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Edgar, Miss Isabel R., 567. Edgar, Samuel D., 48, 301, 312. Edmondson, Edmond, 563.
Edwards, Dr. N., 102.
Elder, D. HI., 229. Elder, D. L .. 231.
Elliott, Judge Henderson, 481.
Elliott, Dr. John, 91. 92.
Ellis, Captain E. C., elected mayor, 320.
Empire, Dayton, sustains Vallandigham. 306. Mobbed by soldiers, 316, 317.
Emory, Houghton & Company, nail factory, 393.
English pretensions, 10, 11.
Episcopal Church, St. Thomas, organized, 141, 012.
Equitable Loan & Savings Association, 388. Estabrook, W. & F. C., linseed oil makers, 405. Eureka Manufacturing Company, 435. Evangelical Association, Emmanuel Church, 619
Ewing, John, 75, 76. Exchange Bank, 376. Expedition against Indians near Muncie- town, 123.
FAIR and bazaar, Soklier's, 313. Farmer's Bank, The, 376, 391.
Farmer's Friend Manufacturing Company. 433.
Farmers & Merchants' Fire and Marine In- surauce Company, 662. 54
Farnum, William, contracts to build bridge across Mad River, 136. Ferneding, J. C. & H., 441. Ferry rates, S5. Ferrell, Daniel, 37, 44. Fifth Militia Regiment, 102. Fifth Street Railroad Company, 657. Findlay, James, colonel Second Regiment, 110. Findley, Rev. Mr., preaches to the Moral Society, 356. Fire Company, first organized, 141, 201. Fire engine and house, First, 157. Fire Guards, organized, 169. Firemen's Insurance Company, 659. Fire wardens. First, 157.
In 1828, 15S. In 1836, 169.
First birth in Dayton, 66.
First book published in Dayton, 100.
First county court, 75, 76.
First county jail, 76.
First election of congressman, 76.
First lawsuit, 60. First mechanics' society, 127. First mill, 61.
First minister, 62, 63, 67. First military expedition from Kentucky, 19. First National Bank, 378. First Ohio Regiment cuts road to Scioto, 113. Officers, 274. First Reformed Church, 620.
First Regiment. O. V. I., 286.
Officers, 288. Flag for, 288. Blankets for, 200.
First school in Dayton, 43. 63, 218.
First store, 66.
First troops organized for War of 1812. 110.
Fish baskets in rivers, 95.
Flag raisings, 284, 287, 288. Flatboat business, 95, 100.
Flatboat. First. 65. Fleet of canal boats, 154. Flickinger, Rev. D. K., 551. Flint, Rov. Timothy, 132. Flood, 83.
Of 1828, 157. Of 1832, 161. OF 1847, 202. Of 1866, 201.
Of 18 33, 267. Of 1886, 208. Folkerth. John, SS. Nominated for Congress, 93, 91.
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Form of Government. 82.
Forrer, Samuel. 29, 128. 120, 153, 180. 181.
Forrest, Edwin, member of Thespian Soci- etý, 245. Fort Brown, erected. 270. Fort Duquesne, 17. Fort Findlay, built 113. Fort Finey, 23. Treaty of, 23. 1
Fort Greenville, 113.
Fort McArthur built, 113.
Fort Necessity built, 113.
Fort Sumter attacked, 281.
Fort Washington built, 23.
Foster, Dr. and Mrs., open Pestaloggian School, 222. Fourth of July celebration, 1809, 93. 1810, 101. 1811, 102. 1816. 136. 1822, 146. 1832. 164. 1833. 107. 1840, 187.
Fourth National Bank. 380.
Franklin Building Association, 334.
Franklin Grove, No. S, U. A. O. D., 681.
Franklin House, 168.
Fraternal Lodge, No. 510, 677.
Free bridge across Mad River, 135.
Free schools, First act establishing, 217. Convention, 218. Free night industrial schools, 241.
Freemason's Mutual Benefit Association, 676
Friend, Children's, 585.
Friendship Council, No. 15, Junior Order. 683.
French claims, 10. French invade Ohio, 16.
French, Rev. Daniel II., 555. Froehlich, Hugo B., 567. Frydinger, Dr. G. A., 512. Fulton Council, No. 15. O. U. A. M., 683. Fugitive slave captured in Dayton, 162.
GABRIEL Grand Lodge of Perfection, GT5. Gaddis, Rev. M. P., 554. Gahagan, William, 36, 10, 42, 44. Game and fish abundant, 20. Gano, General, arrives in Dayton, 110. Gano, John Stites, plans for settlement. 31. Garrard. Captain, arrives in Dayton, 117. Gurette, Dayton, 578. Gebhart, Joseph R., & Son, 122.
Gebhart, Pope & Company, 301. Gebhart, Simon, & Sons' Flour Company, 422. Gebhart's. W. F .. Cornice Works, 123. Gebhart's White Lead Works, 435. Gem City Castle, Number 2, A. O. K. M., 693.
Gem City Encampment, Number 116, 677.
Gem City Stove Company, 114.
General order Number 38. Burnside's. 301.
General Sabbath school board, 635.
General board of education, 636.
George. William, agrees to carry mails. 79.
German immigrants bring cholera, 166. Germania Building Association, 383.
German school opened in Dayton, 235.
Gem City Building and Loan Association, 380. Giddings, Luther, 273. Giddings. D. W., 514. Gilbert, Philip E., 441. Gillespie, W. IL .. 286. Gist's account of Twightee, 13. Visit to the Miamis, 15. Report of the region, 27.
(Hass, Francis, author of "Life of Wash- ington," in Latin, 222. 225.
Goforth's, William, plans for settlement. 31.
Goss, Solomon, 37, 14.
Gospel Herald, The, 589.
Gottschall. Mrs. O. S .. 563.
Grassmire, Abraham. 37, 15, 55. Gravel in vicinity of Dayton. 32.
Graveyard, First. 69.
Great Miami Turnpike Company, 180.
Great Miami River navigable. 94.
Greek cause, Money raised to aid. 148. Greene, C. R., 99.
Appointed Clerk of County Court. 145. His death, 146. Greene, D. N., M. D., 529.
Greenville and Miami Railroad Company. 654.
Greer & King, stove makers, 397. Grenadier Squawtown. 13. Gridiron, The, 117, 574. Griffin, William, 99. Grimes, Alexander, 99, 127. 135.
Grimes, Alexander, & Co .. 127. 128, 160. Grimes, Edward B., 556. Grimes, John, 127.
Grimes' tavern, 90. Grocery business, 351. Grove, George, 135 .. Hat store burned, 149.
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Growth and improvement, 71. Grundy, William B., M. D., 537. Gunckel, Lewis B .. 252. 516. Gwynne, Lieut., opens recruiting office, 114.
HAINES, Dr. Job, 137.
As mayor, appoints day of fasting. 167. Sketch of, 523. ITamer. James, 83. Hamer, Solomon. 37. Hamer, Thomas, 37. Hamer, William. 37, 45. His tub-mill. 391. Local preacher. 607. Hancock, John. 23S. Hanna Brothers. 443. Hanna, James. 135. 391. Harmonia Society, 561. Harker's. S. T .. candle factory. 703.
Harmar's. General. defeat. 23.
Harmony Lodge, No. 9. 673. Harrison, Edmund. 222.
Harrison, General W. H., arrives in Dayton, 117. Call for volunteers, 119. Canada campaign, 120. Repulses Proctor. 126. Campaign of IS40. 1SS. Presentation of banner. 132. Harshman. Jonathan, 85, 278. Hathaway, P. C., plane factory. 390.
Hawes, C. L., paper mille, 424. Haynes. Judge Daniel A .. 481. Heathman, G. W .. & Co .. 431.
Hebrew Congregation, 622. Helfenstein, E. L., gun barrel factory, 403. Herahl of Gospel Liberty. 58S. Herald, Dayton Daily. 581. Herbruck, Rev. E., Ph. D., 555. Hickory pole cut down, 165. Higher studies in public schools, 235. Hildreth, Lowis A., 300. Hiram Strong Post, No. TO, G. A. R., C84. History of Dayton, Curwen's, 30. Hogs introduced, 64.
Hole's Station, 62. Holland, Nelson, wagon maker, 396. Hollencamp & Kramer. 414. Holt, Judge George B .. 180, 488, 509. Holt, Jerome, 15, 57. 66, 75. Nominated for sheriff. 93.
Colonel of Fifth Militia. 102, 112, 118, 124. Home. Frontier and Foreign Missionary Society, 631.
Homestead Aid Company, 388. Homeopathie physicians, 535. Honor Council. No. 24. 681. Hormell, Captain Lewis, 273, 277. Hott, Rev. J. W., D. D., 554. Hospital provided, 169. Honk, G. W., 252, 279, 518, 550. Honk, D. A .. 252, 517. Houston, George S., 99. 135, 301.
Howard Council. No. 161. R. A .. GS2. Howard, John. 513.
Howells, William D .. 517. Huesman. Louis, 559. Huffman, William. 33L. ITuffman. W.Hiam P., 134. 252.
Hull, General. arrives in Dayton, 111. Reviews First Ohio Regiment, 111. Marches to Camp Meigs, 112. Surrenders, 114.
Hull, Governor. of Michigan, advises Con- gress of danger from Indians, 106. Hull's Prairie. 113. Humboldt Division, No. J2, U. R. K. P .. 680.
Humboldt Lodge. No. 58, K. P., 678. Fant, Jesse, and Peyton Short, 120. Hunt, Nathan, contracts to build a bridge across Miami River, 130. Hunting in early tinies, 51, 55. Hydraulic Brewery, 447.
IODINGS, A. H., M. D., 534. Iddings. D. W., 511. Importing & Exporting Committee formed, 97. Improvement of sidewalks in 1810. 101. Incorporation of Dayton. 82. Indian hunting grounds, 12. Indian villages. 12. Indians encamped at Greenville, 100.
Indians in Ohio in 1812, 109. Indian hostages arrive in Dayton, 126. Inhabitants of Ohio Valley, 10.
Insurance interests, 659.
Jola Lodge, No. 83, 679. Tola Division, No. 26, U. R. K. P., 680. Iroquois, treaty between them and the Eng- lish, 11.
JAUIA, 76, 78. 128, 169. Jeffords, Elza, 511. Jenks, Captain, arrives in Dayton. 115. Jennison, Count of Heidelberg. ITT. 178. Jennison, William, the naturalist, 177. Jennings. Ellis, M. D., 529. Jenner, A. E., M. D., 530.
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Jewett, Dr. B., an Abolitionist, 174. Sketch, 526. Jewett, Adams. M. D., 526. Johnson, Major Richard M., arrives in Day- ton, 110.
Johuston, Colonel, Indian agent at Piqua, 25.
Holds council of Shawnces, 110.
Johnston, J. R., & Co., 119. Jordan, Judge J. A., 182. Journal. Ohio Notional, 575. Journal, Daily. started, 187.
Office destroyed by Democratic mob, 307. History of, 576.
Jubilee of the United States, first celebra- tion, 155. Justice of the Peace, First, 59.
KEELBOAT, Arrival of, in Dayton in 1819, 97. Kentuckians killed, 21.
Kimes, Henry, 407. King, E. A., 252, 275.
King Encampment, Post No. 20, G. A. R., 684. King, Harvey J .. 568.
King, Williams, 70, 135.
Klee, John. & Son, 112.
Knights of the Golden Circle, 303.
Knisely, Dr. A., 512. Kobler, Rev. John. 62, 63, 67.
Kratochwill, Joseph, 401. Kratochwill Milling Co., 402. Kreidler, Captain, John U., sword presenta- tion, 301.
LADIES' Benevolent Society, 301. 301. LaDow & Hamilton. marble works, 405. Lafayette's death, 168. Lafayette house, 168. Lafayette Yagers, or Guards, 254. Officers, 285. Lair, Mrs. L. B., 553. Lanne, David, member of legislature, 187. Land office opened at Cincinnati, 72. Lancasterian instruction, 219.
Introduced into Dayton Academy, 220. Laudis, Prof. J. P., 555. Laramie, settlement near Sidney. 12. LaSalle, 10.
Last Indians to live on site of Dayton, 12. Lawrence, John, 554.
Leaman's, N. E., tub & bucket factory, 422. Leavitt, Judge, refuses writ of habeas corpus in case of C. T .. Vallandigham, 307. Lee, General, invades the North, 308. Surrenders, 328. Lehman, Peter, wagon maker, 396.
Leland & Tiffany, 444. Lessons for Little Ones, 586. Lesson Leares, 566. Levis, W. P., paper factory, 437. Levees, first, 84.
Lewis & Co., 442.
Lewis, Samuel, first superintendent of in- struction, 218, 228.
"Life of Washington " in Latin, by Francis Glass, 225.
Light Artillery tenders services to Governor Dennison, 284.
Lincoln, Abraham, nominated for president, 278. Attempted assassination, 282. Assassinated, 330. Loading flatboats, 99. Locomotive, miniature, on exhibition, 161. Logan's expedition, 21.
Log Cabin, The, 187, 576.
Lorenz, Rev. E. S., 554.
.Dosanteville, now Cincinnati, 23. Lottery in original town lots. 36, 37. Loury, Fielding, 17. Representative, 169. Loury, Miss H. Sophia, 566. Lowe Bros., 442.
Lowe, John G., 272. Colonel, Second Regiment, O. N. G., 321. Lawyer, 510. Lowe. Peter P., member of legislature, 193, 273, 488. 509. Lowe, Ralph P., 512. Lowes, Joseph E., M. D., 536. Lowry, David, 65. Ludlow, Colonel Israel, 35. 43. Lutheran churches, First English, 623. St. John's English Evangelical, 624. St. John's German Evangelical, 625. St. Paul's German Evangelical, 626. Hope Evangelical, 626.
MCAFEE, John, tried for murder, 150. McArthur, Duncan, colonel of First Regi- ment, 110. Mc Arthur, Fort, constructed, 113.
MeClure, James. 37. 41. MeClure, John, 37, 41. MeClure. Thomas. 37. McCullum's tavern, 69.
MeClure, William, 88. 89. MeDermont, Clarke, M. D., 524. MeElwee & Clegg, iron foundry. 393. MeGuffey, Rev. W. H., D. D., 218. Me Hose & Lyon. 132.
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Mellhenny, John J., M. D., 532. McKemy, Judge John C., 4SL. McLean, J. P., 10. McMahon, J. A., 252, 504. McMillan, Gideon, 221. NcMullen, Captain John, 221.
McPherson, in the bend of the Miami River, 161.
McPherson's Station. 62. MeSherry, D E., & Co., 42S. McSherry, J. W., & Co., 413. Macachack towns, 13.
Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad Company organized, 169, 178. 652.
Mad River Dental Society, 540. Mad River, formerly the Tiber, 31. Magazine, The Unity, 581.
Mahrt, Stengel & Co., 141.
Mail route, attempt to improve, 80. Mansfield, Captain, arrives in Dayton, 110. Manufacturing interests, 300. Market house, First, 131. Market house, New, 159. Market house. 196. Market prices. Wholesale. 150. Marriages, Territorial law regarding. 51. Marsh, Williams, Hayden & Co., 403. Marsteller, Professor G. H .. 561. Martial law in Montgomery County, 307. Martin R. Delaney Post. No. 615. G. A. R., 685. -
Masonic Lodges, GT3. Mayflower Council, No. 35, 683. Mayor of Dayton, first voted for, 158, 164. Mead, H. H., & Co .. 413. Mead Paper Company, 408. Measures for improving the town, 171. Mechanics' Institute organized, 246.
Mechanics' Loan and Savings Association, 389.
Medical chapter. 520. Medical spring, 155. 156. Medlar, Mrs. Clara Soule, 563. Meck, John, 65. Meigs, R. J., Order 45, 107. Arrives in Dayton, 108. Appeals to the ladies, 109. Leaves Dayton, 110. Members of the Board of Education, 213. Mercantile and commercial, 353. Mereer's Station, 62. Merchants' Tobacco Factory, 400. Merchants in Dayton, ST. In 1815, 132 .. Merchants' National Bank, 379.
Methodist Episcopal churches, Grace, 607. Raper, 609.
. Davisson, 609. Sears Street, 610. First German, 610. 'Trinity, 611. St. Paul's, 61.1. Wesleyan, G11. . Baker Street, CIL. Buckeye, 612.
Methodists, regular preaching, CS. Methodists, first church built, 120. Methodist Sunday.School Society organized, 13S. Miami, name means mother, 13. Miamis belonged to the Algonquins, 13. Limits of their territory, 13. 7
Miami Council, No. 7, 683.
Miami Commercial College, 258.
Miami Cotton Mill Company, 400, 403.
Miami Council Princes of Jerusalem, 675. Miamisburg Mound, 11.
Miami Lodge, No. 32, K. P., 67S.
Miami Lodge, No. 105, A. O. U. W., GS1. Miami Loan and Trust Company, 388. Miami Republican & Daily Advertiser. 148. Mimmi River. its value, 98. Its improvement, 99. Miami Valley Bank, The, 376, 395.
Miami Valley Boiler & Sheet Iron Works. 409. Miami Valley Insurance Company, 662. Military committee for Montgomery Co., 291. Miller. James, coroner, 75. Constable, 76. Miller Brothers, 443. Mitchell, Colonel Alexander M., 274. Mitchell. James II., 221. Moore grain drill. 100.
Moore, Thomas, major Second Regiment, 111. Moral Society organized, 134. Morgan, Colonel George W., 275. Morgan's, General John H., raid, 309. Morrison, D. H., 414.
Morrow. Jeremiah, elected to Congress, 76. Morrison. Robert, major Third Regiment, 111. Morus Multicoulis, 184, 185. Monitor, The. 582.
Montgomery Blues, organized, 175. Montgomery Building Co., 388. Montgomery County, fertility, 29. lts formation, 75. Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, The first, 185. Montgomery County Agricultural Society, organized, 182.
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Montgomery County Bar Association, 519. ! Montgomery County Bible Society, 1447.
Montgomery County Homeopathic Medical Association, 538.
Montgomery County Medical Society, 534. Montgomery County Mutual Fire Insur- ance Company. 660. Montgomery Guards, 286. Montgomery House. 168. Montgomery Lodge. No. 5, 676. Morrison, Thomas, erects hay scales, 14. Mound Builders, 10.
Issues shin plasters, 176.
Munday, Worman & Co., 412.
Munger. Edmund, 77. Munger, Warren, 515. Munger, General, ordered to raise a compa- ny in Dayton, 107. Tour to Greenville, 100. Marches to Piqua, 116.
Municipal history, 193.
Munson. Jeremiah R., major of Third Regi- ment, 111. Murphy, Dr. William, 91.
Museum. Traveling, 156.
Music in public schools. 234.
Mutual Fire Insurance, 600.
Mutual Home and Savings Association, 385. Mystic Lodge. No. 405, 675.
NATIONAL Cash Register Co., 410. National Guard, officers, 273. Return Home, 276. Ohio National Guard, 320. National Hotel, opened, 158, 168.
Natural advantages of the location of Day- ton. 27. Navigation Board, 97. Navigation of the rivers, obstructions there- to, 94, 96. Navigation of Miami River. 90, 100. Nead. Daniel P., 514. Neal, Thomas L., M. D., 526. Nettletou, C. B., superintendent of penman- ship. 210. New Franklin Building Association, 385. Newcom, Colonel George, 37, 45, 75, 76, 105, 135, 364. Neweom's Tavern, 61. Newcom, William, 37, 45, 75.
New courthouse. 69.
New Madrid destroyed by earthquake, 105. New system of modern geography, by Elijah Parish D. D., 102. Night school opened, 231.
Ninety-third Regiment, O. V. I., 78. Ninetieth Regiment, O. V. L., 293. Off for the war, 294. Nixon, Thomas, & Co., 411. Nolan, Colonel M. P., 293. Lawyer, 517. Normal School, 239. North Dayton laid out, 136. North Star Tobacco Works, 126.
OAKWOOD Street Railroad Company. 656. Odd Fellows' Aid Association, 677.
Odd Fellows' National Beneficial Associa- tion, 67S. Odlin, Peter, 198 .. Ohio Centinel, 100, 101, 572, 573. Ohio, the Indian battle ground, 11. Ohio Land Company, 15. Ohio Militia called out, 107. First Battalion, 107. Rendezvous at Dayton, JOS.
Ohio Rake Company, 430. Ohio Insurance Company, 603.
Ohio Valley. The. 10.
Old Chillicothe, 13. Ordinance of 1787, 193.
Ordinance for improving the sidewalks, in 1810. 101. Oregon Aid Society, 302. 316.
Oregon Guards, 288.
Oregon Lodge Company, No. 351, 678.
Original settlers. 37.
Orton's, Professor, description of building stone, 310. Osborn, Cyrus, 59. Osceola Mills, 402.
PALO Alto. Battle of. 270. Paper Novelty Company, 439. Parish, Elijah, D. D., 102. Parker, Caleb, 238.
Parker, Colonel F. W .. 240.
Parochial Schools, 253.
Parrott & Clegg, 391. Parrott, Colonel E. A., 286, 288, 322.
Parsons. Judge Ebenezer. 481.
Pasteur-Chamberland Filter Company, 411.
Patton. Matthew, 90, 132, 391.
Patton, William, 90. Patterson, John, 102.
Patterson, Captain Robert, 20, 78, 83. Mill destroyed. 135, 391.
Payne, Brigadier-General, Asa, arrives in Dayion, 117. Peaco declared in 1815, 126. Celebration of, 130.
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Pease, Horace, 169. Peasley's pleasure garden, 160. Peirce, J. H., lard oil works, 411. Peirce, Joseph, 86, 102. 105. Biography of. 143. Death. 113. 361.
Permanent Buikling and Savings Associa- tion, 388. Perrine James, 155. Perry, Captain, 107. Marches to Vincennes. 114.
Perry's victory on Lake Erie. 126.
Personnel of Dayton Bar, 484. Petition of early citizens to congress, 73. Pianista, leading. 560. Plankeshaws, King of, killed and eaten, 16. Piano forte factory, 101. Pickaway Plains, scenes of torture, 13. Pickawillany, battle, 16.
Peirce & Coleman, 427. Peirce. Mrs. Mary Forrer. 505.
Pierson platied, 111. Pilate, E., M. D., 532. Pilger, Jugend, 586. Pinneo & Daniels, 420.
Pioneers. adaptability to surroundings, 50. Piqua, site of Miami village, 12. Upper, home of Shawnees, 12.
Pitts, J. B., & Co., 116. Point Isabel threatened, 270. Police department, 207. Political convention, First, in Montgomery County, 93. Campaign of 1832, 164. Pollock, Calvin, M. D., 533. "Poor Tom is free," 163. Pope, H. L., & Co., 391. Population of Dayton in 1810, 101.
In 1830, 168. In 1840, 179. Portable threshing machines, 401.
Post office, history of, 78. Public institutions, 666. Public opinion on banking, 367. Public property removed from Piqua to Dayton, 115. Public School Library, 237, 241. 218. Building, 250. Public school processions, 229. Control given to Council, 231. First Board of Managers, 232. Text books, 233. Statistics, 242. Gradation, 212. Pfouts, Lewis R., 517.
Phillips, C. A., 400. Phillips, H. G., 86, 99. Biography, 133, 273. Phillips, Thomas A., 252. 400. Phillips, G. L., biography, 701. Physicians, in 1808, 91. In 1812, 105. Planing mills. 427. Ployel Musical Society, 559. Pre-emption rights purchased by D. C. Cooper, 72. Pre- emption law of 1801, 72. Presbyterian churches, First, 500. Third Street, 598. Park Church, 508. Fourth Church, 500. Memorial Church, 590. United Church, 000. Presbyterian Society organized, 68. Presbyterian meeting-house, first, GS. First brick church, 63 .. New building, 186. Presidents of the Board of Education, 213. President Poll calls for men and money, 271. Pross, the history of. 572. Price, Solomon & Co., 403, 104. Principals of High School, 243. Of Normal schools, 243. Of Intermediate schools, 213. Of District schools, 244. Pritz, J. W., foundry, 447. Pritz & Kuhns, 405, 107. Probate conrt organized, 183.
Prompt patriotism, 115.
Prophet, The, threatens settlements. 103.
Prosperity of Dayton in 1812. 105.
Pruden, David, 226. Purviance, David, nominated for State rep- resentative, 93.
RAILROADS, History of, 652. Railroads to Cincinnati suggested, 163. Rankin, Rev. John, mobbed as an Abolition- ist, 174. Raymond, C. W., & Co., 441. Read, T. Buchanan, 565. Recruiting for Mexican War, 271. Recruiting offices in Dayton in August, 1861, 200. Reed Commandery, No. 6, 674. Reese Commeil, No. 9, 671. Reeve, John C., M. D., 522, 527, 555. Reformed Publishing Company, 170. Reid's Tavern, 90.
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Reid, Major, 107, 304. Colonel, 129. « Religious Telescope, 457.
Removal of Indian tribes from Ohio, 26. Rench. John, 85.
Repertory, The, 80, 89, 572. Republican, Dayton, 579. Republican, Miami, 575.
' Requaith, F. A., 442.
Restraining animals from running at large, 83.
Return of troops at close of War of 1812, 126.
Mexican, 275. Of the Rebellion, 322. Revenue of Montgomery County for 1811, 12. For 1814, 132. Reynolds & Reynolds Company, 430.
Rhea. Captain J., 137.
Rifle factory, Cook & Ennis, 401.
Riverside Brewery. 431.
Roads open from Dayton. 88.
Roberts. G. J., & Co .. 435.
Robertson. Henry. 135.
Robinson, Rev. William. 63.
Roe, Daniel. establishes silks factory, 166.
Rogers'. Colonel, misfortune, 19.
Rogers, Mrs. Elizabeth, 566.
Rollman's Tavern, 155.
Rose & McMillen, 441. Rouzer. John, 412, 420.
Royal Remedy Extract Company, 413.
Royal Temple, No. 2. Pythian Sisters, 680.
Rubicon Carding Mill, 392. Rue, Miss, drowned, 140.
SABBATH-SCHOOL Association, 137. Sandusky City & Indiana Railroad Co .. 032. Sawyer, William, elected to legislature, 164, 160, 100. Schaeffer & Co., 413. Schenck, General Robert C., 162, 223. Opposes war with Mexico, 277, 278, 279. Appointed brigadier-general, 289, 299. As a lawyer, 492. Schenek, William C., 43, 178. School directors, First, 227, 231. School examiners appointed, 241. Schools for colored children, 234. Schools, First, in Dayton, 43, 63. School honses, First, 227. Schwartz, Valentine, 567, 568. Scott & Wilkinson's raid, 23.
Scottish Rite, Knights Templar, and Master Masons' Aid Association, 675. .
Second National Bank, 379. Second Reformed Church. 621. Scely, Morris, 159, 160. Select Council, officers, 1816 to 1828, 195. Seneca Indians camp near Dayton, 161. Settlement of Dayton, 31 .. Sbakers mobbed, 102. Shakertown Pike, 181. Shanek, John A., 518. Shawnees occupy Piqua, 12. Spartans of the West, 11. Means "People from the South," 14. Sheideler, Henry, clected representative, 161, 164. Shin plasters issued, 176. Shriver, Dr. John W., 523. Shows in Dayton, 140.
Shuey, Rev. W. J., 252, 551. Shuey, B. I., A. M., 555.
Sidney, near Laramie settlement. 12.
Silk factory established. 165. Silzell, Washington, & Son, 112. Simonds. A. .. 162, 420.
Smith, C. N .. 436.
Smith, Edwin, member of legislature, 183. Smith. Edmund. M. D., 527. Smith, James Manning. 517. Smith, Kirby, advances on Cincinnati, 296. Smith. T. J. S., 202, 252, 273, 198, 511. Smith, William M., first teaeber in Dayion Academy, 88. His brigade drills. 148. Appointed postmaster. 148, 160, 219.
Smith, George, editor of Repertory, 89. Smith, George W., 99. Biography, 132.
Smithville Cotton Factory. 401.
Smith & Vaile, The Company, 137. Snyder, C. F., 429. Snyder. Simon, 228, 220, 230.
Snodgrass, William, 100.
Soldiers' aid societies, First, 292, 301, 316. Second. 292, 301, 316. Third, 292.
Soldiers' Families Relief Association. 316.
Soldiers' Home, National, 332.
Soldiers' monument, 346.
Soule, Charles, Sr., 166, 562.
Soule, Charles, Jr., 563. Speice, Brigadier-General Adamı, 271, 273. Spining, Judge Isaac, 137.
St. Clair's defeat, 21. St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 606 St. Henry's Cemetery, 648. St. John's Lodge, No. 12, 673.
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St. Mary's Institute, 254. St. Thomas' Church organized, 141. Stage line to Columbus, 139. Staniland, Thomas, & Son, 130. State Bank, Branch of, 371.
State Guard, 289.
Steele, Captain, commands at St. Mary's, 116. Roll of his company. 116, 121. Steele, Dr. John, 120. 135.
Cuts down hickory pole, 165, 229, 252, 522. Steele, Henry K., M. D., 533. Steele, James, 86, 101.
Builds dam. 161.
Erects saw-mill and grist-mill, 161, 162. State senator, 169, 170, 361. Steele, Miss Mary D., 553. Steele, Robert W., 230, 237, 213, 251, 273, 557.
Steuben Lodge, No. 507, 677.
Stevenson runs first locomotive in England, 160. Stewart, D. W., & Co., 427. Stilwell & Bierre, 162, 124. Stites, Major, visits Dayton, 28. Plans for settlement, 31. Contract with Symmes. 34.
Stoddard, Henry, elected to legislature, 100, 4SS, 500.
Stoddard, John W., & Co., 433. Stomps, G., & Co., 425. Stout, A. I., 274. Stout, Mills & Temple, 395.
Stowe, Calvin E., D. D., sent to Germany, 218.
Strain, Robert, opens Travelers' Inn, 131. Strickler, Wilt & Co., 402.
Strohm, Gertrude, 518.
Strohm, Isaac, 518.
Strong, Lieutenant Colonel Hiram, 293, 513. Squier, Timothy, opens National Hotel, 158. Squier, David, 78.
Nominated for coroner, 93.
Squirrel Hunters advance upon Kirby Smith, 297.
Postpone draft, 298.
Sullivan's, Mrs. Dionecia, school for girls, 2: Sullivan, S. M., 517. Sullivan, William, 222
Summary of Dayton sokliers in the War of the Rebellion, 330. Sun Inn, The, 138. Superintendents of instruction, 243. Superintendents of music, 213. Superintendents of penmanship and draw- ing, 214.
Superior court, 481. Sutherland's mysterious disappearance, 392. Swain, G. S., elected to legislature, 161. Swaynie's Hotel. 185. Symmes, Daniel, 75. Visits the Upper Miami, 23. Sells Seventh and Eighth Ranges, 35, 71.
"THE Tall Company." 274. Taverns, Newcom's, C1. Reid's, 90. MeCullum's, 69. Grimes', 90. Rolban's, 155.
Taylor, General Zachary, 269. Teachers of vocal music, 559. Teacher, Our Bible, 586.
Tecumseh, first warlike experience on site of Dayton, 11, 25, 100, 106. Telescope, The German, 581. Telescope, The Religious, 582. Telescope, The Missionary, 555. Tenney, John C., 97. Tennery, George, 88.
Terry & Porterfield Tobacco Company, 444. Teutonia Lodge, No. 21, 681.
Thames, Battle of, 126.
Thanksgiving in carly times, 127.
Theater, first in Dayton. 136.
Third National Bank, 379. Third Regiment marches through the Black Swamp, 113. Third Street Bridge Co. fonned. 182.
Thomas, J. W., M. D .. 537. Thomas, Miss Leila A., 553.
Thompson's pirogue, 38, 39.
First to arrive a . Dayton, 40.
Drowned, 40. 75. Mrs. Thompson dies, 40.
Thomson, Rev. John, 6S.
Thornton, Captain S. B., surrenders, 27.
Thresher, Thomas F., 517.
Thresher & Co., 137.
Thruston, Robert A., elected representa- tive. 488, 489, 511.
Thruston, Gates B., 512.
Thusnelda Temple, No. 3, Pythian Sisters, 681.
Tiber, former name of Mad River, 31.
Tilton, T. B., opens recruiting office, 271.
Times, Chicago, suppressed, 308.
Tippecanoe, battle of, 25.
Tippecanoe Club, 191. Titles to lands secured, 71. Tobacco factory, first in Dayton, 138.
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HISTORY OF DAYTON.
Tornado in 1811, 105. Town charter amended, 195. Town election, first. 194. Town plat divided, 55. Bounded, 56. Described, 51. Second, 74. D. C. Cooper's, 85. Town site, 193.
Trade between Dayton and Fort Wayne, 155. Trails, Little Miami, 12.
Great Miami, 12.
Transcript, Dayton Daily, 577.
Travelers' Inn, 168.
Treaties between English and Indians, 10. Treaty of 1684 between the Iroquoix and the English, 11. Treaty of 1701 between the French and the Indians, 11. Treaties of 1726, 1744 and 1752, 11. Of 1748, 14. Of 1763, 17.
Trembly, S., hat factory, 300. Trent, William, visits Pickawillamy. 16. Trimble, William, major First Regiment, 110. Trinity Reformed Church. 621.
Troops dig mill race for D. C. Cooper, 105. Truesdell's, John, select school for boys, 257. Turnpikes, 33. Era of, 178. Tull's ferry, 129.
Twightee villages, on present site of Piqua, 12. Gist's account of, 13. Battle at, 17.
UNIFORM of militia companies, 147. Union Biblical Seminary, 258.
Union depot, Attempts to secure, 362.
Union Guards, 288.
Union Insurance Company. C63.
Union League formed, 302.
Union Safe Deposit and Trust Company, 380."
Unity Chapter, No. 16, 673.
United Brethren Church, Otterbein, 618.
United Brethren churches, 614.
United Brethren Church, First, 614. Second, 617. Third, 617. Summit Street. 617. High Street, 617. Oak Street, 61S. Miami Chapel, 613.
United Brethren Ministers' Association, GIS. United Brethren Publishing House, 157.
VALLANDIGHAM. C. L., 280. Letter to Cincinnati Enquirer, 287, 200. Arrested, 305. Sentenced, 307, 317, 480. Lawyer, 49S. Vallandigham, C. N., 252. Valuation for taxes, Co. Van Cleve, Benjamin. 28, 35, 36, 41, 43, 44, C6, 67, 76, 101, 103. 143, 361. Van Cleve, John W., 41, 69, 129, 164, 516. Van Horne, Thomas B., major Second Regi- ment, 111. Van Cleve, William, 44. 75, 111. Venice at mouth of Mad River. 51.
Lots in, donated to religious bodies, 31.
Victoria Circle, No. 3, U. A. O. D .. 681.
Virginia relinquishes her claim to the Northwest Territory. Visitor, Missionary. 585.
Vocalists, Prominent, 559. Volkszeitung. Dayton, 581. Von Klein, Carl .B., M. D., 529, 537.
Vote in Dayton in 1860.
WAR of 1812, 105, 106. With Mexico, 269. Of the Rebellion, 278.
Wards defined, 195.
Washington Building Co., 387.
Washington Cotton Factory, 393, 307, 100. Watchman, Dayton, 141. Ohio, 573.
Water of Dayton, 33.
Water works, History of, 210.
Watchmen appointed, 163.
Water power of Dayton. 31.
Waterman, Lieutenant George L., 311.
Wayne & Fifth Street Railroad Co., 657.
Wayne's, General. campaign, 21.
Wayne Lodge, No. 10, 676. Wayne Street Brewery. 425.
Weaver. Bishop, D. D., 354. Weaver, James M., M. D., 532.
Webster, William, M. D., 535. 530.
Weddings among the pioneers, 53.
Weekly mail. 78.
Wells, Colonel, arrives in Dayton, 117.
Welsh. John, 62, 75. Welsh. Rev. James, 70, 88, 91, 101. 103. Westerfield, Samuel, 100. Westerman & Stout, 395. Westfall, Cornelius, 219. Westfall, George, 75. Westfall, Captain Reuben, 108. Whisky in early times, 63, 64.
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Whiteman, General Benjamin, 116. White, W. J., 238. Whiting. Chauncey, 219. White Line Street Railroad Co., 657. Wide Awakes, 279. Wigand, Henry, M. D., 535. Wight, Collins, 222, 231. Wilbur, Rov. Backus, 138. Wildey Lodge, No. 24, Daughters of Rebe- kah, 677. Wilkinson, General James, 35.
William Birch Post, No. 610, G. A. R., 685. Williams, John, 62, 75.
Williams, John IJ., 70. Williams. John Insco, 70, 563. Williams, Milo G., 222, 225, 226.
Williams, Herbert S., cuts down hickory pole, 165. Wilson, Nathaniel, 66. Wilson's quarries, 32. Wilson, Sanmiel C., 288, 553. Wilson, James, appointed Keeper of Mea- sures. 1.03.
Wilt, A. D., member of Board of School Examiners, 241, 242. 258, 259. Winchester, Brigadier - General. dines in Dayton, 12. Defeated at River Raisin, 125.
Winetowah, suit against Ephraim Law- rence, 60. Winters, Valentine, 252.
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Winters, John H., 252. Wise, Jobn, M. D., 527. Wolf scalps, price in 1810, 101. Wolf's tavern, 167.
Wolverton, Major Charles, 108. Woman's Christian Association, 610, 669. Women's Evangel, 580. Woman's Literary Club, 558. Woman's Missionary Association, 635. Wood for soldiers' families, 303, 312.
Wood, Dr. P., 91, 92. Wood sawing companies, 312.
Wood, Youngs V., 514. Wooden bridge built, 168.
Woodland Cemetery, 613.
Wood's Jethro, patent plows, 396.
Woodsum Machine Company, 416.
Woodhull, L. & M., 423.
World, New York, forbidden cirenlation, 308. Wroo, Joseph, 412. Wyatt, Hiram, bakery, 398.
XENIA as Xenica, 102.
Youxo, E. S., 252, 514.
Young, Robert, elected State senator, 161. Young Men's Christian Association, 636. Young Men's Christian Association Orches- tra. 561.
ZOOLOGICAL Museum, 177. Zwick, Ernest, 420.
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