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LICKING COUNTY, OHIO.
OUR NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISES.
It will be impracticable to do little more than to give the names of the Newspapers that have been published in Licking County. The first attempt to publish a Newspaper among us was made by Benjamin Briggs, who, in 1820, established the ADVOCATE, which being still published has had a continuous existence for fifty-six years. The second paper published was called the WANDERER. It was started in Granville in 1822, by Sereno Wright. It died in a year or two. The NEWARK GAZETTE, established in Newark in 1827, by Rufus Henry and Dr. Daniel Marble, was the third paper started in Licking County. The GAZETTE, under a variety of names has had a continuous existence of nearly half a century, and now ap- pears as the NEWARK WEEKLY AMERICAN, Clark & Underwood being the proprietors, publishers and editors.
The NEWARK BANNER is a new paper issued in Newark, once a week, by Milton R. Scott. It is devoted to Temperance, local interests, also to general and home news. The DENISON COLLEGIAN is a semi-monthly collegiate publication, issued in Granville, con- ducted by a committee of Students of Denison University. The sub- scribers to the various weekly papers and to the DENISON COL- LEGIAN, would probably aggregate about six thousand. That the newspaper and periodical press of the country is an extensive and potent educator, for good or evil, and that it has been, and is now. largely influential in forming, leading and directing public opinion on the various subjects that claim attention, and on all questions that come up for discussion, does not admit of a doubt. It was the re- peated remark of Benjamin Briggs, the "Nestor of the Licking County Press," as he was frequently styled, that the Newspaper literature of the country at large was the cheapest and meanest litera- ture extant. Whether that opinion was correct or not of newspaper literature, generally, I do not assume to decide, but that the news- paper and periodical press has been and continues to be a power, under our free institutions, does not admit of a doubt, and therefore being thus potential " for weal or woe," it becomes a matter of great importance that an engine of such overwhelming power be operated in the interests of Patriotism, of Truth, of Virtue and Morality.
I have given the titles of only the five Newspapers now being published in our County, but as many others have existed that are now "no more," the history of the Newspaper press of Licking County, would be incomplete without a brief mention at least of the
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others that played their brief part on the stage and then "went out." I present the titles they bore, as near as I can from memory, and in the order of their publication.
The CONSTITUTIONALIST was started in 1837. In 1843 its name was changed to the LICKING HERALD, and in IS56 it took the name of the NEWARK TIMES, which it retained until 1859, when it died. The HARRISONIAN was published as a campaign paper in 1840; so also was the DEMOCRATIC RASP. In 1842 the LABORER Was started but having but little support it soon "went under." The ORIENTAL EVANIC had a short-lived career in 1845; so also had the Spy, pub- lished a few years later.
The GRANVILLE INTELLIGENCER followed next, in 1847, and it was afterwards called the LICKING BEE. In 1857 the DENISONIAN was started by the College boys in Granville; and was soon follow- ed by the HERBARIUM, which was edited by the young ladies of the Kerr Seminary. The four last named were published in Granville. Next came the VOICE OF THE PEOPLE in IS60, followed by the TRUE DEMOCRAT in 1862, and by the LICKING RECORD in 1863. In 1866 came the REVEILLE AND WOOL-GROWER. The SOWER, also the MONTHLY VOICE, two Swedenborgian papers had each a short life. The COLLEGIAN, was started in 1867 and in 1869 took the name of DENISON COLLEGIAN. PAPERS BY THE WAY died long ago and so also did all the Daily's that were ever attempted in Newark.
A HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS.
Another incident or fact in our County's history, I propose to record, and it affords me great gratification to do so.
It entered into the liberal mind of Mr. Lucius Humphrey, one of our most philanthropic citizens, to signalize one of the closing years of our Centennial period, (and which also proved to be one of the closing years of his own life,) by generously donating a tract of ten acres of land, situated within the corporate limits of Columbus, to the noble purpose of establishing a "Home for the Friendless," in Licking County. The liberal donor of the munificent gift selected Judges Buckingham and Follett, and the writer hereof, as Trustees to carry his benevolent purpose into effect, who promptly accepted the trust, entered into the possession of the property, and will as soon
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as practicable, make sale of it and then proceed to give effect to the noble purpose of the Friend of the Friendless, who, though dead, will yet speak, and more than speak, in behalf of the widow, the orphan, and "those who have no helper."
CONCLUSION.
Let me say in conclusion that I have thus endeavored to present you an opportunity to take a sort of a " birds-eye view" of Licking County, from the beginning of this Centennial period, and through each and all of the passing years thereof, down to the present time- even down to this anniversary of American Independence, which to-day closes the first century of our Country's Freedom. It would be a work of supererogation to hold up to view before you the PRESENT in sharp contrast with the condition of things existing dur- ing any one of the decades of the past century. If I have not failed in my purpose that contrast has been present before you, through- out the entire time I have occupied in giving you the facts, incidents and events contained in this Centennial History of our County. Suffice it only to say that at the beginning of the Century, that is, in 1776, the territory that now constitutes Licking County was a " waste howling wilderness"-no white man then lived or ever had lived here-our County, for more than a quarter of a Century, yea for the entire period thereafter, of a full generation, had no existence as a civil organization-what Licking County is now, at the termination of this Centennial year, in all its varied interests, I have attempted to tell you.
Seventy-eight years have transpired since the first white settle- ment was made within the present territorial limits of Licking Coun- ty, and but one man remains with us who was himself personally connected with that event-who was "part and parcel" of the Hughes and Ratliff colony of twenty-one persons that squatted on the "Bowling Green," in the Spring of 1798. He was born in Harrison County, Virginia, in 1796, and has therefore attained to the mature years of an octogenarian. In 1798, our now aged Pioneer. then two years old, was placed in one end of a salt sack, a hole being cut into it to admit him, his head protruding through it, and his brother being similarly placed in the other end of the sack, which was then thrown across a horse with a pack-saddle upon it. Thus were two of Captain Elias Hughes' thirteen children brought to the Bowling Green, only one of whom, (Jonathan,) survives, his life
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running through and covering the entire period of the occupancy by the white race, of the territory now constituting the County of Lick- ing! I deem it appropriate to close this Centennial History with this allusion to the salt-sack boy of 1798, and the now venerable octogenarian Pioneer veteran of this Centennial occasion, COLONEL JONATHAN HUGHES, who happily is with us to-day in full health and vigor!
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INDEX.
PAGE.
Agricultural, Statistics, (Farms, Animals, Products, &c.,) 35.
"Appleseed, Johnny," and Chaplain Jones, 48.
Assessors, (County, )
Auditors, (County, ) 32.
32.
Camp-Meetings in 1825
56.
Celebration, (at the Licking Summit in 1825, ) .
55.
Church Statistics 40. 32.
Collectors, (of Taxes. )
Circular Hunt in IS23
Coroners, (County, )
Civil History .
Clerks of Common Pleas Courts
Commissioners, (County, )
Commissioner's Clerks .
Conclusion .
Congressmen, (list of,)
Diamond, Peter, (Farce of Hanging and yet not Hanging, )
Educational Statistics and Interests
Electors, (Presidential, )
Elliott, (Judge, ) and the Indians
Enemies of the Early Settlers.
Extent, Topography and Streams of Licking County
First Settlers and First Settlements.
Granville Colony's first Sabbath in the Wilderness.
Gubernatorial Elections from ISIo to 1876, inclusive.
Home for the Friendless
Horse-Racing in 1825.
Hughes and the Indian Horse-Thieves
Incident of ISIO.
Incident, (an Early-Time, )
Incidents.
Independence Day in Newark in 1807
Indians 6.
Inhabitants of Newark and of Licking County 34.
Internal Improvements, (Canal, Turnpike and Rail Roads, ) 37.
Jones, (Chaplain, ) Rev. David. 48.
Judges and Clerk of Court of Common Pleas in ISOS. 18. Judges, (President and Associates, ) 27. Judges, (Probate, ) 28.
49. 34. 11. 29. 30. 31. 77. 24. 57. 37. 67. 42. 44. 7. II. 46. 63. 76. 58. 43. 47 49. 42. 16.
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Licking Summit Celebration, July 4th, 1825 55.
Mail Facilities and Post Offices . 67.
Marshals, (to take the Census, ) . 33.
Manufactures. 36. Members of Constitutional Conventions 27.
Members of the Legislature, (popular branch ) .
Memorable Year, ( 1825,)
Mound-Builders.
Munson and Spencer
Newspapers, (titles of)
Patriotism of Licking County .
Pioneers, (distinguished, ) of Licking County
Pioneers, their Characteristics, &c.,.
Pioneer Preachers and Church Organizations
Population of Newark and of Country Villages
Presidential Electors
Prominent Men of Licking County
Prosecuting Attorneys
Refugee Lands-United States' Military Lands
Recorders, (County,)
Settlers of the year ISoo
Settlers and Settlements of the year ISO1
14. 15.
Settlers and Settlements of the year 1802.
Settlers and Settlements from IS02 to ISog 16.
Senators, ( State, )
2.1
Sheriff's
28
Social Organizations; (Intellectual, Literary, Agricultural &c., ) .
38
Squirrel Hunts.
5
Statistics, ( Agricultural)
34,3
Storm, (Burlington, ) .
53
Sunday in Newark, in 1803
44.
Surveyors, (County, ) .
34.
Taxes, ( Amount Collected in Licking County, ). 35.
Townships-when organized-when settled .. 20.
Townships-number of Inhabitants-when settled-and by whom 23. Treasurers, (County,) . 33.
United States' Military Lands-Refugee Lands IO.
Villages-when laid out and by whom 22.
Whirlwind, ( Political, ) 61.
25. 53. 3. 61. 75. 59. 68 4 19. 21 67.
72. 29. IO. 30. I
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