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Class C, Sheep .- Best buck, Hiram Haff, Townsend township, $2; second best buck, S. Hafford, Ballville township, $1. Best pen of five ewes, D. Capper, Sandusky township, $2; second best pen of five ewes, S. Fennimore, Ballville township, $1.
Class D, Hogs .- Best boar over one year old, James Vallette, Ballville township, $2. Best breeding sow, John Moore, Ballville township, $2; second best breeding sow, James Vallette, $1. Best fat hog, S. Thompson, Sandusky township, $2. Best pen of pigs, William Kepler, Sandusky township, $2.
Class E, Fowls .- Best lot five domestic fowls, P. Brush, Ballville township, $2; second, James F. Hults, $1.
Class F, Dairy and Kitchen-Best roll five pounds butter, Mrs. Treat, Ballville township, $2; second do. Mrs. S. Buckland, Sandusky township, $1. Best lot cheese, Mrs. P. Tew, Townsend township, $2. Best bread, Mrs. P. Brush, Ballville township $2; second do. Mrs. S. Buckland, Sandusky township, $1.
Class G, Fruit .- Best variety table fruit, Lyman Miller, Green Creek township, $2; second do. A. Loveland, Sandusky township, $1. Best lot winter fruit, H. Bowlus, Sandusky township, $1; second do. William King, Ballville, $1. Best lot grapes, Mrs. L. B. Otis, Sandusky township, $1. Best quinces, Mrs. Russell, Green Creek township, $1; second do. Mrs. S. Treat, Ballville township, $1; third do. Mrs. R. P. Buckland, Sandusky township, $1.
Class H .- Best acres of corn, H. Haff, Townsend township, $5; second do. William Hyatt, Ballville township $2. Best variety garden corn, Mrs. Dickinson, Sandusky township, $1. Best potatoes, George Brim, Woodville township, $1. Best turnips, George Hyatt, Ballville township, $1. Best squashes, Miles W. Plain, Greek Creek township, $1. Best beets, Mrs. Vallette, Ballville township, $1 Best honey, Mrs. S. A. Loveland, Sandusky township, $1.
Class I .- Best faun wagon, J. C. Wade, York township, $3; second do, M. Halderman, Rice township, $2. Best straw cutter, William Orr, Sandusky township, $1. Best dressed calf skin, Dickinson & Co., Sandusky township, $1. Best side harness leather, same, $2; second do. M. Justice, $1. Best buggy, William Raymond, Sandusky township, $3. Best barrel flour, James Moore, Ballville township,
$2. Best bacon, M. W. Plain, Green Creek township, $2. Best two-horse buggy harness, James Kridler, Sandusky township, $2. Best farm harness, M. W. Plain, Green Creek, $2. Best lot fruit trees, J. A. Watrous, Green Creek, diploma. Best tin roof, Canfield & Co., diploma. Best sofa, J. W. Stevenson, Sandusky, $3; second do. same, $2. Best card table, same, $2. Best panel door, F. Luke, Sandusky, $2. Best domestic carpet, M. W. Plain, Green Creek, $2; second do, S. E. Edgerton, Sandusky, $1.
Class K .- Best woollen stockings, Mrs. Tew Townsend, $2; second do. Mrs. Tyler, Sandusky, $1. Best comforter, Mrs. Norton, Sandusky, $1. Best made quilt, Mrs. Hyatt, Ballville, $2; second do, Mrs. Zimmerman, Sandusky, $1. Embroidery, A. M. Olmsted, Sandusky, $2; do. Miss E. Knapp, $2; do. Miss A. Kepler, $1; do. Mrs. Thorndyke, $1; do. Miss E. Ball, $1. Needlework, Mrs. Thorndyke, $2; do. Mrs. Parker, 2; do. Mrs. Boren, $1; do. Mrs. J. Nyce, $2; do. Miss Taylor, $1; do. Mrs. Momeny, $2. Best coverlet, Mrs. Younkman, $2; second do. Mrs. Treat. Embroidery, Miss Justice, $1; do. Miss S. E. Ball, $1. Drawing, Miss A. Norton, $1; do. Miss O. Dickinson. $1; do. Miss S. Dickinson, $1. Best variety house plants, Mrs. J. W. Wilson; second do. Miss Olmsted. Best collection wax work flowers, Mrs. Orton, $1. Best basket of flowers, Mrs. C. King, $1. Needlework, Mrs. Wells, $1; do. Miss Montgomery, $1; do. Miss Ray- mond.
RECEIPTS.
From voluntary subscriptions and donations, and from fees $236.54
From the county treasury under the law to
encourage the formation of agricultural societies200.00 For lumber sold after the fair 58.88
Total $495.42
DISBURSEMENTS.
For lumber $105.00
For laborers 88.00
For printing. 23.00
For brass band 15.00
Premiums awarded 205.00
Total expenses $436.00
Balance in the treasury on settlement $59.42
This detailed statement of premiums awarded, to whom and what for, and the statement of the receipts and disbursements of the first agricultural fair in the county, may not now be of much interest to the reader. But the time is coming when, like the incidents of early pioneer
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life, to the present age, all the particulars of the first fair will be deeply interesting to those who would watch the progress of the society in all its phases, and more especially to that portion of the people of the county who would measure the progress of the county in the most important of all the industries pursued by man.
WHERE THE FIRST FAIR WAS HELD.
The society had acquired no land on which to hold the fair of 1852. However, it procured the right to sufficient room to begin. If the reader will take the map of Fremont, find State Street, and follow it to the east end of the bridge over the Sandusky River, and find lots number four hundred and sixty-four and four hundred and sixty- five, fronting that street on the south side of it, and notice numbers four hundred and thirty and four hundred and thirty-one in the rear of them, they will find the ground where the first agricultural fair was held, beginning on the thirteenth day of October, 1852.
The memoranda of the finances of this first fair are worth preserving in history, and the names of the men and women who organized or patronized the society, are worthy of preservation, and will receive the honor due them for the starting of an institution which has been productive of so much good already and promises so more in the future of the county.
FAIR OF 1853
A meeting of the board was held on the 15th day of September, 1853, at which it was resolved that the second fair of said society be held at Fremont on the 12th and 13th days of October, 1853; also a resolution fixing the premiums for different articles, animals, and agricultural products, and works of art and domestic industries. This fair was held on ground, the use of which, for the purpose, was donated by General John Bell, on the east
side of the river, on an out-lot since sub- divided, and about where in-lots eleven hundred and sixty-two and eleven hundred and sixty three now are in the third ward of the city, as now bounded.
The receipts for this year were as follows:
Balance in treasury, 1852 $59.42
Amount received by voluntary subscriptions
and fees imposed on members 356.78
Received from county. 200.00
From sale of lumber, etc. 62.45
From sale of bull 41.76
$720.41
EXPENDITURES.
Payment on premium list $188.00
Paid lumber, labor, printing, etc. 325.22
Loss on county bull 11.25
Unpaid bills last year 55.67
$583.71
Balance in treasury $136.67
At a meeting of the society held at the courthouse in Fremont, on the 8th day of July, 1854, the following officers for the ensuing year were chosen, to wit:
Horatio Adams, president; W. H. Rey- nolds, vice-president; Hiram Hurd, treasurer; A. Thorpe, secretary; C. G. Sanford, John Moore, Lewis Wright, Stephen Buckland, and Jeremiah Gibbs, managers. At a meeting held at the courthouse in Fremont, June 17, 1854, the next fair was appointed to be held in Clyde, Ohio, on the 26th and 27th days of September, 1854. At a meeting in Clyde in July, 1854, a premium list was made out and published. The fair for that year was accordingly held at Clyde on the days appointed, with the following results:
Total receipts, including two hundred dollars
paid by the county and balance from the preceding year, amounted to $483.45
Total disbursements
413.41
Balance in treasury $70.04
On the 25th day of April, 1855, the board met in Fremont; present, LaQ. Rawson, president; William Russell, vice-president; C. R. McCulloch, treasurer;
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D. Capper, secretary, and Paul Tew, Henry Nichols, and Samuel Skinner, managers.
On motion it was ordered that James Vallette be and is appointed one of the managers of the society, in the place of Samuel Treat, deceased.
At this meeting the society took the first step towards purchasing a suitable parcel of land on which to build proper structures, whereon to hold their future fairs, and LaQ. Rawson, Daniel Capper, James Vallette, and C. R. McCulloch, were appointed a committee to negotiate for or purchase the ground, and also to make out and publish a premium list for the next fair.
THE FAIR OF 1855
The annual fair of the society for the year 1855, was held on the 2d, 3d and 4th days of October of that year, on the ground bargained for by the committee above named, being what was then known as the east part of out-lot number one hundred and sixteen, in the city of Fremont. The purchase was made of Downs & Company, and consisted of seven and two one-hundredths acres, bounded by the river on the east, and situated east of their mill race.
The result of the fair held in 1855, was financially as follows :
Receipts from certificates of membership $366.82
From donations to purchase and improve fair grounds 646.00
From county treasury 489.08
From unpaid subscriptions 148.50
J. C. Wales' note from former treasurer
5.00
Donations from publishers of papers 14.20
Total $1,669.60
EXPENDITURES.
Paid expenses of fair $39.99
Paid printing 27.00
Paid premiums
162.80
Paid silver cups
24.06
Paid improvement of fair grounds .564.53 Paid Morgan & Downs on land 691.89
Total $1,510.27
Balance
$159.33
The society from this time had a local habitation as well as a name.
At a meeting of the members of the society, held pursuant to notice at the office of John Bell, in Fremont, on the 1st day of March, A. D. 1856, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: LaQ. Rawson, president; William Russell, vice- president; C. R. McCulloch, treasurer; Daniel Capper, secretary; James Vallette, Samuel Skinner, Martin Wright, Nathan P. Birdseye, Paul Tew, managers.
On the 22d day of August, 1856, at a meeting of the board, it was ordered that the annual fair for the year should be held on the 7th, 8th, and 9th days of October. A premium list was made out and published soon after, and the annual fair held accordingly. The financial results of this fair were a total expenditure, including two hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents for premiums, and two hundred and eighteen dollars for fitting up the grounds, amounting to six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty cents. Receipts, six hundred and thirty-eight dol- lars and forty-three cents. Being an excess of expenditures over receipts of eighty- seven cents.
At a meeting of the members of the society, held at the office of John Bell, on the 28th day of February, 1857, John Bell chairman and B. Amsden secretary, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: L. Q. Rawson president; Jacob Winters, vice-president; J. F. R. Sebring, secretary; Daniel Capper, treas- urer; H. R. Adams, James Vallette, James Parks, Daniel Smith, and Peter King, managers.
FAIR OF 1857.
The board met at the office of John Bell, in Fremont, Ohio, on the 18th day of April, 1857, and ordered that J. F. R. Sebring, Daniel Capper, James Vallette,
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and L. Q. Rawson, be appointed an executive committee to prepare and publish a premium list, and fix the day, and to prepare the grounds for the next fair.
The journal of the society hitherto recorded the premium list, the premiums awarded, and the financial results of the year's transactions, but no such record is made for the fair of 1857, and therefore the figures in these respects are omitted. But it is quite apparent that a fair was held in 1857, because the record shows that on the third day of the fair in that year, the society, at the office of the secretary, on the fair ground, pursuant to public notice, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: L. Q. Rawson, president; S. Buckland, treasurer; Daniel Capper, secretary; James Parks, Charles Powers, A. Thorp, J. Vallette, and Jacob Winters, managers. We have thus given the meetings, officers, and financial results of the society and its fairs up to the year 1857, and the election of officers for the ensuing year.
FAIR OF 1858.
The fair of 1858 was successfully held on their ground in Fremont, and on the last day of this fair, according to notice, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: James Vallette, president; James Parks, vice-president; S. Buckland, treasurer; William E. Haynes, secretary; L. Q. Rawson, U. B. Lemmon, and Charles Powers, managers.
Each year of the fair produced an enlarged premium list, and increased premiums for the various articles exhibited.
THE FAIR OF 1859.
This fair was duly and successfully held on the same ground purchased by the so- ciety, but the minutes of the proceedings do not show who were elected officers and managers for the ensuing year.
FAIR OF 1860.
On the third day of the fair, held on
the society's grounds, in October, 1860, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Daniel Capper, president; John M. Smith, secretary; Theodore Clapp, treasurer; John S. Gardner, vice-president; Jesse Emerson, Benjamin Inman, Saxton S. Rathbun, Timothy Wilcox, and Alfred Black, managers.
On the 8th day of January, 1861, the society had paid for, and received a deed from Morgan & Downs, conveying to the society the east part of out-lot number one hundred and sixteen, in Fremont, containing seven and two-hundredths acres of land, for a fair ground. For this ground the society paid the sum of one thousand and fifty-three dollars. It was a very good location, affording shade and convenient access to the Sandusky River for water. But time afterwards showed the ground was subject to inundation by the river, and the fences and other structures were sometimes swept off by flood. For these reasons and also to accommodate the expansion of the society in the future, this land was sold, and other ground bought, as will be noticed further on.
On the 5th day of June, 1861, the board met at the store of Theodore Clapp, in Fremont. At this meeting there were present, D. Capper, president; Theodore Clapp, treasurer; and Platt Brush, Benjamin Inman, Saxton S. Rathbun, and Jesse Emerson, directors. At this meeting John M. Smith was elected secretary, to fill the vacancy caused by the absence of A. J. Hale, former secretary, and Amos R. Carver was elected vice-president, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of John S. Gardner, former vice-president, the persons so elected to serve in the respective offices for the ensuing year, and until their successors should be elected. At this meeting Theodore Clapp, Platt Brush, and John M. Smith, were appointed a committee to make out a premium list
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for the year, to be submitted to the board at their next meeting.
On the 22d day of June, 1861, the board again met at the store of Theodore Clapp. At this meeting those present were D. Capper, president; Theodore Clapp, treasurer; John M. Smith, secretary; and Platt Brush, Benjamin Inman, Saxton S. Rathbun, Jesse Emerson, and Timothy Wilcox, directors.
The committee to make out a premium list for the annual fair made their report which was read and approved by the board. The fair was appointed to be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 2d, 3d and 4th days of October, 1861, and the meeting then ordered the premium list published.
On the 26th day of August, 1861, the board met and appointed Jeremiah Gibbs director, in place of Timothy Wilcox, absent. The premium list of this year was extensive and more elaborate than those of former years, and the fair was a success. But the financial results are not given on the journal of the society, and we therefore omit any statement of them.
WHO FITTED UP FLORAL HALL IN 1861.
As a matter of history, already interesting in the county, and to become more and more interesting as time rolls on, we give the names of the committee designated by the board of the society, to fit up floral hall for the fair of 1861. We record them here for two reasons. First, because it gives some idea of the interest the people took in these annual exhibitions. Secondly, because it preserves for future mention the names of a number of the men and women then prominent in our social circles, for their taste and devotion to the cause of improvement in all directions. The committee named by the board for fitting up floral hall, for the annual fair of 1861, were as follows:
J. W. Failing, O. W. Vallette, Henry Buckland, Willard Norton, L. Morehouse, E. Simpkins, Mrs. G. Grant, Mrs. L. Q. Rawson, Mrs. G. Canfield, Mrs. Nat Haynes, Mrs. John Magee, Miss Eliza Simpkins, Miss Beckey Simpkins, Miss Isabella Nyce, Miss M. Justice, Miss Martha Raymond, Miss Ellen Hafford, Miss Jennie Mclellan, Miss S. Botefur, Miss E. A. Morehouse, Miss Mary Canfield, Miss Amelia Norton, Miss Sarah Jane Grant, Miss G. Thompson, Miss Myra Kepler, Miss L. Kepler, Miss Emma Downs, Miss A. Sharp, Miss Sarah Wilson, Miss Mary Durand, Miss Eva Bartlett, and Miss Bell Maxwell.
To the resident of Fremont in the year 1861, who was familiar with the social or- ganization at that time, the names on this committee will awake reminiscences of intense interest. The list of young, and beautiful, and cultured ladies, embraces what was, at that time, the cream of our collected beauty of person, and culture of intellect, and, no doubt, those who resided in Fremont in the fall of 1861, and witnessed how these earnest, and beautiful, and good women labored to make the fair of the society for 1861 interesting and profitable, will trace the history of each gentleman and lady of this committee through the checkered scenes of their after life with intense interest.
On the third day of the fair held in 1861, the members met according to notice, and elected officers for the ensuing year, as follows: Daniel Capper, president; Hiram Haff, vice-president; O. W. Vallette, secretary; Theodore Clapp, treasurer; S. S. Rathbun, C. G. Greene, Jeremiah Gibbs, Samuel Hafford, and Daniel Waggoner, managers.
A premium list for the next fair was prepared by Daniel Capper and O. W. Vallette, and submitted to the board, and approved at a meeting held on the 31st of May, 1862. At this meeting it was resolved that the next annual fair should be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 1st, 2d, and 3d days of October, 1862.
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DURING THE WAR.
From the formation of the society in 1852, to the year 1862, although the civil war broke out in 1861, the annual fairs had been held without a single failure in any year. True it is that in the year 1861 the war cloud hung heavy over all the land, but so remote were the people of Sandusky county from the contending armies and the battlefields, that our business was not seriously interrupted until the summer of 1862. Then the cloud, thicker and darker than before, spread over the whole sky and enveloped us in darkness, gloom, and fear.
After the premium list was published and the days for the fair selected, we find the following entry on the journal of the society, in the handwriting of the secretary, Vallette:
Owing to the unsettled state of the county on account of the war, and the fact that the draft in our county came on the days appointed for our fair, it was decided by the officers of the society to postpone the fair for this year.
O. W. VALLETTE, Secretary.
Fremont, August, 1862.
Hence, the society held no fair in the year 1862.
At the meeting of the members of the society held at the store of Theodore Clapp, in Fremont, in January, 1863, the following officers were elected to serve the ensuing year: Daniel Capper, president; Platt Brush, vice-president; Theodore Clapp, treasurer; O. W. Vallette, secretary; S. S. Rathbun, U. B. Lemmon, C. G. Greene, and Daniel Waggoner, managers. An extended premium list was made out and published, and the fair was held successfully on the 7th, 8th, and 9th days of October, 1863. The premiums were regularly awarded and paid.
At a meeting of the members held on the 16th of January, 1864, the following officers of the Sandusky County Agricultural Society were elected to serve the
ensuing year: J. L. Greene, sr., president; John Moore, of Ballville, vice-president; John P. Moore, treasurer; O, W. Vallette, secretary; Daniel Waggoner, Jasper King, William E. Lay, Jason Gibbs, and Warren G. Hafford, managers.
At a meeting of the officers of the society held on the 26th day of March, 1864, the president, J. L. Greene, sr., and Secretary O. W. Vallette, were appointed a committee to prepare a premium list for the next fair.
On the 16th of April, 1864, the board met and appointed the fair to be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 12th, 13th, and 14th days of October.
The financial results of the fair of 1864 are not recorded, and therefore not pub- lished.
On the 18th day of January, 1865, the members of the society met at the office of John L. Greene, sr., and elected the following officers to serve the ensuing year: Theodore Clapp, president; William E. Haynes, vice-president; De Witt Krebs, treasurer; O. W. Vallette, secretary; Edward Tindall, U. B. Lemmon, James N, Campbell, B. Amsden, and Charles Powers, directors.
On the 27th of March, 1865, the board met at the office of Theodore Clapp. At this meeting William E. Haynes, De Witt Krebs, and O. W. Vallette, were appointed a committee to revise and prepare a premium list for the next fair and report the same to a future meeting of the board, The premium list was approved and published, and the fair again successfully held on the 6th, 7th, and 8th days of September, 1865, and the premiums awarded and paid.
On the 27th day of January, 1866, the society met at the office of Theodore Clapp, and elected the following officers for the ensuing year. Theodore Clapp, president; William E. Haynes, vice-presi-
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dent; D. W. Krebs, treasurer; O. W. Vallette, secretary; Edward Tindall of Ballville, James N. Campbell of Washington, B. Amsden of Sandusky, Hiram Haff of York, managers for one year; O. W. Vallette of Ballville, D. W. Krebs of Sandusky, J. P. Elderkin of Woodville, Benjamin Inman of Scott, S. S. Rathbun of Green Creek, and David Betts of
Sandusky £ township, managers for two years.
In May, 1866, the board met and ordered that Theodore Clapp superintend the building of a new fence around the fair grounds, and put the grounds in good condition.
On the 28th of September the board met and made the following entry on their journal:
FREMONT, September 28, 1866.
Owing to the late floods, and the damage done on the fair grounds, it has been decided to postpone the fair for this year.
O. W. VALLETTE, Secretary.
Therefore no fair was held in the year 1866, on account of a flood. Thus we see the society was prevented from holding its fairs twice in the first fourteen years of its existence, first in 1862, by the war, and, second, in 1866, by a flood which overflowed and damaged its grounds.
On the 14th of February, 1867, the members of the society met at the office of Theodore Clapp, and elected the following officers to serve the ensuing year: Platt Brush, president; Charles H. Bell, vice- president, E. Walters, Charles Powers, George W. Beck, and J. V. Beery, managers.
On the 7th of March following, the board met, and elected, J. V. Beery secretary, and J. P. Elderkin treasurer.
Let it be remarked that about this time some enterprising gentlemen who were fond of cultivating speedy horse-flesh, had organized the Fremont Driving Park Asso- ciation, and had rented some out-lots on the hill, on the east side of the river, on
which a fine track was formed, on which the speed of trotting and running horses could be tested and compared. Let no one think or suspect that anything like vulgar horse- racing was connected with this Driving Park Association. The out-lots rented by this association were very finely situated for a fair ground. Hence, at the meeting of the board in March, 1867, on motion of Mr. Rathbun, Platt Brush and Charles H. Bell were appointed a committee to confer and make arrangements with a committee of the Driving Park Association, to hold the county fair upon their ground.
On the 23d day of May, 1867, the board met; present, P. Brush, George Beck, D. Betts, B. Inman, E. Walters, and John V. Beery. The committee, C. H. Bell and P. Brush, reported that they had rented the driving park for nine years, at a yearly rent of seventy-five dollars, for the purpose of holding the fairs of the society. After the adoption of this report, the president appointed Charles H. Bell and Saxton S. Rathbun, a committee to attend to the removal of floral hall from the old fair ground to the driving park. At this same meeting the premium list was arranged, and the next fair of the society appointed to be held on the 2d, 3d, and 4th days of October, 1867, the days of the week being Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The fair was held, accordingly, on the grounds of the Driving Park Association, the premiums awarded and paid, and the fair was now established on the east side of the river, on the hill and above the reach of floods. But the facilities for procuring a supply of water were lacking, and there was no shade. Still the fair was well attended, and was reasonably successful.
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