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599
Art and Artists
597, 603
Assassination of President Lincoln_ 802
Associated Charities of Urbana
829
Associate Judges
393, 394
Atrocious Deed of Redskins
202
"A Wild, Reckless People"
317
B
Bad Roads Retard Settlement
323
Baldwin Mound, The
74
Banking In the Old Days 836
Banks of Champaign County ..
_836-854
Bancs, Dr. Evan.
363
Baptist Churches.
475-489
Barret, Abner.
274
Battle of Fallen Timbers
34
Battle of Tippecanoe.
33
Baxter, Stephen.
622
Bench and Bar, The.
385-406
Beginning of Common School ___ 536
Benevolent Organizations
625-664
Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks
65.5
Big Four Railroad.
864
Birth and Death Statistics
102
Blind of Champaign County.
129
Blockhouses of Pioncer Period
668
Boy Commits Suicide
284
Boy Scouts.
934
Boundaries of Champaign County ...
62
Boundary Lines of State.
60
Bounties Paid Soldiers.
790, 797
Brand, William A .... 411, 618, 753, 1059
Bridges, Heavy Expense for -.
855
Bridges Over Mad River_
66
Breeding of Better Live Stock
345
Brown, C. R.
604
Buckeye Tree, Largest In State .. 299
Building and Loan Associations ...
836
Burden's Sharpshooters.
750
Burnside, William.
273
Byrd, Charles Willing.
39
Cable, Village of.
239
Camping Ground for Indians
254
Camp Meetings of Other Days
432, 446, 472, 1136
Canal Grants, the_
56
Career Altered by Shipwreck.
359
Carysville, Village of ...
328
Catawba
200
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HISTORICAL INDEX.
Catholic Churches
513, 521
Cattle Industry , The_
345
Centenarians of Champaign County, 1141
Centennial, County
1154
Centralized Schools
532. 547
Champaign County In War ___
.665, 835
Champaign County In World War 812-835
Champaign County Journalism
407
Champaign Sanitarium
382
Chance, Frank.
1104
Chapman, Jonathan ..
343
Characteristic "Obituary"
415
Charities, Associated, of Urbana ...
820
Chautauqua
927
Cheney, Benjamin.
251
Chicken Eanciers
350
Children's Home, The-
126
Chillicothe, Old Capital
47
Chipmuck Consumes Mill's Product_ 293
Christian Churches
503-50Z
Christianity In Champaign County __ 433
Christiansburg, Village Of-
Business Interests .
895
Ludian "Medicine Men"
802
Incorporation of.
893
McCrea's Store
891
Postoffice, The ..
896
Schools_
541, 893
Some "Firsts"
894
When Platted.
891
Churches of Champaign County.
430
Church of the New Jerusalem ..
525
Cider Press a Busy Industry_
256
Cincinnati, Founding of_
53
Circus Life Proves Attractive_593
City of Mechanicsburg.
_913-935
City of St. Paris.
936-947
City of Urbana
948-1073
Civil War, The.
628-798
Clifford, Billy "Single"
588
Climatic Conditions_ 62 Clothing of the Pioneers. .1109
Coal Mine "Fizzled Out".
239
Colored Baptist Church ..
480
Colored Secret Societies
662
Columbus, Selected as Capital.
48
Common Pleas Court __
394
Communities Stripped of Young Men 744
Company D, Third Regiment, Ohio
National Guard_ _806-811, 826, 827 Comparison With "Good Old Days" 430
Concord Township-
Churches and Cemeteries.
208
Confusion In Boundaries
200
Crayon
210
Eris
211
Favorite Ground of Indians. 202
First Electors
195
First Schools
205
First Settlers
196
Heathstown
209
Limits of.
194
Northville
208
Origin of Name
194
Schools
539
When Organized.
194
Congress Lands, the_
55
Connecticut Reserve, the
54
Conscription Act of 1917_
812
Consolidated Schools_
-532, 547
Constitution, Amendments of 1912 __ 60
Cooley, James.
.1093
Co-operative Efforts Among Farm-
ers
353
Corn Dropped by the Wayside ...
279
Corwin, Moses B.
385. 389, 408
County Agricultural Society 354
County and State Officials-
132
County Auditors, Roster of
133
County Clerks, Roster of. 132
County Expenditures 97
County Fairs
353
County Farm in 1847 123
County Finances
92
County Hospital, The. 124
County Infirmary, The 121-126
County Jail
114-120
County Limits Defined. 81
County Medical Society
362
County Officials
132
County Organization (1788-1810). 43
County Organization 81
County Population Statistics 99 County Recorders, Roster of. 134
County Seat Site Selected ...
.. 90, 948,
County Surveyors. Roster of _____ 136
County Teachers' Institute __
534
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County Treasurers, Roster of_
133
County's First Settler ..
151. 177
County's Indebtedness.
96
County's Public Buildings
105
Court House.
105-114
Court Library, The
405
Courts of the Older Day
391
Cowgill, Dr. Thomas, Reminiscences
of
1118
Crayon
210
Creation of Early Counties.
84
Creation of Mad River Township .... 150
Crinville
276
Creamery and Dairy Statistics .. 346
Creamery at Thackery -.
296, 346
Crop Development Reviewed .......
336
Curious Topographical Study ___
297
Currency In Pioneer Times.
836
Curriculum of Early Schools
530
Curry Institute.
576, 926
Curry, Prof. E. W. B.
579, 926
Cushman, Warren S.
.598, 605
D
Dairy Statistics
346
Dancing Encroaches On Church ..
317
Darnell, Village of-
896
Daughters of American Revolution. 612
Daughters of Rebekah __ 643, 645, 648, 650
Daughters of Pocahontas .....
656
Davis, Rev. Asher A ..
871
Dedication of Soldiers' Monument_ 805
Deeds and Mortgages Filed_ 95
Destructive Flood of 1913.
65
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Rail-
road
867
Deuel. Prof. A. C ...
-560, 800, 1136
Development of Crops.
336
Development of Highways ..
271
Devoe, W. M.
Diary of James T. Woodward.
706
Difficulties Confront Pioneers.
157
Difficulties in Immigration
317
Disposition of School Lands.
200
Distillery Did Big Business ..
276
Division of 1800
41
Doctors of the Old Days_
358
Dohrman's Grant ..
56
Doolittle's Tavern. Site of ...
614
Dormant Churches In County ___.
434
Dorsey, Charles
289
Drafting Soldiers for World War .. 813
Drainage, 63, 151, 176, 213, 250, 261, 270, 278, 288, 297. 311, 320
Dreamed Name for a Church.
481
Dredging Increases Land Values.
65
Dredging of King's Creek
65
Dredging of Mad River
64
Dress of the Pioneers.
1112
Dugan Run, or Town Branch.
67, 177
Dugan, Pierre
178
E
.
Early Activities of Militia ____.
.667, 679
Early Agricultural Methods ...
3.35
Early Counties of Ohio .....
84
Early Doctors, a List of-
360
Early French Settlements.
34
Early Judicial System.
390
Early Roads of Champaign County_ 858
Early School Curriculum
...
530
Early School Statistics __
537
Early Social Centers
537
Early Sunday School.
447
Editor Waxes Enthusiastic ... 112
Education
530
"Egged" a Drunken Mob
876
Eichelberger, Robert A ..
598, 604
Eighty-Sixth Regiment 705
Electric Railways
867
Elementary Schools
552
Eleven Lost Townships, The.
145
Elliott, a "Dream Town"
3.06
English Traders
35
Era of Prosperity
94
Eris
211
Episcopal Churches
.___
512-513
Evangelical Lutheran Churches __ 496-501 Evidences of Glacial Period_298 Evidences of Mound Builders, 71, 186, 255
Exhibits of Farm Products.
35.3
Expenditures of County.
97
F
Fair Grounds.
354
Fallen Timbers, the Battle of
34
Fame Courted by Many.
591
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HISTORICAL INDEX.
Farming in the Old Days.
335
Farming Methods, Changes In .. 296, 335
Father of Thirty-two Children .....
198
Files of Early Papers Missing ......
408
Finances of County
92
Fire of 1901 at Urbana.
1037
First Bank in County
837
First Blacksmith Shop in County-
273
First Court House.
105
First Court in the County
391
First Jail -
114
First Lawyer in County.
385
First Newspaper in County.
408
First Orchard in County.
292
First Regiment
691
First School House in County.
205
First Settler in County.
151, 177
First Surveys
37
Fithian, George
81, 89.
140, 391, 593, 950, 631, 1116
Flood of 1913. the.
65
Foley-Wilkinson Fracas, the ...
203
Food of the Pioneers
11.10
Forage Crops
340
Forests of Champaign County.
70
Formation of New State.
45
Forty-fifth Regiment
697
Forty-Second Regiment
696
Founder of Christiansburg
292
Founder of Westville
101
Fraternal Order of Eagles.
661
Free and Accepted Masons ____
-629-442
Free Public Schools. Organization
of.
556
Freed Slaves Become Settlers ...... 185
French and Indian War
35
French Grant, The- 53
French Traders
3
Friends Church
521-524
"Frog Pond," Old Mechanicsburg ... 915
Ft. Robinson
283
Ft. Sumter, Fall of.
688
"Fuson" Corn, Origin of_
279
Fyffe, Rear Admiral Joseph.
1098
G
Garden Fruits and Orchards.
342
General Harmar's Expedition
665
Geology of Champaign County .....
62
German Baptist Church ____________ 479
German Lutheran Church
501
Girty, Simon
1083
Gist, Christopher
35
Glacial Period, Evidences of ...
298
Good Indian Story
303
Goshen Township-
Drainage and Topography 270
Development of Highways.
271
Early Industries
275
Local Settlements
276
Mills on Treacle Creek
275
Original Proprietors
267
Part of Military Survey
267
Platting of Mechanicsburg
274
Schools
5,39
Some Early Settlers.
272
When Organized
272
Gourdville
210
Governors of Ohio
58
Gowey, John Franklin
1106
Graduates of Urbana High School .. 502
Grand Army of the Republic ____ 618-623
Grange, The
351
Granite Boulders Pay Well.
299
Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers __ 617
Great World War.
812-835
Green, David M.
965, 1149
"Greenville Line," The
82
Greenville Treaty, The
80
Fraternal Organizations
.626-664
Growth of School Curriculum
531
Guthridge, Jules
1107
Guthridge, Mrs. Mary
223
Hallar, Rev. William.
1103
Hamilton, John
1091
Harmonic Quartette
Harrison Township-
Apprehension Regarding Indians __ 283
Boundaries of
278
Drainage
278
Early Industries
284
Early Settlers
279
Et. Robinson
28.3
Pioneer Incidents
283
Schools
540
Spring Hills
285
When Organized
278
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Harrison, William Henry
39
Hazelton, a "Paper" Town.
193
Heathtown
209
Hidden Treasure
1122
Hides Money in Stump.
321
'High Cost of Living"
93
Highest Point in State
297
High School Work.
558
559
Highway Act, Cass, The.
800
Highways and Railroads_
855-868
Highways Gradually Developed_ .. 271
Hill, Joseph
196
History of Churches in County __ 430-529
Hite. Harrison
603
Hog Drive, Description of
347
Hoisington, Fred B.
1161
Holmes Literary Club ..
587
Holt, Mrs. Sophia Sumner.
870
Home of One-Time Governor
181
Honest Surveyor's Graceful Act ...
175
Ilmmesty of Pioneers-
283
Honor Roll of Champaign County ._
753
Horses, Improved Strains of
344
Hospital Statistics
124
Howard Weaver Mission. The
524
Howell, Joshua
.292, 891, 894
Hubbell, Raymond
593, 597
Hull's Army Camps at Urbana ___
671
Hull's Trace
182
Hupp, Mrs. O. C., Reminiscence of 920
I
"I Am the Newspaper"
407
Immigration Difficulties
317
Improved Strains of Horses
344
Improvements in School System ____ 550
Indebtedness of County.
96
Indenture System, The.
121, 1127
Independence, War for
36
Independent Order of Foresters.
662
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
642-651
Indiana Territory
41
Indian "Scare" in Harrison
283
Indian Wars
Indians a Constant Menace_155
Indians Kill Father and Son_202
Industries of Urbana_
_991-10.25
Infirmary, or "Poor House"121
Influence of National Road.
233
Inter-County Highways
861
Iroquois Grant, The-
3,5
1
Jackson Township-
Creamery Industry
296
Drainage and Topography
285
First Settlers
289
Founder of Christiansburg
292
Original Landowners
289
Origin of Name-
288
Pioncer Incidents
293
Railroads and Trolley Lines.
295
Schools
541
Some Township "Firsts"
293
When Organized
288
Jail
114-120
"Johnny Appleseed"
343
Johnson . Silas
300
Johnson Township-
Drainage and Topography 297
Early Industries
306
First Commercial Center
306
First Settlers
3.00
Highest Point in State-
297
Millerstown
308
Pioncer Incidents
302
Origin of Name.
297
Schools and Churches
307. 542
Smallpox Scourges Pioneers
303
When Organized
297
Journalism.
407-129
Judges of Probate Court.
403
Improved Order of Red Men
65.5
Judiciary, The
390
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics
658
Justices of the Peace
389
K
Kennard, Village of.
192
Kenton, Simon
.115, 392, 608 1080
Kings Creek, Dredging of.
65
Kings Creek. Village of_
191
Kingston, or Kings Creek.
191
Kizer, Squire Joseph ..
304
Knights of Columbus ..
659
Knights of the Golden Circle ......
6.8.5
Knights of the Golden Fleece
662
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Knights of Maccabees
661
Knights of Pythias 651-655
Knights Templar
634
Kosko Elene, the "Hogman"
151
L
Lakes of Another Day
261, 270
Land Grants of Ohio
52
Land Surveys, System of
37
Land Values Inaccurately "Guessed" 291 Land Values Increased by Dredging 65
Largest Buckeye Tree in State _.
299
LaSalle, the Explorer_
33
Law Defining a Blind Person __..... 129
Laws Relating to Schools_
533
Lawyers of Champaign County __ 385-406
Lawyers Taxed in Old Days.
388
Leedom, John S.
1104
Legal Profession, The ..
385-406
Liberty Loan, The ..
812
Library, Public, at Urbana .. 1062
Limits of County Defined.
81
Lincoln's Assassination
802
Lincoln's Funeral Train
Passes
Through Champaign County ___ 803
List of Churches in County -.
433
Literary Clubs of Champaign County 582
Lives Lost in Civil War ..
753
Live Stock in Champaign County __ 344 Locating Site of County Seat ____ 90, 948 Lochardsville 167
1.odge Directory of Champaign
County
627
Logan, Chief of the Mingos.
1084
Looking Ahead to 2017 532
Lost Townships of County 145
"Love Apples"
337
Low Tax Rate
98
Loyal Order of Moose
657
Ludlow, Israel
79
"Ludlow Line," The
76
Lutheran Churches
496-501
Lynchings
1143
M
Machachce Creek
67
Mad River, The
63
Mad River Township-
Boundary Changes
150
Churches
167
Date of Organization
150
Difficulties of Pioneers.
157
First Election
151
First Settler of
151
Lochardsville
Nettle Creek Settlement
100
Pioneers of Nore
162
Schools
542
Some of the "Firsts"
Terre Haute
100
The Old Stockade.
154
Westville Neighborhood
161. 168
Marietta, Old Capital.
47
Martin, Erastus
877
Masonic Organizations
.629-642
Mathematician of Note --
202
Maumee Road Lands, The. 56
Mechanicsburg, City of-
Bit of Reminiscence 920
City Government
929
Development of
914
Early Industries _
-916, 928
Early Known as "Frog Pond".
.... 915
Municipal Equipment
921
Organization and Incorporation __ 916
Pioneer Conditions
913
Schools
540, 923
When Platted
913
Medical Profession, The.
357
Medicinal Waters
70
Mennonite Church
528
Methodist Episcopal Churches __ 435-472
Methodist Protestant Church
473
Mexican Imbroglio of 1916-17
810
Mexican War, The.
681
Miami Company. The.
53
Middleton, Capt. George S.
388, 401, 811. 826, 829
Middleton, Judge Evan Perry ...
396
Middletown, Village of ..
24.5
Military Annals
6615-835
Military Headquarters at Urbana ___ 67X
Military Lands, The, 54, 173, 214, 248, 207
Military Record of State ...
50
Militia Companies Since Civil War. 806 Militia's Early Activities .
HISTORICAL INDEX.
"Milk-Sickness"
198
Millerstown, Village of ___
-306, 308
Mill Streams, 270, 275, 284, 294, 319, 323
Mingo, Village of.
242
"Mingo vs. Kennard".
.1138
Ministerial Lands, the ..
57
Modernization of Schools.
550
Modern Woodmen of America_660
Molly Kiser, Captivity of.
183
Moore's Business College-
566
Moravian Grant, The ..
56
Morecraft, Mrs. Hester.
228
Mortgages and Deeds Filed.
95
Mosgrove, Dr. Adam.
359. 512
Mosquitoes, Abundance of.
298
Mound Builders
71, 186
Mounds of Champaign County
71, 186, 255
Moved Goods on Sled
232
Moving-Picture Houses
595
Mulberry, Old Mingo
242
Multiplicity of Officials.
146
Musical Organizations
597
Music and Art
597
Mutual, Village of
258
Mc
McCrea. William
293, 891, 896
McDargh, Charles
1151
McFarland, Robert
195, 201
McFarland. Thomas Sims
1105
McGown, William
594, 1151
N
Nashville 276
National Army
813
Natural Gas
70
Nature Indulges Champaign County 334
New Church Society
525
New State, Formation of
45
Newspaper "Obituary"
Extraordi-
nary
415
Newspapers of Champaign County
407-429
Niles Sanitarium
383
Ninety-fifth Regiment.
731
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
636
Normal School
534
North Lewisburg, Village of-
Business Directory
911
Conditions in 1836.
004
Incorporation of
898
Municipal Equipment
.899, 902
Notable "Revival" Meeting.
907
Officially Not "North"
898
Postoffice
902
Schools
544, 900
Situation in 1850.
906
When Platted
898
Northville
208
Northwest Territory
.33, 39, 42
Notable Fight of Other Days
203
Notable "Revival" of 1882.
907
O
Oakdale Cemetery_
1049
Oats, Rye and Buckwheat
339
Odd Fellowship
642-651
Officers' Training Camp
825
Officials of Champaign County
132
Officials of Townships.
146
Ohio Admitted to the Union
46
Ohio Company, The.
35
Ohio Conference, Organization of .. 439
Ohio Governors
58
Ohio Land Company Purchase
52
Ohio Politics
58
Ohio State History
33
Ohio's Constitution
48
Ohio's Part in Civil War
688, 750
Oil Wells
70
"O. K." Origin of.
1130
"Old Simon," Faithful Equine
305
Old-Time "Revival" Meetings
460, 907
Negroes Barred by Pioneers
166
Old Union Hall.
589
Nettle Creek Settlement.
160
Olla Podrida Club
586
One Hundred and Thirteenth Regi-
ment
738
One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth
Regiment
743
Orchard and Garden Fruits
342
Orchard, First in County
292
Order of the Eastern Star
641
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Order of Haymakers.
657
Ordinance of 1787, The ..
37
Organization of Adams Township .. 320
Organization of Champaign County 81
Organization of Churches _
430
Organization of Concord Township 194
Organization of Goshen Township __ 206
Organization of Harrison Township 278
Organization of Jackson Township_ 288
Organization of Johnson Township. 297
Organization of Rush Township .... 310
Organization of Salem Township,
172, 181
Organization of Union Township ___ 248
Organization of Urbana Township __ 261
Organization of Wayne Township __ 212
Original Proprietors, Lists of, 173, 214,
248, 268, 289, 310
Origin of Urbana's Name
948
Owens, William
151, 177
Oxen, Their Use in Old Days.
344
P
Painting and Sculpture.
598
Panic Among Settlers
283
Passing of the Rural School 531
Past and Present Compared
430
Patrick, Judge William _.
262, 264.
671, 686, 951. 993, 1087. 1096
Patriarchs Militant
646, 647, 649
Patriotic Organizations
611-625
Patrons of Husbandry
351
Paupers, List of in 1847
124
Pennsylvania Railroad
866
Pensions for County's Blind
1.34)
Physicians of Champaign County
357. 382
Pythian Sisters
652. 653. 654
Pigs, the Story of.
346
Red Cross Work in 1917
828,
Pioneer Church Burned.
486
Refugee Tract, The
5.5
Pioneer Church Service- 431
Pioneer Conditions at Mechanics-
burg
913
Pioneer Farmer's Difficulties
3.34
Pioneer Outwits Redskin
303
Pioneers Bar Negro Settlers_
Pioneers Menaced by Indians.
155
Platting of Christiansburg_
891
Platting of Spring Hills ..
285
Platting of Woodstock
869, 874
Plumbers' Union at U'rbana.
"Plumed Knight" Glee Club.
600
Politics in Ohio.
58
Poll Books of Old Days
151, 182, 216.
250, 262, 315
Pollock Town
257
Pontiac's Conspiracy
36
Poor Relief, System of.
122
Population Statistics
90
Porter's Band
601
Postoffice Statistics
1147
Potatoes and Minor Crops
339
Poultry Culture
349
Powhattan, Village of
266
Prehistoric Evidences
71, 186
Presbyterian Churches
489-496
Present School System
5,33
Present County Officials
143
Pretty Prairie
261
"Prison Bounds"
116
Probate Court, The.
402
Prosecuting Attorneys
404
Prosperity, Era of _.
94
Public Building of County
105
Public Utilities of Urbana
1026
Q
Quebec Act. The.
3t»
Queer Way to "Save" Sinners.
90×
Race Suicide Not Encouraged
20!
Railroads and Transportation
855-868
Rally Ends in Tragedy
330
Recollections of a Pioneer
22,3
Recorder's Transactions
95
831
Reformed Church
502
Regiments from This County in Civil
War
684, 751
Registrants for Selective Draft .. 813, 824
Related State History ....
33-6
Relation to Neighboring Countries __ 85
Religious Life in County ...
______ 4.30
Reminiscence of 1836
Reminiscence of 1850
900
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HISTORICAL INDEX.
Reminiscence of Doctor Cowgill ____ 1118
"Revival" Meetings in Old Days. 460, 907
Hazleton
193
Revolutionary Soldiers' Graves _____ 617
Kennard
192
Revolutionary War Period_
36
Kingston
191
Reynolds, Judge John ..
67, 132,
177, 391, 394, 675. 838, 950, 1058, 1090
Rival Republican Newspapers .... 413 Roads and Roadmaking. 856
Roberts Mound, The. 72
Roll of Honor, The.
753
Room for Religious Improvement .. 431
Rosewood, Village of ...
331
Roster of Lawyers_
386
Roster of Physicians_
376
Koster of School Teachers-
534
Royal Arch Masons __.
633
Rural Education, History of .. 530
Rural Mail Delivery ..
1148
Rural Population Declining 235
Rural Schools, Development of __ __: 531
Rush Township-
Boundaries of
310
Coming of Railroads. 318
Coming of Virginians 314
Drainage and Topography
311
Early Election .
315
Early Industries
319
Early Settlement
312
First Grist-mill
313
Group of Early Settlers
317
Original Proprietors 310
Schools
5.4.3
"The Crossing"
313
Two Social Centers 316
When Organized
310
Russell. John
1099
5
Salaries of County Oficials_
143
Salarics of Teachers -...
534
Saloon, the Passing of ....
1056
"Saint of the Diocese". 519
Salem Township-
Changes of Boundary 172
Drainage
176
Early Religious Activities-
186
Farming Conditions
190
First Election
182
First School House
18Z
First Settler
--
177
Military Land Survey.
173
Organization of
181
Original Landowners 173
Pierre Dugan
178
Home of Governor 181
Railroads
190
Schools
544
Some Early Settlers 184
Some "Firsts"
189
"Squatters'
180
Story of Dugan Run 177
When Organized
172
Salt .Sections
57
Sanitariums 382
Saxton, Joshua 408, 411, 618, 686
School Attendance Declining. 537
School Examiners Sadly Deficient __ 530
School Sections , The.
57
Schools of Champaign County_ 530 School Population of County 103
School Statistics
552
School System of Today. 533
Scottish Rite Masonry
635
Second County Jail.
116
Second Court House.
105
Second Regiment
691
Second Town Founded in County. 271
Secret of Longevity
199
Secret Societies
626-664
Selective Draft of 1917. 813
Settlers During the '30s. 327
Settlers in a Panic ...
283
Settlers Poor Judges of Land. 291 Settlers' Precarious "Bank" 321
Sewage-Disposal Plant at Urbana_1039
Shakers, The
528
Sheep, Variable History of-
... 349, 1139
Sheriffs of Champaign County.
135
Shipwreck Alters Doctor's Career __
359
· Shockey, Abram
158
Sidelights On Life in Other Days 1109-1161
Sibley, Warren D
872
Sixty-sixth Regiment
700
Skeletons Provide a Mystery
255
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Smallpox Scourges Pioneers
301
Smith, Joseph P.
1101
Social Centers in Rush
316
Subscription Schools
554
Suicide of Unhappy Boy
284
Society of Friends, or Quakers __ 521-524
Society's Best Investment.
550
Sunday Schools of the Older Day. 447
Sodom Campmeeting Ground.
472
Surrender of Hull's Army
669, 673
Surveyors of the Old Days
79
Soil of Champaign County
69
Soldier Relief During Civil War
789
Soldier Relief in 1917
798
Soldier's Diary
706
Soldiers from This County in Civil
War
683
Soldiers' Monuments
_614, 803, 930
Sons of Veterans.
624
Spanish-American War
807
Spanish-American War Veterans.
625
Spectacular Campaign of 1840 ___.
330
Spinning Wheels, Manufacture of ___ 295
Spring Hills, Village of.
285
"Squatters" Early On the Ground __ 180
Squirrels in Hordes ..
183
St. Cecelia Reading Circle
587
St. Clair, Gen. Arthur.
39
St. Paris, City of-
Additions to
936
Business Directory
944
Industries
945, 947
Municipal Improvements
940
Name, Alteration of
9.36
Old Business Directory.
943
Postoffice
937
Schools
542, 937
When Platted
936
Stage Coach Company.
1153
Stanhope, Richard
1141, 206
State Boundary Lines
60
State Constitution, Growth of
· 48
State History
33-61
State Representatives, Roster of
136
State Roads
856
State Senators, Roster of.
140
State's Military Record.
50
Statistics Relating to Highways
862
Statistics Relating to Teachers.
552
"Strangers In a Strange Land"
516
Streams of Champaign County.
67
Streams Provide Mill Power __ 270, 275.
284, 294, 319. 323
Strenuous Mayoralty Campaigns
963
Stockade in Westville Neighborhood 155
Student Officers of 1917
825
Surveys, First in Ohio.
37
Swamps Retard Settlement
322
Swedenborgian Church
525
Sweet, Simeon
604
Swine, Statistics Relating to
348
Symmes Purchase. The
5.3
T
Tax Rate
Teachers' Gontraet .in -Furly Days
536
Teachers in Champaign County
534
Teachers in Urbana Schools
561
Tecumseh
3,3
Telephone Service
1048
Temperance Crusade
933
Tempestuous City Administration
965. 1149
Terre Haute
160
Territorial Capitals
47
Territorial Legislature
40
Thackery, Village of.
897
"Things Thespian"
582, 587
Third County Jail.
117
Third Court House.
107
Third Ohio Cavalry_
748
Thirteenth Regiment
692
Thirty-Second Regiment
694
Three-Months' Regiment
690
Three Rs, The
530
Tippecanoe, The Battle of
3.3
Tobacco and Forage Crops
340
Topography of Champaign County.
62
Tornado of 1830
976
Township Officials
146
Township Schools
537
Townships of Champaign County. 86. 115
Tragedy Marks Campaign Rally ..
330
Transplanted Virginia Community.
304. 314
Transportation
855-868
"Turn Back the Pages of History" _.
335
Turnpike Lands, The
56
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HISTORICAL INDEX.
Twelfth Ohio Cavalry
749
Twenty-sixth Regiment .
693
Typical Pioneer Experience.
221
Typical Pioneer Journey.
318
U
"U'nderground Railroad"
1132
Uniforms of Early Militiamen .....
679
L'nion Township-
Catawba
260
Confusion in Boundaries.
254
Drainage and Topography
250
Early Industries
251
Early Settlers
251
First Election
249
Indian Occupancy
2.54
Military Land Surveys
248
Mutual. Village of-
258
Pollack Town
257
Schools
545
When Organized
249
L'aited Brethren Churches.
.507-509
United Presbyterian Church ..... 494
Universalist Churches
509-512
Urbana, City of-
Administration, Present
966
Is Seen in 1811_
951
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