History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 67

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1592

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One of the first mills in Springfield township was that of the Caldwells, on Mill' creek a short distance below Griffin's Station. It was a great convenience to the settlers of the valley, and was operated until its destruction by a freshet about the year 1806. A little later than this the McFeely brothers built a stone mill on the West Fork of Mill creek on Section 22, a mile and a quarter northeast of Mt. Healthy. A tread-power mill was also operated at New Burlington at an early date and subsequently at Mt. Healthy. Distilleries were numerous during the pioneer days. One of the most extensive was that of Samuel Huston in Section 31, in the extreme northwestern part of the township, and there was another in Section 28, at the junction of Whiskey run and the West Branch of Mill creek. In the same locality Jediah Hill had a mill, the site of which is now occupied by the Hartman mill.

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MT. HEALTHY.

The village of Mt. Healthy is situated at the terminus of the Cincinnati North- western railway, in the southwestern part of Springfield township. It occupies the contiguous portions of Sections 32, 33, 26 and 27, Range 1, Township 3. The Hamilton pike forms its principal north and south street, crossed at right angles by the Compton road; both these thoroughfares are located upon the section lines. East of the Hamilton pike the original proprietor was Samuel Hill; west of it, John P. Laboiteaux. The original plat of the village was acknowledged by Hill and Laboiteaux, January 14, 1817, in which acknowledgment the names of William Harts and Theodore Henderson appear as surveyors. This plat extends from First to Fourth street on the east side of the pike, terminating with Second on the west side. One block of lots is indicated west of Harrison street and one block east of Perry. In 1832 an addition was made by Elias W. Hoffner; and in the same year John P. Laboiteaux platted that part of the village west of the pike between the Compton road and Fourth street. The survey was made on the 10th of September in that year by Ely Elder. This plat was extended north of Fourth street in 1836.

Samuel Hill, mentioned above as one of the original proprietors, died March 11, 1827. John P. Laboiteaux was a native of Hunterdon county, N. J., the son of Peter Laboiteaux, a Revolutionary soldier, who removed to this county in 1801. Thither he was followed by John P. in 1814. The latter first located on the north- west corner of Section 32. Subsequently he bought nearly the whole of Section 33, and then became owner of all that part of the village site west of the Hamilton pike. He resided here until his death.

In the year 1832 Mt. Pleasant had acquired the proportions of a small village, and it may be interesting to summarize the improvements at that date. Peter J. Laboiteaux, tailor and merchant, built the brick house at the southwest corner of the Compton road (Second street) and the Hamilton pike (Main street) in that year. Continuing south on the same side of the pike, the next improvements were those of Richard M. Conklin, manufacturer of furniture. His factory was a large two- story log building. His house was constructed of the same materials, but was only 3. one story in height. Near the latter stood his sign, bearing the representation of a bureau. Conklin employed several operatives, and power for the machinery was derived from a tread-mill. He remained here only a few years, when he removed to Cincinnati and was one of the first manufacturers of white lead in that city.

On the opposite side of the alley from Conklin's stood a hewed log hotel build- ing, owned and conducted by John P. Laboiteaux. This was probably the first house erected within the limits of the village plat. The frame building just south of this was erected by Garret D. Lowe, from New Jersey, a carpenter and builder by occupation. The frame house at the next corner was built by Henry Compton, a laborer in the employ of Laboiteaux. On the next square there was one house, the residence of Dr. Mccullough.

Crossing to the east side of Main street, there stood immediately opposite Dr. Mccullough's the brick residence of Elias Compton, farmer. This was the first brick house in the village. On the same block, at the corner of the alley, Isaac Deats, cooper, from New Jersey, lived in a frame house that still stands. The next improvement, advancing toward the north, was Peter Hathorn's frame and brick hotel, a well-known hostelry, burned many years ago. James Hoel, brickmaker, lived opposite Laboiteaux's tavern. Samuel Hoffner, farmer and preacher, lived north of the next alley in a long one-story frame house, and John Hoffner, grocer, lived in a frame house at the site of Moser's store. This completes the list of im- provements south of the Compton road.

North of the Compton road on the west side of the pike was lined with wood- land, in which John P. Laboiteaux's cooper shop, the principal industry of the vil-

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lage, was situated directly opposite Peter J. Laboiteaux's store, while the black- smith shops of John Ross and Philip Dorn were located further north, the latter at the present site of the carriage factory. North of this was farm land, in which the morus multicaulus was cultivated.

On the east side of the pike, north of the Compton road, Dr. John Wright lived in a log house across the alley from the present location of Hoffner's store. The adjoining lot (on the north) was occupied by a frame house built by Parmenus Corson, weaver, and, subsequently, farmer. On the next block was a frame house and wagon shop, built by Stephen Ege, and on the opposite side of the alley was a frame house in which Jacob Fowble resided and kept a grocery. This was the last house on Main street at the northern end of the village. In addition to these there were several houses on Harrison street and a few insignificant improvements east of the pike. The schoolhouse stood at the site of the residence of John Hoffner, deceased, and the Union church on Perry street, between Second and Third.

Of early industries the furniture factory of Richard M. Conklin, the cooper shop of John P. Laboiteaux, and several blacksmith and wagon shops have been mentioned. Coopering was once an important industry, and among those engaged in it were William and Joseph Laboiteaux and Eli Taylor. James Seward operated a tread-power gristmill on Harrison street for some years. The entire plant was removed here from New Burlington. Abner Jarrett and Matthias Miller operated potteries, and Matthias Miller and Peter J. Laboiteaux were engaged in pork-pack- ing. Philip Dorn has manufactured carriages for a number of years. The first silk industry in the West was established here by Peter J. Laboiteaux. Charles Cheney introduced the morus multicaulis, and Laboiteaux secured the services of an English silk weaver and conducted the manufacture of silk on a small scale for sev- eral years. Specimens of his manufacture are still preserved. At the present time the principal industry of the village is tailoring. A large part of the population is employed in the making of clothing for the large stores of Cincinnati. It is also worthy of mention that pants are made to the entire exclusion of coats and vests.

Although the village is still popularly known as Mt. Pleasant, its postal designa- tion is Mt. Healthy. It has a commodious brick school building and six churches, viz., United Brethren, Christian, Catholic, Lutheran, German Methodist and Colored.

On the Mt. Pleasant pike, a mile south of the village, is situated Clover Nook, the home of the Carys. Here Alice was born, April 26, 1820, and Phœbe, Septem- ber 4, 1824. They attended the village schools and are still remembered by the older citizens. Alice went to New York in 1850 and Phoebe a year later. A birth- day celebration in their honor was held at Mt. Pleasant in 1880 by the teachers of Hamilton county.

LOCKLAND.

This village extends from the line.of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad in Springfield township to the east branch of Mill creek in Sycamore township; but as the larger part of its territory is within the geographical limits of Springfield it is thought most appropriate to give its history here. It comprises portions of Sections 2 and 3, Range 1, Township 3, and Sections 32 and 33, Range 1, Town- ship 4. The "Big Four" railroad, the Miami canal, and the West branch of Mill creek pass through the village, as does also the old Hamilton road, known here as Wayne avenue.

It was from its position at the locks in the Miami canal that Lockland derived its early importance, and, indeed, its very existence. Lewis Howell and Nicholas Longworth were the proprietors of the town, which was platted in 1829 by Thomas Henderson, surveyor. To this original plat important and extensive additions have since been made.

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F. W. Athearn was prominently identified with the early development of Lock- land's manufacturing interests. In 1840 he bought " the old white flouring mill " on the East Branch of Mill creek, opposite Hartwell, removed and rebuilt it at the site of Tangeman's paper mill at Lockland. For several years he operated it as a feed mill, and then converted it into a paper mill, associating Isaac King and Ludlow Pendery with him in this enterprise. White paper was manufactured exclusively, but the mill burned to the ground after having been operated a year or two. A rolling mill was then established upon the same site by Phillips & Chapman of Cincinnati, and operated three years. In 1857 C. W. Friend and J. H. Tangeman purchased the property from Nicholas Longworth (the rolling-mill enterprise having become defunct) and converted it into a paper mill. It was burned in 1860, when the present mill of J. H. Tangeman was built. Mr. Tangeman has operated this mill individually from 1863 to the present time, with the exception of the period from 1873 to 1890, when John Grismere was associated with him. Twenty operatives are employed, and wrapping paper is manufactured exclusively.

The Haldeman Paper Company operates two mills at Lockland, one within the village limits, the other half a mile distant toward the south. The former was originally established in 1832 by Pythagoras Holcomb as a flour mill. F. W. Athearn became proprietor in 1834, and converted it into a paper mill in 1845. Joseph G. Allen and Friend & Tangeman also operated it prior to its acquisition by the present proprietors. The lower mill was built in 1853 by Jackson & Bowker as a flouring mill. Subsequently it was operated as a barley and corn pearling mill, and then converted into a paper mill by Allen & Service, to whom the present pro- prietors ultimately succeeded. The Haldeman Paper Company is officered as fol- lows: President, J. C. Richardson; vice-president, C. C. Richardson; secretary and treasurer, W. J. Haldeman. At Lockland sixty-five operatives are employed.

In 1843 F. W. Athearn built a wrapping paper mill at Lockland. It was suc- cessively operated by Sylvester Ruffner, Cecil & McHanan, Parker & Service, Will- iam B. French and George H. Friend. In 1890 it was destroyed by fire.

The Friend & Fox Paper Company operate three mills, located, respectively, at. Lockland and at Rialto and Crescentville, Butler county. The Lockland mill was originally established as a flourmill by Pythagoras Holcomb. He was succeeded by F. W. Athearn, by whom it was converted into a paper mill in 1842. The property was owned by Bachelor Brothers prior to its acquisition by the present proprietors. The old mill was burned and the present was erected in 1873. Book paper is manufactured exclusively, and fifty operatives are employed. The company is officered as follows: Thomas Fox, president and treasurer; George N. Friend, vice-presi- dent; George B. Fox, secretary.

The Lockland Lumber Company, of which E. R. Stearns is president, A. M. Stearns, treasurer and manager, and S. D. Tippett, secretary, established in 1868 the first lumber manufactory in this part of the Miami valley above Cincinnati. One hundred operatives are employed.

The House & Palmer Company operate the Lockland Mills, which have a capacity of seven hundred barrels of flour per week; the mills were originally established by Dr. Thomas Wright, and came into possession of the present proprie- tors in 1862.

The First National Bank of Lockland was opened in November, 1889. The capital is $50,000, and on the 4th of May, 1893, the surplus amounted to $3,800. The president is George W. Walker; vice-president, Alfred M. Stearns; cashier, O. C. Williams.

The Review and News first appeared July 16, 1892, and is published by the Review Publishing Company. The editor is Jo Martin, by whom the Echo and Review was established in 1891. The Miami Valley News was founded in 1884, by Job Taylor, who sold it to Cochran & McKetta, but again became proprietor a year

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later, and continued the publication until its consolidation with the Review. The Review and News is a six-column octavo in size, and is independent in politics.

The local manufacturing and business interests of Lockland are more extensive and important than those of any other point in Hamilton county outside of Cincin- nati. Here are located the only bank and newspaper between Cincinnati and Hamilton. By the census of 1890 the population was 2,474. The village has a fine school building, a town hall, and Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and Colored churches.

Municipal Government .- Lockland was incorporated as a village in 1849, and the first election resulted in the choice of the following officers: Mayor, Daniel Thompson; recorder, John G. Olden; trustees: S. S. Brown, James Service, C. R. Bachelor, Thomas Lank, and D. J. Bowman. The first marshal was William Thor- nell, and the first treasurer was Hiram Palmer. The succession of mayors has been as follows: 1850, John G. Olden; 1853, S. H. Horle; 1854, N. Carmichael; 1856, B. S. Dunn; 1859, C. W. Friend; 1863. W. Cornell; 1866, John G. Olden; 1868, J. C. Bellew; 1869, John G. Olden; 1870, C. S. Dunn; 1876, Richard Rowe; 1878, C. S. Dunn; 1880, J. C. Bellew; 1884, Thomas M. Dill; 1886, R. J. Stauverman; 1888, C. M. Skillman, present incumbent. Among the village clerks have been John G. Olden, Moses Wade, C. E. Howell. C. S. Dunn, G. W. Highlands, James Service, Benjamin M. Ludden, Raby Shinkle, Harry Friend, and Eugene Buchanan, present incumbent.

The town hall is a brick building on Mill street between Patterson and Dunn. It was formerly a Methodist Episcopal church.

GLENDALE.

The Glendale Monitor for May, 1892, contained a historical sketch of the village by Charles Probasco, from which the following facts are derived: "In 1807 Mr. Hamilton, a very wealthy gentleman of New Orleans, built the house now owned and occupied by Mr. Igler, just west of Glendale, on the Hamilton pike, for a sum- mer residence. About fifty-five years ago it was kept by Thomas Drake as a tavern. and was after that owned by Maj. Joseph Harris, who at one time owned a large tract of land west of the pike, including the farm of Mrs. French. The first tavern was kept by Andrew Van Dyke in 1812. It stood just west of the toll-gate. Mrs. Hefner some time afterwards built a brick tavern, where Mrs. Samuel Allen's place now is. *

"The founders of Glendale were several gentlemen wishing to build themselves summer residences. They determined to select a place somewhere between Hamil- ton and Cincinnati, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, which was just being built, and they finally decided on the property where Glendale stands. The following gentlemen were interested in the movement, and became, under the name of the Glendale Association, the proprietors of the village: George Carlisle, S. S. L'Hommedieu, Fenton Lawson, Anthony Harkness, Samuel Fosdick, Henry Clark, Robert Crawford, William Burnett, Edmund R. Glenn, and Lewis Worthington, as well as a few others. In 1851 this association was organized, and was incorporated as a village under the laws of Ohio March 13, 1855. The association bought of E. R. Glenn, John Riddle, J. Watson and others, about six hundred acres of land, which was subdivided into lots and laid out into streets and parks by R. C. Phillips, a civil engineer of Cincinnati. The subdivision is known as Crawford's and Clark's Subdivision of Glendale, so called because the trustees of the association were Craw- ford and Clark. There were only four residences on the property when it was laid out, one of which was that of E. R. Glenn, and one that of James Glenn, which stood where the residence of Mrs. B. D. Bartlett is, and whichi, owing to its being so fine, many years ago was called Castle Warwick. The first lot, the one where A. G. Clark lives, was sold to Henry Clark at a premium of $500, which seems very

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dear, when we think that John Cleves Symmes bought the land, including Glendale, September, 1794. for sixty-six and two-third cents per acre. The lot where the schoolhouse stands is lot No. 57 of the above subdivision."

The design of the promoters of the village has been abundantly realized. It is- certainly one of the most beautiful suburbs of Cincinnati. The plat was made to con- form to the configuration of the lands, with no attempt at geometrical regularity. Sharon avenue, it is true, passes through the plat in a direct east and west course, in- tersected at right angles by Congress avenue, while there are subdivisions adjacent to the original plat which conform to the conventional type, but the avenues of the Crawford & Clark subdivision present almost every variety of curve known to the mathematician. To the uninitiated this is somewhat confusing, but to the residents- it presents no difficulties, and is more than compensated by the added beauty and the park-like aspect which it renders possible. An artificial lake with an area of several acres and several small parks are also among the attractions of the place.

The Glendale Lyceum is an outgrowth of the Circulating Book Club (organized in 1880), and of the Library Association of Glendale, which secured quarters, at first over Mr. Bruce's store and subsequently in the Town hall. The Lyceum was incorporated October 8, 1883. The constitution was adopted October 18, 1883, and amended November 7, 1885; membership is limited to residents of Glendale and its. vicinity within a radius of three miles. The Lyceum building is a handsome brick structure, of which the corner stone was laid July 4, 1891. It was erected under the supervision of a building committee composed of Samuel Bailey, Jr., chairman; Jos- eph H. Feemster, secretary ; Robert Clarke, treasurer; William A. Proctor, and Charles W. Withenbury. The architect was H. Neill Wilson, of Pittsfield, Mass., and the contractor was Isaac Graveson. The main hall is 40 x 50, with a large stage and appropriate dressing rooms. The library, according to the report for January, 1893, consisted of 2800 volumes, while the museum presents a rich and interesting collec- tion of mineralogical, archaeological, and other specimens and curios. The Lyceum was formally opened February 22, 1892, when Judge Joseph Cox delivered the dedi- catory address. Judge Samuel F. Hunt was the orator at the laying of the corner stone.

Glendale was incorporated as a village May 22, 1855. The first election occurred on the 13th of August following, when George Crawford was chosen mayor, Samuel J. Thompson, recorder, and Samuel Fosdick, Ezra Elliott, C. Deitrick, B. Roberts, and Stanley Matthews, trustees. The number of voters was fifty-six. Benjamin Sterrett was the first village treasurer. The succession of mayors has been as follows: George Crawford, 1855-56; Anthony Harkness, 1857; Warner M. Bateman, 1858; William B .. Moores, 1859; Cyrus Knowlton, 1861; I. D. W. Jennings, 1862; Clinton Kirby, 1862; Warner M. Bateman, 1862; Samuel J. Thompson, 1864; Stanley Mat- thews, 1866; Samuel T. Crawford, 1868; R. M. Shoemaker, 1869; Samuel T. Craw- ford, 1869; T. J. Haldeman, 1874; R. W. Keys, 1874; Samuel A. McCune, 1876; Florien Giauque, 1882; Thomas Spooner, 1884; Henry B. McClure, 1888. The village building was erected in 1871, and the town hall in 1875.

The Glendale water supply is derived from artesian wells. The work of laying mains was begun September 26, 1892, but water was not supplied to private con- sumers until June, 1893. Analysis of the water shows almost entire freedom from deleterious elements.

The first postmaster was John C. Wolfe, appointed October 7, 1852. The postal designation at that time was Fosdick, which was changed to Glendale November 28, 1854.

WYOMING.

At the time of its incorporation, July 20, 1870, Wyoming consisted of the fol- lowing subdivisions: The subdivision of the estate of John Oliver, by Milton Cooper,

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his executor, dated and acknowledged March 14, 1855; the subdivision of W. G. Pendery, trustee of lot No. 3 of the subdivision of Alexander Pendery, dated and acknowledged May 14, 1869; the subdivision of the lands of Isaac B. Riddle, recorded July 27, 1858; the subdivision of the estate of Robert Reily, recorded June 16, 1866; the subdivision of the lands of Alexander Pendery, Sr., recorded June 19, 1869; the subdivision of the estate of Thomas Wilmuth; the subdivision of the Burns farm, by J. T. Wilson, and the town of Greenwood.

In his History of Mill Creek Valley, Henry B. Teetor states that the name was selected at a meeting held April 4, 1861, at the residence of Col. Robert Reily. This meeting was held in pursuance of the following invitation :

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 67

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson Number of Pages: 1592

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1592