Historical collections of Ohio in two volumes, an encyclopedia of the state, Volume I, Part 157

Author: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Cincinnati : Published by the state of Ohio
Number of Pages: 1006

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MOUNT VERNON, county-seat of Knox, is forty miles northeast of Columbus, on the Kokosing river, the C. A. & C. and S. M. & N. Railroads. The Magnetic Springs, a noted health resort, is about two miles north of the city. County Offi- cers : Auditor, Curtis W. McKee; Clerk, Hugh Neal ; Commissioners, Stephen Craig, Samuel T. Vannatta, W. D. Foote ; Coroner, Samuel R. Stofer ; Infirmary Directors, James O. McArtor, William H. Wright, John C. Hammond; Probate Judge, John M. Critchfield ; Prosecuting Attorney, William L. McElroy ; Re- corder, Dwight E. Sapp ; Sheriff, Jolm G. Stevenson ; Surveyor, John MeCrory ; Treasurer, William H. Ralston. City Officers : Mayor, W. B. Brown ; Clerk, P. B. Chase ; Solicitor, C. A. Merriman ; Engineer, D. C. Lewis ; Treasurer, W. B. Dunbar ; Street Commissioner, W. B. Henderson ; Marshal, Robert Blythe ; Clerk Board of Health, M. M. Murphy. Newspapers : Tribune, Republican, John W. Critchfield, editor ; Democratic Banner, Democratic, L. Harper, editor and proprietor ; Republican, Republican, C. F. and W. F. Baldwin, editors ; Knox County Democrat, Democratic, William A. Silcott, proprietor. Churches : one Congregational, one Methodist, one Methodist Protestant, one Presbyterian, one Catholic, one Episcopalian, one Methodist Episcopal, one Colored Methodist Episcopal, one Baptist and one Colored Baptist. Banks: First National, C. Delano, president, Fred. D. Sturges, cashier ; Knox County Savings, G. A. Jones, president, Samuel H. Israel, cashier ; Knox National, Henry L. Curtis, president, John M. Ewalt, cashier.

Manufactures and Employees .- C. A. & C. R. R. Shops, railroad repairs, 125 hands; E. L. Black, plows and castings, 4; the Cooper Manufacturing Co., engines and saw-mills, 45; Mount Vernon Bridge Co., iron bridges, 100; Kokosing Mills, flour, etc., 20; Eagle Mills, flour; S. H. Jackson, carriages and buggies ; Mount Vernon Linseed Oil Co .; C. & G. Cooper, saw-mills, etc., 190; Mount Vernon Steam Laundry, laundrying, 10 .- State Report, 1888. Population, 1880, 5,249. School census, 1888, 1,100; J. A. Shawan, school superintendent (and from 1883 to 1889, when he was given the same position in Columbus). Capital invested in industrial establishments, $1,009,150; value of annual product, $1,326,700 .- Ohio Labor Statistics, 1887. Census, 1890, 6,027.

The first jury trial in Knox county was in May, 1808 ; it was that of the State of Ohio vs. William Hedrick ; William Wilson, of Licking county, presiding. Judgment was rendered against the prisoner on four charges of theft. Besides fines and imprisonment, it was ordered that the " prisoner be whipped on his naked back." This was one of the few instances in the history of Ohio in which this barbarous mode of punishment was legally inflicted. Its degrading and brutal- izing effect, both on the victim and the public, is apparent in the following account from Norton's spiey " History of Knox County."

· The judgment of eastigation was executed

upon the public square of Mount Vernon,

shortly after the adjournment of eourt, it presence of all the people. Silas Brown was

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the sheriff, and it fell to his lot as such to serve the "legal process" upon the body of William Hedrick. There was a small, lean- ing, hickory tree upon the east side of the public square, between the present Norton building (now occupied by Dr. Israel Green, druggist) and High street, and a little south of where the jail was afterwards built, and this tree bent in such a way that a man could walk around under it. To this delectable spot the culprit was taken, and his hands stretched up over his head and tied to the tree, and the stripes were applied by the sheriff to his naked back. He was struck forty times with a heavy, rawhide whip.

The first few blows with the rawhide were across the kidneys. Mr. Bryant, one of the bystanders, at once called out to the sheriff to

whip him elsewhere; that was no place to whip a man ; he should strike higher up; and the rest of the lashes were applied across the shoulders.

The criminal sobbed and cried piteously, and when released went off weeping and groaning. In many places the skin was cut and broken, and the blood oozed out, making a pitiable spectacle. And yet, such was the feeling against him, that few seemed to sym- pathize with the scourged. As he started off he said to the spectators : "You should not blame me for this, for it was not my fault." Bob Walker replied : "No, you wouldn't have stood up and been whipped that way, if you could have helped it." At this prompt retort to Hedrick's explanation, or apology. the crowd laughed uproariously.

Gambier in 1846 .- Five miles east of Mount Vernon, on a beautiful, healthy, and elevated ridge, encompassed on three sides by the Vernon river, is the village of Gambier, so named from Lord Gambier, and widely known as the seat of Kenyon College. This town, exclusive of the college, contains about 200 inhab- itants. It was laid out under the auspices of the venerable Bishop Chase, in July, 1826, in the centre of a 4,000-acre tract, belonging to Kenyon College. This institution was then founded, with funds obtained by Bishop Chase in England, and named after Lord Kenyon, one of its principal benefactors. It was first chartered as a theological seminary. It is richly endowed, having 8,000 acres of land, and its property is valued at $100,000. The college proper has about fifty students ; the theological seminary about twenty ; the senior grammar school about twenty, and Milnor Hall, an institute for boys, about twenty-five. In the various libraries are near 10,000 volumes.

The main college building is romantically situated. You enter a gate into a large area : in the foreground is a large, grassy, cleared plat of several acres, on the right of which stands Rosse Chapel, an elegant Grecian structure ; on the left and below, is the beau- tiful Vernon valley, bounded by forest-clad hills, over which the eye passes in the per- spective for miles and miles, until the blue of distant hills and sky meet and blend in one. Through the centre of the grassy plat passes a footpath, which, at a distance of 200 yards, continues its straight line in a narrow opening through a forest, and terminates at the college, about one-third of a mile distant, the spire of which rises darkly above the green foliage, like that of an ancient abbey, while the main building is mostly concealed. The whole scene, the graceful, cheerful ar- chitecture of the chapel, on the right, the valley on the left, the pleasant, grassy green in front, the forest beyond, with the sombre, half-concealed building in the distance, give

an ever-enduring impression. Standing at the gate, with the back to the college, the scene changes : a broad avenue terminates at the distance of half a mile, at the head of which, in a commanding position, faces Bex- ley Hall, a building appropriated to the the- ological seminary. It is a large, elegant, and highly-ornamented Gothic structure, of a light color, with battlements and turrets, standing boldly relieved against the blue sky, except its lower portion, where it is concealed by the shrubbery of a spacious yard in front. To the left, and near the hall, an imposing residence, late occupied by Bishop McIlvaine, faces the avenue. Away off to the right, among the trees, is Milnor Hall, and scat- tered about in various directions, near and far, privatedwellings, offices and various struc- tures, some plain and others adorned, some in full view and others partly hidden by the undulations of the ground, trees and shrub- bery .- Old Edition.

THE CAREER OF KENYON.

Since the foregoing was published, important changes have taken place at Gambier. Now it has railroad facilities by the C. A. & C. Railroad ; new and beautiful buildings have been erected, and now connected with it are Kenyon Military Academy and "Harcourt Place Seminary for Young Ladies and Girls." Kenyon has many warm friends among her distinguished alumni. Ex-President

KENYON COLLEGE. 1846.

BISHOP CHASE AND WIFE.

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Hayes wrote that, with the exception of the four years spent in the Union army, no other period of his life, in cherished recollections, could be compared with it. Edwin M. Stanton, the great War Secretary, was accustomed to say : " If I am anything, I owe it to Gambier College."

When Bishop McIlvaine succeeded Bishop Chase in the presidency of Kenyon College, the affairs of the institution were in a critical condition, owing to the accumulation of debt, and his timely aid and able government, in which he was assisted by Dr. William Spar- row, the first vice-president, were invaluable.

Bishop McIlvaine's duties were divided between the college and his diocese ; but Dr. Sparrow gave to Kenyon his full and undi- vided strength. Under these two strong men the institution flourished and its educational influence was widespread.

"The expenses of living in Gambier in early days were very small. The annual charges were : for instruction, $30 ; for board at the college table, $40 ; room rent in a room with a stove, $4; room rent in a room with fire-place, $6. For theological students and sons of clergymen the total charge was $50."

The college formed a large landed estate, and kept a hotel and shops, mills and stores. One looks curiously to-day at its inventory of goods-pots, pans, pails, tubs, saucers, spoons, white dimity bed-curtains, mixed all up with oxen, cows and vinegar.

An early college publication advertises, "Cash will be given at the seminary store for hats and old shoes suitable for making coffee." It also chronicles an "Awful Catastrophe .- Died, very suddenly, on Wednesday last, seventeen interesting hogs, of sore throat, endeared to the students by their unassuming manners, gentlemanly deportment, and a life devoted to the public service. The funeral of each of them will be attended every day until the end, in the dining-hall."

Those were the days when the boys were required "to sweep their own rooms, make their own beds and fires, bring their own water, black their own boots-if they ever were blacked-and take an occasional turn at grubbing in the fields or working on the roads." The discipline was somewhat strict and the toil perhaps severe, but the few pleasures that were allowed were thoroughly enjoyed. We read of a sophomore who was commanded to the room of a professor, and severely beaten with a rod. For the first time in his life a Mississippi freshman re- ceived bodily chastisement, and even Dr. Sparrow, the vice-president, took care to see that it was well laid on.

In 1840 Bishop McIlvaine was succeeded in the presidency of Kenyon by Major D. B. Douglass, LL. D., but remained at the head of the theological seminary. Succeeding Major Douglass in the presidency came Rev. Dr. H. A. Bronson ; later came Lorin An- drews, LL. D., the first Ohio volunteer to the Union army (see vol. i., page 253). His successors were Charles Short, LL. D. (1863- 67), James Kent Stone, A. M. (1867-68),

Eli T. Tappan, LL. D. (1868-75), William B. Bodine, D. D., the present incumbent.

Gambier is greatly indebted to Bishop G. T. Bedell, ex-president of the theological seminary, who, by his ardent and faithful endeavors, secured contributions amounting in all to nearly $200,000.

For her present measure of prosperity, if not, indeed, for her very existence, the one man to whom-after Bishop Chase-Kenyon College is most indebted is the Rev. M. T. C. Wing, D. D. For a third of a century, in addition to the duties of his professorship, he carried on his strong shoulders the finan- cial burdens of the college. He struggled through deep waters, but he bravely tri- umphed. Bishop McIlvaine testificd "to his eminent faithfulness, wisdom, self-devo- tion, patience and constancy in most trying circumstances."

In all her requisites for admission, and in the course of study, Kenyon does not mate- rially differ from the leading colleges of the Eastern States. She aims to give a thorough liberal education, and believes in the value of hard mental discipline. She also believes in right religious influences, and labors to afford them, pursuing steadily " the true, the beau- tiful, the good."

Among the most eminent of the sons of Kenyon are ex-President R. B. Hayes, Edwin M. Stanton, David Davis, Henry Winter Davis, Stanley Matthews, David Turpie, M. M. Granger. Frank H. Hurd, R. E. Trow- bridge and Wm. G. LeDnc.

The "Church of the Holy Spirit," the college chapel at Kenyon, is said to be " the most beautiful church in this country." The funds for its erection were given by members of the Church of the Ascension, New York, as a tribute of appreciation for their former rector, Bishop Bedell.

Mr. Geo. A. Benedict, editor of the Cleve- land Herald, has written of it : "The crowning glory of the Church of the Holy Spirit is its teachings in every window, in all its carvings, in its illuminated wall-texts, in its ceilings, and in its everything. That church is a biblical study. It is cheerful ; there is nothing the least gloomy about it, and the most irreverent intuitively would take off his hat when he entered it, for it is the beauty of holiness."

BIOGRAPHY.

PHILANDER CHASE was born in Cornish, N. H., December 14, 1775 ; died at Jubilee College, Ill., September 20, 1852. Graduated at Dartmonth in 1795. Ordained priest in the Episcopal church, November 10, 1799. Was occupied in missionary labor in Western New York and later at New Orleans, being

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the first Protestant minister in the State of Louisiana.

In 1811 became rector of Christ Church, Hartford, Conn., and in 1817 went to Ohio, where "he began a work for the church in Ohio, and in truth of the whole West, such as no other man then living would have attempted, or probably would have accom- plished.

He took charge of the academy at Worth- ington, organized several parishes, three of which he assumed the rectorship of himself. He was elected bishop and consecrated at Philadelphia, February 11, 1819. It was about this time that Salmon P. Chase, his nephew, became a member of his family.

He began his work with rare earnestness. For several years it was necessary for him to gain his support as a tiller of the soil, as his minis- trations did not yield pecuniary return suffi- cient to pay his postage. The need of helpers in his work, who should be Western men inured to hardships, turned his mind toward the founding of a college for the training of such helpers. He went to England to raise the funds to endow such an institution. Great opposition and many obstacles were overcome by him both in America and England.

An anecdote describes his first experience in London: One day Dr. Dow, of New Orleans, called on Mr. Butterworth, Wilber- force's particular friend, when in the course of conversation the latter said : "So you are from America. Dr. Dow? Were you ac- quainted with Bishop Chase ?" "Yes; he was my pastor in New Orleans, and I his physician and friend. " "Tell me about him ; there must be something singular in him or he would not be neglected as he is in England. " "Singular ! I never knew any- thing singular in him but his emancipating his yellow slave, and that, I should suppose, would not injure him here in England.

This story made Butterworth Bishop Chase's friend, and through him he became the hero of the hour ; subscriptions poured in upon him until $30,000 were realized. Lord Gambier, Lord Kenyon, Sir Thomas Aekland, Lady Rosse, and Hannah More helped him.

Returning to Ohio, he purchased 8000 acres in Knox county and founded Kenyon College and Gambier Theological Seminary. He was determined that the school should be located in the country. "Put your seminary, " he said, "on your own domain ; be owners of the soil on which you dwell, and let the tenure of every lease and deed depend on the express condition that nothing detrimental to the morals and studies of youth he allowed on the premises. "

Bishop Chase occupied the office of presi- dent of the college, performing a prodigious amount of labor, making every obstacle give way before his indomitable will and persistent industry. In all his labors he was ably seconded by his efficient wife and helpmate. "Mrs. Chase entered with her whole soul into her husband's plans. She was a lady perfectly at home in all the arts and minutiæ

of housewifery ; as happy in darning stock- ings for the boys as in entertaining visitors in the parlor, in making a bargain with a farmer in his rough boots and hunting blouse as in completing a purchase from an intelligent and accomplished merchant, and as perfectly at home doing business with the world about her, and in keeping the multifarious accounts of her increasing household as in presiding at her dinner table, or dispensing courtesy in her drawing-room. "

September 9, 1831, Bishop Chase resigned the presidency of the college and the episco- pate of Ohio, on account of differences that had arisen between himself and his clergy. Heentered upon missionary work in Michigan, and in 1835 was chosen Bishop of Illinois, when he again visited England, raised $10,- 000, and in 1838 founded Jubilee College at Robin's Nest, Ill. A friend described him as follows : "In height he was six feet and over ; the span of his chest was nearly, if not quite, equal to his height, and with that noble trunk his limbs were in full and admir- able proportion. In a crowd his giant figure, in front or haek, excited, wherever he moved, universal attention. Large and heavy in stature as he was, he was remarkably light and graceful in his movements, and, when not ruffled with opposition or displeasure, exceed- ingly agreeable, polished and finished in his manner. Toward those who betrayed hauteur in their deportment with him, or whom he suspected as actuated by such a spirit, or who positively differed with him as to his policy, and especially toward those whom he looked upon as his enemies, he was generally distant and overbearing, and sometimes, when of- fended, perhaps morose. In his bearing toward them his noble countenance was al- ways heavy and lowering, and his deport- ment frigid and unmistakably repulsive ; but in his general intercourse, and always with his particular and intimate friends, his address and social qualities were polished, delightful and captivating ; his countenance was sun- light, his manner warm and genial as balmy May, and his deportment winning to a degree rare among even remarkably commanding and popular men. "

His published works were, "A Plea for the West " (1826); "The Star in the West, or Kenyon College" (1828); "Defence of Kenyon College" (1831); and "Reminis- eences : an Autobiography, comprising a History of the Principal Events in the Author's Life to 1847 " (2 vols., New York, 1848).

CHARLES PETTIT MCILVAINE, son of Joseph Me Ilvaine, U. S. Senator from New Jersey, was born in Burlington, N. J., January 18, 1799; graduated at Princeton in 1816; was made priest in the Episcopal church, March 20, 1821. He was five years rector of Christ Church, Georgetown, D. C. In 1825 was appointed chaplain and professor of ethics at West Point. Settled over St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, in 1827 ; four years later was chosen professor in the University of the City of New York. Was elected Bishop of Ohio

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and consecrated in New York, October 31, 1832. Before settling in Ohio Bishop McIl- vaine raised among his friends in eastern cities nearly $30,000 for Kenyon College and the theological seminary at Gambier, of which institutions he became president.

He received the degrees of D. D. from

CHARLES PETTIT MCILVAINE.

Princeton and Brown in 1832, D. C. L. from Oxford in 1853, and LL. D. from Cambridge in 1858.

During the war he was a member of the Sanitary Commission and on a visit to Eng- land at this period he was of great service to the United States government in creating favorable sentiment for the Union. As Bishop of Ohio and President of Kenyon College he was a great power in the development of re- ligion, morals and education.

"Born in the same year in which George Washington died, he bore a close resemblance to the Father of his Country, both in appear- ance and character. He looked a king among men ; he was great, also, as a thinker and orator."

The first by-law under his administration at Kenyon is characteristic : "It shall be the duty of every student of the college and grammar-school on meeting or passing the president or vice-president, any professor, or other officer of the institution, to salute him by touching the hat, or uncovering the head, and it is equally required of each officer to return the salutation."

Bishop McIlvaine died in Florence, Italy, March 13, 1873, while abroad for his health. He was the author of many valuable religious works. His "Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity " (New York, 1832) has had very extensive circulation.

The Hon. COLUMBUS DELANO was born in Shoreham, Vt., June 5, 1809; removed to Mount Vernon in 1817 ; was admitted to the bar in 1831. - He was eminently successful as an advocate and criminal lawyer. In 1847 he lacked but two votes for nomination for Governor : was a delegate to the Convention that nominated Lincoln and Hamlin in 1860 ; also chairman of the Ohio delegation in the Baltimore Convention that nominated Lin- coln and Johnson in 1864. He was appointed State Commissary-General of Ohio in 1861, and filled the office with great acceptance. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1863, and a member of Congress in 1844, 1864 and 1866. In March, 1869, he was appointed by President Grant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and very greatly improved the organization of that bureau. In 1870 he succeeded Jacob D. Cox as Secretary of the Interior, and resigned in 1875. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Kenyon College, and he was one of the trustees of that institution,

COLUMBUS DELANO.

in connection with which he endowed a grammar school called Delano Hall.

He has been prominently identified with the agricultural and wool interests of Ohio ; is President of the National Wool-Growers' Association, and is an able and indefatigable advocate for the protection of domestic wool from foreign competition.

GEORGE WASHINGTON MORGAN was born in Washington county, Pa., September 20, 1820. In 1836 he left college to enlist in the regular Texan army, from which he retired with the rank of captain, and in 1841 entered the United States Military Academy. In 1843 he removed to Mount Vernon, and be- gan the practice of law there in 1845.

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He was colonel in the Mexican war and brevetted brigadier-general foi gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco. While in Mex- ico, several of his command were murdered by guerillas, and in one case two young sol- diers were killed, and their hearts and other parts of their person hung upon bushes by the roadside. Colonel Morgan thereupon caused to be seized and held as hostages a

GEN. G. W. MORGAN.

number of wealthy Mexican citizens, and gave notice that for every American soldier killed, otherwise than in fair fight, he would hang one of these Mexicans. No more mur- ders occurred.

In 1856 Morgan was appointed United States Consul to Marseilles, and in 1858 Min- ister to Portugal ; returning to the United States in 1861 to enter the army as brigadier- general of volunteers, ander Gen. Don Carlos Buell.

In March, 1862, he was assigned command of the Seventh Division of the Army of Ohio. He was afterwards assigned to the Thirteenth Army Corps, and commanded at the capture of Fort Hindman, Ark. He resigned from the army in 1863, owing to failing health.

In 1865 he was the defeated Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio ; was elected to Congress in 1866, but supplanted in 1868 by Columbus Delano, who contested his seat.

He was the Democratic candidate for Speaker when Blaine was first elected to that office. He was again elected to Congress in 1869, serving till 1873; was a delegate-at-large to the National Democratic Convention at St. Louis in 1876.

LECKY HARPER was born in Ireland, 1815. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1820, and settled in Washington, D. C., where his father shortly died, and the self- sacrificing mother exerted all her faculties to the rearing and education of her four chil- dren, with whom she removed to Ohio in 1826.

Mr. Harper early entered into journalism, et Steubenville. In 1837 he edited the American Union. Later he studied law and was admitted to the Pittsburg bar while edit- ing the Pittsburger. He removed to Cadiz, O., and then returned to Pittsburg, where, as editor of the Post, his vigorous support of the ten-hour labor law brought him promi- nently into notice as a supporter of the rights of humanity. In 1853 he removed to Mount Vernon and purchased the Democratic Ban- ner, which he has since ably conducted and edited.

Mr. Harper has served as President of the Ohio Editorial Association, and was elected as a Democrat to the State Senate in 1879. He is one of the oldest editors in the State, still in the harness, with force and vigor.

WILLIAM WINDOM was born in Belmont county, of Quaker parentage. His parents removed to Middlebury township, and his boyhood days were spent on a farm. Ap- prenticed to a tailor, he was a failure in that trade, and then made a success at law in the office of Judge R. C. Hurd, of Mount Vernon. While studying law, he sometimes lectured on temperance, and on one occasion he was threatened by a mob if he attempted to speak. He went to the hall, laid a pistol on the speaker's stand, and delivered the lecture without interference. In 1855 he removed to Winona, Minn., and from there was sent to the United States Senate.

FRANK HUNT HURD was born in Mount Vernon, December 25, 1841 ; graduated at Kenyon College in 1858. He studied law, was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1863, and State Senator in 1866. In 1867 he removed to Toledo, and was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1874 ; served one term and was defeated for re-election in 1876; was re- elected in 1878 and 1882, but defeated in 1880 and 1886. Mr. Hurd is widely known as an earnest advocate of free-trade doctrines. He is the author of "Ohio Criminal Code of Procedure," and other law works.

FREDERICKTOWN, laid out in 1807 by John Kerr, is seven miles northwest of Mount Vernon, on the B. & O. Railroad. Newspaper : Free Press, independent, W. E. Edwards, M. D., editor. Churches : one Presbyterian, one Methodist, one Baptist. Bank : Daniel Struble. Industries are creamery, bell-foundry, planing- mill and sealing-wax factory of Cumming & Hosaek, and carriage factory of Stephens & Hagerty. Population in 1880, 850. School census, 1888, 266 ; C. W. Durbin, school superintendent. Capital invested in industrial establishments,

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$56,200 ; value of annual product, $67,600 .- Ohio Labor Statistics, 1888. Ver- non river, on which it is situated, furnishes considerable water-power. On the middle branch of that stream, near the village, are some ancient fortifications and mounds.

CENTREBURG is fourteen miles southwest of Mount Vernon, at the crossing of the C. A. & C. and T. & O. C. Railroads. Newspaper : Gazette, independent, E. N. Gunsaulus, editor. Churches : one Methodist Episcopal, one Cumberland Presbyterian, one Christian, one Free-Will Baptist. Bank : Centreburg (Daniel Paul). It is an important point for the shipment of grain, and here are the ex- tensive tile-works of T. E. Landrum & Co. Population, 1880, 400. School census, 1888, 185. Capital invested in industrial establishments, $69,100; value of annual product, $70,800 .- Ohio Labor Statistics, 1887.

MARTINSBURG is eleven miles southeast of Mount Vernon. Churches : one Presbyterian, one Baptist, one Methodist, one Disciples. School census, 1888, 124.

GAMBIER, the seat of Kenyon College, is five miles east of Mount Vernon, on the C. A. & C. Railroad. Population, 1880, 576.

DANVILLE is fifteen miles northeast of Mount Vernon, on the C. A. & C. Railroad. Newspaper : Knox County Independent, independent, W. M. Kinsley, editor and publisher. Bank : Danville (Wolfe & Sons), Albert J. Wolfe, cashier. School census, 1888, 210.

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Historical collections of Ohio in two volumes, an encyclopedia of the state, Volume I, Part 157

Author: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893 Publication date: 1907 Publisher: Cincinnati : Published by the state of Ohio Number of Pages: 1006

Author: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: Cincinnati : Published by the state of Ohio
Number of Pages: 1006