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John Morrison was the first house-carpenter, and Philip Willyard, Andrew Sweeny, and Hugh Brannon the first to make rye whisky.
ORGANIZATION.
Franklin was organized in 1816, and contained thirty-six sections, or a supposed area of six miles square. In 1832, upon the erection of Carroll County, Franklin was shorn of three rows of sections on the west, and at the same time re- ceived an addition on the east of one row of sections, which were taken from Wayne township, leaving the present limits of Franklin comprised within an area measuring four miles wide by six in length, and containing twenty-four sections.
The first poll-book was made out in 1816 by James B. Morrison, who was at the first township election chosen to the office of constable.
The existing township records do not antedate 1848. Between that year and 1879 the trustees, clerks, and treas- urers of Franklin have been as follows :
1848 .- Trustees, Robert Johnston, John Anderson, Jas. Roach ; Clerk, Daniel Willyard ; Treasurer, Thos. J. Huston.
1849 .- Trustees, Jas. Roach. Jas. H. Johnston, Jacob Custard ; Clerk, Jas. McAuley ; Treasurer, Jas. B. Hull.
1850 .- Trustees, John McQuilkin, William Wallace, William Linn ; Clerk, Jas. McAuley; Treasurer, Jas. B. Hull.
1851 .- Trustees, Jos. Rodgers, Patterson Coupland, William Linn; Clerk, Wm. Hays ; Treasurer, Jas. B. Hull.
1852 .- Trustees, Jos. Rodgers, Patterson Coupland, Hugh Laughlin ; Clerk, Wm. Hays; Treasurer, Jas. B. Hull.
1853 .- Trustees, Jas. II. Johnston, Charles Heckathorn, Jonathan Brown ; Clerk, Daniel Morgan ; Treasurer, Jas. B. Hull. 1854 .- Trustees, J. H. Johnston, Jonathan Brown, J. McQuilkin ; Clerk, Daniel Morgan ; Treasurer, Jas. B. Hull.
1855 .- Trustees, William Sweeney, Hugh Laughlin, J. H. Johnston ; Clerk, Jonathan Niswonger; Treasurer, Wm. McQuilkin.
1856 .- Trustees, Wmn. Sweeney, Hugh Laughlin, J. J. Coupland ; Clerk, Jonathan Niswonger ; Treasurer, Wm. MeQuilkin. 1857 .- Trustees, J. J. Coupland, Wm. Linn, Francis Matthews; Clerk, J. Niswonger; Treasurer, Wm. McQuilkin.
1858 .- Trustees, Win. Linn, Francis Matthews, Benj. McKerrens; Clerk, Daniel Morgan ; Treasurer, Wm. Laughlin.
1859 .- Trustees, Jas. H. Johnston, Patterson Coupland, J. McQuil- kin; Clerk, James Phillips; Treasurer, Wm. Laughlin. 1860 .- Trustees, J. H. Johnston, Patterson Coupland, J. McQuilkin ; Clerk, J. Niswonger; Treasurer, P. Rogers. 1861-62 .- Trustees, Peter Smith, Daniel Carey, Wm. R. Laughlin ; Clerk, J. Niswonger ; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1863-64 .- Trustees, Martin Doyle, Francis Matthews, Wm. Sweeney ; Clerk, J. Niswonger; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1865-66 .- Trustees, Jas. H. Johnston, Wmn. Linn, Jacob Custard; Clerk, J. Niswonger; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1867-68 .- Trustees, Daniel Carey, Peter Smith, Wm. Laughlin ; Clerk, J. Niswonger ; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1869-70 .- Trustees, Peter Smith, Wm. H. Johnston, Chas. Haessley ; Clerk, J. Niswonger ; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1871-72 .- Trustees, Francis Matthews, David Lockard, Martin Doyle; Clerk, J. Niswonger ; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1873 .- Trustees, Patrick Logan, J. J. Coupland, Peter Smith ; Clerk, Robert Johnston ; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1874 .- Trustees, Patrick Logan, J. J. Coupland, Peter Smith ; Clerk, J. Mulherin ; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1875 .- Trustees, Edward McAllister, D. Lockard, F. Matthews; Clerk, J. Mulherin ; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1876 .- Trustees, Edward McAllister; D. Lockard, F. Matthews; Clerk, R. Johnston ; Treasurer, P. Rogers.
1877 .- Trustees, P. Crissenger, A. Haessley, J. Hays; Clerk, R. Johnston ; Treasurer, J. Lindesmith.
1878 .- Trustees, A. Haessley, J. Niswonger, John Hays; Clerk, Wm. R. Linn; Treasurer, J. Lindesmith.
1879 .- Trustees, J. Niswonger, P. Gallagher, Henry Norris; Clerk, Wm. R. Linn; Treasurer, J. Lindeswith.
VILLAGES.
Franklin has two villages,-Summitville and Millport,- both of which are stations on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, and postal stations as well, but neither is incor- porated.
SUMMITVILLE
was laid out in March, 1853, by Peter Friedt, and so named because the site upon which it rests was supposed to be the highest point of elevation between the waters of the Sandy and Luke Erie. An excellent outlying agri- cultural region provides the place with a substantial although small mercantile trade, which comprises the aggregate of its business interests.
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MILLPORT,
nearly two miles farther north on the railway, was laid out in January, 1853, by Philip Willyard and Hugh Laughlin. The place was originally known as Franklin, but, confusion frequently arising from its similarity to Franklin Square, in Salem township, the name was changed to Millport, as sig- nificant of the presence at that point of a grist-mill and su w-mill.
Patrick O'Hear, who owned the northeast quarter of section 15, laid out a town there in 1833, and called it TEMPLE HILL, but he failed to persuade purchasers into the enterprise, which never came to anything.
CHURCHES.
BETHESDA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHI.
Bethesda church was organized about 1821, previous to which time there was Presbyterian preaching in the town- ship by Rev. Clement Vullandigham, Jumes Robertson, and others, chiefly in the barn and residence of Hugh Linn.
Mr. Vallandigham preached about a year, and after him Mr. Robertson, who organized the church. Among the original members of the church were the Kings, Andersons, McKaigs, McQuilkins, Linns, Morrisons, Mesgers, Donald- sons, Flemings, and Cumerons. The early records of the church being lost, much of interest in connection with its early history is unobtainable.
The first church-edifice was built in 1822 near where the present church stands, the latter having been erected in 1855.
The first elders of the church were Patrick McKaig, John Cameron, John Morrison, and Hugh King, and the first stated pastor Rev. James Robertson. His successors were Revs. Joshua Beer, J. B. Graham ( Robertson for a second term), Robert Johnson, Robert Dickson, Wm. Dalzell, David Miller, Jos. E. Carson, John R. Dundas, J. B. Miller, and B. M. Price, the latter being the pastor June 1, 1879, when the church had a membership of 230 and was highly prosperous.
The church had June 1, 1837, a membership of ninety- two, and added that year thirteen ; in 1838 the additions were twenty-two; in 1839 they were eighteen ; eleven in 1840; eleven in 1841; thirteen in 1842; fourteen in 1843; and seventeen in 1844.
The present elders are J. J. Coupland, Robert King, Benjamin Crosser, Robert Withrow, Jonathan Niswonger, and Jas. Roach.
ST. JOHN'S (CATHOLIC) CHURCH.
Catholic worship in Franklin was held as early as 1838, in a church built upon the McAllister place, near the northern line of the township. It was known as the McAllister church, and was attended by Catholics from the townships of Franklin, Hanover, and Centre. Later, when the Catholics of Franklin worshiped near Summitville, the church at the north was taken down, and a new church built by the congregation in Hanover township.
In 1845 a log house-originally built for a store, near the site of the present Catholic church at Summitville- was purchased by the Catholics of Franklin, and there and then St. John's church was established, as a mission-point
where the preachers stationed at the church in the north held occasional services.'
In 1848 a fine brick church-building was erected, at a cost of about $10,000, and, the congregation having by that time grown apace, a priest was stationed at that point, and since then the church has flourished and remained a regular station.
The first pastor was Rev. James Conlon, and after him Revs. Thos. Kennedy, Francis Stoker, Michael Prende- grast, Thos. Welsh, D. Tighe, P. J. McGuire, D. A. Kelly, and E. J. Murphy, the latter being in charge June 1, 1879, when the congregation included sixty-five families.
FRIENDS' MEETING-HOUSE.
About 1818, there being in the township quite a nun- ber of " Friends," a log meeting-house was built in that part now included within the limits of East township, in Carroll County. Among the leading members in the or- ganization were Richard and John Buttin, Steven McBride, Jr., Isaiah Williams, and Mordecai Saunders. The Friends ยท worshiped there severa. years, but removals from the town- ship thinned the ranks of the society and led to its eventual dissolution.
SCHOOLS.
James Barr was the first school-teacher known to Frank- lin. He taught in 1812, in a round-log school-house built by the settlers upon section 2, which was then government land. Mathew McGuin, thinking the school-house worth securing for himself, entered section 2, and the inhabitants were thus deprived of their temple of learning. McGuin tried to sell it to them, but they refused to encourage his speculative propensities, and so built a second school-house, on Wm. Laughlin's farm. This was destroyed by fire shortly afterwards, and a third house was erected, near the same spot.
Wm. Kneppert and Patrick Smith taught there, and, without being remarkable, for the day and place were highly esteemed as pedagogues and men of learning. One dollar and a half was the cost per quarter for scholars in those days, and twenty-five pupils the usual number gathered at one time, so that a teacher's pay then was not what would now be regarded as a very extravagant compensation.
Four district schools now provide educational advan- tages for the youth of Franklin, and serve, as is incidental to the present excellent school-system, a useful and valuable purpose.
One hundred and fifty-six pupils are enrolled at the schools, as follows : 37 at No. 1, 21 at No. 2, 70 at No. 3, 28 at No. 4. The teachers in June, 1879, were J. H. Norris, C. H. Mason, Chas. Mulherin, and R. A. Carey.
Franklin has also a fractional school-district, whence the pupils go to school in Wayne township.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
Franklin township is eminently an agricultural region, and has within its borders no manufacturing interest of importance.
Hugh MeLaughlin built a grist-mill at Millport in 1853, and, passing from Mclaughlin to the hands of Daniel Mc- Garry and James Hagan, the mill fell in 1875 to the pos-
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HISTORY OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO.
session of Chain & Lindesmith, whose successor, Jacob Lindesmith, took charge of it in December, 1878, and still operates it. It is run by steam, has two run of buhrs, with a capacity for making twenty-five barrels of flour daily, and derives a profitable line of custom-work from the neigh- boring country. John Willyard started a small tannery in 1830, upon the place where he now lives, and since that time has carried it on uninterruptedly. Patterson Coupland had a small tannery at an early day, but it was discontinued a long time ago. Besides the industries named, Franklin has none but Thomas Mckerren's steam saw-mill at Mill- port. The Ohio & Pennsylvania Coal Company operate a small coal-mine at a point on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, near the Washington line. Oil has been sought at this point, but without success.
POST-OFFICES.
The first post-office established in Franklin was called Hastingsville, and occupied the place on section 27 now owned by the estate of R. Hull. The postmasters there were John Sanders and James B. Hull, and in 1852, when the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad was completed, the
office was transferred to Summitville, where Patrick Rogers was the first postmaster. After him John M. Stewart and John Mulherin held the office, and Mr. Rogers, returning, has since been the postmaster.
The first postmaster at Millport, formerly called Franklin, was James Smith, whose successor was Mary Tannis, to whom succeeded John W. Fife, the present incumbent.
CEMETERIES.
The first grave-yard in the township was the family burial- ground of William Laughlin, who laid it out on his farm, where Mr. Campbell now lives. After a while Mr. Laughlin gave the ground to public use, and a score, perhaps, of graves were dug there. No stones ever marked the places of burial, for grave-stones were not easily obtainable in the pioneer duys. There have been no burials there for many years, and, although the graves have been undisturbed, the spot is overgrown with herbage, and presents no traces of the purpose for which it was originally designed. There are now in the township three cemeteries,-one at Bethesda church, one at the Catholic church, and one on the north, near the Wayne line, where a Catholic church once stood.
HANOVER.
THE township of Hanover, numbered 15, in range 4, is one of the townships of Columbiana which still retain the originally fixed territory of six miles square. It is bounded on the north by Butler township, on the south by Franklin township and Carroll County, on the east by Centre town- ship, and on the west by West township.
Within its limits are five villages, to wit, Hanover, New Garden, Gillford, Dungannon, and Kensington, the latter being a station on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, which crosses the southwest corner of the township.
The surface of the country is undulating, and to the eye of the tourist offers many inviting prospects.
Hanover, with the townships of Knox, Butler, and West, forms a portion of the " divide" between the waters of the Ohio and those of Lake Erie. The altitude of the valley reaches five hundred feet above the lake level, and still above the valley rise numerous hills, in height varying from one hundred to two hundred feet.
Coal is plentiful in this region, but is not mined except for home demand, the greater part of the coal mined being taken out at Kensington depot.
The west fork of the Little Beaver Creek flows through the township southward along the eastern border, and emerges at section 25. The climate is healthful and invig- orating, and, particularly among the hills, is conducive to extreme longevity.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
In 1802, Wm. Winder, afterwards, in 1810, a member of the Society of Friends, moved from Virginia, with his
wife and seven children, into Columbiana Co., Ohio, and set- tled in East Fairfield. Thence, in 1806, he passed over to Hanover township, and located upon a tract of land in sec- tion 33, now occupied by Mrs. Isabella McAllister. Winder resided there until his death, in 1828. Of his children, Benjamin, a worthy and prominent member of the Society of Friends, resides near Hanover village, in his eighty- second year; Rachel Arnold, a daughter, aged ninety, lives in Washington Co., Ohio; and in Carroll County reside Joseph and William, two sons. Mr. Winder's land was entered by John Edgar, who was, however, not a settler.
Winder had no near neighbors on the south ; his nearest was Andrew Milburn, of Virginia, who located near where the railroad station at Kensington stands. Milburn was a doctor, shoemaker, carpenter, and farmer, and quite a use- ful man in the settlement.
Wm. Rhodes, also of Virginia, was a settler upon sec- tion 32, and occupied a farm now the property of Nathan John. . Samuel Reeder lived on section 33, near Wm. Winder; and next east of the latter, Benjamin Stack- house was a settler upon property now occupied by the widow of Cassimer Gaus.
The only settlers in his neighborhood, when William Winder located in Hanover, were Stackhouse, Milburn, and Rhodes; the others, named and to be named, came in directly thereafter.
Joseph Rhodes, a son of William Rhodes, settled in what is Kensington, near the depot. Stephen McBride settled in 1806, or perhaps 1805, upon the present farm of Perry Firestone, close to the Friends meeting-house, which
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MR. EDWARD MURRAY.
MRS. EDWARD MURRAY.
EDWARD MURRAY.
Edward Murray, son of Jonas Murray, was born in Ireland in 1797. His father, wishing to try his fortune in America, came from Ireland, in 1800, with his wife and seven children. The vessel upon which they embarked was of but three hundred tons burden, but carried seven hundred passengers, and al- though crowded wellnigh to suffocation, there was no sickness among the people. The voyage was made in the then excellent time of four weeks, and the wan- derers toward the New World landed in New York, filled with ambitious hopes touching a happy future. Jonas settled in Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1815, when (being induced by his sister, Mrs .. Edward Carroll, whose husband had sailed from Ireland with the Murrays, and settled in Liverpool- then St. Clair-township in 1801) he passed over to Columbiana County, and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in Hanover township. Mr. Mur- ray was an industrious man. When he came into this county there was little land cleared, and willing hands and hearts of steel were required to fell the large tim- ber that existed where now can be seen the pleasant farms and homes of comfort. Neighbors were few, and social and educational advantages were limited ; but he went to work with a will and cleared his farm in good style. By industry and good management he succeeded in surrounding himself with the comforts and beauties of life. He carried on farming here until his death, which occurred in 1826.
Mr. Jonas Murray's family consisted of eight children, viz., John, Joseph, Jacob, Valentine, Ed- ward, Ann, Jonas, and Margery; seven of these were born in Ireland and one in America. Of this large family three only are living,-Jonas, Margery, and Edward. Jonas Murray, Jr., now occupies the farm settled by his father.
Edward Murray (who inserts this sketch) in his early life assisted his father as a farmer, meanwhile receiving such education as the schools in that lo- cality afforded; has spent his life up to this time in the same occupation. On the 1st of December, 1844, Edward Murray married Ann, daughter of John Thomas. On the 1st of August, 1878, Mrs. Mur- ray died. She was a kind and affectionate wife, beloved by all who knew her.
In political affiliation Mr. Murray was formerly a Democrat, but has for some time voted the Republican ticket. He has never been elected to any office, because he was never an office-seeker.
At the age of eighty-two Mr. Murray is still living, bearing upon his face the evidence of a life well spent and of duty well done, and the conscious- ness within that he has performed his allotted task on the stage of life with honor to himself and credit to his friends. His life is a fitting exemplar to the young of how many and great things can be ac- complished by honesty of purpose and stability of character.
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TOWNSHIP OF HANOVER.
Mr. McBride was chiefly instrumental in erecting. Philip Fox, of Pennsylvania, settled in Washingtonville in 1803, and in 1805 entered a quarter upon section 27, to which he removed in 1807. There Samuel Fox, Philip's son, still living. near Hanover, was born. Adjoining Fox on the east was John Rupert, a German, who, upon his arrival in Baltimore from Germany, being unable to pay his pas- sage-money, was sold by the captain of the vessel to a person who, in consideration of receiving Rupert's services free for the ensuing three years, paid the captain's demand. Rupert lived in Hanover until his death, after reaching the age of one hundred years. The farm he owned is now owned by C. Pfeffer, in section 26. Northeast of Fox was Philip Andrew, of Pennsylvania, and on the south lived David Wyley, of Pennsylvania, upon a place now occupied by Lewis Brinker. Where Thomas Niles now lives, in section 27, James Armstrong was an early settler.
In 1805, John Sinclair, of Virginia, and Frederick Bayard, of Pennsylvania (esteemed in his day a great hunter), entered the northeast quarter of section 20. In 1806 they sold their interest-after having settled upon the land-to Griffith John, a Quaker, who, with his wife and seven children, moved in from Pennsylvania in 1807 and took possession of his purchase. Twenty-four acres of the tract were retained by Bayard, and that portion is now owned by Ruth Reeder. John Sinclair removed to the west side of the township, upon the place now owned by Levi Couser, and lived there until his death. When Griffith John took possession, he found upon the place a log cabin, 14 by 16, that had been erected by Sinclair; and this cubin, with the bed of the wagon, long served Mr. John and his family as a place of habitation.
Mr. John's neighbors were few and far between. John James lived where John Speidel now resides, near Hanover- ton. Joseph Milner, who lived upon the present site of Hanoverton, was from Virginia. He sold the property to James Craig,* who, in 1808, luid out the village of Hanover upon the street running north and south. In 1807 the place now occupied by the village was a maple grove, and in the winter of that year was a great sugar-camp. At that time there was no public highway near at hand save the road from New Lisbon to Canton, and nothing but woods upon every side and everywhere. Bears, wolves, and deer were plentiful, and between clearing land, hunting deer, and trying to keep their stock from being eaten by savage beasts the settlers had their hands full.
Enos Ellis, in 1806, was an early settler west of Han- overton, and so was the Jas. Craig already alluded to, who, in 1807, located, with his father, William, upon a tract now occupied by Mr. Campbell, just west of Hanoverton. He purchased, in 1808, of Joseph Milner, the northwest quar- ter of section 28, laid out the village of Hanover upon the New Lisbon road, and, with others, organized a stock com- pany to start a store, of which Craig was the manager. The company was known as the Manufacturers' and Mer- cantile Company of Sandy. The store-building stood where Mrs. Jessie Sloan now lives. Craig built also a saw-mill, which stood near where the Disciples church now
stands. The grist-mill built by him at the same time, near the same place, was abandoned about 1837. The old mill- building may still be seen, however, in Hanoverton. Geo. Brown, of whom mention has been made, occasionally prac- ticed the art of " leeching;" was elected to the Legislature in 1812; was for many years a justice of the peace, and was, to the day of his death, regarded in the community with much esteem. Ilis son Harmon, who settled on a farm next east of his father's, was, in his day, reputed to be the most skillful teamster in the township, and performed many extended and remarkable journeys.
Jonas Murray came over from Ireland in 1800, with his wife and seven children, upon a small vessel of 300 tons' burthen, upon which there were 700 passengers, and, al- though the number sorely crowded the ship, there was no sickness aboard, and, as a fact of interesting remembrance, the trip to New York was made in the quick time of four weeks. Mr. Murray settled in Pennsylvania, but, being induced, in 1815, by his sister, Mrs. Edward Carroll,-whose husband had come over with the Murrays and located in Liverpool (or St. Clair) township about 1800,-he removed to Co- Jumbiana County, and settled in Hanover township, upon section 10, where his son Jonas now resides. Edward Carroll, above referred to, settled in Hanover shortly after 1804, upon the northwest quarter of section 1, and, late in life removing to Wellsville, Ohio, died there. Of Jonas Murray's children, Edward and Jonas, and Mrs. Jas. Gra- ham are now living near New Garden.
Upon the place now occupied by Edward Murray, Thos. Ball, of Pennsylvania, was a settler in 1814, and resided in the township until his death. Isaac Jackson, who came also in 1814, located upon the place now occupied by Dr. Teegarden, both Jackson and Ball being upon section 9. Dozier Courtney settled upon section 3, where Mary, a widow of one of his sons, now lives.
Thomas Griswold, a Quaker preacher, was one of the earliest to settle in Hanover, and located as early as 1806 upon the place now occupied by Francis Blythe. His son Joseph voted at the first township election, and was a jus- tice of the peace a long time. Jolin Farmer and his grand- father, Joseph Jones, Quakers, from Georgia, settled in Hanover, near New Garden, in 1804, and in 1812 or '14 removed to Salineville, Washington township.
Nathan (a tanner), Thomas, and James Galbraith, leading members of the Society of Friends, were among the very early settlers, and located north of New Garden in 1804. They died in the township, but have therein to-day no near descendants. Elias Mash settled upon section 9, and, after- wards selling his land to Charles Pope, moved away. Pope was a storekeeper at Hanover village, and one day sensation- alized the community by cutting his throat. Aaron Men- denhall, who located upon the place where John Blythe now resides, was an early settler, but passed soon afterwards to Carroll County, where he died.
Daniel Rigby located, in 1810, upon section 16, and had the farm now occupied by John Cope. Daniel's son James was, one day in 1813, away from home, and hearing, as he thought, a report of the threatened approach of hostile sav- ages upon the settlement, he set out as fast as he could for home, and excitedly announced that a great band of Indians
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