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dogs, and anxious to give them a trial. He offered to keep the party over night, but Messrs. Skinner and McCulloch re- turned to their homes. The next day's chase was more unsuccessful than the first. But a week later a bear, supposed to be the same one, was killed near Findlay, Hancock county.
Mr. Skinner retired from the farm in 1871, and has since been living in Fre- mont. He is a large, good-natured, full- hearted gentleman, on whom time and hard labor have had little effect. As re- marked before, he has seen the growth of his township, and contributed his strong physical energies toward that growth. In reply to the question, "Do you feel repaid for your labor, and the hardships which nature and the times imposed upon the early pioneers of the Black Swamp?" he replied: "I would not like to say that I have not been repaid, but if I was again a young man, and could foresee the course of life I have followed, I would not sacri-
fice society and improvement for what I have accumulated." When we remember that Mr. Skinner is among the most suc- cessful of the pioneers of this part of the county, and has certainly been peculiarly fortunate in respect to health, his remark has a deep meaning. If those of the early immigrants who became wealthy do not feel repaid for their toil, what sorrow and suffering must have prevailed among the multitude less fortunate !
But if pecuniary gain has not been suf- ficient reward, Mr. Skinner and other pioneers of his class can look back over the busy and clouded past with a con- sciousness of having added to the world's wealth, of having completed nature's work and conferred an appreciated boon upon their descendants and humanity. No feeling of self-approbation is stronger in an old man than the sense of having been useful. The life of such commands our admiration, and the memory of such is worthy of preservation.
WOODVILLE
0 TTAWA county on the north, Wood on the west, Madison township on the south, and Washington township on the east with a fraction of Ottawa county, de- fine Woodville township. In the original division of Sandusky county into town- ships the territory now comprised in Wood- ville was embraced in Madison and Clay townships. The records of the county commissioners show that the township, as it now stands, was organized pursuant to the following order :
At a special session of the county commissioners held April 1, 1840, it was ordered that so much of original surveyed township number six, range thir- teen as is within the boundaries of Sandusky county, and all that part of original surveyed township number five, range thirteen north of the centre line, running east and west through the center of sections seven, eight, nine, ten and twelve be organized and constituted a new township by the name of Wood- ville, and that the first election for township officers be holden at the house of Amos E, Wood in said township on the 14th day of April next, between the hours required by law.
There were at that time a great many more electors than were necessary to effect the organization. The earliest township records have not been preserved so that the exact date of the first election cannot be given. However, it is known that dur- ing the summer of 1840 the voting for the first officers took place at the old Wood tavern which stood on the land now owned by members of the Price family, just east of the present village of Wood- ville. This was, perhaps, the first public gathering of the members of the new community, and as the election was merely of local interest with no political signifi-
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cance, it was very harmonious, and every- body had a good time, such a time as only a pioneer tavern can furnish. The name of the township is in honor of Amos E. Wood, who was one of the leading citizens at the time of its organization. The election resulted as follows: David Dunham, Lester Allen, and Archibald Rice, trustees; Ira Benedict and Jared Plumb, justices of the peace; Ira Ben- edict, clerk. These men, who were the most substantial citizens of the new township, succeeded in their honest en- deavors to further the best interests of the people, and their merit was recognized by frequent re-elections. Any one taking an interest in the local history of Woodville would be amused at some of the old rec- ords kept by the clerk, in which are care- fully noted indentures, accounts of stray cattle, and the record of the marks by which hogs and sheep were recognized. Sometimes the unfortunate animal was branded, sometimes painted, but the most popular way was the rather sanguinary process of slitting and otherwise muti- lating the auricular appendages of the poor animals. Happily, since the days of fences this barbarous custom is unneces- sary, and the ears of the head are intact. The elections have always been held at Woodville village. The officers elected in 18SI are as follows : R. Hartman, J. H. Hurralbrink, and Henry Blausey, trustees; George Wehrung, justice of the peace; Dr. Henry Bush, treasurer ; George Wehrung, clerk; Jonathan Faler and B. D. Enoch, constables.
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PHYSICAL FEATURES.
The productive territory of Woodville township has been redeemed from the famous Black Swamp, elsewhere de- scribed in this work. It lacks six sec- tions in the northeast corner of being six miles square. This fractional piece was incorporated into Ottawa county at 'its organization in 1840. The surface is a monotonous plain, and was at one time covered by the waters of Lake Erie. The Portage River traverses the township in a northeasterly course, dividing it into almost equal parts. The Tousaint Creek in the northeast corner, and Sugar Creek in the southwest, run parallel with the Portage through the township, thus mak- ing the gradual slope of the plain toward Sandusky Bay. These streams are sep- arated by almost imperceptible limestone ridges, which are the out-crops of the underlying strata of Niagara stone, whose western boundary is marked by a line running south from section eight, leaving the township and county in sec- tion six. Beyond this line, on the west, may be seen the out-croppings of the water-lime stone, which is very valuable for building-stone, and bids fair to rival at no far distant day, the more celebrated building-stone of southern Ohio. The Niagara stone is extensively quarried in the vicinity of Woodville village, a num- ber of lime-kilns being located in section twenty-one, near the cemetery. In the same locality there are several good sand- banks that were deposited here during the days of geological formation. The land along the line of these stony ridges is un- productive, and in most places is covered with a scant growth of grass, which affords pasturage to the numerous sheep and cat- tle annually raised in the township. The underlying strata are also apparent in the courses eroded by the streams, and in many places the exposures are many feet
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in thickness. Between the ridges the soil is the ordinary clay characteristic of the Black Swamp. Where there is much fallen timber and decaying vegetable mat- ter the earth is a black loam, which gives the soil a muckish character. There are considerable areas of swamp land which, however, is being redeemed by a thorough system of drainage. Experience has dem- onstrated that the farmer makes most by raising mixed crops. Wheat is always good, and its production is encouraged by the ready market afforded at Woodville.
The monotony of the view is constantly broken by extensive forests on every side. The most of the township was originally covered with low-land varieties of timber. Elm, hickory, cotton-wood, beech, ash, the varieties of oak, and the like, are found.
In the early days these forests teemed with game, small and great. Bear and wolves gave place to less savage game, such as wild turkeys with their gobble, gobble, gobble, and the mischievous, barking bunnies, so destructive to the corn. There was scarcely any bottom to the mud that covered the first roads, as those who tried them will testify.
THE FIRST ROAD
was the old mud pike, which was called the Maumee and Western Reserve turn- pike. It gave way more than forty years ago to the present substantial stone pike. Bisecting the township, it was the path of the emigrants between Toledo and the far East. It was this road that opened the township to the settler, and along its course are strewn some of the pleasantest pioneer reminiscences. Imagine yourself in a road little wider than an ordinary narrow street, bordered by tall, gloomy- looking forest trees, converging east and west and shutting off the view of the country ahead and behind. The road which, from the beginning, was a thorough-
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fare, is memorable because of numerous mud-holes extending from one tavern to another. It was not an unfrequent sight to see a mover's wagon stuck in the mud, and many a time were the people along the way called upon to pull the loads out of the mire. In those early days help was freely given, it being an unusual thing to charge anything for service.
The building of a stone pike was the making of Woodville township, and the pike lands rapidly rose in value. To-day, with the railroad running through the township, together with other facilities for travel, it is hard to realize the situation of travellers in the early days. In 1840 there were within the confines of the township ten pleasant carriages, valued at four hundred and seventy dollars, and forty-one horses worth one thousand six hundred and forty dollars, or forty-one dollars apiece. Much of the hauling was done with ox teams. In 1840 there were one hundred and eighty cattle, valued at one thousand four hundred and forty dol- lars. All the land in the township was worth but forty-one thousand five hundred and eighty-seven dollars, including houses and other property. Now the real estate is valued at four hundred and sixty-three thousand three hundred and twenty dol- lars, and chattel property at three hundred and seven thousand and seventy-eight dol- lars, making a total valuation of seven hundred and seventy thousand three hun- dred and ninety-eight dollars.
THE OLD TAVERNS.
There were at least three public taverns along the pike in Woodville township in the early days. The necessity for their proximity to one another is more apparent when we reflect that between each there was a continuous time-consuming, pa- tience-exhausting mud hole, so bad, in fact, that it took all day to make a journey of a few miles.
The first tavern in the township was opened where Woodville village now is, in 1826, by Thomas Miller, the first settler. This hostelrie is described as a little log cabin, always full of comfort and good cheer. The old shell is still standing back of Cronnewett's drug store, in Wood- ville.
There was, a few years later, a tavern just across the river, which was kept by members of the Wood family. This was the place of the first election.
About the year 1840 the old trading post, that had been occupied by C. B. Collins, fell into the hands of Lewis Jen- nings, who turned it into a tavern, which, for a time, was a popular resort. In the spring of 1841 a peddler by the name of Smith stopped for several weeks at this place. He had a good wagon and a fine mare, and his goods were of the best qual- ity. His stock of goods beginning to de- crease the peddler one morning bid good bye to his host and started on foot to San- dusky, where he intended to take the boat for Buffalo. When the time for his return had passed he did not arrive. The coun- try round about was searched but no trace was found. Foul play was suspected and Mr. Jennings was arrested and taken to Woodville. The preliminary trial failed to prove anything and he was released. The excitement did not abate for some time. The horse, wagon, and goods were kept by Mr. Jennings, who, shortly after- wards, moved away. Nothing was ever heard of the missing peddler.
LAND RECORD.
The names of many of the early settlers of Woodville township appear in the annexed record of land entries, which in. dicates the original owners. It will be ob- served that much of the land fell into the hands of speculators who never thought of locating on their purchases.
The first record was made, in 1826, by
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HISTORY OF SANDUSKY COUNTY.
C. B. Collins; others quickly follow. full list for 1826 is as follows :
The
ACRES.
John Gassner.
section
30 70
Samuel Matter
section
34
73
Samuel Matter.
section
21 80
I. G. Scharber and G. H. Sea- ber,
section
33 N.E. x
I. G. Scharber and G. H. Sea- ber
section
33
248
David Day
tract
95
I2I
George Weiker
section
29 113
Levi Rice and C. Eno
tract
81 I22
Francis Lefever section
29
82
Hiram Preston
section
27 S. E. 4 .
Hiram Preston
section
34
I26
Harriet Miller.
tract
97
I02
Justice & Birchard
section
34
I28
Justice & Birchard
section
36 125
James Brooks.
sec. 20-29
79
Jacques Hulburd
section 29
79
John Hollister section 35 96
William James. section 27 123
The following records of entries were made as early as 1829:
ACRES.
James Brooks
section
28
James Brooks
section
28
85
James Brooks
section 29
James Brooks.
section 20
I43
Land was recorded in 1831 by:
ACRES.
James Brooks.
section 28
James Brooks.
section
28
85
James Brooks.
section
29
James Brooks.
section 20
143
James Howell. section
19
71
Ludwick Ridenour
tract
136
I43
Clorinda Morrow.
tract 100
II7
William James
tract 78
68
Recorded in 1833:
ACRES.
Jacob Bunce.
section
26
80
Truman Wolf.
tract 117
84
William Dunbar
tract
80
84
William James
section 26
80
Dickinson & Birchard
tract
94
I02
Truman Wolf.
tract 113
117
Jacob Bunce.
section
26
80
Dickinson & Birchard
tract 94
IO3
Recorded in 1834:
ACRES.
David Miller
section
21
80
David Stahler
section
29
80
John H. Scott
section
26
80
James Scott
section
26
70
Andrew Friesner.
tract
86 72
Mary Harding
section 30 79
John Bell ..
section
3-4 8.4
Ignatius Rue
section 30
80
John Bell .. .
section 34
79
.
.
Dickinson & Justice
section
I8
79
Jared Plumb. section 2
Jared Plumb. section
section
2
I35
Justice & Birchard.
section
2
I29
Justice & Birchard
section I II6
Justice & Birchard. section I
94
Justice & Birchard section
I
I54
Justice & Dickinson
section
2 86
Justice & Dickinson
section 2
71
Lewis A. Harris. section
J
80
Daniel Seagar section
2
II8
Daniel Seagar
section
2
85
James H. Moore
section
21
81
Abraham Baity.
section 30
80
Frederick Baity.
section
30
30
Ignatius Rue.
section
30
80
David Leighty
section
30 I37
David Leighty
section
19 69
In the year 1835 the record of land en- tries is :
ACRES.
Henry G. Folger .. section
3
80
Lewis A. Harris. section
I8 I26
C. B. Collins section
35
I43
C. B. Collins. section 35
Daniel Hubbel. section 21
Daniel Hubbel
section 28 312
Daniel Hubbel section
28
Thomas Mcknight section
27
142
. Joseph Wood
section
33
81
Joseph Wood.
section
28
68
Joseph Wood. section 27
Joseph Wood. section 27 IO3
The record for 1827 is:
ACRES.
James Brooks.
section
28
84
Justice & Birchard
section
36 I47
Justice & Birchard section
18
1.44
Justice & Birchard.
section
19
II8
Justice & Birchard
section
19
95
Sardis Birchard.
section
20
74
Sardis Birchard.
section
29
I28
Sardis Birchard.
section
20
84
Sardis Birchard
section
20
80
John Bell.
tract
98
84
William Dunbar
tract
80
84
Truman Wolfe.
tract II3
II8
Truman Wolfe. tract 117
85
Dickinson & Justice.
section
I8
78
85
2
158
1
ACRES.
C. B. Collins
section 26
180
169
Cyrus Patridge section
34
:
Benjamin Morpher.
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HISTORY OF SANDUSKY COUNTY.
ACRES.
John H. Doane.
section
26
82
George F. Whittaker.
section
36
163
George F. Whittaker.
section
33
85
John Decker. .
section
33.
150
S. Birchard and William P.
Dixon.
section
9 80
S. Birchard and William P. Dixon.
section
IO
80
Philip Bigh.
section
8 80
Charles S. Brown.
section
17 80
P. W. Benjamin.
section
15 160
P. W. Benjamin.
section
15
80
P. W. Benjamin.
section
8
80
P. W. Benjamin.
section
17
40
P. W. Benjamin.
section
8
40
Daniel Church.
section
9
80
Daniel Church.
section
8
80
Eli Church
section 8
80
R. Dickinson and John R.
Pease .
section
25
40
Robert Fletcher.
section
25
40
Benjamin Hilligass.
section
17
40
John Harris.
section
9
40
Jonathan Kelery.
section
17
80
Michael Miller
section
29
40
D. D. Ogden
section
9
160
H. P. Russell
section
17
40
H. P. Russell.
section
15
40
James A. Scoville
section
9
80
. John Whceland.
section
17
40
Anthony Wommer.
section
8
10
In 1836 the record was:
ACRES.
Benjamin Moore.
section
4
160
Benjamin Moore.
section
4 80
George Orwig.
section
3
42
George Orwig.
section
3
8.4
George Orwig ..
section
3
44
John Strohl.
section
5 157
John Strohl.
section
5
78
Jesse Stone
section
5
78
Abraham Tilton.
section
4
40
John Decker.
section
34
80
P. W. Benjamin.
section
IO 80
P. W. Benjamin.
section
15 80
P. W. Benjamin.
section
22
80
P. W. Benjamin.
section 22 80
P. \V. Benjamin ..
section 9
80
P. W. Benjamin.
section
22
160
P. W. Benjamin.
section
40
P. W. Benjamin.
section
8
160
P. W. Benjamin .. section 15 240
J. B. Larwill.
section
22
80
John Strohl.
section 32 80
Jesse Stone.
section 32 80
In 1837 there is an account of but two entries, viz .:
John Kline.
section 4 160
Abraham Van Tuyl. section 8 8c
The list of entries recorded in 1839 is as follows :
ACRES.
John Vanettan
section 6 158
Ira Benedict.
section
31 183
John Gassner.
section
31 141
John McCormick
section
25 40
John Vanettan.
section
31 134
Moses Young .
section
25
80
Benjamin Yates section
28
80
In 1840's record we find more names of actual settlers than heretofore :
ACRES.
Daniel Bauer
section
5 40
D. B. Banks
section
6 78
Edward Down
section
3 80
Edward Down
section 3
80
Peter Kratzer
section
6 80
Daniel Kratzer.
section
6 80
David Neely
section 3 80
Henry Wevrich
section
6 160
William Wevrich.
section
4
8
William Wevrich.
section 4 40
Newton G. Eno
section
17
80
Newton Eno
section
17
80
Peter Korbal.
section
25
80
Abijah Newman
section
IO
8c
Abijah Newman
section
IO
8c
Abijah Newman
section
9
8c
Abijah Newman. .
section IO 80
'Abijah Newman
section
IO
40
Samuel Pitcher.
section
IO
8c
Erastus Pitcher section
section
17
40
Austin H. Walker
section
17
40
Amos E. Wood.
section
32
78
Amos E. Wood.
scction
32
66
David B. Banks.
section
32
80
David B. Banks
section
32
8c
David B. Banks
section
32
80
William Chambers
section
25
80
Davis Dunham.
section
25
80
Davis Dunham section
25 80
Jacob Dobbs.
section 15
40
.
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SETTLEMENT.
It was not until other parts of the coun- ty had been settled for a number of years that a permanent settlement was made in the territory of Woodville township. Dur- ing the Indian occupation of the county the forests in the western part, being low and swampy, were only used as hunting
IO 8c
Austin H. Walker
ACRES.
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HISTORY OF SANDUSKY COUNTY.
grounds. The settlement was finally made by a number of American families, accom- panied by numerous German pioneers. The State of New York furnished Wood- ville with most of its American popula- tion, while nearly all of the Germans came from Hanover.
The line of immigration from New ยท York was generally up the Erie Canal to Buffalo, thence by boat to Toledo, and then by wagon to the place of settlement. Nearly all ot the first settlers made the first clearings on their new farms, and built with their own hands their log cabins, many of them being compelled to camp out during the first few days of their so- journ in the strange land. In 1825 it was ordered that the mud pike, which was lit- tle more than a corduroy road, be built, and that adjoining land be sold as "pike lands." This was the signal for settle- ment.
Prior to this time there may have been here and there an occasional squatter. The first clearing was made on the pres- ent site of the village of Woodville, in 1825, at which time a little log cabin was erected, and in the fall of 1826 was occu- pied by Thomas and Harriet Miller. After Mr. Miller's death, in 1828, Mrs. Miller continued to keep tavern until 1837, when she married Charles Seager. Tradition has it that, at an early day, there was an old Indian beating-post at section thirty- five, on Sugar Creek, on the land now owned by G. H. Damschrader. It is known that this land was bought, in 1826, by C. B. Collins, of Sandusky, who, ten years later, superintended the grading of the road. However, it is probable he did not occupy the land until 1836.
In 1832 Ephraim Wood, a native of Vermont, and his son-in-law, George H. Price, of New York, bought land and built houses in sections twenty-eight and seven. Price's eighty acres adjoined and
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embraced the south part of what is now the village of Woodville. Wood's farm consisted of one hundred and sixty acres of land in section twenty-seven, just across the Portage River from Price's. He put put up a log-house which not long after- wards received a frame addition and be- came a popular tavern. Here it was that the first township election was held, in 1840. Mr. Wood was born in Vermont, in 1780. He married Hannah Doan, a native of Cape Cod. There were four children. Amos E. was born in 1811, and died in 1850, ten years before his father. Both were leading citizens and had much to do with the prosperity of the township. Mr. Price was a native of New York, having been born in Poughkeepsie, in 1783. He was married, in 1829, to Parthena, second child of Ephraim Wood. They had two children,-George E. and William W. The latter was born in Kent, Ohio, in 1831. By his wife, Louise B. Ladd, he has had three children,-Willie H., Nellie P., and Grace E.
One of the earliest settlements in the east part of the township, was that of Lester Allen who was one of the first township trustees.
In October, 1831, the Baldwin and Chaffa families settled in the Black Swamp, there being but five families in Woodville township at the time of their settlement. They came from Geauga county, having originally emigrated from Vermont. Ebe- nezer Baldwin died of cholera, in 1834. His son, N. J. Baldwin, married Catharine Boose, whose parents came from New York in 1850, and settled in Black Swamp.
Davis Dunham, who was born in Penn- sylvania in 1789, came to Woodville town- ship in 1833, and settled in the south part of section twenty-five. By his wife, Anna Widener (born in Pennsylvania, in 1795, died in 1867), he had nine children, viz: Anna, Rebecca, Almon, Sarah, Phineas,
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Margaret, Lucy, "Davis, and Samantha. Mr. Dunham is the only survivor of the earliest pioneers of his neighborhood. He has been a prominent man, having had much to do with the affairs of the town- ship. His oldest son, Almon, was born in Erie county, Ohio, in 1824, and in 1849 married Mary Allen, who died in 1879. Two of their four children are living, viz: Oren and Mary E. In 1880 Mr. Dunham married Mary E. Miller, who was born in 1854. Mr. Dunham is at present a member of the Ohio Legis- lature.
John H. Scott and his brother James, who came from Southeastern Ohio in 1834, settled in the eastern part of the township, John locating on the line in section one, where the toll gate now is, and James settling on the road from Woodville to Elmore, on a farm adjoining that now owned by Michael Mc Bride. They moved to Illinois about 1856.
May 1, 1834, John and Mary Moore, with their family of eleven children, started from Hampton, Pennsylvania, and on the 19th of May arrived at the Black Swamp, three and a half miles west of Hessville. Land was bought of a Mr. Coleman. There was a cabin on the land and two acres had been cleared though not fenced. The nearest house west was one and a half miles off, east one mile, north three. and south three miles. The old house was afterwards used as a school-house. Mr. Moore having built a larger house of his own.
In 1834 Jared Plumb emigrated from New York, coming to Woodville town- ship via Buffalo, across the lake to Toledo and thence by wagon down the Mud pike. He bought land on Sugar Creek now owned by C. F. Klansing, in section two. So thick was the woods along the creek that he had to cut his way to where he erected his log house. He rapidly cleared
his land and made himself a comfortable home where he resided until his death, in 1864. His widow resides in Toledo.
David B. Banks emigrated from New York to Ohio as early as 1834 or 1835 and located in section twenty-nine, where he built a grist-mill and saw-mill, his being the first mills in the township. He died in 1841. His widow married again and resides in Genoa, Ottawa county. About the time of Banks' settlement Archibald Rice and James Scoville, his brother-in-law, came from New York and settled near Woodville. Mr. Scoville's sister, Mrs. Rice, is living in the village. In 1840 Samuel and Erastus Pitcher, who several years before had entered land in the Rice neighborhood, made settle- ment. They afterwards removed to Mich- igan. Ira Kelsy, of New York, came with the Pitchers and located in the same neighborhood, as did also a Mr. Thatcher. Peter Kratzer also settled in 1840 in the southwest corner of the township, section six, his house being on the county line between Wood and Sandusky. He died a few years ago. Members of his family live on the old place.
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