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"PROPOSALS FOR CARRYING MAILS."
Leave Norton by Claridon, Bucyrus, Sherman, Oxford and Perkins to Sandusky City, once a week 80 miles.
"Leave Norton every Saturday at noon, and ar- rive at Sandusky City by Monday at 6 p. m.
"Leave Sandusky City every Tuesday at 6 a. m., and arrive at Norton the next Thursday at noon."
Thus, the first regular mail arrived in Bucy- rus on a government schedule of 80 miles in 54 hours, and it can be imagined that the en- tire village turned out to greet the first arrival and hold a jollification over the important event, and Zalmon Rowse and Merriman and
Norton were the envy of their neighbors when the driver of the coach accepted drinks at their expense, and condescended to converse with them as equals, and every small boy inwardly resolved that when he became a man the height of his ambition would be reached if he could only become the driver of a stage coach.
This stage route was from Columbus to Norton, to Marion, to Bucyrus; then to Sher- man (now Weaver's Corners 15 miles south- west of Norwalk); then to Oxford (now Bloomingville nine miles northwest of Nor- walk), and to Perkin and Sandusky City.
A year later, in September, 1824, John Kil- bourne commenced his advocacy of a turnpike over about this same road from Columbus to the lake, one so constructed that it would be "navigable" at all seasons of the year. In an article in the Columbus Gazette of Sept. 23, 1824, he says that the freight rate from New York to Sandusky City is $1.75 per hundred weight (112 pounds), and that if a pike road were built from Sandusky to Columbus, goods could be shipped from New York to Colum- bus, at $2.75 per cwt., which is but a fraction over one-half what we now pay from Phila- delphia to Columbus. He then adds :
"Besides, this northern route would be the quickest, thus,
"To Sandusky ... 126 miles, as the road goes 3 days
"Buffalo .250 miles 2 days
"Albany . .300 miles 3 days
"New York. 144 miles 1 day
"Philadelphia 90 miles 1 day
910 miles 10 days
"And that for only about $40 expense, in- cluding carriage and tavern bills. I know this is correct as I went this route myself."
Ten days from Columbus to New York, and this Mr. Kilbourne says was the "quick- est" route. Three days from Columbus to Sandusky indicates the stages through Bucy- rus did not travel the road after night, but made their journey only during daylight when the driver could pick his way over the road and dodge the tree stumps which might wreck the coach.
Prior to 1826 Bucyrus had a mail coming from Bellefontaine once a week, through Lit- tle Sandusky. A man named Snyder was the carrier, and he made the trip on horseback, but sometimes when the road was particularly bad,
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he made the entire journey on foot, with the land county part, Hibner's mill, northwest of mail sack swung over his shoulder. Prior to the weekly stage line from Columbus to San- dusky the man who carried the mail when he reached Bucyrus, found the road to the north so impassable that he left his horse at Bucyrus, shouldered his mail sack, and made the trip to Sandusky and back on foot. Mail delivered at Bucyrus at that time included all the settlers within a radius of probably eight or ten miles from that village. In 1826 there was but one post office in that part of the county which is now Crawford county, and that was at Bucyrus; in what was then the Richland county part of Crawford county there was a post office at Galion and at Tiro (three miles north of the present Tiro). In that part of Crawford which in 1844 became Wyandot county there were post offices at Upper Sandusky and Little Sandusky.
These were the roads and their condition, the post offices and their locations, when the county was organized in 1826. There was but one village in the present Crawford county, Bucyrus ; one settlement in the Richland county part. Galleon, located at the crossing of the two roads, with half a dozen houses, a settle- ment which thrived and prospered until the present Galion was laid out in 1832 when the buildings at the Corners gradually became de- serted and crumbled to decay, and when 50 years later the territory of the original settle- ment became a part of Galion, but one house was standing on what was in early days one of the two business centres of the county.
The only stores in the present county were at Bucyrus, those of E. B. Merriman, Henry St. John and Samuel Bailey, or his successors Bowers & French; there were several shops at Bucyrus, and two or three at the Corners at Galleon; there were three distilleries, all in the Richland county part ; one ran by John Adrian, near where Leesville now is ; another by Nathan Merriman, near Galleon, and the third by James Nail, on the Whetstone, southwest of Galleon. There had been a distillery run by McMichael & Rogers on the banks of the San- dusky, the site of the present electric light works, but it had been discontinued. Carey had a grist mill in Bucyrus, and the McMichael mill was a mile up the river, while a mile south west on the Sandusky was the mill of Willian Young. The other grist mills were in the Rich-
Galleon, where the C. C. & C. road now crosses a branch of the Olen Tangy, Hosford, Park, Sharrock and Nail had mills along the Whet- stone. There were saw mills in many of the townships along the various streams. There was a Methodist and a Baptist church in Au- burn township (then Richland county), but no church yet erected in the Crawford county part; there was a log school house in Bucyrus, one in the Blowers settlement, Liberty town- ship, and one in Auburn township. There were taverns at Bucyrus, one at the northeast corner of Sandusky and Perry, run by Robert More, while across Sandusky avenue on the Carey lot was a tavern kept by Samuel Roth, who was also Justice of the Peace. At the Corners (Galleon) William Hosford had a tavern, and there were several houses along the main roads, not exactly taverns but recognized as places for the entertainment of travelers.
The following is the estimated population of the county in 1826; also the populations in 1830 and 1840. The population of 1826 is esti- mated at one-half of the official population of 1830, and is probably a very close and fair estimate :
1826.
1830.
1840.
Craw- ford.
Wyan- dot.
Craw- ford.
Wyan- dot.
Craw- ford.
Wyan- dot.
Antrim
70
139
61
200
Bucyrus
463
724
1654
Centre
. ..
..
. ..
32
100
Chatfield
. . .
112
680
Crawford
499
275
812
Holmes
202
744
Jackson
...
. ..
636
Liberty
372
655
.. .
1469
Lykins
.. .
...
. . .
742
Pitt
92
184
423
Sandusky
346
579
679
...
Sycamore
22
150
44
300
200
758
Tymochtee
724
1659
Whetstone
375
750
. .
1124
Totals, old
Crawford
1578
811
3156
1622
8899
4268
Auburn,
Richland Co.
136
272
...
680
Sandusky,
Richland Co. 143
385
977
....
Vernon,
Richland Co. 139
278
...
693
Scott,
Marion Co ...
66
112
. ..
285
....
Tully,
Marion Co ...
47
97
...
290
....
Totals, pres-
ent Crawford 2109
. ..
4300
11824
....
..
...
...
....
. .
. .
. .
.. .
. .
....
-
...
. ..
878
Cranberry
.. .
...
...
....
....
Mifflin
316
....
..
90
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It will be seen by the above that the esti- mated population of Crawford county when it was authorized to organize as a county, was 2,389, of which 1,578 were in the Crawford county part, and 811 in the Wyandot section. In 1830 the population was 4,778, of these 3,156 being the Crawford part and 1,622 Wy- andot. In 1840 the population was 13,167, Crawford having 8,899 and Wyandot 4,268.
The Richland and Marion county figures at the bottom give the population of those sec- tions that are now a part of the present county, so the long columns are the population of the present Crawford county at the three dates given.
Since the present county was formed in 1845, and as constituted, the population at each succeeding census has been as follows :
1850
95I
1072 3543
910
II76
1890 I244 6988
1174 1161
Bucyrus
.2315
. 135I
I430
I247
I266
I201
1304
II29
Cranberry
1042 1339
406
370
500
430
1423
1500
I233
1815-William Green
1815-Samuel S. Green
1815-Walter Green
1820-Benjamin Griffith
1822-George Hammond 1819-Samuel Hanna 1821-Seth Hawks
1820-Harvey Hoadley
1822-Aaron B. Howe
1822-Nelson S. Howe 1818-Daniel Hulse
1818-Palmer Hulse 1826-William Johns
1820-Erastus Kellogg
1822-Jesse Ladow
1818-William Laugherty
1822-Richard Millar
1814 Jedediah Morehead
1818-David C. Morris
1817-David Morrow
1817-Charles Morrow
203 178 II5 1817-James Morrow 1820-Rodolphus Morse
As nearly as can be gathered from pioneer statements and records, the following is a list of those in Crawford county in 1826, with the dates of their first arrival. Those marked with a (§) had been residents and moved away prior to 1826; those marked with a double
*Jackson township was divided in 1873, the township of Jefferson being created.
tDates are the year town was started.
#In the census of 1910, many names were omitted, notably in the first ward. The population in 1910, was several hundred above the United States census figures given in this table.
star ( ** ) had died prior to 1826. Where sev- eral names are given of the same family, they are generally sons who are young men.
AUBURN TOWNSHIP-RICHLAND COUNTY UNTIL 1845. 1819-Adam Aumend
1819-Adam Aumend, Jr. 1826-Enoch Baker
1826-Joseph Baker
1822-David Bender
1821-Jacob Bevard 1821-Ira W. Blair
1821-John Blair
1821-Selden Blair
1818-Jesse Bodley
1818-John Bodley
1818-Lester Bodley
1818-Levi Bodley
1821-Daniel Bunker
1817-Martin Clark
1825-William Cleland
1817-Barnet Cole
1817-William Cole
1816-Jacob Coykendall 1816-David Cummins 1816-John Deardorff
1818-Charles Dewitt
1825-Jonathan Dixon 1820-James Gardner
1820-William Garrison 1820-Michael Gisson
Jackson
17II
3290
4021
3216
3248
3670
4236 802
Liberty
1782
1788
I 597
1679
1591
1566
1342
Lykins
1185
1265
II40
I225
1058
930 8433
883 8019 510
Texas
545
566
566
587
539
516
476
Tod
578
1093
1156
1099
974
882
774
Vernon
1276
1224
980
1038
952
926
722
Whetstone
.1657
1524
1490
1840
1793
1661 1429
Total
. . . . 18177 23881 25556 30583 31927 33915 34036 Cities and villages :
Bucyrus, 18221 1365 2180 3066 3835 5974 6560 8122 Galion,# 183I 589 1966 3523 5635 6326 7282 7214
Crestline, 1852 1487 2279 2848 2911 3282 3807
New Wash'g'n, 1833. 76
22I
273
675
704
177 326
293 298
321
Chatfield, 1840
52
106
198
157
I82
257
200 I55
Leesville, 1829
197
235 320
213
1662
1819 465
1819 469
Dallas
406
Holmes
.1238
1639
1570
I660
Jefferson* . ..
... .
I224
1009
913
Polk 1318
2910 792
4369
6518
658
7200 615
569
824 889
Tiro, 1874
..
65
216
270
N. Robinson, 1861
...
I880
1900 1910
Anburn
7587 9032
Chatfield
4184
5073
I28I
I824
Sandusky 822
665
1819-Frederick Myers
1814-John Pettigon
1817-Henry Reif
1821-Robert Robinson
1825-Abel C. Ross
1825-Daniel W. Ross
1820-Erastus Sawyer 1820-Jacob Snyder
1820-William Snyder
1821-John Sheckler 1820-John Talford
1822-Richard Tucker
1818-Andrew Varnica
1817-John Wadsworth
1822-John Webber
1819-Resolved White
I860 1870
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BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP.
Those marked (§) lived outside the village.
1822-Thomas Adams §
1826-Isaac H. Allen
1825-Moses Arden
1826-George Anmiller §
1826-Henry Babcock
1824-Samuel Bailey
1823-Adam Bair
1825- Adam Bair
1826-Martin Barr
1820-David Beadle §
1820-David Beadle, Jr. §
1820-Michel Beadle §
1826-Edward Billups
1823-John Billups
1824-George Black §
1826-James McClure
1824-John Black §
1826-James McLain
1826-Jacob Bowers
1819-Matthew McMichael §
1825-John Bowman
1823-James Martin
1822-Charles Merriman
1823-John Brown
1822-E. B. Merriman
1823-David Bryant §
1825-Daniel Miller §
1819-Albigence Bucklin §
1823-Harry Miller
1824-Henry Miller §
1825-John Miller
1826-Henry Minich
1822-Robert Moore
1823-Joseph S. Morris §
1826-Abraham Myers
1826-Samuel Myers §
1826-John Nimmon
1819-Samuel Norton
1819-Rensselaer Norton
1821-David Palmer §
1824-Dr. Joseph Pearce
1822-Russell Peck
1825-Horace Pratt
1823-William Reeves
1822-Conrad Rhodes
1822-Ichabod Rogers
1824-John Rogers **
1821-Conrad Roth
1821-Samuel Roth
1823-Heman Rowse § **
1821-Zalmon Rowse §
1825-Jonas Scott
1825-Thomas Scott § 1825-Daniel Seal
1826-Jacob Seigler
1825-Daniel Shroll §
1825-George Shroll §
1825-John Shroll §
1825-William Shroll §
1821-George P. Shultz
1821-Gottleib John Shultz §
1820 -- Sears *
1826-George Sinn §
1826-Eli Slagle
1823-Harry Smith
1826-Joy Sperry
1826-Henry St. John
1826-Charles Stanberg
1826-James C. Steen
1826-David Stein §
1821-William M. Stephenson §
1821-Lewis Stephenson
1825-John Kanzleiter
1822-John Kellogg **
1822-David Kent §
1821-Elisha Kent §
1822-John Kent §
1822-Thaddeus Kent §
1825-Joseph Knott §
1822-Darius Landon §
1822-William Langdon §
1826-George Lauck
1825-Joshua Lewis §
1826-Hugh Long
1823-John Magers §
1826-William V. Marquis §
1826-William Marsh
1826-James Marshall
1822-John Marshall
1822-Dr. Joseph McComb
1825-Bailey McCracken
1822-Elizabeth Bucklin **
1822-Harry Burns
1822-Aaron Cary
1822-Aaron Cary, Jr.
1821-Abel Cary
1822-Lewis Cary
1822-"Old Peter" Cary **
1826-John Caldwell,
1825-Samuel Carl
1821-Amos Clark §
1825-Elihu Dowd
1825-Ebenezer Dowd
1822-John Deardorff **
1826-David Dinwiddie §
1826-Jacob Drake
1823-William Early
1820-Joseph Ensley §
1825-Andrew Failor
1825-Nicholas Failor
1823-Benjamin Fickle §
1823-Jacob Fickle §
1823-Daniel Fickle §
1823-Isaac H. Fickle §
1826-Michael Flick
1824-John Funk
1822-Harris Garton
1821-John S. George §
1825-George Hawk
1826-George Hesser §
1826-Peter Hesser §
1824-Dr. John T. Hobbs
1821-Henry Holmes
1819-Seth Holmes **
1825-James Houston
1825-Thomas Howey §
1825-John H. Morrison
1823-A. L. Shover
1823-Patrick Height
1826-William Hughey
1826-William Hughey, Jr.
1824-John Huhr
1825-Mary Inman
1826-Thomas Johnson
1822-Joseph Umpstead
1825-Benjamin Warner §
1824-Joseph Whitherd
1826-William Bratton
1825-Hugh McCracken
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1825-George Welsh § 1820-Jacob Young § 1820-John Young § 1820-Joseph Young § 1820-William Young § 1820-George Young §
CHATFIELD TOWNSHIP.
1826-William Champion 1824-Oliver Chatfield
1824-Silas Chatfield 1826-David Clute
1824-John Henry
1825-John Robinson
1825-James M. Robinson
1825-William Spanable
1824-George Stuckman
1820-Jacob Whetstone *
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP.
1823- Bergin
1824-Joshua Chilcote
1824-Joshua Chilcote, Jr.
1824 Heathcote Chilcote
1824-James Chilcote
1824-John Chilcote
1824-Nicodemas Chilcote
1826-Aaron Cory
1826-Thomas Cory
1823-Charles Doney
1826-Robert Hilborn
1826-Jacob Lederer
1826-Jacob Lederer, Jr.
1826-Adam G. Lederer
1826-John Lederer
1826-George Myers
1826-Oak Tyndale
DALLAS TOWNSHIP. (Marion County until 1845.)
1820-George H. Busby
1825-David Bibler
1825-James Bibler
1825-George Clark
1825-Andrew Clark
1822-Christian Hoover
1822-William Hoover
1825-William Howe
1823-Jacob King
1820-Isaac Longwell
1820-Peter Longwell
1820-Samuel Line
1825-John Mason
1825-John Mason, Jr.
1825-Joseph Mason
1820-Matthew Mitchell
1824-John McClary 1824-Thomas McClary
1825-Thomas Mason 1822-John Page 1821-Charles Parrish
1821-William Parrish 1824-William Ramey 1824-Jacob Shaffer
1826-Jacob Snyder 1826-John Snyder 1823-Christian Stahley
1822-Daniel Swigart
1820-George Walton
1821-Benjamin Welsh
1821-Madison Welsh
1821-Zachariah Welsh 1823-Benjamin S. Welsh 1820-Charles White
HOLMES TOWNSHIP.
1824-Thomas Alsoph
1821-William Flake
1826-Joel Glover
1821 -- Heaman *
1821-Elisha Holmes
1821-Lyman Holmes
1821-Samuel Holmes
1821-Truman Holmes
1821-Zalmon Holmes
1826-Christian Haish
1826-John Hussey 1824-Samuel Hemminger
1826-Martin Holman
1825-Timothy Kirk **
1823-James Martin
1823-Jonas Martin
1825-Joseph Newell
1825-Daniel Snyder
1826-William Spitzer
JACKSON TOWNSHIP. (Richland County until 1845.)
1824 Elisha Allen
1818-John Benjamin
1823-David Bryant
1820-John Doyle
1824 John Fate
1818-Benjamin Rush
1820-Joseph Russell
1821-Samuel Rutan
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP. (Part of Richland County until 1845.)
1818-John Adrian
1817-Peter Beebout
1816-Jacob Fisher
1817-John S. Griswell
1817-Thomas Ferguson
1825-Samuel Freese
1820-Eli Foglesong
1824-David Dorn
1824-John Hise
1819-Henry Hershner
1819-Jacob Hershner
1819-Michael Hershner
1825-John Hershner
1819-Lewis Leiberger
1818-Daniel Miller
1819-James Nail
1817-Westell Ridgely
1817-Andrew Ridgely
1817-Daniel Ridgely
1817-John Ridgely
1817-William Ridgely
1817-Christian Snyder
1817-Jacob Snyder 1817-Peter Snyder
1824 Jacob Weaver
1826-Daniel Wert
1826-Joseph Wert
1826-Peter Wert
1821-Benjamin Worden
1821-Benjamin F. Worden 1821-Nathan Worden
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LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.
1823-John Anderson 1820-Ralph Bacon 1825-John Bair 1821-John O. Blowers
1822-William Blowers
1823-John Chandler
1823-Joseph Chandler
1825-James Clingan
1825-John Clingan
1823-Asa Cobb
1823-Dudley Cobb
1821-Christian Couts
1823-Israel Dorland
1823-Garrett Dorland
1823-James Dorland
1823-Luke Dorland
1822-Robert Foster
1824-John H. Fry
1823-Jacob Gurwell
1825-James S. Gurwell
1825-Edward Hartford
1826-David Hawk
1825-John Helm
1825-Pres Hilliard
1821-William Huff
1824 William Huff
1825-Daniel Ketchum
1825-Daniel Kimble
1824-Richard King
1824-John Kroft
1824-William Little
1823-Benjamin Manwell
1823-Horatio Markley
1823-Matthias Markley
1821-Thomas McClure
1823-James McCurdy
1819-Daniel McMichael *
1821-John Maxfield
1823-William Moderwell
1825-Alex A. Mccullough
1826-James McMannes
1822-Simeon Parcher
1826-Samuel Peterman
1826-John Peterman 1826-Isaac Rice
1823-Thomas Scott
1825-Daniel Shellhammer
1826-Abraham L. Shivers
1825-Andrew Shreck
1825-John Slifer
1826-Isaac Slater
1823- Samuel Smalley
1824-Richard Spicer
1823-Ichabod Smith
1823-Thomas Smith
1822-Calvin Squires
1822-Nehemiah Squires
1823-Calvin Stone
1824-John G. Stough
1826-Peter Stockman
1820-Auer Umberfield
1825-Anthony Walker
1825-John Walters
1825-Asa Wetherby
1826-Thomas Williamson
1825-Mary Wood
LYKENS TOWNSHIP.
1825-Christopher Keggy
1826-Jacob Miller 1826-George Rhoad
POLK TOWNSHIP. (Part of Richland County until 1845.)
1826-John Ashcroft
1820-Alpheus Atwood
1820-John Atwood
1824 James Auten
1826-Jonathan Ayres
1819-Samuel Brown
1819- John Brown
1819-Michael Brown
1820-John Bashford
1817-Edward Cooper
1821-John Cracraft
1820-Samuel Dany
1820-John Dickerson
1822-Rev. James Dunlap
1822-John Dunmeier
1822-John Eysman
1820 --- Fletcher
1820 --- Fletcher
1818-David Gill
1826-Thomas Harding
1822-John Hauck
1820-John Hibner
1819-Asa Hosford
1819-Horace Hosford
1820-William Hosford
1817-Disberry Johnson
1817-Samuel Johnson
1823-Phares Jackson
1821-John Jeffrey
1818-John Kitteridge
1817-James Leveridge
1817-James Leveridge, Jr.
1817-Nathaniel Leveridge
1823-Nathan Merriman
1822-Alexander McGrew
1820-Daniel Miller
1821-Jacob Miller
1822-William Murray
1825-William Neal
1826-Andrew Poe
1825-James Reeves
1822-Rev. John Reinhart
1820-David Reid
1825-George Row
1825-John Schawber
1826-John Sedous
1818-Benjamin Sharrock
1818-Nehemiah Story
1818-Nathaniel Story
1817-John Sturges
1823-Owen Tuttle
1818-George Wood
1818-George Wood, Jr.
1818-John Williamson
SANDUSKY TOWNSHIP.
1823-Jacob Ambrose
1820-William Beatty
1820-Philip Beatty
1823-Benjamin Bowers
1823-Jacob Bowers
1823-William Bowers
1825-John Cove
1826-Isaac Darling 1826-John Dewey
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WHETSTONE TOWNSHIP.
1823-Jacob Dull 1820-Matthew Elder 1823-John Clemens 1823-Adam Clemens 1823-Thomas Clemens
1821-John B. French 1819-James Gwell 1819-William Gwell
1822-William Handley
1822-Jesse Handley
1826-Isaac Henry
1823-Isaac Hilborn
1826-George M. Kitch
1819-Samuel Knisely
1820-Joseph Knisely
1823-James Magee
1826-John Magner
1826-Henry Magner
1825-William Matthews
1825-Isaac Matthews
1824-John Mayer
1826-John Ramsey
1826-Joseph Smith
1825-Alex Smith
1820-Samuel Shull
1825-James Tarns
1825-Nelson Tustison
1826-Joseph Wert
1826-John Wert
1826-Adam Wert
TEXAS TOWNSHIP.
1824-Eli Adams
1824-Paul Adams
1824-George Bender
1822-John Henry Coon
1826-Ebenezer Culver
1825-Anthony Detray
1826-Jacob Foy
1826-Samuel Gregg
1826-William Griffiths
1826-Lewis Lemert
1825-Robert Mayes
1825-Adam Miller
1825-Isaac Miller
1825-Charles Morrow
1825-John Nedray
1825-David Palmer
1825-Doddridge Paul
1825-Elting Paul
1825-Laban Perdew
1826-William Pennington
1825-Robert Roberts
1825-Alva Tash
TOD TOWNSHIP. All Indian Reservation until opened for settle- ment in 1837.
VERNON TOWNSHIP. (Richland County until 1845.)
1818-George Byers
1823-John Cleland
1823-William Cleland
1816-Andrew Dickson
1823-George Dickson 1825-Jonathan Dickson
1825-James Dickson
1821-James Richards
1824-Conrad Walters
1824-Anthony Walters
1823-James Armstrong 1822-Peter Anderson
1822-Christian Bair
1822-John Beckwith
1826-John Boyer
1822-Philip Clinger
1822-Adam Clinger
1822-Archibald Clark
1822-George Clark
1822-Benjamin Camp
1823-John Campbell
1817-William Cooper
1824-Charles Chambers
1824-Isaac Eichelberger
1824-Casper Eichelberger
1823-James Falloon
1821-Frederick Garver
1822-Benjamin George 1822-William Hamilton
1821-George Hancock
1822-Henry Harriger
1823-James Henderson
1821-Asa Howard
1821-Daniel Jones
1823-Adam Jacob Kieffer
1819-John Kent
1826-Andrew Kerr
1821-John King
1825-John Lininger
1820-Noble Mckinstry
1824-J. W. Moderwell
1822-Esi Norton
1821-Philander Odell
1821-Eli Odell
1821-Jacob Odell
1823-George Poe
1821-Samuel Parcher
1822-Lyman Parcher
1822-George Parcher
1822-John Parcher
1822-Benjamin Parcher
1822-George Parcher, Jr.
1821-Nathaniel Plummer
1821-Abner Rowse
1823-Cornwallis Reese
1824-Robert Reid
1824-George Reid
1826-Henry Remson
1822-Daniel Palmer
1820-Martin Shaffner
1826-Henry S. Sheldon
1826-Valentine Shook
1826-Samuel Shook
1826-John Staley
1823-John Stein
1823-Abraham Steen
1822-Hugh Stewart
1822-William Stewart
1822-James Stewart
1822-John Stewart
1822-Joseph Stewart
1822-Hugh Stewart, Jr.
1826-William Stuck
1823-Hugh Trimble
1823-John Trimble
1821-Samuel Van Voorhis
1826-Robert Walker
1820-John Willowby
1826-Samuel Winters
CHAPTER VI
POLITICAL
Early Politics-The Campaign of 1840-Harrison at Bucyrus-First Campaign Song-The Exciting Campaign of 1863-Various Minor Parties-Constitutional Conventions-Vote of the County Since Its Organization-The County in State Politics-Incidents of Early Cam- paigns-Crawford During the War-Complete List of Officials Since the Organization of the County.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, And some have greatness thrust upon them. -SHAKESPEARE.
Here and there some stern, high patriot stood, Who could not get the place for which he sued. -BYRON.
When Crawford county was first estab- lished by the legislature in 1820, there was considerable unanimity in politics not only in Ohio at that time, but in the nation. James Monroe had been elected president without opposition. Crawford county did not vote as a county until 1824, and even at that election its vote was cast with Marion, and the first separate vote of the county was in 1826, and at that time a harmonious spirit existed in the county. Prior to 1820 there had been two parties, the Federalists and the followers of Jefferson, the latter using the names of Re- publican and Democrat indiscriminately. The Jeffersonian theory of government had pre- vailed to such an extent that in Ohio there was practically no opposition. When the election took place in 1824 there were four candidates John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who represented what was left of the old Federal party, and was supported by the more con- servative voters; William A. Crawford of Georgia, a democrat of the Federal school, who favored the leaders of the party at Wash- ington controlling the nominations. The other two were Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay. The bulk of the Jackson and Clay fol- lowers were of the Jefferson-Madison-Monroe school, Jackson being for a strict construction of the constitution, against a national bank which then existed, and against any centraliz-
ing of power. Clay was more liberal, and favored the government looking after inter- nal improvements, and in connection with that a protective tariff. Not one of them was a Federalist, although Adams was so classed, while the Jackson men took the name of Democratic Republican; the Clay men Na- tional Republican. The election in Ohio re- sulted Clay 19,255, Jackson 18,489, Adams 12,280, while Crawford had no electoral ticket in the field. It will be observed that his vote was 50,024. A month previous at the October election for governor the vote was Jeremiah Morrow, democrat, 39,526; Allen Trimble, na- tional republican, 37,108. Trimble's vote com- ing from the Clay and Adams men, and Morrow's vote from the Jackson men, and many democrats who were dissatisfied with all the presidential candidates. So mixed up, or so united, were political affairs that two years later Trimble, national republican, had prac- tically no opposition for governor, receiving 71,475 votes, the scattering vote being about 13,000. By 1828 the two parties took definite forms, both either republican or democratic, whichever one might choose to call them, and the only difference being in matters of govern- mental policy. In 1828 Jackson carried the State for president, although the national re- publicans elected their governor that year and in 1830, and after Jackson again carried the State in 1832, the democrats of the Jackson school were left in undisputed possession of the name of democrat, and the national repub- licans united all opposition to the democratic party under the name of Whigs. The latter
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