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winter, making good progress in his studies. At the age of twelve, at the request of his mother, he was taken into the family of Rev. Mr. Austin, a Presbyterian minister, there to be educated for the ministry of that denomination. Here he remained about one year. At the end of this period he decided that he never could become a clergyman, having no taste for such a life; besides, he was already firmly convinced that he never could accept the teachings of the Presbyterian church.
At the age of thirteen he entered a drug store for a term of five years; of this time four months of each year was allowed to himself, and this time he improved to the best advantage, continuing his studies and preparing himself for a teacher. When fifteen years old he taught his first term, thus aiding himself in furthering the great object of his life, the practice of medicine. At the age of eighteen he attended his first course of medical lectures. At twenty he was united in marriage to Miss Mary N. McIntyre, a lady still younger than himself. Soon after taking this step he imbibed the western fever, which was raging in his vicinity in those days, came to Fort Seneca, Seneca county, Ohio, and there began the practice of medicine, with a fortune of one dollar and seventy cents as the sum total of his worldly possessions. He practiced medicine in this obscure little village for a period of eight years. Not satisfied with the slow growth of the place, in the fall of 1859 he removed to Green Spring. The following winter he graduated from the Cleveland Medical College, and pursued his profession until the winter of 1862-63, when he was called to examine the Western troops at Fort Dennison. Soon after arriving there he enlisted as a volunteer surgeon, and in that capacity was given charge of the One Hundred and Sixteenth
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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, stationed at Winchester, Virginia, where he continued until June 16, 1863, when he was taken prisoner at the battle of Winchester, General Milroy being in command. The doctor was then sent to Richmond with other prisoners, and confined in that historical prison, "Castle Thunder," under grave charges preferred by the rebels. These charges not being sustained, after nineteen days of dungeon life he was removed to Libby prison and put on equal footing with other prisoners of war. Here he was kept seven months and twenty-two days. At the expiration of this time he was exchanged, and returned to his regiment in Virginia, where he found awaiting him a commission as post surgeon of that department, having to report monthly to Washington the sanitary condition of all the hospitals from Martinsburg, Virginia, to Harper's Ferry. This arduous duty Dr. Brown performed with honor to himself and fidelity to the Nation, until the troops were all returned from these points to Richmond and vicinity. He then returned to his home and family at Green Spring, and soon after commenced his present business.
Dr. Brown has attained great renown for his marvelous cures of diabetes. A little girl was his first patient and after her cure, he received patients from far and near, compelling him to remove from the place he then occupied to his present institution, which is situated in the most pleasant part of the village. The Health Resort is fitted, furnished, and arranged in the best manner, and secures to his patients the most possible enjoyment. The rooms are well ventilated, the grounds pleasant and shaded, and everything is carefully superintended by the doctor and his wife. Many patients have expressed their gratitude to Dr. Brown by presenting him with sworn testimonials, that others
afflicted might know where to obtain relief. The doctor's practice is very large; the patients he has treated are numbered by thousands, and come from all parts of the land. All the credit for his successful career, however, should not be given to the doctor alone: his faithful wife has assisted and co- operated with him, proving a faithful and constant helpmate.
Dr. Brown is, and has ever been, the sincere friend of the suffering and oppressed. Previous to the war he was a pronounced anti-slavery man, and worked with every means at his command to put down the nefarious traffic in human lives. With his father, and his brother, the late O. P. Brown, he made addresses throughout a large portion of this State, urging the people to vote and work for the freedom of the slaves. As a "boy orator" the doctor gained a wide reputation. Nor did his work consist in talk alone; for while the celebrated underground railroad was in operation, he assisted many a poor negro to gain his liberty. The doctor is a firm supporter of the principles of the Republican party.
CHARLES CLAPP AND FAMILY.
Charles Clapp was born in Somersetshire, England, November 30, 1812. When nine years of age he emigrated to this country with his parents, Ambrose and Hannah (Bartlett) Clapp. They located in Onondaga county, New York, and resided there until 1849, when they came to Clyde, in this county. Charles Clapp is the fourth child of a family of five sons and three daughters. He has three brothers and one sister living. Matthew, his oldest brother, resides in Onondaga county, New York; Joseph, younger than Charles, lives in Oakland county, Michigan; and Robert, the youngest of the four brothers, resides
Mrs. Matilda Clapp.
Charles Clapps
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at Clyde. Mrs. Hannah Kernahan, of Green Creek, is the only sister living. She is older than Mr. Clapp.
Ambrose Clapp, the father, died about two and one-half years after he came to Ohio. Mrs. Clapp followed her husband two years later. Both belonged to the Church of England, and were worthy people and devoted Christians. Ambrose Clapp followed farming after coming to this country.
The subject of this sketch was brought up a farmer. He received a good common school education. For several years, while residing in New York State, he was engaged in working with a threshing machine. About the year 1835 Mr. Clapp came to Toledo, where he worked two years and a half farming and clearing land, excepting eight months of this time, when he was sick with the fever. After this he was engaged upon the turnpike from Lower Sandusky to Perrysburg, and labored upon this job until it was completed. While working at this, probably none of the laborers broke more stone than Mr. Clapp.
He next purchased the farm in Green Creek township, which is still his home, and on the 22d day of February, 1844, married Matilda Seaman, of Ottawa county, and began farming and keeping public house. His house was a well-known stopping place for travelers upon the turnpike for twenty-five years. The tract he had purchased was a wild lot, upon which few improvements had been made. There was a log house upon the land, and about five acres had been cleared. By unremitting industry and labor, assisted and encouraged by the work of his excellent wife, Mr. Clapp succeeded in making a fine farm and a pleasant and beautiful home.
About the year 1852 Mr. Clapp introduced the first successful artesian well in this part of the State. He made the first
wells of this sort for Mr. Park and Mr. Johnson, in Ottawa county. He also did the first work of the kind in Sandusky county for Paul Tew, in Townsend township.
Mr. Clapp has been an industrious farmer, a careful business manager, and has succeeded well in every work which he has undertaken. When he began life in the West it was under most unfavorable conditions. From New York he proceeded to Detroit, thence to Toledo, having paid his fare to the latter place. While stopping in Detroit he had all of his money stolen. On his arrival at Toledo, he was therefore a stranger in a new place, and, worst of all, without money. But, happening to meet a gentleman whom he had known in England, he borrowed fifty cents from him, and this amount served for his use until he could earn more.
Mr. Clapp is a worthy and respected citizen. In politics he is a Democrat. He has been infirmary director, and has held other local offices.
Mrs. Matilda Clapp was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, February 22, 1824. Her parents were Daniel and Susannah (Knight) Seaman. Her father was born on Long Island, in the State of New York. Her mother was of German parentage, and was born in Pennsylvania. In 1833 Mr. Seaman and wife, with two sons and one daughter, moved from New Jersey to what is now Ottawa county, where they remained about fifteen years, when they came to Woodville, Sandusky county. There Mr. Seaman died, March 25, 1853, at the age of seventy-six. After her husband's death Mrs. Seaman resided with her daughter, Mrs. Clapp, twelve years. She died May 15, 1864, in her eighty-fourth year.
Mrs. Clapp is the youngest of a family of eleven children. Her brothers and sisters who are living at this writing, are-Daniel Seaman, Fremont, now seventy-four;
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Ira K. Seaman, Toledo, in his sixty-fourth year; Isaac N. Seaman, Brown county, Kansas, aged sixty; Mrs. Jemima Roberts, in Sussex county, New Jersey, in her seventy- second year; and Mrs. Susannah Edinger, Warren county, New Jersey, aged sixty-five.
Mrs. Clapp has given birth to eight children, five of whom are living-Daniel Ambrose, born January 9, 1845, married Margaret Grover, of Green Creek town-ship, now resides in Brown county, Kansas; Ernestine, born April 30, 1847, died
July 28, 1851; Charles Holmes, born November 7, 1849, married Sarah Noble, of Green Creek, resides in Clyde; Seaman J., born December 10, 1851, married Mollie Jackson, of Green Spring, resides in Green Creek township; Horace, born November 25, 1853, married Sudie Keating, of Green Creek, resides in Toledo. The next child, a daughter, born February 28, 1856, died when eleven days old. Arthur, born July 17, 1857, resides at home. Robert Benjamin, born December 8, 1861, died January 16, 1865.
YORK.
T HE most striking feature of the topog- raphy of York is the three parallel ridges or sand bars extending in a north- easterly and southwesterly direction. The township itself embracing an area of six miles square, lies in the southeast corner of the county and is bounded on the north by Townsend township, on the east by Erie and Huron counties, on the south by Seneca county, and on the west by Green Creek township. No streams of sufficient size to furnish water-power for mills flow through this territory. The sand ridges give the surface an undulating appearance, and the porous character of the drift formation overlying a heavy stratum of limestone contributes to the dryness of the fertile soil. It is unnecessary to elaborate on geological theories concerning the origin of the sand bars. They are merely accumulations of fragments and disintegrated particles of rock, washed together by powerful waves and currents during the last period of geological history when the water of the lake basin covered all this region of country. Such bars of gravel and sand are yet forming near the shores of the great lakes. At the present time events of real and traditional history in York are located by these sand bars, and it will therefore be necessary to know their location.
The crest of North ridge trends through Green Creek in a northeasterly direction, and extends across the northwest corner of York and southeast corner of Townsend into Erie county. South ridge takes a parallel course, and its crest is about two miles
southeast from the crest of North ridge. About the same distance toward the south- east trends Butternut ridge, beginning near the southeast corner of Green Creek and losing its identity near the pike in York. The name Butternut ridge was, very naturally, applied in consequence of the number and size of the white walnut, or butternut trees, which shaded its surface before the day of railroads and lumber markets.
Nowhere in the county did the primitive forest appear more hospitable than in York. West of the Sandusky River was, seemingly, an endless reach of dismal swamp, steaming with vapors poisoned by decaying vegetation. But here, trees grew to graceful size, and shaded soft grasses. The perfume of wild flowers wakened birds to song, and the fleet-footed deer gave gayety to the scene. Propitious nature welcomed with open arms all who came to build homes for themselves and an heritage for their children.
The soil of York is a sandy loam inter- mixed with small particles of limestone, and is unexceptionable for agricultural purposes. The upper rock stratum is lime-stone of superior quality and more than ordinary thickness. An outcrop occurs near Bellevue which supplies large quantities, of stone, both for building and for making lime. Land commands a higher price per acre in York than anywhere else in the county. Nowhere in Ohio can be found better improved farms.
THE SETTLEMENT.
The circumstances leading to the settle-
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ment of York were somewhat peculiar. The improvement of the Fireland district had commenced before the War of 1812, and was well progressed while Indian camp fires were yet burning on the other side of the line. After the restoration of peace with Great Britain real estate took a rise in the Firelands which induced emigrants to camp over on the Congress lands until they should be surveyed and offered for sale. Many, too, who had cleared farms and built houses in Huron, were induced to sell and begin again the trials of pioneer life. The ridges of York were favorite places for squatters, who put up temporary buildings, and made small clearings with the expectation of buying the land when in market, thus saving the value of their improvements. But men were selfish then as now, and it frequently happened that the most cherished hope of an industrious squatter who had cleared and cultivated, cheered on by the anticipation of being the rightful and legal owner, was blasted by one who had risen earlier, and secured a front place at the land office when the book of entries was opened. The scene is said to have been highly exciting when the turnpike lands were placed upon the market. Horses were rode at full speed to the office, where a lively contest for turns ensued. Each man had his lot picked out, but each suspected his neighbor of having envious eyes, a suspicion which, in many cases, proved well founded. The feeling of hatred caused by what was considered a transgression of rights was in a few instances lasting, and the cause of neighborly feuds in later years. The scramble for land was conducted with as much ardor and self interested feeling then, as the scramble for office at the present time, although the assertion may appear to a casual observer of affairs extravagant.
We know of no more accurate way of
introducing the topic under discussion than by giving a list of the original proprietors, taken from the book of land entries.
It will be necessary, in order to understand the dates here given, to know the method of making entries on the books in the recorder's office. The United States land office gave each purchaser a certificate of entry and receipt of payment. These certificates entitled the holder to a patent from the United States. They were also filed in the auditor's office, and under the law, five years from their date, the property, of which they stood as a receipt of Payment, was listed on the tax duplicate, and recorded in the book of entries. It will appear, therefore, that the date of record given in the following table of Congress lands, is five years later than the real purchase at the land office.
But the turnpike lands embracing a strip one mile wide on each side of the pike, were ceded by the United States to the State of Ohio for the purpose of constructing a pike road from the Western Reserve through the Black Swamp. These lands were offered for sale at the land office at Perrysburg in 1826, and were taxable from the date of entry. They were at once listed on the duplicate, and the date of record is also the date of purchase.
The following entries are recorded in 1826:
SECTION
ACRES
James Birdseye
17, 20 and 25
542
Joseph George, jr
21
135
J. C. and Isaac Hinds
21
30
D. Searls and M. McCoy
21 and 22 222
Jeremiah Smith
22
124
William T. Tuttle
19
79
Entries are recorded in 1827 as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
Augustus Barber
1
85
Winthrop Ballard
31
160
Abram Marks
17
160
James Birdseye
21
211
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SECTION
ACRES
Perry Easton
20 and 22
230
L. G. Harkness
18 and 21
142
Reuben Pixley
22 and 27
196
L. G. Raymond,
22
116
Samuel Sparrow 24 and 26
268
Jeremiah Smith 22
124
Samuel Sparrow 24
70
The following entries are recorded in 1828:
SECTION
ACRES
Joseph M. Jenkins
11
80
Henry Miller
29
80
John Mugg 10
400
Seth W. Merry
7 and 18
160
Frederick Persing 17
80
Norton Russell
7
160
Jeremiah Smith
9 and 15
160
Smith Barber
2
80
Roderick Bishop
5
80
H. Baker
2 and 11
640
James Birdseye
5
160
Lyman Babcock
7
160
Oliver Comstock 7
80
William Christie
18
160
Joseph P. Dean
31
80
John Dunse
13
80
John Davenport 19
80
Elkana Daniels
17
80
Edmond Fuller
7 and 8
160
Stillman George
33
80
Esther F. Green 19
80
Martin Hart
36
80
Joseph Hill
34
80
Entries were recorded in 1829 as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
David Acklar
25
80
William Cookson
4
160
Elizabeth Cady 25
80
Thomas W. Canada
9
80
John Davenport 20
80
Joseph T. Doan
31
80
Edmond Huldeah
30
160
Richard Freeman
17
80
Stillman George 28
80
Truman Gilbert
30
160
Elnathan George
33
80
Jared Hadley
34
80
Samuel Hackett
28
80
Lyman Jones
15
80
R. Burlingson 24
80
Crowell and McNutt
20
125
Dyer Carver 27
316
E. T. Gardner
26
116
Simeon Root. 29
80
James Strong 25
147
Samuel Sparrow
23 and 24
160
Entries are recorded in 1830 as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
N. P. Birdseye 19
79
Elisha Avery 12
80
James Chapman 15
80
George Colvin 9
80
John Dunse
13
80
Eli Knickerbocker
3
86
S. W. Murray
7
80
Charles Sherwood 12
80
Lansford Wood 12
80
L. C. Watkins
10
80
The entries recorded in 1831 were as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
Gideon Brayton
31
80
Nathaniel Chapman 36
75
Jesse Gilbert 30
80
Philip Glick
30
160
Samuel Grover 34
80
John Glick 30
80
James M. Jenkins 11
80
James Munger 29
25
2
Nathaniel Chapman
25
40
Chapman and Amsden 25
25
78
A. D. Follett
27
78
Stillman George
28
79
John Lemmon
18
33
Henry McMillen
18
14
John West
17
80
George W. Franklin 19
79
R. C. Brayton
28
76
Roswell George.
146
R. Burlingson
24
67
N. P. Birdseye
20
79
Jacob May
121
The only entry in 1832 was:
SECTION
ACRES
Lyman Amsden
35
80
In 1833 the following lands were entered:
SECTION
ACRES
William Drum
11
160
William P. White 14
80
Eli Knickerbocker 3
80
R. Burlingson 23
80
John Knickerbocker
4
340
Robert Longwell 8
80
Ransom and Major Purdy 2
80
John Lemmon 19
80
Lemuel Morse 24
79
John Riddle 28
79
E. W. Rice 22
76
80
Return Burlingston
27
Zadock Story
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SECTION
ACRES
Ephraim Simmons
26
143
Reuben Mc Wilthey
26
131
T. Alexander
35
160
Crowell and McNutt
24
124
R. Burlingson
24
79
Lemuel Morse
24
79
John Lemmon
19
80
Ephraim Simmons
26
143
John Riddle
28
78
Dyer Carver
27
313
R. W. Willy
26
130
E. W. Rice
22
76
E. T. Gardner
26
116
The entries recorded in 1834 were as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
Theophilus Alexander
35
160
Nathaniel Chapman
36
80
Chapman and Amsden 30
75
Philip Crapo
30
78
Samuel Foster, jr 24
80
H. and Hiram Palmer
29
80
Phebe Sharp
36
80
Tim Sunderland
26
101
R. Burlingson
23
79
Martha Baker
23
79
Wesley Anderson
18
160
John W. Hone
18
78
Entries were made in 1835 as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
William Bates
6
80
John Brush
5
80
William Brumb
1
80
Truman Gilbert
29
240
Kiah Gould
36
80
In 1837 were recorded the entries of:
SECTION
ACRES
Gilbert Bohls
8
80
Joseph Chapman
3
80
In 1837 entries are recorded as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
Fred Chapman
35 and 36
158
Samuel Clark
33
80
James Armstrong 14
80
E. Hiland. 31
80
Wooster McMillen 33
80
M. P. Sprague. 29
80
The entries of 1838 were:
SECTION
ACRES
Thomas G. Amsden 34
80
John E. Armstrong
14
80
James Armstrong 14
40
George Pettyome
35
80
Joel Siezer
4
80
Augustus Barker
12 and 13
146
John Barber
40
Daniel Clouse
35
80
M. M. Coe
1
80
Almon Gray
3
38
James Haynes
33
160
Joseph Hoover
13
126
Robert Irwin
31
120
E. G. Kearney
33
80
David Smith
1
80
Henry Stetler
34
240
S. L. Simpson
14
160
The entries of the year 1839 are recorded as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
James Armstrong
14 and 15
120
Elisha Avery
13
40
William Bailey
3
43
H. H. Brown
33
40
William Barcan
6
240
Edmond Brace
2
42
Smith Barber
3
40
Lester Beach
9
40
John Colvin
9
40
George Colvin
9
40
J. G. Coons
2
85
Matthew M. Coe
12
80
O. F. Clark 32 and 33
80
H. S. Cooper
32
40
James S. Connell
6
80
Jacob Decker
21
40
William Degs
15
80
William Dalzell
9
D. Q. Ellsworth
8
Henry Friligh
1
George Stillman
32
Hezekiah Grover 28
52
W. F. Gormen 8
3
R. Harding
9
Silas Howell
13
William Henrick
12
113
Robert Erwin 31 and 32
220
Robert Erwin, jr. 32
3
80 42 40
John Knuttle
9
James Lemmon, jr
3
84
U. B. Lemmon
3
42
James Meacham 14
80
Richard Nickerson 14
80
George Parker
2
42 122
Daniel Rife
5 and 8
E. R. Smith
15
40
Dean Squire 10 and 13
279
William Stevenson 6
328
Asa Stanley 3
43
Storey Wills 15
200
SECTION 13
ACRES
80 40 198 40
Ephraim Hastings
40 120 80 40
A. C. Jackson
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HISTORY OF SANDUSKY COUNTY.
1840 closed out the balance of Congress lands as follows:
SECTION
ACRES
Martin Dart
5
85
A. D. Follett
32
40
Ephraim Hastings
9
40
Dennis Hamlin
8
80
W. J. Whittaker
8 and 9
200
The settlement of York proper began in 1822. The squatters whose shabby cabins for three years had broken the monotony of continuous forest, cannot be called settlers, nor would it be prudent to attempt to chronicle their comings and goings. A squatter community, such as York was from 1819 to 1822, would be a fruitful field for the study of character. Here were the class of people who may be termed the overflow of civilization-families driven from time to time from the public domain by legal owners. They push a little further along, crowding the savage before them. Their improvements are never of much value. A cabin, eight by ten feet in the clear, built of round logs, with a rough puncheon door and two holes over which white paper was pasted, the only windows. A mixture of mud and leaves filled the cracks, and the earth shorn of grass and smoothed down by bare feet, made a floor unnecessary. Squatters of this class farmed very little. In an Indian clearing, if one chanced to be in the neighborhood, or in a field prepared by cutting out the underbrush and deadening the larger trees, they planted corn. Corn was the complement of game in their table-fare. Hunting and story-telling was the only occupation of this class of semi-civilized vagabonds. The women, rather from necessity than choice, were more industrious than the men. However much the children might be neglected in other particulars, and, indeed, were neglected, they had to be fed, and the mothers had to do it. They hoed the corn, harvested it, and cracked it on a
block, while the men, rather as a pleasure than a duty, shot game and brought what could not be traded for whiskey, or some other luxury, to the cabin, where hands already over-worked, prepared it for the table. It is often asked, "How did these people live?" When life loses every motive except existence, man becomes a very simple sort of animal. Culture and ambition are the creators of wants, to supply which toil, even hardship, is cheerfully endured. These people never aspired to the ownership of property, to the enjoyment of travel nor to the refinement of education. Good clothes would have made them uncomfortable and good houses miserable. The woods was their chosen paradise, and cabins preferable to a "house of many mansions." We cannot, of course, fathom the life of people and understand what circumstances have been their guides along the highway of existence. Crime, laziness, and disease are possible causes of their degradation.
But a respectable class of people also were known as squatters. Brave, industrious men and women left pleasant abodes and planted in the forest the germs of that civilization which is already bearing golden fruit. They bore with patience, not only the hardships which nature imposed, but also the depredations of the vagrants who had gone before. The progress of material development is like the march of an invading army. Retreating barbarism is followed by a horde of half-breed camp-followers pressed closely by the skirmishers of the pursuing forces.
Legal barriers, for a while, prevented the rank and file of the pioneer army from occupying the fertile country beyond the limit of the Firelands. But when these barriers had been removed, the way was already opened by squatters in name, but settlers in reality.
Jeremiah Smith, one of the earliest set-
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tiers of this township, removed from Ful- tonville, New York, in the fall of 1822, arriving at Bellevue, October 15th. He entered land near the central part of the township.
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