clinton County made Sa- bin's hotel their headquarters during the sittings of the courts."
Although Mr. Sabin opened the first permanent tavern in the place, he had been preceded in the business by Larkin Reynolds, to whom a tavern license was issued June 4, 1811. He built a small frame structure on the lot wost of the court house, and furnished entertainment principally in the liquor line. In those days it was customary for everybody to drink whisky, and mem- bers of the clergy were not loath to accept of a proffered dram in common with their neighbors. It would have been considered inhospitable if the bottle had not been placed before guests almost immediately upon their entering the domi- ciles of acquaintances and friends -. or even those of strangers-and it was simply impolite to get drunk. That much drunkenness resulted from the too free use of liquor is not questioned, and Saturday usually witnessed a half dozen or more street broils. Larkin Reynolds was by trade a tailor, and joined that business with that of tavern-keeping. He did the cutting and his wife most of the sewing. Reynolds was not here many years, and finally removed to Wayne County, Ind.}
During the winter of 1810-11, numerous families located in Wilmington,
*It is said that Sabin did purchase the lot on which his building stood in the fall of 1810, at the regular sale of Wilmington town lots, but the record shows that it was sold to John Cox on the 3d of September, 1810, for $84.
tA daughter of Warren Sabin was the first white child born in Wilmington.
#The name of Larkin Reynolds appears to a bond furnished by him and twenty others, in 1817, binding them to furnish Wayne County, Ind., a court house at Centerville, equal in value and convenience to the one at Saulsbury.
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generally building small log cabins on their lots. A few rough frame build- ings were erocted, about 12x15 feet in dimensions, hardly affording decent shelter. A better class of dwellings and business edifices was not long in coming, however, and brick was used to some extent quite early, the clay in the vicinity affording excellent material for their manufacture.
East of Walnut street, on the small branch which flows through the town, and near the high bank below South street, was a famous deer lick, and those animals would resort to the spot at night in large numbers. Old settlers re- mark that "the tracks of their hoofs were so thick in the morning that it looked as if a drove of cattle had been there."
David Sewell, in 1811, built a small house at the northeast corner of Main and Mulberry streets, where he kept notions for sale subsequently, and also furnished entertainment for travelers and others, principally whisky.
John McGregor, a native of Scotland, and for some time a resident of Londonderry, in the North of Ireland, came to America with six of his brothers, subsequent to the rebellion of 1794, in which he had been engaged, and set- tled in Frederick County, Va., on what is known as Apple Pie Ridge, where he engaged in kooping a house of entertainment. He was by trade a woaver, having learned the business in Scotland. In company with his wife and family, he came to Ohio in 1802, settling in the spring of 1803 at Deerfield, Warren County. In 1803, he purchased 200 acres of land in Murray's Survey, No. 1632, in Vernon Township, Clinton County, and settled upon it in 1808 or 1809. In the spring of 1812,* he removed to Wilmington, and. as early as the 2d of June, in that year, opened a tavern on the lot at the southeast corner of Main and Mulberry streets. The first court held in Wilmington convened at McGregor's in October, 1812. Mr. McGregor died in 1813, having ruptured a blood vessel in attempting to lift a barrel of whisky, and lived only an hour after the occurrence.
"Eli McGregor, son of John McGregor, was born in Berkeley County, Va., January 1, 1798. He came with his parents to Ohio in 1802. In 1812, he came to Wilmington, and, in 1813, went to Lebanon to learn the cabinet- maker's trade; ho remained there a few years, then went to Paris and Bowling Green, Ky .; then he returned to Ohio, spending a time in Xenia. In 1821, he returned to Wilmington, where he resided up to the time of his death, in 1876. In May, 1822, he was married to Maria Sexton, daughter of Col. Jo- seph Sexton, of Frederick County, Va .; they spent fifty-four years of happy married life together; they had seven children, six of whom lived to maturity. Mr. McGregor was a strong Anti-slavery man, and attended the Hamilton Con- vention, that, in 1840, organized the Liberty party."t Mr. McGregor, after his return from Lebanon, about 1821 or 1822, opened a cabinet shop at his father's old corner. His death, on the authority of his son John, occurred in July, 1877, instead of in 1876, as above stated.
Samuel H. Hale was one of the most prominent men among the early set- tlers of Wilmington. Before coming here, he had been assisting for a time in the publication of the Western Star, at Lebanon, Warren County. A num- ber of the subscribers lived in the Todd's Fork settlements in Clinton County, , and the bundle of papers intended for them was sent to the residence of Mr. Hale's father, Jacob Hale, in Vernon Township, and William Hale carried them to their respective places. S. H. Hale, upon his arrival in Wilmington, in 1812, purchased the building on Main street, west of the court house, for-
*So given by Judge Harlan. Dr. Jones says 1811, and Mr. McGregor's grandson, John McGregor, says about 1813.
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merly owned by Larkin Reynolds, * and opened a small store in it. About 1814, he caused a brick building to be erected on the same site, forty-six feet front and thirty-six feet back, with a kitchen at the back part near the west end. In that building he lived and carried on his business and kept a public house. His father and brother built the house for him, William making the brick and the two laying them up. William Hale was married to Mariah Sabin, January 15, 1817, and his brother Samuel gave the couple a grand ro- ception at his house on that occasion. On the evening of the 4th of March, 1829, the building and contents were destroyed by fire, and, in the summer of the same year, Mr. Hale built the east part of the hotel, now known as the
1 West House, opposite his first location. The walls of this building were also laid up by Jacob Hale and his son William, and the latter dressed the stone for the foundation and window-sills. An alley was left immediately west of the building, through which teams could pass to the stables in the rear. The space has since been covered by an addition to the hotel. Samuel H. Hale kept the place a number of years. In 1850, the proprietor was M. M. Hale, and the hotel became known as the Hale House. Numerous persons were pro- prietors of this establishment. In the fall of 1864, it was repaired and re- titted, and, in the latter part of December, taken possession of by J. J. Stagg, / formerly of the Buckeye House. At that time and for several years, it was known as the Gates House, the name West House having been applied in more . recent years. William Thompson was its landlord for a time after Mr. Stagg left it, and, in 1877, the present proprietors, J. J. Stagg and H. H. Abell, leased it and have continued to operate it to the present time.
Samuel H. Hale is now deceased. His brother, William Hale, now ninety- two years of age (born September 27, 1790), settled in Wilmington in 1817, after his marriage, and built the brick house on the north side of Main street, west of Mulberry, now occupied by Stephen Eldred for a boarding-house. There he lived over twenty years; he then moved to the farm near town now owned by John Hale, and twenty years afterward, moved to the place he now occupies, on West Main street, near the corporation limits, where he has re- sided a little over twenty two years. He is a remarkably preserved specimen of the pioneer, having been seventeen years of age when he settled with his father on Todd's Fork, in what is now Vernon Township, above Clarksville.
James Massie, a son-in-law of Jacob Hale, and a saddler and harness- maker by trade, settled in Wilmington in 1814, on the west side of Mulberry street, south of Main. About that time, he set out the elm tree on his lot, next south of the alley, which has since grown to such large dimensions. A large branch of this tree was blown off in a severe storm about the 1st of July, 1882. Massie was an excellent workman and had plenty of custom, but he was of a somewhat restless disposition, and, in various schemes to increase his property, he lost the most of that he possessed. It is many years since his death occurred.
The following items are furnished by Dr. Jones:
"John Hobson and Silas Hobson, brothers of William Hobson, settled in Wilmington in 1811. They were hatters by trade, and worked for many years in the village.
"Samuel Gaskill, Sr., settled in Wilmington in 1811. He was a harness- maker by trade. Near the present site of the Union Schoolhouse, he built his
*William Hale thinks it was in this same building that Asu Holcomb had a liquor shop and variety store. Dr. Jones says Holcomb's store was " on the lot lately owned by David Sanders." The date at which he opened his estab- lishment is fixed at 1811. Holcomb owned a violin, and was a fair performer upon it, and his place was well patron- ized. After a short time he removed to Cincinnati. When he was here, it is said there were four distilleries in town, owned by Hale, Mckinsey, Ireland and Cox, and all flourished. It was said as a partial excuse for drinking liquor that it " kept off the shakes !"
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log house. This old cabin stood for half a century, and was ono of the last monuments of a pioneer building.
"Burgoyne Purcell settled in 1812, and erected his log house and shop on the lot now owned by the Misses Jenkins. He was by trade a cabinet maker. He remained at that location for nearly half a century, until death removed him. He was industrious, moral and upright, and a worthy and good citizen.
"John Pennington, shoemaker by trade, settled in 1812 on the lot where . . James Cleaver now lives.
" Jack Cassada, by birth a Canadian, located in Wilmington in the year 1812; in the war of 1812, served as a substitute. At the close of the war, he engaged in the whisky trade here, and for ten years did a large business in retailing intoxicating drinks. In 1823, he died of bilious remittent fever. At the close of his lifo, he gave his property to kind and benevolent strangers and to those who had taken care of him in his last illness.
"George Whisanan, in the year 1811, built on part of the lot where the Baptist Church now stands. He was a hatter by trade, and was assisted by the brothers, John and Silas Hobson.
" Thomas Gaskill built his log cabin on the western part of the premises now occupied by H. W. Hale. He was by trade a tanner, and moved from Warren County, Ohio, to the newly laid-off town of Wilmington to engage in the manufacture of leather. In the early spring of 1811. ho sunk his vats and commenced to tan rawhides and make leather. It was in the small log house erocted by him, and without floor or door, that his son Milton was added to the family. Milton was the first male child born in the village." Gaskill sold his tannery to Thomas Thatcher, who had learned the business in his employ and who conducted it for a time. Thatcher came from noar Port William, having lived on the edge of Greene County, and located at Wilmington soon after it was laid out. About 1823-24, ho sold his tannery to Thomas Palmer, who carried on the business until the 8th of January, 1835, when he leased the tannery and stock to Isaac Palmer and Jamos Bruce, who continued the business. Thomas Palmer had advertised extensively in the Democrat and Herald, published at Wilmington, and commandod a good trado. While the establishment had belonged to Thomas Gaskill, there were three others in the place, owned by William Stockdale, David F. Walker and another man whose nanie is not remembered. The business of tanning has long since ceased to be remunerative in this locality.
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