Centennial history of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio, Vol. I, Part 75

Author: Taylor, William Alexander, 1837-1912; Clarke (S.J.) Publishing Company, Chicago
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: Chicago-Columbus : S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 856


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A Mother's Dream. 293


The Last Shot in the Civil War 293


CHAPTER IX.


Banks, Bankers, Financial Ventures and Successes 294


A Pioneer Bank. 294


Bank versus Legislature. 295


Trouble Ensues .. 295


State Officers Imprisoned 295


283


A Striking Difference 284


Public Grief for Two Ohioans 280


The State Treasury Robbed.


A Governor Constructively Imprisoned.


267


Central Ohio Med. Society.


The Columbus Disnatch. 271


The Old Guard ... 277


Ohio State University


A Circulating Library.


The Columbus Reading Room


The Hubbard Alcove


PAGE


106


109


HISTORICAL INDEX


PAGE


The Bank Outlawed. 295


City Bank of Columbus .. 296


Columbus Gas Light & Coke Company. 297


1000 Per Cent Increase .. 298


Steps of Railway Progress 298


Impetus given by Railways. 301


A Century Epitomized. . 301


Progress Epigrammatically stated. 304


1858 and 1908 Contrasted. 309


Hocking Valley Ry. given as a type. 310 His Owner Takes a Wife .. 377


Typical increase of earnings 310


A New President ..


311


The Toledo Extension. 311


Ohio and West Virginia Branch 311


A Consolidation .. 312


The Jackson and Wellston Branch. 312


President Monsarrat's Administration. 312


CHAPTER X.


State Buildings: The Capital: Ohio's Governors etc .. 315


The Legislature Balks. 315


A Modern Capital Removal Mooted .. 316


The State Houses, Old and New 317


An Addition that Deforms 318


State Institutions at Columbus 318


List of Ohio's Governors. 321


Facts about their Election. 321


Pioneer Balloon Ascensions 329


Escaped Slave Kidnapped. 330


Typography Legislatively Declared a


Profession


CHAPTER XI.


Rise and Growth of Manufactures,


Mercantile Interest, etc. . 332


The Ridgway Foundry. 332


The Franklin Foundry 332


Columbus Machine & Mfg. Co.


333


Peter Hayden's Big Works.


333


The Ohio Tool Company 333


Ridgway Car Factory. 334


Columbus Woolen Factory 334


Brotherlin & Halm's Chair and Cabinet Factory 334


The Tub and Pail Factory 337


The City Mills ..


Comparative Figures. 337


Mercantile Advancement. 338


The Directory as an Indicator 339


Story of Capt. Samuel Davis 341


A Disastrous Buffalo Hunt 345


After St. Clair's Defeat. 345


How He was Guarded .. 346


Comes to Columbus. . 347


A Historic Squirrel Hunt.


347


An Honored Pioneer, Gen. P. H. Olm- sted


349


CHAPTER XII.


Roster of Columbus Statemen for A


Century 349


James Kilbourne.


353


Jeremiah McLene. 354


Herman A. Moore. 354


Alfred P. Stone. 354


Samuel Galloway 354


Samuel Sullivan Cox


355


Hugh J. Jewett


355


Geo. L. Converse.


356


Joseph H. Outhwaite 356


David K. Watson. 357


John J. Lentz.


357


Emmett Tompkins


358 358


DeWitt C. Badger ..


Edward L. Taylor, Jr. 361


Allen G. Thurman. 361


Henry Stanberry. 363


William Dennison, Jr 364


Joseph R. Swan. 365


Noah H. Swayne. 365


Alfred Kelly 366


CHAPTER XIII.


PAGE


Two of the Historical Pioneers of Co- lumbus 371


Autograph Story of John Brickell. 371


Theme for Some Future Homer. 372 Helped to Found a City. 372


Kidnapped by Savages .. 373


A Talk with Simon Girty 373


Met Hunters and Warriors. 374


Approach of the Pale Face Army 377


Indians Took No Prisoners. 378 378


Mrs. Dick's Escape.


A Candle-light Hunting Expedition 379


Gen. Anthony Wayne's Daring Spies. 379


Poverty Stricken Savages 380


Saluting Ft. Defiance. 380


A Sad Parting. 383


Was a Delaware Linguist. 383


Pen Picture by Jeremiah Armstrong .. 384 Carried into Captivity 385


The Wyandot Foray 385


A Father's Despair .. 386 387


Carried to Tarhe's Town. Lancaster ..


Finds a Friend Among Savages. 387


Sees the Scalp Pole .. 387


Taught to Say Indian Grace. 387


Adopted by the Chief .. 388


Another Sad Parting. 388


Fncamped at Columbus. 388


Forgot His Mother Tongue. 388


Witnesses the Whr Dance. 391


Rescued and Restored to Friends 391


Loth to Return to Civilization 392


CHAPTER XIV.


Franklin County in Relation to Colum- bus 392


List of County Treasurers 393


List of County Auditors. 393


List of County Recorders 393


List of County Coroners 394


List of County Surveyors 394


List of County Commissioners. 394


List of County Infirmary Directors .. 395


The Townships. .


395


Who were the Pioneers. 396


FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.


People Fond of Sports 396


Present Population 399


Franklin Township Pioneers. 399


Franklinton P. O. 399


The Old Union Church 399


A New Union Church. 400


Raising Church Building Funds. 400


A Famous Church Fdifice. 400


Franklin County Indians. . 401


.Joseph Foos First Settler 401


Scalred at Stony Point; S. White. 401


The Union Camp Grounds 402


The Union Preachers 402


The Union Cemetery 402


Memorial Sermons. 402


SHARON TOWNSHIP.


A Famous Dwarf. 403


The Pioneer Postmasters .. 403


Manufacturing Company Incorporated. 403 Worthington Incorporated .. 404


The Pioneer Mayors, Pioneer Postmas-


ters 404


Other Pioneer Citizens ...


404


PLEASANT TOWNSHIP.


First Settlers 407


Some of the Later Pioneers 407


Pleasant Post Office .. 407


Georgesville Post Office


407


331


338


HISTORICAL INDEX


PAGE


The Town of Harrisburg. 408


The Pioneer Mayors. 408


HAMILTON TOWNSHIP.


The Early Settlers. 408


Milling Interests. 409


Lockbourne & Shadesville. 409


Population Stationary ..


409


Among the Later Pioneers


409


WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.


The Sells Family 410


Borough of Dublin. 410


Dublin's Pioneer P. M. 's. 410


Early and Later Pioneers.


410


MADISON TOWNSHIP.


Early Settlers. 411


More Recruits Came. 411


Providing Daily Bread 411


A Solitary Grist Mill. 412


A Forgotten Town.


412


Rival Port and Grove 412


The Pioneer Mayors 412


The Pioneer Post Masters 417


Canal Winchester ..


417


Some Later Pioneers 417


TRURO TOWNSHIP.


The Early Settlers 417


Town of Reynoldsburg. 418


Town of Reynoldsburg Incorporated .. 418


Pioneer Mayors and Post Masters .. 419


Later Pioneers


419


PLAIN TOWNSHIP.


Revolutionary Soldier Lands 419


The Woodbridge Patent .. 420


One Gallon of Whiskey Per Acre.


420


The First Settlers.


421


Plenty of Saw Mills.


421


Early Town Building Attempts. 421


New Albany Founded. 422


Was Duly Incorporated. 422


Pioneer Post Masters .. 422


Other Pioneer Settlers 422


MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP.


An Early Drawback 425


Gahanna-Bridgeport 425


A Steady Growth. 425


Some Later Pioneers 426


The Champion Office Holder 426


Later Pioneers .. 426


CLINTON TOWNSHIP.


Some First Settlers. 426


Olentangy and Other Mills 426


The Rise of Clintonville. 426


A Post Office Established. 427


Churches and Cemeteries


427


Among the Later Pioneers 427


BLENDON TOWNSHIP.


First Names Harrison 428


The Two First Settlers. 428


Some Later Comers. 428


Connecticut. Emigrants. 428


Two Towns Founded. . 428


Three Post Offices Established 429


The Pioneer Post Masters 429


Religious Denominations. 429


A Number of Later Pioneers. 429


JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.


Gen. Jonathan Davton's Patent, 430


Divided the Lots by Lot .. 430


Pioneers from New Jersey. 430


Mills. Villages. Post Offices 430


PAGE


Some Pioneer Post Masters. 433


The First Grist Mill.


433


Midway and Later Pioneers ..


433


NORWICH TOWNSHIP.


First Village in Norwich. 434


Hilliards Post Office. 434


Grist Mills and Saw Mills 434


Old Families ...


434


Some Additional Pioneers


434


How He Lived and Died. 435


JACKSON TOWNSHIP.


Some of the Original Settlers 435


Grove City Laid Out ... 435


Grove City Fifty Years Ago. 136


Growth of Population.


436


Some Pioneer People ..


436


PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP.


The Three Original Families 436


Clover Blossoms and Buds 437


Hunter to the Last. 437


Two Pioneer Nimrods.


437


Postmaster and Pioneers 438


PERRY TOWNSHIP.


Without a Postoffice 438


Farly Mills.


428


Gen. Kosciuszko's Lands. 439


Leading Perry Township Pioneers.


439


BROWN TOWNSHIP.


Darby Creek Settlement. 440


Post Office Establishment.


440


Pioneer Families.


440


Present Population . 440


MARION TOWNSHIP.


The First Settlement and Settlers ... 441


Present Population .


441


MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP.


Original Settlers 441


Absorbed by City 441


Early Business Enterprise. 441


Three Offices Abolished. 442


The County Collectorship 442


List of Collectors. 442


County Assessorship 445


List of Assessors. 445


Superior Court 445


Names of Judges 445


Franklin County in the Legislature .. 445 State Senators .. 446


Representatives 446


The P. O. Index of Progress .. 447


Complete List of Post Masters of Co- lumbus 448


The County's Progress in Population .. 448


An Almost Uniform Growth. 448


The County's Progress in Wealth 44.9 Nearest the Correct Values. . 449


City and Village Values Increase. 449


The Half Century. 419


The Actual Present Value .. 450


Bad Results of Undervaluation 450


Results of the System 450


Not Exceptional Cases. 453


Discredits the County 453


The Remedy in Sight. 453


CHAPTER XV.


Some of Those Who Came Over. 453


Business Men Who Count Years as De- grees 453


Ranging from 35 to 60 Degrees. 453


A Striking Monograph ... 454


Last Surviving Lincoln Elector 458


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX


PAGE


PAGE


Aldrich, O. W. 757


Ferson, J. J.


706


Alkire, E. W.


831


Field, F. F. 749


Allen, C. N. . 819


Field, John 751


Alspach, R. F.


696


Fieser, L. F. 737


Andrus, George 795


Fisher, E. E. 687


Ashbaugh, H. C.


556


Fisher, W. M. 620


Bachman, J. F. 518


Flautt, E. J.


793


Bartels, W. Y. 544


Francis, W. H. 617


Barthman, F. T. 555


Galloway, T. B. 534


Bassett, G. R. 768


Gantz, W. M. 574


Batterson, C. W. 528


Gayman, Christian 743


Batterson, J. S. 575


Geren, I. A. 736


Bauman, C. P.


721


Gilbert, J. W. 750


Belcher, C. E.


652


Gladden, Washington 794


Born, Conrad


568


Gleichauf, F. S. 733


Bott, J. F. 525


Glick, Zeno 807


780


Brock, J. H.


760


Haines, C. O. 728


Brooks, D. W.


482


Hamilton, E. A. 753


Brooks, Herbert 801


Hanly, M. J. 662


Brown, J. C. 672


Harrison, R. A. 465


Budd, D. H. 497


Hawkins, G. E. 597


Byrne, L. G.


619


Hayward, M. A. 490


Byrne, W. J. 557


Heer, F. J. 769


Carlton, E. L. 808


Helmbold, C. D. 547


678


Cherry, Noah 650 Clark, H. M. 581


Hibbs, E. K.


646


Cochran, S. J. 549


Hoover, T. C.


565


Connors, M. S. 702


Horton. E. G.


524


Cooper, Albert 477


Hoster, C. J. 608


Cooperrider, C. A. 726


Hoste+, C. L. 746


Copeland, Foster 660


Hoster, E. W. 697


Hoster, L. P. 703


Courtright, T. E. 481


Creith, H. C. 637


Croney, J. T. 626


Innis, A. R.


610


Innis, Gustavus S. 520


Innis, H. M. 812


Irvine, E. C. 480


Johnson, C. F. 679


Johnson, Edward 530


Johnson, A. L. 704


Johnston, R. R. 489


Jones, F. T. 618


Dun, John 580


Jones, G. D.


516


Durflinger, William 546


Ecker, L. P. 592


Euans, E. W. 712


Kecier, Alexis 711


Kelly, Dennis 492


Felber, Jacob 820


527


Dickey, A. F. 742


Dodd, V. A. 829


Dowler, J. W. 766


Duffy, John 730


Huston, A. H. 583


Inglis, W. D. 779


Culver, E. S. 573


Dawson, L. O. 562


Dean, James A. 813


Detwiler, Daniel


Cordner, J. W. 830


Herrick, C. R. 788


Chariton, C. H. 627


Helmick, A. G.


Braun, Walter 636


Griswold, Isaac


Jones, J. S. 745


Jones, S. C. 822


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX


PAGE


Kelsey, B. C.


478


Ranck, F. M.


698


Keys, R. E.


645


Rarey, F. S. 720


King, J. D. 741


Richards, C. E.


632


Kinsman, D. N.


690


Ridgway, H. G.


722


Klippart, J. H. 804


Riebel, J. A.


790


Knauss, W. H. 680


Rinehart, W. H. 688


Lampman, L. D. 824


Romer, H. E. 796


Lanman, E. B. 772


Rubrecht, Franklin 508


Latham, E. H. 509


Ruse, Jonathan 496


Lawrence, F. F. 770


Sadler, John 815


Lehman, B. S. 563


Sayre, F. M. 761


Lehman, S. S.


738


Schacht, C. C. 553


Lilley, J. W. . 566


Schenck, C. G., Jr. 667


Livingston, Lucian 694


Schille, Peter


571


Long, W. M. 734


Schrock, A. T. 828


Lovejoy, N. E.


540


Schrock, G. S.


670


Luckhart, C. F. 529


Schwartz, L. H. 713


Lum, H. W. 591


Scott, E. W. 499


McCleary, C. A. 585


Seeds, E. W. 717


McComb, W. J.


624


Sells, Lewis


558


McCord, J. W. 518


Shaw, H. J. 777


643


Mclaughlin, C. G.


752


·Shepard, C. J.


548


Madden, E. C.


583


Smith, M. A.


616


Maetzel, Henry 653


Smith, W. A.


635


Magly, R. A. 714


Snively, H. H.


539


Markley, J. W. 727


Sowers, D. H.


719


Marzetti, John 550


Steinfeld, A. M.


663


Mayhugh, G. H. 545


Stephens, L. P. 668


Maynard, H. J.


676


Stitt, Alexander 823


Means, W. J. 802


Stockton, George 498


Strode, A. W.


767


Miller, F. A.


615


Sturm, L. E.


754


Miller, F. H. 628


Taylor, S. B. 695


Mills, W. T. 599


Taylor, W. A.


658


Mithoff, H. A. 594


Thompson, H. C. 806


Monypeny, William 576


Timberman, Andrew 762


Moore, Ervin 606


Timms, James 654


Morgan, Eugene 590


Toothaker, F. B. 775


Neil, H. M. 602


Tresselt, W. J.


675


Neil, M. H. 474


Tussing, E. S.


778


Neil, William 510


Upham, J. H. J.


710


Nelson, F. E. 766


Valentine, H. S.


689


Nelson, James 685


Varley, T. M. 589


Niswonger, J. O. 633


Wagner, August 564


O'Connor, J. F. 609


Whitaker, H. W. 649


Palsgrove, Tillman 515


Wildermuth, F. E. 669


Parker, F. J. 537


Wildermuth, I. E. 659


Will, G. W. 488


Poe, E. W. 644


Powell, T. E.


638


Williams, Zephaniah 664


Pretzman, C. J. 671


Prior, Edward 538


Wing, C. M. 784


Wolcott, W. L. 729


Rager, J. P. 533


Wright, J. E. 500


Zinn, J. H.


614


Ralston, J. S. 586


Williams, W. K. 735


Winders, Frank 701


Putnam, H. W. 798


Pletcher, H. A. 600


PAGE


Medbery, Roston 554


Sheldon, R. E., Jr.


McGrath, D. W. 816


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