History of Crawford County, Ohio, and representative citizens, Part 17

Author: Hopley, John E. (John Edward), 1850-
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago,Ill., Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1302


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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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