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A saw mill was also built on the J. W. Perkins' property by John Merron but its history is unim- portant.
A tannery was built about the year 1815, on the H. H. Young plan, by Joseph Rogers, who sold it to Joseph Robinson in 1821. Mr. Robinson oper- ated it for four or five years, when it was abandoned.
Gilbert & Spindler's carriage, wagon and black- smith shops are located at Monroe mills. The blacksmith shop has been in operation about forty years. The carriage and wagon shop was erected in 1861, by Harmon Lybarger, who operated it till the spring of 1864, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio volun- teer infantry, and died at Portsmouth, Virginia. The shop was sold by his administrator to Silas A. Spindler, who still operates it, manufacturing wagons and buggies of all kinds, which are ironed by John C. Gilbert.
In 1846 the first store was opened at Monroe mills, by Boynton & Davis, since which time the following persons have engaged in merchandizing at that place : William Shrimplin, Lewis Ralston, John McFarland, James Bebout and M. J. Ranna. The first school-house in the township was built on the C. A. Young property in 1814, and the pioneer teacher was William Marquis. The hewed log house was erected by John Adams in the south- west corner of the township in 1818, and the first brick house was built by James Adams on the Hunt property about the year 1825. Later, brick houses were built by William Marquis and Allen Scott.
Ichabod Coleman, son of Joseph Coleman, claimed to be the first white person born in the township.
In 1830 Andrew Miller kept tavern where the Coshocton road crossed Schneck's creek, since known as Monroe mills, and about the same time a hotel was opened on the Wooster road, known as the "Four Mile House." It was kept at varions times by Clementine Wolverton, R. S. Clements, Charles Bird, William Harold and others. It is no longer used as a public house.
James Martin was the first to introduce fine cattle into the township. In 1860 he brought some fine short-horn Durhams from Kentucky, and has been very successful in their propagation.
Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal church was originally organized at Brown's meeting-house Howard township. Some of the original members were Joseph Brown, Anna Brown, Philip Brown, Mary A. Brown, John Smith, Margaret Miller, Thomas McMann and wife, John Tym and his wife, Elizabeth, John Hunter and wife, Isaac Critch- field and his wife, Sarah, Joel Bartlett and wife, Buckley Willis and his wife, Susan, Richard Lybar- ger and his wife, Rebecca, Walter King and his wife, Sarah, Alexander Lybarger and his wife, Mar- garet, George Lybarger, and his wife, Sarah, Wil- liam King and his wife Mary Ann, John Hardin and his wife, Sophia, A. K. Fobes and wife, Daniel L. Fobes and wife. Joseph Brown was the first classleader, about 1830.
In 1857 it was determined to move the church to Morgan township. Accordingly Joseph Hill do- nated one half acre of ground situated one-half mile south of Monroe Mills, as a building site for a new church. A building committee consisting of Joseph Hill, Nelson Critchfield and Thomas Cald- well was appointed, and a frame building thirty by thirty-five feet was erected in October of the same year. The new church was completed and the first sermon preached in it by Rev. Wolfe June 12, 1858 The dedication sermon was preached by Rev. Daniel Lambert. Subsequently one-half acre ad- joining was purchased for a burial ground and the first persons interred therein were Mary, wife, and Adelaide, daughter of Basil L. Critchfield. This church attained its maximum strength in 1864. The membership was then about sixty. Various causes have tended to weaken it till at the present time the entire membership is but nineteen. J. C. Gilbert is classleader, and John Bennett and J.
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Stough, stewards. Rev. Lorenzo B. Shaw is the present pastor. A Sunday-school of about forty members is attached, and George Bennett is super- intendent.
Ebenezer Methodist Protestant church was or- ganized in August, 1842, by Rev. John Lamb, at the school-house on the Wooster road, near the hotel known as the Four Mile house. The early meetings were held in the above named school. house about two years. The original members were Robert Thompson and wife, Jacob Bricker and wife, Joseph Goodale and wife, George Ben- son and wife, Jeremiah Belt and wife; James Ken- nedy and Lyman Benson. The first house of wor- ship was erected by this congregation in 1844, and the second in 1872. The latter is a neat frame thirty-two by forty feet and is located on the Wooster road one-half mile northeast of the Four Mile house. The successive pastors of this church are as follows: John Lamb, John Dorcas, Moses Scott, A. S. Robinson, J. M. Winn, Thomas Potter Samuel Catlin, John Lamb, N. S. Brown, W. H. Marshall, D. B. Dorsey, E. S. Hoagland, J. Fister, John McFarland, C. C. Ball, J. H. Hamilton, W. A. Sampson, E. W. Grimes, J. M. Woodward, L. Bowman, G. W. Hissey and J. H. Hamilton. A Sunday-school is connected with this church, the date of the organization of which is not now known. The present superintendent is David Adams.
Monroe township was organized in 1825, but no record of early elections has been pre- served. The list of justices of the peace, is as follows: Thomas Dixon, 1821 and 1824; Wil- liam Beck, 1826; Thomas Dixon, 1831and 1834; M. N. Scott, 1836; Thomas Dixon, 1838; M. N. Scott, 1839; Joseph Adams, 1840; Jo- seph Coleman, 1843; M. N. Scott and Thomas Dixon, . 1843; Joseph Coleman, 1844; M. N. Scott and R. S. Clements, 1846; Joseph Coleman, 1847; M. N. Scott and R. S. Clements, 1849; Joseph Coleman, 1850; Isaac Irvine, 1851; M. N. Scott and R. S. Clements, 1852; John Craig, 1854; R. S. Clements and Henry Boynton, 1855; Joseph Hutchinson, 1856; R. S. Clements, 1858; John Hutchinson and James Hutchinson, 1859; Robert S. Clements, 1861; William Hartsock, 1862; John A. Beers, 1864; Allison Adams, 1865; John A. Beers, 1867; Allison Adams, 1868; Wil-
liam Hartsock, 1870; Allison Adams, 1871; John A. Beers and Allison Adams, 1874 and 1877; Alli- son Adams, 1879, George W. Clements, 1880.
From 1855 to 1867 the elections were held in White Hall school-house number five. In the lat- ter year a town house was built in the centre of the township where the elections have ever since been held.
The present board of township officers is con- stituted as follows: Allison Adams and George W. Clements, justices; J. W. Clements and Adam McGough, constables; James W. Davis, clerk; Solomon Doup, James Paige, and LeGrand Mar- shall, trustees ; William Grubb, treasurer; John W. Perkins, assessor; Allison Adams, land appraiser; Solomon Doup, E. S. Graham, Henry Patterson, Rush Stough, and W. B. Dowdz, board of educa- tion.
Monroe township is five and one-half miles square, and returns for taxation 16,465 acres of land. Its population in 1830 was 437; in 1840, 1,258; in 1850, 1,324; in 1860 1,085; in 1870, I,085; and in 1880, 1,028. The number of acres under cultivation in 1880 was 6,296; the number of acres in pasture was 7,490; acres in wheat, I,- 853; bushels of wheat, 24,306; acres in oats, 563; bushels of oats, 18,089; acres in corn, 1,978; bushels of corn, 58,536; acres in meadow, 1,563 ; tons of hay, 1,073; acres in potatoes, 61; bushels of potatoes, 5,553; pounds of butter 48,000; pounds of wool, 22,612; number of horses, 458; assessed value of same, $16,962 ; number of cattle, 1,055; assessed value of same, $14,541; number of sheep, 5,349; assessed value of same, $9,970; number of hogs, 1,504; assessed value, $2,631; moneys and credits, $40,431.
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CHAPTER LXI.
MORGAN TOWNSHIP.
LOCATION-NAME-TOPOGRAPHY-ANCIENT WORKS - AG
RICULTURE - FIRST SETTLERS AND SETTLEMENTS - SKETCHES OF THE PIONEERS-SCHOOLS-CHURCHES.
M "ORGAN belongs to the southern tier of town- ships, with Pleasant on the north, Clay on the east, Licking county on the south, and Miller township on the west. It was named after Gen- eral Daniel Morgan, a noted officer in the Revolu- tionary war. As originally organized, May 2, 1808, it comprised within its limits the present townships of Morgan, Miller, Hilliar, Milford, the west half of Clay, the south half of Pleasant and the south- west quarter of Harrison. In the general reorgani- zations of townships in March, 1825, it was re- duced to its present limits. It is well watered with numerous streams. Sycamore creek, the principal stream, rises in Milford township, flowing generally east and south through the townships, and with Tumas run finds its way into the Licking. Big run, which rises near the village of Martinsburgh, crosses the northwestern part, passing into Pleas- ant. The Rocky fork heads in the eastern part of Morgan, running in a southeasterly direction into Licking county. These are the principal streams, but several small brooks are found in various parts. Muck Shaw run and Owl creek water the northern part.
There are several mounds in the township, one of these, on the farm of James Campbell, is about five feet high and forty feet in diameter. Some years since it was opened, and ashes and charcoal were found, but no remains of human beings. In the immediate vicinity an unusually large number of Indian arrowheads were found by the early set- tlers. The other mounds have not yet been ex- plored.
Agriculturally considered the land is excellent. The soil is very rich and productive, and Morgan township is noted for the wealth of its farmers, and the large crops of wheat, corn and vegetables raised.
The timber presents the usual varieties in Ohio -- beech, sugar, poplar, walnut, ash and oak. Al- though much of this timber has been cleared away, there still remains large forests of red and white
oak, beech, sugar and poplar, and it is claimed that there is more valuable timber in Morgan than any other one township in the county. The land is owned comparatively by a few individuals, and is not divided into small farms as is general through- out the county.
The inhabitants are made up largely of Virgin- ians and Pennsylvanians, and their descendants. The Pennsylvanians preponderate. There is also a sprinkling of the New Jersey and Maryland ele- ments. There are but few foreigners in this or the other townships in the southern part of the county. The absence of the foreign element is a noticeable feature, and probably but few localities in Ohio, of equal population, can compare with it in this respect.
No colored persons are residents of this town- ship at this time.
The first settlers located their lands in the west- ern part of the township.
John Green was probably the first white man to settle within the present limits of Morgan. He came from Maryland about the year 1805 or 1806, entering land in the northwestern part of the town- ship. He was a prominent citizen in early times, and served as justice of the peace and in other local offices for many years.
Cornelius Bartalow, sr., was one of the very first to settle here. He emigrated from Martinsburgh, Virginia, in 1806, and located forty acres of mili- tary land near the village of Utica, Licking county. When he came Indians were numerous, and were about all the neighbors he had for some years. After residing some years here, he removed to Clay township, near the village of Martinsburgh, where he died in 1814, and was the second person buried in the cemetery at that place.
Azariah Davis came from Green county, Penn- sylvania, and settled in Utica, Licking county. He was born in 1756, and was a participant in the war for independence. The season prior to his removal from Pennsylvania, he harvested a crop of wheat which he threshed and hauled to Zanesville, Ohio, where he had it ground into flour and stored in a mill at that place. As often as the necessities of his family required it he went to Zanesville and procured flour from this storage. By this precau- tion his family was well provided with breadstuffs
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until he could clear up a patch of land and raise a crop. Although Mr. Davis lived several years among the Indians, he had little difficulty in living peaceably with them. He raised a family of nine children, all of whom are dead but Mrs. Rachel Stevens, who resides at Utica, Licking county, in the eighty-fourth year of her life.
Jacob Hanger came from Virginia about the year 1809, and settled in the southeastern part of the township. He was married to Miss Rebecca Davis about 1796, and reared a family of twenty children, ten sons and ten daughters. He was a man of strict integrity and figured quite promi- nently in the early history of Knox county. He served twenty-one years as justice of the peace in this. township, and was otherwise honored by his neighbors with local offices. He died in 1834.
The Pumphreys were among the pioneer fami- lies of Morgan who were quite prominent in its early history. They were zealous Methodists, distin- guished for their piety, intelligence, and hospitality, and their home was the stopping place of all the early itinerant ministers of that denomination. Caleb, the patriarch of the family, died in 1817. There are none of the family now residing here.
John Sellers, still living in Morgan, is the largest landholder in the township. He is the owner of eleven hundred acres of valuable land. Mr. Sellers came from Green county, Pennsylvania, in 1823, located two hundred and fifty acres of land in the northern part of this township, erected a cabin, re- turned to Pennsylvania, and permanently removed to Morgan in 1824, where he has since resided. He is possessed of great energy and perseverance, which is no doubt the secret of his success in accu- mulating property. He is now about eighty-five years of age. In connection with Mr. Seller's his- tory it would be proper to mention the memorable tornado, known as the "Burlington storm," which passed over his place on the eighteenth day of May, 1825. It originated near Burlington, now Homer, Licking county, entering the southwest corner of Morgan, and sweeping across the township from southwest to northeast. Its path through this town- ship was from one-half to three-fourths of a mile in width. It caused a terrible destruction of timber, fences, cabins, etc. Thousands of forest trees were uprooted or twisted off at the tops; houses were
torn down or unroofed, fences prostrated and the rails carried through the air, shingles were blown from Homer into this township, and a featherbed was taken up from a dwelling house and lodged in a tree in Harrison township, several miles distant. James Honey had five head of cattle and three horses killed, and Mr. Sellers had many acres of timber prostrated. After it became thoroughly dry he fired it, and it was completely consumed. He was saved the labor and expense of chopping down the trees and rolling the logs together, and thus the old adage was verified that "it is an ill wind that blows nobody good." The roads in the township lying in the path of the tornado, were all blockaded by the fallen timber, and all the able bodied men in the neighborhood were busy in removing the debris, and bringing order out of confusion. Prov- identially no one was killed or severely injured in this township, although there was a loss of life in other places where the storm passed by. It spent its force among the Mohican hills.
Aaron Davis came from Essex county, New Jersey, in 1819, and was at one time the only Whig voter in this township. In course of time he was reenforced by another Whig, a Mr. Mc- Farland.
Mr. Davis was of Revolutionary stock, his father, Joseph Davis, having served several years in the patriot army, being for a time one of General Washington's body-guards. When the British army occupied Elizabethtown, New Jersey, he was engaged to be married in two weeks, and had pur- chased his wedding suit, which the British secured with the other plunder, and he afterwards saw an English officer wearing it. The proposed marriage was postponed until after the close of the war.
Aaron Davis resided many years in this town- ship, and was an honorable, upright citizen and an active working member of the Martinsburgh Pres- byterian church. He died in 1842.
Johr. F. McLain, another prominent citizen, re- moved to Morgan from Pennsylvania in 1828. He was a large landholder and extensive stock dealer, and was several years part owner of a store in Mt. Vernon. He died in 1858.
The Bells have long been prominent citizens both of Morgan township and of Ohio. James Bell emigrated from Green county, Pennsylvania,
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in 1815. He hauled his household goods in wagons from Pennsylvania, and was sixteen to seventeen days on the road, settling in the eastern part of Morgan township, where he resided until his death, which occurred in June, 1867. His son Samuel, who was born in 1800, and who now re- sides in Licking county, was also an early settler in this township, having removed with his father in 1815 from Pennsylvania. He was married in 1819 to Miss Betsey Hannah, by whom he had ten children ; only one, his son Lee, is now residing in Morgan township. Another of his sons, William Bell, has long been a prominent Democratic politi- cian of Ohio. He has served several terms as sheriff and auditor of Licking county; was elected secretary of State in 1864, and served one term as railroad commissioner, by appointment of Gover- nor Bishop. Samuel Bell is still living in the en- joyment of reasonable health and a competency. He has long been an earnest member of the Bell Disciple church.
John Clutter came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and settled near the centre of the township. He has been twice married, and reared fourteen children. He has been a member of the Owl Creek Baptist church thirty-six years, and has served several terms as justice of the peace. Eight of his children are still living, and all but two residents of Knox county.
Jacob Sperry was an early settler, and influential man in this township. He was born in Hardy county, Virginia, April 24, 1789, and removed to this township in 1812, settling about two miles from Utica, Licking county. He was married January 6, 1813, to Miss Mary Wilson, of Virginia, who bore him seven children. He was a promi- nent and active member of the Owl Creek Baptist church, not in its early history, but in later years. Mr. and Mrs. Sperry were killed by the cars of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad while crossing the track, with their team on the second of August, 1872.
James Honey came from Virginia in 1818, and settled on the third military section. At that date wild animals were numerous, and he had much trouble in protecting his flocks of sheep from de- predations by wolves. His neighbors, when he first moved into the township, were John Green, Jacob Sellers and John Lash. For some years he
hauled his wheat to Zanesville, where he sold it for thirty-one and one-fourth cents per bushel, and paid five dollars per barrel for his salt. He is still a resident of Morgan, and is eighty-seven years old.
David Campbell, who was born in Ohio county, Virginia, in 1793, came to Morgan in 1824, locat- ing one hundred and forty acres on military lot, No. 14. He was married in 1817, to Miss Maria Vance, of Virginia. They had three children: James, Elizabeth and Margaret. James still resides in the township, and is a Republican politician of some local prominence, and a leading member of the Baptist church. Among the early settlers in addition to those mentioned were Abram Debolt, Moses Mariott, John Boyle, John Dunlap, William Beam, Samuel Harrod, Philip Melker, Philip Smith, Abner Brown, George Cooper, John Harris, Jonathan Agnew, John Vance, Michael Mills, Titus Rigby, Cornelius Callihan, Abraham Carnes, Isaac Beam, Smith Hadley, David Debolt, Bernard Reece and William Green. As far as ascertained they are all dead.
The Browns were a prominent family, and among them several good hunters. On one occasion the elder Brown, needing some articles that could not be had without money, determined upon securing a bear, as bear hides always brought the cash. For this purpose he went out one moonlight night, tak- ing his dogs, his flint-lock rifle and one of his sons, the latter carrying an axe. The dogs were success- ful in treeing a bear, and Mr. Brown fired at it, but on account of the insufficiency of light only wounded it in the leg. This was, however, suf- ficient to bring bruin to the ground, where he was fiercely attacked by the dogs, several of which he wounded in the fight, and one was killed. The boy came bravely to the rescue with the axe, and the bear was finally dispatched. Adventures of this character were frequent in those days.
The first wedding in the township was that of Thomas Huston and Elizabeth Brown, and the first funeral was that of Calvin Brown, and the second that of a Mrs. McLain. John Harrod was the first person buried in the Owl Creek Baptist cemetery, and Ziba Leonard, sr., the second. James and Asa Beam probably built the first saw-mill. It was situated on the head waters of the Rocky fork.
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John Lash also erected a saw-mill at an early date. There have never been any grist-mills built within the present limits of the township.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad runs north and south across the entire western part of Morgan, but there is no station in the township.
The first road was the one leading from Mt. Vernon to Newark, which was cut out about 1805 or 1806. The second was the Utica and Martins- burgh, laid out about 1817.
Ziba Leonard, jr., now living in Martinsburgh, claims to have taught the first school. The school- house was a small log cabin, on Benjamin Bell's farm. It had no floor and greased paper consti- tuted the windows. It was in the summer when he taught this school, and neither the teacher nor any of his scholars wore any covering on their feet dur- ing the entire term.
Among the students who attended this school were Luther Brown, Eleazer Brown, Joseph Hunt, James and Asa Beam, Maria Spratt, Uriah Reece, and John Hays. Mr. Leonard charged one dollar and a half per scholar for tuition, and says he "never got half of that." James Kirkland prob- ably taught the second school in the township. All of the householders in Morgan township who had children of sufficient age, patronized these schools. The log school-houses have been supersceded by neat and commodious brick and frame buildings.
Probably the first church in Morgan was built in the western part, on the Mt. Vernon and Newark road, about 1807 or 1808, and was of logs. Ben- jamin Leonard, a bachelor, and a very zealous Presbyterian, was the prime mover in its erection. In this house, on the Sabbath day, a few individ- uals religiously inclined would assemble. Leonard would lead in prayer, and read a sermon from an old book published in England two hundred years ago, and which is now in possession of Ziba Leon- ard. He would also appoint prayer meetings to be held on week-day evenings, in the settlers' cabins; and he never neglected an opportunity to sow the seeds of gospel truth. His earnest, un- pretentious labors were blessed, and their fruits are seen to this day. The Martinsburgh Presbyterian church, one of the strongest country churches of that denomination in the county, sprung from this little band of Christian pioneers; for after worship-
ping some years in this little log church the or- ganization was transferred to Martinsburgh and merged into the Presbyterian church of that village.
The Owl Creek Baptist church was organized in 1809, by the Rev. Amos Mix. The society wor- shipped in a log church from 1809 to 1842. In the latter year a neat and substantial frame house of worship was erected, at a cost of six hundred dollars. The present brick structure was built in 1865, and dedicated February 4, 1866. Its cost was forty-two hundred dollars. This old organi- zation is one of the strongest Baptist churches, both numerically and financially, in the county. Rev. Amos Mix was its pastor from 1809 to 1817; Thomas Rigdon, 1817-33; Revs. Ashbrook and James Berry, 1833-4; Rev. Kauffman, 1834-7; James Seymore, 1837-42; D. E. Thomas, B. Thomas, and Benjamin H. Pierson, 1842-4; D. D. Walden, 1844-7; C. Platt, 1847-52; €. E. N. Willoughby, 1852-4; N. Martin, 1854-7; Rev. Wilson, 1857-8; Rev. Fink, 1858-9; Rev. Stan- ley, 1859-63; John Letts, 1863-8; D. B. Simms, 1868-71; C. King, 1872; L. Yarnall, 1872-4; A. J. Wiant, 1874-8. The present pastor, J. Tudor Lewis, settled with the church in May, 1879.
The original number of members was twelve. The present membership is one hundred and ninety-six. This church has been visited with sev- eral revivals. During the pastorate of the Rev. D. E. Thomas, in the winter of 1843, sixty were added to the church; in the winter of 1854, thirty- seven; in the winter of 1859, fifty; and in the winter of 1865, forty-eight. A parsonage was erected in 1858. A Sabbath-school was organized in 1840; W. O. B. Honey is the present superin- tendent.
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