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In the matter of justices of the peace. New- ell Bills qualified in 1838; Jazeb Bell in 1843; Henry . Rasely in 1851, served until 1863; B. L. Peters, 1861 to 1892; Peter Freyman, 1861 to 1869; Israel Smith, 1869; John W. Ebersole. 1870; Henry Carrel, 1872-75; John J. Faylor, 1875 to 1884; James Porter, 1875; George Barnd, 1877; Frank Taylor, 18So; Josiah Noble, 1884; Lewis D. Arnold, 1886, to present time; Benton J. Leathers, 1892, and W. H. Caster, 1895.
Newell Bills was clerk in 1841; L. F. Lam- bert was assessor in 1842; W. A. Lininger, in 1844; Silas Foster, in 1846; Jabez Bell, in 1848; Henry Rasely, in IS50; while in later years, H. P. Eaton and John Marshall were assessors.
In 1896 the elections resulted as follows: For trustee, W. E. Deibley; clerk. J. M. De Long; assessor. N. North Baltimore precinct. Geo. Copus; S. North Baltimore precinct, Geo. D. Chase; and Hammansburg, Silas Tabor. Con- stable, David Helfrich and S. P. Beverlin. School trustees, H. Freyman, W. Ducat, G. Eiting, H. Voglesong. W. C. Peters, and John Haen.
Pioneers .- Henry Shaw came from Virginia in 1829, and entered eighty acres in the south-
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east corner of Section 30. He is said to have been the first settler of the township, and to have done the first clearing of any resident. Some clearing-about thirty acres-was done in Sec- tion 30, before the coming of Shaw, by a German, who came from the East and disappeared after a short stay. Besides clearing the thirty acres, the mysterious visitor " deadened " a large area of timber, and the tract has since been known, in the neighborhood as "The Dutchman's Deaden- ing." Shaw moved to Indiana along in the "fifties," where he later served in the State Senate. His son. Henry, who was born in Henry township, has been twice amember of the Indiana House of Representatives.
George Carrel, who was born in Westmore- land county, Penn., and who had been a resident for some time in Richland county, Ohio, entered 120 acres in Section 33, in 1832, and there he died in 1846. To Mr. and Mrs. Carrel nine children were born, only two of whom now sur- vive-Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Howard, of Find- lay, and an ex-army officer and an ex-treasurer of Hancock county, and Henry Carrel, now of Hancock county, who was a commissioner of Wood county from 1875 to 1881. For many years Henry Carrel lived in Henry township. In 1884, having met reverses of fortune, he went to South Dakota, where he remained four years. In 1889 he returned to Ohio, and settled on a fine farm three miles from McComb. Lewis F. Lambert came to Wood county with the Carrels in 1832. At that time he was fifty years old, and had served sixteen years as a sailor in the Russian navy. In an engagement with a ship of France, a mast, in the top of which Lambert was at work, was cut down by a cannon ball with the result of precipitating the sailor violently to, the deck of the vessel, and fracturing his skull so severely that he never fully recovered.
Charles Grant, a native of Massachusetts, who had resided in Richland county for a time, became a settler in 1834, taking up forty acres in Section 34. He died in 1892, leaving two sons -- Henry, a lumber dealer of North Baltimore, and Samuel, a farmer living near Alına. Adam and Daniel Crosser were also from Richland county, coming in 1834. Adam entered eighty acres in Section 35, and Daniel forty acres in Section 34. Adam went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1854, and Daniel died in Henry township in 1870, his widow following him in 1890.
Nelson Copus and Reason Copus were from Richland county, coming in 1835. Nelson en- tered 120 acres in Section 36, and made his home there until 1866, when he removed to Tennessee.
In 1830 he established a gristmill on the bank of Portage river (Rocky Ford branch), within the present limits of North Baltimore. In Tennessee, Mr. Copus established a mill on a larger scale, which he conducted until he was overtaken by financial reverses. In 1874, he returned to Wood county, and settled near Bradner, where he died, in 1876. Reason Copus entered eighty acres in Section 36, and died there in 1860. Amos Jones was a New Englander who took up eighty acres in Section 26. in 1835. He remained until 1840, when he removed to Michigan. Newell Bills was a resident of the township about fourteen years, and occupied forty acres in Section 35. He went to Nebraska in 1850. Tobias and Moses Shellenbarger came from Rich- land county, in 1835, and entered land in Section 34. Many years ago they removed from Wood county, and are now living near Coldwater, Mich- igan.
Jabez Bell, a native of New Jersey, settled in Henry township about 1836, taking up forty acres in Section 35. In 1849 his son was crushed under a falling tree one Sunday morning, while coon- hunting, and soon after Mr. Bell died. His home was the principal stopping place for trav- elers. Being a joiner, he made coffins as well as doors, window-sash, looms, tables and bedsteads, dealt in tools, and, moreover, was the principal ar- bitrator in neighborhood misunderstandings. The family then moved to Richland county. James Howard was a Kentuckian, who settled on 160 acres in Section 26, in 1836. In 1853 he re- moved to Hancock county after the death of his wife. Richard Morgan came from Morgan county, Chio, in 1836, and entered forty acres in Section 34. A few years later he joined the Mormons and went west. In the historic fight at Nauvoo, Ill., he wasbadly injured, and, when the Mormons were driven out of Illinois, he went with them, crossing the Mississippi river on the ice.
Adam Rail was a New Yorker who came to the new township, in 1838, and entered eighty acres in Section 34. All further record of him is unobtainable.
Henry McCauley was an almost direct arrival from Ireland in 1838. He entered eighty acres in Section 34, and remained there until 1848, when he removed to near Fostoria, where he died. He was the father of Judge McCauley, of Tiffin, and of three daughters, all of whom were school teachers, and are now dead. Jonathan Wells was one of the early settlers, but there is no further record of him than that he entered 120 acres in Section 25, about 1838. Joshua Bart- lett, the blacksmith, had a shop in the forest ;
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Joseph Gobel, who lived with 'Squire Bell, was a : and the first hotel keeper. The first physician noted 'sower of grain and breaker of oxen, while Travis, Scott, Purkey, Morrow, Deming, Rob- erts, and Caskey, were equally stanch pioneers of this township.
Land Buyers. -- The first purchasers of gov- ernment land in Henry, who located their cabins in this county, are named as follows:
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Samuel McCrory, E. S. E. Sec. 1, Nov. 29, 1833. Thomas Calahan, S. E, { S. 4, Nov. 10, 1836. Benjamin S. Read, N. ES. KY S. 12, Oct. 28, 1833. Michael Longacre, W. S. E. 12 S. 14. May 13. 1839. David Ackerman, E. N. E. Y S. 14. Oct. 12. 1836. Uriah M. Franks, W. S. E. 4 S. 23, March 24, 1834. Reuben Franks, E. S. W. 4 S. 23, March 24, 1834. Christopher Miller. E. S. E. Y S. 23, Feb. 17, 1836. James Copus, E. S. E. Y S. 25, Aug. 27, 1831. Wesley Copus, N. W. of S. E. 1 S. 25, June 14, 1834. William Wiley, E. N. E. V S. 21, Jan. 9, 1834. Samuel Cross, W. N. W. Y S. 31, Dec. 13, 1835. Stephen Arnold, S. W. S. E. 4 S. 31, ret. for tax in 1853. Elias Price, S. E. of N. E. Y S. 32, Nov. 19, 1838. George Carrel, S. E. of S. E. S. 33. Sep. 21. 1832. Lewis S. Lambert. N. E. of S. W. 44 S. 34, April 26, 1833. Simeon Archer, W. S. W. S. 35, May 2, 1833. Thomas Metcalf. E. N. E. W. S. 35. Aug. 23, 1833. Nelson Copus, N. E. N. W. K S. 36, June 14, 1834. Henry and William Campbell, N. E f S. 24. Sep. 17.1834. Andrew Campbell, N. of S. W. and N. of S. E. S. 24, Sep. 12, 34. Hugh Campbell, N. W. Y S. 24, Sep. 17, 1834. Henry Shaw, E. S. E. 4 S. 36, Feb. 21, 1831.
Voters of 1839. - The thirty male inhabitants of the township, over twenty-one years of age, in 1839, are named as follows: Hiram Bigelow, Henry Beeson, Jabez Bell, Joshua Bartlett, Newell Bills, Daniel Crosser, John Crosser, Adam Crosser, George Carrel, Nelson Copus, John Gobel, Charles Grant, Lewis Jones, Levi Jones, John Kelley, Lewis Lambert, Samuel McCrory, David Morrow, Christopher Miller, R. C. Mor- gan, Edwin Musgrove. William Musgrove, Fran- cis Oetny, David Ackerman, Jacob Auviter, Christopher Rail, Henry Shaw, Moses Shellenbar- ger, Tobias Shellenbarger, Richard B. Wall.
The men named opened the forest to civiliza- tion, and must undoubtedly be credited with mak- ing the beginnings of this advanced division of the county. A number of these were present when the township was organized and, for years afterward, took an active interest in public affairs, as well as in the agricultural development of their township.
First Things. - The first death was that of a child of George E. Carrel, in 1833. The first marriage in the township was that of Samuel Howard and Elizabeth Carrel, in 1836. The first frame house was erected by George Carrei on Section 35, in 1842. The first store was started by Samuel McCrory at Woodbury, in the extreme northeastern corner of the township, in 1837, and Mr. MeCrory was the first postmaster
was Dr. William Wiley, who came from Fairfield county in 1840, and settled in Section 26. He married a daughter of Jabez Bell, and moved to the vicinity of Lincoln, Neb., in 1850. The first gristmill was established in 1834, by John Bee- son, on the bank of the Portage river (Rocky Ford), within the present limits of North Balti- more. It was at first run by horse power, but was later changed to a water-mill. Thomas Whitelock carried it on in later years until it was abandoned. John Beeson built a mill also on
Ten-Mile creek, which he carried on until his re- moval to Wisconsin, where he died years ago. The first.orchards planted were those of George Carrel, Charles Grant and Tobias and Moses Shellenbarger. These were planted in 1835, the stock coming from Jonathan Chapman, of Mans- field, known to fame as "Johnny Appleseed," who is said to have traveled a great deal over this country in the early days, in an engagement of starting orchards and sowing the seeds of medicinal plants for the benefit of posterity. The first road was one of the traces of the army of Gen. Hull. When the army entered what is now Henry township, it traveled on both sides of the Portage river, or Rocky Ford as it is called. Near the Bloom township line, the section of the army on the east bank crossed over and joined that on the west. A remarkable fact about the traces is that nothing will grow in them except coarse grass, until they are plowed.
In the early history of the township the deer, wild turkey, raccoon, bear, muskrat, wolf and lynx were often to be encountered. B. L. Peters was the last to kill a lynx in Henry township.
Schools .- A. T. Glaze, writing from Murray, Neb., to The Times, under date July 22, 1895, says:
The first school in Henry township was taught in her own house, for one dollar a week, by "Aunt Charity" Kelly, wife of John Kelly, daughter of John Beeson. Let me say here, parenthetically, from which you may make local men- tion, if you desire, that "Aunt Charity" Kelly, one of the best of God's noble women, long one of the residents of Wood and Hancock counties, died of cancer at Okonec, Neb., on July 12, 1895, at the age of eighty-six years. Everybody in your locality, in the olden time, knew her as ". Aunt Charity." She, with her husband, John Kelly, lived on what was the Jim Howard place, and there she taught school for one dol- lar a week, the first school in the township. The first school house was at the corner east of the above, and John Dve. of Van Buren, was the first teacher in it. Subsequently that school house was moved to near Thos. MeClintock's. half a mile north, and the writer of these lines taught the first school in it at the new location. The school house, not far from the junction of Portage and Ten Mile, was built long after the above. Henry Carrel went to school, and taught in it and knows about it. Amos Roberts, Aaron Howard and Garner Whitelock were among the early teachers.
In a paper on this subject, prepared by Mr.
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Marron, and published in The Times, in 1895, it is said:
Old residents disagree when and where the first school was hekl. B. L. Peters says Mark Thompson was the first teacher; that his temple of learning was in Section 26, and that the term began and ended in 1836. Henry Carrel says the first school house was established in 1839, in the south- west corner of Section 24, on the John Davis land, now owned by the Standard Oil Company, and that the first teacher was john Dye, of Hancock county, who originally came from Virginia. One referred to the first school which was proba- bly held in a private house, and the other to the first school. The first school consisted of about 25 or 26 pupils, and the compensation of the teacher was "ten dollars a month and board around."
A valuable paper on the early schools of this township was found among documents in the auditor's office, in May, 1895. It is the school census of 1842.
The enumeration made in October, 1842, by Newell Bills, then township clerk, gives the fol- lowing names of pupils in the four school districts of that period:
Districi No. 1 .- James, Samuel, Daniel, Lewis, Elizabeth, Hannah, and Lida Ann Mc- Crory; Sarah, Susannah, Almena' and Rachel Roberts; John, William and Christian Freyman; Douglas, Martha and Lucy Bigelow; George and Elizabeth Lininger; George A. Longaker; Henry and Frederick Hannen; Jacob, Frances and Mary Aukerman, and Michael Anviter. Total, 21.
District No. 2 .- Amos and Hannah Jones; John, James and Mary McCauley; William, Henry and Josiah Boyer; John, Mary and Emily Miller; Mary and Lydia Ann Atteney; Betsey, Julia Ann and Daniel Musgrove; Abzada Morrow, and James, Charles and Cornelius Howard. Total, 19. District No. 3. - Robert, Jesse, Martha, Lucy and Anna Caskey; John, Jalson, Mary and Mar- garet Rayt. Total, 9.
District No. 5 .- Stephen, Albert N. and Sarah W .. Bills; Orwell and Delight Morgan; Esther, Harriet, Catherine and Belinda Grant; Henry, Peter, George, Alinira and Emiline, chil- dren of Tobias Shellenbarger; Christian, Mary and Catherine Crosser, children of Daniel; Joseph (son of John) Crosser; Samuel, Philip, Jacob, Mary, Sophia and Susan, children of Moses Shel- lenbarger; John, David, James, Tobias, Lydia, Amy, Margaret, Nancy and Elizabeth, children of Mary Lincicum: Henry and Isabel Carrell; Cynthia, John, Ann and Maria Dickerson; Lewis, Stephen. Marg't, Betsey, Hettie, Barbara, Cassia and Mary Jane Crosser, children of John Crosser; Daniel, Silas, Lewis, Delilah and Betsey, children of Adam Crosser; William, Jacob, Matthew, John, James D., Susannah, Christiana, Elizabeth, Mar- garet and Rebecca, children of Matthew Scott; Betsey and Melia, children of Thomas White-
lock; Jacob Copus, and Jabez Bell's children- Miranda, Phoebe and Jane Bell. Total, 65.
Hunters .- A reference to the general history of the county will tell of the carly hunters. Here a reference may be made to a hunt of 1843. One morning Lycurgus and Josiah Millbourn started for the windfall in the southern part of Liberty township, to hunt coon; there had been a slight fall of snow the night before. They soon struck a bear trail; the tracks showed that one old bear and three cubs had passed along the trail. The hunters determined to get more help before pur- suing the game. They got a large white dog of Samuel McCrory, that was ' 'game;" at Peter Frey- man's they got two more dogs, five in all. Uncle Peter loaded up his double-barrel gun, and went along. Near where the Magill school house now stands, the dogs treed two of the cubs. When the hunters came up, the bears commenced to back down the tree; Josiah Millbourn now sent a bullet through the head of one of the bears; Ly- curgus shot the other, breaking the jaw. A lively fight then took place, between the wounded bear and the five dogs, but another shot soon set. tled the cub. Upon following the trail of the old bear, they found that she had made a circle and had stood up, with her forepaws, on a log and wit- nessed the fight, but she soon took to ilight. The cubs were the size of a large dog, and were fine meat.
As has been stated, B. L. Peters killed the last lynx seen within the limits of Henry town- ship. It was a great preserve for large garne un- til the sawmill and railroad men appeared in the woods, and, even later, the hunter could find profitable employment until the oil nien dashed impetuously through the township.
Villages .- The villages of the township, out- side North Baltimore, are Eberly, an oil town: Hammansburg, a sawmill and stave village; Denver, an oil town; Lawrence, a railroad sta- tion, about two miles north of North Baltimore: and the new hamlet called " Slabtown," near the northern township line.
Hammansburg was surveyed by W. H. Wood. for William Hammond and Jacob Ackerman, February 28, 1873. It became at once the seat of the stave manufacturing industry, and a factor in clearing the land of its thick covering of burr- oak, elm, hickory. white-ash, sycamore and wal- nut. On April 14, 1885, Foster & Noble's stave works were burned, $15,000 worth of property destroyed, and forty persons left without employ- ment. The Fulton well, which came in on De- cember 8, 1886, caused a stampede to this part of the township, and introduced an era in which
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the old lumber industry played but an insignifi- cant part. In May. 1876, the post office of Woodbury was moved to Hammansburg.
Denver was surveyed by David Donaldson for George D. Chase, in April, 1875, on the line of the B. & O. railroad, one mile west of North Baltimore. The latter village had the start, built no less than 102 dwellings in the two years preceding April, 1875, and continued in the path of progress without recognizing the new town of Denver, which became less as the older town in- creased. The Denver well. drilled in 1889. won attention for the village, and it is said yielded $84 per diem to the owner of the town from its production.
Eberly is an oil town with its main street lined, on each side, by frame cottages. In the oil belt, and at the same time, the center of a rich agricultural district, it is a busy hamlet.
Slabtown is a modern place in point of time, but very ancient in its conveniences, and in the manners, customs and habits of its residents. The oil development of 1895, and the establish- ment of the Burnett sawmill in the vicinity, must be credited with the existence of such a hamlet.
Woodbury. - In May, 1876, Woodbury post office was discontinued. It was established in Bloom township, in 1835, with Samuel Heller in charge. He lived on the farin which S. Han- man owned in 1876, while yet the office was called "Rocky Ford." A few years later, it was moved to McCrory's tavern, or Woodbury, where Gen. Thompson attempted to establish a town. Joseph Thompson was appointed postinaster, but he was succeeded by Samuel McCrory. In 1858, Joseph Madden succeeded McCrory, and the of- fice was moved to the Madden cabin, one mile south of the tavern. Chauncey Gordon, named in the history of Bowling Green, was the mail- carrier. For weeks the sack would be empty, so that on one occasion, McCrory mailed a chip, which proved a turning point in the fortunes of the office; for every mail afterward brought a letter.
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The Frame House at Woodbury was built by Gen. Thompson, as the first house on the town site, on the Liberty side. A log house for store purposes was built on the Henry side, in 1835, .wherein Joseph Thompson kept store. Neither of the buildings are standing, fire having reduced them to ashes. A number of stories are told about the Frame House, not the least of which relates to its habitation by witches. It was at one time occupied by John Clever and his sister; at an- other time by equally notorious citizens until fire swept it away. It was reported that a peddler
named Nimms was killed there, and that his spirit haunted the place.
Churches .- The first religious impressions were made by the Mormon missionaries late in the "thirties," when one or more families embraced Joseph Smith's teachings and accon- panied their teachers to Illinois.
The Methodist Episcopal Church, which was organized in the winter of 1846-47, was the first church in the township. The first meeting was held at the house of James Howard, in Section 26, and the first members were Charles and Mrs. Grant, Thomas and Mrs. McClintock, James and Mrs. Howard, and some few others whose names can not now be recalled. There was no minister at that time, and the members would take turns in preaching.
Mount Harmon Society, of the Evangelical Association, in Henry township, was organized in June, 1883, the signers of the articles being H. W. Sterling, Fergus Hughes, Catherine Ster- ling. Elizabeth Sterling. Anton Sieber, D. S. Thrush and Barbara Siver.
The United Brethren Church, southwest of Hammansburg, has, like that of the Methodist and Evangelical, a house of worship and a small membership.
In the old villages of Hammansburg and Denver, classes of one church or another have been organized and disbanded, and re-organized and disbanded. Secret societies, too, have grown up for a season and fallen to decay. In religious matters it is now difficult to tell where the Christian ends and the pagan begins; for, in this township, a large number of the inhabitants revel in adiaphorism.
Oil and Gas .- Henry township, since 1886, has been chiefly noted as an oil field, and to the discovery of gas and oil it owes its remarkable growth of the last decade. The first oil well was struck in 1886 on a lot now known as the Madden property, on Second street, in North Baltimore. The well, which was owned by a company of local men, was tubed June ro, 1886, and, though there was a fair flow of oil for a time, it did not prove as prolific as was expected. The first big well was the Fulton on the Fulton farm, three miles north of North Baltimore. The flowing commenced on December 8, 1886, and was esti- mated at seven hundred and twenty barrels a day. The Fulton proves the best paying well ever drilled in the township, and is still a good pro- ducer. In 1887 the Henning well, which flowed five hundred barrels a day at the start, was drilled, and was soon followed by the Fanny Peters well No. 1, on the Fanny Peters farm,
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about one-quarter of a mile east of the Fulton well. The latter was good for two hundred bar- rels a day, and is still a fair producer. From this well was taken the first oil put into the tanks. Several hundred oil wells have been drilled since 1886. and some of them are prolific producers, which have enriched, and are enrich- ing, many men who were poor ten years ago, and scarcely dreamed of the good fortune in store for them. The first gas well in Henry township was the Peters well, drilled by C. C. Conroy. on the Peters farm, within the limits of North Baltimore. Gas was struck in October, 1886, at a depth of 1,128 feet, and about twenty-one feet in the Trenton rock. Its flow was estimated at the start at 3, 590,000 cubic feet. Twenty-four gas wells have been drilled within the corporation in all, and all are owned by the village. In 1890 the original well was a good producer, while the newer wells gave promise of immense supplies of fuel. The Enterprise Window Glass Works, the Zihlman Flint Glass Works and the North Baltimore Bottle Works were suggested by the Conroy developments, and the enterprise of the townspeople did the rest. Indeed, it is question - able if that enterprise did not lead to the develop- inent of the oil reservoirs of the township; for in 1885 the capitalists of the village began to organ- ize for work.
NORTH BALTIMORE.
The town of North Baltimore may be said to have been suggested by the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Though a gristmill was constructed within its present boundaries, as early as 1834, by Thomas Whitelock -- though the pioneers of Secs. 26 and 35 appeared in the wilderness at that time, and notwithstanding the fact that such men as B. L. Peters, Levi Tarr, Jacob Dirk and George Franks had occupied the site for many years-nothing was done toward town-building until the iron way had been placed. and the whistle of the locomotive had reminded the land owners of their opportunity and of their duty. On April 25, 1874, the plat of the village of New Baltimore was recorded for B. L. Peters, the owner. On the day after, F. J. Frazier's survey of Tarr's addition was filed for record; then followed the plat of Jacob Dirk's addition and many others, until at one time it would ap- pear as if the town builders would cover all Henry township with survey stakes and buildings, so great were their ambitions, and so thorough their faith in the location. The first enumera- tion for the United States Census, made in ISSo,
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