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THIRD INFIRMARY.
On the 1st day of April, 1835, Henry Ford, John Ramage and Samuel Colvine, commissioners, bought from Walter Mcclintock, 60 acres of land, also in Archer township for $450 for a poor house farm. This farm is now owned by Benjamin Reed. The directors of the poor house at this time were Edmund Tipton, Daniel Welch and William Arnold. This farm was sold August 1, 1845, to Samuel Pittenger and Abraham Busby. Supt. at this time Wm. Speer. Number of inmates 9.
FOURTH INFIRMARY.
The commissioners on the 6th of June, 1845, pur- chased from Nathaniel McFadden, 124 acres of land for an infirmary, situated on the State road leading from Cadiz to New Philadelphia, for the sum of S4000. On the 6th of August, 1845, the commiss- ioners entered into an article of agreement with Thomas McCreary and Henry Boyles as principal, and William Tingley, John Olmstead and Chauncey
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Dewey as securities, for the building of the poor house. The building was 74 feet long and 40 feet wide, built of brick, two stories high, for the sum of S3740.
This building remained in use until 1884, when the question of building a new infirmary was sub- mitted to a vote of the people, and carried by a large majority. A new building was therefore erected in 1884 5. It is a handsome structure, three stories high. The basement of stone, the balance brick; contains 91 rooms, and is heated by hot air. The official report, ending September, 1893, shows the the number of inmates 48. The infirmary farm con- tains about 400 acres. Welch Rogers was appointed superintendent April 1, 1894. In this institution the benevolent spirit of the county finds its noblest ex- pression.
INFIRMARY DIRECTORS.
Walter B. Beebe,
John Welch,
James Lee,
Thomas Lewis Matthew Simpson, Michael Moore. Joseph Johnson,
Robert Orr.
Josiah Crawford.
John Hurless,
John Haverfield.
John Patterson,
samuel Moorehead.
Jacob Webb,
Hugh Nellravy.
Chauney Dewey,
John Conaway,
Matthew McCoy.
John Rogers,
Thomas Wilson,
samuel Adams,
Thomas Taylor,
John (. Barger. Alexander Haverfield,
samnel W. Bostwick,
John Lisle,
John Prichard,
John Osborn.
William Henderson, John Patterson,
Win. Spiker.
Josiah Scott.
Henry Fisher.
Daniel Welsh,
Geo. İleberlin.
Edmund Tipton,
James N. Adams,
Robert H. Miller, Wm. Arnokt,
.J. G. Kennedy,
W'm. smiley,
samnel Dickerson.
Jacob Rheam.
James J. Billingsley.
David Finnicum,
1. 1. Lawrence,
Daniel Melhevy,
John MeDivitt.
Henry Maxwell,
John Beadle.
Samnel McCormick.
John Barelav.
.Joseph Mccullough.
James M. Hines
.Jacob Hines.
Job» N. Hanna.
Abraham Bu-by.
John Rolev.
> W. Adams.
Jacob Hoofman,
John N. Haverfield,
George Cox.
Robert Givin.
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SUPERINTENDENTS.
John Wilson, Samuel Boyd, John Amspoker. George Cox, William Speer, Samnel Amspoker. Benjamin Riehey, Samuel Baker, Thomas Barrett,
Gabriel Holland, Alexander Holland,
R. McKee,
James Keesey,
John Robb,
E. Z. Evans,
Alex. English,
Welch Rogers.
CHILDREN'S HOME.
The Harrison County Children's Home is located in the eastern part of the county, one mile southeast of the corporate limits of Cadiz.
The farm consists of twenty-five acres, with two springs of water on it, and is pernaps one of the most favorable situations in the county.
The Home is on the Cottage plan.
The buildings, except the barn, are brick, and were all made on the grounds, -facing brick were hand-pressed.
The main building, 80x46 feet, is two stories high above a nine foot basement, and has an eight foot fin- ished attic. It has twenty-three rooms, and all are amply large for their several requirements.
The Cottage fronts the pike but stands back fifty feet, is 80x26 feet, two stories. First floor contains boys' and girls' play rooms, with Cottage Matron's room in center. On the second floor are the dormi- tories and wardrobes. These rooms can easily be flooded with sunlight and air, which makes them very healthy for sleeping in.
The heating is all done by grates and hall stoves.
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The water supply is good, having two cisterns with capacity of five hundred barrels and put into the large steel tanks up in the buildings by wind power.
The following is the report of the visiting com- mittee for the year ending August 23, 1893:
TO HIS HONOR, JUDGE MANSFIELD:
There are at this date in the Home 36 inmates. Males 23, females 13. Received since last report 31; indentured 10; returned to parents 8; transferred 2. We take pleasure in noting the condition of this in- stitution. The buildings are large, nicely and healthfully arranged, and most beautifully located. Economy, neatness, discipline and order characterize its management by its present very efficient superin- tendent.
Great care is being taken in preparing good homes for the children. We are satisfied there are other children in our county who ought to receive the ben- efit to be derived from so efficient a home as this is, and are led to believe the fault lies at the door of the township trustees.
We find at the Home a good daily school under the supervision of a competent teacher, and confidently believe that many will go out from this institution both intellectually and morally, fully able to cope with the many who have been more highly favored. The institution as conducted is certainly a very great blessing to these poor unfortunates who come within its influence.
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM CROSKEY, JUDITH JOHNSON, MARGARET MCCREADY, D. B. WELCH, Committee.
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Superintendent, Capt. Andrew Smith. Trustees of the Home, Hon. James B. Jamison, L. M. Bran- son, M. B. Fierbaugh and Edward Clifford.
CHURCHES.
Our forefathers were not forgetful of their higher christian duties. In rany instances with the smoke that curled in currents from the chimneys of their log cabins ascended the incense of prayer. The rude primeval hut, instead of being the abode of the little family cluster alone, became a temple of worship. Our first churches-Dr. Crawford in his historical address, says that the Rankin Methodist church was organized in David Rankin's log cabin 1814. It is said the first prayer meeting held in this county was at Buskirk's log cabin and from it arose the Dicker- son Methodist church. The first sermon ever preach- ed in Cadiz was by the Rev. John Rea, Presbyterian minister 1804. at the base of a large walnut tree that stood south of the court house site.
We have in Harrison county according to the cen- sus report of Samuel G. Peppard for the year ending 1390, twelve distinct religious denominations.
The number of Sabbath School scholars, commu- nicants enrolled, also valuation and seating capacity are as follows:
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CHURCHES.
S. S. S.
MEMBERS.
VALUE.
SEATS.
Friends. 3
95
333
$ 3,800
815
A. M. E. Church .. 2
42
160
3,000
500
United Brethren5
300
442
7,720
1,700
Presbyterian ..... 13
1178
1747
55,500
4,950
United Pres.
6
369
507
28,300
2,200
Adventists ..
1
14
500
120
Meth. Protesta't.1
60
300
400
German Reform.1
132
62
1,500
400
Meth. Episcopal34
3332
3335
89,600 *
10,850
Lutheran
.2
150
181
4,000
550
Baptist
3
209
100
2,250
500
Disciples ... ... 4
213
244
3,750
1,250
Union S. S.'s ... .13
550
Thus it will be seen we have in the county 90 places of public worship; number of Sunday school scholars 6,570 and 7,133 church members. The total value of church property is $200,820, with a seating capacity for 24,235 persons, enough to seat every man, woman and child in the county. - Value of par- sonages $21,000.
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. ?
We trust we will not be considered as dealing in extravagant assertions when we say that the cause of education in Harrison county is perhaps as far advanced as any other county in the State, and that in its progress and development, it can challenge com- parison with the foremost in Ohio. The first set- tlers did not neglect or overlook its vital claims, and the subscription school was early encouraged and put to practical working, and answered a noble and sub- lime purpose in those dim by-gone days.
There are at present 9 special school districts, 97 sub-districts. In each of these districts we have good school houses and the best of teachers. We have from six to nine months of school each year. -It costs about $70,000 a year to run our schools:
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Scio College was chartered in 1866. It has had about 600 graduates. It belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The College comprises seven district departments, each complete within itself: Collegiate, Pharmacy, Music, Business, Elocution, Art, Shorthand and Typewriting.
The Literary course comprises a three years' pre- paratory and a four years' collegiate course, making seven years in all, and ranks in this respect with the very best schools in the State. The Music course comprises four years' work; the Pharmacy, two terms of six months each.
The total enrollment of different students last year was 548, from ten different States and countries.
The Faculty is at present composed of fifteen teachers. In the point of numbers the College ranks about sixth among the Colleges and Universities of this State; in comprehensiveness and thoroughness, we are among the first. Two large buildings are devoted to school work, using over 30,000 feet of floor space.
FRANKLIN COLLEGE.
This College is located in the village of New Athens, was chartered January 22, 1825, and formal- ly opened June 8, 1825, with Rev. William McMil- lan, of Canonsburg, Pa., as President, and John Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, Pa., as Professor of Mathematics.
Since its opening this institution has sent out over five hundred graduates; ninety per cent. of whom have entered some of the learned professions and sixty per cent. of whom have entered the ministry.
In 1840, owing to the decided anti-slavery charac-
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ter of the College a pro-slavery rival was establish- ed in the same village under the name of Providence College, but this was soon abandoned for want of sufficient patronage, and the original College has been allowed to run an uninterrupted course down to the present time, when we still find it in a most flourishing condition.
HOPEDALE NORMAL COLLEGE.
The College at Hopedale, first known as "The McNeely Normal School" and later, after assuming the power to grant degrees, as "Hopedale Normal College" nas been a power in the land.' Its proprie- tor, Cyrus McNeely, aspired, in its establishment, not so much to educate at the top as to educate well at the bottom.
Hopedale was the first college in Eastern Ohio
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which opened its doors for the co-education of the sexes.
"Old Franklin" had for many years been making professional men: it was left to Hopedale to make
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teachers for the common schools and hit men for the duties of non-professional life.
Its first start was as a school with three depart- ments, the highest under the management of Dr. York, a practicing physician of the village and a graduate of "Franklin." Then followed at the helm Edwin Regal, John Ogden, Wm. Brinkerhoff and Dr. Jamieson. .
In all the leading cities of the country are men who owe their success to training at Hopedale. Prof. Brinkerhoff was the pioneer stenographer of this re- gion, and his students were enabled by his instruc- tion, to make this a stepping stone to higher achieve- ments.
Over 7000 students have been enrolled upon the College books, and the work which its originator has accomplished can never be fully known "until the leaves of the judgment book unfold."
HARRISON COUNTY 'IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 13, 1861. MESSRS. HATTON & ROWLES,
EDITORS CADIZ REPUBLICAN: Fort Sumpter has been battered down by the traitor hoards of the South. It is the first battle upon this continent and of this century waged in defense of chattel slavery, the worst despotism which ever cursed the earth or disgraced and outraged humanity. I repeat now what I
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said in my place as your Representative last January, -the question of to-day is not whether the constitu- tion of our country shall be amended, but whether the constitution shall be maintained. Upon the solu- tion of this question depends the fate of the Repub- lic. President Lincoln thus far " clear in his great office," will, I trust, soon summon the loyal citizens of every section to come to the rescue of a violated constitution, let them come as the winds come, when forests are rending; let them come as the waves come, when the navies are stranding. May God defend the right. Truly yours,
JOHN A. BINGHAM.
A rousing war meeting was held in the court house on the evening of April 20, 1861, to raise a company of volunteers in response to a call of President Lin- coln for 75,000 men to suppress the Rebellion. The war feeling was up to fever heat, and the enthusiasm intense. The court house was filled to overflowing and many were unable to get seats. Hon. John A. Bingham addressed the meeting for about an hour in a strain of melting eloquence which stirred the aud- ience as a tornado stirs the forest. The old cannon which had long been given over to rust was drawn from the hiding place and awoke the surrounding hills with its thundering tones. The soul stirring fife and rattling drum aroused the enthusiasm of young America. Flags were floating all over town. A fund of several thousand dollars was raised to support the families of those who enlisted in their country's service.
The excitement kept up at fever heat, every thing was War, WAR, WAR! Meetings were held all over the county, and in less than a week more than one hundred volunteered. Cadiz on Monday morn- ing, April 22d, presented quite a military appear-
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ance. The volunteer company was being drilled by General Warfel. Crowds were upon the streets and upon the corners, gathering in squads talking war. I give below the names of the first company from Harrison county:
John Castill, captain; John Conwell, first lieuten- ant; Miles J. Saunders, second lieutenant; John C. Bayless, Benjamin Turner, John C. Burns, Harris Hatton, Edward W. Kittering, William Randall, Thomas C. Rea, Thomas C. McIlravy, Zenos Poul- son, Edward B. Young, William P. Rea, James M. Crawford, John Castill, James A. Laizure, William H. Matlock, David Lowmiller, William Scott, Edward Harner, James Tipton, John Bryan, William H. Bryan, Melvin H. Hearn, Thomas Giles, Franklin K. Mealy, John Clifford, John K. Hatton, Charley A. Leslie, R. Hamilton Kildow, Samuel McMillen, John Anderson, Benjamin Cooper, William McIntire, Vincent S. Boggs, Charles Rawlson, James Saylor, William Morgan, David Murdock, William H. Wheeler, Joseph Ferrell, John J. Jones, William R. Pugh, George W. Bricker, John Kimmel, Hugh R. McGowan, Eli Shields, Isaac Harris, John C. Mc- Rea, William P. Shisler, David D. Hoover, Harvey B. Right, John T. Boals, Isaac W. Liggett, Thomas Moody, Joseph G. Moody, William Crogun, Samuel C. Miller, William T. Ramsey, James H. Stewart, George C. Finney, James Crumley, John
Martin, James Rittenhouse, John Watters, Jasper Denning, Benjamin T. Anderson, John Handy, Robert Peacock, Samuel B. Adkins, William V. B. Croskey, Alexander Miller, Emanuel Howard, Rob- ert Moore, Salmon Murphy, John A. Tier, John McConkey, Henry J. McFadden, William J. Hollo- way, John Locke, John G. Kennedy, William H. H. Mills, Jonathan R. Laizure, Festus Jones, John M.
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Thompson, John B. Martin, James D. Smith, Wil- liam Baldwin, William A. Nicolas, George Welling, James Mahollin, William Jones, Samuel Mull, Levi Peddycourt, Nathan H. Baker, James W. Watson, Daniel Holloway, D. N. Fowler, Nelson Driggs, Joshua Lowdon, John W. Butterfield, David Hilligas, Sanford Timmons.
This company left for Columbus on Saturday, April 27, 1861. Their departure was witnessed by two or three thousand persons, every one of whom seemed to be impressed with the solemnity of the occasion. Amidst the cheers of the crowd the boys embarked for the war.
Tears coursed down manly cheeks, and among the women there was scarcely a dry eye. A copy of the New Testament was presented to each of the volun- teers at the close of a very solemn and impressive praver meeting held for their benefit at the court house on the Saturday evening previous to their de- parture for Camp Jackson, Columbus. Each man was also presented with a beautiful pin-cushion and needle-case composed of the red, white and blue. We regret that we cannot go into detail as to other companies from this county. Harrison county did her full share from the beginning to the end of the war.
We were represented in the 13th Regiment O. V. I. 105; 30th Regiment O. V. I. 123; 43d Regiment O. V. I. 182: 74th Regiment O. V. I. 154; 5th O. V. I. 25; 12th Cavalry 50; 98th Regiment O. V. I. 294; 126th Regiment O. V. I. 371; 69th Regiment O. V. I. 140: 170th Regiment O. V. I. 420; 180th Regiment O. T. I. 30; 11th Cavalry 30. Total 1924. Some in other Regiments 80th, 51st, and W. Va. Cavalry; enough in other regiments to make two thousand soldiers from Harrison county.
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HARRISON COUNTY BANKS AND BANKERS.
THE HARRISON NATIONAL BANK.
"Among the many contemporaneous institutions of financial and fiduciary character in this county, the Harrison National Bank, of Cadiz, maintains a posi- tion of undoubted consideration."
It is the legitimate descendant from the Harrison branch of the State Bank of Ohio, which was found- ed in 1841. It was re-organized as a National Bank in accordance with the requirements of the National Banking system in 1865, and re-chartered in 1885, Its capital stock at the present time $100,000, sur- plus fund $110,000.
The officers of this bank are well-known profes- sional business men and capitalists, consisting of David Cunningham, President, J. M. Sharon, Cash- ier, A. P. Sheriff, Teller, Miss Emma Wortman and Ralph Cunningham book-keepers. The directors are James Porter, D. Cunningham, L. M. Branson, H. S. Barricklow, John C. Jamison, Dr. J. S. Mc- Bean, James Bullock and J. M. Sharon.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
The First National Bank, of Cadiz, is a reliable and efficiently managed institution. It was reorgan- ized under the National Banking Laws in 1863 as No. 100 with a capital stock of $120,000.
The officers of this bank are D. B. Welch, Presi- dent, Walter Craig, Vice-President. I. C. Moore,
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HARRISON NATIONAL BANK
THE HARRISON NATIONAL BANK, CADIZ,
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Cashier, W. S. Cessna, Assistant Cashier, Walter Potts, Book-keeper. The board of directors are D. B. Welch, Walter Craig, William Fox, William Henderson, L. A. Welch, R. W. Barricklow, Samuel Knox, W. B. Beebe Jr.
THE FARMERS AND MECHANICS NATIONAL BANK.
The Farmers and Mechanics National Bank, of Cadiz, is a solid and reliable institution. Was duly organized May 11th, 1874, and incorporated as a Na tional Bank in January, 1878, with a capital stock of S50,000. Surplus of $27,500. The officers of the bank are Melford J. Brown, President, C. O. F. Brown, cashier, Miss Alice Carnahan, Book-keeper. The board of directors consists of Wm. L. Houser, John N. Haverfield, C. O. F. Brown, John M. Gar- vin, C. A. Skinner. C. M. Hogg and Melford Brown.
THE FOURTH NATIONAL BANK.
The Fourth National Bank, of Cadiz, the young- est of our financial institutions, commenced business March 28th, 1893, with a capital stock paid up of $120,000. Its stock-holders number 250 persons, living in Harrison and adjoining counties. Its Pres- ident is Samuel Thompson, John E. McPeck, Vice- President, J. M. Schreiber, Cashier, C. E. Stewart, Teller. Board of directors, J. S. Black, David Alli- son, John E. Kyser, Henry Barricklow, J. W. Clen- denning, Dr. W. T. Sharp, J. C. Dysart, T. E. Johnson, Joseph Starr, M. N. Giffin. Milton Tag- gart, John E. McPeck, Samuel Thompson and Dr. S. B. McGavran.
BANK OF FREEPORT.
The Bank of Freeport was established by Thos. Green in 1893 as a private bank. In 1894 a co-part- nership was formed consisting of Thomas Green, John M. Garvin and J. M. Schreiber. The bank enjoys the confidence of the people.
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BANK OF SCIO.
The Bank of Scio was organized in July, 1883, by B. S. Hogue and William Donaldson. This bank is well-managed, and has contributed in no small de- gree to the business interests of Scio and vicinity,
ROADS.
The making of roads has been from early times, one of the most important subjects that has occupied the attention of the commissioners and tax payers. Many petitions were presented to the county commis- sioners during the year 1813, asking for new roads, all of which seem to have been granted. Thence- forth for many years they were kept busy providing for new roads and making changes in old ones. Road-making in a hilly region is laborious and ex- pensive, and while we have at this time roads in every direction, it is still an open question how to make better ones. We have a pike from Cadiz to New Athens, Cadiz to Harrisville, Cadiz to Unionvale, and all the roads leading from Cadiz have from one- half to two miles of pike.
RAILROADS.
Harrison county has three railroads passing through it: The P. C. C. & St. L. R. R. and sid- ing 34.98 miles. The P. C. C. & St. L. R. R. sec- ond track 23.42 miles. The P. C. C. & St. L. R. R., Cadiz branch 7.85 miles. C. L. & W. R. R. and siding 17.64 miles. W. & L. E. R. R. and siding, 27.81 miles. Total number of miles 111.70. Total valuation $1,324, 140.
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NEWSPAPERS.
The first newspaper published in Harrison county was in 1816, called the Cadiz Informant, afterward called the Harrison Telegraph, and the name Cadiz Republican given to it in 1840 by Wm. R. Allison. The Cadiz Republican, W. B. Hearn, editor and proprietor, therefore lays claim to being the oldest newspaper in the county. The Cadiz Sentinel, W. H. Arnold, editor, is the next oldest paper in the county, having been established in 1832.
Other papers in the county are The Harrison Tribune, A. B. Lacey editor and proprietor, Cadiz, Ohio. Harrison County Democrat, A. N. McCombs editor, and published by the Harrison County Demo- crat Publishing Company. The Freeport Press, McMath & Williams, proprietors, L. B. Williams, editor. The Scio Herald, Scio, edited and owned by R. M. Dewey. Jewett Age, Jewett, O. A. Hare. Owner. New Athens Reviews, published by T. B. Williams, at New Athens.
HARRISON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
On June 5. 1834, the county commissioners under provision of law, directed a call to be published in The Cadiz Sentinel, looking to the formation of an Agricultural Society, but nothing effective was done under that call, or in any other way until 1846. The matter was then taken up by some of the progress- ive farmers, chiefly in the eastern part of the county.
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The first fair was held in Georgetown in 1846. After that in Cadiz. For the next six years the stock was shown on the streets or in Dewey's field, now Lincoln Avenue, or in Walter Jamison's field, or some other convenient place. Agricultural implements, farm products and domestic goods, were shown in the court house or some of the churches. A plowing match was held each year.
It was not until 1853 that the Society had a per- manent location; they then secured Sharp's grove, near town, (now Porter's) and four or five acres were enclosed with a strong, substantial fence, and suita- ble buildings were erected. The fair was held Oct. 10 and 11, 1853. It was the largest and best attend- ed of any that had taken place. The crowd was estimated at 10,000. There was a large entry of sheep and horses. The floral hall was very attract- ive, the ladies taking great interest in it. One of the most attractive and exciting features of the fair was a contest of horse-back riding by ladies. Com- petitors for the premium were: Miss Norton, of St. Clairsville, Mrs. Obediah Slemmons, Miss Amanda Simreral, Miss Gilmore, Miss Shotwell, Miss Taggart, of Cadiz, and Miss Caroline Kennedy, of Green town- ship. All were expert riders and evinced a graceful style of riding and much skill in management of their horses. During the race Miss Simeral was thrown from her horse and badly hurt. Miss Kennedy won the first premium.
The fair continued on these grounds until 1889. The fair in Harrison county was always considered one of the best in the State. It was a great benefit to the farmers. It marks an era in the history of our agricultural advancement. It brought together the farmers, who, having a common interest, studied together by comparison the different kinds
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of stock and farm implements. The fair was moved to the grounds of Walter Craig in 1889. These grounds are beautiful. They contain 40 acres taste- fully studded with young shade trees and enclosed by a tight fence. The buildings in the enclosure are permanent and capacious, and the track, for a "half mile go" is the best in the State. The follow- ing persons have been presidents of the Harrison county fair: Ezra Cattell, John Hammond, Eli Peacock, John C. Jamison, Henry Boyles, James B. Jamison, Samuel Herron, Andrew Jamison, Samuel Boggs, Obediah Slemmons, Albert Quigley, W. W. Jamison, Andrew Smith, C. M. Hogg, Samuel Dick- erson.
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