Commemorative historical and biographical record of Wood County, Ohio : its past and present : early settlement and development biographies and portraits of early settlers and representative citizens, etc. V. 1, Part 64

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) cn; J.H. Beers & Co. cn
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1060

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Woman's Relief Corps, No. 309, was char- tered November 5, 1890, with Electa Haines, Mary Downing, Sophia Baker, Lucretia Bailey, Emily Whitmore, Mary Johnson, Ella Ames, Al- mira Ballard, Effie Facer and Mary A. Moore, officers, with Lydia Facer. Susan Taylor, Mary Miller, Mary Tyler, Paulina Brenot, Emma Barnswill, Esther Beaviraer, Mary E. Warner, Emeretta Warner, Marinda Fuller, Isabelle Hough, E. A. Mercer and Kittie Keeper. Mrs. Lucretia Bailey is president of this Corps.

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Camp J. L. Chase, S. of V., No. 383, was chartered June 19, 1889, with twenty-one mem- bers. The charter is yet in possession of the Camp, but its terms are scarcely observed.

Millbury Tent, No. 244, K. O. T. M., was or- ganized recently with the following named mem- bers: Charles Martin, William Marsh, Frank Taylor#, Albert Kalmback#, Richard R. Down- ing*, Febne Cardosy*, William J. Bailey#, Henry D. Grove, Denis D. Downing", Montgomery Carsner*, Harry Carsner#, Frank Brough", Lam- bert R. Rowe, Charles Facer*, Wallace H. Facer, Albert J. Lutman*, Garot W. Sanders*, G. Hen- ry C. Farmer, Christ Martin, Charles Kalm- back, Henry Wight, Gilbert B. Brim, William H. Rogers, Robert Tiplady, F. C. Calkins and George Rill. The names marked thus # are those of the first officers of the Tent, Charles Facer be- ing the keeper of records and seals.

The Millbury Hive, L. O. T. M., was organ- ized in 1895 with Frances Chapman, commander, and Libbie Jackson, record-keeper. The origi- nal members are named as follows: Nellie Agler, Mary Ayers, Florence Bailey, Carrie Brough, Ida Caldwell, Hannah Carsner, Mary E. Curtice, Sarah Dye, Maud Deibert, Ella Downing, Eliza- beth Dart, Sarah Farmer, Estella Facer, Cath- erine and Lizzie Friend. Eliza George, Mary Grove, Mary Hood, Enima Jackson, Josie and Daisy Karchner, Ella Kalmback, Lydia Lutman, Belle Martin, Mary Moore, Henrietta Stage, Es- ther Tabine, Sylvia Smith, Eliza, Myrtie, Eva, Gusta and Mary E. Wight. The Hive is a busy one.

WALBRIDGE.

Walbridge was surveyed for Emeretta and Harriet Warner, in June, 1874, by George Kirk. The village already has the prospects of a sub- urb of Toledo, rather than those of a country hamlet. Railroads run through it and round it, but it holds its place, as in 1874, waiting the era of progress. The postmasters since the estab- lishment of the office have been S. P. Allen, G. H. Hoover, T. J. Cavenaugh, Neil A. McAllister, and, in August, 1893, Maxime Fenauf.

The Union church building of Walbridge was built in 1889-90, by the people without regard to denominational lines, for the use of religious bodies desiring to liold services therein. The building committee comprised W. W. Stein, N. A. McAllister, J. B. Warner, Henry Arendt and R. W. Thatcher. The building was erected by Thomas Savory at a cost of about $1, 200. The United Brethren and Universalists-the only or-

ganized religious societies at Walbridge -- wor- shiped in this building until April, 1895, when the United Brethren Society determined to build a house of worship.

The Universalist Church was formed about the time the Union Church was built, the mem- bers being: William Beery, R. W. and Mary Thatcher, Henry Arendt and wife, Mrs. Mary F. Warner, Blanche Shover, Rachel Stein, Mrs. Stocker, Mrs. O. L. Wells, and one other mem- ber. Mr. Umberstone, of Toledo, succeeded Rev. O. L. Wales, who organized the society. The church now has a small membership.

The United Brethren Church of Walbridge was organized some years prior to 1869, when Seth Wick settled northwest of the town. Among the old members are L. T. Roberts and Mrs. Jane Hurd, of Walbridge.

The Ross Chapel U. B. Society was organ- ized in March, 1895, with the following named members: Seth and Lucy Wicks, L. T. Roberts, Jane Hurd, Mr. Snyder and wife, Frank Cates, Starting Taylor, Charles Rhodes, Lydia and Eliz- abeth McIntyre, Mrs. Guyer and Clifford Wise. The building committee comprises Messrs. Rob- erts, Wicks and Snyder-the three trustees. Rev. John Croneberger is pastor.

LATCHIE.

This village was surveyed by David Donald- son, for J. R. Tracy and Luke Marsh, in July, 1876. It is a railroad hamlet of very small pre- tensions, but with store, church and school it has something to show for its score of years. The Lutheran Church is presided over by Rev. John Born, of. Stony Ridge. When the post office at Webb was discontinued, in November, 1895, Latchie became the mailing point for that district. The post office was managed early in the "seventies" by James Brim, who had the office at his farm-house. His immediate suc- cessors were John Downing and Thomas Rowe. Henry Christiansen closed his term as post- master in 1896; Henry Bahnsen was appointed in 1887: Thomas Rowe in 1892, and B. F. Lusher, the present incumbent, in 1893.

The first settlers were Luke and John Marsh. In 1866 William Rogers bought eighty acres at the corners, and soon after Christian Johnson opened the first store, now the Lusher store. The Aubrey store was purchased from Johnson, Peter Vanally carried on business here a year or so, while Scott, of Millbury, moved a small frame honse from that town in which he kept a saloon for a little while. The store at the southwest

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corner of the crossroads was erected by Ed. Bel- more.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church was organ -. ized early in the "eighties" by Rev. Mr. Wolf. Among the supporters and members were Peter and Hans Bahnsen. Henry and Paul Boysen, G. Bracker, Lewis Peterson, H. Michelson, John Kohler, Hans Ingwersen, Chris Gerdsen and their families. The present church house was built by G. Bracker, and is now the property of the twenty-four members forming Mr. Born's con- gregation.

MOLINE.

Moline is a new village on the dividing line, between the old farms westward, and the new clearings, eastward. The Toledo & Ohio Cen- tral railroad forms the western limit of the han- let. In 1883, a post office was established here with J. K. Pheils, master. He was followed by Jerome Stormer, who opened the first store that year. B. F. Lusher was appointed in 1888; F. J. Schrieber, in 1889, and Franklin D. Lusher, in 1893. The merchants have been Mr. Stormer (mentioned above), Rudolph & Schrieber, Schrie- ber & Schrieber, B. F. Lusher & Co., and F. D Lusher, who became owner of the store in 1890.

The Evangelical Society built a meeting-house here in 1883 at a cost of $1, 350. The families now (July, 1895) represented in the society are those of George Blandon, Jacob Emch, Samuel ;

Schneider, Jacob and John Suter, Henry J. Suter, Rudolph and Frank Lusher, George Harple, Edward Muhl. George Corn and Benjamin Schneider. There were forty-one members re- ported by. Jacob Suter, the trustee. Rev. J. J. Bernhart was pastor in 1895, but a Mr. Monk is said to have organized the society.

The Methodist Episcopal Church was estab- lished here prior to Moline's first post office; but for many causes the class disbanded.

The Dunkard Church, a mile east of Moline. was established six or seven years ago. Among its members are William Gardner, Sr., William Gardner, Jr., Bernard Wagner, Harry Smith and Jacob Baker.

CUMMINGS.

Cummings was a name given to a sawmill settlement, one mile east of Moline, in 1880, when Giddings & Cummings established their mills in the forest. F. S. Giddings has been postmaster since the beginning of the hamlet, and is now the operator of the sawmill, as well as the merchant of the locality. The explosion in the stave factory, which occurred July 29. 1891, resulted in the instant death of Charles Moore and Frank Miller, and, later, in the deaths of Zigler and Enz. When Hobart post office was discontinued in November, 1895, the U. S. prop- erty was transferred to this office.

CHAPTER XXXV.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.

SURVEY-EARLY SETTLERS-POPULATION-TOPOGRAPHY-PIONEERS-HULL'S STOCKADE-MEN OF 1839-FEVER AND AGUE-THE HORSE THIEVES-EARLY LAND BUYERS-OGANIZATION- ELECTORS AND OFFICERS-RECORDS-TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS-MISCELLANEOUS-AN ADVEN- TURE ON THE PRAIRIE-SCHOOLS-CHURCHES-HAMLETS-CONCLUSION.

T HE survey of the exterior lines of Liberty township was made in 1819, for the United States, by Samuel and Alexander Holmes, and of the section lines, in 1821, by I. T. Worthington. There is no record to show a permanent settlement, by white men, within its boundaries, down to that time, and only a rude stockade, to show that the soldiers of Hall, in

their march toward Detroit, halted here for a short period.

In 1825, the Haskins family settled near the eastern line, and its members may be said to have been the only residents for almost four years. The Census enumerator found a popula- tion of 215, in Jane. 1840. During the ensuing decade only twenty-one souls were added to the

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settlements. In 1860 there were 635 inhabit- ants; in 1870, 965; in 1880, 1,292; and in 1890, 2,013, or little over double the number credited in 1870.

The township is rated among the first agri- cultural districts of Ohio. Land reclaimed from the swamps presents an inexhaustible soil, while the uplands and even the sand ridges are re- markably fertile. Its wealth of mineral oil, dis- covered within the last decade, has contributed to enrich the people.

Pioncers .- Tradition credits Collister Haskins with being the first actual settler, in 1824, going even farther, to show that he purchased land in Section 12, in the spring of that year, and built his cabin some time in September, 1824. The records of land entries do not agree with tradi- tion, and, for this reason, his land purchase must be dated August 9, 1825, while the date of cabin building may be written September, 1825. The location was on the south bank of Portage creek, where, in later years, stood the dwelling of Shellis Patterson. His white assistants, in build- ing, came from Waterville, twelve miles away, but with them were a few Indians who resided or were camped in the vicinity of the Haskins pur- chase. In 1829 or thereabouts, John B. McKnight, J. M. Jaques, the Cox and Decker families ap- peared in the neighborhood, and the pioneer felt that henceforth he would have neighbors. Shortly after the men named appeared in the wilderness, Haskins constructed a damn across the stream, and built a sawmill, thus becoming the first manu- facturer in the south part of Wood county. John De Witt was his sawyer at that time, and, later, his son-in-law. In 1833, Haskins erected a cabin, in the northern part of the present village of Portage, for his hired man, English, and that cabin, was used for school purposes in 1835-36, and, indeed, down to about 1842, as related in the history of Portage village, and under the heading "Schools," in this chapter.

Hull's Stockade .- In those early days, there was a stockade standing on the bank of the West Branch, on what is known as the Knagg's farm. No one then residing in the county could give its history, nor was anything definite learned of it until April 18, 1891, when D. W. H. Howard wrote to the Sentinel on the subject. From that letter, the following paragraph is taken:

I have passed many times when a boy, and camped near its walls, and always thought it an old French traders' fort; yet it was near one of the trails used by Hull's army, but I cannot vouch for the truth of this, but this a matter of his- tory. The swamps and streams were always full, and goods and furs were taken by canoes up or down the Portage and the Beaver, and carried across from the head waters of

one stream to the other. The "old trail " across was a well beaten track: the two streams furnished early communica- tion (nearly all the way by water) from the villages on the bay at the mouth of the Portage river, to the large and im- portant Ottawa village of the chief Gem-jo-i-no, on the lett bank of the Maumee, opposite the mouth of Beaver creek (O-mick-ce-pe). This route, although much farther than via the Maumee, on account of the almost continuous rapids for eighteen miles, was more convenient. Hull may have built the block-house, as I have often heard the story from the older Indians, that the " White Chief " ( Hull) had left seme of his sick and foot-sore soldiers in a small stockade in the swamp, who returned south over the trail atter they had suffi- ciently recruited, and this may have been the place.

We can imagine how that stockade aroused the curious spirit of the first settlers. In their partial isolation, small things amused and inter- ested them, but that rude stockade was a thing of more than passing interest, which formed a subject for conversation round the hearthstones of the settlements, night after night. Progress. rather than Time, removed the last vestige of it years ago.

Men of 1859 .- In less than four years after the organization of the township, the assessor reported forty-seven inale inhabitants, each twenty-one years old or over, and from his list the following names are taken: John Astling, Benjamin Abbott. Conrad Albright, Sacket Brown, Franklin Brown, James Bloom, Horace Cady. George Cook, Jesse Carter, Henry Dubbs. Henry Ellsworth, John Edgar, John Ellsworth. William Edgar. George Ellsworth, John Elder. Henry Groves, William Groves, John Groves (now living in Missouri). Collister Haskins. Henry Hoff, Seth Harris, Isaiah Harris, Richard Kilbury, William Lathrop, Joseph Mitchel. Joseph Mitchel, Jr., John McMahan, William Mercer, George Mercer, Squire J. McConnel, Cal- vin Rice, Leonard Smith, Ephraim Simmons. Jonathan Salsbury, Charles Sheward. John Sheward. John Sargent. Eli Salsbury, Eli Thur- stin, Richard Trowel, S. Wrinklekee, Jacob Wickham, John Wonder. John Wonder. Jr .. William Underhill and Daniel Ellsworth. When Henry Dubbs located on Sec. 19, in April, 1830. James Birdsall's was the only family west of him In the township. Wm. Lathrop built a cabin, a few weeks later, between the Dubbs and Birdsall cabins, and later in that year the Hutchinsons. Morrison McMillen and Samuel Barton appeared as neighbors to the west.

Fever and Ague .-- The vicissitudes and hard- ships of the first settlers of this part of Wood county can never be realized or understood by the present inhabitants, although a period of only a little over sixty years has elapsed. They were subject to all kinds of deprivations The most distressing of all the rest was their being

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subject to epidemics that swept through the country every summer and fall in the shape of inalarial fevers of every grade from the real old- fashioned four-hours' shaking and twenty-hours' fever every day, down to the third-day chills, and this all to be borne without medicine or medical assistance. In the spring of 1834 the Good Spirit, thinking He had punished His people enough, sent Dr. Eli Manville, who soon dis- tributed a few pounds of calomel and a few hun- dred bottles of quinine in a radius of some twenty miles.

The Horse Thieves .- The years of speculation and what was known as " wild-cat money " times in 1837 and 1838, brought quite a number of new settlers to Liberty and adjoining townships, which in a year or two after had the bad effect of seriously disturbing and breaking up the social and confiding friendship of the first settlers. There proved to be a regularly organized band of counterfeiters, burglars and horse thieves who had chosen this part of the country for their de- predations. They established their headquarters, and constituted, as their leader and captain, one who then lived and owned the farm later known as the J. Z. Smith farm. Their accomplices seemed to be established in a direct line from Huron county, running west through Sandusky, Wood, Henry and Willianis counties, and thence extending into the State of Indiana.

About the year 1837 their depredations be- came so bold and lawless, that the honest class of men of Liberty and the adjoining townships, united to stop law-breaking; among these were Collister Haskins, John McMahan, Henry Dubbs, W. C. Lathrop, John Groves, James Bloom, the Mercer brothers, John Sargent, Samuel McCrory, and a number of other leading men in Liberty; in Portage township were found Judge Carothers, Jacob Eberly, and the Cox family of brothers. In Center, H. Lundy, H. Shively, Lee Moore, David Hixon. In Plain the Tracys, Edgertons, Jos. A. Sargent, John Evers, and the Huffs. In Milton, were McMillen, the Bartons and Taylors, and a great number of other influ- ential men of the country, who resolved to to bring the depredators to justice. They proceeded to the work by pledging themselves one to another collectively and undividedly to clean out the organization or be fairly whipped. They called to their assistance Willard V. Way, of Perrysburg, who was then the prosecut- ing attorney. They organized a court of ex- amination at the house of James Bloom, which is now owned by N. W. Stafford. The examin- ing court consisted of C. Mercer, J. P., of Lib-

erty, Morrison McMillen, J. P., of Milton, and F. Carothers, J. P., of Portage township. There were some ten or twelve of the outlaws arrested, and brought before the court by Constables Rex Tracy, G. Cook and J. H. Carothers, who ac- quitted themselves fearlessly and creditably. The examination continued from day to day for fif- teen days, Sundays not excepted, and resulted in committing to jail the leader, and four of his accomplices.

Following close after the foregoing was the arrest of three of the same band for the murder, in Henry county, of the Chief Sumundewat, his daughter and son-in-law, of the Wyandotte tribe of Indians, then living on the reservation at Up- per Sandusky Reserve. It was not until 1844 that the last known members of the organization were driven out.

Early Land Buyers. - The earliest land pur- chases were made in Liberty township from 1825 to 1835. Among the buyers were the following well-known pioneers:

Coliister Haskins (E. of N. E., N. E. of S. E., W. of S. E. and W. of N. E., Sec. 12) entered these tracts on Aug. 9, 1825, Dec. 6, 1832, and June 18, 1833.

John Sargent, N. E. 4 and N. E. of N. W. 4, S. 1, Nov. 27, 1832.

Collister Haskins, E. of S. E. K. S. 1, Dec. 6. 1832. John Ellsworth, S., S. E. , S. 3, Jan. 2, 1854.

Henry Levering, S. W. K, S. 4, March 15, 1834.

Ralph O. Keeler, N. E. of N. E., S. 4. Oct. 21, 1835. George Rooney, S. E. of N. E., S. 6, Aug. 20, 1835.

Jonathan Salsbury, W. of S. W. 4, S. 8, Jan. 1, 1834. William Grove, E. of N. F. 44, S. 8, March 1, 1834.

Horace Cady, N. of S. E. 44 and S. of N. E. , S. 9, Oct. 23, 1833.

Horace Cady, W. pt. S. W. 14, S. 10, Oct. 23, 1833.

Henry Groves, S. W. of S. E. , S. 10, Nov. 2, 1833.

David Dewitt, N .. S. W. 4. S. 10, Dec. 23, 1834.

George Mercer, S. W. , S. 12, June 18, 1833.

Ambrose Rice, E. of N. W. K, S. 12, March 10, 1836. George and John Mercer entered tracts in S. 13. in 1833.

George, Caleb and William Mercer, in S. 14, in 1833-34 and 1836.

James Birdsall. N. E. 4, S. 18, Aug. 21, 1833.

William C. Lathrop, S. W. 44. S. 18, Oct. 21, 1833.

Henry Dubbs, N. W. of N. W., S. 19, Oct. 21, 1833. Lewis Keith, entered land in S. 23, June 19, 1834. Thomas McFadden, in 25, Jan. 25, 1836.

John McMahan, E., N. W., and N. W. of N. E., and N. W. of S. W., S. 24, Jan. 1, 1834. Sylvester Culver, E., N. E. 4, S. 32, Feb. 19, 1834. James Headley, N. of N. W., S. 32, March 15, 1834.

Organisation .- Liberty township was estab- lished March 2, 1835, and the first meeting for the choice of officers was ordered to be held at Henry Groves' house, on the first Monday of April, following. The territory of the original municipal township embraced Congressional Townships 3 and 4 N .. in Range 12 E.

Electors and Officers. -- The names of the electors at that time were fohn Sargent, Collister Haskins, Thomas Robinson, Horace Cady. Henry Groves, John Groves, Jonathan Salsbury, David

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Dewitt, Ephraim Simmons, John Dunhamn, George Ellsworth, Hugh Arbuckle, Joshua Wright, Henry Dubbs, John McMahan, George Mercer, Lyman Macumber, Samuel Silsby, James Birdsall, Reuben Strait, William C. Lathrop and James' Robinson. The result of the election was, for trustees, James Birdsall, Henry Groves, George Ellsworth; for clerk, Reu- ben Strait; for treasurer, Hugh Arbuckle; for jus- tice of the peace, James Birdsall and Jacob Wickham. "Their choice for treasurer, Arbuckle, proved to be an injudicious one. He was a na- tive of Scotland, a fine scholar and apparently a gentleman, who was in the stock business in con- nection with Reed & Bishop, of Urbana. During the year that he was serving the township as treasurer, he sold a quantity of the partnership stock, pocketed the money and emigrated. At the time he left. he also had $28 of the township funds on hand. That also went down in his pocket. John McMahan and Henry Dubbs, who were his bail, paid the sum to the township, but not without some very pointed epithets and firm resolves to never bail another man, which resolves they both very soon forgot." At the next elec- tion John Sargent was elected treasurer, which office he held until his death, a period of over twenty years.

In the record of the October election of 1835, Hugh Arbuckle, John McMahan and George Mercer are not named; but the name of Henry Dubbs appears among the eighteen voters present.

Records. -- The first statement, giving names of electors and first officials, is taken from the Sentinel of April 19, 1877, otherwise it could not have been made, for the minute books of the trustees, from April, 1835, to April, 1880, save one in possession of E. W. Norris, are gone. In the county auditor's office, and township treas- urer's office, however, the documents offered a last resort to the searcher, and from them the names of justices of the peace back to 1835, trustees back to 1842, and clerks and treasurers to a corresponding date are taken.

TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS.

Justices .- The justices of Liberty township were Jacob Wickhari, elected in 1835; James Birdsall, 1835; John Groves, 1837; John McMa- Clerks. -- Among the citizens who are known to have filled the clerk's office were Reuben Strait, in 1835; John Groves, in 1839; Caleb Mer- cer, in 1843; L. F. Dubbs. in 1851: S. Johnson, in 1853; Caleb Mercer, in 1855: James Bloom. in 1856; L. F. Dubbs. in 1857; J. L. Roller, in 1859; E. B. Turner, in 18Go; S. Johnson, in 1862; han, 1839; Caleb Mercer, 1840; John McMahan, 1842; Ephraim Moody, 1843; George Mercer, 1847-51; John Groves, 1847; Lewis Dubbs, 1850; James McCrory, 1851; Thomas Fearnside, 1854; John Osborn, 1857; Edwin Gorton, 1857; John H. Dewitt, 1858; E. B. Turner, 1860; James McCrory, 1851; Lewis F. Dubbs, 1861- | E. B. Turner, in 1863-67; B. M. Delano, in 1868; 20

70-73-76; Nathan D. Stratton, 1864-67; J. G. Patterson, 1864-67; R. G. Potter, 1869; E. T. Hayes, 1875; E. B. Turner, 1878-81-84-88, re- signed in 1890; A. J. McMahan, 1879, resigned in 1882; B. F. See, 1882-85; J: E. Hummell. 1888: N. W. Stafford, 1889, resigned in 1892, but res- ignation not accepted by trustees; Jacob Hock, 1891-94; F. M. McIntire, 1894.

Trustecs .- The trustees of the township, so far as can be found in the township treasurer's books and county auditor's documents, are named as follows:

1842-John Wonder, Jr., W. C. Lathrop, Jonathan Salsbury. 1843-John Wonder, Jr., Robert Cook, George Mercer.

1844-Justus Simmons, William Groves. George Mercer.

1845-46-Henry Dubbs, William Edgar, John H. De Witt. 1847-George Mercer, F. H. Ellsworth, William Holmes. 1848-John H. De Witt, William Groves, George Mercer. 1849-John McMahan, S. L. Sargent, F. H. Ellsworth. 1850-52 -- John McMahan, W. C. Lathrop, F. H. Ellsworth. 1851-John C. Wooster, William Edgar, F. H. Ellsworth. 1853-John McMahan, W. R. Carothers, Thomas Fearnside. 1854-55 -- John McMahan, Daniel Wirtz, Thomas Fearnside. 1857 -- A. Shively, John McMahan, S. L. Sargent.

1858-John Groves, John Osborn. W. A. Sargent.

1859 -John Groves, John McMahan, W. A. Sargent and George Wright.

1860-John Mercer, S. L. Sargent. John Osborn.

1861-J. Z. Smith, S. L. Sargent, John Mercer.

1862-T. Z. Smith, James McCrory, S. L. Sargent. 1863-J. Z. Smith, J. G. Patterson, S. L. Sargent. 1864-J. Z. Smith, Charles Mercer, Daniel Housley. 1865-John McMahan, Thomas Fearnside, Daniel Wirtz.

1866-Daniel Housley, J. Z. Smith, W. A. Sargent. 1867-John Johnston, J. Z. Smith, Charles Mercer. 1868-John Johnston, R. G. Potter, Samuel Mercer. 1869-John Johnston, R. G. Potter. Asa Comstock.

1870-71-Levi Adams, L. D. Milbourn, William Ransbottom. 1872-Levi Adams. L. D. Milbourn. R. G. Potter.

1873-74-James McCrory, Henry Mercer, N. W. Stafford (rice Potter).

1875-L. F. Dubbs, Louis W. McCrory, N. W. Stafford.

1876-Daniel Mercer, Louis W. McCrory, N. W. Stafford. 1877-Daniel Mercer, Louis W. MeCrory, Levi Adams. 1878-79-A. J. McMahan, Louis W. McCrory, Levi Adams. 1880-Joseph Mitchell. A. J. McMahan. Seldon Welton. 1881-Joseph Mitchell, John E. Digby. Josiah Smith.

1882- John E. Digby, Josiah Smith, William H. Levers.

1883 -John E. Digby, Joel Hull, Frank Snyder.

1884-Abraham Mercer, John E. Digby, William H. Levers. 1885-86 -- J. H. Mitchell, D. L. Whitacre, H. E. Leedy.

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Commemorative historical and biographical record of Wood County, Ohio : its past and present : early settlement and development biographies and portraits of early settlers and representative citizens, etc. V. 1, Part 64

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) cn; J.H. Beers & Co. cn Publication date: 1897 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1060

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) cn; J.H. Beers & Co. cn
Publication date: 1897
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1060