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"December 4th, 1839.
The new township, thus formed, comprised that portion of Blue Rock township lying west of the Muskingum river in range twelve, one row of sections from the eastern part of Brush Creek township in range thirteen, and one section of Salt Creek township lying west of the river.
It was named by John Hammond, in honor of General W. H. Harrison.
The records of the township are lost, and no account of the first Board of officers can now be given. The first Justices of the Peace, however, were J. W. Whisson and William Price. Solomon Groves and Henry Ballou were also early dispensers of justice.
The present Board of officers is as follows :
Justices of the Peace-Peter Krier and Martin Durant.
Trustees-John Lear, Hiram Lucas, and Hiram Price.
Clerk-Noah M. Shiveley.
Treasurer-Wm. Williamson.
Constables-Jacob F. Berkemer and Samuel Pryor.
Assessor-William Cohagan.
Land Appraiser-J. P. Weaver.
Board of Education-Hiram Price, Christian Dreier, Joseph Daw and John McHenry.
The township contains seven schools and six churches, three of the former and four of the latter being within the limits of the borough of Taylorsville.
TAYLORSVILLE CANAL.
This canal is a part of the system of "improve- ments in the navigation of the Muskingum." It is one mile long, and was built by the State. Lyons, Buck and Wolf, were the contractors. Christley Wolf superintended the work, which was finished in 1840.
The locks are thirty-six feet wide, and two hundred feet long.
METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH.
Rev. Nathaniel Linder, in 1842, preached in the woods, where Hiram Price now lives, on the bank of the Muskingum, and organized a class of fifteen or twenty members, amongst whom were Robert Welch and wife, also two daughters, Peter Mohler and family, James Morrison and wife, Mrs. David Young, Isaiah Dinnis and wife, Joseph Fish and Robert Twyman.
In 1843, Rev's. J. Huntsman and James Winn, inaugurated a revival, when the membership was augmented to one hundred and twelve, and a
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meeting house built near the centre of section thirty, on the land of Mathias Young, 24x28, which stood till 1869, when a new frame build- ing, 34x38, was erected, at a cost of $1, 100.
This church was dedicated in May, 1870, by Rev's. J. C. Ogle and George H. Hissey.
The present membership is eighty.
The present pastor is Rev. William Sears.
Class Leaders-Hiram Price and F. A. Riley.
BLUE ROCK METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI.
The first class of this church was formed by Rev. Samuel Hamilton, with Joseph Kirk as leader. Other members were, John Hammond and wife, Frederick Barringer and wife, John White and wife, James Shaner and wife, John W. Bear and wife, and Susan Adams.
The first meeting house was of hewed logs, 20x25, and was erected on section eleven, be- tween the forks of Blue Rock creek.
The second church building, a frame, 26x30, was erected near the same place, in 1852.
The maximum membership attained was sev- enty-five. The present membership does not exceed forty.
Rev. J. M. Sollars is the present pastor.
John Stecker is Leader, and Lyman Dozer, Steward.
TAYLORSVILLE LODGE, NO. 534, I. O. O. F.
This Lodge was instituted July 30th, 1872, by Henry Lindenberg, Special Deputy Grand Master, with fourteen charter members, as fol- lows :
Basil Kraig, Oliver Demster, John Mason, Joseph Baughman, Warren Pitts, Sidney Wag- staff, William Lucas, Peter Hoppstatter, Phillip Schaus, James S. Kraig, Zach. Riley, Jacob Hall, Peter Mast and Robert Longley.
The first officers elected, were as follows :
N. G., Basil Kraig ; V. G., Oliver Demster ; Recording Secretary, J. S. Kraig ; Permanent Secretary, J. R. Peach ; Treasurer, Peter Mast.
When this Lodge was instituted, it met in a hall leased of Mrs. Dr. Stout, for a term of five years. Before the expiration of this lease, a new hall was built, and dedicated July 4th, 1877. Cost of hall and fixtures $950.
The maximum number of members is seventy- four. The present number of members is seventy.
The present officials are as follows :
N. G., Christian Dreier; V. G., Marion Erwine ; Recording Secretary, John Barber ; Permanent Secretary, John W. Tignor ; Treas- urer, E. Jasper Souders.
TAYLORSVILLE BRIDGE.
This very necessary public improvement was projected by Mr. Gearing Scarvell, in 1873, and was intended to be built by subscrip- tion, but as this would have necessitated making it a toll bridge, the County Commissioners were . finally induced to assume the responsibility of making a county bridge, and the work was com- menced July 1, 1874. T. B. Townsend had the
contract for the stone work, which was finished in the latter part of September of the same year.
The contract for the super-structure was awarded to the "Smith Bridge Company," ofTo- ledo, Ohio, who completed the entire structure about the middle of November, 1874. This bridge is seven hundred and ninety-eight feet long, and sixteen feet wide, supported by four piers,each thirty-three feet high ; the whole, cost- ing, when finished, twenty-eight thousand dol- lars.
ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH.
This church was organized April 11, 1878, by Rev. Andrew Birch, with a membership of fifty. A lot was purchased in Taylorsville, in October, 1878, and a foundation laid for a church building. The next spring the corner-stone of a building thirty-six by fifty feet, was laid, a frame church erected, and dedicated September 28, 1879. The dedication sermon was preached in German, by Rev. H. Cramer, of Zanesville, and in English, by Prof. M. Loy. The cost of the building was $1,000. Present number of members, sixty.
Elders-Jacob Mast and Jacob Leffler.
Deacons-Jacob Harsh and Jacob Maurtz.
Trustees-Peter Weaver and Benjamin Smith. Pastor-Rev. Andrew Birch.
MILITARY RECORD OF HARRISON TOWNSHIP.
Second Regiment O. V. I .- Jackson Nichols, Isaiah Poland, John Bowman, James H. Shep- pard, David E. Sheppard, John Lawson, Daniel Brown, Lewis Young, George Sullivan, Noah Kincade, John Brown, Henry Sullivan, Josiah Thompson, Rufus Toll, Lewis Toll. Captain H. Lee Anderson, John Berkermer, David Lawson, Christian Hock, Martin W. Sullivan, George Wolfe, Wesley Miller, George Rush.
Third Regiment O. V. I .- John W. Tigner, Jacob Shryder, Caleb Nicholas, John Reed.
Fifteenth U. S. Regulars .- John P. Krier, Phillip Shause, Hiram Lucas, Jr.
Twenty-fourth Regiment O. V. I .- George B. Howard, James Sullivan, Mountz Nichols, Robt. Longley, Jacob Longley, George Longley, Wil- liam Hapton, JohnRiddle, Thomas Lear, James Savage, George Arndt.
Seventy-eighth Regiment O. V. I .- W. H. Sullivan, John W. Garrett, David F. Sullivan. Sullivan L. Bailey, John Kinney.
One Hundred and Twenty-second O. V. I .- John Hussmaul, George Dennick, Win. Aichle, Jacob Urban, Frederick Young, John A. Good, David Hopslatter, Jerome Romine. Harry D. Thompson, Rufus G. Mason, Joseph Longley, George Andrews, John Andrews, Charles Kin- cade, James Luman, Jos. Frost, Alfred Kincade, John E. Arndt, Joseph Baughman, Hiram Bangh- man, Jeremiah Sheppard, Stephen Harrope. Calvin Thompson, Robert Lawson, Albert Moore, William H. Sheppard, Robert Hambler, William Hambler.
Sixteenth Regiment O. V. I .- Jacob Hadley, John Barber, William Swingle.
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One Hundred and Tenth Regiment O. V. I .-- Anthony Trout, Abram Leffler.
Second West Virginia Cavalry .- Jonathan HIall, Isaiah Hall, Calvin Bartlett, Alfred Ander- son.
Fifth Cavalry .- Lewis Epley.
Twelfth Cavalry-Peter Leffler.
Ninety-seventh Regiment O. V. I .- Caleb Monroe, George W. Olden, William D. Weaver, Charles Sailers, - Morrison, Asbury Lu- man, Henry Romine, James Hankison, Joseph Emenhoser.
United States Gunboat Service .- Lewis H. Cockrel, Phillip Dennick, Noah M. Kincade. George W. Seright, Robert Prescott.
One Hundred Days Service .- Peter Krier, William Riley, Aquilla Neff. Stephen Neff.
One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Regiment O. V. I .- William Good.
Ninety-seventh Regiment O. V. I .- George Swingle, William Franklinburg.
[We are indebted to Mr. J. P. Weaver for the foregoing list. ]
JEFFERSON AND CASS TOWNSHIPS.
DISTINGUIS11ED PIONEERS-CHARACTER OF THE REGION FOR FARMING-SAGACITY OF MR. JON- ATIIAN CASS-HIS DISTINGUISHED SONS-BRY- ANT. STILWELL. SET11 ADAMS AND OT11ER NOTABLES-THE FIRST BIRTH-THE WATER COURSES-EARLIEST ELECTION-FIRST MILLS- TAVERNS-SALT-COAL-DISTILLERS -PHYSI- CIANS-BLACKSMITHS-CEMETERIES-CANAL - BONDS-DIVISION OF TOWNSHIP-CASS TOWN- SHIP OFFICERS-DRESDEN-DRESDEN MAYORS- POST OFFICE-FIRST HOUSES-FIRST STORES- DRESDEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-DRESDEN PRESBYTERIAN S. S .- MASONIC - FRIENDSHIP LODGE, F. AND A. M .- SCHOOLS-BOARD OF EDUCATION-M. E. CHURCH-DRESDEN M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL-ZION EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND - SUNDAY SCHOOL-DRESDEN BAPTIST CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL-CATHOLIC CHURCH- GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH-ODD-FELLOWS- -
TELEGRAPH-BANKS-GERMAN M. E. CHURCH- CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL- MILLS-SCHOOLS-LIBERTY C11APEL- [CHRIS- TIAN CHURCH -" HOPPER'S GROVE" M. E.
CHURCH - PHYSICIANS - DISTILLERY - ORCH- ARDS-FIRST BRICK HOUSE-STORES - TAV- ERNS-POST OFFICE - RAILROADS - DRESDEN JUNCTION-TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
The settlement of this region, by reason of the subsequent exaltation of some of the pioneers and their descendents, presents more than ordi- nary claims to historic interest, as will be seen by the list. Seth Adams and Major Jonathan Cass came here in 1799. The latter located forty land warrants for one hundred acres each, making four thousand acres. This fact would be quite sufficient if we had no other, to establish the claim made to superior soil and adaptation to farm- ing purposes in general, when we admit, as we
must, the sagacity of Mr. Cass. In 1801, he brought his family here, and on this land lived until August 4, 1830, when he died, aged 77 years, and was buried there. He had three sons : Lewis, George W., and Charles L. Lewis became a historic character, whose fame went beyond the domains of America ; was Gov- ernor of the territory of Michigan, and filled with distinction other important offices, civil and military. George lived quietly on the original Cass farm, never taking an active part in other than local politics, although frequently solicited to fill State offices. He died in August, 1873, aged 88. He was the father of Dr. Edward Cass, of Dresden. Charles L. served with dis- tinction in the war of 1812. The citizens of Zanesville presented him with a magnificent sword for his gallantry at the battle of Fort Erie. He was the father of Mrs. Mary E. Adams, now living in Dresden. He died in 1842, and was buried in the family burying ground, on the old Cass farm. In 1875, the remains of Major Jona- than Cass were removed to. the Dresden ceme- tery, by Dr. Edward Cass, and over the remains of the family in their final resting place has been erected a magnificent mounument, by the Cass family. Beneath the name of Jonathan Cass is this inscription : " He was a soldier at the battle of Bunker Hill; an officer of the Revolution, and of the army, which, under General Wayne, gave peace to the frontier. From New England, he emigrated to this part of the wilds of the Northwestern Territory. On the military land he purchased, he lived a peaceful and quiet life thirty years, until death claimed him for a vic- tim."
Isaac Cordray and his son George came soon after. Mordecai Ogle came in 1802, and settled on the farm now owned by Mrs. Mary E. Cox, about half a mile northeast of the village of Dres- den. George Dowell came early in 1804. His daughter, Mrs. Mary Ogle, was living in the township in 1880, in her 78th year.
Joseph Bryant came in 1818; Daniel Stilwell about the same time ; Simeon and Leonard Wil- son came in 1820. Mr. Seth Adams is credited by tradition with bringing the first blooded sheep into the United States, into Ohio, and into this section of the country. They were full blooded Merinos. He is also credited with planting the first tomatoes, having received the seed from New Orleans.
The first birth in this region is not definitely determined, but is supposed to have been the child that was called B. F. Lemert, who in process of time came to be the popular Dr. B. F. Lemert. Topographically, the townships compare favora- bly with any other portions of the county. The soil on the uplands is limestone clay, and in the lowlands a sandy loam. The forests are not ex- tensive, nor of many varieties. The principal kinds of trees being white oak, hickory, black walnut and poplar, cherry and sycamore.
The Muskingum River, on the eastern border, receives the Wakatomaka, the mouth of which is at the northeastern boundary of Dresden ;
DRY GOODS
CARP
DIL CLOTH
L. J. LEMERT & SON'S Dry Goods Store and Banking House, Dresden, O.
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OFFICE.
L. RAMBO & CO'S Woolen Mill, Dresden, Ohio.
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this stream courses from its entrance into the township of Cass, on the central western boun- dary, northward and then southeast, and re- ceives " Paddy's Fork," and several smaller and nameless tributaries.
The most noted mound in the township is half a mile east of the road between Dresden Junction and Dresden, on land belonging to G. W. Adams. It is probably an Indian mound, but has not been explored.
The earliest record of the election of township officers that we have found is as follows : " Agreeable to an election held at the house of Henry Northrup, on the first Monday in April, 1805, for the purpose of electing town officers for the township of Jefferson, there were elected the following persons :
"Trustees-Seth Carhart, Valentine Johnson and Isaac Cordray.
"Overseers of the Poor-John Wamsley and James Sprague.
"Fence Viewers-James Wilcox and William Elben.
"Listers and Appraisers-Peter Reasoner and Jacob Jackson.
"Supervisors of Highways-Henry Northrup and James Tanner.'
At this time, John Cain was Township Clerk, and not being elected at this election, it is rea- sonable to conclude that there was an election, perhaps more than one, prior to this one. The following persons have served as Township Clerk :
John Cain, 1805: Henry Northrup, Silas Smith, James W. Wood, Joseph W. Pigman, each one year, in the order named : Littleton Adams, 1815-17 ; George Beard 1818-23 : H. F. Hogan, David Witt, Abraham H. Wood, A. M. Lewis, Samuel Adams, D. C. Bruce, Martin Hill. each one year; M. A. Webster, 1840-1; C. F. Currier, 1842-4: D. R. Noble, 1845-6 : W. B. Abbott, 1847-50 : A. Slaughter, 1851-65 L. J. Lemert, to 1859; Thos. B. Cresap, J. J. Martin, G. P. Kittand, George Eagan. 1863 : John II. Ash, 1866-70; E. J. Rambo, 1871-3 ; L. J. Lemert, 1874-6 ; J. C. Adams and W. E. Smith, 1880.
Justices of the Peace-February 15th, 1806, Isaac Cordray was elected a Justice of the Peace, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Seth Carhart : April Ist, 1809, Joseph Scott was elected Justice of the Peace, without opposition.
FIRST MILLS.
Wyllys Silliman. (son-in-law of Major Jona- than Cass. ) had a saw-mill and grist-mill in operation on Wakatomaka creek, near the pres- sent railroad bridge, before 1806. The dam belonging to this mill was washed away in 1832. and never rebuilt.
TAVERNS.
John Cordray opened tavern in a log cabin, on the site now occupied by the Akeroyd House, before 1818. Abraham Smith kept this institu- tion a few years later. Mr. Smith also taught school.
SALT.
Wyllys Silliman was engaged in the manufac- ture of salt at an early day. His works were at his mill, the description and location of which is found elsewhere.
COAL.
Coal was mined in small quantities previous to 1865, but the mines have since been abandoned.
DISTILLERIES.
Joseph Munroe was engaged in the manufac- ture of whiskey, prior to 1819. His still was on the Munroe farm, four miles up the Muskingum river from Dresden. Laban Lemert had a dis- tillery, probably in 1822. Henry and Benjamin Roop, of Buffalo, New York, were extensive distillers in 1833. At the present time, this busi- ness is entirely discontinued in this township.
PHYSICIANS.
Benjamin Webb engaged in the practice of medicine before 1819. His son, Nathan, suc- ceeded him in the business. In 1823-4. Francis Fowler, the second physician, came into the township.
BLACKSMITHI.
As a rule, this industry was inaugurated at the inception of the settlement: however, we have no record concerning any smithy, until 1820, when Otho Miller came and opened his shop. about half a mile south of Dresden.
CEMETERIES.
The first public cemetery was located east of the canal, near where it is now crossed by a bridge. as you pass east from Dresden. When the canal was built, the bodies buried here were removed to the Dresden cemetery.
The present Dresden cemetery was laid out in 1829, and is owned by the village of Dresden. It contains twelve acres, and is beautifully laid out.
CANAL.
In this township, work was begun upon the main line of the Ohio Canal in 1822, and com- pleted in 1829. The Dresden side-cut, through Dresden, was ready for use in 1831.
BONDS VOTED-DIVISION OF TOWNSHIP.
At a special election, held April ist. 1852. it was voted by the tax payers, to issue to the Steubenville & Indiana Railway Company. (now the Pan Handle Railway. ) township bonds to the amount of $100,000, to aid in the construc- tion of this road. These bonds were to bear seven per cent. interest, payable semi-annually. on the the first day of January and July, and to mature January Ist, 1862. This first issue of bonds was soon all taken up and burned by the township Trustees, because the County Auditor refused to register and officially sign them. July 22d. 1852, the Trustees re-issued these bonds, as set forth in the extract from the official record. given below : "After due consideration, the Trustees took up, and destroyed by fire. the said
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$100,000 of bonds, and executed and delivered to said railroad company, in lieu thereof, one hundred bonds of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each, and numbered one to one thousand, con- secutively, and dated them the same as the former issue, to-wit : April Ist 1852."
Out of the issue of these bonds, grew the trouble which, in October, 1853, resulted in the division of the township.
At the special election, held to vote upon the issue, or non-issue of these bonds, three hundred and forty votes were cast in favor of having them issued, and only one hundred and fourteen against the measure. The voters of the village of Dresden, voted almost to a man in favor of the scheme, while most of the voters against it, were farmers throughout the township. The original idea, which predominated among the farmers, was that they would have the township divided, and thus escape paying any portion of the bonds. Although they succeeded in their effort to be cut off from Dresden, the law de- cided that that act did not release them from paying their portion of the bonds, as they became due.
Before these bonds were finally all paid, they cost the tax payers of the two townships-Cass, the new one formed, and Jefferson-about $200,- 000. It is needless to say that the citizens of this section of the county will be in no hurry to again assume a like indebtedness.
DIVISION OF THE TOWNSHIP.
TUESDAY, September 6, 1853.
The Commissioners resumed the consideration of the matter relating to the erection of a new township, out of the territory comprising Jeffer- son township, and order that a new township shall be erected out of said territory, to be known by the name of Cass township, and to contain territory agreeably to the petition in relation to the same ; which petition included the whole of Jefferson township, excepting the district includ- ed within the following boundaries, viz. : "Com- mencing on the Muskingum River, below Dres- den, at a point where the southeast corner of Charles Dickenson's land, and the northeast cor- ner of Thompson Ferrell's land unite, being on the east boundary of Jefferson township, running thence west on the line between said Dickenson and Ferrell's land, to the southeast corner of George W. Lane's land, being lot number seven- teen ; thence north to the center of Wakatomaka Creek ; thence down said creek, in the center thereof, to the eastern boundary of Jefferson town- ship ; thence along said eastern boundary, down the Muskingum River to the place of beginning.
"The Commissioners caused notices to be writ- ten and sent them by Jas. Morgan, with directions to put them up in three of the most public places within the new township of Cass ; which notices appointed the 19th day of the present month for the electors to meet at the school house, in sub- district number five, in part of Jefferson town- ship, this day formed by the Commissioners of Muskingum County in the aforesaid new town-
ship of Cass, for the purpose of electing persons having the qualifications of electors. to fill the several offices of said newly formed township." Commissioners' journal, 1853, the 28th and 29th pages, although the pages are not numbered.
CASS TOWNSHIP OFFICERS, IN 1854.
Trustees-Maxwell McCann and Alexander Struthers : Clerk, D. D. McGinnis ; Treasurer. Richard Morgan ; Constable, William K. Burch ; Justice of the Peace, J. S. Tremley, who sup- poses the following is a correct list of Supervis- ors, in the order given : William Cass, Carter Garret, William Butler, Daniel Wolford, Thomas Morgan, D. Pence, and John Holmes.
[The foregoing information was furnished by Henry W. Kipp, Township Clerk. ]
DRESDEN.
Dresden was laid out prior to 1819, on land owned, at the time, by Mr. Baker. The town was incorporated March 8, 1835. and now the corporate limits embrace the entire township of Jefferson. The industries and accessories are a matter of surprise to many visiting this village, bespeaking a permanent prosperity, seldom found in places of the same area and population.
The exports are grain, flour, wool, and woolen goods, and hard wood lumber. In May, 1878, the amount of corn shipped amounted to one hun- dred car loads. The amount of flour shipped weekly is five hundred barrels.
Topographically, this is a beautiful place for a city, and the advantages are being successfully utilized. The paved side-walks. and umbrageous trees invite the pedestrian, for pleasure, as well as for business, to the arcade of foliage in either direction. In a town a hundred years old, more or less, if the town has remained comfortably small. and business and trade. and the stirring young men have gone by it, and even out of it, rather than into it, and over it, there may be found by any good eyes, this day. old ways handed down along with old houses. and tables, and chairs, and bedsteads, and iron-ware. silver. china, and delft-ware, aye, and along with old stories, also.
Of this sort, is the good town of Dresden. Perhaps, because the man who named it had a presentiment that the situation and the struggles for success would be similar to that where the fa- mous battle was fought between the allied armies. under Prince Swartzenberg, and the French army, commanded by Napoleon, August 26th and 27th, 1813. However this may be, the Dres- den of which we speak. has fought the battle of the pioneers, and their successors, with admira- ble success, notwithstanding the town has some of its old houses left. and a good many of its old things and old ways. Fifty years ago, the streets were mostly as they had been for centuries be- tore, and had changed only in that slow and steady putting up, and slow and steady renewing of houses. Sometimes an old house would seem half crushed by its long, hobbly, moss-specked roof, but Dresden of to-day has out grown those conditions, as every villager affirms.
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MAYORS OF DRESDEN.
W. W. Brice; Andrew Walker; Benjamin Adams; Samuel Adams; C. E. Eaton, 1841 ; Elon Jones, 1842 ; Jacob Force, 1843 ; William Crane, 1845 : John Jacobson ; Michael Webster ; Major J. N. Ingalls ; John E. White ; L. J. Lem- ert : W. R. Henderson, 1855 ; Owen Dorsey, 1856; Edward Featherstone, 1857; P. Hirst, 1858: J. W. Fletcher, 1860; Elon Jones (two terms), 1861 : William Farson, 1862; E, Feath- stone (two terms), 1863 ; David Jones, 1864 ; L. Rambo, 1866; O. N. Ellis, 1867 ; G. A. Lemert, 1868; G. A. Peffer, 1869-70; David Jones (two terms), 1871 ; G. A. Peffer (two terms). 1872 ; O. F. Edwards, 1874 ; L. J.Adams (to fill va- cancy), 1878: G. A. Peffer (third term), 1878; George Egan, 1879-80.
POSTOFFICE.
Dresden, the only postoffice in Jefferson town- ship. was established prior to 1800. The earliest postmaster, of which any one now has a remem- brance, was Laban Lemert, about 1818. Abra- ham Smith, the tavern keeper, was Mr. Lemert's successor. Edward Adams came next, and was followed by Andrew Walker. Benjamin Adams next held the office, for twenty-five or thirty years. The other postinasters have been Law- rence Baily, Dr. W. W. Rickey, Samuel Adams, T. B. Cresap, Owen Dorsey, H. M. Johnson and Wm. R. Henderson, the present incumbent.
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