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WYANDOT 11
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
1877.
COMPRISING
LIBRARY
LITY DIRECTORIES OF UPPER SANDUSKY, CAREY AND NEVADA : BUSINESS DIRECTORIES OF MARSEILLES, KIRBY, SYCAMORE, MCCUTCHENVILLE, LITTLE SANDUSKY, BELLE VERNON, WHARTONSBURG, AND
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PREFACE.
We take pleasure in presenting to our patrons this volume, THE WYANDOT COUNTY DIRECTORY. We have endeavored to give a complete Business Directory of the county, combined with historical and biographical sketches, and flatter ourselves with the belief that the task has been reasonably well performed. Con- sidering the time at our disposal, it cannot be expected that the sketches contained herein will be in any respect elaborate. They are merely hasty productions-surface skimmings as it were. We have been as careful as possible in giving facts, but have expected from the start to make some mistakes. In compiling information we have drawn liberally from Howe's History of Ohio, Crawford's Campaign against Sandusky, the files of the Democratic Union and Nevada Enterprise. and have received many facts from old citizens of the county, to whom we express our sincere acknowledgements. In the Directory proper, mistakes no doubt will be found, but as all human efforts are not infallible we hope the public will judge us leniently. Thanking our many patrons and friends for their liberality and their untiring efforts to aid us in the work we cheer- fully submit the volume to their kind consideration.
PUBLISHERS.
GENERAL INDEX.
Abreviations 81
Alphabetical List of Names Upper Sandusky 81-130
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66 Carey.
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66 Nevada 157-168
Business Directory, Upper Sandusky
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Marseilles
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Mccutchenville
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Little Sandusky
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Belle Vernon
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Sycamore
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History of Wyandot County
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List of Tax Payers Wyandot County 67-79
Miscellaneous Directory, Upper Sandusky
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Carey
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Nevada
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Index to Advertisers.
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Kail A & W M.
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Andrews & Bartow front fly leaf and 121
Kinnaman F & CF
Ayres Isaac. 115
Kokenge B.
front cover and 15 97
Barnes J W, MD 119
McKelly R. 80
Bauscher B L 105
McKelvy & Son.
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Drum & Deal
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Demarest & Howell
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Fleming H
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Grisell T E
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Hare D D
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Warner JR
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Waters Henry
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Hoyt & Pettit 80
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Wyandot County Bank
Hunt & White S7
Wyandot County Republican 117
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Brinkerhoff A W & Son. inside back cover Byron D W 113
Savidge G A
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Smith Eli 83
Fleck H. 119
Stephan C. 115
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CAREY.
Carey Times
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Harpster David
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Ludwig & Keller
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Sutphen JZ
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Wensinger J & J
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Gaa Martin 179
Myers & Brundage
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Carter T H 175
Russell John
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Hvman F W 174
Smith J W
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Martin W R
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Coates Geo S . 171
McConnell DW, MD
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McClelland Wm 170
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Simpson S S. 163
Smith WHI 164
Studebaker J O 163
MCCUTCHENVILLE.
Chamberlain J M 179
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MARSEILLES.
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HISTORICAL.
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF WYANDOT COUNTY.
The section of country comprised within the boundaries of Wyandot County is noted for its historical associations. It was inhabited at an early day by the Wyandot tribe of Indians, from whom the county derives its name.
By an act of the Legislature passed February 3d, 1845, the county of Wyandot was created, being formed from the counties of Crawford, Marion, Hardin and Hancock. It embraces an area of 404 square miles. There is returned for taxation, as tillable lands, 254,865 acres. The taxable value of the duplicate for 1875 was returned at $10,256,313. The surface of the county is level and the soil fertile. Probably one-third of it is prairie land. The
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tract of country known as the "Sandusky Plains," is chiefly boun- ded by the Sandusky, the Little Scioto and the Tymochtee, the latter word signifying, in the Wyandot language, "around the plains," and lie within the counties of Crawford, Marion and Wy- andot. The townships of the county are thirteen in number, as follows : Antrim, Crane, Crawford, Eden, Jackson, Marseilles, Mifflin, Pitt, Richland, Ridge, Salem, Sycamore and Tymochtee.
Wyandot County is especially noted for being the scene of Crawford's defeat in June, 1782, and his subsequent death by the most cruel and inhuman tortures conceivable. The Delawares immolated Crawford to avenge themselves for the massacre of their people at the Moravian towns on the Muskingum. The spot where this bloody drama was enacted is now in Crawford township, a short distance from the town of Crawfordsville, in the midst of a beautiful grove, on the southeast bank of the Tymochtee. As these sketches might be deemed incomplete without some account of so important an event in the history of this county, we cannot do better than quote the account given by Dr. Knight, Crawford's companion, who was an eye-witness of the fearful tragedy :
"When we went to the fire, the Colonel was stripped naked, ordered to sit down by the fire, and then they beat him with sticks and their fists. Presently after I was treated in the same manner. They then tied a rope to the foot of a post about fifteen feet high, bound the Colonel's hands behind his back and fastened the rope to the ligature between his wrists. The rope was long enough for him to sit down or walk round the post once or twice, and return the same way. The Colonel then called to Girty, and asked if they intended to burn him. Girty answered, yes. The Colonel said he would take it all patiently. Upon this, Captain Pipe, a Delaware Chief, made a speech to the Indians, viz., about thirty or forty men, sixty or seventy squaws and boys.
When the speech was finished, they all yelled a hideous and hearty assent to what had been said. The Indian men then took up their guns and shot powder into the Colonel's body, from his feet as far up as his neck. I think that not less than seventy loads were discharged upon his naked body. They then crowded about him, and, to the best of my observation, cut off his ears; when the throng had dispersed a little, I saw the blood running from both sides of his head in consequence thereof.
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The fire was about six or seven yards from the post to which the Colonel was tied ; it was made of small hickory poles, burnt quite through in the middle, each end of the poles remaining about six feet in length. Three or four Indians by turns would take up, individually, one of these burning pieces of wood, and apply it to his naked body, already burnt black with the powder. These tor- mentors presented themselves on every side of him with the burn- ing faggots and poles. Some of the Squaws took broad boards, upon which they would carry a quantity of burning coals and hot embers, and throw on him, so that in a short time he had nothing but coals of fire and hot ashes to walk upon. In the midst of these extreme tortures he called to Simon Girty, and begged of him to shoot him ; but Girty making no answer, he called to him again. Girty then, by way of derision, told the Colonel he had no gun, at the same time, turning about to an Indian who was behind him, laughed heartily, and by all his gestures seemed delighted at the horrid scene.
Girty then came up to me and bade me prepare for death. He said, however, I was not to die at that place, but to be burnt at the Shawanese towns. He swore by G-d I need not expect to escape death, but should suffer it in all its extremities.
Colonel Crawford, at this period of his sufferings, besought the Almighty to have mercy on his soul, spoke very low, and bore his torments with the most manly fortitude. He continued in all the extremities of pain for an hour and three quarters or two hours longer; as near as I can judge, when at last, being almost exhausted, he lay down on his belly ; they then scalped him, and repeatedly threw the scalp in my face, telling me, 'that was my great Captain.' An old squaw (whose appearance every way answered the ideas people entertain of the devil) got a board, took a parcel of coals and ashes and laid them on his back and head, after he had been scalped, he then raised himself upon his feet and began to walk round the post ; they next put a burning stick to him, as usual, but he seemed more insensible of pain than before.
The Indian fellow who had me in charge, now took me away to Captain Pipe's house, about three-quarters of a mile from the place of the Colonel's execution. I was bound all night, and thus prevented from seeing the last of the horrid spectacle. Next morning, being June 12th, the Indian untied me, painted me
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black, and we set off for the Shawanese town, which he told me was somewhat less than forty miles distant from that place. We soon came to the spot where the Colonel had been burnt, as it was partly in our way ; I saw his bones lying among the remains of the fire, almost burnt to ashes ; I suppose, after he was dead, they laid his body on the fire. The Indian told me that was my big · Cap- tain, and gave the scalp halloo."
On the 29th day of September, 1817, Hon. Lewis Cass and Hon. Duncan M'Arthur, Commissioners appointed by the govern- ment of the United States, succeeded in concluding a treaty at Maumee Rapids, by which there was granted to the Wyandot tribe a reservation of twelve miles square in this county. The centre of this reservation was what was then known as Fort Ferree, at Up- per Sandusky. By the same treaty they were also granted a tract of one mile square on the Cranberry Swamp, on Broken Sword Creek. The Delawares were also granted a tract of three miles square, adjoining the other, on the south. Captain Pipe," son of the chief who bore so conspicuous a part in the burning of Crawford, was the principal chief of the Delawares. In 1829 the Delawares ceded their reservation to the United States. The only Indians re- maining in Ohio on the 17th of March, 1842, were the Wyandots, and upon that day they ceded their reservation to the United States, Col. John Johnson, Commissioner on the part of the United States. had then the honor of making the last Indian treaty in Ohio.
Crane township,'in which the county-seat is located, was so named in honor of Tarhe, or "The Crane," a celebrated chief of the Wyandots. On the occasion of his death an Indian council was held at Upper Sandusky, in 1818.
Among the names preserved of Wyandot Indians, we find these : Bearskin, Blue Jacket, Big Tree, Black Sheep, Big River, Bull Head, Big Town, Curly Head, Caryhoo, Chop the Logs, Lump on the Head, Peacock, Porcupine, Providence, Split the Log, Stand in the Water, White Wing, Warpole and Washington.
As an instance of the Indian character for order, and stability when christianized, Judge Leith, of Nevada, relates the following incident of an early camp meeting :
"In the summer of 1837, the Rev. Mr. Wheeler, was holding a camp meeting in a beatiful oak grove, on the east bank of the Sandusky River, opposite Upper Sandusky. Nature had assumed
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her most charming attire ; gentle breezes stirred the leafy grove ; birds joined their songs in harmony with the solomn occasion. As I approached, the venerable minister occupied the stand, while around him, on benches arranged with great regularity, sat the Wyandot tribe of Indians. A planter never formed the hills in his garden straiter and more uniform than were those Indians. The minister and his surroundings gave to the occasion a most sa- cred and solemn appearance. The weather was fine, the roads were good. An Indian camp-meeting to the then new settlers of the surrounding villages and country was a novel scene. Tiffin, Findlay, Kenton, Marion, Bucyrus, Melmore and other villages furnished their quota of attendants. A comparatively small por- tion of the whites were seated and maintaining good order, while the balance of their number were riding, driving, walking and amusing themselves in various ways. In the midst of this the venerable missionary straightened up his tall, manly form, raised his eloquent voice to its highest pitch, and said : ‘ I have some- thing to tell you, and as I think it will be of interest to all of you, I will tell it now, if you please, as some of you may leave the eucampment, and I wish you all to hear it. I have labored with these people now eight years, breaking to them as best I could the bread of life. They are called by the Christian white man savages, yet in all that time, not once, under any circumstances, has one of them left his seat during service-not even a woman with her babe.' Under all circumstances, it was the severest and most timely re- buke I ever witnessed. It was felt with all its force, and stragglers took their seats or skulked away."
The work of the missionary preceded civilization in Wyandot county, the advance guard being of the Methodist denomination, although a portion of the tribe of Wyandots had for a long time previously been under the instruction of the Catholics. About the year 1822, J. B. Finley, a Methodist minister, having secured assistance from the general government, erected a small mission church and school building upon the outskirts of Upper Sandusky. The church was constructed from blue limestone. The walls of the building, in a dilapidated condition, are yet standing, while the old Mission grave yard, in which it was built, contains many Indian graves. It is also the resting place of many of the early pioneers. The church building, unless repaired by the county officials, will soon be no more.
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In July, 1843, the Wyandots took their departure for the Far West. At that time they numbered about seven hundred souls. The Wyandots were among the bravest of the Indian tribes, and had among their chiefs some men of high moral character.
CRAWFORD'S BATTLE GROUND is thus described by Butterfield in his account of the expedition against Sandusky : " The battle of Sandusky was fought in and around the grove since well-known as 'Battle Island,' in what is now Crane township, Wyandot county, three miles north, and half a mile east, of the Court House in Upper Sandusky. This spot has always been readily identified, by reason of the scars upon the trunks of the trees, made by the hatchets of the Indians in getting out the bullets after the action. But the 'Island' may now be said to have disappeared. Cultivated fields mark the site where the contest took place. Oc- casionally an interesting relic is turned up by the plówshare, to be preserved by the curious as a memento of the battle."
Colonel William Crawford was born in Orange county, Vir- ginia, in the year 1732. His parents were of Scotch-Irish origin. From his boyhood till his death there existed between himself and General Washington the warmest friendship and most intimate re- lation, they frequently corresponding with each other. The father of his country expressed the deep feelings of his heart upon being apprised of Crawford's death, in the following language : "It is with the greatest sorrow and concern that I have learned the mel- ancholy tidings of Colonel Crawford's death. He was known to me as an officer of much care and prudence; brave, experienced and active. The manner of his death was shocking to me ; and I have this day communicated to the honorable, the Congress, such papers as I have regarding it."
SIMON KENTON, celebrated for his exploits in the North- west, and after whom the town of Kenton was named, was once brought captive tó Wyandot county, when taken by the Indians. General Simon Kenton, the renowned Indian hero, was born in Faquir county, Virginia, April 3d, 1755. He died in Logan county, Ohio, in 1836, and his remains were buried near Zanesfield, in that county. He was the companion of Daniel Boone. In his en- counters with the Indians he displayed remarkable courage, sagacity and endurance. It is related of Kenton, that while traveling through the Sandusky Plains, he recognized, at the distance of half
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a mile, the identical grove in which he had run the gauntlet, in the war of the Revolution, forty nine years before. A further examina- tion tested the truth of his recollection, for there was the very race- path still existing, in which he had ran. It was near a road lead- ing from Upper Sandusky to Bellefontain, eight or ten miles from the former.
THE OLD SYCAMORE, of which so much has been said, is still standing, on the banks of the Sandusky, a few hundred yards southeast of Upper Sandusky. This noble old monarch of the forest has a circumference, a yard from its base, of thirty-seven feet, and at its base it measures over forty feet around. Being one of the historical points of interest, it is visited by large numbers of strangers. Upon its trunk and branches may be seen many in- scriptions, carved there by individuals courting cheap fame and the perpetuation of their names.
NATURAL CURIOSITY .- About a half mile east of the village of Old Tymochtee, on the Sandusky River, there is a clay bank, or cliff about one hundred feet high-probably the most ele- vated point along the Sandusky from its source in the Northeastern part of Crawford county, to its mouth, at Sandusky Bay. It is a natural curiosity, and, though a point of great interest and beauty, is known to but few people in the county.
THE FIRST ELECTION for officers of Wyandot county, according to the abstract of votes filed away in the cabinet of John D. Sears, occurred April 7th, 1845. That being the first chapter in the political history of Wyandot county, we copy from the re- cord the result. The township of Eden was not organized at that time. The following named gentlemen were duly elected : Commissioners-William Griffith, (whig); Stephen Fowler (Dem); Ethan Terry, (Dem). Treasurer-Abner Jury, (whig). Auditor -Samuel M. Worth, (Dem). Sheriff-Lorin A. Pease, whig). Recorder-John A. Morrison, (Dem). Coroner-Albert Bixby, (Dem). Surveyor-Peter B. Beidler, (Dem). Prosecuting At- torney-Chester R. Mott, (Dem). The opposing candidates were: Commissioners-Charles Merriman, Jonathan Kear, Robert Stoke- ly. Treasurer-Daniel Ellis. Auditor-A. M. Anderson. Sher- iff -- JohnKeiser. Recorder-Joseph Chaffee. Coroner-William Bevington. Surveyor-Azariah Root. Prosecuting Attorney- John D. Sears. The highest number of votes cast was 1288 for Surveyor.
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HISTORY OF WYANDOT COUNTY.
THE FIRST COURT OF COMMON PLEAS for Wyandot county was a special term held at the office of Moses H. Kirby, in Upper Sandusky, April 8th, 1845. The Associate Judges presiding were Abel Renick, William Brown aud George W. Leith. The first regular term of Common Pleas Court was held in the old Council House, on the site now occupied by the present pub. lic school building, July Ist, 1845. Ozias Bowen was the presid- ing Judge, and Abel Renick, William Brown and George W. Leith were the associate Judges. Guy C. Worth was appointed the first Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. The names of the gentlemen comprising the first Grand Jury are as follows: Or- rin Ferris, Enoch Thomas, Alvin J. Russell, Benjamin Knapp, Rodney Pool, John C. Dewitt, George W. Sampson, John Stoker, Hugh Welch, Andrew M. Anderson, A. Montee, Joseph E. Fouke, William I. Clugston, John Gormley and William Jones.
WYANDOT PIONEERS.
Believing that these imperfect sketches will prove of ad- ditional interest by introducing some account of those individuals whose early pioneer experiences and indomitable energy prepared the way to our present civilization and progress, we furnish here- with brief biographies of some of those who came to Wyandot county previous to 1850, and a few years subsequent thereto:
COLONEL MOSES H. KIRBY is a native of Halifax county, Vir- ginia. He came to Ohio in 1820, located at Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar the same year. In 1826 he was elected to the Legislature from that county, to which he was re-elected four consecutive years. In 1830 he was elected Secretary of State. After serving out his term in that capacity he practiced law in Columbus till 1840, when he moved to Marion county and settled on a farm. He was subse- quently appointed Receiver of the Land Office for the North- western country, going first to Lima, where the office was then lo- cated, but coming to Upper Sandusky upon the removal of the office thither, shortly after his appointment. In the winter of 1842 he was appointed Indian Agent to appraise the Indian Improve- ments. When Col. Kirby first came to Upper Sandusky the town did not contain over half a dozen houses. The Indian Council House stood upon the site now occupied by the public school
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buildings, and in that old Council House he first kept the Land Office. Col. Kirby took an active part in organizing Wyandot county, which occurred in 1845. In the summer of that year, about half a dozen met in Little Sandusky to agree upon the boundaries of the county. Judge John Carey, now deceased, in whose honor the beautiful town of Carey is named, went to Co- lumbus, and lobbied the bill through the legislature. Upon the organization of the first Masonic Lodge, in 1849, Col. Kirby was elected Master of the Lodge, continuing in that position twenty years. Colonel Kirby was an Old Line Whig, but has for several years cast his lot with the Democratic party. He has always been a consistent, upright member of society, and is honored and high- ly respected by all classes. In 1858 he was elected Probate Judge. He was re-elected, and served the county in that capacity six years. Six years previous to that he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for one term. Though well up in years, the Colonel moves around with considerable sprightliness, and is at this time occupying the position of Prosecuting Attorney of Wyandot county.
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