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Peter MacFarlan, of Delhi, came from Dumbarken- shire, Scotland, to America, in 1840. After coming to this country he purchased a farm in Green township which he sold in 1872, and removed to Home City where he still lives. In 1850 he married Miss Jean Brode, daughter of Peter Brode and Katharine McKin- lay Spouses of Kirkhouse Row. She was born Janu- ary 2, 1805, and baptized the same month, fifth day. Feter McFarlan, son of Peter McFarlan and Katharine Bain Spouses of Estertown- name of farm-was born December 29, 1800, and baptized January 1, 1801. The aged couple have had but one daughter, who is now the wife of Adam Tullock. The parents were married in Scotland in May, 1830.
Adam Tullock, of Home City, was born in Scotland in the year 1815, in Dumferline, where Robert Bruce was burried. His parents, John Tullock and Mary Robert- son, came to America in 1840, and both died soon after. They were married in 1799, had seven children, of which Adam Tullock was the youngest. He was married to Hellen Miller, of Scotland, in 1837. She died in 1847. One son by this marriage lives in Home City. He has one daughter living in Colorado and one in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1851 he was married to his second wife.
Catharine MacFarlan, and came to Home City in 1872, where he still lives.
William J. Applegate, grocer and postmaster of Delhi, came here in 1872 from Green township, where he was born and reared. His father, Israel Applegate, came to this township when quite young from Pennsylvania; lived fifty-five years on the farm he bought, and died in 1870 in the eighty-first year of his age. His mother, Mary Jane Colsher, also of Pennsylvania, died October, 1880, in the eighty-third year of her age. William J. Apple- gate, born August 17, 1839, was reared a farmer, but began business on a small scale in a grocery in 1872, and at the same time kept the post office of the village which helped to increase his patronage. In the year 1878 he built a large three-story brick house, the first results of his successful business. He was married October 15, 1864, to Miss Katie Myers, of Delhi, daugh- ter of an old settler of the county. Mr. Applegate is one of the trustees of the township at this time.
Annie B. Calloway, of Delhi, is of English parentage, and is the wife of Thomas B. Calloway, of that place. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Bowles, of Cranbrook, Kent, England, married Sarah Boorman. Their daugh- ter, Sarah, married the well known Robert Colgate, father of the noted soap manufacturers of New York. They came to that city in 1800. Thomas Bowles, her grand- father, married Anna Shirley. They had eight children, and he died June 3, 1800. His youngest son, Robert Bowles, father of Annie B. Calloway, was born at Eldo- rado, Kent, England, June 1, 1792; married' Mercy Boots, of the same place, November 30, 1816; came to
America in 1822, and located on a farm near Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio, and was the first English settler in Crosby township. January 24, 1837, his wife died, and he married Mrs. Anna Clough, of London, England, daughter of Samuel Pegg. By the first wife he had one son, Robert, now living in Indiana; and by the second wife two sons, Samuel and John, and one daughter, An- nie. Thomas B. Calloway married Annie A. Bowles, January 31, 1866. His grandfather, Jesse Calloway, and wife came from Delaware in 1818, and located in Dear- born county, Indiana. They had four sons and one daughter. William, the father, was born January 26, 1812; married his second wife, Mary Charlotte Bonham, October 18, 1841. He is still living. The Bond family are traceable to the emigration of William Penn. One Samuel Bond was born November 19, 1722; his son, Joseph, born April 11, 1750, married Eleanor Williams ; and their son, Samuel, born November 19, 1777, in Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania, moved west May 10, 1810, land- ed at the mouth of Farmers' creek, near Lawrenceburgh, Indiana. In 1812 he moved to Whitewater, near Eliza- bethtown; died June 12, 1837. They had seven chil- dren, all dead except Eleanor, who was born in Virginia in 1808. The third child, Jane, was the only one of the family who married. She was born April 8, 1818; mar- ried William Calloway September 7, 1837; died Febru- ary 12, 1844, leaving one child, Thomas B. Calloway.
R. B. Price, of Home City, son of Rees Price (see biographical sketch), is the well known bee-keeper of
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that place. Mr. Price was reared in the city of Cincin- nati, but soon after his marriage (January 15, 1857) to Louise Seiter, of that place, he moved on his farm where he has since resided. In 1877 he built his new house, which he now occupies. Mr. Price has devoted much time and attention to the culture of bees. He has now over one hundred colonies under his care. Mrs. Price was born in Cincinnati, corner of Elm and Eighth streets, where her mother, Mrs. Seiter, still resides. Her brothers, William, George, Joseph, and Lewis Seiter, are prominent and well known business men in the city.
W. H. Smith, of Delhi township, was born in Peters- burgh, New York, March 22, 1814. When fifteen years of age he left home, and for ten years following drove a stage coach over the mountains, afterwards coming west, where he continued the business up to 1863. He was agent for some time for the Western Stage company, that had lines running from Cincinnati to various points. The line running from Cincinnati to Hamilton and Day- ton, and afterwards to Indianapolis, was owned by Smith, out of which he was successful in making money. In 1863 he removed to his farm, where he has since lived. He was elected president of the Delhi and In- dustry Turnpike company in 1868, and has held the office ever since. In 1854 he was married to Harriet Alter. She died March 25, 1881. Her parents came to Cincinnati in 1812. Her father was one of the wealthy men of the city in his day.
James H. Silvers, of Delhi, wholesale leaf tobacco dealer, 49 and 51 Front street, Cincinnati, was born at North Bend, 1833. His paternal grandfather, Judge James Silvers, of Pennsylvania, was an early settler of the county, having come here with Judge Symmes, and was an associate judge of the court three consecutive terms of seven years each. He died near the expiration of the third term. Thomas J. Silvers, his son, and father of James H., in 1831, married Miss Sarah A. Moore, the daughter of Samuel and Adelia Moore, nee West, of Pennsylvania, and old pioneers of Anderson Ferry. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch on his mother's side was in the War of 1812. He lived to be sixty-six years of age. The mother of James H. Silvers still lives. She was born in 1814. Her mother was born in Paris, Kentucky, and lived to be sixty years of age.
Mr. James H. Silvers came to Delhi in 1873; Feb- ruary 13, 1878 was married in Nashville, Tennessee, to Miss Jennie Hillis, formerly of Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the well known tobacco dealer on Front street, Cincinnati. His residence is in a beautiful situation, near Delhi, commanding a most delightful view of the Ohio river and the surrounding scenery.
The family of Thomas J. and Sarah A. Silvers con- sisted of James H. Silvers, Mrs. Anna A. Dodd, and Mrs. Ophelia Massy.
RIVERSIDE AND OTHER VILLAGES.
Riverside is the first suburb encountered upon enter- ing the township from the direction of the city, and im- mediately adjoins Sedamsvile, the outermost district of
Cincinnati on the southwest. Five hundred and nine of its acres lie in Delhi township, and one hundred and twenty-four were taken from the old township of Storrs- eight hundred and thirty-three acres in all. For the fol- lowing account of it, with interesting historical notes, the readers of this work are indebted to Mr. A. L. Reeder, postmaster at the Riverside office, who has kindly made a contribution of it to this chapter:
The village of Riverside, made up of parts of Delhi and Storrs town- ships, lies immediately adjoining the western limit of the city of Cincin- nati, and extends westwardly along the bank of the Ohio river to An- derson's Ferry, a distance of about three miles, and had a population of twelve hundred and sixty-eight by the last census, with two hundred and forty-seven voters at the November election of 1880.
The pioneers of early times were Colonel Cornelius R. Sedam, on the east, then Jeremiah Reeder, William S. Hatch, Enoch Anderson, Squire Cullom, and Mr. Sands, on the ministerial section at Anderson's Ferry. All these old settlers passed away years ago. Their lands and homesteads have gone into other hands, and but few of their descend- ants are left in the village to note the wonderful changes that have been wrought by modern civilization and scientific research. Not one of those old settlers could have had the remotest conception of the thun- dering noise and lightning speed of the passing locomotive and attend- ant train of cars, or of the multiplied lines of telegraph wires now in front of their doors, silently conveying with the speed of thought, to and fro, from the uttermost parts of the earth, knowledge and intelli- gence of all current events, or of the brilliant electric light, illuminating, with a dazzling intensity, only excelled by the midday beams of the summer sun, the mysterious telephone, by which we talk with friends miles away, or say to our grocer in the city "Hello! 'Send me down a box of matches, and be quick about it."
The writer of this, one of those descendants, and not a very old man either, remembers well that when a lad, he had to go early in the morning to a neighbor's house, half a mile off, to borrow a shovel of live coals to start the fire on the ancestral hearth, that had died out during the night for want of careful covering up; and this was not a rare occurrence either, for nobody had a match to lend in those days.
The village of Riverside is appropriately named, lying as it does in the valley of the Ohio river, and extending up the romantic slopes of the beautiful hillside, dotted here and there with handsome residences, peering out from glossy bowers of coolest shade, musical with birds, with enchanting views of the far-reaching river and the picturesque and undulating hills of Kentucky. The geographical position of the vil- lage, and the facilities it affords for travel to and from the adjacent city, make it peculiarly adapted for the suburban residence of persons en- gaged in business there. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago, and the Ohio & Mississippi railroads run frequent accommo- dation trains; and in addition there is a street car line from the city post office to about the centre of the village, running every fifteen minutes, and at very low fare.
The public buildings and manufacturing establishments are quite creditable. Two large and handsome school-houses, recently erected, give evidence that the cause of education is prominent in the minds of the citizens. The one church is Episcopal, a blue limestone structure of quaint, old English style. It has quite a fair attendance, considering that many citizens of other denominations attend churches in the city, which they can so readily do on what is called the church train. A large, plain, two-story brick building, called Reeder's Hall, stands nearly opposite the church. It has in the second story a fair-sized pub- lic hall, capable of seating two hundred and fifty people, and is occa- sionally used for concerts, lectures, amateur dramatic entertainments, balls, etc. The lower story is divided up into different apartments, used as council-chamber, store and post office. The new rolling mill at "Cullom's Ripple," recently gone into successful operation, is a very extensive and complete establishment of the kind, and will, no doubt, add to and accelerate the prosperity of the village in a marked degree. The large distillery of Goff, Fleischman & Company has been in oper- ation for several years, and is a model in all its appointments and manner of conducting its business. A leading feature of this establish- ment is the manufacture of "compressed yeast," in a building separate and specially adapted for the purpose, and gives employment to a large number of girls and boys in cutting up into cakes, wrapping in tinfoil and packing into boxes for shipment to the Northern, Southeastern and Western cities.
Immediately west of the distillery is a very large and imposing edifice,
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recently erected by the Cincinnati Cooperage company, on the site of the old factory lately destroyed by fire. The new building is perhaps the most complete and extensive concern in the United States, and is fitted up with a vast amount of costly wood-working machinery, giving employment to several hundred men in the manufacture of all kinds of barrels, kegs, etc. The building is lighted by the Brush electric light, enabling the company to run at night as well as by day, when necessary.
The certificate of incorporation of Riverside village was filed with the Secretary of State, August 20, 1867. The mayor for the first year was Peter Zinn, an old resi- dent here and in Cincinnati, prominently connected with the rolling mill at Cullom's station, who died in the vil- lage in theearly winter of 1880-1. In 1869, 1870 and 1871 the mayor was George A. Peter; 1872-4, Allen A. Reeder.
Within the limits of this corporation the railroads have a number of stations-as Riverside, the first beyond Se- damsville; Mineola, a plat laid out in 1873 by the River- side Land association; Southside, a station on the In- dianapolis railroad between the two; West Riverside, or Cullom's,"where the rolling-mill is situated; and just be- yond Riverside, on the west, is the Anderson's Ferry station. Further west and northwest are Gilead; South Bend or Trautman's station, where Thompson & Com- pany's extensive fertilizing establishment is located; Rapid Run; Industry, a village laid out in 1847 by Messrs. James and Samuel Goudin; Delhi, Home City, Riverdale, and other small stations, which are much used by surburban residents transacting business in the city.
At Industry is located a Catholic church, in charge of Rev. Father H. Kessing.
Nearly opposite this place is the village of Taylorsville, on the Kentucky side of the Ohio.
At Home City, almost immediately adjoining Delhi, is a remarkably large mound, undoubtedly a genuine relic of the Mound Builders. Its regularity has been somewhat impaired by the blowing over of a tree that formerly stood upon it, making a large hole upon one side. Its base is oval-about two hundred by one hun- dred feet in its principal diameters-and its height nearly forty feet. It is now in the field of Mr. R. B. Price, a little way northeast of the railroad, but was once the property of Major Daniel Gano, the veteran clerk of Hamilton county, whose farm covered most of what is now Home City. It is said that the major had a mile- track laid out around this ancient work, upon which he was wont to exercise, train, and speed his numerous and famous horses. He once entertained the old hero of Lundy's Lane, General Winfield Scott, at dinner, and afterwards mounted the general on one of his finest horses, the well-remembered "Wyandot," which moved as if it knew and took pride in his rider, and invited his guest to take his station upon or near the mound, and view the evolutions of the horses about the tracks, which the general did to much satisfaction. The farm here was one of three country estates then owned by Major Gano, the others being at Carthage (this one now occu- pied as the county infirmary premises) and on Brush creek, in Champaign county. He was noted while here for his fine horses, among which were Wyandot, Arab, Conqueror, Comet, and others.
Home City was laid out in 1849 by Stephen Maxon and David Reddington, and was incorporated on the twenty-fifth of July, 1879.
Delphi was platted by Peter Zinn in 1866. It has a large population, numbering over two thousand. Here are a number of notable Catholic institutions; as the church of Our Lady of Victories, in charge of the Rev. Father F. Schumacher; the parochial school attached to the same, with about seventy pupils ; the principal novi- tiate of the Sisters of Charity; and the Boys' Protectory (formerly the residence of the Hon. George W. Skaats, of Cincinnati), in charge of the Brotherhood of St. Fran- cis, with about two hundred boys for inmates. The last is described as "a home for the education and mainten- ance of orphan and other destitute boys between the ages of five and seventeen years, who are taught the rudiments of an education and a useful trade.
A little over two miles north of the Southside station, and about half a mile west of the city limits, near the north line of the township, is the little village of Warsaw, on the turnpike which bears its name. A mile west of it, also upon the turnpike, and intersected by the head- waters of Rapid run, is an extensive cemetery, used by the inhabitants of the township.
Two miles from Warsaw, on the same much-travelled road, is the German village of Petersborough, with a popu- lation of perhaps a hundred.
Moscow is an old village of Delhi, now extinct. The glass-works of Messrs. Pugh & Teater, of Cincinnati, the first in this part of the Ohio valley, were located here be- fore 1826.
POPULATION.
Delhi township shows a satisfactory increase in the number of its inhabitants, as the comparative figures in the census-table, in a previous part of this book exhibit. In 1830, for example, the township had 1,527 people; in 1870, 2,620; in 1880, 4,738.
MOUNT ST. VINCENT ACADEMV-CEDAR GROVE.
Mt. St. Vincent academy, Cedar Grove, situated to the northwest of Cincinnati, and distant nearly two miles directly west from Price's Inclined Plane, is an old es- tablished boarding-school for girls and young ladies. The school is under the charge of the Sisters of Charity, who are a branch of the original order founded in the beginning of this century at Emmettsburgh, Maryland, and who still follow the rules and retain the costume and venerable traditions of their foundress. The buildings are delightfully situated on an elevation remarkable for beauty and variety of scenery, and commanding a charm- ing view of the surrounding country. The grounds, which are greatly undulating and tastefully laid out, in- clude some fifty-four acres, in the centre of which, on a rising plateau, stands the main building of the academy, a brick structure, four stories high, erected in the year 1858. To the west, is the chapel, built in 1875, and ad- joining this, the Sisters' convent, an old building, which, previous to the year 1857, had been the residence of Mr. Alderson. This venerable mansion has acquired a degree of literary celebrity, owing to its having been the
LAMERKECY PHIL
MOUNT ST. VINCENT ACADEMY, (CEDAR GROVE,) CINCINNATI, OHIO,
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home of "Our Cousins in Ohio," who are described in a story bearing that title, written by Mary Howett and published in England. The homestead, including thirty- three acres of land, was purchased by the Sisters March 3, 1857. From Mr. Alderson it had received the desig- nation of "The Cedars," which the Sisters, on coming into possession of the place, changed into Cedar Grove. The academy, built in the following year, was called Mt. St. Vincent, but Cedar Grove is still the more familiar name, dear to the hearts of hundreds who have been educated within its walls and still lovingly cherish its memories.
The sisters having charge of the academy aim at giv- ing young ladies a thorough education in all branches of useful and polite learning, with which they endeavor to combine the sympathetic care, the assiduous watchful- ness, the comforts and the genial influences of home-life, so essential to the proper training of girls, and so greatly valued by parents and guardians.
While all branches necessary to the complete educa- tion of a young lady are taught (including vocal and in- strumental music, Latin and the modern language, math- ematics and the physical sciences), special attention is given to the study of English, and written compositions on subjects adapted to the capacities and acquirements of each pupil, are required throughout the entire course of studies. A long experience in the class room has convinced the Sisters that ease and accuracy in the use of a language, can be gained in no way so rapidly and so satisfactorily as by assiduous practice in composition, under the guidance of efficient teachers. The drill is supplemented by the study of the most approved text- books on grammar, rhetoric, and the history of English literature, and by the analysis of selections from English classics. To still further facilitate this study and render it attractive, the Sisters have collected a library of above four thousand volumes, selected with great care by com- petent persons, and embracing all the more valuable works of the language, to which the pupils have free access, and in the use of which they are encouraged and directed by their teachers.
There is also in the academy a philosophical and chem- ical apparatus of the most approved pattern and work-
manship, sufficiently complete to illustrate all the impor- tant principles of these sciences, in the study of both of which theoretical teaching is accompanied by experiment. A rich collection of globes, maps, and charts, and a cab- inet containing the most important minerals and geologi- cal formations, carefully classified and labelled for refer- ence together with Indian relics and specimens illustrating the religion, arts, and domestic economy of foreign coun- tries and ancient peoples, are a possession highly valued by the Sisters and of great advantage to the pupils in the prosecution of their studies.
Screened from the public gaze by groves of cedar, lo- cust, and maple trees, the school enjoys a seclusion and privacy eminently favorable to study, while the pictur- esque lawns and extensive play-grounds offer every facili- ty for healthy recreation and pleasant exercise. At convenient intervals on the play-ground, and shaded by the clustering vines, are summer-houses, cozy arbors, and secluded nooks, where the pupils gather of summer eve- nings to enjoy the fresh breezes of the western hills and the glories of the setting sun, or whither the more stu- dious retire form noise and distraction, to be alone with their books
To the east of the academy, and entirely hidden from it by the dense foliage, stands a small frame building now called "Seton cottage" but formerly the homestead of Mr. Hotchkiss. Seton cottage, together with ten acres of ground, now laid out in orchards of pear, apple, and cherry trees, a garden and a deer park, was purchased by the Sisters in the year 1868. To the west of the convent are the barn, poultry yard, pastures, laundry, bakery, etc.
Previous to 1869 the Mother house and Novitiate of the community were at Cedar Grove; but in the au- tumn of that year both were transferred to the Biggs' homestead, in Delhi township, now known as St. Joseph's Mother house, Novitiate and Training school. Here novices enjoy every facility for the acquisition of knowl- edge and receive full and thorough instruction in all the branches necessary to fit them to become efficient and competent teachers in parochial schools, above thirty of which the Sisters have at present under their direction in different States of the Union.
GREEN.
DESCRIPTION.
Green is the most regular and symmetrical township in the county. It is a perfect square-an even surveyed township of thirty-six sections, six miles on a side, such as is common in the newer western and northern States, but not in the older settled regions, and of which no other instance is presented in Hamilton county. It lies alto- gether in fractional range two, township two, and is pre- cisely included between the range and township lines, which separate it from Cincinnati and Mill Creek town- ship on the east, Delhi on the south, Miami on the west, and Colerain on the north. Its section lines are run with remarkable correctness, considering that it lies wholly within the Miami Purchase, and might have shared in the troubles caused by the carelessness of the earliest surveyors. Save for some eccentricity in the second meridian east of the township line, the sections are mostly exact square miles, a fact which can be stated, probably, of no other tract of equal size within the Purchase. Stili, its total acreage amounts to but twenty-two thousand seven hundred and fourteen-about an even half-section short of what it should be were all the sections full.
It shares another peculiarity with but three other town- ships in the county-Springfield, Sycamore and Mill Creek-in that its soil is not washed by any stream that can be dignified with the name of river. Neither the Ohio nor the Little Miami, the Great Miami or the Whitewater touch its borders. Its northwest corner ap- proaches within less than a mile of the Great Miami, at the mouth of Taylor's creek, and the southwest corner is about the same distance from the Ohio, at a point between Riverdale and Fern Bank stations.
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