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tenance of each child was $245.25, this being the largest annual per capita cost since the institution was started in 1892.
When the Home opened on June 1, 1892, there were fourteen children ready for admission. Since that time and including the last annual report of the superintendent, there have been a total of six hundred and sixty-four children received in the home. At the last report there were seventeen boys and thirteen girls, a total of thirty. The average annual number in the home during the past twenty-five years has been twenty-six, but in 1916 the daily average was thirty-seven, twenty-two boys and fifteen girls. During 1916 eight children were placed in homes and fourteen were returned to their parents or guardians. At the close of 1916 the trustees of the home had in private homes and subject to their control fifty-five boys and sixty-five girls. Only eleven children were admitted to the home in 1916 and five of these were returned to their parents or taken out during the year. Children are received between the ages of five and eighteen and in special cases children of younger years are temporarily committed. Few children remain the legal limit- eighteen years for girls and twenty-one for boys.
CONTROL OF THE CHILDREN'S HOME.
The institution is in control of a board of four trustees appointed by the county commissioners. At first the appointment was for three years, but later the tenure was increased to its present length of four years. John J. Mumper, of Urbana, has been president of the board since it was organized and was reappointed in 1917 for four more years. Benjamin F. Hull, of Mechanicsburg, has been on the board for twenty years. Albert Harmon, of St. Paris, and Lewis E. Willes, of North Lewisburg, are the other two members on the board. One member of the board is retired each year, thus always insuring at least three old members of the board, but the commission- ers have been in the habit of continuing the members of the board in office from year to year. It is a custom which ought to continue as long as their service is satisfactory. They receive no salary.
The first superintendent of the home was Harry Rawlings, but he served only a few months in 1892, being compelled to resign on account of the death of his wife. Joseph C. Tomlin was appointed to succeed him and rendered satisfactory service for twelve years, 1892-1904. John Duncan succeeded Tomlin for a two-year tenure, giving way in 1906 to Clayton E. French, who served until March, 1916. Mr. French is now engaged in the grocery busi- ness in Urbana. Peter A. Boisen, the present incumbent, has had charge
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since March. 1916. Mr. Boisen was a former farmer of the county and made an unusual success of his farming. In fact, he is one of the wealthiest farmers in the county, and took the position of superintendent of the Chil- dren's Home only because he was so much interested in the children. It is unusual for such men to be willing to assume such a position, the usual incumbents of this office in the state not being men of wealth. The county . is rightly proud of its Children's Home and the good it has accomplished during the twenty-five years of its existence has fully justified its maintenance.
THE BLIND OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY.
One of the striking evidences of the manner in which the people of Ohio take care of those so unfortunate as not to be able to take care of themselves is seen in the provision for the care and maintenance of the blind. From the earliest period of the state's organization local authorities have provided for the poor and needy, and, during the more than an hundred years which have elapsed since the state was organized, scores of laws have been enacted by the Legislature looking to the care of all dependents, delinquents and defectives.
The present method of caring for the blind of the state dates from April 2, 1908, at which time the Legislature passed an act providing for a system of pensioning those so afflicted. The pension is granted after an investigation by the proper authorities shows that the person seeking the pension is justly entitled to it. When any blind person is admitted to the county infirmary the pension automatically ceases. The county is made the unit in the distribution of the fund provided for this purpose, the fund being provided by a direct tax assessed for the purpose. The county commissioners are authorized to levy a special tax not exceeding two-tenths of one mill on the dollar, the same to be levied and collected as are other taxes in the county.
THE LAW DEFINING A BLIND PERSON.
The law defines a blind person as anyone who, by reason of the loss of eyesight, is unable to provide himself with the necessities of life; who has not sufficient means of his own to maintain himself, and who, unless relieved as authorized by the act, would become a charge upon the public or upon those not required by law to support him. By an act of the General Assembly, passed February 18, 1913. the county commissioners are given full power to
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determine the beneficiaries of this relief fund and the extent of the relief that may be granted each individual. The maximum relief granted is one hun- dred and fifty dollars per annum, payable quarterly. The commissioners also have the power to increase or decrease the amount granted any pensioner. The amounts given in the appended table in connection with the pensioners of Champaign county are those granted at the time their application was accepted, some being increased later and some decreased.
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY'S BLIND PENSION LIST.
Since the law pensioning the blind went into operation in 1908, the fol- lowing blind persons in Champaign county have been placed on the pension list. The names are taken from the record kept by the county auditor and are given in the order they appear on the official records, together with the addresses of pensioners and the respective amounts of their annual pension :
Catherine M. Collins, St. Paris, $100; Ellen Corbett, Urbana, $100; Catherine McConneha, Urbana, $100, dead; Grant Middleton, Mechanicsburg, $100, dead; Lillian T. Miller, Magrew, $80, discontinued ; George C. Petty, Urbana, $100; Harvey H. Robison, Urbana, $100, colored; Mary Ann Strick- land, Rosewood, $80; Alfred Barber, Woodstock, $120; Annetta Blackwood, Urbana, $100; Mary A. Criffield, St. Paris, $80, dead; Sarah J. Everett, St. Paris, $100; Amanda Impson, North Lewisburg, $120, dead; Elizabeth Line- baugh, Urbana, $60, discontinued; Evaline Martz, Rosewood, $100, dead; Etta May McDargh, Urbana, $80; Allen B. Miller, St. Paris, $150, discon- tinued; Mahala A. Miller, West Liberty, $150, dead; Wilson B. Rudisill, DeGraff, $100; George L. Spain, North Lewisburg, $100; Katheryn Tucker, Spring Hills, $100, dead; Rosina Hopkins, North Lewisburg, $60, dead; Dally Townsend, North Lewisburg, $60, dead; William H. Griffith, Urbana, $115, county infirmary ; Rosa Anna Parks, North Lewisburg, $100; Carrie Freeman, North Lewisburg, $100, discontinued; Sarah E. Evans, Urbana, $120, discontinued; Susanna Campbell, St. Paris, $80; Phoebe J. Smith, St. Paris, $80; Louisa Reed, North Lewisburg, $60; Honora Shea, Urbana, $80; John Kelley, Cincinnati, $80, county infirmary ; Jonathan Huffman, Mechan- icsburg, $60; Christopher Brunetta, Urbana, $80; John Powell, Mechanics- burg, $120, discontinued; Columbus Sewell, Mechanicsburg, $120, discon- tinued; John M. Moffatt, Urbana, $80; Rachel Rice, St. Paris, $80; Anna Baker, St. Paris, $100, dead: Jesse M. Lewis, Urbana, $80; Demarius Bran- dyberry, Rosewood, $80; Bertman Hartman, Urbana, $80: Bessie M. Gales, Urbana, $80; Samuel Biddle, Urbana, $60, dead; Elizabeth Goldsberry, Urbana, $60, dead; David McConneha. Urbana, $80; Louis Tucker, Urbana,
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$100, discontinued; Fannie Otte, Woodstock, $100; Mary E. Brown, St. Paris, $75; William Gatten, Urbana, $60; J. W. Irwin, Rosewood, $100; Ellen Draper, North Lewisburg, $100; L. C. Henry, Urbana, $60; Amy Slaughter, Woodstock, $60; Henry Johnson, $72.
During the nine years the law has been in operation there have been fifty-five blind persons placed on the pension roll in the county, twenty-four men and thirty-one women. The record shows that ten have died since they were granted a pension, two have been transferred to the county infirmary and seven have been dropped for one reason or another from the pension roll. In April, 1917, there were twenty-eight drawing a pension.
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CHAPTER V.
ROSTER OF COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS.
There is a striking difference between the number of county officials in 1805 and the number in 1917 and the difference in the salaries paid is no less striking. The janitor of the court house now receives a larger annual salary than the combined salaries of the clerk, recorder and auditor in 1805. The first county election in Champaign county saw one man elected for three offices-clerk, auditor and recorder. The man who performed the three- fold duties was Joseph C. Vance, the father of the future governor of Ohio, and he served in this triple capacity until his death on May 16, 1809. The first sheriff was John Dougherty and the first surveyor was Solomon McCul- lough. The name of the first treasurer does not appear on the early records. for he was appointed, and not elected by the voters of the county until sev- eral years later. The first representative of the county in the General Assembly was John Sterrit and the first state senators were Duncan McArthur and George Todd. None of these three men in the Legislature was living in the county as it is constituted today. The first three associate judges were John Reynolds, John Runyon and Samuel Mccullough, all three commis- sioned on February 21, 1805, for seven years. The first president judge was Francis Dunleavy, not a resident of the county, nor elected by the voters of the district of which he was the judge. Both the president and the asso- ciate judges were elected by the Legislature. The county did not have com- mon pleas and probate judges until after the adoption of the Constitution of 1851. The first prosecuting attorney was Arthur St. Clair, Jr., a son of the former governor of the Northwest Territory. The judges and prosecutors are listed in the chapter devoted to the bench and bar of the county. In the following pages may be found as complete a list of county officials as could be compiled from the official records.
COUNTY CLERK.
The office of clerk of the common pleas court was provided for in the first constitution of the state, and each succeeding constitution adopted in
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the state has provided for the office. The tenure was seven years during the period of the first constitution (1803-1852); from 1852 to 1909 the tenure was three years; since 1909 it has been two years. The complete list of clerks from the organization of the county to the present time follows:
Joseph C. Vance, 1805, died in office, May 16, 1809; William Ward, 1809-16; Samuel Gibbs, 1816-22; J. C. Pearson, 1822-43; Samuel H. Rob- inson, 1843-50; Joseph C. Brand, 1850-52; William F. Mosgrove, 1852-55; John Russell, 1855-64; A. J. Guthridge, 1864-67; Versalius Horr, 1867-76; George T. Seibert, 1876-79; Joseph M. Maitland, 1879-85; Griffith Ellis, 1895-91 ; Oscar S. Cheney, 1891-97; Charles F. Organ, 1897-1903; Marion R. Talbott, 1903-09; Emmett W. Kite, 1909-13; Louis C. Hovey, 1913-17; Ernest Smith, 1917.
COUNTY AUDITOR.
The office of county auditor was at first associated with the office of clerk, the business of the office not being sufficiently onerous or remunerative to occupy the entire attention of one man. While the early records are not complete, it is certain that the offices of clerk, recorder and auditor were combined under Joseph C. Vance when the county was organized in 1805. At his death in the spring of 1809 the offices of recorder and auditor were taken over by his son, David Vance, and the latter served until 1830. William Ward became clerk in the fall of 1809. In the year 1830 Mathew Magrew took charge of the duties of the two offices of recorder and auditor and for six years served in this two-fold capacity, giving way in 1836 to David Vance, who served until 1839, when Magrew again took up the duties of the two offices and served in this dual capacity until 1841. In that year the offices of recorder and auditor were separated and E. P. Fyffe became the first official to devote all of his time to the duties of the auditor's office.
The complete list of auditors since 1841 follows: Edward P. Fyffe, 1841-45; Francis M. Wright, 1845-55; Sampson P. Talbot, 1855-63; John T. Zumbro, 1863-69; John M. Fitzpatrick, 1869-90; Simeon Taylor, 1890-93; Colin McDonald, 1893-99; Shepherd B. Grove, 1899-1905; Clin- ton E. Russell, 1905-11 ; Oscar E. Eby, 1911-15; William S. Coffey. 1915.
COUNTY TREASURER.
The office of county treasurer has been in existence from the organi- zation of the county, but for several years the incumbent was known as
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the "collector." The early records of the office are missing and for this rea- son it is not possible to trace the consecutive incumbents of the office prior to 1863. The first time-lock safe was installed in the treasurer's office in January, 1879. The court house was repaired and enlarged during 1879-80, the building assuming its present size.
The records of the treasurer's office since 1863 are kept in such shape that it is easy to follow the succession of incumbents. The amount turned over by each outgoing treasurer to his successor up to 1904 is also indi- cated. The following table shows the names of the treasurers, the years of their tenure, and the amounts they turned over to their respective suc- cessors up to the close of the term of M. W. Thomas. Since 1904 the treasurer has made a monthly statement to the auditor.
Thomas P. Bond, 1863-September 7, 1864 $31,111.32
James F. Spain, September 7. 1864-October 9, 1867. 24,111.32
S. P. Talbot, October 9, 1867-September 9, 1867 34.714.25 William H. Baxter, September 9, 1868-September 3, 1872 103,902.20 William V. Taylor, September 3, 1872-September 4, 1876. 28,459.27
James I. Blose, September 4, 1876-March 7, 1879. 174.723.23
Emmet V. Rhoads, March 7, 1879, September 4, 1880 39,811.43
Griffith Ellis, September 4, 1880-September 20, 1884 26,567.49
R. S. Pearce, September 20, 1884-September 20, 1888. 45,149.84
Joseph W. Davis, September 20, 1888-September 8, 1892 49,143.08
Arthur Guthrie, September 8, 1892-September 12, 1896.
28,237.10
George A. Talbot, September 12, 1896-September 4, 1900 35,975.29
M. W. Thomas, September 4, 1900-September 6, 1904. 33,863.56
Duncan B. McDonald, September 6, 1904-September 5. 1908
James Ewing. September 5, 1908-September 4. 1912
Warren W. Rock, September 4. 1912-September 3. 1917 Lou B. Berry, September 3, 1917.
COUNTY RECORDER.
The county recorder has charge of all the deeds, mortgages and transfers concerned with all property, both personal and real, in the county. He has more records to keep and his office is visited with more regularity by the taxpayers of the county than any other.
When the county was organized in 1805 the offices of clerk, auditor and
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recorder were combined and for the first four years ( 1805-1809) Joseph C. Vance served in this triplicate capacity. Upon his death in the spring of 1809 his son, David Vance, became recorder and auditor, the clerk's office being set off by itself, with William Ward in charge. David Vance remained in the office twenty-one years, being followed in May, 1830, by Mathew Magrew. R. R. MeNemar served as recorder, pro tem from June to Octo- ber 19, 1839. The office has attracted able men as a usual thing, and the records show careful attention to the niceties which must be observed in the transcription of official records. The several volumes of abstracts were compiled several years ago by R. C. Horr and represent the labor of four years on his part in their compilation.
The complete list of recorders from 1805 follows: Joseph C. Vance, 1805-09; David Vance, 1809-30: Mathew Magrew, 1830-36; David Vance, 1836-39: R. R. McNemar, 1839: Mathew Magrew, 1839-42; Decatur Tal- bott, 1842-54: D. M. Fisher, 1854-64; George Kiser, 1864-79: Michael A. Jordan. 1879-88; T. G. Keller. 1888-93; John W. Crowl, 1893-1900; Joseph S. Moses, 1900-06; Lincoln Burnham, 1906-11 ; Wesley A. Smith, 1911-15: Ernest L. Shaffer, 1915.
COUNTY SHERIFF.
The office of county sheriff is directly concerned with the enforcement of the law and is the only one which is attended with any unusual danger to life and limb. In the course of more than a hundred years the county has seen scores of desperate criminals handled by its sheriffs, but during all this time the sheriffs have performed their duty without regard to any danger which might be encountered on their part. There have been some criminals who have escaped from the jail, but they have been comparatively few in number when it is taken into consideration that thousands have been incar- cerated in the jail.
A full description of the jails of the county is given in another chapter. The sheriff is the only official of the county who is provided with a residence by the county while in the discharge of the duties connected with his office. For a number of years in the early history of the county there was no pro- vision in the jail for housing the sheriff and his family, but the county now has very comfortable accommodations for him. The office of the sheriff in the court house has photographs of all the sheriffs since 1849, a custom which should be inaugurated in all the other offices of the county.
The complete list of sheriffs follows: John Dougherty, 1805-06;
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Daniel Mckinnon, 1806-10; Samuel McCord. 1810-13; David Vance. 1813- 17; John Wallace, 1817-21; Frederick Ambrose, 1821-25; John Wallace, 1825-29: John Owen, 1829-33; Frederick Ambrose, 1833-37; Henry Van- meter, 1837-41 : John Owen, 1841-43; John C. Nigh, 1843-47; John West. 1847-51 ; James Taylor, 1851-53: David F. Spain, 1853-57: John Clark, Jr., 1857-61 : Charles H. Ward, 1861-65: William V. Taylor, 1865-69: Thomas McConnell, 1869-73: Benjamin F. Ganson, 1873-77; Samuel C. Bosler, 1877-81 : Joseph Chamberlin. 1881-85; Ridgley P. Wilkins, 1885-89; Martin B. Saxbe, 1889-93: Robert N. Miller, 1893-97; Louis H. McLain, 1897-99; Luther W. Wean. 1890-1901; Daniel T. Hull, 1901-05: Core S. Ireland, 1905-09; Randolph Mc.Adams, 1909-13; Floyd S. Powell took office January 1. 1913, and died the 26th of the following month: Charles E. Faulkner, 1913-17: John H. Siegle, 1917.
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
.The chapter on the organization of the county explains the various surveys of the county and gives in detail the difficulties which have sur- rounded the surveyors of the county from the beginning of the county's his- tory. The portion of the county east of the Ludlow Line still offers the most difficulty to the surveyor, although land titles, roads and ditches are gradually getting more definitely defined. The early surveyors had little technical training in their profession and many of their surveys bear distress- ing evidence of their lack of surveying knowledge. In those early days open land was so abundant and so cheap that no one was inclined to quarrel with his neighbor over a few feet or even a few rods of land. But with the increase in the value of land and the necessity for getting exact surveys, it has become necessary to resurvey practically all the portion of the county east of the Ludlow Line.
The office of surveyor in Champaign county bears little resemblance in 1917 to the office as it must have appeared one hundred years ago. Now the surveyor and all of his assistants must be trained men and do their work in such a way that it will bear the most searching investigation. The varia- tion of an inch in a survey may lead to litigation and this means that all the work of the office must be done with the most extreme care. Since 1904 the county surveyor has had general charge of all the roads. bridges and ditches in the county and this has added very materially to his duties as they were in the olden days. The office in 1917 employs five persons besides the sur-
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veyors: Raymond H. Smith, county highway superintendent; Charles M. Richey, deputy county surveyor ; Dean Hull and Melwood Stanope, rod men and chainmen; Hazel Kirke Reck, clerk and stenographer.
The records of the county surveyors furnish the only means of determin- ing their names and respective tenures since the first surveyor took charge of the office in 1805. Several names appear affixed to surveys which are evidently not the names of the regular county surveyors, with the result that it is not always possible to tell who was and who was not the official surveyor. There is no question concerning the sequence of the incumbents of the office after William Hamilton assumed the duties of the office in 1842, but there is considerable confusion in the records prior to that year.
The first surveyor was Solomon Mccullough and he was in the office from 1805 until 1824. It is probable that John Arrowsmith followed McCul- lough and continued to serve until 1842. Thomas Cowgill did much sur- veying during this period, but he was not the county surveyor. Since that year the succession has been as follows: William Hamilton, 1842-43; Thomas Cowgill. Jr., 1843-46: James B. Armstrong, 1846-54: William S. Taylor. 1854-58: James Q. Baird, 1858-62; C. W. L. Taylor, 1862-80; Benjamin Thompson. 1880-86: James Swisher, 1886-1902; Carey S. Pratt, 1902-09; James Swisher, 1909-11; Richard F. Darnell, 1911-15; Harry B. Hull, 1915.
STATE REPRESENTATIVES.
The few settlers who were in the territory now comprehended within Champaign county prior to 1805 were under the jurisdiction of either Frank- lin county to the east or Greene county to the west. When the county was organized in 1805, Champaign was united with Greene county in a representa- tive district and John Sterrit was the representative in the General Assembly from Greene at the time Champaign was organized. Joseph Tatman repre- sented the two counties in the fifth General Assembly, which convened on December 1, 1806, and he served through the fifth and sixth sessions, Samuel McCulloch being the first representative elected from Champaign county. Since the opening of the seventh General Assembly, December 5. 1808, "Champaign county has constituted one representative district. Two repre- sentatives from the county have served as speaker of the House: Thomas A. Cowgill, 1880-81, sixty-fourth session: C. D. Conover, 1912, eighty-first session. The complete list of representatives since that date follows:
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Representative. Session.
Year.
Samuel McCulloch 7,8.
1808-1809
Daniel Mckinnon
9.
. 1810
Samuel McCulloch
10.
18II
Joseph Vance
11, 12.
1812-1813
Samuel Newell
11. 1812-
From the eleventh to the eighteenth sessions Inclusive Champaign had two representativex.
Hiram M. Curry
12 .. 1813
Samuel Newell
13.
1814
Alexander McBeth
13. 1814
Joseph Vance
14. 15. 1815-1816
Samuel McCulloch
14.
1815
Samuel Henkle
15.
1816
John Inskeep
16. 1817
Reuben Wallace . 16, 17, 18.
1817-1819
With the organization of Clark county in 1818 It was joined with Champaign in the election of a representative for the eighteenth session of the General Assembly.
Aaron L. Hunt
17. 1818
Joseph Vance
18.
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. 1819
James Cooley
19 . 1820
Aaron L. Hunt (unseated) ..
20. 1821
John L. Meredith
20. 1821
Benjamin Cheney
21, 22. 1822-1823
Edward L. Morgan
23 1824
Samuel McCord
24. 1825
Benjamin Cheney
25 1826
Samuel McCord
26. 1827
John Wallace
27. 28 1828-1829
William McDonald
29, 30. 1830-1831
E. L. Morgan
31 1832 32. 1833
Benjamin Cheney
William McDonald
33, 34. 1834-1835
Samuel Newell
35. 1836
E. L. Morgan
36. 1837
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Representative. Session. Ycar.
Moses B. Corwin
37, 38.
1838-1839
W. C. Lawrence 39 1840
W. B. McCrea
40, 41. 1841-1842
Joseph C. Brand
42. 1843
Ira A. Bean
43 1844
William Richey
44. 45. 1845-1846
J. C. Phillips
46, 47.
1847-1848
During the forty-seventh, forty-eighth and forty-ninth sessions Cham- paign county had two representatives in the General Assembly.
Henry W. Smith
47, 48. 1848-1849
John D. Burnett
48, 49. 1849-1850
James Rayburn
49
1850
James Williams
50. 1852
Beginning with 1852 the Legislature has met biennially.
James M. Maitland
51 .. .. . . 1854
Hiram Cable 52 .. .... . 1856-1857
Cable served in an adjourned session convening January 5. 1:57. From the fifty-second to the seventieth sessions inclusive, there were both regular and adjourned sessions: this means that the Legislature met annually, although it was the intention of the constitutional con- vention of 1850 to restrict the sessions of the Legislature to one every two years.
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